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Places in the Heart (1984)
15K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1930s Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate group of friends.
Style:
uplifting, gothic, sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, social, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
great depression, ku klux klan, racism, farm, blindness, small town, lynching, mother, single mother, survival, friendship, blind character, tornado, dating, widow, redemption, bittersweet, nature, depression, adultery, blind man, poverty, farming, grief, prejudice ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1935, year 1984, 80s, 30s
Place:
texas, southern usa, midwest, austin texas, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about family relations, mentor, culture clash, redemption, storytelling, runaway and family mostly in Drama, Comedy and Western genres. Some movies like Places in the Heart: Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Spitfire Grill (1996), The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Norma Rae (1979), The Help (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
small town, friendship, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, feminist, small town life, lgbtq, cannibalism, midlife crisis, female bonding, female protagonist ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style:
christian film, emotional, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, friendship, food, self discovery, bittersweet, restaurant, solitude, hospital, storytelling, death, businessman, hound dog ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film, road movie ...
Plot:
escape, senior citizen, aging, journey, on the road, dysfunctional family, small town, redemption, old age, homecoming, bus, cat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, houston texas, austin texas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the ...
Style:
political, touching, inspirational, aesthetic, sad ...
Plot:
labor union, working class, feminist, small town, union, women, labor, business, labor movement, courage, single mother, american politics ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
north carolina, usa, alabama
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, civil rights, discrimination, writers, women, master and servant, racial segregation, maid, feminist, racial issues, blacks and whites ...
Time:
60s, year 2011, year 1963, 1900s, 50s ...
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, southern usa, africa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
african american, sexual abuse, incest, lgbtq, domestic violence, life is a bitch, rape, racial discrimination, feminism, incest rape, wife abuse, abusive relationship ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's ...
Style:
anamorphic, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
oil, small town, farm, restaurant, gilded age, progress, hopes, rural area, aging, obsessive quest, danger, human spirit ...
Time:
1930s, year 1935
Place:
texas, america, austin texas, usa, london ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, young lovers, coming of age, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, womanizer, youth, society, couples, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2000
Place:
nebraska, europe, usa, england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, sweet, sad, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female friendship, friendship, christmas, wedding, small town, southern belle, halloween, family relations, best friend, strong female character, life philosophy, wedding ceremony ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, clever, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
courtroom, divorce, lawyer, marriage, custody battle, father son relationship, single father, family drama, courtroom drama, legal, family relations, court ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, california, usa, persia, new york state ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, southern gothic, gothic, spooky ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
curse, all black cast, witchcraft, coming of age, dysfunctional family, african american, black, blaxploitation, deep south, american south, doctor, incest ...
Time:
year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, new orleans, indiana, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's ...
Style:
christian film, sincere, sentimental, sad, spiritual ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
god, faith, letter, hopes, cancer, pastor, brain tumor, terminal illness, child illness, christian, sick child, salvation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, america, chicago
Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
christian film, inspirational, uplifting, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christian, faith, christianity, fatherhood, religion, god, life philosophy, propaganda, hopes, destiny, religious, church ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, sentimental, period piece, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
racism, elderly, civil rights, friendship, old age, master and servant, chauffeur, racial segregation, cemetery, segregation, elevator, gardening ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 70s, year 1989 ...
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia, southern usa, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior ...
Style:
black and white, christian film, touching, retro, social ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
desert, nun, catholic, religion, chapel, priest, faith, farm, literary, african american, mother superior, convent ...
Time:
year 1963, 50s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, gloomy, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
farmer, courage, natural disaster, survival, small town, society, countryside, river, strike, apocalypse, farming, extreme weather ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tennessee, usa, alabama, birmingham alabama, california
Similarity:
100%
820
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Texas writer Horton Foote's touching story set in 1902 features Robert Duvall as Sol, the hardened boss of a sugar plantation who unwittingly becomes a mentor to a young boy named Horace (Lukas Haas), who comes to Sol looking for a way to earn ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
teenage boy, farm, youth, civil war veteran, hound dog, swamp, brother brother relationship, money, 13 year old, plantation, family relations, racism ...
Time:
year 1991, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
austin texas, usa, texas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
Style:
sad, emotional, touching, depressing, mind twisting ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
great depression, friendship, literary, loneliness, social commentary, disability, death, drifter, depression, tragedy, migrant worker, mental retardation ...
Time:
year 1992, 1900s, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
california, usa, north america
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, heartbreaking, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
single parent, writers, friendship, writer's life, parents and children, death, biopic, peter pan, stage play, country house, passion, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, turn of the century, future ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
civil rights, racism, african american, friendship, coming of age, teenage life, racial segregation, children, american south, abuse, interracial relations, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place:
indiana, africa, usa, south carolina
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, stylized, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
redemption, small town, incest, single parent, adultery, hopes, newspaper, depression, isolation, reporter, starting over, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
canada, nova scotia, newfoundland, atlantic ocean, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style:
melancholic, depressing, touching, sad, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, disability, small town, mentally challenged, mental illness, self discovery, responsibility, brothers, character study, coming of age, life philosophy, life & death ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, 70s, 60s
Place:
iowa, texas, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also ...
Style:
touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
slavery, black, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, women of color, drug addiction, african american, storytelling, racism, solace, black girl, anti racism ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, chicago, indiana, usa, alabama ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dog, coming of age, racism, african american, poverty, civil rights, black, great depression, school, youth, family relations, bittersweet ...
Time:
1930s, year 1972, 1900s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, america, usa, africa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, ...
Style:
independent film, aesthetic, existential, semi autobiographical, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, racism, teenager, black, small town, murder, racial issues, black american, segregation, african american, courtroom, racial segregation ...
Time:
1920s, year 1969
Place:
kansas, usa, africa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
family farm, survival, farm, farmer, family relations, couples, couple relations, life is a bitch, family business, against the odds, family problems, human nature ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
iowa, america, usa
Similarity:
17%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, depressing, intense ...
Plot:
fascism, catholicism, youth, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, unemployment, starving child, sin, society, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, ireland, liverpool, middle east, europe ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Netherlands, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, intense ...
Plot:
children, court, lawyer, mercy, family problems, unemployment, against the odds, parents and children, fighting the system, single father, courtroom drama, 007 ...
Time:
50s, year 2002, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
ireland, sydney australia, scotland, europe, dublin ireland ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Two determined mothers, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, teachers and students, parents and children, youth, society, changing lives, social relations, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
17%
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