Movies like Dying to Live
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Dying to Live (1999)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Popular model student Matthew 'Matt' Jannett is likely to get a college scholarship as diver, but the absurd pressure from father, a rigorous cop, is getting to him. When he and his mates decide to go swimming drunk at night, Matt takes off with his girl-friend Rachel Linden when the others strip. Rachel thinks he's in danger after a bad dive, jumps after him but trips, hits her head and drowns. Yet the whole community treats Matt as if he killed her by neglect, he's automatically suspended there's even a police investigation. Rachel's rival Vanessa Canningham now tries to seduce Matt. Rachel's guardian angel Will however coaches her to learn manipulating people so as to organize revenge and save Matt.
Style:
surprise ending
Plot:
ghost, angel, striptease, afterlife, coach, jealousy, diving, high school student, ritual, funeral, father son relationship, drowning, arrest, skinny dipping, possession, teen romance, loss of daughter, undressing, falling, swimsuit, drugged drink, nude swimming, scholarship, swimwear
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Most similar movies to Dying to Live
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, scary and suspenseful films with plots about ghost, afterlife, death, supernatural, murder, father son relationship and family relations mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Dying to Live: Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014), Somewhere, Tomorrow (1983), Last Christmas (1999), The Haunting of Whaley House (2012), Photographing Fairies (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.
Style:
serious, emotional, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, afterlife, coming of age, high school, youth, death, gay, hopes, troubled teen, redemption, lgbt, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Lori Anderson is trying to deal with the recent tragedy of her father's death. As Lori's mother moves on, Lori finds herself stuck, consumed by grief and anger. With the lingering feeling that something about her father's passing was ...
Style:
serious, surprise ending
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, time, ghost, horse ranch, family relations, love and romance, supernatural, dealing with death, fall in love, supernatural romance, death in the family, parents and children ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his father was not the hero he imagined him to be.
Plot:
christmas, family relations, past, angel, journey, surrealism, ghost, father son relationship
Place:
london
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72%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, possession, murder, survival, supernatural, legends and myths, suspense, woman with a gun, house, woman in danger, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of ...
Style:
psychological, spiritual, captivating, surreal, serious ...
Plot:
world war one, photographer, afterlife, fae, paranormal, magic realism, magical creature, pagan, creature, death sentence, back from the dead, sex scene ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, alps, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Movies similar to The Green Mile
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot:
afterlife, suspense, twists and turns, hospital, supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, death, doctor, lovers apart, dealing with death, destiny ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, latin america, chicago illinois, venezuela, colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
Style:
exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, art house, spooky ...
Plot:
occult, ritual, black magic, suspense, occult ritual, angel, supernatural, female protagonist, magic, isolated house, desperation, demon ...
Place:
ireland, wales
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51%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, 'Millwood'. What he doesnt reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, fairy tale, whimsical
Plot:
psychiatrist, novelist, father son relationship, secret, reality vs fantasy, mental institution, paranoia, death of father, alternate reality, writers, writer's life, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Mona, a past student in child psychology, is keen to put her knowledge into practice. She attends an interview and is selected to become a full-time private tutor to two orphaned children, in some remote area of Northern Argentina.
Style:
disturbing, rough, suspenseful, psychological, tense
Plot:
brother sister relationship, childhood trauma, feral child, children, child in peril, teacher student relationship, child abuse, doll, drugged, tutor, panic attack, gardener ...
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46%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Director Joseph Mankiewicz's first work for television, the 90-minute ABC drama was publicized as having an all-star cast (which meant that names of some supporting cast members were not officially released). In Rod Serling's update of ...
Style:
dark fantasy, christmas horror
Plot:
christmas, afterlife, ruins, loss of son, christmas eve, world war one, redemption, post-apocalyptic future, ghost, anti war, uncle nephew relationship, dead son ...
Time:
year 1918, year 1945, 1910s, 1940s
Place:
hiroshima japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, dark ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suicide, missing person, child abuse, haunted by the past, uncover truth, family in danger, mind game, mysterious character, afterlife, sect ...
Place:
wales
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44%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Mike, a young hired hand in California is working a small farm with a close friend, Dan. Mike is content on the farm and obviously attracted to the handsome Dan. Dan seems to be attracted to Mike as well but is a drifter and not happy as a farmer. ...
