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A Stranger to Love (1996)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In this Hallmark story, Allan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. When Alan is suddenly attacked one night, he loses his memory, leading his family to believe that he is dead.
Plot:
car theft, chef, father son reunion, memory loss, missing person, homecoming, presumed dead, mugging, police, escape, love triangle, restaurant, mental institution, boy, single mother, amnesia, photograph, getting home, funeral, father son relationship, chance meeting, family business, marriage proposal, middle aged, cooking ...
Place:
arizona, dallas texas, tucson arizona
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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, love and romance, husband wife relationship, love, father son relationship, kiss and marriage mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Stranger to Love: Regarding Henry (1991), Unanswered Prayers (2010), It Ends with Us (2024), Independence Day (1983), The Majestic (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Henry is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he cannot remember anything. If that weren't enough, Henry also has to recover his speech and mobility, in a life he no longer fits into. Fortunately, Henry has a loving wife and daughter ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
amnesia, rehabilitation, lawyer, memory loss, redemption, disability, brain damage, family relations, maid, parents and children, hopes, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, homecoming, love and romance, society, husband wife relationship, seduction, infidelity, father son relationship, lovers reunited, family business, nude bathing ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Lily Bloom overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston and chase a lifelong dream of opening her own business. A chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid sparks an intense connection, but as the two fall deeply in ...
Style:
romantic drama, satirical, absurd
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
abusive relationship, domestic abuse, love, domestic violence, male female friendship, neurosurgeon, love triangle, defiant, macabre, florist, trauma, adaptation ...
Place:
maine, boston
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
small town, unwanted pregnancy, waitress, food, alien contact, family relations, getting home, siblings relations, small town life, parents and children, love and romance, hopes ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
texas
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, period piece, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
amnesia, small town, happy ending, mistaken identity, writers, writer's life, hollywood, life philosophy, justice, memory, parents and children, lovers reunited ...
Time:
1950s, year 2001, 20th century, 50s, year 1951
Place:
california, usa, canada
Similarity:
22%
25K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
Style:
sentimental, witty, sincere, melancholic, culinary ...
Plot:
food, cooking, chef, immigrant, italian restaurant, wine, restaurant, character study, self discovery, human nature, great ending, jazz ...
Time:
50s, year 1996, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new jersey, usa, italy
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The movie focuses on the marriage of Graciela and Arturo, who operate a kindergarten in their mansion. They live with Graciela's widowed mother, Luisa. Graciela is particularly keen on one boy, Luciano, on whom she makes sexual advances. As ...
Style:
art house, controversial, explicit
Plot:
children, belt whipping, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, aging, surrealism, gangsta, erotica, boy, nude young male, nudity, dancing ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jeff and Heather Baker were life long sweethearts and happily married... for a time. But at her greatest moment of weakness, Heather abandons Jeff, forcing Jeff to raise their young son alone. Ten years later, through a God ordained encounter, Jeff ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
christian, faith, church, couples, estrangement, missing person, family relations, pregnancy, babies and infants, single parent, society, forgiveness ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
open relationship, love triangle, suburbs, polygamy, farm, friendship, widow, narration, friends, couples, small town life, fall in love ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
cooking, restaurant, chef, opposites attract, love story, love, cooking and food, fall in love, initially antagonists, love and romance, guardian, food ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
elderly lovers, christmas, fall in love, elderly, family relations, parents and children, family values, angst, holiday, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, dating ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his own, Ned falls in with the Aryan Brotherhood. Soon after, ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, touching, atmospheric, multicultural ...
Plot:
interracial relations, mental institution, neo nazism, mental illness, fall in love, society, misfit, opposites attract, love affair, skinhead, interracial romance, abandoned building ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, independent film, gloomy ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, island, dysfunctional family, homecoming, uncover truth, self discovery, family life, parents and children, couples, family problems, introspection ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
maine, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son is determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot:
single mother, waitress, widow, on the road, diner, road trip, single parent, self discovery, relationships, friendship, mother, children ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
phoenix arizona, california, arizona, tucson arizona, monterey california ...
Similarity:
18%
3K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is ...
Style:
independent film, feel good, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, young lovers, boat, lost love, love, journey, broadway, loneliness, girl, yacht, couples, village life ...
Time:
year 1961, 1930s
Place:
marseille, france, europe, belgium
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Her surgeon boyfriend, who has been sarcastically nick named "Mr. Personality" and "Settle For" by Syd's best friend ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
high school reunion, starting over, doctor, estrangement, couples, couple relations, homecoming, fall in love, ex-lover, small town, small town life, hometown ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on ...
