Movies like The Spitfire Grill
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The Spitfire Grill (1996)
7K
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 resentment and fear in some, and growth in others.
Style:
christian film, sentimental, touching, emotional, sexy, inspirational, surprise ending, thought provoking, feel good, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, friendship, self discovery, bittersweet, death, restaurant, hospital, solitude, catastrophe, survival, gay, business, lawyer, relationships, women, loneliness, food, life, betrayal, beautiful scenery, church, tragedy, justice, destiny, abortion ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, vermont, usa, new england, kentucky, ohio
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, touching and sentimental films with plots about mentor, bittersweet, catastrophe, life philosophy, storytelling, dialogue and destiny mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Spitfire Grill: Places in the Heart (1984), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Trip to Bountiful (1985), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), My Life (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, touching, sentimental, emotional, gothic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot:
great depression, farm, racism, small town, ku klux klan, blindness, survival, friendship, blind character, mother, bittersweet, redemption ...
Time:
1930s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1935, 80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
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100%
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, touching, captivating, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, kids
Plot:
small town, friendship, lesbian, self discovery, small town life, feminism, cannibalism, midlife crisis, women, lesbian subtext, aging, female protagonist ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
alabama, southern usa, usa, louisiana
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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:
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
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100%
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%
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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 ⇓
67%
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Movies similar to The Help
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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
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34%
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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 ⇓
34%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
As law enforcement officers, Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners are confident and focused. They willingly stand up to the worst the streets have to offer. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly ...
Style:
christian film, uplifting, inspirational, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christian, faith, christianity, fatherhood, religion, family relations, father son relationship, church, god, idealism, dysfunctional family, courage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, romantic, intense, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night
Plot:
alcohol abuse, alcoholic, family values, rehabilitation, family in crisis, addiction, love story, tragedy, single father, love, life is a bitch, weakness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, denver colorado, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Films like The Shawshank Redemption
247K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, lawyer, courtroom drama, gay, lgbt, hiv, court, lawsuit, judiciary, homosexual, prejudice, courtroom ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
hospital, cancer, medical, redemption, coldhearted, doctors and patients, nurse, surgery, existentialism, psychiatrist, fantasy world, secrets ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ...
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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 ⇓
32%
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:
80s
Place:
tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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:
montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
32%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, light, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, marriage, friendship, grandmother, women, advice, stereotypes, adultery, americana, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, north carolina, northern california, paris france
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32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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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 ⇓
32%
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 ...
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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 ⇓
31%
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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:
realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
bullying, coming of age, vietnam war, childhood, father son relationship, friendship, child, children, youth, war, bittersweet, boy ...
Time:
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Place:
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years. ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, realistic, witty, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, elderly, love story, aging, marriage, summer, couples, bittersweet, senior citizen, family holiday, father daughter relationship, love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, new england, maine
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31%
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:
sentimental, emotional, touching, feel good, affectionate ...
Plot:
slavery, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, drug addiction, african american, anti racism, racism, nude, women of color, multiple storylines, fashion, adoption ...
Time:
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Place:
mississippi, chicago illinois, canada, tokyo, usa ...
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31%
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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 ...
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 ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, family bonds, adolescence, friendship, self discovery, love and romance, human nature, on the run, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 60s, year 1965, year 1958 ...
Place:
hungary, california, tokyo, europe, poland ...
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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, melancholic ...
Plot:
survival, farm, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, against the odds, couple relations, family business, family farm, family problems, hopes, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
iowa, america
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, thought provoking, depressing, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, human relationship, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, society, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style:
emotional, talky, intense, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, women, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, couple relations, human nature, love and romance ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
betrayal, childhood, friendship, muslim, coming of age, courage, guilt, rape, mission, haunted by the past, child, islam ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, california, san francisco, pakistan
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
Style:
touching, sentimental, lyrical, sweet, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
terminal illness, friendship, quadriplegic, life is a bitch, death, character study, disability, dying, musician, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, new jersey, usa
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31%
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