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Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.
Style:
crying
Plot:
aids, hiv, disease, hiv positive, brat pack, gay, dancing, artist, loneliness, medicine, student, friendship, death, illness, doctor, ambulance, restaurant, hospital, book, taxi, architect, father daughter relationship, bartender, mother daughter relationship, rain ...
Time:
year 1988
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and crying films with plots about death, hospital, doctor, friendship, mother son relationship, photograph and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story: An Early Frost (1985), Kosumosu (1997), Go Toward the Light (1988), Our Sons (1991), River Made to Drown In (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
aids, closeted homosexual, hiv, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, lgbtq, gay interest, gay, last will and testament, gay son, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago, illinois
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Teen Akiko (Akane Oda) returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick with paranoia, is quick to ostracize the ailing Akiko. With only her best friend ...
Style:
crying
Plot:
aids, hiv, discrimination, time capsule, fear of death, teenage girl, train station, high school, music box, grandmother granddaughter relationship, prejudice, hospital ...
Place:
japan, south america
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
aids, hiv, sick child, death of child, little boy, youth, hiv positive, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Similarity:
68%
841
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, homosexual ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Allen, a struggling young artist who once survived by working in the streets, is now involved with Eva, a wealthy Los Angeles gallery owner. Quite by surprise Allen receives a visit from an old john, Thaddeus, who is dying from aids and has come to ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, crying, independent film, weeping, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay club, aids, lgbt, hiv, gay bar, cocaine, male prostitute, bad father, gay subtext, dying and death, hustler ...
Place:
santa monica california, los angeles
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, sincere, realistic
Plot:
aids, family relations, photographer, secret, self discovery, love and romance, estrangement, family life, terminal illness, haunted by the past, siblings relations, parents and children ...
Place:
newfoundland, boston, america, canada, new york
Similarity:
61%
558
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An intimate biopic of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive Cuban-American, who was cast for the MTV reality show, The Real World: San Francisco, in 1994. Due to his experience on the Real World, Pedro became a celebrity and a sympathetic face of the AIDS ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, aids, hiv, gay relationship, rising to stardom, fighting the system, human spirit, terminal illness, idealism, hopes, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
cuba, san francisco, miami, latin america, usa ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After obtaining his medical degree from Madras Medical College, Dr. Abraham Verghese decides to re-locate to Johnson City, Tennessee. He eventually gets married to Rajani, who is an accomplished dancer, and has a boy, Steven. Since Abraham ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
aids, medical, hiv, gay, small town, terminal illness, hospital, lgbtq, dedication, husband wife relationship, gay interest, physician ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
tennessee, usa, india
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
wedding, beach, israeli, honeymoon, family relations, estrangement, friendship, maid, couples, hopes, lifestyle, orphan ...
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, mediterranean sea, asia ...
Similarity:
51%
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Style:
sincere, depressing, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
hospital, cancer, medical, doctor, poetry, chemotherapy, hopes, dying, nurse, terminal illness, philosophy, regret ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, lgbt, self discovery, couple relations, society, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, sea turtle, mother's day, birth mother ...
Time:
year 2005, 90s, 60s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
north carolina, appalachia, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style:
psychological, touching, emotional, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
estrangement, parents and children, single parent, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, redemption, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, germany, italy, berlin germany, milan italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
Style:
clever, serious, realistic, biting, witty ...
Plot:
crimes of passion, murder, destructive relationship, vengeance, obsession, addiction, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 60s, year 1976, year 1980
Place:
philadelphia, new york, florida, virginia
Similarity:
44%
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style:
touching, serious, erotic, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot:
hospital, mother in law son in law relationship, pregnancy, loneliness, drinking, parents and children, society, relationships, sex scene, making love, redemption, friendship ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
spain, europe, andalusia, tokyo
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to ...
Style:
philosophical, psychological, compassionate, depressing, disturbing ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, guilt, loneliness, family relations, coma, family life, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, single parent, society, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2001
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking ...
Style:
scary, sincere, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
cloning, mother daughter relationship, hospital, death of daughter, loss of daughter, father daughter relationship, little girl, flashback, paramedic, organ donation, photograph, coma ...
Place:
berlin germany, moscow russia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, meditative, clever, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
redemption, destiny, infidelity, philosophy, couples, adultery, attorney, happiness, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greece
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still ...
Style:
disturbing, sad, realistic, biting, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, violence, love, working class, dysfunctional family, activism, women, social commentary, hospital, drinking, children, resistance ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, liverpool, paraguay, london, california
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
recovering drug addict, mother, massage, drug addict, drug, drug addiction, heroin, family relations, rehabilitation, parents and children, problem, mother and daughter ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The relationship between a middle-aged man (Andy Lau) and the elderly woman (Deanie Ip), who has been the family's helper for sixty years.
Style:
touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
maid, retirement home, family relations, social differences, society, master and servant, family life, producer, power relations, film producer, senior citizen, urban setting ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Film that tells the story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer. At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the American dream; a winning team, a happy marriage and public adulation.
Style:
crying
Plot:
real life, coach, high school football, football, cheerleader, quadriplegic, high school sports, disease, teacher, doctor, father son relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After the death of his fiancée's daughter while in his care, a deaf man shuts himself off from the world. Haunted by memories, it is only through new friendship that he can learn to forgive, love, and reconnect.
Plot:
deaf, sign language, university, spirit, death, redemption, train, transformation, love, rain, friendship, daughter ...
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, tear jerker, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
aids, hiv, single mother, mother son relationship, family drama, terminal illness, female protagonist, mortality, grief, branding iron, social issues, loss of spouse ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, art house, thought provoking, sentimental, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay, aids, gay love, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, gay relationship, hospital, gay pride, gay couple, sex scene, protest ...
Time:
90s, year 2017, year 1992, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, indiana
Similarity:
35%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
aids, gay, gay interest, closeted homosexual, christmas, homosexuality, hiv, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, stand up comedian, gay slur, homosexual ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
texas, dallas texas
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, touching, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, aging, loneliness, male female relationship, desire, love triangle, crumbling marriage, family problems, memory, husband wife relationship, love, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, 90s, 1950s, 70s, 50s
Place:
adelaide south australia, belgium, melbourne, australia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the clubs seeking good times, companionship and maybe a little sex. But in the harsh light of the morning ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, entertaining, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
nightclub, sex, erotica, bodyguard, friendship, happy ending, young lovers, rape, bondage, dating, dance club, fondling ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
35%
993
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With a daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy and a son who's lost his much-needed scholarship, an impoverished married couple begins to abandon their faith and courage in the face of such misfortune. But when a gifted young boy called ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
hopes, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, youth, society, prodigy, dealing with death, single parent, disability, rich and poor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines, manila philippines
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, independent film, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
friendship, writers, storytelling, eccentricity, alone in the world, character study, writer's life, human nature, buddies, secret, reporter, philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north carolina ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
aids, hiv, drug abuse, drug addict, going straight, lifestyle, friendship, addiction, life is a bitch, society, hopes, rehabilitation ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
33%
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