Movies like Expecting a Miracle
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Expecting a Miracle (2009)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
L.A. engineer Pete Stanhope wants to stop expensive, frustrating IVF treatment with his wife, Donna, and consider adoption but his wife disagrees. In the hopes of defusing the marital tension they go on a a romantic holiday to Mexico. Car trouble strands them in tiny Dommatina, a peaceful village where the locals are content. Pete accepts the help of the only car mechanic, Juan Salazar, while aiding the philosophical father Arturo with preparations for the annual fiesta. Juan's kid brother, disabled Pepillo, will then star in the 'flying act'. Getting to know the boy and experiencing simple happiness may reshape the Stanhope's own future.
Style:
sincere, captivating, sentimental, thought provoking, hispanic
Plot:
car trouble, marital problem, road trip, husband wife relationship, interracial friendship, intergenerational friendship, priest, little boy, small town, childless couple, man boy relationship, thirty something, infertility, village, children, pregnancy, handicapped, miraculous event, hotel, vacation, church, architect, engineer, holiday, interracial relations ...
Place:
los angeles, mexico
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Most similar movies to Expecting a Miracle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sentimental, captivating, sincere and realistic films with plots about small town, love and romance, family relations, husband wife relationship, love, christmas and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Expecting a Miracle: Love, Again (2015), Christmas Comes Home to Canaan (2011), Sally (2000), Hats Off to Christmas! (2013), Love Field (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A couple on the brink of divorce decides to keep their marital woes a secret as they help their daughter plan her wedding. As the two work together on the happy occasion, they soon discover that their own marriage might just be worth saving.
Style:
light, romantic, captivating, emotional, entertaining
Plot:
wedding, wedding ceremony, wedding planning, parents daughter relationship, husband wife estrangement, wedding day, husband wife relationship, love affair, wedding preparations and rituals, troubled marriage, crumbling marriage, problem solving ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Bobber undergoes experimental surgery to help him walk again, Daniel Burton falls in love with his beautiful rehabilitation doctor and invites her to spend Christmas at the farm.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
christmas, rehabilitation, family drama, bittersweet, hopes, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, family relations, holiday, family life, parents and children, human nature, surgical operation ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
246
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Jack is driving aimlessly on a road to nowhere with his imaginary girlfriend, Sally, when he meets Beth. The duo becomes a trio when escaped mental patient Bugs, also fixated on an imaginary woman named Sally, finds himself along for the ride with ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, light, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot:
doctor patient relationship, love, doctor, nurse, medication, road trip, imaginary friend, autism, sex crime, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, dream ...
Place:
minnesota
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Mia (Duff), the loyal and hard-working manager of her small town's Christmas hat shop, is blindsided when her boss of over ten years asks her to train his son, Nick (Cupo), for a vacant upper-management position that Mia had been coveting. ...
Style:
sincere, light, romantic, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas eve, christmas season, xmas, father son relationship, competition, father figure, relationship vs career, christmas time, christmas romance, social climber ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours after she sees him arrive in Dallas. Despite her husband Ray's prohibition, she decides ...
Style:
romantic, light, period piece, independent film, touching ...
Plot:
interracial romance, racism, road trip, interracial relations, chase, self discovery, on the run, race against time, bittersweet, john f. kennedy, girl, assassin ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1968, year 1992 ...
Place:
texas, washington d.c., dallas texas, america, usa ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
He's an unemployed guy who earns some money by giving lifts to strangers. She's a graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their relationship - and the way it gradually melts away - throughout a year. A subtle, moving ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, atmospheric, emotional
Plot:
husband wife relationship, marital problem, love and romance, love interest, social differences, lifestyle, making love, family relations, dinner, taxi driver, laptop, new year's eve ...
Time:
year 2013
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
love, sin, circus, society, fall in love, small town life, small town, social relations, human nature, pregnancy, beauty, theatrical troupe ...
Time:
50s, year 1992
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ...
Style:
erotic, emotional, sincere, sexual, sentimental ...
Plot:
marital problem, world war two, couples, soldier, fall in love, human nature, homecoming, love affair, small town, passion, husband and wife, wedding ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
24%
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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:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ben and Maura have been married for years, and they are in a rut…so much of a rut that they are contemplating if it would be better to live separate lives. That’s when their two teenage children step in and scheme to try to get them back ...
Style:
romantic drama, romantic, captivating, heartfelt, sentimental ...
Plot:
marriage, family drama, family bonds, marital problem, relationship problems, family relations, love and romance, husband wife relationship, love affair, small town life, problem solving, couple relations ...
Place:
minnesota, minneapolis minnesota
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Maddie, a high-powered marketing executive, is on her way to a client’s wedding but her plans are derailed by car trouble. When a fork in the road leads her to Christmas Valley, a town in love with Christmas, an unexpected encounter and a group of ...
