Movies like The Spring
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The Spring (2000)
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man and his son stumble onto a modern-day fountain of youth while camping in the woods.
Plot:
fountain of youth, youth, police, doctor, hospital, single father, accident, euthanasia, eternal youth, spring, father son relationship, outsider, secret, small town, town with a secret, lifetime
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Most similar movies to The Spring
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and captivating films with plots about youth, father son relationship, family relations, doctor, hospital, mother son relationship and small town mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Spring: Who Is Julia? (1986), Swimming Upstream (2002), The Wizard of Loneliness (1988), Calm at Sunset (1996), Dog Days of Summer (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a very plain looking lower middle class woman simply faints and suffers brain death. The beautiful womans brain is fine, so, ...
Plot:
brain transplant, death of wife, mechanic, surgeon, healing, memory, hospital, model, surgery, death, husband wife relationship, doctor ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This is a heart-wrenching story about a happy-go-lucky 17 year-old boy with a passion for life and love. Under his free spirit are problems that he must deal with. His mother died, his alcoholic father is unapproachable, and ...the biggest problem ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
brother sister relationship, male virgin, alcoholic father, high school athlete, best friend, hospital, virgin, sick child, leukemia, cancer, alcoholic, friendship ...
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59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A family drama.
Plot:
world war two, magic, youth, family relations, secret, small town, psychiatric patient, aunt, grandmother, coming of age, child's point of view, mental patient ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
vermont
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55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The struggle between a father and son at odds over the youths career choice. The 18 years old James Pfeiffer quits college and decides to become a fisherman like his father. Margaret and Russell are very upset with their son's decision. They ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot:
family relations, ship, coming of age, hopes, follow your dream, youth, escapades, siblings relations, college dropout, small town life, small town, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, ...
Plot:
youth, pilot, parent child relationship, trick, beer, small town, travel, world war one veteran, father son relationship, airplane
Time:
1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, surprise ending, neo noir ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, small town, social relations, small town life, friendship, father son relationship, childhood, friendship between boys, male female relationship, sheriff, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
21st century
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50%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, underground, doctor, corpse, heat wave, black and white segues into color
Place:
ussr
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48%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An expedition arrives on planet Arkha, which appears desolate and uninhabited and yet suitable for a planned mass exodus from polluted Earth. One day seemingly from nowhere and quite unexpectedly a young boy wanders into their ship and then runs off.
Plot:
wild man, youth, scientific discovery, feral child, robot, space exploration, alien, parent child relationship, alien life-form, male full rear nudity, nude, alien planet ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
An acclaimed TV miniseries based on the classic sci-fi novel.
Style:
psychotronic, philosophical, tech noir, propaganda film
Plot:
distopia, underground, post apocalypse, disaster, new world, conformity, utopia, individualism, dystopian society, drugs, drug use, technology ...
Time:
future
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47%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
In the year 2020, a group of wealthy Moscovites travel to an abandoned astrophysics complex, rumoured to have enough power to halt the process of aging.
Style:
atmospheric, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, aging, obsession, human nature, youth, escapades, society, social differences, couples, fountain of youth, underground, immortality ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
russia, kazakhstan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An alien spaceship crashes near a rural hospital. When the aliens are taken to the hospital, a mysterious force field suddenly appears around it.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
alien, hospital, spaceship crash, alien invasion, spacecraft, invasion, forest, distopia, trapped, alien space craft, alien contact, ambulance ...
Place:
england
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40%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure. Following two children who disappear to play in the woods, she finds that this is actually a community of extraterrestrials ...
Style:
psychotronic, semi serious, cult film
Plot:
alien, school, teacher, telekinesis, failed pilot, distopia, levitation, benign alien, space and aliens, teachers and students, isolation, small town ...
Time:
70s
Place:
arizona
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39%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A couple purchases an eleven-year old girl who cannot walk, with the intention of using her to earn money through begging.
