Movies like The Joy Luck Club

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The Joy Luck Club (1993)
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The Joy Luck Club (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating, thought provoking, emotional, sad, retro, depressing, spiritual ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: friendship, immigrant, women, self discovery, haunted by the past, hopes, feminist, culture clash, parents and children, human nature, love, coming of age, chess, girl power, racism, bittersweet, unrequited love, immigration, cat, sex scene, female friendship, sacrifice, woman, interracial romance, marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, china, bay area, usa, asia, california
Keyword: chinese, feminist film

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about friendship, family relations, society, coming of age, parents and children, bittersweet and friends mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like The Joy Luck Club: The Namesake (2006), The Help (2011), Life as a House (2001), A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004), You're Not You (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Namesake (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, childhood, marriage, generation gap, childbirth, relationships, parenthood, life, rebel, family life, society, acceptance ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: india, new york, usa, ohio, taj mahal
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The Help (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style: touching, inspirational, thought provoking, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot: racism, friendship, discrimination, civil rights, writers, women, maid, master and servant, human spirit, life is a bitch, racial segregation, racial issues ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 50s ...
Place: mississippi, usa, america, africa, southern usa
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100%
Life as a House (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: terminal illness, father son relationship, dying, cancer, dysfunctional family, relationships, reconciliation, illness, divorce, fighting illness, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2001
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, mentor, haunted by the past, funeral, sexual tension, family problems, parents and children, family relations, drinking problem, love, coming of age, love story ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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You're Not You (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, lyrical, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: terminal illness, friendship, dying, quadriplegic, life is a bitch, marital infidelity, character study, disability, musician, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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Gran Torino (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, suspense, thought provoking ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, friendship, elderly, veteran, racism, prejudice, gunfight, widower, gangster, interracial relations, old man, vigilante ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa, michigan, italy, north america
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100%
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: racism, civil rights, african american, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, children, interracial relations, haunted by the past, family relations, black, teenager ...
Time: year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: south carolina, indiana, africa, usa
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100%
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The War (1994)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, dark comedy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: bullying, vietnam war, coming of age, childhood, father son relationship, child, friendship, boy, children, war, youth, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 1900s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: vietnam, mississippi, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Face (2002)
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: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Style: touching, sentimental, intense, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, american south, playwright, estrangement, women, mother daughter relationship, friendship, relationships, female protagonist, family relations, family problems ...
Time: year 2002
Place: louisiana, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Clara's Heart (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic, serious
Audience: kids
Plot: grief, women, youth, dysfunctional family, friendship, adolescence, black, child hero, sex crime, racism, family relations, couples ...
Time: 80s
Place: jamaica, baltimore, usa
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25%
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Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles
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24%
The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, touching, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, hopes, couple relations, redemption, misfit, starting over, family life, culture clash, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children ...
Time: year 2007
Place: china, usa, asia, washington d.c., persia
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24%
An American Rhapsody (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, family bonds, adolescence, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 2001, 60s, 50s ...
Place: hungary, california, europe, austria, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Gas, Food Lodging (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, retro, cult classic ...
Plot: coming of age, waitress, small town, single mother, mother daughter relationship, love, women, friendship, adolescence, desert, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new mexico, usa
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24%
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Green Dragon (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by ...
Style: psychological, sincere, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Plot: military, vietnam war, interracial relations, military life, friendship, self discovery, coming of age, homecoming, culture clash, translator, human nature, immigrant ...
Time: year 2001, 70s
Place: vietnam, usa, asia, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
For Colored Girls (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in ...
Style: thought provoking, sincere, contemplative, serious, emotional ...
Plot: feminism, female protagonist, black, family problems, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, hopes, rape, woman, black history, women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
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23%
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Brick Lane (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: immigrant, love triangle, society, family relations, love affair, fall in love, racism, village, sister sister relationship, loss of mother, self discovery, migration ...
Time: year 2007, september 11 2001, 80s
Place: london, bangladesh, europe, england, india ...
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23%
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Toe to Toe (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lacrosse, friendship, teenage life, self discovery, coming of age, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, female bonding, rebel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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23%
Rambling Rose (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself ...
Style: erotic, touching, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, self discovery, love and romance, prostitute, coming of age, dysfunctional family, adolescence, unlikely friendships, redemption, family relations, introspection, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1971, year 1935
Place: georgia, usa
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23%
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Goodbye Solo (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
Style: touching, uplifting, independent film, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: suicidal, friendship, depression, immigrant, taxi driver, loneliness, mentor, character study, elderly, suicide, society, regret ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.1
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Snow in August (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Style: touching, atmospheric, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: youth, culture clash, friendship, racism, bittersweet, human spirit, life is a bitch, injustice, haunted by the past, gang, rabbi, anti semitism ...
Place: new york, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Hide Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, father daughter relationship, death of wife, redemption, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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23%
 7.3
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Left Luggage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, compassionate ...
Plot: judaism, holocaust survivor, racism, life, nazi, tragedy, justice, mentor, depression, dysfunctional family, friendship, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, year 1972
Place: europe, israel, antwerp, belgium
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23%
The Kite Runner (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style: disturbing, emotional, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: childhood, friendship, muslim, coming of age, guilt, courage, islam, betrayal, rape, mission, haunted by the past, child ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: afghanistan, middle east, china, iraq, bay area ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.6
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Fraulein (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops ...
Style: emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, self discovery, longing, friends, immigrant, society, job seeking, secret, female nudity, sex scene, cafeteria, integration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, serbia, europe
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23%
 7.2
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Pariah (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lgbt teen, african american, lesbian teen, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, black lesbian, black, introspection ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.3
 2K
Tully (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, young lovers, womanizer, couples, family problems, youth, society, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000
Place: nebraska, england, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.2
 124K
Pay It Forward (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, childhood, single parent, teachers and students, alcoholic, life philosophy, good deed, disfigurement, death, boy, alcoholism, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: tibet, nevada, usa, las vegas
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23%
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