Movies like A Christmas Without Snow

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A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
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A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she leaves her son with his grandmother. She joins the choir of a local church. She has some issues with the choirmaster (John Houseman) who tries to get the choir into shape before the Christmas concert. The choir overcome some personal stebacks as they all deal with personal issues. Zoe (Michael Learned) thinks of quitting the choir all together when push comes to shove.
Style: christmas classics, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot: christmas, holiday, xmas, church, friends, family relations, parents and children, music band, couples, leadership, teenage life, starting over, single parent, clergy, innocence lost, witnessing a crime, obnoxious boss, artists and showbiz, hopes, unfulfillment, performer's life, road not taken, ship, money, loneliness ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, san francisco
Keyword: german, mass

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, parents and children, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, couples and christmas mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like A Christmas Without Snow: The Christmas Choir (2008), I Never Sang for My Father (1970), Broken Bridges (2006), I Used to Be Darker (2013), A Christmas Visitor (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Christmas Choir (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on a true story, The Christmas Choir is the inspiring account of how one man can make a remarkable difference simply by giving of himself. Workaholic accountant Peter Andrews (Jason Gedrick) has overlooked Christmas, friends and even his ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, lifestyle, womanizer, redemption, music band, family gatherings, performer's life, optimism, against the rules, road not taken, youth, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 21st century
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I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: parent child relationship, professor, father son relationship, aging, elderly, introspection, dysfunctional family, father, mission, slice of life, self-help, time travel ...
Time: year 1970, 60s
Place: new york, california
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Broken Bridges (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A fading country music star (Keith) returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, independent film
Plot: starting over, artists and showbiz, homecoming, parents and children, music, unfulfillment, musician's life, family relations, family problems, haunted by the past, country, country music ...
Time: year 2006
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The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
Style: sincere, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, family gatherings, holiday, family relations, estranged father, homecoming, sibling relationship, parents and children, brother sister relationship, xmas, siblings, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ireland, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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I Used to Be Darker (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, MD, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they’re trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, touching, sincere, serious ...
Plot: love and romance, family problems, introspection, looking for love, couples, crumbling marriage, folklore, unfulfillment, runaway, couple relations, past, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
A Christmas Visitor (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A father struggles with the past. A daughter fights for the future. A mother searches for answers. The Boyajians have not celebrated Christmas in 11 years. They lost their faith when they lost their son to the Persian Gulf War. Now a stranger has ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, christmas classics, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, grief, introspection, death of son, life is a bitch, redemption, hopes, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: iraq, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Perfect Gift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A spoiled schoolgirl, her overworked executive mother, and a disillusioned young minister each receives an uplifting message about friendship, commitment, and the truest meaning of Christmas from a friendly, but mysterious drifter.
Style: serious, realistic, christmas classics, christian film
Plot: christmas, youth, religion, spoiled brat, friendship, family relations, hopes, human spirit, high school, parents and children, clergy, christian ...
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Preacher's Kid (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling gospel show takes her on the ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, love and romance, destructive relationship, youth, couples, friendship, christian, religion, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Touched by Love (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A teenager with cerebral palsy attempts to become pen pals with her idol, Elvis Presley.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: cerebral palsy, disability, mentally challenged, best friend, youth, artists and showbiz, misfit, hopes, social misfits, human spirit, doctors and patients, school ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Gathering (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of his family are not exactly fond of him because he walked out on his wife and of his stubborn nature ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, in love, fall in love, bondage, family relations, terminal illness, family gatherings, elderly, life is a bitch, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom, Wisconsin. The Greens share musical aspirations, but daughter Rachel (Madeline Zima), a talented ...
Style: serious, realistic, feel good, sincere, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, family life, culture clash, musician's life, dull life, performer's life, supportive spouse, family relations, music, music conductor, choir, orchestra ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Time for Dancing (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, terminal illness, friendship, life is a bitch, follow your dream, teenage life, cancer, single parent, lifestyle, society, unfulfillment, determination ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Tender Mercies (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: country music, character study, music, self discovery, small town, alcoholism, comeback, musician's life, starting over, divorce, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: texas, midwest, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.1
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Payday (1973)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A cynical look at the life of a not so nice country-western singer, Maury Dann - played by Rip Torn in one of his most memorable performances. He ruthlessly manipulates every one around him to suit his selfish needs...he even gets his limo driver to ...
