Movies like Just a Dream
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Just a Dream (2002)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friendship, friends, obsession, family relations, family life, interracial relations, social relations, society, small town, small town life, child, bar
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
nevada, usa
Most similar movies to Just a Dream
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and semi serious films with plots about youth, family relations, friendship, coming of age, friends, society and family life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Just a Dream: Booky's Crush (2009), Sex and the USA (2008), My Louisiana Sky (2001), My Uncle Antoine (1971), A Storm in Summer (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, society, love and romance, family life, parents and children, working class, coming of age, first love, child ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
friends, youth, friendship, lifestyle, society, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, retro ...
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Plot:
youth, self discovery, family life, family problems, society, parents and children, disability, small town life, child's point of view, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time:
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louisiana, usa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business. Mon Oncle Antoine is Director Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A ...
Style:
art house, social, contemplative, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, small town, christmas, mining, youth, uncle nephew relationship, countryside, female nudity, young adult, christmas season, journey, boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1971
Place:
canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop. Without telling his uncle, Stanley ...
Style:
sincere, touching, uplifting, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
uncle nephew relationship, racism, interracial relations, friendship, society, odd couple, family life, youth, friends, couples, family relations, grudge ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, new york
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33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to ...
Style:
captivating, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
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teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, love triangle, friendship, fall in love, human nature, society, youth, family relations, working class, teenager, betrayal ...
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Place:
illinois
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32%
946
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
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Plot:
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Place:
usa, south carolina
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32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A vision of Jesus sighted on the screen door of Mother Harper's front porch sparks misadventures as the media and crowds gather around the phenomenon and the townsfolk start to take sides. As more people flock to the door, some for guidance, ...
Style:
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Plot:
society, social relations, bittersweet, small town life, interracial relations, friendship, small town, human nature, religions or cults, religion, preacher, escape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
aging, countryside, wilderness, solidarity, journey, girl power, rescue, nun, friendship, bus, unlikely partners, introspection ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
At age 17, Eglantine is troubled by a number of things. Her argumentative parents comprise an absentee and philandering father and an overprotective, occasionally alcoholic mother. Her boyfriend Sébastien is a couple of years older; he's ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot:
sex addict, psychotherapy, coming of age, therapist, friendship, family problems, social relations, family life, introspection, youth, family relations, teenage life ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In order to secure the position of Head of Pediatrics at a top Chicago hospital, a young, highly accomplished, pediatrician agrees to spend a summer setting up a clinic in a small town in the North Carolina mountains. Clashing against the ways of ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth ...
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Plot:
corporate crime, family relations, farm, homecoming, legal, dishonesty, small town, love affair, rivalry, social relations, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, nevada
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30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
White Water is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the "white's only" drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: ...
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touching, suspenseful, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot:
missing child, young heroes, danger, youth, racism, society, family problems, parents and children, discrimination, interracial relations, family relations, life is a bitch ...
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Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Twenty-something Ana, now living in Buenos Aires, returns to her native city of Paraná. She meets old school mates, old friends, makes new ones, and starts to rethink her life, and perhaps change her future.
Style:
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Plot:
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argentina
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25%
351
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:
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24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
666
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
social differences, couples, rivalry, society, family life, youth, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, interracial relations, lifestyle, football ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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23%
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
new york
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23%
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Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
State of Grace is an American comedy-drama series that ran for two seasons on the Fox Network's Fox Family channel during 2001 and 2002.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, retro ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, jewish family, family relations, youth, family life, child protagonist, teenager, best friend, protective parent, friends, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It's the last summer in Falkenberg for five childhood friends. David yearns to be a child again and Holger never wants to move away. Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jörgen finances his ...
Style:
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Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, grownups, best friend, small town, childhood friend, relocation, summer, society, nihilism, small town life ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, youth, car accident, grief, death of wife, accidental death, love, society, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife ...
Style:
touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, independent film, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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