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Dying Young (1991)
18K
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, inspirational, sad, touching, cute, erotic, romantic drama, emotional, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cancer, life & death, love story, love, forbidden love, leukemia, beautiful scenery, doctor, parents and children, social differences, human nature, unfulfillment, women, death, illness, betrayal, bittersweet, father son relationship, disability, fall in love, terminal illness, hospital, female protagonist, maze, medical ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
oakland california
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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 story, love and romance, love, bittersweet, couples, fall in love and destiny mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Dying Young: The Notebook (2004), The Vow (2012), Sweet November (2001), Message in a Bottle (1999), Me Before You (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
679K
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, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place:
north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
213K
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:
romantic, touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
love story, amnesia, memory loss, marriage, love and romance, love, true love, relationships, couple relations, power of love, wooing, destiny ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love, love story, terminal illness, bittersweet, fall in love, life, tragic love, cancer, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, destiny ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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, love story, destiny, sailing, haunted by the past, single parent, anonymous letter, love letter, grief, women, sea voyage, father son relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 1999, 90s
Place:
north carolina, virginia, chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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329K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: 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, caregiver, quadriplegic, death, enemies to lovers, euthanasia, handicapped, relationships ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, usa, paris france, switzerland, mallorca ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
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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, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, clergy, catholic priest, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, tragic love, priest in love, family life, society, destiny ...
Time:
50s, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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, teens
Plot:
love story, true love, middle age romance, couples, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, death, summer, inn, family drama, summer vacation ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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, sexual, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, young lovers, first love, mental institution, arson, obsession, sex scene, mental illness, love, love story, voyeur ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 70s
Place:
chicago, new york
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
163K
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, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
love, love story, true love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, young love, young lovers, relationships, couple relations, soldier ...
Time:
2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, afghanistan, south carolina, usa, ireland
Similarity:
100%
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, atmospheric, touching, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love story, photographer, adultery, love affair, passion, impossible love, relationships, housewife, couples, photography, extramarital affair, lovers ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s, 20th century, year 1965, post world war two ...
Place:
iowa, usa, midwest
Similarity:
100%
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, hospital, psychology, forbidden love, destiny, mental health, addiction, loneliness, adaptation, doctors and patients, rehabilitation, destructive relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
100%
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, teen, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teen romance, terminal illness, teenage love, true love, illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, first love, best friend, star crossed lovers, life & death, teenage girl, follow your dream ...
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
100%
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:
contemplative, touching, philosophical, romantic, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, secret love, cancer, love and romance, existentialism, death, hospital, illness, relationships, love story, dealing with death, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
touching, sincere, sad, romantic, contemplative ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love affair, memory loss, couple relations, love story, alzheimer's disease, love, love and romance, asian, passionate love, passion, class differences, memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, east asia, asia
Similarity:
100%
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, touching, sentimental, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, disability, fighting illness, illness, star crossed lovers, death, true love, forbidden love, fall in love, couple relations, danger ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
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, touching, emotional, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, love story, desert, beautiful scenery, tragic love, power of love, love and romance, passion, adultery, sex scene, doomed love, life philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place:
sahara, italy, ottoman empire, cairo egypt, africa ...
Similarity:
100%
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, sentimental, realistic, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, vineyard, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, pretend relationship, rich woman poor man, wine, love story, parents and children, estate, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 90s
Place:
san francisco, california, sacramento california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, romantic drama ...
Plot:
couple relations, terminal illness, loneliness, life philosophy, romantic friendship, teenager, cancer, promise, adolescence, life, romantic relationship, dream ...
Similarity:
100%
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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, girls' night
Plot:
loss, anguish, group therapy, death, grief, life philosophy, christmas, solitude, co worker co worker relationship, going crazy, father daughter relationship, anger ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, china, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
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:
romantic, touching, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, lost love, letter, grief, life philosophy, widow ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
ireland, seattle, europe, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
80K
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, inspirational, touching, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, kids ...
Plot:
terminal illness, divorce, women, cancer, autumn, custody, remarry, step parent, friendship, parents and children, adoption, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for ...
Style:
sad, melancholic, depressing, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot:
dystopia, boarding school, existentialism, distopia, childhood, cloning, sadness, friendship, transplant, couples, love story, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1978, 2010s, 50s, year 2010, 70s ...
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
14K
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, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, beautiful scenery, power of love, closeted homosexual, secrets, mother, haunted by the past, writers, dying, death of mother, summer, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2007, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, love story, love and romance, christmas, longing, adultery, friendship, amor, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, women ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, sad, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
love story, fall in love, terminal illness, first love, love, platonic, star crossed lovers, life & death, male female friendship, unfulfillment, love and romance, friendship ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, sexual, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
sex, class differences, passion, sensuality, fisherman, university professor, love affair, social differences, tragic love, love at first sight, scotsman, female nudity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, europe, france, scotland
Similarity:
100%
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, emotional, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fall in love, destiny, maid, friendship, tragic hero, single parent, love affair, teenage love, tragic love, family relations, youth, destructive relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
100%
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:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
cancer, fall in love, teenage love, rich and poor, small town, terminal illness, love story, teenage life, social differences, youth, couples, class differences ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minnesota, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, fall in love, college, tragedy, death, true love, ice hockey, love story, dying young, graduation, cancer, tragic love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, paris france, boston, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
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, emotional, sentimental, sad, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
love, love story, couples, love affair, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, opposites attract, art collector, rodeo, happy ending, passion ...
Time:
year 2015, year 1941, 20th century, 1940s, 21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina, new york, vienna, new jersey ...
Similarity:
67%
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