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Written By (2009)
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Original name: 再生號
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, offbeat
Plot:
supernatural, afterlife, family relations, parents and children, writer's life, death in the family, unfulfillment, dealing with death, alternate reality, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, car accident, novelist, lawyer, death, car, alternate universe, novel
Place:
asia, hong kong
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, sincere, semi serious and humorous films with plots about family relations, parents and children, supernatural, family problems, dealing with death, death in the family and friendship mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like Written By: My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002), The Strange Case of Angelica (2010), Starry Starry Night (2011), Somewhere, Tomorrow (1983), Wedding Dress (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A car accident gives a spoiled, troubled young woman the ability to see ghosts, including one of a former classmate.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
afterlife, ghost, friendship, unfulfilled love, supernatural, hopes, twists and turns, last wish, dealing with death, redemption, supernatural ability, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
hong kong, china, asia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
portugal, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
There was once a young girl named May who felt alienated from everyone around her. May is worried about her mother and father, whose marriage is on the rocks, and she yearns to return to the woods where her grandfather lives. One day, May befriends ...
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Plot:
parents and children, escape from reality, family relations, family problems, friends, friendship, little girl, supernatural, love story, child, teenager, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
taiwan, asia
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55%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Lori Anderson is trying to deal with the recent tragedy of her father's death. As Lori's mother moves on, Lori finds herself stuck, consumed by grief and anger. With the lingering feeling that something about her father's passing was ...
Style:
serious, surprise ending
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, time, ghost, horse ranch, family relations, love and romance, supernatural, dealing with death, fall in love, supernatural romance, death in the family, parents and children ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Overly obsessive compulsive and too premature, Sora is easily distanced by her friends. Growing up without a father is something she would like to be fussy about with her mom, but Sora is still the one and only daughter of and the biggest support to ...
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semi serious, sad, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
terminal illness, wedding, family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, single mother, society, friendship, love story ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Way We Are is a respectful, unglamorous, and serenely charming portrait of regular people and a Hong Kong town that normally gets a bad rap. It may put you to sleep, but the visit and Ann Hui's quiet touch are exceptionally worthwhile.
Style:
touching, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, working class, single parent, society, family problems, unfulfillment, poverty, boy, loss of daughter, hopes, death in the family, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand, UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
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Style:
experimental, surreal, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
asia, thailand
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Radha (Naga Chaitanya) and Krishna (Samantha) are a married couple with a kid Bittu in early 1980's. They die in an accident. Bittu (Nagarjuna) grows up and happens to see reincarnation of his father and his mother as youngsters. The rest of ...
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Plot:
reincarnation, family relations, lovers reunited, supernatural, love and romance, parents and children, young lovers, karma, fashion, destiny, supernatural romance, telugu ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film centers on three brothers who, upon learning they only have a few days left to live, set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Hopper and Simmons are playing the brothers' father and uncle, respectively, while Caan is one of the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot:
last wish, family relations, parents and children, ex athlete, family problems, self discovery, introspection, friendship, terminal illness, society, death, death in the family ...
Time:
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41%
473
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Martin (deceased) is stuck in a dead-end job, welcoming the newly departed into the afterlife. All he dreams of is going 'Up There'. But his plans are thrown into disarray when he has to team up with the relentlessly chirpy Rash and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, offbeat
Plot:
friendship, misfit partners, buddies, workplace, supernatural, partners, disorder, workplace situations, bittersweet, dead man, afterlife, friends ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chayo returns to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and cope with her death. Surrounded by love and sublime beauty, Chayo has to give up something that as a woman and mother is inalienable. That will be the price of her freedom.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, tradition, elderly, golden years, unfulfillment, homecoming, death in the family, female protagonist, day of the dead, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Keith Bennets mother passed away a year ago, and he feels like he has moved on with his life, until one morning his mothers jewelry shows up on Keiths bathroom sink. The same jewelry she was buried in. Keith tells his wife Karen, about the jewelry ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, stylized, offbeat
Plot:
supernatural, gangsters, future dystopia, destiny, betrayal, hopes, angel, workplace situations, inventions and discoveries, adolescence vs adulthood, office, ghost ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young witch visits her cousin in a small town during a heated mayoral election race. Her kind-hearted cousin, the town’s beloved “good witch” and newlywed with two teenage step-kids, is running for office, but must keep her family from ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
supernatural, eccentric family, supernatural ability, family relations, family life, nothing goes right, curses spells and rituals, magic, good witch, witch, christmas, small town life ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
accident, family problems, couple relations, couples, family relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, small town, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Young pilot Branson (Louis Koo) recently takes over Skylette, his father's aviation empire, only to realise his old flames Cassie (Charmaine Sheh) is a flight attendant there. Several years ago, he was forced to break up with her and move to ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
unfulfilled love, workplace situations, workplace romance, lovers reunited, fall in love, love and romance, workplace, bittersweet, unfulfillment, pilot, adaptation, opposites attract
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a son attempts to reconcile with his father, a series of fateful events allow him to experience the father’s life in the past.
Style:
disturbing, sincere, captivating, satirical
Plot:
father son relationship, time loop, time travel, sent to the past, family relations, time paradox, dealing with death, parents and children, accident, near death experience, time warp, changing the past or future ...
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32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A successful lawyer gets to see how her life would have turned out if she would have made other choices in life.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, emotional
Plot:
thanksgiving, christmas, starting over, road not taken, couple relations, love and romance, couples, family relations, dysfunctional family, workplace, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time:
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man dies in a freak accident on a golf course only to learn he must perform one last good deed to get into heaven.
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semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, exciting, offbeat
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Story:
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dramatic, captivating, visually appealing, sentimental, enigmatic
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Duration: 70 min.
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When the ghost of a woman gains a second chance at life for 49 days, she reappears in front of her remarried husband and young daughter.
Style:
sincere, captivating, light, psychological, touching
Plot:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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