Movies like The Majestic

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The Majestic (2001)
 6.9
 57K
The Majestic (2001)
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, inspirational, touching, period piece, serious, intense, retro, uplifting, spiritual ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, mistaken identity, writers, writer's life, amnesia, justice, happy ending, life philosophy, hollywood, memory loss, memory, parents and children, lovers reunited, getting home, starting over, mccarthyism, love, father son relationship, father son reunion, filmmaking, idealism, town, village, world war two, past ...
Time: 1950s, year 2001, 20th century, 50s, year 1951
Place: california, usa, canada
Keyword: americana, movie theatre, doctors, change

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and serious films with plots about love and romance, love, couples, kiss, family relations, fall in love and hopes mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Majestic: Chocolat (2000), The Vow (2012), Heart of the Country (2013), The Way We Were (1973), Hope Floats (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.2
 201K
Chocolat (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, women, cooking and food, single mother, love and romance, culture clash, food, mother daughter relationship, life philosophy ...
Time: 50s, year 2000, 1950s, year 2001, y2k ...
Place: france, europe, america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 204K
The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love, memory loss, love story, love and romance, amnesia, true love, marriage, relationships, couple relations, wooing, power of love, couples ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
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: psychological, surreal, melancholic, romantic, mind bending ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: memory, surrealism, dream, love, love story, memory loss, existentialism, loneliness, couples, amnesia, relationships, introspection ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place: persia, america, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Heart of the Country (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: family relations, homecoming, parents and children, love affair, love and romance, countryside, hopes, getting home, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, life, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Way We Were (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: mccarthyism, naval officer, couples, politics, breakup, husband wife relationship, adultery, love story, passion, world war two, love and romance, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s, pre world war two ...
Place: usa, new york, california, middle east, malibu california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.0
 30K
Hope Floats (1998)
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 ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, touching, light, sad ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: small town, starting over, happy ending, couples, infidelity, love story, love, family relations, betrayal, married woman, family problems, divorce ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Lovely, Still (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.
Style: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, realistic, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: elderly lovers, christmas, elderly, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, family values, angst, alzheimer's disease, memory loss, christmas romance, mature ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
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, realistic, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, vineyard, pretend relationship, wine, parents and children, world war two, love story, estate, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 90s, post world war two
Place: san francisco, california, sacramento california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Regarding Henry (1991)
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: touching, inspirational, intense, emotional, serious ...
Plot: rehabilitation, amnesia, memory loss, lawyer, redemption, disability, starting over, family relations, maid, parents and children, brain damage, self discovery ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
End of the Line (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
Style: political, independent film, witty, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: train, railway, profanity, bittersweet, hopes, human spirit, buddies, on the road, rebellion, small town life, self discovery, politics ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 8.8
 2.2M
Forrest Gump (1994)
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: date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: life & death, philosophy, life philosophy, mentally challenged, destiny, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, storytelling, life, journey ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., vietnam, china, alabama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Falling in Love Again (1980)
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, romantic, melancholic, intense, light ...
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, self discovery, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place: usa, bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.6
 15K
Moonlight Mile (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style: sentimental, emotional, realistic, clever, art film ...
Plot: murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, fall in love, haunted by the past, death in the family, family problems, grief, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 2002, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.7
 77K
The Best of Me (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, high school sweetheart, true love, love affair, lovers reunited, small town, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, road not taken, young love, couples ...
Time: year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
All the Way Home (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the ...
Style: retro, realistic, serious, gloomy, sentimental ...
Plot: grief, death of husband, family relations, small town, car accident, family problems, life turned upside down, small town life, death in the family, parents and children, family in crisis, hopes ...
Time: 1910s, year 1963, 1900s
Place: tennessee, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Back to You & Me (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Her surgeon boyfriend, who has been sarcastically nick named "Mr. Personality" and "Settle For" by Syd's best friend ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: high school reunion, starting over, doctor, couples, estrangement, couple relations, fall in love, homecoming, ex-lover, small town, small town life, single father ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Author! Author! (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, intense, romantic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: writers, children, playwright, single parent, love and romance, large family, divorce, parents and children, youth, actress, single father, family relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 8.5
 281K
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style: sad, uplifting, inspirational, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: childhood, coming of age, friendship, first love, filmmaking, cinema, nostalgia, haunted by the past, adolescence, breast feeding, village, funeral ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: italy, sicily, europe, rome italy, corsica
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Star Maker (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through the small villages of Sicily pretending that he is working for the big film studios in Rome.
Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, hidden identity, self discovery, love and romance, disorder, hopes, on the road, cons and scams, village life, countryside, small town, village ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: sicily, italy, europe, madrid, palermo italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.5
 45K
The Choice (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, sweet, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, happy ending, destiny, hospital, moral dilemma, life & death, love story ...
Time: year 1988, year 1946, year 1989, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Life on Liberty Street (2004)
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, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: human spirit, starting over, hopes, love and romance, doctors and patients, rehabilitation, disability, family relations, defiant, bittersweet, mentally challenged, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
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: realistic, touching, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation, masseuse, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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No Looking Back (1998)
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 ...
Plot: small town, working class, rock, old love, waitress, love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, family relations, couples, friends, social relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.8
 379K
50 First Dates (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: memory loss, fall in love, love story, amnesia, love and romance, love, memory, relationships, wooing, dating, life philosophy, dream ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.8
 22K
Bounce (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.
Style: emotional, sentimental, romantic, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: widow, redemption, betrayal, starting over, love and romance, haunted by the past, hopes, advertising, love, aviation, husband wife relationship, bittersweet ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, chicago, palm springs california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: cancer, teenager, love story, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, love, first love, youth, teen romance, true love ...
Time: year 2002, 1900s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.9
 248K
Beauty Spot (2011)
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: black and white, romantic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, showbiz, love and romance, dog, actor's life, fame, actress, love, art ...
Time: 1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.2
 5K
Firelight (1997)
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: uplifting, serious, touching, feel good, sexy ...
Plot: fall in love, governess, love affair, couples, victorian england, estate, nanny, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, british, love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1840s, 1830s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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