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Touched (2014)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Acclaimed author and recluse Norma Boswell is reaching the end of her days. She has kept her terminal diagnosis secret from everyone around her, her housekeeper and gardener, as well as her estranged son, Justin. As her health continues to decline, her doctor insists it is time to bring in a live-in nurse at home. Stubbornly proud, Norma rejects every candidate for the job straight away. That is until she comes across Emma Keating, who refuses to take no for an answer and whole-heartedly agrees to keep Norma’s secret.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, heartfelt, sentimental, sincere, melancholic, uplifting
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, mortality, friendship, healing, caregiver, female protagonist, aging, compassion, bittersweet, personal growth, mother son relationship, legacy, introspection, reconciliation, nursing, intimate, secrets, redemption, writer's life, last wish, literary, medicine, treatment, nurse ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Touched
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, realistic and reflective films with plots about intimate, bittersweet, friendship, personal growth, mortality, healing and terminal illness mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Touched: The Hasty Heart (1983), Letting Life In (2003), One for the Road (2021), Griffin and Phoenix (1976), Developing Sheldon (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
In Burma on the penultimate day of World War II, Cameron Highlander Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan is seriously wounded and transported to a local military hospital. He seems to have recovered from his wounds but appearances can be deceiving. ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, sentimental, medical drama, intercultural ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, military hospital, terminal illness, nurse, soldier, world war, friendship, compassion, nurse patient relationship, bittersweet, mortality, redemption ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
burma
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
"Letting Life In" explores a single year of life between two people. Michael, a reclusive novelist, lives in a small town in upstate New York. He knows nothing of living life beyond the suffocating walls he has built for himself. Sarah, a ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, life affirming, romantic drama, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, love story, relationships, assistant, personal growth, bittersweet, loss, cancer, healing, writer's life, introspection, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Boss, an elusive bar owner living in New York, reunites with his estranged best friend, Aood, for a roadtrip in Thailand after Aood has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, psychological, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, road trip, bucket list, mortality, fighting illness, friends, loss, reconciliation, bittersweet, relationships, last wish ...
Place:
thailand, new york, southeast asia
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn't know that, and she ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, poignant, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, bittersweet, dying, mortality, love story, tragic romance, campus, relationships, intimate, introspection, mature ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Sheldon's cancer has him navigating around his loving, but very dysfunctional family, providing comic relief as he follows his life's passion for photography. Left at the alter, he begins to realize that he's been in love with his ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, cancer, love story, couples, love and romance, relationships, family relations, relationship problems, couple relations, male female relationship, love interest, eccentric family ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, friendship, death of father, alcoholic father, family drama, self discovery, road trip, changing lives, travel, father daughter estrangement, lifestyle, personal growth ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Style:
emotional, poignant, sensitive, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, mortality, reflection, intimate, grief, bereavement, compassion, humanism, realism, bittersweet, acceptance ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Andrés, a music teacher diagnosed with cancer, seeks treatment at a hospital in the city. His travels there on a singular, dilapidated bus accompanied by other cancer patients. It soon becomes an extraordinary experience, giving him new friends and ...
Style:
life affirming, emotional, uplifting, inspirational, medical drama ...
Plot:
friendship, hopes, cancer, compassion, self discovery, healing, resilience, humanism, personal growth, hospital, intimate, second chance ...
Place:
spain, basque country, madrid
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
baseball, terminal illness, cancer, japanese man, redemption, mortality, bittersweet, fighting illness, guilty conscience, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, problem ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies but ends up teaching the awkward funeral director, Bill Jankowski how to celebrate life.
Style:
thrilling, emotional, independent film, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
funeral home, illness, funeral, mortality, terminal illness, male female relationship, teenage life, relationships, fighting illness, couple relations, teenage protagonist, teenage girl ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When she's diagnosed with breast cancer, Brenda begins completing her bucket list with the help of the daughter she long ago put up for adoption.
Style:
emotional, exciting, serious, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot:
bucket list, mother daughter relationship, breast cancer, social issues, quitting job, surprise party, women, female protagonist, sick mother, daughter, cancer, fired from the job ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Emmy Ferguson is a 10-year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35-year-old drug addict who is determined to make this his last day. And Adonna Frost, suffering from advanced ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, sad, contemplative ...
Plot:
cancer, drug addict, terminal illness, death, dying, mortality, family relations, empathy, child protagonist, character study, grief, addiction ...
