Movies like The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001)
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: youth, family relations, teenage life, family life, family problems, estrangement, hopes, social relations, mother daughter relationship, prejudice, gold, prairie, woman dressed as man, village, village life, small town, clergy, small town life, death in the family, wolf, ghost, golddigger, party, murder, book ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: california, utah, new england
Keyword: arabic, gold digger, reading

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Most similar movies to The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, family problems, family life, hopes and small town mostly in Drama, Family and Western genres. Some movies like The Ballad of Lucy Whipple: A Father's Choice (2000), Love's Unfolding Dream (2007), Love's Abiding Joy (2006), Love Finds A Home (2009), Love's Unending Legacy (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Father's Choice (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere
Plot: horse, youth, parents and children, family life, teenage life, family relations, family problems, love and romance, single parent, dysfunctional family, estrangement, farm ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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100%
Love's Unfolding Dream (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Centers on Missy's adopted daughter Belinda Tyler as she follows her dream. Belinda wants to be a doctor, but this time period does not look kindly on women with careers, especially one in the medical field. But Belinda is a strong-minded woman ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, realistic, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: ambition, fall in love, family life, relationship vs career, social differences, follow your dream, hopes, blind ambition, family relations, workplace situations, christian, love ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Love's Abiding Joy (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie begins to realize her passion for teaching as Willie cares for the couple's young daughter ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: family relations, christian, family problems, optimism, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children, death in the family, love, death of child, faith, prairie ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Love Finds A Home (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this sequel, Lillian has been adopted and it's several years later. Annie, married and pregnant, visits her fellow doctor friend, Dr. Owen. Dr Owen desperately wants a baby, but seems unable to become pregnant. Lillian finds a love ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: crumbling marriage, couples, hopes, young lovers, couple relations, feminism, gender, small town, parents and children, family relations, small town life, youth ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Love's Unending Legacy (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scuffle. She and Maddy move back in with her parents Clark and Marty. She finds a new home, and finds a new teaching position that she settles right ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, touching, saga ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: orphan, adoption, starting over, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, single parent, optimism, social relations, parents and children, small town ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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 ⇓
26%
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Missing at 17 (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman tries to save her adopted daughter from a criminal, with help from the girl's biological mother.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: rescue, adoption, danger, parents and children, family relations, woman in danger, life turned upside down, age difference, strong female presence, estrangement, teenage life, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story is set in Kansas in the year 1910. Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth several years earlier, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is ...
Style: sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot: prairie, farm, bereavement, family life, parents and children, single parent, self discovery, small town life, love affair, human nature, remarry, happy ending ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place: kansas, usa, maine, america, new england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: teenage life, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, love and romance, disgraced, single parent, youth, family life, friendship, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In this Janette Oke sequel to "Love Comes Softly," the eldest child in an 1800s frontier family, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful elementary schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: farm, old west, christian, fall in love, love triangle, couples, family relations, lifestyle, young lovers, countryside, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Horse for Summer (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a family emergency forces a troubled teen to do the wrong thing for the right reason, a community discovers the meaning of forgiveness.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, spiritual
Plot: horse, teenage life, starting over, family business, juvenile delinquency, hopes, youth, workplace, family life, parents and children, family problems, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Saving Shiloh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this third movie about Shiloh, Judd Travers is accused of killing a man he once fought in a bar. Everyone in the town consider Judd to be guilty except Marty Preston, but even him has some doubts. Trying to clear Judd's name Marty and his ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, saga
Audience: family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: dog, youth, mischievous children, friendship, rescue, best friend, pets, family life, animal actor, small town, child, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Welcome to Paradise (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When big-city preacher Debbie Laramie (Crystal Bernard) moves to the small town of Paradise with her son Hayden (Bobby Edner), she finds the local community unreceptive to her message of love and forgiveness. Determined to get through to her ...
Style: realistic, uplifting, inspirational, captivating, serious ...
Plot: church, small town, social relations, clergy, introspection, self discovery, love affair, society, hopes, village, preacher, community ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Time to Remember (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An artist and single mother returns to her childhood home to patch things up with her mother who has Alzheimers disease.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot: thanksgiving, family relations, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, single parent, hopes, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, reconciliation, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Mermaid (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: young heroes, bittersweet, single parent, hopes, friendship, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, child's point of view, widow, mother daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Love's Everlasting Courage (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Clark Davis struggles to maintain his land and support his family during a long drought. With a bank loan to repay, his wife, Ellen, takes a job in town as a seamstress, but soon becomes ill with scarlet fever. Devastated to lose his beloved wife, ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: farm, family problems, family relations, dealing with death, single parent, fall in love, parents and children, death in the family, love, father son relationship, christian, prairie ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: 12-year-old Jessica Jones world is torn apart when she is taken out of her abusive home and placed in to Foster care. Jessica will grapple with her past, present, and future, and meet numerous struggles along the way. Her story is the reality of so ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating
Plot: custody, foster parent, kids in trouble, starting over, family life, haunted by the past, family problems, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, parents and children, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Beyond the Farthest Star (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A twist of fate brings the national spotlight to a forgotten Texas town and a once famous preacher has an opportunity to regain his former glory or seize one last chance to restore his fractured family. Narrated by his fifteen-year-old daughter, ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, christian film ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, one last chance, preaching, parents and children, ambition, youth, religions or cults, family problems, society, clergy, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Love Comes Softly (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Marty is a 19 year old pioneer woman, recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Clark Davis, a widower, offers her a marriage of ...
Style: touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night
Plot: faith, fall in love, marriage of convenience, couple relations, survival, love and romance, pregnancy, single parent, farm, christian, starting over, family life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Red Pony (1973)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, farm, friends, pets, parents and children, family relations, family problems, horse, boy, father son relationship, grandparents, pony ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Spin (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: "Spin" tells the story of a boy who loses his parents in a plane crash, is taken in by his uncle (Tucci), who then leaves him for ten years in the care of his Hispanic ranch hand (Blades) and his wife (Delany). Once in high school, Eddie ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, youth, society, self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, teenage life, friends, family problems, orphan, hopes, eccentric family ...
Time: 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
22%
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An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on a short story by the acclaimed author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, comes a holiday story of family and forgiveness. Recently widowed Mary Bassett (Helene Joy) and her three children have hit difficult times on their farm. Suddenly, ...
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, period drama
Plot: thanksgiving, family problems, family relations, farm, youth, hopes, parents and children, teenage life, family life, loss of partner, christmas, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 1800s
Place: america, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
Style: retro, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: small town, scandal, family relations, dysfunctional family, infidelity, mother in law, family problems, couples, estrangement, social relations, society, youth ...
Time: year 1961, 50s
Place: new york, usa, new hampshire, massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating, spooky, psychotronic
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: ghost, youth, supernatural, parents and children, disorder, teenage life, haunted house, starting over, family relations, pets, family life, afterlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Tiger Eyes (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. Here Davey is befriended by a young man who helps her find the strength to carry on and conquer her fears.
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, teenage life, death in the family, bittersweet, grieving, native, depression, life is a bitch, native american, fishing village, comic book, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Before and After (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
Style: suspense, melancholic, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: small town, murder, accidental death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder investigation, courtroom drama, investigation, parents and children, teenage life, lawyer, family problems, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Long Lost Son (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Fourteen years after her son and estranged husband were presumed lost at sea, Kristen believes she glimpses them in the background of a friend's recent vacation video.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: dishonesty, youth, family relations, parents and children, family problems, twists and turns, kidnapping, faked death, heartache, mother son reunion, lost at sea, estranged husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, caribbean, california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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