Style:
light, humorous, feel good, romantic, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
small town, christmas, holiday, single father, christmas romance, father daughter relationship, happy ending, car breakdown, fall in love, winter, unlikely couple, opposites attract ...
Place:
ohio, new york
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbour.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
widower, old age, loneliness, senior citizen, neighbor, elderly, couple relations, new life, intimacy, mountain, neighbor neighbor relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, teen, crying, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, friendship, high school, self discovery, teenager, nostalgia, death, skinny dipping, elopement, teen angst, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1971, year 1952 ...
Place:
texas, usa, oklahoma, midwest, north america ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Luxembourg
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In a small town located in the island of Mallorca, Anna and Marina, two sisters who were separated when they were teenagers, meet again to sell a bakery they’ve inherited from a mysterious woman they know nothing about. The two sisters have led ...
Style:
thought provoking, sentimental, realistic, sincere, serious
Plot:
family secret, inheritance, sister sister relationship, dying woman, husband wife relationship, adoption, half sister half sister relationship, bakery, female friendship, mother daughter relationship, hospital, group of friends ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
About Hope, a young wife plagued with amnesia and Andrew, her duty obsessed husband who must help her fall in love with him all over as he comes to terms with his own destiny.
Style:
romantic drama, thrilling, captivating, romantic, psychological ...
Plot:
memory loss, love, redemption, second chance, reconciliation, hopes, relationship problems, love interest, husband wife relationship, marital problem, relationships, problem ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, light, humorous ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, couples, love and romance, hopes, unfulfillment, wish come true, holiday, christmas present, family relations, optimism, ghost ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Mira Varma takes pride in her family's business of making fruitcakes, despite the decline in its popularity of once being America's most-gifted holiday confection. When Mira's parents decide to hire Brady Phillips and his high-powered ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, family business, holiday, heartwarming, christmas spirit, coping, male female relationship, family relations, relationships, husband wife relationship, love affair, life ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after her sister is hospitalized following yet ...
Style:
serious, suspense, sincere, captivating, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, custody, life is a bitch, family problems, drug abuse, hopes, police officer, holiday, youth, love and romance, escapades, aunt nephew relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
illinois, atlanta georgia, rhode island
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
self discovery, couples, small town, unfulfillment, ex lover, love and romance, family relations, graduation, coming of age, thirtysomething life, dull life, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, maine, new england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Single mother Ryan has just about given up on dating after her divorce, happily accepting her young son as the most important man in her life. That all changes when Ryan's brother Owen, also feeling unlucky in love after a bad breakup, swaps ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, captivating, sincere, cute ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, christmas romance, love and romance, single parent, couples, fall in love, family relations, xmas, christmas eve, holiday, love, christmas season ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
2K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name.
Style:
sexy, sincere, sentimental, captivating, deep ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian couple, small town, class differences, bisexual, older woman younger woman relationship, lesbian sex, lgbtq, army ...
Place:
afghanistan, indiana, pennsylvania, canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
This holiday, the Liddles have much to be merry about! Jacquie Liddle and her husband, Tyler, are preparing for the arrival of their first baby. With their family expanding in ways they could never have expected, the Liddles are headed for a crazy ...
Style:
feel good, uplifting, disturbing, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, relationships, pregnancy, parenthood, holiday romance, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, marital problem, sister sister relationship, family relations, pregnant wife ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Call him a city slicker. Call him a tenderfoot. But don't call him a member of the family--yet. Rising L.A. lawyer James White is going home for the holidays with his fiancée, Sadie Ryder, to finally meet her family in rural Pine Gap. After ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
father in law son in law relationship, wedding, fish out of water, christmas, lawyer, meet the parents, family life, farm, couples, win over, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, couples, dance school, against the odds, society, contests and competitions, hopes, ambition, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Christmas is fast approaching and years of long workdays employed at New York’s top corporate law firm are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey will be made partner after the New Year. However, when Alice, her older sister with special needs, ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, atmospheric, sentimental
Plot:
christmas, holiday, homecoming, love interest, small town, niece, love, fall in love, couples, family relations, snow, christmas eve ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island finds herself caught between her minister husband and the delinquent who is sent to live with them.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, enigmatic
Plot:
romantic relationship, love triangle, love interest, romantic triangle, family problems, marital problem, marital crisis, male female relationship, love affair, island, husband wife relationship, love and romance ...
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, sad, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
adoption, friendship, teenage boy, male friendship, couple relations, orphan, male bonding, youth, summer vacation, boy, male virgin, best friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 60s, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
australia, south australia, tasmania, tokyo, london ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jake and Kyle are two boys who grew up together in rural Arizona. They are best friends, and they begin to take their relationship to the next level when Jake's father moves him and his family away to California. Jake and Kyle can never forget ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, sexual, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
gay, homosexual, closeted homosexual, friendship, small town, desert, lgbt, homecoming, life is a bitch, gender, lifestyle, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, young lovers, parents and children, troubled teen, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, loner, amor ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
Similarity:
19%
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