Plot:
youth, organ trafficking, false identity, little girl, begging, hospital, money problems, illness, poverty
Place:
china
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A college freshman is date-raped and tries to press charges.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, rape, campus, teen social issues, abused woman, love, sexual abuse, school, womanizer, sexual relations, parents and children, small town ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.
Plot:
hospital, business, medical, surgery, nurse, doctor, abortion, stress, surgeon, misogyny, childbirth, career ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a feud erupts between Lee and Turner Knight, the owner of the funeral home. As Lee's many promotional ideas become more and ...
Plot:
rivalry, youth, funeral home, movie theatre, drive in
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35%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
As troubling signs of global cataclysms accelerate, a brother and sister react to their father's desertion and the powerful presence of their mother's new boyfriend.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
mother's boyfriend, youth, family relations, manipulation, single parent, society, prodigy, teenage love, parents and children, love and romance, child's point of view, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. He quickly takes up with a young woman with an illegitimate baby. First he must prove himself to her father and her three brothers. He does so first by joining them ...
Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental
Plot:
widower, mountain, survival, nature, single father, family feud, great depression, love, winter, hillbilly, small town, bittersweet ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
HOOVEY is the true and inspiring story of the Elliott family, who refused to surrender, instead turning to one another and their faith in the worst of circumstances, to rebuild their lives, their boy, and their dreams... together. Step by grueling ...
Plot:
christian, firefighter, high school, male camaraderie, basketball player, brain tumor, high school athlete, doctor, coach, rehabilitation, hospital, student athlete ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A story of two siblings who for the first time spend a night without their parents, and are visited by strangers who ask for room for the night. Based on the novel by Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas.
Plot:
youth, spring, stranger, farm, depression, birth, sex, mental illness, death, male female relationship, vagina
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The German troops are just outside Paris. Georg escapes to Marseille at the last moment. His luggage contains the legacy of a writer named Weidel, who took his own life out of fear of persecution. This legacy comprises a manuscript, some letters and ...
Style:
touching, sincere, captivating, tense, sentimental ...
Plot:
refugee, police, on the run, love, love interest, fake identity, police raid, doctor, world war two, time travel, judaism, women ...
Place:
paris france, marseille, germany, france
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32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
amish, adoption, family relations, identity crisis, religions or cults, family problems, youth, hopes, dishonesty, self discovery, parents and children, last wish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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32%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San ...
Style:
depressing, thought provoking, bleak, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
nuclear war, disaster, cold war, apocalypse, post apocalypse, tragedy, distopia, small town, death, end of the world, visceral, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, future, near future
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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300
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman returns home to bear an illegitimate child, and witnesses an environmental accident involving a genetically modified crop of corn. Doubted by the community she has returned to, she questions her own sanity as she tries to discover what ...
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
pregnancy, fighting the system, obsession, society, life is a bitch, single parent, youth, environmentalism, family relations, parents and children, destiny, babies and infants ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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31%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
distopia, mother son relationship, suspense, family relations, social misfits, rebel, society, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, social problems, youth, coming of age ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the first man ...
Style:
disturbing, exciting, tense, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot:
astronaut, secret, space, tragedy, father son relationship, promise, waking up, male protagonist, space exploration, mother son relationship, suspense, alcoholic ...
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30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60'ies Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, youth, lgbt, friendship, human nature, mysterious character, teenage life, working class, kids in trouble, family relations, friends, manipulation ...
Time:
60s
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29%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discover a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creation of new life.
Plot:
mad scientist, new world, genetics, experiment, ethics, ethical dilemma, research, doctor, small town, mutant, monster, scientist ...
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
single father, babies and infants, adoption, teen social issues, family relations, environmentalism, family problems, couples, music band, love and romance, hopes, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
texas
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Plot:
aging, retirement home, picnic, husband wife relationship, death, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, dying, mother daughter relationship, doctor, grandmother grandson relationship, grandfather grandson relationship ...
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