Movies like Love's Long Journey

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Love's Long Journey (2005)
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Love's Long Journey (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband, Willie, have headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie home of Missie's parents. Now, caught between the excitement of the new adventure and the pain of not knowing when she'll see her family again, Missie copes with the challenges, and cherishes the rewards, of her new homestead.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, emotional, saga, costume drama, historical romance, serious, realistic, period drama ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: newlyweds, ranch, farm, pregnancy, settler, starting over, friendship, family relations, couples, danger, love, christian, faith, christianity, prairie, wild west, true love, old west, friends, love and romance, rivalry, redemption, strong female presence, small town, siblings relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: usa

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Most similar movies to Love's Long Journey

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about family relations, hopes, love and romance, christian, couples, small town and society mostly in Drama, Family and Western genres. Some movies like Love's Long Journey: Love Comes Softly (2003), Little House on the Prairie (1974), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), Love's Abiding Joy (2006), Secret of Giving (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love Comes Softly (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Marty is a 19 year old pioneer woman, recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Clark Davis, a widower, offers her a marriage of ...
Style: touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night
Plot: faith, fall in love, marriage of convenience, couple relations, survival, love and romance, pregnancy, single parent, farm, christian, starting over, family life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: usa
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100%
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Style: sentimental, sincere, feel good, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, toddlers, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: parents and children, farm, family life, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, youth, husband wife relationship, optimism ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, 1800s
Place: minnesota, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is an American Western drama series created by Beth Sullivan and starring Jane Seymour who plays Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn, a physician who leaves Boston in search of adventure in the American West and who settles ...
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching, medical drama ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing
Plot: family values, old west, doctors and patients, small town, female doctor, parents and children, medical, medicine, love and romance, children, american indian, society ...
Time: 19th century, 90s
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Love's Abiding Joy (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie begins to realize her passion for teaching as Willie cares for the couple's young daughter ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: family relations, christian, family problems, optimism, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children, death in the family, love, death of child, faith, prairie ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Secret of Giving (1999)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As Christmas approaches, a single mother (played by Reba McEntire) struggles to raise her son and keep up the payments on her Oregon ranch, which is difficult since she's heavily in debt. But she's a tough cookie, and proves that a ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: christmas, ranch, single mother, prairie, old west, criminal heroes, down on your luck, aging, bank, small town life, social relations, farm ...
Time: 19th century
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Wildfire (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kris Furillo is given the opportunity to start a new life after serving time at a teen detention center. Her talent with horses is recognized by a volunteer and local trainer Pablo, who arranges a job for her at the Ritter's family run ranch, ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, feel good, serious ...
Plot: horse, horse ranch, starting over, lifestyle, against the odds, ambition, fall in love, friendship, society, rivalry, workplace, coach ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Love Finds A Home (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this sequel, Lillian has been adopted and it's several years later. Annie, married and pregnant, visits her fellow doctor friend, Dr. Owen. Dr Owen desperately wants a baby, but seems unable to become pregnant. Lillian finds a love ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: crumbling marriage, couples, hopes, young lovers, couple relations, feminism, gender, small town, parents and children, family relations, small town life, youth ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In this Janette Oke sequel to "Love Comes Softly," the eldest child in an 1800s frontier family, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful elementary schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: farm, old west, christian, fall in love, love triangle, couples, family relations, lifestyle, young lovers, countryside, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Love Begins (2010)
Genre: Family, Western
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Clark Davis (Wes Brown) adventurous dreams of seeing the world are put into jeopardy after he and a friend start a fight which damages a local cafe. Through a plea deal with the Sheriff (Jere Burns) and café owner Millie (Nancy McKeon), Clark works ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Audience: family friendly, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, adventurer, old west, disagreement, couple relations, unlikely couple, hopes, rivalry, family relations, couples, one more chance, love ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Love Takes Wing (2009)
Genre: Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was spread from the town orphanage and wants to see it shut down. Belinda ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: small town, plague, love and romance, love affair, christian, fall in love, small town life, child illness, friendship, love, prairie, medical ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Love's Unfolding Dream (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Centers on Missy's adopted daughter Belinda Tyler as she follows her dream. Belinda wants to be a doctor, but this time period does not look kindly on women with careers, especially one in the medical field. But Belinda is a strong-minded woman ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, realistic, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: ambition, fall in love, family life, relationship vs career, social differences, follow your dream, hopes, blind ambition, family relations, workplace situations, christian, love ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Love's Unending Legacy (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scuffle. She and Maddy move back in with her parents Clark and Marty. She finds a new home, and finds a new teaching position that she settles right ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, touching, saga ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: orphan, adoption, starting over, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, single parent, optimism, social relations, parents and children, small town ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Horse Sense (1999)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After treating his rancher cousin shoddily in L.A. Michael Woods is sentenced by his parents to spending a month on the ranch with his cousin and aunt.
