Movies and TV shows like Providence

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Providence (1999)
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Providence (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Providence is an American television drama series that aired on NBC starring Melina Kanakaredes. The show ran for five seasons from January 8, 1999 until December 20, 2002.
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, medical drama, atmospheric
Plot: family relations, hometown, living with parents, parents and children, family life, love and romance, family problems, siblings relations, looking for love, homecoming, small town life, medical, small town, doctor, women, dysfunctional family, starting over, family in crisis, social relations, bittersweet, ghost, dream, surgeon, veterinarian, father son relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary, 1990s
Place: usa, rhode island
Keyword: doctors

Most similar movies to Providence

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and touching films and TV series with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, couple relations, love and romance, family life and small town mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Providence: Everwood (2002), October Road (2007), The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), Thirtysomething (1987), Cedar Cove (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Everwood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town life, doctor, small town, father son estrangement, first love, crush, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, friends in love, widower, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa
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100%
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October Road (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: When Nick Garrett was 18, he packed up his truck and said goodbye for a summer road trip that turned into 10 years of being away. He has since become a literary celebrity in New York, living off the fame and fortune of his best-selling novel and ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot: small town, hometown, old friend, love and romance, homecoming, family relations, success, writer's life, parenthood, writer's block, village, thoughtful ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Bold and the Beautiful (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 19 min.
TV show
Story: Continuing drama combining romance and intrigue set against the glittering backdrop of Beverly Hills and the American fashion industry.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, soap opera ...
Plot: fashion, family relations, love triangle, intrigue, family problems, family business, rich and poor, family life, couple relations, lifestyle, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Thirtysomething (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, clever, sincere ...
Plot: yuppie, parenthood, parents, women, lgbt, villain, love, colleague, slice of life, family relations, advertising, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: philadelphia, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cedar Cove (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Judge Olivia Lockhart is considered the community's guiding light in the picturesque, coastal town of Cedar Cove, Washington. But like everyone else, Olivia fights the uphill battle of balancing career with family and finding love, all the ...
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: relationship vs career, small town, loss of son, small town life, courtroom, love and romance, looking for love, family relations, career woman, couple relations, legal, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington state, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
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The Waltons (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and ...
Style: sitcom, absurd, juvenile, realistic, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, large family, team, parents, christian, girl, family affairs, real life, coming of age, family relations, small town, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: hawaii, virginia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Dallas (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, melancholic, uplifting ...
Plot: family feud, mogul, oil industry, family relations, family business, hypocrisy, uninhibited rivalry, ambition, couple relations, rich and poor, parents and children, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: texas, usa, dallas texas, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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General Hospital (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Families, friends, enemies and lovers experience life-changing events in the large upstate New York city of Port Charles, which has a busy hospital, upscale hotel, cozy diner and dangerous waterfront frequented by the criminal underworld.
Style: soap opera, medical drama, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: hospital, medical, rivalry, twists and turns, parents and children, manipulation, dishonesty, siblings relations, family life, family business, family in crisis, doctor ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 2020s, 60s, 90s ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
One Life to Live (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: One Life to Live is an American soap opera broadcast on television for more than 43 years on the ABC network, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network since April 29, ...
Style: soap opera, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Plot: couple relations, love and romance, family life, parents and children, friendship, family problems, infidelity, family feud, family relations, borderline personality disorder, lesbian, women ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Changing Hearts (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A modern Prodigal Son story starring Brian McNamara, Daphne Zuniga, and Brad Johnson. James Reed, quite content with his current life, reluctantly returns home to the family business, a sick father, and a brother with whom he's always at odds.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: family business, homecoming, parents and children, family problems, family relations, workplace, small town, marital argument, getting home, business, relationships, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Young and the Restless (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 37 min.
TV show
Story: The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters ...
Style: soap opera, realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, rivalry, couple relations, infidelity, family life, couples, power relations, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 2000s ...
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Good Times, Bad Times (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Goede tijden, slechte tijden, also known as GTST, is the longest-running Dutch soap opera, which began on 1 October 1990 on RTL4. The programme was the first daily soap in the Netherlands. The soap is produced by Joop van den Ende and to date over ...
