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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999)
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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm. He is slow to reveal his identity. When they find out he is Jacobs father, John Witting, thought long ago dead, hard questions about the past are difficult to get answered.
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: prairie, family relations, farm, parents and children, family life, couples, society, redemption, strong female presence, nursing, siblings relations, hopes, couple relations, dog, horse, world war one, boy, farmer, grandfather, girl, father son relationship, little girl, horse riding, husband wife relationship, family reunited ...
Time: 90s, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: kansas, usa, midwest
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about family relations, parents and children, society, family life, hopes, youth and family problems mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End: Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), Little House on the Prairie (1974), Country (1984), Skylark (1993), Immediate Family (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story is set in Kansas in the year 1910. Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth several years earlier, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is ...
Style: sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot: prairie, farm, bereavement, family life, parents and children, single parent, self discovery, small town life, love affair, human nature, remarry, happy ending ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place: kansas, usa, maine, america, new england ...
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Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Style: sentimental, sincere, feel good, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, toddlers, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: parents and children, farm, family life, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, youth, husband wife relationship, optimism ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, 1800s
Place: minnesota, kansas
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Country (1984)
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: survival, family farm, farm, farmer, family relations, life is a bitch, couple relations, family business, against the odds, couples, crumbling marriage, human nature ...
Time: 80s
Place: iowa, america
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Skylark (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Audience: kids
Plot: farm, prairie, drought, rural area, hunger, family life, against the odds, down on your luck, forces of nature, friends, family relations, couples ...
Time: edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place: kansas, maine, usa, midwest
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Immediate Family (1989)
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: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adoption, pregnancy, marriage, homeless, poverty, slice of life, parents, dilemma, birth control, love, social differences, teenage life ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: seattle, washington state
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Bitter Harvest (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned
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Time: 70s, 20th century
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Life Goes On (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, contemplative
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, protective parent, misfit, teenage life, family life, parents and children, couples, supportive parent, mentally challenged, couple relations, youth, young lovers ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, fall in love, self discovery, parents and children, love and romance, hopes, dishonesty, society, family relations, farm, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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The Proud Ones (1980)
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Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: contemplative, saga, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: world war one, family relations, religions or cults, farm, social relations, society, human nature, life is a bitch, village life, wartime life, countryside, family life ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, 20th century
Place: europe, france, brittany
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