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Scorn takes a look into the trials and tribulations of a group of people dealing with relationships, love, pain and friendship during the course of one year.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
bittersweet, love, family problems, introspection, couples, couple relations, human nature, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, urban, abuse, friendship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, self discovery, teenage life, interracial relations, hopes, society, idealism, spoiled brat, quibbling, aging, death in the family ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, tear jerker, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
terminal illness, doctor patient relationship, tragedy, bittersweet, loss, mortality, female protagonist, hospital, intimate, cancer, acceptance, resilience ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This is a heart-wrenching story about a happy-go-lucky 17 year-old boy with a passion for life and love. Under his free spirit are problems that he must deal with. His mother died, his alcoholic father is unapproachable, and ...the biggest problem ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, poignant, reflective, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, cancer, family drama, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, friendship, mortality, adolescence, bittersweet, tragedy, grief, coming of age ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
A short film that tells the story of three older men who come into the same restaurant on Wednesday mornings at the same time every week. The story is told from the perspective of Megan, the newly hired waitress at the restaurant that takes classes ...
Style:
reflective, emotional, realistic, uplifting, independent film
Plot:
restaurant, empathy, humanity, compassion, routine, personal growth, slice of life, intimate, friendship, faith, bittersweet, healing ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Fannie Fairchild locked up her heart when her beloved George was killed in the Great War. But now she faces her own mortality and realizes that she has no one to maintain her grave with flowers.
Style:
reflective, melancholic, romantic drama, emotional, spiritual ...
Plot:
mortality, loss, loneliness, elderly man, intimate, bittersweet, acceptance, character study, aging, friendship, memory, compassion ...
Similarity:
56%
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298
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, captivating, uplifting, sincere, life affirming ...
Plot:
friendship, age difference, cabaret singer, older woman younger man relationship, musician, terminal illness, mortality, empathy, bittersweet, life & death, bonding, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
infidelity, couples, looking for love, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, redemption, haunted by the past, bittersweet, heartbreak, troubled marriage, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The close bond between two elderly sisters is threatened when one of them begins to have romantic feelings for a local mechanic.
Style:
realistic, heartfelt, independent film, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
family drama, intimate, character study, empathy, small town, compassion, intolerance, female friendship, loneliness, resilience, personal growth, reconciliation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dr. David Edwards is a cancer specialist, and his life is his work. His only friend is Lou Rosen, 73. Lou is also David's patient, but at his age, chances are grim. Still, everyone deserves a chance, or at least that's what David thought ...
Style:
emotional, medical drama, intense, realistic, reflective ...
Plot:
cancer, doctor patient relationship, compassion, hospital, terminal illness, mature, character study, ethical dilemma, mortality, morality, friendship, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a self-help group of 4 people with a terminal illness, led by a therapist without experience.
Style:
emotional, sincere, poignant, touching, existential ...
Plot:
mortality, support group, terminal illness, acceptance, personal growth, humanism, bittersweet, intimate, therapy, friendship, therapist, loss ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two gentlemen meet by chance and decide to go on an adventure together. Their journey becomes a quest for happiness.
Style:
heartfelt, road movie, touching, sincere, talky ...
Plot:
on the road, road trip, male friendship, dying and death, friends, friendship between men, death, last wish, sad ending, on the run, escapades, terminal illness ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, emotional, contemplative, art house, life affirming ...
Plot:
friendship, chemistry, intimate, healing, grief, personal growth, film industry, bittersweet, mature, loss, aging, creativity ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sofus, a young terminally ill cancer patient is enrolled in a hospice feeling ready to die. Shortly after arriving, he meets Sarah a charming young hospice worker. Sarah's impulsiveness and interesting approach to life intrigues him. However, ...
Style:
melancholic, life affirming
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, loss, mortality, grief, trauma, compassion, regret, forgiveness, bereavement, empathy, healing ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Gene Timbault, a corporate executive, is engaged in the deal of a lifetime, but learns he has an incurable disease. In an escape to the jungles of Central America he finds that all may not be lost.
Style:
emotional, reflective, existential, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, personal growth, spiritual journey, transformation, second chance, acceptance, mortality, terminal illness, intimate, regret, isolation ...
Place:
central america, guatemala
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A daughter finds a journal her dad left behind, only to discover there was another woman in his life she knew nothing about. She sets out to find this woman and the reason her father never ended up with the woman he must have loved.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, melancholic, romantic drama, independent film
Plot:
father daughter relationship, family drama, female protagonist, self discovery, memory, intimate, bittersweet, personal growth, small town, reconciliation, investigation, identity ...
Place:
mississippi
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After her longtime marriage ends painfully, a lawyer finds new purpose by working at a refugee center, where she meets a child that changes her life.
Style:
emotional, realistic, reflective, uplifting, melancholic ...
Plot:
refugee, empathy, personal growth, immigration, divorce, healing, child protagonist, compassion, female protagonist, hopes, resilience, humanitarian ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hello Beautiful is a powerful and emotionally charged film that delves into the harrowing yet transformative journey of Willow, a successful model whose life is shattered by a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. Based on Christine Handy's ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, heartfelt, medical drama, tear jerker ...
Plot:
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