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Stanley & Iris (1990)
 6.3
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Stanley & Iris (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, sincere, serious, realistic, romantic, light, anamorphic, cult classic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: working class, opposites attract, love story, education, unemployment, teachers and students, love and romance, couple relations, school, friendship, life is a bitch, couples, family problems, food, happy ending, restaurant, chef, librarian, widow, social anxiety, pregnancy, tutor, friends, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sentimental, touching and serious films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, love, parents and children, hopes and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Stanley & Iris: Murphy's Romance (1985), Falling in Love (1984), Steel Magnolias (1989), Oasis (2002), The Choice (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Murphy's Romance (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist who steers business her way. Things are going along predictably until her ex husband shows up, needing a ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, rom com, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: small town, older man younger woman relationship, friendship, love, first love, divorce, horse ranch, age-gap relationship, single mother, single parent, starting over, bachelor ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: arizona, usa
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Falling in Love (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, light, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, love and romance, christmas, love story, adultery, bookstore, friendship, extramarital affair, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, women ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa
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100%
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, friendship, small town, best friend, family relations, southern belle, wedding, strong female character, love, parents and children, loss of daughter, diabetic ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Oasis (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Oasis is a love story of two young people abandoned by families. A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving. There he meets her daughter, wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy. Will these two lost people find ...
Style: touching, sincere, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: disability, hit and run, love affair, haunted by the past, friendship, starting over, unlikely couple, family problems, couples, parents and children, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2002
Place: korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Choice (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, sweet, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, happy ending, destiny, hospital, moral dilemma, life & death, love story ...
Time: year 1988, year 1946, year 1989, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
This Boy's Life (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries ...
Style: depressing, realistic, emotional, touching, epic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, child abuse, small town, single parent, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, biopic, childhood, husband wife relationship, teenager, abusive stepfather, friendship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: seattle, washington state, salt lake city utah, washington d.c., usa
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Love Comes Softly (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Marty is a 19 year old pioneer woman, recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Clark Davis, a widower, offers her a marriage of ...
Style: touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night
Plot: faith, fall in love, marriage of convenience, couple relations, survival, love and romance, pregnancy, single parent, farm, christian, starting over, family life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Lucky One (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows ...
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, sentimental, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: love story, love affair, true love, love and romance, soldier, veteran, destiny, marines, obsessive quest, single mother, loss of loved one, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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Café de Flore (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jacqueline is a young mother living in 1960s Paris with her disabled son Laurent. Abandoned by her husband, Jacqueline sacrifices everything to care for her son and vows to give Laurent a “normal” life full of happiness. Antoine, is a successful ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: down syndrome, divorced parents, love affair, divorced couple, sick child, reincarnation, breast feeding, older man younger woman relationship, multiple storylines, mother child relationship, family drama, family relations ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, montreal, paris france, quebec, canada ...
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Once in a Lifetime (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.0
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Dying Young (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, sad, touching, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love story, life & death, leukemia, love, beautiful scenery, doctor, human nature, unfulfillment, parents and children, social differences, women ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Stella (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two unhappy people's lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who's trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
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Time: year 2008, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Love Story (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
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Place: new york, massachusetts, paris france, boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Fine Things (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Standard romantic melodrama from novelist Danielle Steele finds a couple embroiled in marital conflict with a nasty child-custody battle at its center.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: youth, love, wedding, couples, family relations, family problems, terminal illness, missing person, family life, pregnancy, custody, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, starting over, infidelity, love triangle, working class, breakup, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, human nature ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: washington state, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
No Looking Back (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
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Time: year 1998, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Bridge to Silence (1989)
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, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: deaf, sexual abuse, sign language, family relations, life is a bitch, society, mute or deaf, opposites attract, single parent, misfit, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: sign language, teacher, deaf, disability, deafness, couple relations, communication problem, couples, love and romance, opposites attract, mute or deaf, dialogue ...
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Place: new england, maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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For Keeps? (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, coming of age, high school, unlikely friendships, justice, stereotypes, multiple storylines, underdog, happy ending, love story, depression ...
Time: 80s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 109 min.
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Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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Time: year 1992, 90s
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19%
Message in a Bottle (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, sincere, talky, sentimental ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Bread, My Sweet (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, feel good, semi serious ...
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19%
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Cafe Setareh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Style: touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Alone (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, romantic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Loverboy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Style: psychological, sentimental, serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot: obsession, mental illness, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, parents and children, life is a bitch, single parent, family problems, family relations, teenage life, babies and infants, possessiveness ...
Time: year 2005
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