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Table for Five (1983)
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Table for Five (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie Perkins) and her new husband (Richard Crenna) to take the kids on a Mediterranean cruise. On the journey he comes to realise it's not that easy and, feeling overwhelmed, begins to doubt his abilities until a tragedy back home forces him to become the father he always hoped to be.
Style: independent film, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: cruise ship, cruise, coming of age, ship, family relations, divorce, youth, family vacation, ocean, parents and children, family life, couples, family problems, custody, single parent, human nature, bittersweet, unfulfillment, dog, children, vacation, boy, father daughter relationship, girl, stepfather ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: mediterranean sea, africa, italy, greece, usa, europe, cairo egypt ...
Keyword: ocean or sea, vietnamese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, love and romance, family problems, single parent and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Table for Five: The Only Thrill (1997), Follow The Stars Home (2001), Desert Bloom (1986), What Girls Learn (2001), Once in a Lifetime (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Only Thrill (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 80s, year 1997, 60s, 90s, 70s
Place: canada
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Follow The Stars Home (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, erotic ...
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Place: san francisco
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Desert Bloom (1986)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, desert, dysfunctional family, youth, bittersweet, single parent, introspection, crumbling marriage, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, bad father ...
Time: 1950s, year 1986, 50s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
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What Girls Learn (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 80s
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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
Plot: coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, family problems, family relations, couples, pregnancy, parents and children, hospital, boarding school life ...
Time: 90s
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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
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, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: patient, twins, memory, terminal illness, hospital, bittersweet, friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, love and romance, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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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.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
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Vernie (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style: touching, uplifting, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
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Square Dance (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Bread, My Sweet (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, feel good, semi serious ...
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Place: usa, pittsburgh
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
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Place: texas, louisiana, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
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Style: semi serious, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
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Audience: girls' night
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Time: 80s, year 1985
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Duration: 121 min.
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Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, heartfelt, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
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24%
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Duration: 90 min.
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23%
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23%
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 90 min.
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Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing
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22%
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