Movies like Radio Flyer
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Radio Flyer (1992)
14K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, sad, scary, inspirational, clever, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
physical abuse, brother brother relationship, coming of age, children, child abuse, childhood, dysfunctional family, bullying, abuse, family relations, alcohol abuse, parents and children, life is a bitch, stepfather stepson relationship, domestic violence, radio, siblings relations, couple relations, imaginary friend, youth, bittersweet, father son relationship, strong female character, stepfather, suspense ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969, 1960s
Place:
california, oklahoma, northern california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, emotional and sentimental films with plots about storytelling, catastrophe, dialogue, mentor, family relations, culture clash and family drama mostly in Drama, Mystery and Music genres. Some movies like Radio Flyer: The War (1994), The Deep End of the Ocean (1999), Hearts in Atlantis (2001), Losing Isaiah (1993), The Day Will Come (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
Style:
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Audience:
kids
Plot:
bullying, coming of age, vietnam war, childhood, father son relationship, friendship, child, children, youth, war, bittersweet, boy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, vietnam, usa, asia
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michelle Pfeiffer is ferocious in the role of a desperate mother whose 3-year-old son disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated. Based on Jacquelyn ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, missing person, children, family relations, parents and children, family life, disappearance, police detective, family problems, youth, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
small town, childhood, mysterious stranger, coming of age, friendship, single mother, suspense, childhood memory, childhood friend, bullying, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
virginia, new york, usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, emotional, sexy, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
adoption, courtroom drama, custody battle, racist, justice, single parent, parents and children, family problems, legal action, family relations, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres around two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the ...
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, social
Plot:
orphanage, abuse, brother brother relationship, brother, bully, violence, mockery, escape, rules, sexualized violence, medical experiment, humiliation ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, inspirational, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, teacher, coming of age, loneliness, injustice, social misfits, childhood, false accusation, teaching the ways of the world, mysterious character, mentor, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
women, friendship, dysfunctional family, youth, twists and turns, revenge, family bonds, sacrifice, solitude, child hero, sex crime, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s
Place:
jamaica, baltimore, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style:
touching, emotional, inspirational, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, childhood, single parent, life philosophy, teachers and students, single mother, alcoholic, good deed, disfigurement, death, kindness, boy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his ...
Style:
intellectual, psychological, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
prodigy, coming of age, child prodigy, autism, genius, mentor, friendship, psychology, children, mother son relationship, mathematics, working class ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time ...
Style:
sad, emotional, touching, heartbreaking, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
terminal illness, death, reconciliation, cancer, honest, childbirth, pregnancy, self discovery, couple relations, family life, unfulfillment, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
Style:
realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, intense, talky ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, military, family relations, military base, bittersweet, strict father, vietnam war, runaway, gunfight, character study, courage, tragedy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
california, south carolina, atlanta georgia, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
522K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Style:
road movie, sincere, uplifting, touching, inspirational ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, redemption, mentally challenged, runaway, disability, brother brother relationship, siblings relations, family relations, mental illness, self discovery, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
california, los angeles, las vegas, texas, missouri ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, lifestyle, youth, parents and children, friends, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, rock and roll ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, africa, usa, pennsylvania, new york yankees ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, melancholic, sentimental, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
single parent, single father, cancer, family relations, father son relationship, brothers, depression, life philosophy, overcoming, widower, step siblings, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, australia, tokyo, europe, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five year old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago. Just as he starts to develop a new ...
Style:
touching, light, scenic, visually appealing, buddy movie ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
small town, love triangle, coming of age, single father, divorce, friendship, bittersweet, basketball, hitman, life & death, culture clash, life philosophy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
kansas, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy, bleak ...
Plot:
slavery, segregation, slave, suburbs, manipulation, distopia, god, civil war, race, creativity, youth, gangsters ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
virginia, alabama, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school.
Style:
talky, clever, humorous, sexy, light ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
college, teenager, medical, school, medical school, nude, transformation, love story, writers, violence, fight scenes, doctors ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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:
touching, emotional, sentimental, road movie, thought provoking ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, aging, redemption, small town, journey, bus, escape, homecoming, old age, runaway, courage, eccentricity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Willard Young is a 10-year-old boy who is sent by his mother to stay with her best friend Lily Reed, who lives in the Delta shrimp-fishing country in a town called Paradise. Lily and her husband Ben have been living in an unmentioned emotional ...
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chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, love, coming of age, friendship, youth, bullying, death, time, transformation, multiple storylines, life, honest ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with Pompe disease - a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the support of ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, inspirational, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
race against time, twists and turns, cure, hopes, human spirit, against the odds, family problems, unlikely partners, child illness, family in crisis, parents and children, doctors and patients ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston, las vegas, portland oregon, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that Linda and Michael will adopt Lucy's baby and that Lucy ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
adoption, pregnancy, marriage, destiny, divorce, doctors, happy ending, alter ego, fantasy world, children, single father, crime gone awry ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both ...
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Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
disability, jazz, music, youth, culture clash, creativity, courage, childhood, character study, catastrophe, cancer, adolescence ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenager, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, haunted by the past, family in crisis ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, intense, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, playwright, estrangement, american south, women, mother and daughter, relationships, female protagonist, family relations ...
Place:
louisiana, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930's. They establish their family in ...
Style:
touching, sexy, entertaining, clever, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, immigrants, father son relationship, prison, nude, marriage, death of wife, family bonds, dysfunctional family, prejudice, adaptation, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
1920s, 50s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, thought provoking, feel good ...
Plot:
coming of age, fishing, self discovery, beautiful scenery, father son relationship, americana, childhood, river, brother brother relationship, brothers, tragedy, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1910s, 1930s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
It happened in 1983. It was a rare and remarkable theatrical experience. Controversial. Provocative. And shocking. Now, two Academy Award-winning actresses make the Pulitzer Prize-winning play the motion picture event of the year. What would you do ...
Style:
sexy, sad, sweet, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide, women, mother daughter relationship, adultery, marriage, male nudity, police investigation, lone hero, obsession, beautiful scenery, twists and turns, epileptic ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, feel good, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, california, usa, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself ...
Style:
erotic, emotional, touching, sexy, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, love and romance, prostitute, coming of age, dysfunctional family, adolescence, unlikely friendships, redemption, family relations, introspection, parents and children, human nature ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1971, 1920s
Place:
georgia, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have ...
Style:
touching, realistic, psychological, sentimental, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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