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Christmas on Division Street (1991)
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Christmas on Division Street (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A good-natured homeless man and an ill-tempered student become good friends.
Style: christmas classics, sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
Plot: christmas, friendship, youth, homeless, homelessness, library, friends, human spirit, social differences, society, down on your luck, redemption, odd couple, bittersweet, hopes, teenager, scuffle, dead man, schoolboy, death, desire, old man, bum, holiday, lie ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
Keyword: downtown

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, emotional and serious films with plots about christmas, love and romance, family relations, hopes, christmas movie, couples and holiday mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Christmas on Division Street: A Hobo's Christmas (1987), Ms. Scrooge (1997), Christmas Comes Home to Canaan (2011), Explicit Ills (2008), Christmas Angel (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Hobo's Christmas (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, homeless, holiday, homelessness, youth, homeless man, hopes, estrangement, family problems, family relations, family gatherings, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: utah, usa, salt lake city utah
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Ms. Scrooge (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by ...
Style: touching, captivating, thought provoking, sad
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, time travel, miser, scrooge, christmas carol, ghost, change of heart, boy, regret, xmas, urban setting, christmas spirit ...
Time: 90s
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Christmas Comes Home to Canaan (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Bobber undergoes experimental surgery to help him walk again, Daniel Burton falls in love with his beautiful rehabilitation doctor and invites her to spend Christmas at the farm.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, psychological, sentimental
Plot: christmas, hopes, rehabilitation, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, family drama, family relations, family life, parents and children, unlikely friendships, young man, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
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26%
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Explicit Ills (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia
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Plot: poverty, family relations, dysfunctional family, social decay, hopes, human spirit, youth, society, lifestyle, drug dealing, drug abuse, teenage life ...
Time: year 2008, year 2007, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Christmas Angel (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Story: Ashley has been on her own all her life. She feels even more alone this Christmas as she searches fruitlessly for a job. The seasonal cheer around her only rubs salt in her wounds as she scrapes by to support herself and her dog, Dash. But her ...
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Time: 21st century
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Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
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Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Mingle All the Way (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Molly is determined to prove to her family that her new networking app—designed to pair busy professionals together for upcoming events, without long-term romance—is a success. When Molly joins Mingle All the Way and is matched with Jeff, they ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, light, romantic drama
Plot: christmas, holiday, friendship, christmas romance, love, invention, couples, snow, christmas eve, cell phone, internet, family relations ...
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23%
A Season for Miracles (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after her sister is hospitalized following yet ...
Style: serious, suspense, captivating, sincere, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, custody, life is a bitch, family problems, drug abuse, hopes, police officer, youth, miraculous event, holiday, love and romance, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: illinois, atlanta georgia, rhode island
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23%
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Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver's Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents recently passed, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane after ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, captivating, light
Plot: christmas, holiday, family home, sister sister relationship, christmas romance, childhood memory, love, snow, family relations, fall in love, hotshot lawyer, friendship ...
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23%
Matchmaker Christmas (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As the Christmas party for a book publishing company approaches, editor Maggie volunteers to help her boss Amanda find a date. Matchmaking is a bit of a hobby for Maggie, but she is thrown off her game when Jaxson, her old boyfriend from her college ...
Style: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, light ...
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Sweet Jane (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: aids, terminal illness, hiv, illness, sex, quarantine, destruction, hospital, bittersweet, society, social misfits, love and romance ...
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Hitched for the Holidays (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A couple of single adults agree to pose as each others significant other throughout the holidays to keep their meddling families from harassing them, only to find that their feelings for each other are real.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, touching, humorous ...
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Christmas on the Bayou (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother, Lilly in her home town on the bayou. When Caleb tries to ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, sincere, emotional ...
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Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, sad ...
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Style: touching, uplifting, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
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Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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