Movies like The Trip to Bountiful 2014

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The Trip to Bountiful (2014)
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The Trip to Bountiful (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house.
Style: sentimental, realistic, psychological, captivating, uplifting, touching, serious
Plot: on the road, family relations, getting home, redemption, escapades, elderly, journey, female protagonist, childhood home, african american, memories, black lives matter, parents and children, obsessive quest, hopes, in-laws, escape, house, singing, abandoned house, memory, segregation, sheriff, old age, bus ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1940s
Place: texas, usa, houston texas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sentimental films with plots about family relations, hopes, parents and children, small town, redemption, small town life and love and romance mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Trip to Bountiful: Redwood Highway (2013), Mama Flora's Family (1998), Relative Stranger (2009), On Valentine's Day (1986), Cook County (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, independent film, road movie ...
Plot: aging, dysfunctional family, small town, redemption, journey, on the road, old age, senior citizen, bus, escape, homecoming, cat ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, houston texas
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100%
Redwood Highway (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, estrangement, escapades, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, hopes, redemption, parents and children, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pacific ocean, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mama Flora's Family (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
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Story: Based on Alex Haley's novel about a black matriarch in the early 20th century, this dramatic miniseries spotlights the struggle for social change. Cicely Tyson stars as Mama Flora, a woman determined to free her children from the bonds of ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, epic, captivating ...
Plot: black, family relations, racism, post war, legal, blaxploitation, life changing, false accusation, interracial relations, prejudice, couples, religions or cults ...
Time: edwardian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Relative Stranger (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, psychological, serious ...
Plot: family relations, rivalry, redemption, death in the family, sport team, athlete's life, estrangement, father son relationship, last will and testament, getting home, african american, american football ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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On Valentine's Day (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elizabeth defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying a young man of humble prospects, and her parents have not spoken to her since - even though the couple lives in a rooming house nearby, they are struggling financially, and she is ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, uplifting, sentimental ...
Plot: valentine's day, family relations, small town, couples, social relations, love and romance, hotel, humble, alcohol abuse, homecoming, love affair, adult virgin ...
Time: 1910s
Place: texas, usa
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22%
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Cook County (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, parents and children, homecoming, drug abuse, methamphetamine, adolescence vs adulthood, small town ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 471
Soda Springs (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, family relations, hopes, going straight, lifestyle, homecoming, parents and children, social relations, christian ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Henry Thomas is out on parole in a small Texan town and, in the evenings, he is the lead singer in a band. He is being pressured by his foster mother to give up his singing and go back to school. His wife, Georgette, and young daughter unexpectedly ...
Style: retro, black and white, esoteric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: homecoming, parole, convict, singer, small town, marriage, little girl, dead wife, jail, father daughter relationship, secret, fight ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Dry Land (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
Style: realistic, contemplative, sentimental, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, soldier, homecoming, society, redemption, family life, buddies, life is a bitch, parents and children, husband wife relationship, psychopath, ptsd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, el paso texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 235
Mending Fences (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot: corporate crime, family relations, farm, homecoming, legal, dishonesty, small town, love affair, rivalry, social relations, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Just Like the Son (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, foster home, boy ...
Place: new york, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 442
1918 (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It's 1918, the height of United States involvement in World War I - Liberty Bonds are sold, German immigrants are suspected as traitors or saboteurs, young men everywhere succumb to the patriotism and propaganda and enlist. In a small Texas ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war one, great war, epidemic, influenza, deadly virus, pandemic, virus, small town, bittersweet, social relations, battles, family relations ...
Time: 1910s, year 1985
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Back to School Mom (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish her degree so that, for once, she can finally finish something she started. Back at her old ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: college, redemption, family relations, life is a bitch, college life, homecoming, social relations, starting over, bittersweet, small town, college friend, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.3
 450
Flying Lessons (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, inspirational
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Raisin in the Sun (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
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Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, uplifting, serious ...
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Time: 50s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Last Rites of Joe May (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, psychological, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 368
Annie's Point (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Annie (Bette White) wants to disperse her husband's ashes at a locale in California that they had named Annie's Point. Annie needs a bypass immediately and she wants to send out the ashes on her 50th wedding anniversary.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: elderly, escapades, family relations, parents and children, last wish, on the road, rescue, summer, road trip, trip, aging, cross country ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 5.7
 1K
Hide Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, father daughter relationship, death of wife, redemption, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 358
Anita B. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love affair, starting over, haunted by the past, auschwitz, youth, small town, hopes, family relations, adoption, post war, self discovery, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, tense, captivating ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.4
 399
Jewel (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, family problems, family life, couples, social relations, couple relations, society, babies and infants, youth, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: mississippi, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.5
 144
You (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming-of-age journey for ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The River Niger (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even ...
Style: crime drama, independent film, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: black, blaxploitation, african, swing, racial issues, african american, performer's life, family relations, urban ghetto, couple relations, human spirit, love and romance ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
A Touch of Fate (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: hopes, friendship, family relations, starting over, redemption, human nature, love and romance, destiny, parents and children, small town, chance, legal action ...
Place: usa, north carolina, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.2
 587
Lebanon, Pa. (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, society, love and romance, pregnancy, coming of age, hopes, youth, wooing, small town, road not taken, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Of Boys and Men (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, youth, car accident, grief, death of wife, accidental death, love, society, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.5
 8K
Manglehorn (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day. But there is more to Manglehorn than meets the eye: he’s ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot: loneliness, starting over, small town, haunted by the past, elderly, aging, hopes, father son relationship, locksmith, mental disorder, twins, aged person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.7
 285
Pope Dreams (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.2
 91
Heart of Now (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: "Heart of Now" concerns a young woman with a profound longing for a sense of family. Amber is devastated after her boyfriend abandons her because she's pregnant. She is whisked across a contrast of urban, natural and emotional ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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