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Shadowlands (1985)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
Style:
christian film, sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, talky
Plot:
writers, jesus, art, death, cancer, faith, poet, christianity, marriage, friendship, family relations, human spirit, love and romance, life is a bitch, fall in love, couples, tragic love, love affair, social differences, society, opposites attract, family problems, disability, terminal illness, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
england, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, unfulfillment, biopic and fall in love mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Shadowlands: Last Call (2002), The Best Intentions (1992), Christmas in August (1998), Bertie and Elizabeth (2002), Tom & Viv (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, sweet, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, marriage, husband wife relationship, death, terminal illness, professor, biopic, cancer, bachelor, college, honesty ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1993
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant, and protégé who later wrote a memoir of their time together.
Style:
serious, clever, realistic, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
prodigy, life is a bitch, showbiz, crumbling marriage, split personality, mental illness, family problems, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, writers ...
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california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Norway, Iceland
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden. After a few ...
Style:
sincere, manga, touching, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, clergy, biopic, forbidden love, scandinavian culture, art history, nordic, religion, wedding, love and romance, couple relations, infidelity ...
Time:
1900s, year 1992
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
writers, art, poet, swing, biopic, couples, love affair, small town, artists and showbiz, writer's life, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
alabama
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a quiet corner of Seoul, Jung-won runs a small photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung-won goes about his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fall in love, destiny, maid, friendship, tragic hero, single parent, love affair, teenage love, tragic love, family relations, youth, destructive relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, historical drama, period drama
Plot:
royal family, world war two, family relations, couples, family life, social differences, head of state, intrigue, rivalry, fall in love, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
england, europe, britain, london
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of the marriage of the poet TS Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaeological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Style:
romantic, psychological, costume drama, romantic drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
writers, women, art, poet, biopic, world war one, marriage, mental illness, artist, insanity, love, tragic romance ...
Time:
1930s, year 1994, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, oxford university, london, california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, ...
Style:
intellectual, independent film, contemplative, talky, serious ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, writers, age-gap relationship, nudity, biopic, native american, male nudity, bisexuality, playwright, art, poet, naked man ...
Time:
1910s, year 1981, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
italy, mexico, usa, new mexico, england ...
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, flashback, professional, art ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
usa, new york, detroit
Similarity:
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20K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
depressing, sentimental, touching, melancholic, intellectual ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, sex scene, writers, female pubic hair, writer's life, skinny dipping, love, biopic, mental illness, bisexual, adultery, making love ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 50s, 90s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press ...
Style:
touching, contemplative, talky, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
introspection, elderly, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, parents and children, unfulfillment, dealing with death, biopic, writers, poet, son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, costume drama, cult classic ...
Plot:
novelist, biopic, dysfunctional family, nanny, relationship vs career, rise to the top, writers, writer's life, couples, couple relations, lifestyle, family problems ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place:
britain, england, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, gloomy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
fall in love, hopes, family problems, unfulfilled love, society, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, couples, bittersweet, life is a bitch, cafe ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 is a 1978 film directed by Larry Peerce. It stars Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms. It is a sequel to The Other Side of the Mountain
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, physical disability, quadriplegic, love, grief, paralysis, fall in love, human spirit, love and romance, hopes, misfit, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Style:
independent film, captivating, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
disability, physical disability, soccer, paraplegic, wedding, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, misfit, athlete's life, human nature, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
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Similarity:
27%
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A romantic-drama, OLD FASHIONED centers on Clay Walsh, a former frat boy who gives up his carousing and now runs an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. There, he has become notorious for his lofty and outdated theories on love and ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
opposites attract, couple relations, couples, fall in love, friendship, buddies, introspection, hopes, christian, faith based, religion, faith ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A retelling of Romeo and Juliet in Jerusalem involving a Palestinian woman and an Israeli man.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, against the odds, unlikely couple, opposites attract, social differences, religions or cults, couples, fall in love, love and romance, society, young lovers, tragic love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem
Similarity:
27%
564
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, serious, uplifting
Plot:
running, marathon, terminal illness, cross country, human spirit, athlete's life, disability, family relations, life is a bitch, hopes, on the road, one legged man ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, friendship, rural setting, backwoods, suburbs, art, deep south, poet, past, romantic relationship, wilderness ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style:
erotic, feel good, touching, sexy, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, victorian england, love affair, governess, couples, hopes, marriage proposal, estate, love and romance, parents and children, happy ending, british ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1997, 1830s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, san francisco
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
William & Kate is the first of two unrelated American television films about the relationship between Prince William and Catherine "Kate" Middleton (now The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge), directed by Mark Rosman and written by ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, romantic, uplifting
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
couples, royalty, british royal family, young love, fall in love, royal court, young couple, love and romance, social differences, paparazzi, private vs public, state affairs ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
depressing, realistic, psychological, serious, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
suicide, writers, drinking, biopic, death, bipolar disorder, poet, couple relations, mental disorder, art, tragic love, writer's life ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2003, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, new york, london
Similarity:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After returning back to family, Leyla tries to fix everytihng while starting a new life wit Iskender. Everything goes smoothly until troubles find Leyla...
Style:
romantic, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
tragic love, true love, family relations, love and romance, couples, love, relationships, destiny, dishonesty, dialogue, storytelling, friendship ...
Time:
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Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental
Audience:
date night
Plot:
polio, disability, terminal illness, songwriter, love, lawyer, family relations, couples, couple relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, young lovers ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's message for them.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, art house, christian film ...
Plot:
self discovery, family problems, redemption, hopes, society, friendship, biopic, christian, faith, religions or cults, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor. A reworking of the 1939 Bette Davis film "Dark Victory", director Daniel Petrie's 1963 film stars Susan Hayward.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, neurotic
Plot:
brain tumor, terminal illness, tumor, adoption, doctor patient relationship, couples, family problems, family relations, starting over, life is a bitch, hopes, fall in love ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
europe, england, london, italy, cornwall
Similarity:
26%
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, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory, twins, patient, terminal illness, hospital, couples, family problems, family relations, hopes, youth, life is a bitch, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman with a hearing problem tries to get het life back together after a car accident that killed her husband.
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
deaf, sexual abuse, sign language, family relations, mute or deaf, society, hopes, misfit, opposites attract, single parent, love and romance, introspection ...
Time:
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