Style: light, independent film, contemplative, tense, talky ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, music business, country music, infidelity, mistress, friends, couples, on the road, country, relationship vs career, parents and children ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, tennessee
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Dear Santa (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Crystal, a rich party girl, finds a little girl's letter to Santa asking for a new mother, and she vows to win over the father and daughter before the holidays.
Style: feel good, realistic, serious, touching, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, love and romance, couples, wish come true, parents and children, family relations, unlikely couple, single parent, chef, christmas eve, xmas ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Grace Unplugged (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A talented young singer and aspiring songwriter’s Christian faith and family ties are tested when she defies her worship-pastor father and pursues pop-music stardom in GRACE UNPLUGGED, a moving and inspiring new film that explores the true meaning ...
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, christian film ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
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Noel (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina ...
Style: touching, emotional, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: christmas, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, angel, couple relations, holiday, winter, new year, jealousy, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2004
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
I Could Go on Singing (1963)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental
Plot: singer, adoption, family relations, parent child relationship, showbiz, custody, lovers reunited, parents and children, couples, love and romance, single parent, musician's life ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: england, london, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Christmas Child (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A life-sized nativity leads a man to learn about his past and lost family.
Style: serious, emotional, captivating, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: christmas, redemption, self discovery, haunted by the past, road not taken, rehabilitation, journalism, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, hopes, family relations ...
Place: usa, texas, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
November Christmas (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young father asks for pumpkins at the local farm stand. "In August? No." the farmer replies. The farmer ruminates on the odd request and gets involved with strangers for the first time since his son's death long ago.
Style: emotional, sincere, serious, disturbing, sad ...
Plot: christmas, cancer, human spirit, parents and children, family gatherings, hopes, girl, holiday, youth, xmas, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Tamla Rose (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Three teen girls in a Motown band embark on an emotional ride to hell and back.
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dream come true, rise and fall, musician's life, follow your dream, ambition, teenage life, desire for fame, best friend, hopes, youth, friendship, showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Hobo's Christmas (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, homeless, holiday, homelessness, youth, homeless man, hopes, estrangement, family problems, family relations, family gatherings, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: utah, usa, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Hours and Times (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
Story: A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, talky, sincere ...
Plot: the beatles, lgbtq, gay couple, friendship, gay subtext, unfulfilled love, twentysomething life, alcohol abuse, celebrity culture, couples, friends, human nature ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 60s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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I Am Not a Hipster (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Things are not looking good for Brook, a young, talented singer/songwriter who has become the clichéd tortured artist. Slow to come to terms with the death of his mother, Brook is self-absorbed, aggressive, and the major obstruction to his own ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: musician's life, music, rock, siblings relations, parents and children, family problems, artists and showbiz, coping, creative block, estrangement, family relations, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: california, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
Style: touching, intense, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: father son relationship, music, tradition, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, follow your dream, desire for fame, religions or cults, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: california, new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Broken Hill (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tommy was born and raised on a rocky, drought-ridden sheep station in the middle of the Australian Outback.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, touching, spiritual ...
Plot: prison, musician's life, music band, rebelliousness, family relations, teenage life, family life, parents and children, hopes, youth, artists and showbiz, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Falling from Grace (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: farm, homecoming, infidelity, bittersweet, destructive relationship, artists and showbiz, human nature, womanizer, musician's life, dishonesty, unfulfillment, starting over ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: indiana, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Christmas at Maxwell's (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A successful American family retreat to their summer home on the banks of Lake Erie to find meaning in life, illness, loss, and change this Christmas. With a successful career in the wine business, and two amazing children, what more can a family ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: christmas, human spirit, family life, life is a bitch, hopes, love and romance, family problems, couples, road not taken, homecoming, miraculous event, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Dad for Christmas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: christmas, against the odds, adoption, custody, couples, family life, family relations, parents and children, hospital, single parent, holiday, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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BlackJack (1990)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who goes out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The drummer Tommy is known for being the local Casanova, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching
Plot: new year's eve, christmas, musician, small town, love and romance, music, single parent, music band, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love triangle, family relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
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31%
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