Movies like The Yellow Handkerchief

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The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
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The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Style: road movie, uplifting, emotional, realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, independent film, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, starting over, unlikely couple, youth, on the road, social misfits, crumbling marriage, haunted by the past, unlikely partners, couple relations, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage boy, road trip, american south, love, teenager, nature, first love, suburbs, coming of age, deep south, love hurts, misfit, love and romance, couples ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana, southern usa
Keyword: partners, challenge, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, love, couples, bittersweet, love story, youth and teenager mostly in Drama, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Yellow Handkerchief: My Blueberry Nights (2007), Children of a Lesser God (1986), According to Greta (2009), Wildfire (2005), The River Why (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of ...
Style: sentimental, atmospheric, road movie, psychological, touching ...
Plot: road trip, love and romance, love story, travel, loneliness, waitress, cross country, passion, on the road, bittersweet, self discovery, melancholy ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee, china, new york, memphis ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new england, maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
According to Greta (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Greta is a waitress who falls for an ambitious cook at the restaurant where they work. But as their summer romance heats up, she has to overcome the concerns of her grandparents about her boyfriend's criminal past.
Style: realistic, captivating, teen, touching, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenage love, suicidal, teenage life, suicide, society, teenager, youth, summer, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, death wish, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 4K
Wildfire (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Kris Furillo is given the opportunity to start a new life after serving time at a teen detention center. Her talent with horses is recognized by a volunteer and local trainer Pablo, who arranges a job for her at the Ritter's family run ranch, ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, feel good, serious ...
Plot: horse, horse ranch, starting over, lifestyle, against the odds, ambition, fall in love, friendship, society, rivalry, workplace, coach ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The River Why (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and love.
Style: atmospheric, sincere, serious, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot: youth, wilderness, obsessive quest, self discovery, fall in love, escapades, philosophy, leaving home, river, fishing, nature, survival ...
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Not Easily Broken (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: relationship vs career, hopes, family problems, love and romance, ambition, couples, infidelity, crumbling marriage, couple relations, black, christian, african american protagonist ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.6
 633
Patagonia (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through ...
Style: road movie, touching, atmospheric, sincere, uplifting ...
Plot: desert, couples, last wish, self discovery, on the road, elderly, love affair, crumbling marriage, redemption, family problems, society, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, wales, latin america, europe, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.4
 37K
Keith (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style: sad, romantic, psychological, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, terminal illness, cancer, love, youth, opposites attract, first love, teenager, love story, teen romance, teenage love, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Falling in Love Again (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style: sweet, romantic, melancholic, intense, light ...
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, self discovery, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place: usa, bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.
Style: sentimental, realistic, uplifting, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, youth, friendship, looking for love, hopes, teenage love, lifestyle, suburban life, love and romance, society, teenage life, summer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
 63K
Like Crazy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style: sincere, romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: long distance relationship, fall in love, love story, forceful separation, relationships, couples, bittersweet, immigration, love, parents, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: united kingdom, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.4
 188K
Mud (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and make a pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, touching, realistic, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, friendship, childhood, ex convict, first love, bittersweet, fugitives, obsession, river, love story, survival, small town ...
Time: year 2012, year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: boy, youth, friendship, leaving home, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, hopes, starting over, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.2
 47K
Endless Love (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: love, love story, forbidden love, teen romance, teenage love, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, father daughter relationship, relationships, couples, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.8
 204K
The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love, memory loss, love story, love and romance, amnesia, true love, marriage, relationships, couple relations, wooing, power of love, couples ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Man in the Moon (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they ...
Style: emotional, romantic, cute, period piece, sad ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, corporal punishment, first love, age difference, childhood, love story, love, sisters, small town, farm, bittersweet, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1991, year 1957, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Letters to Juliet (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- ...
Style: romantic, touching, scenic, feel good, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, adult
Plot: fall in love, road trip, love and romance, youth, couples, beautiful scenery, love affair, enemies to lovers, couple relations, love story, happy ending, letter ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, tuscany, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Here on Earth (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A rich college kid is taught a lesson after a joy ride ends up destroying a country restaurant.
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, romantic, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: teenage love, fall in love, rich and poor, cancer, small town, love story, social differences, teenage life, youth, couples, class differences, high school ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.7
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The Best of Me (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, high school sweetheart, true love, love affair, lovers reunited, small town, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, road not taken, young love, couples ...
Time: year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.7
 1K
Square Dance (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An awkward 13-year-old (Winona Ryder) leaves her cranky grandfather (Jason Robards) in rural Texas, to live with her mother (Jane Alexander) in Fort Worth.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, women, estranged family member, young love, 13 year old, intellectual disability, disabled child, social misfits, society, single parent, misfit, youth ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
Style: teen, sentimental, atmospheric, saga, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: vampire, werewolf, vampire human love, supernatural romance, immortality, bloodsucker, protective parent, supernatural being, vampire vs vampire, love, female vampire, impossible love ...
Time: year 2012, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally unsatisfying family life.
Style: road movie, serious, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: friendship, on the road, abusive father, estrangement, adolescence vs adulthood, haunted by the past, leaving home, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, youth, young heroes, starting over ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: austin texas, arkansas, kentucky, baltimore, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
A Bird of the Air (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic and romantic drama.
Style: realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: basset hound, bird, orphan, love and romance, love affair, hopes, self discovery, couples, unlikely couple, library, waitress, highway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Autumn in New York (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: love story, love, true love, older man younger woman relationship, terminal illness, age difference, opposites attract, couple relations, couples, older man young girl relationship, autumn, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and ...
Style: romantic, touching, teen, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen fantasy, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: vampire, werewolf, supernatural, vampire human love, supernatural romance, love story, high school, supernatural power, transformation, dangerous attraction, teenage girl, teen romance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: washington state, italy, washington d.c., usa, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself ...
Style: emotional, touching, erotic, depressing, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: self discovery, older man young girl relationship, life is a bitch, loss of child, prostitute, family drama, depression, friendship, haunted by the past, teenage life, runaway, acceptance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, indiana, usa, indianapolis indiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.
Style: realistic, romantic, teen, intense, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, coming of age, culture clash, high school, love, father daughter relationship, relationships, teenager, young lovers, loneliness, unhappiness, self destructing ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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
Plot: love story, middle age romance, true love, love and romance, couples, infidelity, parents and children, death, summer, love, inn, family drama ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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