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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
Original name: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal existence who help him understand the meaning of his life.
Style: spiritual, touching, serious, christian film, psychological, mystical, inspirational, philosophical, sad, thinking ...
Plot: afterlife, heaven, amusement park, self discovery, life is a bitch, danger, redemption, religious, hopes, heaven and hell, consciousness, faith, grief, elderly, god, religion, spirit, christianity, twenty something, faith based, trauma, world war two, birthday, accident, cowboy ...
Time: 50s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s, 30s, 40s
Keyword: filipino

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Most similar movies to The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, emotional, serious and spiritual films with plots about death, hopes, father son relationship, afterlife, grief, family relations and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Five People You Meet in Heaven: What Dreams May Come (1998), The Shack (2017), The Lovely Bones (2009), Resurrection (1980), Nine Days (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of ...
Style: spiritual, serious, captivating, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: life after death, afterlife, reincarnation, spiritualist, self discovery, purgatory, society, human spirit, supernatural, redemption, spiritualism, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: afterlife, heaven and hell, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, redemption, reincarnation, spirituality, love, hell, metaphysics, life after death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 39K
The Shack (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 132 min.
Story: After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. ...
Style: christian film, spiritual, philosophical, psychedelic, motivational ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: christian, god, forgiveness, depression, guilt, death of daughter, a vision, jesus, missing child, hate, death of child, faith ...
Time: year 2017
Place: tibet, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Lovely Bones (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style: emotional, dark, suspense, psychological, surreal ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, family drama, murderer, rape, loss of daughter, murder mystery, pedophile, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place: usa, pennsylvania, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Resurrection (1980)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for ...
Style: serious, psychological, touching, contemplative, psychotronic ...
Plot: healer, faith healing, mind power, religion, supernatural power, philosophy, spirituality, women, deaf, god, church, metaphysics ...
Place: kansas, usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 12K
Nine Days (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.
Style: psychological, philosophical, melancholic, unusual plot structure, inspirational ...
Plot: solitude, destiny, humanity, life & death, life philosophy, mentor, alone in the world, honest, recluse, forgiveness, haunted by the past, hopes ...
Place: tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mitch Albom's For One More Day (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A suicidal former baseball player is granted one more day with his deceased mother.
Style: psychological, serious, touching, realistic
Plot: redemption, ambition, hopes, life is a bitch, athlete's life, human spirit, rise to the top, ghost, rehabilitation, lifestyle, family problems, addiction ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Tree of Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, artsy, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: philosophy, childhood, grief, coming of age, spirituality, father son relationship, parenthood, existentialism, family relations, domineering father, hopes, religion ...
Time: 1950s, 2010s, year 2011, prehistory, 20th century ...
Place: texas, america, usa, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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After Life (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Style: philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential ...
Plot: afterlife, eternity, death, memory, heaven and hell, life after death, life & death, heaven, videotaping, destiny, hospital, childhood ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century
Place: the philippines, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style: christian film, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friendship, bittersweet, self discovery, restaurant, solitude, hospital, storytelling, death, food, christian, abortion ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Defending Your Life (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
Style: romantic, touching, humorous, philosophical, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, heaven, life & death, reincarnation, death, fall in love, courage, destiny, courtroom, life, starting over, past life ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
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Northfork (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: "We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us." In the next two days, the town of Northfork will cease to exist. The year is 1955 and Northfork is literally about to be "dammed," flooded to make way for a ...
Style: bleak, surreal, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: small town, adoption, dream, boy, coming of age, society, hopes, human nature, social relations, sick child, priest, terminal illness ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: montana, usa, california, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Heaven Is for Real (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Heaven is for Real recounts the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Four-year-old Colton shares the details of his amazing journey ...
Style: christian film, inspirational, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: faith, afterlife, christianity, god, heaven, jesus, religion, near death experience, small town, life & death, parenthood, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa, lithuania
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.5
 95K
Hereafter (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A supernatural thriller centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways.
