Movies like Oasis 2002

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Oasis (2002)
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Oasis (2002)
Original name: 사막의 샘
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Oasis is a love story of two young people abandoned by families. A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving. There he meets her daughter, wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy. Will these two lost people find a way to make their relationship work?
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, emotional, realistic, depressing, erotic, disturbing, independent film, romantic comedy ...
Plot: disability, hit and run, love affair, friendship, starting over, haunted by the past, unlikely couple, parents and children, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, vengeance, society, family problems, handicapped, bittersweet, love, lonely, loneliness, mental disorder, illness, lovers, tragedy, autism, dialogue ...
Time: year 2002, contemporary
Place: asia, korea, south korea
Keyword: korean, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, love affair, society, fall in love, family relations and love mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Oasis: A Moment to Remember (2004), Peppermint Candy (1999), The Classic (2003), Late Autumn (2010), The Waterdance (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Moment to Remember (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
Style: touching, realistic, romantic, sincere, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love affair, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, love story, couple relations, love, love and romance, asian, class differences, memory, father daughter relationship, resentment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia, asia
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100%
Peppermint Candy (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho"s depression becomes ...
Style: bleak, psychological, serious, existential, realistic ...
Plot: suicide, loneliness, haunted by the past, politics, destiny, regret, mental disorder, society, boat, tragedy, murder mystery, alienation ...
Time: 90s, year 1980, year 1987, year 1984, year 1994 ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Classic (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Shy Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sad ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, forbidden love, social differences, love affair, young lovers, society, youth, family relations, parents and children, diary, love ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Late Autumn (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong, China, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Anna learns in prison that her mother has passed away in Seattle. Prison officials grants Anna a three day furlough to attend her mother's funeral. Anna embarks on a long trip to Seattle. Hoon is a Korean immigrant who works as a gigolo. Hoon ...
Style: realistic, psychological, contemplative, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: impossible love, introspection, love and romance, couples, immigrant, gigolo, society, bittersweet, released from prison, outsider, stranger, prisoner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Waterdance (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, talky, psychological ...
Plot: disability, friendship, paraplegic, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human spirit, society, hopes, human nature, physical disability, male nudity ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
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Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: forbidden love, love and romance, youth, student life, professor, college, society, friendship, age difference, daughter, college life, student ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cuckoo (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Visually-challenged Tamizh and Suthanthirakodi fall in love with each other, but her self-centred brother wants to marry her off to his friend, which leads to the lovers' separation. Can their love help them find each other?
Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: love and romance, blindness and impaired vision, friendship, disability, fall in love, love story, relationship vs career, couples, unfulfillment, journey, society, train travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Personal Effects (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeance on the man who is accused of the crime. A chance meeting with a ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, touching, depressing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, mature woman, couples, obsessive quest, haunted by the past, vengeance, fall in love, tragedy, depression, wrestling, support group, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bored, horny, and frustrated, a woman begins an affair with a teenage boy.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, erotic, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, teenage sexuality, love affair, older woman younger man sex, sexual content, infidelity, sexually frustrated woman, sexually dissatisfied wife, family problems, family relations, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
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Lost in Time (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, coping, couples, hopes, workplace, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 902
Cafe Setareh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fall in love, human nature, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, family problems, society, couples, bittersweet, cafe, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
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April Snow (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man and a woman meet in the hospital after their respective partners are involved in a car accident and learn that they've been having an affair.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sexy ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, unlikely couple, couples, solace, human nature, dishonesty, adultery, hospital, car accident, coma, entertainment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: east asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Portrait of a Beauty (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Born to a family of established court painters, a woman is forced to carry on her family name and take over her brother's life after he commits suicide.
Style: realistic, erotic, psychological, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, hidden identity, injustice, couples, prodigy, gender, society, unfulfillment, fall in love, painter, love, seductive ...
Time: 18th century
Place: korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
More Than Blue (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A terminally ill man tries to find a suitable husband for the friend he has loved since childhood.
