Movies like The Great Pumpkin

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The Great Pumpkin (1993)
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The Great Pumpkin (1993)
Original name: Il Grande Cocomero
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Italy, France, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, cult film
Plot: epilepsy, children, doctor, medical, psychiatry, coming of age, doctor patient relationship, roma, misfit, hospital, family relations, family life, mental illness, manipulation, social misfits, doctors and patients, clinic, human nature, power relations, priest, singing, journey, joy, nurse, videotaping ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy
Keyword: video

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Most similar movies to The Great Pumpkin

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, youth, coming of age, friendship, children, parents and children and family life mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like The Great Pumpkin: The Doctor (1991), Little Big Girl (2002), Raise Your Head (2009), Truth or Dare (1997), Ward No. 6 (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Doctor (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that ...
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot: hospital, medical, cancer, medicine, doctor, redemption, health, doctors and patients, coldhearted, nurse, tumor, brain tumor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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100%
Little Big Girl (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While out and about tending to his herd, young shepherd Larus meets a mysterious little girl named Tinke. Quickly realizing that the girl is alone, Larus brings Tinke some food and slowly builds a friendship with her. Tinke, whose parents died ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: orphan, family relations, children, friendship, hopes, friends, destiny, coming of age, human nature, girl, teenage girl, wolf ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II. Her two daughters are pre-occupied with their own young families and her adopted son ...
Style: sincere, feel good, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: couples, teaching the ways of the world, orphan, family life, friendship, adoption, widow, doctors and patients, family relations, estrangement, homecoming, anne of green gables ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Raise Your Head (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career ...
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, teenage life, athlete's life, lifestyle, single parent, family relations, hopes, parents and children, family problems, athlete and trainer, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Truth or Dare (1997)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Summer holiday is over. Nora begins sixth grade and is drawn to intrigues and doesn't really know what side she's on. Or wants to be on. On one hand she feels sorry for the bullied Karin, one the other hand she wants to be friends with ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience: teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: teenage girl, bully, shoplifting, friend, female protagonist, coming of age, children, eating disorder, truth or dare, high school, bullying, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
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22%
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Ward No. 6 (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, smart ...
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, isolation, confined, human nature, doctors and patients, society, misfit, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Marussia (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France, Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their homelands because they can see no future there. Lucia and her little daughter Marussia are two such people. They have been thrown out by the Russian ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot: childhood, society, immigration, family relations, family problems, poverty, single parent, family in crisis, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, exile, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Michaela and Sully travel by train to Boston with their children Brian and Katie to be at Colleen's graduation. Upon arriving they find that Michaela's mother just about to be released from the hospital but instructed that she needs ...
Style: uplifting, sincere, serious, touching, juvenile ...
Plot: medicine, female doctor, family relations, doctors and patients, single parent, family life, parents and children, terminal illness, family in crisis, homecoming, assassination, political conspiracy ...
Time: 19th century
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Locked in Silence (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, disturbing, gloomy
Plot: children, youth, dysfunctional family, mute or deaf, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, doctors and patients, misfit, family problems, power relations, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Viktoria (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Bulgaria, Romania
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Dreaming of the West, Boryana is determined not to have a child in communist Bulgaria. Nonetheless, her daughter Viktoria enters the world in 1979, curiously missing a belly button, and is declared the country’s Baby of the Decade. Pampered by her ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, bleak ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, parents and children, motherhood, politics, family problems, single parent, life turned upside down, political unrest, youth, communism, disorder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Little Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patty, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Audience: toddlers
Plot: family relations, couples, couple relations, disorder, youth, misfit, social misfits, society, child abandonment, poverty, adolescence, friendship ...
Place: europe, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Maldonado Miracle (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: miraculous event, small town, coming of age, family relations, church, hopes, human nature, society, clergy, family life, religions or cults, village ...
Time: 21st century
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20%
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Remedy (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Griffin Conner, a med-school dropout having left in a haze of disgrace, is forced to return to Bethune General Hospital as its newest orderly and work alongside his family.
Style: emotional, sentimental, captivating, light, medical drama ...
Plot: hospital, workplace, family relations, starting over, doctors and patients, doctor, boss and employee, college dropout, male nurse, medical, friendship, medicine ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Nurses (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Follow five young nurses working on the frontlines of a busy hospital in downtown Toronto, dedicating their lives to helping others, while struggling to help themselves.
