Movies like Dying Young

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Dying Young (1991)
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Dying Young (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.
Style: romantic, sentimental, sad, touching, inspirational, cute, emotional, erotic, bleak, novela ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love story, life & death, leukemia, love, beautiful scenery, doctor, parents and children, social differences, human nature, unfulfillment, women, death, illness, betrayal, bittersweet, terminal illness, father son relationship, disability, fall in love, forbidden love, hospital, female protagonist, maze, medical ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: oakland california
Keyword: doctors

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Most similar movies to Dying Young

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sentimental, touching, romantic and emotional films with plots about love, love and romance, love story, fall in love, couples, bittersweet and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Dying Young: The Notebook (2004), Message in a Bottle (1999), Me Before You (2016), Sweet November (2001), The Thorn Birds (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love story, love and romance, love, fall in love, true love, youth, memory loss, love of one's life, power of love, love triangle, young lovers, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, 50s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: south carolina, north carolina, iran, usa, europe ...
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Message in a Bottle (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move ...
Style: touching, romantic, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: love, sailing, love story, destiny, haunted by the past, single parent, anonymous letter, love letter, grief, women, father son relationship, bittersweet ...
Time: year 1999, 2010s, 90s
Place: north carolina, virginia, chicago, usa, new york
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Me Before You (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, quadriplegic, euthanasia, caregiver, handicapped, relationships, death, accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, usa, mallorca, paris france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.7
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Sweet November (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, emotional ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love story, terminal illness, love, fall in love, cancer, tragic love, bittersweet, couples, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
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100%
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The Thorn Birds (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 460 min.
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Story: This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father ...
Style: sentimental, touching, family saga, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, clergy, catholic priest, tragic love, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, priest, family life, friendship, society ...
Time: 50s, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 204K
The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love, memory loss, love story, love and romance, amnesia, true love, marriage, relationships, couple relations, wooing, power of love, couples ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 36K
Midnight Sun (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.
Style: romantic, sincere, sad, tear jerker, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teen romance, terminal illness, teenage love, true love, first love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, star crossed lovers, teenager, life & death, illness, tragic love, teenage girl ...
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Life Without Me (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Pedro Almodovar production in which a fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies with out telling her family of her illness.
Style: sad, touching, contemplative, philosophical, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, secret love, illness, love and romance, dealing with death, death, parents and children, infidelity, hospital, relationships, love story ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The English Patient (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, betrayal, desert, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, life & death, war, wartime, power of love ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place: sahara, italy, africa, ottoman empire, cairo egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
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Dear John (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, touching, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: love, love story, true love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, young love, young lovers, couple relations, relationships, soldier ...
Time: 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: north carolina, afghanistan, south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style: romantic, heartbreaking, atmospheric, touching, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adultery, photographer, relationships, love affair, impossible love, love story, photography, housewife, passion, infidelity, couples, middle aged ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, 20th century, 80s, post world war two ...
Place: iowa, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two unhappy people's lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who's trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, middle age romance, true love, love and romance, couples, infidelity, parents and children, death, summer, love, inn, family drama ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Five Feet Apart (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love.
Style: thought provoking, melancholic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: terminal illness, disability, fighting illness, star crossed lovers, true love, forbidden love, hospital, couple relations, danger, suffering, fall in love, illness ...
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Life in a Year (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, clever ...
Plot: terminal illness, teenager, cancer, couple relations, romantic friendship, romantic relationship, life, promise, adolescence, dream, dying, loneliness ...
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Collateral Beauty (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Style: twist ending, sad, sentimental, tear jerker, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: loss, anguish, group therapy, grief, christmas, love, death, life & death, redemption, justice, tragedy, life philosophy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: china, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
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P.S. I Love You (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, grief, letter, life philosophy, lost love, family relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: ireland, seattle, europe, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Style: romantic, touching, realistic, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, vineyard, pretend relationship, wine, parents and children, world war two, love story, estate, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 90s, post world war two
Place: san francisco, california, sacramento california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 74K
Stepmom (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside ...
Style: sentimental, sad, inspirational, touching, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: divorce, terminal illness, women, autumn, cancer, step parent, friendship, custody, parents and children, remarry, adoption, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid ...
Style: touching, sentimental, romantic, intense, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: beautiful scenery, wedding, secrets, mother, haunted by the past, power of love, writers, dying, summer, death of mother, bittersweet, death ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
More Than Blue (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A terminally ill man tries to find a suitable husband for the friend he has loved since childhood.
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, romantic comedy ...
Plot: love story, fall in love, terminal illness, first love, love, unfulfillment, love and romance, life & death, platonic, male female friendship, friendship, star crossed lovers ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Christmas in August (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a quiet corner of Seoul, Jung-won runs a small photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung-won goes about his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: maid, fall in love, friendship, single parent, tragic hero, love affair, tragic love, teenage love, destiny, family relations, youth, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Here on Earth (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A rich college kid is taught a lesson after a joy ride ends up destroying a country restaurant.
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, romantic, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: teenage love, fall in love, rich and poor, cancer, small town, love story, social differences, teenage life, youth, couples, class differences, high school ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Endless Love (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
Style: erotic, intense, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, mental illness, obsession, forbidden love, young lovers, arson, teen angst, mental institution, first love, teenage girl, sex scene, obsessive love ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: chicago, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.9
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Love Story (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, fall in love, tragedy, death, college, love story, cancer, tragic love, ice hockey, graduation, young love, class differences ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, massachusetts, paris france, boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
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Untamed Heart (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busboy who works at the same diner, helps fight off the assailants, and she begins a relationship with ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, touching, feel good, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: opposites attract, waitress, christmas, orphan, love, tragedy, heart disease, rescue, passion, love and romance, attempted rape, loneliness ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: minneapolis minnesota, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Longest Ride (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, teen ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: love, love story, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, love affair, opposites attract, art collector, relationships, cowboy, happy ending, passion ...
Time: year 2015, 20th century, year 1941, 1940s, 21st century
Place: usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Style: sentimental, romantic, intense, touching, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot: alcoholic, family values, addiction, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, family in crisis, alcoholism, recovery, love story, tragedy, love, single father ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, usa, denver colorado, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 243K
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. ...
Style: romantic, stylized, visual, sexy, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: love story, forbidden love, tragic love, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, teen romance, true love, young lovers, star crossed lovers, young love, suicide, secret marriage ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 1900s, y2k, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 8K
Mr. Jones (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.
Style: compassionate, melancholic, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, psychiatrist, psychology, hospital, loneliness, adaptation, addiction, love affair, forbidden love, rehabilitation ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, women, love story, unrequited love, wedding preparations and rituals, best friend, love triangle, gay, friendship, love and romance, male female friendship, screwball ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: chicago, madagascar, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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