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, romantic comedy ...
Plot: love story, fall in love, terminal illness, first love, love, unfulfillment, love and romance, life & death, platonic, male female friendship, friendship, star crossed lovers ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bridge to Silence (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman with a hearing problem tries to get het life back together after a car accident that killed her husband.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: deaf, sexual abuse, sign language, family relations, life is a bitch, society, mute or deaf, opposites attract, single parent, misfit, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Take Care of My Cat (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer ...
Style: lyrical, psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, adulthood, cat, loneliness, self discovery, life is a bitch, couples, parents and children, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.9
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The Maid (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father's house.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: female nudity, love affair, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, sex scene, love, family relations, unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, parent child relationship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: working class, opposites attract, love story, education, unemployment, love and romance, couple relations, teachers and students, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, school ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Touch Me (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Bridgette is an actress teaching aerobics, and she falls in love with idle playboy Adam, who runs his father's gym. One day she finds out that one of her ex-lovers died of AIDS and, thinking that Adam is having an affair with another woman, ...
Style: rom com, independent film, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: hiv, love affair, female protagonist, aids, aerobics, love, mortality, aspiring actress, playboy, sexually transmitted disease, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dirty Filthy Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: mental illness, doctors and patients, self discovery, support group, friendship, couples, human nature, mental disorder, uncontrollable, introspection, obsessive compulsive disorder, mental health ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 345
Empty Days (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot: infidelity, unemployment, friendship, society, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, life is a bitch, friends, couples, love affair, sexual content ...
Time: 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love, forbidden love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Secret Sunshine (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Sin-ae moves with her son Jun to Miryang, the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to come to herself and set out on new foundations, another tragic event overturns her life.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: suicide attempt, redemption, faith, family problems, hopes, couple relations, love and romance, losing-it hero, human nature, death in the family, parents and children, christianity ...
Time: 2000s
Place: south korea, seoul, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ode to the Goose (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Yoon-young fell for Song-hyeon when she was married to his friend. When she gets divorced, he takes her on a trip to Gunsan, where they stay at a guest house run by a middle-aged man and his autistic daughter.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: jealousy, life is a bitch, love triangle, relationship problems, family problems, friendship, love story, love affair, couples, lovers, lifestyle, city life
Place: korea
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46%
A Brand New Life (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: children, orphan, youth, adoption, dysfunctional family, family relations, hopes, parents and children, girl, child abandonment, abandoned by father, family problems ...
Time: year 2009, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: korea, south korea, seoul, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: High school student Jung-Won (Cha Ye-Ryeon]) works at an amusement park, dressed up as Dragon cartoon character. Then one day, a guy, standing among his friends, twists her dragon mask around, causing her to fall flat on her back. Shortly ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, romantic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friends, love affair, fall in love, love triangle, music band, artists and showbiz, love and romance, one last chance, tragic love, couples, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.5
 11K
Open Hearts (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the ...
Style: atmospheric, independent film, realistic, touching, romantic ...
Plot: dogme 95, infidelity, love story, love triangle, hospital, relationships, extramarital affair, adultery, destructive relationship, crumbling marriage, paraplegic, life philosophy ...
Time: 90s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.4
 284K
Me Before You (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, quadriplegic, euthanasia, caregiver, handicapped, relationships, death, accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, usa, mallorca, paris france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Style: independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot: disability, physical disability, paraplegic, wedding, unfulfillment, hopes, fall in love, athlete's life, human nature, love and romance, life is a bitch, misfit ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Flowers of Evil (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paris-Tehran. A rootless love story between Gecko, young and free, and Anahita, an Iranian woman in exile - tangled up in History and steeped in Internet, unique and spontaneous
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: internet, political unrest, love affair, society, opposites attract, immigrant, unlikely couple, computers and web, love, love and romance, misfit, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, france, paris france, iran, europe
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