Style: sad, psychological, touching, emotional, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: afterlife, psychic, natural disaster, disaster, journalist, supernatural ability, supernatural, survival, destiny, grief, death, dealing with death ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, london, san francisco, bay area, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 127K
City of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When guardian angel Seth -- who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles -- becomes captivated by Maggie, a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, tear jerker, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: angel, afterlife, life & death, heaven and hell, fall in love, supernatural romance, love and romance, medical, love, love story, destiny, self sacrifice ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: afterlife, love affair, couples, love and romance, seeing dead people, death in the family, unfulfillment, ghost, teenager, siblings relations, family problems, love story ...
Time: year 2005, year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.2
 263K
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, philosophical, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot: love, afterlife, life philosophy, love and romance, life & death, dealing with death, supernatural, love at first sight, mysterious character, lifestyle change, supernatural romance, family relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, rhode island, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.4
 33K
Always (1989)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Pete Sandich is a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Pete is introduced to business-like angel who instructs the spectral Pete to pass on his aviation knowledge to his young ...
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, emotional, intense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, date night
Plot: afterlife, airplane, aviation, ghost, rescue, guardian angel, supernatural, grief, love, firefighter, pilot, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: usa, colorado, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 7K
Fluke (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, light, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: dog, reincarnation, human becomes animal, afterlife, death, animal, talking dog, family relations, family life, grief, life, getting home ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Photographing Fairies (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of ...
Style: psychological, grindhouse, mystic, esoteric, spiritual ...
Plot: photograph, photography, world war one, photographer, afterlife, paranormal, creature, pagan, magical creature, magic realism, folk horror, occult ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england, alps, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Let There Be Light (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An atheist goes through a near-death experience in an auto accident before converting to Christianity.
Style: christian film, melancholic, rough, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: christianity, faith, afterlife, religious, religion, transformation, marriage, brain tumor, pastor, bible, christian, divorce ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Grace Card (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Everything can change in an instant ... and take a lifetime to unravel. When Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, the ensuing 17 years of bitterness and pain erodes his love for his family and leaves him angry with God ... and just about ...
Style: christian film, touching, serious, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot: racism, christian, hopes, faith, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, partner, religious, clergy, society, partners against crime, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, memphis, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.9
 22K
Courageous (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners are confident and focused. They willingly stand up to the worst the streets have to offer. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly ...
Style: christian film, uplifting, inspirational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christian, faith, christianity, fatherhood, religion, family relations, god, religious, father son relationship, church, idealism, courage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, small town life, angel, friendship, depression, life philosophy, snow, life changing experience, self discovery, happy ending ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, year 1945, year 1919 ...
Place: america, new york, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.8
 120K
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Style: disturbing, realistic, depressing, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: friendship, dream, prostitution, fish out of water, gay, cripple, homosexual, gay slur, prostitute, cowboy, female nudity, sexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, texas, florida, manhattan new york city, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ...
Style: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, independent film, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: suicide, afterlife, road trip, depression, suicide attempt, hitchhiker, friendship, on the road, mental illness, dealing with death, love story, surrealism ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: turkey, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 8.0
 457K
Big Fish (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style: surreal, sentimental, feel good, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: fish, journey, surrealism, father son relationship, fantasy world, storytelling, childhood, loneliness, mermaid, magic realism, magic, parents and children ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2003 ...
Place: texas, usa, alabama, paris france, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, romantic, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: golf, great depression, childhood, underdog, starting over, world war one, love story, comeback, athlete's life, hopes, follow your dream, contests and competitions ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 1920s
Place: georgia, america, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.5
 396
48 Angels (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or sail.
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: teenage life, on the run, human spirit, self discovery, life is a bitch, danger, hopes, child illness, friendship, religion, fight, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.5
 127K
Field of Dreams (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
Style: inspirational, feel good, sweet, sad, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: baseball, ghost, hearing voices, regret, farmer, farm, small town, father son relationship, time travel, supernatural, magic realism, childhood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, 70s
Place: iowa, minnesota, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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