Movies like Molly

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Molly (1999)
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Molly (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car accident. When the institution must close due budget cuts, Molly is left in the charge of her neurotypical, older brother, Buck McKay, an advertising executive and perennial bachelor. Buck allows her to undergo an experimental medical treatment, with unexpectedly drastic results.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, sincere, uplifting, feel good, realistic, experimental, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: autism, disability, siblings relations, human spirit, custody, hopes, mental patient, advertising executive, public nudity, misfit, doctors and patients, mentally challenged, bittersweet, special needs, handicapped, girl, asperger's syndrome, disease, mental health, female nudity, family relations, parents and children, couples, ballerina, beach ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Keyword: arabic, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and humorous films with plots about love and romance, family relations, couples, hopes, bittersweet, parents and children and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Molly: The Story of Us (1999), The Other Sister (1999), The Story of Luke (2012), Mozart and the Whale (2005), Adam (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Story of Us (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.
Style: realistic, sentimental, romantic, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: happy ending, relationships, divorce, marriage, writers, life, bittersweet, long term relationship, family drama, happiness, slice of life, breakup ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Other Sister (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
Style: touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, compassionate ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mentally challenged, wedding, women, disability, family relations, justice, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, parents and children, fall in love, mental retardation, looking for love ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Story of Luke (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, mumblecore ...
Plot: autism, disability, job seeking, looking for love, self discovery, power relations, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, workplace situations, boss and employee, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Mozart and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Style: touching, inspirational, sweet, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: asperger's syndrome, autism, mental illness, taxi driver, mathematics, disability, loneliness, bird, hopes, couple relations, support group, love story ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 36K
Adam (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: date night, preschool
Plot: autism, asperger's syndrome, fall in love, shyness, mental illness, disability, neighbor, love affair, love, depression, psychology, loneliness ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, california, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
No Reservations (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, restaurant, chef, love, love story, cooking and food, opposites attract, fall in love, initially antagonists, guardian, love and romance, food ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Magnificent 7 (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson. Helena Bonham Carter stars as Maggi, a mother with seven children - three 'normal' daughters and four sons who are each, in one form or another, autistic.
Style: realistic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: autism, motherhood, family life, human spirit, single parent, mentally challenged, siblings relations, hopes, parents and children, child illness, family problems, small town ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: christmas, winter, family problems, family gatherings, homecoming, parents and children, siblings relations, family in crisis, couple relations, couples, holiday, christmas dinner ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Blue Diner (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A film about food, memory, language and caskets, BLUE DINER tells the story of a Puerto Rican mother and her daughter who struggle to explain how the daughter mysteriously loses her ability to speak Spanish, her first language.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, starting over, self discovery, estrangement, hopes, forbidden love, social decay, relationship vs career, betrayal, society, parents and children, pregnancy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.1
 62K
Benny & Joon (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Style: touching, melancholic, sweet, feel good, compassionate ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, brother sister relationship, social misfits, love, love story, misfit, mechanic, disability, love and romance, mental health, dysfunctional family, schizophrenia ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, seattle, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.4
 4K
Happy Times (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Zhao is an old laid-off worker who's dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and ...
Style: touching, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: blindness, greed, fall in love, comedy of errors, misfit, introspection, hotel, bittersweet, deception, farce, irreverent, bus ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, tibet, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.0
 10K
Simple Simon (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Simon has Asperger's syndrome and doesn't like changes in his life. He lives with his big brother Sam and Sam's girlfriend Frida. When Frida can't stand having to adapt to Simon's peculiarities anymore she takes off, leaving ...
Style: touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: asperger's syndrome, autism, mental illness, obsessive quest, brother brother relationship, youth, nursing, couple relations, teenage life, escapades, disability, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Evening Star (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty ...
Style: touching, cult classic, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: death, dysfunctional family, family relations, women, family gatherings, grandparent grandchild relationship, single parent, love and romance, human nature, family problems, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 80s, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Seasons Of Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, "Seasons of Love" is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against the odds, while reconciling with the past and learning the true value of family.
Style: humorous, uplifting, semi serious, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, against the odds, hopes, looking for love, haunted by the past, family relations, redemption, couples, self discovery, friendship, black, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Great New Wonderful (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.
Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, witty, clever ...
Plot: 9/11, therapy, family relations, mental illness, office, immigrant, bittersweet, rise to the top, terrorism, love and romance, ambition, misfit ...
Time: year 2002, september 11 2001, year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, italy, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Tortilla Soup (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: food, cooking, eccentricity, secrets, family life, eccentric family, looking for love, parents and children, relationship vs career, women, love, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Conversations with Other Women (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to ...
Style: sexy, heartbreaking, melancholic, emotional, light ...
Plot: wedding, couples, infidelity, love story, unfulfilled love, love and romance, couple relations, hopes, introspection, sex, dialogue, adultery ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Tru Confessions (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Trudy Walker hated her life. She thought it was totally messed up until she found out about a contest that could change everything..
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, heartfelt ...
Audience: teens, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, parents and children, ambition, follow your dream, family relations, estrangement, family life, siblings relations, teenage life, teenage boy, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Boys Next Door (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jack Palmer is a social worker whose job has taken precedence over his personal life. Mainly, his job is to help four mentally challenged men live regular lives in a home. They consist of: Norman, who works at a donut shop and has a thing for keys; ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Audience: kids
Plot: golf, autism, social worker, donut, disability, family relations, pets, society, lifestyle, social misfits, hopes, nothing goes right ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style: touching, sentimental, independent film, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, depression, coming of age, mental institution, adolescence, psychiatric ward, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, anxiety, suicidal, psychiatrist ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.0
 38K
Raising Helen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: adoption, happy ending, custody, orphan, couple relations, couples, parents and children, fashion, love, teenage girl, parenthood, opposites attract ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Music from Another Room (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Plot: single father, family relations, parents and children, american football, love and romance, destiny, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family drama, life philosophy, marriage, blindness ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Giant Mechanical Man (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
Style: sincere, humorous, feel good, touching, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: self discovery, lifestyle, fall in love, misfit, shyness, workplace romance, workplace, adulthood, social misfits, self involved, singleness, love ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Gaby: A True Story (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Style: realistic, uplifting, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: disability, hopes, human spirit, college, misfit, forbidden love, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, love, teenage girl ...
Time: 1940s, year 1987, 1930s
Place: mexico, latin america, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.0
 453
Mary and Rhoda (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The old friends from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," Mary and Rhoda, are reunited, only to discover that Mary has a daughter named Rose and Rhoda's daughter is named Meredith.
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, family problems, family relations, homecoming, looking for love, family life, estrangement, couples, college, starting over, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Remember Sunday (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A lonely, down-on-her-luck waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk and thinks that maybe, finally, she's met Mr. Right. The more Molly (Alexis Bledel) gets to know Gus (Zachary Levi), the more she's intrigued by him. But ...
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, romantic drama, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: memory loss, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, starting over, couples, family relations, flower shop, hopes, brain damage, charm, girl, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 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 ⇓
35%
 6.1
 1K
Passionada (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: starting over, parents and children, gambling, love affair, teenage life, opposites attract, small town, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, small town life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.4
 244
Irene in Time (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A film about the complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the potential lifelong consequences of those relationships.
Style: talky, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: haunted by the past, looking for love, couples, family relations, couple relations, introspection, strong female presence, sexual content, parents and children, hopes, dating, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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