Movies like Ondine
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Ondine (2009)
22K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.
Style:
sentimental, touching, fairy tale, sweet, romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, serious, gloomy, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
irish, small town, mermaid, father daughter relationship, self discovery, secrets, character study, solitude, adaptation, redemption, love and romance, life is a bitch, stranger, small town life, hopes, mysterious character, magic realism, sexual content, sea, fishing, divorce, swimming, nude, love, catastrophe ...
Place:
ireland, new jersey, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, romantic, feel good and emotional films with plots about storytelling, love, mentor, dialogue, catastrophe, destiny and relationships mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like Ondine: Winter's Tale (2014), This Is My Father (1998), Evening (2007), Circle of Friends (1995), Safe Haven (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Style:
romantic, stylized, captivating, emotional, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
angel, power of love, fall in love, love and romance, supernatural ability, true love, love, love story, magic, supernatural, good versus evil, heir ...
Time:
19th century, year 1916, year 2014
Place:
grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya Farrelly) for answers. When she refuses to provide any, ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, sexy, visually appealing ...
Plot:
love, coming of age, small town, bittersweet, older man younger woman relationship, irish, life, childhood, catholicism, catastrophe, runaway, relationships ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
ireland, illinois, california, chicago illinois, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid ...
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emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
beautiful scenery, wedding, mother daughter relationship, women, secrets, mother, haunted by the past, power of love, writers, death, dying, summer ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, college, friendship, pregnancy, betrayal, small town, college life, adaptation, love affair, student, youth, love ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
small town, starting over, obsession, fall in love, love and romance, domestic violence, small town life, single father, power of love, runaway, love, choice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, boston, usa, new jersey, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws ...
Style:
touching, emotional, romantic, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, love, suicide, death in the family, 9/11, love story, teenager, young love, love and romance, twists and turns, dealing with death, parenthood ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for ...
Style:
romantic, scenic, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
beautiful scenery, countryside, fall in love, social differences, human nature, sea, society, sea disaster, love, love story, prejudice, life philosophy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
england, wales, poland, cornwall, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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:
touching, psychological, road movie, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
waitress, road trip, self discovery, love, loneliness, love and romance, couple relations, love story, hopes, travel, melancholy, food ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee, new york, memphis, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, women, cooking and food, love and romance, lifestyle change, culture clash, food, love, village ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, canada, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busboy who works at the same diner, helps fight off the assailants, and she begins a relationship with ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
opposites attract, heart disease, waitress, love, christmas, orphan, attempted rape, love and romance, baboon, love story, self discovery, love affair ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, new jersey, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, couples, marriage, relationships, loneliness, love and romance, happy ending, down on your luck, love, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, new jersey, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.
Style:
psychological, sexy, emotional, clever, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, existentialism, obsession, paranoia, women, memory, character study, unfulfillment, relationships, psychology, friendship, self discovery ...
Place:
india, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who's been sleeping with Birdee's husband, Bill. Birdee tries starting over with her daughter, Bernice, by returning to her small Texas hometown, but ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, light, romantic, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
small town, starting over, family relations, infidelity, love story, happy ending, love, betrayal, married woman, family problems, couples, divorce ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, california, austin texas, new jersey, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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:
love story, cancer, life & death, doctors, leukemia, love, beautiful scenery, parents and children, social differences, human nature, unfulfillment, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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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, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
working class, opposites attract, women, love story, education, unemployment, love and romance, couple relations, teachers and students, couples, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother ...
Style:
touching, scenic, fairy tale, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
children, island, seal the animal, friendship, legend, celtic, ancient mystery, magic, young heroes, magic realism, social relations, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1946
Place:
ireland, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, vineyard, parents and children, pretend relationship, wine, family relations, love story, world war two, estate ...
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1940s, 20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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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, emotional, touching, sentimental, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
love story, love affair, true love, love and romance, destiny, obsessive quest, soldier, single mother, loss of loved one, marines, love, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, new jersey, middle east, new orleans, iraq ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, ...
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emotional, sweet, realistic, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
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single parent, coming of age, disability, deaf, friendship, father son relationship, life & death, stranger, abusive husband, boy, letter, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland, europe, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
blindness, disability, blind character, brother sister relationship, winter, happy ending, love, bittersweet, humanity, destiny, internet, doctors ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't ...
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feel good, touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
family relations, death, family problems, death in the family, couple relations, couples, eccentric family, dealing with death, love and romance, life is a bitch, terminal illness, sister sister relationship ...
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Place:
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19%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an ...
Style:
touching, romantic, depressing, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
musician, country music, loneliness, alcohol abuse, addiction, music, journalist, country singer, redemption, love and romance, love, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new mexico, austin texas, california, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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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:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, true love, lovers reunited, high school sweetheart, love affair, small town, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, road not taken, teenager, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
new orleans, new jersey, usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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:
romantic, touching, sentimental, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love story, middle age romance, true love, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, couples, life philosophy, fall in love, death, hotel ...
Time:
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Place:
north carolina, latin america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Movies similar to The Fault in Our Stars
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, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style:
uplifting, serious, touching, feel good, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 1830s, 90s
Place:
england, london, san francisco, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, meditative, breathtaking, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
157K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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