Style: medical drama, realistic, intellectual, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: medical, doctor, doctors and patients, nurse, hospital, physician, relationship vs career, coworker, nursing, ambition, health situation, staff ...
Place: toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Eskil & Trinidad (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Eskil moves from town to town with his father in Northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things changes when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, village life, parents and children, family relations, coming of age, father son relationship, father and son, youth, village, friends, sport team, self confidence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The New Man (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Sweden 1951. A new society is developing, a society where there is no room for the socially and mentally weak...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: society, pregnancy, youth, teenage life, mental illness, win over, injustice, power relations, life is a bitch, misfit, confined, mental institution ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Mommo (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.
Style: touching, sincere, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kids in trouble, dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, estrangement, siblings relations, family problems, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, death in the family, brother sister relationship, child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
When I Find the Ocean (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A little girl leaves home with her pet dog and rabbit to escape abuse and find the ocean in the hopes of feeling closer to her father who has passed away.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: civil rights, dog, friendship, youth, hopes, pets, estrangement, family life, wilderness, child's point of view, mother, family relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: alabama, usa
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19%
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Amy (1981)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: deaf, disability, dedicated educator, girl, grief, hearing, school, power relations, family relations, ambition, mute or deaf, youth ...
Time: year 1981, 1900s
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19%
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Alan & Naomi (1992)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Naomi, a young refugee from Nazi-occupied Paris, moves into Alan Silverman’s building in New York, he does his best to avoid her. But despite Naomi's strange behavior and the language barrier, they slowly develop a deep and touching ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, uplifting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: world war two, coming of age, youth, children, grief, couples, family relations, friendship, haunted by the past, misfit, against humanity, human nature ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Ways to Live Forever (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: teenage life, youth, friendship between boys, leukemia, friends, child cancer, coming of age, best friend, human spirit, death, life is a bitch, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
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19%
Cries from the Heart (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama directed by Michael Switzer.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: autism, mentally challenged, children, youth, sexual abuse, child molester, family problems, power relations, family relations, misfit, life is a bitch, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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19%
Misunderstood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sincere ...
Plot: separated parents, female protagonist, half sister half sister relationship, father daughter relationship, school, family problems, parents and children, youth, family life, girl, coming of age, child ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Booky & the Secret Santa (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Booky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, family life, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems, friendship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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19%
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The Wonders (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Gelsomina’s family works according to some special rules. First of all, Gelsomina, at twelve years of age, is head of the family and her three younger sisters must obey her: sleep when she tells them to and work under her watchful eye. But the ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: teenage girl, beekeeper, honey, family life, life turned upside down, parents and children, siblings relations, father daughter relationship, radical, disorder, troubled past, isolation ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Everybody's Fine (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Style: psychological, philosophical, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, european, old age, world war two, worship, elderly, nudity, introspection, hopes, unfulfillment, human nature, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, sicily, italy, florence, europe
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18%
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Small World (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, investigation, memory loss, haunted by the past, society, family relations, family life, flashback, power relations, amateur detective, social differences, dishonesty ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
My Sweet Orange Tree (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, friendship, boy, friends, family life, mischievous children, youth, father son relationship, book, school, tree ...
Time: 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Darker Than Midnight (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Plot: social misfits, lgbt, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, society, gay, androgyny, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Bee Season (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 11-year-old Eliza is the invisible element of her family unit: her parents are both consumed with work and her brother is wrapped up in his own adolescent life. Eliza ignites not only a spark that makes her visible but one that sets into motion a ...
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, religion, family drama, depression, life philosophy, judaism, family relations, family problems, coming of age, parents and children, society ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, bay area, washington d.c., sacramento california, oakland california ...
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18%
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