Style: soap opera, saga, realistic, serious, sentimental
Plot: lesbian, gay, couple relations, love and romance, rivalry, intrigue, family problems, family relations, couples, love affair, family life, eccentric family ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
Knots Landing (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, telenovela
Plot: women, poor, family relations, small town, couple relations, intrigue, love and romance, couples, family life, love affair, power, best friend ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
This Is My Father (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya Farrelly) for answers. When she refuses to provide any, ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: love, coming of age, small town, bittersweet, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, young love, father, couple relations, society, self discovery, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1998
Place: ireland, illinois, chicago, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Beautiful People (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Beautiful People is an American drama television series about a family that moves from New Mexico to The Big Apple to make a fresh start on their lives. The series aired on the ABC Family Network from August 8, 2005, to April 24, 2006, lasting ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: single mother, starting over, lifestyle, fish out of water, family relations, youth, parents and children, family life, teenage life, city life, parents separation, mistress ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Judging Amy (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, serious, touching
Plot: legal, judiciary, judge, family relations, parents and children, starting over, single mother, couples, love and romance, courtroom drama, living with parents, female judge ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Country Practice (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A Country Practice was an Australian television drama series. At its inception, one of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, who had wrote the pilot episode and entered a script contest for the network in ...
Style: medical drama, touching, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot: doctor, medical, hospital, friendship, love and romance, countryside, friends, society, doctors and patients, workplace situations, social relations, workplace ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Husband for Rent aka Husband for Hire (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Marido En Alquiler is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Brazilian Rede Globo. It is a remake of the Brazilian telenovela, Fina Estampa, although the working title for the ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating, novela ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, social differences, infidelity, parents and children, love and romance, couples, family business, family in crisis, strong female presence
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Hawthorne (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Hawthorne is an hour-long medical drama on the TNT television network starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan. It premiered on June 16, 2009. On Thursday, September 16, 2010, it was announced that Hawthorne has been renewed for a third and ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: hospital, african american woman, nurse, workplace, doctors and patients, medical, family relations, single parent, workplace situations, friendship, doctor, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Town (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Following a family tragedy, 30-year-old Mark Nicholas returns to the town where he grew up. After ten years away, coming home is harder than Mark could ever have imagined.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot: homecoming, life turned upside down, hometown, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, family life, orphan, small town, lesbian, life is a bitch, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Days of Our Lives (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Horton and Brady broods endure the romantic trials of life in Salem, a Midwestern hamlet filled with evil geniuses, star-crossed lovers and a rich family history.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental
Plot: family relations, infidelity, family problems, betrayal, love triangle, loss of daughter, power relations, intrigue, couple relations, siblings relations, gay, couples ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 60s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Home and Away (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coastal town, sex, beach, small town, lesbian, family relations, bare chested male, love, husband wife relationship, seaside town, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
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Princess Daisy (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
TV show
Story: The lovely Daisy is the daughter of a Russian prince and an American movie star. After her parents are killed, she flees from her half-brother Ram. She fights her way to the top of the modeling profession and falls in love with a company president. ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, romantic drama
Plot: incestuous relationship, rape, twins, aristocrat, family problems, injustice, family relations, life is a bitch, downfall, society, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
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Soda Springs (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, family relations, hopes, going straight, lifestyle, homecoming, parents and children, social relations, christian ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.5
 73
Hard Sun (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the death of her parents, a young woman assumes primary guardianship of her special needs brother. But as she attempts to balance her new life with her brother and her own blossoming romance, it becomes painfully clear that life will only make ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, family in crisis, youth, dysfunctional family, family problems, brother sister relationship, autism, special needs, guardian, child care, sibling relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
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Falcon Crest (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the ...
Style: soap opera, realistic, captivating, serious, touching ...
Plot: wealthy family, family relations, rivalry, intrigue, betrayal, family business, family problems, family feud, parents and children, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Brown Girls (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Style: serious, captivating, stylized, saga, realistic
Plot: love affair, couple relations, culture clash, family life, strong female presence, society, parents and children, bittersweet, social relations, couples, family relations, village ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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