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Da (1988)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Style:
sentimental, touching, uplifting, feel good, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
ghost, family relations, tragic love, parents and children, love and romance, family life, hopes, elderly, family problems, haunted by the past, human nature, family gatherings, death in the family, dealing with death, single parent, reunion, unfulfillment, golden years, family in crisis, bittersweet, psychological drama, father son relationship
Time:
80s
Place:
ireland, new york, usa, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and emotional films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, hopes, single parent, unfulfillment and family life mostly in Drama, Family and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Da: A Hobo's Christmas (1987), Foxfire (1987), Dodson's Journey (2001), Alpha Male (2006), The Gathering (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks with her "ghost" on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
ghost, starting over, beach, haunted by the past, hopes, single parent, teenage life, death in the family, island, romance, denial, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new england, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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:
sentimental, touching, feel good, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
homelessness, christmas, family gatherings, reunion, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, family relations, family, hopes, father son relationship, christmas present ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
331
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handle the wilderness on her own.
Style:
touching, feel good, emotional, uplifting, realistic
Plot:
mountain, parents and children, couple relations, family life, human spirit, couples, family relations, golden years, elderly, hopes, ghost, land developer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his wife's decision to get a divorce.
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
single parent, breakup, bittersweet, parents and children, human nature, love and romance, crumbling marriage, hopes, unfulfillment, family relations, family problems, couples ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, touching, contemplative, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, reunion, parents and children, dysfunctional family, death in the family, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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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:
sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
family relations, terminal illness, family gatherings, golden years, elderly, hopes, bittersweet, estrangement, family problems, unfulfillment, single parent, parents and children ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When her beloved grandfather Charlie suddenly falls ill, twelve year-old Casey finds herself making some life or death decisions - and learning to live with the consequences.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, death in the family, self discovery, love and romance, single parent, hopes, elderly, friends, bittersweet, hospital, chess ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, gloomy, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
small town, family relations, death of husband, parents and children, starting over, hopes, single parent, dealing with death, life is a bitch, society, small town life, family in crisis ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s
Place:
tennessee, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An old woman helps a young boy resolve his feelings over the death of his mother.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, talky ...
Plot:
friendship, stepmother, family relations, estrangement, family problems, elderly, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, family in crisis, ghost, golden years ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
family life, family problems, parents and children, couple relations, death in the family, unfulfillment, dishonesty, dealing with death, crumbling marriage, woman, sexual content, profanity ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, reunion, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems, estrangement, terminal illness, private detective, race against time, family life, family gatherings ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Wongs struggle to cope with life, love, and family dysfunction in the suburbs of New York.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
family life, dysfunctional family, family problems, human nature, parents and children, culture clash, youth, single parent, suburbs, family in crisis, family relations, prank ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
father son relationship, aging, parents and children, hopes, family life, hospital, terminal illness, family drama, heart attack, doctors, family bonds, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family problems, homecoming, dysfunctional family, tragic love, best friends, parents and children, haunted by the past, couples, starting over, single parent, orphan ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, youth, romance, couples, family problems, estrangement, love and romance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
georgia, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style:
sincere, touching, gloomy, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, aids, bereavement, human nature, introspection, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, homecoming, parents and children, family gatherings ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A California professor (Martin Sheen), his wife (Blythe Danner) and his daughters make room for his orphaned illegitimate French son (Sebastian Dungan).
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
infidelity, professor, family life, love affair, college, orphan, dishonesty, love and romance, youth, couples, family relations, airport ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.
Style:
bleak, touching, emotional, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot:
parents and children, obsession, death in the family, family in crisis, love and romance, dealing with death, unfulfillment, couples, family problems, family relations, illicit affair, jealousy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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, sentimental, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
human spirit, family life, love and romance, miraculous event, homecoming, road not taken, parents and children, couples, family problems, hopes, life is a bitch, terminal illness ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
TV film that was to be Katherine Hepburn's last performance. Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, child as adult, homecoming, road not taken, human nature, countryside, self discovery, reunion ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new orleans, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, family relations, opposites attract, immigrants, friends, love and romance, friendship, culture clash, single parent, youth, family life ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mark is a struggling actor stuck between the life he once knew and the one waiting for him. When the mother of his two-year-old son suddenly passes away, Mark is forced to confront his shortcomings. Their fates, now intertwined, hang in the balance ...
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, single father, single parent, life turned upside down, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children, death in the family, babies and infants, parent child relationship, father son relationship, baby ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, sentimental, controversial ...
Plot:
family relations, hospital, rebellion, bittersweet, small town, doctors and patients, child illness, family in crisis, life is a bitch, hopes, society, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
family life, family relations, couples, family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, loneliness, fear, small town ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, parents and children, unfulfilled love, disability, family problems, family life, single parent, family in crisis, couples, babies and infants ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A suicidal former baseball player is granted one more day with his deceased mother.
Style:
touching, psychological, serious, realistic
Plot:
redemption, rise to the top, life is a bitch, athlete's life, ambition, ghost, parents and children, addiction, human spirit, family problems, rehabilitation, hopes ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Esther Cimino, a music teacher who has reached retirement age, finds that her mental faculties are slipping somewhat. The film is a trenchant, realistic study of the ravages and displacements, socially, physically, and mentally, that are visited ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, uplifting
Plot:
courtroom, retirement home, legal, fighting the system, single parent, golden years, aging, misfit, love and romance, elderly, legal action, society ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, aging, drugs/alcohol, hopes, love, elderly, couple relations, righting the wronged ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, interracial relations, slave, slavery, human nature, crumbling marriage, society, unfulfillment, family problems, injustice, friends, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1930s, 30s
Place:
virginia, alabama, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina ...
Style:
serious, realistic, talky, sincere, touching
Plot:
family problems, single parent, working class, parents and children, human nature, aging, unfulfillment, starting over, idealism, estrangement, father son relationship, beer ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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