Movies like The Light Between Oceans
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The Light Between Oceans (2016)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style:
touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, melancholic, depressing, emotional, compassionate, realistic, tear jerker, romantic ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
lighthouse, love, lighthouse keeper, missing child, husband wife relationship, island, mother love, trying to get pregnant, isolation, adaptation, motherhood, miscarriage, couples, redemption, wanting a baby, survival, suspense, moral dilemma, marriage, adoption, twists and turns, justice, human nature, couple relations, love story ...
Time:
1920s, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918, 20s
Place:
australia
Most similar movies to The Light Between Oceans
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out romantic, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about love story, love, happy ending, storytelling, love and romance, destiny and dialogue mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The Light Between Oceans: The Vow (2012), The Painted Veil (2006), Jane Eyre (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2011), A Walk in the Clouds (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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198K

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK
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:
romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
marriage, love and romance, memory loss, relationships, amnesia, couple relations, true love, wooing, power of love, love, love story, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, USA, Canada
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, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, loveless marriage, marriage, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, love story, extramarital affair, adultery, couples, cholera, love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 50s, 19th century
Place:
china, shanghai, london, england, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
90K

Genre: Drama, 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:
touching, romantic, gothic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
love, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, social differences, fall in love, young woman, unlikely couple, family secret, older man younger woman relationship, estate, master and servant ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 70s, edwardian era, 1840s
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Style:
romantic, emotional, sexy, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love, infidelity, love affair, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, judge, suicide attempt, unfulfilled love, depression, family problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
50s, 1920s, 1930s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
Style:
touching, uplifting, romantic, sincere, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, writers, german occupation, friendship, marriage proposal, letter, nazi occupation, fiance fiancee relationship, strong female character, german soldier, female writer, unwed mother ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1941, year 1946
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, scenic, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, destiny, happy ending, hospital, moral dilemma, adaptation, love triangle ...
Time:
year 1988, year 1989, year 1946, 21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere, bad ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, sailing, haunted by the past, single parent, love story, anonymous letter, destiny, love letter, women, father son relationship, bittersweet, stranded ...
Time:
90s
Place:
north carolina, virginia, usa, new york, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
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%
583K

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, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love story, love and romance, fall in love, love, true love, power of love, youth, love triangle, love of one's life, young lovers, love affair, lovers reunited ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, 90s
Place:
south carolina, canada, north carolina, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, latin america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
emotional, touching, romantic, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, strong sexual content, melancholy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

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 ⇓
100%

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:
sentimental, romantic, emotional, touching, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love, love story, older man younger woman relationship, terminal illness, true love, age difference, opposites attract, couple relations, older man young girl relationship, unlikely couple, couples, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sexy, compassionate, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
magic realism, cooking, food, wedding, cooking and food, mexican revolution, sisters, chocolate, forbidden love, marriage, breast feeding, love story ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 1910s, 1930s, 1890s
Place:
mexico, texas, latin america, usa, san antonio texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to The Notebook

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:
infidelity, love and romance, christmas, love story, adultery, friendship, extramarital affair, couple relations, love affair, fall in love, women, bittersweet ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, 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:
sexy, psychological, romantic, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
love, letter, impossible love, love triangle, magic realism, unlikely friendships, betrayal, visceral, multiple storylines, justice, funeral, diary ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1890s, 1870s, post world war one ...
Place:
colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, clever, bad ending ...
Plot:
murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, haunted by the past, fall in love, death in the family, family problems, dysfunctional family, grief, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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:
year 1992, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, new jersey, usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%

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 ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, tragedy, death, college, fall in love, love story, tragic love, ice hockey, graduation, young love, class differences, destiny ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, paris france, massachusetts, boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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:
love, love and romance, best friends in love, friendship, male female friendship, couples, love story, ambition, opposites attract, introspection, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%

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:
romantic, affectionate, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
long distance relationship, love, love story, forceful separation, relationships, fall in love, bittersweet, parents, couples, love and romance, immigration, lovers apart ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, england, london, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
262K

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
disability, love, love story, fall in love, love and romance, quadriplegic, handicapped, caregiver, euthanasia, relationships, death, loneliness ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, usa, switzerland, mallorca ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%

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:
love affair, governess, fall in love, mother daughter relationship, victorian england, estate, family relations, nanny, love and romance, hopes, parents and children, couples ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 1830s, 90s
Place:
england, london, san francisco, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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, touching, sad, feel good, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
photographer, adultery, love affair, impossible love, love story, housewife, fall in love, relationships, love, infidelity, middle aged, couples ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two, 80s, year 1965, year 1987 ...
Place:
iowa, usa, midwest
⇓ 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%

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:
sentimental, touching, heartbreaking, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
abortion, orphan, coming of age, adoption, mentor protege relationship, mentor, justice, premarital sex, love triangle, childhood, self discovery, incest ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa, england, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, temptation, love story, relationships, love and romance, old love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, unfaithful husband, love, trust, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, paris france, france, philadelphia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
145K

Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrants, starting over, love and romance, fashion, love triangle, friendship, female protagonist, irish, immigration, love, working class, true love ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952
Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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