Style:
retro, tense, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
kidnapping, civil war veteran, rescue, homecoming, train, brother brother relationship, marriage proposal, shootout, pursuit, woman in jeopardy, civil war, brothers ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Place:
texas, mexico
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
sincere, independent film, psychological, meditative, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, obsession, suicide attempt, philosophy, family relations, love affair, life turned upside down, marriage, crumbling marriage, couple relations, hopes, breakup ...
Time:
year 1951, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city, new haven connecticut ...
Similarity:
18%
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507
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Philip Van Horn, who left his small town a long time ago to become a Hollywood actor and hasn't had any success at that, returns to the town for a visit. There he is uniformally met like some kind of celebrity and movie star. He uses it to ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
cheerleader, love hurts, redemption, hollywood, dysfunctional family, small town, haunted by the past, homecoming, love and romance, society, hopes, actor's life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
missouri, latin america, cuba, usa, new york
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A modern Prodigal Son story starring Brian McNamara, Daphne Zuniga, and Brad Johnson. James Reed, quite content with his current life, reluctantly returns home to the family business, a sick father, and a brother with whom he's always at odds.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
family business, homecoming, parents and children, family relations, family problems, workplace, small town, getting home, business, marital argument, relationships, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Steven Keats plays a Russian emigre who prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by ...
Style:
black and white, independent film, romantic, historically accurate, aesthetic ...
Plot:
culture clash, rabbi, infidelity, immigrant, immigration, woman, marriage, u.s. constitution, street life, women's rights, machismo, jewish history ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, year 1975, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, new york, usa, egypt ...
Similarity:
18%
993
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Johnny is a high-powered executive who is definitely not looking to fall in love but a business conference takes her to wine country she meets a handsome widower Andrew who invites Johnny to meet his family after she loses her job. In helping his ...
Style:
romantic drama, feel good, emotional, uplifting, sentimental ...
Plot:
wine, vineyard, food, winery, female protagonist, cooking, second chance, self discovery, career woman, corporate executive, meet cute, small town ...
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Style:
emotional, light, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
sisters, dancing, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, human nature, sibling relationship, life is a bitch, love and romance, brother sister relationship, sister sister relationship, pagan ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
ireland, africa, europe, england, spain
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
Style:
sad, heartfelt, romantic, tear jerker, emotional
Plot:
childbirth, pregnancy, bisexual, female nudity, sex, chef, family relations, bald woman, bittersweet, parenthood, moving, relationships ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different ...
Style:
romantic comedy, semi autobiographical, biting, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, marriage, friendship, screenwriter, honeymoon, train, hollywood, reconciliation, lust, husband wife relationship, love, film producer ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
virginia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Benjamin Morton's life changed forever the day he met the little girl next door. Ava was and always would be the girl of his dreams. From the innocence of a childhood friendship, through adolescent attraction, their love strengthens and grows. ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, thought provoking, touching, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
best friends in love, cancer, childhood friend, relationships, childhood love, french girl, car accident, romantic relationship, couples, tragic event, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1910, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish ...
Style:
art house, sexy, breathtaking, visually stunning, visually appealing ...
Plot:
farmer, love triangle, impossible love, farm, train, love, autumn, harvest, passion, childhood, class differences, photograph ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1978, turn of the century, pre world war one
Place:
usa, chicago, texas, midwest, austin texas
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Rafi (Anne Curtis) is happily committed to her lovely partner in life, Mark (Derek Ramsay). She's a bachelorette from a rich family, who belongs to the "Friday Club", the regular get-together of her college friends. Rafi is an ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, thought provoking, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot:
marriage proposal, living together, cheating, runaway, one night stand, breakup, bittersweet, unfulfillment, fraud, fiance fiancee relationship, love triangle, chance meeting ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An escaped mental patient kidnaps an illiterate teenage farm girl and takes her to his mountain hide-away, where they soon become friends and, eventually, lovers.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, offbeat
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, hostage, kidnapping, escaped mental patient, mental patient, teenage girl, teenager, poem, kidnapped girl, young couple, age difference ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
religious, mormon, sibling rivalry, faith, moral dilemma, introspection, society, redemption, family problems, family life, love affair, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s, 1820s
Place:
new york state, vermont, new york, usa
Similarity:
17%
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