Style:
queer cinema
Plot:
coming of age, lgbtq, gay, gay slur, sculpture, alcoholic father, child abuse, male nudity, intergenerational friendship, skinny dipping, gay interest, cemetery ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the ...
Style:
suspenseful, twist ending, scary, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, extrasensory perception, mental illness, psychic, suspense, murder, psychic power, clairvoyant, fortune teller, tarot card, foreknowledge ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to ...
Style:
emotional, touching, christian film, serious, spiritual ...
Plot:
afterlife, heaven, death, amusement park, self discovery, redemption, life is a bitch, hopes, religious, heaven and hell, elderly, consciousness ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Czech television production of Dracula that is very faithful to Bram Stoker's novel.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
dracula, vampire, female vampire, bat, wolf, englishman abroad, mansion, castle, vampire hunter, possession, coach, briton abroad
Time:
19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, emotional, sexy ...
Plot:
sex scene, love affair, love triangle, lovers reunited, fall in love, couples, couple relations, dull life, dishonesty, secret, older man younger woman relationship, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Family, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She campaigns to go back ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, baroque
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
curse, ghost, prank, paranormal, family relations, estate, redemption, haunted house, friendship, friends, youth, supernatural ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, atmospheric, thought provoking, artsy ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
philosophy, childhood, grief, coming of age, spirituality, father son relationship, parenthood, existentialism, family relations, hopes, religion, domineering father ...
Time:
50s, prehistory, 20th century, prehistoric times
Place:
texas, usa, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A western businessman, his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow world between life and death where endless darkness lies.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, seeing dead people, parallel world, nightmare, car accident, afterlife, boat, deja vu, ruins, death of son, death of child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
491
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
ghost, human nature, elderly, dealing with death, hopes, single parent, love and romance, golden years, unfulfillment, family problems, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ireland, europe, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Thailand, UK, Germany, France, Malaysia, South Korea, Mexico, USA, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be ...
Style:
surreal, art house, enigmatic, romantic, psychedelic ...
Plot:
soldier, sleeping, hospital, disability, medium, illness, cemetery, parallel world, self discovery, mysticism, diary, mutilation ...
Place:
thailand
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33%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge ...
Style:
semi serious, atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, christmas special ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
christmas, ghost, miser, redemption, regret, scrooge, clerk, transformation, benefactor, holiday, charles dickens, victorian england ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 1840s
Place:
london, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, ...
Style:
surprise ending, enigmatic, tense, twist ending, clever ...
Plot:
psychic, supernatural, mind game, experiment, supernatural ability, uncover truth, twists and turns, paranormal, surveillance, cheating, skepticism, obsession ...
Time:
year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teenage friends spending the summer at boarding school become entangled in love triangles after one commits suicide.
Style:
sad
Plot:
lgbt, loneliness, sexual repression, superhero, lgbt teen, melancholy, education, double suicide, metamorphosis, androgyny, doppelganger, all female cast ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1999, 90s
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sela Ward stars as beautiful, vulnerable heiress Sarah Hardy, recently wed and returning to her isolated childhood home, The Pines, to claim her vast inheritance. But something – or someone – evil waits there for her. It could be real. Or ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, ghost, funeral, death of mother, wedding, marriage, suicide of mother, car accident, chase
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
Style:
serious, dark, dark fantasy, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
devil, afterlife, angel, supernatural, prophecy, good versus evil, suspense, god, religion, christianity, vicious, religions or cults ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Pete Sandich is a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Pete is introduced to business-like angel who instructs the spectral Pete to pass on his aviation knowledge to his young ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, romantic, emotional, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick, date night
Plot:
afterlife, airplane, ghost, aviation, rescue, guardian angel, supernatural, pilot, grief, love, death, angel ...
Place:
usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, tense, mind bending
Plot:
ghost, mysterious character, haunted by the past, uncover truth, investigation, supernatural, life is a bitch, murder, legal, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, touching, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, memory, nightmare, suspense, therapist, hallucination, murder, death, death of daughter, repressed memory, father son relationship, girl ...
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31%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ryan is a teenager who lacks the ability to speak. One day, Ryan falls off a bridge and he finds himself transported to a strange fantasy world where he encounters his Grandpa Randolph (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and a pretty girl named Melanie (Hayden ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, sad
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
youth, afterlife, teenage life, friendship, self discovery, young heroes, grandparent grandchild relationship, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, destiny, road not taken, hopes ...
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31%
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