Movies like Brooklyn
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Brooklyn (2015)
158K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, romantic, period piece, realistic, cute, heartbreaking, light, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrant, love and romance, starting over, sex scene, marriage proposal, hopes, immigration, friendship, female protagonist, true love, love affair, homesickness, working class, love triangle, coming of age, death of sister, dating, fall in love, honest, happy ending, summer, loneliness, dialogue, adaptation, migration ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america, usa, europe ...
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Most similar movies to Brooklyn
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out romantic, sentimental, realistic and touching films with plots about love, love and romance, happy ending, relationships, love story, storytelling and mentor mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Brooklyn: Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Little Women (2019), Pride & Prejudice (2005), The Cider House Rules (1999), Chocolat (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, sexy, period piece, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
victorian england, couples, relationships, love story, looking for love, countryside, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, love, unrequited love, wooing ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 2015, 18th century
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
280K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, inspirational, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, kids, date night, teens ...
Plot:
love, sisters, coming of age, writers, female protagonist, generosity, friendship, sister sister relationship, publisher, women's rights, sister, aspiring writer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 2010s, year 2019
Place:
new york, france, paris france, massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, sweet, sexy, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
prejudice, love, fall in love, happy ending, women, strong female character, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, europe, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life ...
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, sentimental, visually stunning, sad ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
abortion, coming of age, orphan, adoption, childhood, mentor protege relationship, storytelling, justice, love triangle, sexual attraction, unwanted pregnancy, sick child ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, year 1999, 90s, year 1943 ...
Place:
maine, usa, new england, atlantic ocean, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
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210K
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, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time:
50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place:
france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
Similarity:
86%
14K
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 ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, romantic, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, beautiful scenery, power of love, closeted homosexual, secrets, mother, haunted by the past, writers, dying, death of mother, summer, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2007, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa, england
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, period piece, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, small town, pregnancy, college, class differences, college life, student, catholic, voice over narration, sexual awakening, heartbreak ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1949
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
Similarity:
80%
141K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Style:
realistic, sexy, period piece, costume drama, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, lolita, teenage life, teenager, love, self discovery, direction and purpose, older man young girl relationship, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 1900s, 60s, year 1961
Place:
london, paris france, france, united kingdom, britain ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, dramatic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, immortality, love story, immortal, loneliness, supernatural, life & death, love and romance, destiny, impossible love, beautiful scenery, supernatural romance ...
Time:
future, edwardian era, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place:
san francisco, peru, california, oregon, arizona ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style:
teen, touching, sincere, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, youth, couples, teenage love, first love, teenage life, love, teenage girl, family relations, high school student, classmate ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, key west florida, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, touching, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love story, photographer, adultery, love affair, passion, impossible love, relationships, housewife, couples, photography, extramarital affair, lovers ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s, 20th century, year 1965, post world war two ...
Place:
iowa, usa, midwest
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style:
touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, loveless marriage, love story, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, extramarital affair, couples, marriage, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place:
china, shanghai, africa, london, asia ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
boarding house, spinster, hotel, female nudity, desperation, piano, loneliness, psychopath, aging, mental disorder, nude girl, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1987, 1950s, 50s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, new york, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style:
costume drama, sexy, sexual, psychological, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
impossible love, love, new love, love triangle, letter, magic realism, power of love, epidemic, betrayal, multiple storylines, visceral, justice ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
colombia, latin america, caribbean, paris france
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A love story built on a misunderstanding. A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off the tracks after he's mugged. But while he's in a coma, his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, sentimental, light, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, fall in love, loneliness, love and romance, love triangle, mistaken identity, love, pretend relationship, new year's eve, love affair, winter ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa, new york
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
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:
romantic, sexy, poignant, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
long distance relationship, fall in love, love story, lovers, happy ending, forceful separation, couple relations, lovers apart, bittersweet, relationships, love and romance, immigration ...
Time:
year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, usa, los angeles, london, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbour Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father's ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, emotional, romantic, feel good ...
Plot:
impossible love, true love, unrequited love, land, dull life, crush, plan gone awry, conquering, love and romance, happy ending, neighbor neighbor relationship, narration ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, new york, europe, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style:
touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
genius, disability, love, cambridge university, physicist, mathematics, husband wife relationship, prodigy, supportive spouse, handicapped, against the odds, relationships ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
oxford university, england, united kingdom
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
679K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place:
north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
Similarity:
33%
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:
sentimental, romantic, sweet, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, love story, love and romance, christmas, longing, adultery, friendship, amor, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, women ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
121K
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, teen, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
small town, love story, obsession, starting over, love, small town life, love and romance, single father, power of love, domestic violence, fall in love, abusive husband ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, boston, south carolina, new jersey ...
Similarity:
50%
97K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
Style:
romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love and romance, couples, forbidden love, social differences, power of love, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, orphan, older man younger woman relationship, estate ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
22K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, melancholic, romantic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
widow, redemption, betrayal, starting over, love and romance, haunted by the past, hopes, love, guilt, advertising, aviation, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, chicago, palm springs california, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, wedding, love and romance, love story, professor, friendship, love, self discovery, starting over, university ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
163K
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sweet, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
love, love story, true love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, young love, young lovers, relationships, couple relations, soldier ...
Time:
2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, afghanistan, south carolina, usa, ireland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Style:
romantic, sweet, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
unfulfilled love, love story, couples, writer's life, love and romance, love, prejudice, fall in love, biopic, women, passion, destiny ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 50s ...
Place:
england, ireland, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland, Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches ...
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, romantic, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
passion, love, infidelity, tourist, marriage, character study, fall in love, dishonesty, couples, love and romance, chess, passionate love ...
Time:
1920s, 21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east, africa, alexandria egypt, cairo egypt ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, lost love, letter, grief, life philosophy, widow ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
ireland, seattle, europe, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
43%
116K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, funny, rom com, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama ...
Plot:
fall in love, couples, love and romance, road trip, opposites attract, marriage proposal, beautiful scenery, initially antagonists, relationships, wedding, love affair, love story ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, wales, usa ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story follows a student navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia and battling wild hallucinations. An experimental drug trial promises to help hide his illness from his peers and, most importantly, from the girl of ...
Style:
realistic, romantic, touching, independent film, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
schizophrenia, teenager, romantic relationship, diagnosis, teenage protagonist, hearing voices, high school, first kiss, romanticism, hopes, love and romance, chance meeting ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, brazil
Similarity:
100%
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