Movies like Picture Bride

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Picture Bride (1994)
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Picture Bride (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The miserable girl finds solace with her new friend Kana, a young mother who helps Riyo accept her new life.
Style: touching, emotional, melancholic, serious, independent film, realistic, contemplative, sentimental, inspirational, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loveless marriage, self discovery, immigrant, orphan, existentialism, older man younger woman relationship, social differences, fish out of water, love and romance, friendship, culture clash, women of color, wedding planning, death, women, migration, talent, ethnic, ethnicity, island, cultural difference, forbidden love, friends, misfit, feminism ...
Time: year 1918, year 1994, 19th century, 1920s
Place: hawaii, japan, usa, asia, tokyo
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about love and romance, society, couples, family relations, parents and children, fall in love and friendship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Picture Bride: Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Tempted (2003), American Wake (2004), Sabah: A Love Story (2005), Face (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style: sentimental, romantic, stylized, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, love and romance, orphan, young woman, mentor ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place: japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
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75%
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Tempted (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, romantic drama, sexual ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, fall in love, love triangle, family relations, parents and children, couples, infidelity, last wish, funeral, love and romance, bare chested male ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii, boston, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
American Wake (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Story: A musician and a fireman work against certain expectations in order to pursue their respective dreams.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, touching
Plot: self discovery, forbidden love, moral dilemma, love affair, family relations, human nature, love and romance, musician's life, hopes, parents and children, immigrant, folklore ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Sabah: A Love Story (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.
Style: serious, emotional, touching, realistic, islamic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, culture clash, social differences, love affair, society, fall in love, couples, family problems, older woman younger man relationship, family relations, muslim, interracial romance ...
Place: middle east, canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Green Chariot (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental
Plot: fall in love, moral dilemma, love and romance, society, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, immigrant, misfit, emigration, engagement, identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: love triangle, love affair, social differences, social relations, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, rivalry, society, friendship, small town, stranger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Mississippi Masala (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
Style: romantic, light, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, immigrant, culture clash, interracial relations, racial prejudice, indians, stereotypes, family drama, honest, love affair, opposites attract, fall in love ...
Time: year 1991, 70s, 20th century, year 1990, year 1972
Place: mississippi, uganda, africa, india, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Style: contemplative, sentimental, emotional, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, memory loss, teenage love, love triangle, self discovery, fall in love, social relations, youth, society, couples, amnesia, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Loving Leah (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: marriage of convenience, fall in love, couples, death in the family, religions or cults, society, cardiologist, family relations, family tradition, friendship, love and romance, hopeless romantic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.7
 703
Sunday (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling creature of that name since "Vertigo" is a middle-aged, moderately successful actress. Oliver/Matthew is either a homeless man or a ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: diner, self discovery, hobo, tramp, homeless, couple relations, unfulfillment, friendship, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, society ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A study in culture bridging, including ... a new US-born husband, trying to work within the traditional ways, a new China-born wife, eager to join the "dream" of America, two family-minded fathers, lots of gender-related social ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, infidelity, gambling, immigrant, strong female presence, family problems, couples, family relations, gays and lesbians, couple relations, gender, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1989, 1940s
Place: new york, china, asia, usa, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
32%
Double Happiness (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her own needs and desires - double happiness. Naturally, something's got to give and when love ...
Style: touching, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: girls' night
Plot: white man asian woman relationship, culture clash, immigrant, interracial romance, bittersweet, women of color, dating, gay, father daughter relationship, woman, audition, family relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: canada, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 45
Costas (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Drama directed by Paul Cox.
Style: independent film, contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: couples, taxi, love affair, journalism, misfit, love and romance, politics, society, forbidden love, immigrant, political prisoner, immigration ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: australia, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 500
Class (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Preppy and wealthy Whitt Sheffield is in his last semester of law school when a professor assigns him to act as an advocate for a young, single mother who needs help finding - and keeping - a job. Whitt, whose snooty father wants Whitt to follow him ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single parent, law student, fall in love, couples, rich and poor, society, parents and children, law school, lawyers and clients, lawyer, social differences, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
31%
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: patient, twins, memory, terminal illness, hospital, bittersweet, friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, love and romance, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Fureur (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Raphael is an ex-boxing champ who now trains his young brother Manu. Tony, Raphael's ex-rival, returns to town to wed his reluctant fiance Chinh. As soon as Chinh and Raphael meet, sparks fly, and soon the two are sneaking out together.
Style: serious, suspense, captivating, realistic
Plot: secret identity, self discovery, love affair, family life, society, haunted by the past, friendship, boxing, interracial romance, boxer, chinese woman, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
31%
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The Princess & the Marine (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Based on a true story, American Marine Jason Johnson (Goselaar) is sent on assignment to the Emirate of Bahrain. While there, he meets and falls in love with a spirited, lovely young woman, Meriam (Nichols), without realizing she is really a member ...
Style: touching, captivating, emotional, sincere
Plot: marine, military, princess, friendship, family relations, parents and children, social differences, class differences, couples, sailor, impossible love, injustice ...
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Bella (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that ...
Style: touching, emotional, melancholic, independent film, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: abortion, pregnancy, life philosophy, destiny, parenthood, stereotypes, honest, existentialism, love affair, self discovery, lifestyle, catholic ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do (2008)
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 ⇓
31%
 5.5
 439
Treading Water (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Casey (Angela Redman) has rejected her privileged upbringing and restores old boats for a living. She lives a cozy life with her beautiful social worker girlfriend Alex (super sexy Nina Landey) until her stuffy family demands that she come home for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, eccentric family, culture clash, fish out of water, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, couples, society, addiction, family life, family relations ...
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.3
 960
Love Is Blind (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 30-year old Kertu has lived under her father's power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life - she send a ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, captivating
Plot: fall in love, forbidden love, social misfits, unlikely couple, society, parents and children, self discovery, village, village life, family relations, drunkenness, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Sea Is Watching (2002)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on Akira Kurosawa's final unproduced script, this Edo-period drama takes place almost entirely inside an ocean-village brothel. O-Shin is a young brothel worker who one night helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot: samurai, friendship, prostitute, couple relations, hopes, looking for love, couples, fall in love, village life, village, unfulfilled love, rescue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, indonesian
Plot: forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, rich and poor, love and romance, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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