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The Majestic (2001)
60K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, period piece, touching, serious, cute, intense, retro, uplifting, spiritual ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
amnesia, small town, happy ending, mistaken identity, writers, writer's life, hollywood, justice, life philosophy, memory, parents and children, lovers reunited, getting home, starting over, mccarthyism, love, father son relationship, memory loss, father son reunion, filmmaking, small village, idealism, town, village, world war two ...
Time:
1950s, year 2001, 20th century, 50s, year 1951
Place:
california, usa, canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sentimental, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, love, life philosophy, fall in love, storytelling, family relations and dialogue mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Majestic: Chocolat (2000), The Vow (2012), Heart of the Country (2013), Hope Floats (1998), The Way We Were (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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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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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
love story, amnesia, memory loss, marriage, love and romance, love, true love, relationships, couple relations, power of love, wooing, destiny ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, melancholic, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory, amnesia, relationships, surrealism, loneliness, existentialism, melancholy, love, love story, dream, memory loss, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
persia, america, usa, north america, new york
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, romantic, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but ...
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Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
small town, starting over, couples, love story, happy ending, cheerleading, love, betrayal, family problems, divorce, single father, bullying ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, chicago, california ...
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52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, captivating, serious, romantic, intellectual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, california, new york, middle east, malibu california ...
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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:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Henry is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he cannot remember anything. If that weren't enough, Henry also has to recover his speech and mobility, in a life he no longer fits into. Fortunately, Henry has a loving wife and daughter ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
amnesia, rehabilitation, lawyer, memory loss, redemption, disability, brain damage, family relations, maid, parents and children, hopes, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
elderly lovers, christmas, fall in love, elderly, family relations, parents and children, family values, angst, holiday, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, dating ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style:
sweet, melancholic, romantic, intense, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, bronx new york city, new york, argentina
Similarity:
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2.5M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
china, alabama, vietnam, america, savannah georgia ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
clever, sentimental, emotional, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
massachusetts, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
retro, realistic, serious, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
car accident, death of husband, grief, family relations, small town, family problems, family in crisis, death in the family, parents and children, small town life, life turned upside down, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
41%
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, sad, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, first love, cinema, nostalgia, filmmaking, love story, flashback, haunted by the past, philosophy, friendship, adolescence ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, rome italy, europe, corsica
Similarity:
41%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Similarity:
40%
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, touching, feel good, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, family friendly
Plot:
memory loss, love, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, memory, wooing, relationships, dating, life philosophy, true love ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, alaska
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, scenic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, couples, true love, fall in love, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, destiny, love story, enemies to lovers, hospital, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 1946, year 1989, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, south carolina
Similarity:
40%
255K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, sweet, artsy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, love and romance, showbiz, actress, fame, actor's life, movie studio, film industry, art ...
Time:
1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, iran
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
sicily, italy, europe, madrid, rome italy ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, sexy, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, true love, high school sweetheart, small town, love affair, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, lovers reunited, young love, road not taken, teenage love ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new jersey, new orleans, canada
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, male female relationship, masseuse, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california ...
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40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style:
erotic, feel good, touching, sexy, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, victorian england, love affair, governess, couples, hopes, marriage proposal, estate, love and romance, parents and children, happy ending, british ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1997, 1830s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, san francisco
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, winds up working in a halfway house full of mildly brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
starting over, human spirit, rehabilitation, doctors and patients, hopes, love and romance, family relations, disability, defiant, bittersweet, mentally challenged, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
25K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, psychological, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
tennessee, southern usa, usa, france, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, emotional, melancholic, romantic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, chicago, palm springs california, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jenny McLean is a single mom working at a 911-call center struggling to make ends meet and raise her two kids, Elsie and Luke. Although still reeling from her divorce, Jenny can’t help but flirt when she gets emergency calls from Jeff, a local ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, sincere, cute ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, working class, waitress, old love, rock, love triangle, friendship, fall in love, couple relations, introspection, love and romance, starting over ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, texas, new jersey
Similarity:
39%
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