Movies like Seven Pounds

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Seven Pounds (2008)
 7.6
 307K
Seven Pounds (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style: touching, sad, emotional, depressing, sentimental, reflective, psychological, inspirational, compassionate, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: redemption, depression, life philosophy, self sacrifice, true love, life changing experience, hopes, sacrifice, existentialism, fall in love, suicide, life & death, tragic event, suspense, philosophy, melancholy, relationships, love story, secret, sadness, death of protagonist, tax collector, haunted by the past, love, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, united states, united states of america

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, touching, sad and dramatic films with plots about life philosophy, mentor, destiny, life & death, dialogue, bittersweet and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Seven Pounds: Collateral Beauty (2016), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Beaver (2011), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), What Dreams May Come (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Collateral Beauty (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Style: twist ending, sad, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: loss, anguish, christmas, group therapy, death, grief, love, solitude, life & death, redemption, tragedy, justice ...
Place: brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Style: inspirational, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens
Plot: life, life philosophy, rags to riches, human spirit, homeless, rise to the top, against the odds, life is a bitch, ambition, down on your luck, hopes, single father ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Style: touching, philosophical, dramatic, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: destiny, aging, true love, life & death, life philosophy, child as adult, existentialism, love and romance, tragic love, fall in love, impossible love, puzzle ...
Time: 50s, 1940s, 2000s, 70s, 1930s ...
Place: new orleans, usa, english channel, pearl harbor, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.6
 50K
The Beaver (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, psychological, depressing ...
Plot: depression, mental illness, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, psychology, mental disorder, solitude, suspense, adaptation, happy ending, family relations, losing-it hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style: clever, touching, inspirational, sentimental, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, existentialism, plot twist, life, friendship between men, life sentence, life philosophy, hopes, adaptation, powerful ending ...
Time: 1940s, year 1963, year 1965, year 1966, year 1954 ...
Place: usa, maine, pacific ocean, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: afterlife, heaven and hell, life philosophy, life & death, redemption, love, death, destiny, metaphysics, true love, spirituality, husband wife reunion ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The ...
Style: sad, touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, lawyer, parenthood, mother daughter relationship, sisters, sick child, life is a bitch, family life, relationships, childhood, leukemia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa, los angeles, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style: sad, depressing, emotional, heartbreaking, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: death, depression, loneliness, suicide attempt, loss, sadness, nephew, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, death of brother, grief, guardian ...
Time: 2010s
Place: massachusetts, boston, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, teenager, terminal illness, fall in love, first love, youth, teenage life, dealing with death, friendship, coping, coming of age, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, amsterdam, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.3
 37K
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and ...
Style: inspirational, psychological, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot: psychiatrist, psychology, family reunited, african american, u.s. navy, redemption, child abuse, justice, honest, depression, life philosophy, transformation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, africa, usa, mexico, cleveland ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 62K
Like Crazy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style: romantic, affectionate, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: long distance relationship, love, love story, forceful separation, relationships, fall in love, bittersweet, parents, couples, love and romance, immigration, lovers apart ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, england, london, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 150K
Remember Me (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sad, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: relationships, love, suicide, death in the family, 9/11, love story, teenager, young love, love and romance, twists and turns, dealing with death, parenthood ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 1991, year 2001, 90s, 2000s ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.8
 12K
The Island (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, breathtaking, cerebral ...
Plot: christian, redemption, religion, solitude, loneliness, forgiveness, monk, life philosophy, monastery, island, hopes, sin ...
Time: future
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 262K
Me Before You (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 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, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: disability, love, love story, fall in love, love and romance, quadriplegic, handicapped, caregiver, euthanasia, relationships, death, loneliness ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, usa, switzerland, mallorca ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.7
 92K
Sweet November (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, love, terminal illness, bittersweet, fall in love, tragic love, love and romance, opposites attract, couples, leukemia, self discovery, changing lives ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 198K
The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: marriage, love and romance, memory loss, relationships, amnesia, couple relations, true love, wooing, power of love, love, love story, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 7.2
 121K
Pay It Forward (2000)
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 ⇓
100%
 7.8
 583K
The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: love story, love and romance, fall in love, love, true love, power of love, youth, love triangle, love of one's life, young lovers, love affair, lovers reunited ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, 90s
Place: south carolina, canada, north carolina, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.0
 213K
P.S. I Love You (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, grief, starting over, couples, loss of spouse, life philosophy, loss of husband, family relations, lost love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.9
 110K
My Name Is Khan (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his ...
Style: touching, inspirational, romantic, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: asperger's syndrome, religion, disability, muslim, autism, mental illness, islam, journey, true love, prejudice, false accusation, love ...
Place: india, mumbai india, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, emotional, intense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: suicide, mental institution, coma, depression, mental illness, psychiatrist, suicidal, terminal illness, female protagonist, suicide attempt, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.1
 11K
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, sentimental, melancholic, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: abortion, pregnancy, life philosophy, destiny, parenthood, stereotypes, honest, existentialism, love affair, self discovery, lifestyle, family relations ...
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.8
 2.1M
Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, dramatic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: mentally challenged, love, life & death, life philosophy, philosophy, life, vietnam war, destiny, human spirit, rise to the top, journey, selflessness ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, washington d.c., vietnam, alabama, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 6.8
 12K
My Life (1993)
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 ⇓
22%
 6.9
 12K
One True Thing (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Style: touching, melancholic, emotional, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, dysfunctional family, tragedy, relationships, women, life, parenthood, honest, parents and children, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.8
 146K
Awakenings (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, ...
Style: motivational, sentimental, touching, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, hospital, doctors and patients, hopes, illness, fighting illness, disability, psychology, patient, cure, catatonia ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 60s, year 1969
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 8.0
 11K
Wit (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: nurse, cancer, hospital, poetry, chemotherapy, dying, medical, philosophy, doctor, hopes, regret, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Life as a House (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: relationships, terminal illness, dying, reconciliation, house, divorce, father son relationship, suburbs, redemption, illness, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Scent of a Woman (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant ...
Style: sentimental, inspirational, dramatic, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, mentor, blindness, blind character, human nature, human spirit, tango, thanksgiving, coming of age, disability, loneliness, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.5
 30K
Nell (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell - a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.
Style: touching, psychological, sentimental, emotional, compassionate ...
Audience: kids, girls' night
Plot: feral child, mental illness, isolation, childhood, disability, loneliness, secrets, self discovery, psychologist, wilderness, doctors and patients, power relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%