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Light in the Piazza (1962)
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Light in the Piazza (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?
Style: retro, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, crying
Plot: mentally challenged, summer, disability, mental retardation, parent child relationship, youth, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, fall in love, couples, family problems, human nature, bittersweet, couple relations, dog, horse, children, train, mental disorder, businessman, priest, doctor, hotel, restaurant ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, florence, europe, florence italy

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Most similar movies to Light in the Piazza

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about couples, family relations, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, couple relations and fall in love mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Light in the Piazza: Diamond Head (1962), Rome Adventure (1962), Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002), Once in a Lifetime (1994), Summer Games (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Diamond Head (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstrong sister, Slone.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, surprise ending
Plot: racism, family relations, redemption, interracial relations, landowner, sibling relationship, social relations, couples, family problems, power relations, introspection, unfulfillment ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: hawaii, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Rome Adventure (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A beautiful American schoolteacher vacationing in Rome is courted by two men. Released in 1962, starring Suzanne Pleshette, Troy Donahue, Rossano Brazzi and Angie Dickinson.
Style: serious, realistic, humorous, touching, feel good
Plot: love, vacation, fall in love, school teacher, love and romance, starting over, couples, looking for love, on the road, true love, teaching the ways of the world, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot: love affair, teenage life, couples, couple relations, infidelity, lovers reunited, fall in love, bittersweet, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, young love, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Once in a Lifetime (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, family problems, family relations, couples, pregnancy, parents and children, hospital, boarding school life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 434
Summer Games (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, love and romance, family problems, family relations, resort, parents and children, father son relationship, fight, teenage girl, husband wife relationship, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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That Night (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: teenage pregnancy, coming of age, bowling, summer, bullying, teenager, pain, rock and roll, teenage girl, father, love, self discovery ...
Time: year 1961, year 1992, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: working class, opposites attract, love story, education, unemployment, love and romance, couple relations, teachers and students, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, school ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Only Thrill (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfaithfulness, widow, small town, hospital, bittersweet, family problems, social relations, couples, family relations, single parent, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1997, 60s, 90s, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
Style: retro, realistic, touching
Plot: composer, youth, lake, villa, pianist, family relations, infidelity, opposites attract, love and romance, starting over, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
A Warm December (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: black romance, biker, black, african american, love, motorcycle racing, motor sport, bittersweet, power relations, couples, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Once Is Not Enough (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot: film producer, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, couples, family relations, infidelity, parents and children, sexual relations, singleness, hollywood, love affair ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Table for Five (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie ...
Style: independent film, uplifting, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: cruise ship, cruise, coming of age, ship, family relations, divorce, youth, family vacation, single parent, human nature, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: mediterranean sea, italy, tunisia, cairo egypt, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.2
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Fine Things (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Standard romantic melodrama from novelist Danielle Steele finds a couple embroiled in marital conflict with a nasty child-custody battle at its center.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: youth, love, wedding, couples, family relations, family problems, terminal illness, missing person, family life, pregnancy, custody, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 805
Cupid & Cate (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second class citizen because of her line of work. Harry meets Cate and they fall in love instantly. Francesca is a doctor who finds ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, looking for love, couple relations, love and romance, human spirit, family relations, family problems, couples, breakup, male female relationship, misfit, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two unhappy people's lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who's trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, middle age romance, true love, love and romance, couples, infidelity, parents and children, death, summer, love, inn, family drama ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, starting over, infidelity, love triangle, working class, breakup, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, human nature ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: washington state, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Loverboy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Style: psychological, sentimental, serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot: obsession, mental illness, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, parents and children, life is a bitch, single parent, family problems, family relations, teenage life, babies and infants, possessiveness ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
An Italian Romance (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, couples, lovers reunited, impossible love, fall in love, relationships, tragic love, betrayal, love interest, male female relationship, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Giulia Doesn't Date at Night (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: swimming, swimming pool, love affair, family relations, lifestyle, writer's life, human nature, artists and showbiz, parents and children, love, secret, marital discord ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot: couples, family relations, tragic love, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, looking for love, baby born, diary, baby, holiday, letter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Bridge (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, emotional, semi autobiographical
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love triangle, midlife crisis, looking for love, parents and children, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: patient, twins, memory, terminal illness, hospital, bittersweet, friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, love and romance, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Follow The Stars Home (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: lifestyle, dysfunctional family, love and romance, unfulfilled love, babies and infants, family problems, family life, couples, disability, parents and children, family in crisis, single parent ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Golden Bowl (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
Style: period piece, serious, stylized, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, greed, deception, marriage for money, family problems, couples, society, fall in love, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, parents and children ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place: england, italy, britain, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Kiss Me Again (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, love affair, infidelity, couple relations, hopes, dishonesty, family life, breakup, parents separation, love and romance, crumbling marriage, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, gambling, marriage, jealousy, love, small town, interracial relations, human spirit, family problems, injustice, black, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Gas, Food Lodging (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, retro, cult classic ...
Plot: coming of age, waitress, small town, single mother, mother daughter relationship, love, women, friendship, adolescence, desert, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
All the Way Home (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the ...
Style: retro, realistic, serious, gloomy, sentimental ...
Plot: grief, death of husband, family relations, small town, car accident, family problems, life turned upside down, small town life, death in the family, parents and children, family in crisis, hopes ...
Time: 1910s, year 1963, 1900s
Place: tennessee, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Back to You & Me (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Her surgeon boyfriend, who has been sarcastically nick named "Mr. Personality" and "Settle For" by Syd's best friend ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: high school reunion, starting over, doctor, couples, estrangement, couple relations, fall in love, homecoming, ex-lover, small town, small town life, single father ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Square Dance (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An awkward 13-year-old (Winona Ryder) leaves her cranky grandfather (Jason Robards) in rural Texas, to live with her mother (Jane Alexander) in Fort Worth.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, women, estranged family member, young love, 13 year old, intellectual disability, disabled child, social misfits, society, single parent, misfit, youth ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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