Audience: kids, girls' night
Plot: farm, youth, rural setting, cousin, horse, foreclosure, cousin cousin relationship, cell phone, treehouse, village life, stampede, porsche
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Way Home (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An inspirational true story about how a rural community rallied around a distraught family to search for their missing two year-old boy and through doing so changed the lives of many of those involved.
Style: sincere, touching, uplifting, emotional, serious ...
Plot: missing child, hopes, couple relations, couples, social relations, family problems, family relations, family in crisis, christian, missing person, gospel, faith ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Conagher (1991)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is a honest, hardworking cowboy. Their lives are intertwined as they fight the elements, indians, outlaws, and loneliness.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: wild west, old west, homestead, civil war, cowboy, gang, love and romance, heroes, single parent, danger, tough heroes, family relations ...
Time: 19th century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Red Pony (1973)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, farm, friends, pets, parents and children, family relations, family problems, horse, boy, father son relationship, grandparents, pony ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Little House on the Prairie (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 255 min.
TV show
Story: Little House on the Prairieis a TV miniseries based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: society, family relations, escapades, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, manners, small town, farm, small town life, american history, prairie ...
Place: kansas, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Last Sin Eater (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.
Style: emotional, christian film, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: christian, family problems, redemption, girl, christianity, hopes, parents and children, society, death in the family, faith, religion, dark secret ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Pollyanna (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest ...
Style: touching, feel good, uplifting, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, optimism, teaching the ways of the world, small town life, countryside, young heroes, small town, hopes, orphan, friends, change of heart, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 1910s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Heartland (1979)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Disarmingly realistic in its depiction of the realities of frontier life, Heartland is a strong antidote to the cliches of traditional Westerns. This semi-documentary slice of life is based on the diaries of Elmore Randall Stewart about her days on ...
Style: historically accurate, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: farm, scenery, nature, homestead, rural setting, ranch, cattle, strong female presence, fall in love, self discovery, society, couple relations ...
Time: 1910s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
A Painted House (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, lifestyle, self discovery, hopes, farm, poverty, survival, nature, farmer, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1952
Place: arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Work and the Glory III: A House Divided (2006)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors, deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland, financial ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: mormon, family in danger, religions or cults, bankruptcy, danger, hopes, dishonesty, redemption, rivalry, society, religious, discrimination ...
Time: 19th century, 1830s
Place: missouri, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Smith! (1969)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was raised by the old Indian Antoine. Smith helps Jimmyboy against the mean Sheriff and ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: native american, false accusation, ranch, farm, injustice, society, life is a bitch, legal action, legal, dedicated lawyer, rivalry, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story is set in Kansas in the year 1910. Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth several years earlier, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is ...
Style: sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot: prairie, farm, bereavement, family life, parents and children, single parent, self discovery, small town life, love affair, human nature, remarry, happy ending ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place: kansas, usa, maine, america, new england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Work and the Glory II: American Zion (2005)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "The Work and The Glory: American Zion" sets the story of the fictional Steed family against the historically factual backdrop of the Mormon people's move into the West. Divided by their diverse reactions to a nascent ideology, the ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: mormon, culture clash, religious, discrimination, society, redemption, hopes, religious leader, christian, religious differences, husband wife relationship, estrangement ...
Time: 19th century, 1830s
Place: new york state, missouri, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The River Within (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Jason returns home to get away while he studies for the upcoming bar exam. After visiting his oldest friend, a "coulda-been-girlfriend" who is now engaged, and a pushy preacher, his easygoing summer becomes filled with unwanted drama. Over ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christian, small town, couples, family relations, youth, society, self discovery, introspection, religions or cults, small town life, homecoming, clergy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Dead Man's Burden (2012)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, tense, stylized ...
Plot: rivalry, family problems, family relations, family life, old west, farm, siblings relations, civil war, mine, mining, gunfight, modern western ...
Time: 19th century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Christmas Candle (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, feel good, christmas special ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas, miraculous event, angel, social relations, society, clergy, hopes, religions or cults, village, faith, christian, religious ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1890s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Saint Maybe (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A lonely teen troubled by a past family tragedy is suspicious of his sister-in-law, believing she is being unfaithful. His confrontation with his brother sets off a series of tragic events.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christmas, tragedy, family relations, church, redemption, haunted by the past, homecoming, death in the family, adoption, family in crisis, family life, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Cowboy Up (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: "Cowboy Up" is a celebration of the risk-taking, daredevil personalities of modern rodeo. In the world of professional bull riding, newcomer Ely Braxton (Marcus Thomas) is the craziest guy around; his brother Hank (Kiefer Sutherland) is a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, sex comedy
Plot: love affair, love triangle, friendship, rivalry, family relations, couples, relationship vs career, parents and children, fish out of water, unfulfilled love, redemption, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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