Movies like Pieces of Dreams

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Pieces of Dreams (1970)
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Pieces of Dreams (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young priest (Robert Forster) questions his faith after he falls in love with a social worker.
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot: forbidden love, hospital, church, celibacy, pregnancy, family relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, fall in love, couples, gays and lesbians, society, clergy, gender, hopes, religions or cults, love, religion, hippie, desire, mother, feminism, priest, ambulance, faith ...
Time: 60s
Place: albuquerque new mexico

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about society, hopes, religions or cults, christian, family relations, religion and church mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Pieces of Dreams: Crossroads (2006), Due East (2002), The Third Miracle (1999), Sarah's Choice (2009), Expecting Amish (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Crossroads (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: introspection, clergy, religions or cults, idealism, hopes, society, fall in love, self discovery, priest, friendship, love, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
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95%
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Due East (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: single parent, teenage pregnancy, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, couples, family relations, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
The Third Miracle (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
Style: controversial, biblical, contemplative, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: religion, saint, priest, miraculous event, investigation, catholic priest, philosophy, religious, world war two, gay, catholic church, bishop ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
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94%
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Sarah's Choice (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sarah Collins is considering an abortion. Before she makes her final decision, she is presented with three visions causing her to think about the impact on her future.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, uplifting, christian film
Plot: faith, moral dilemma, christian, pregnancy, against the rules, mysterious character, society, youth, lifestyle, rise to the top, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Expecting Amish (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 18-year-old Hannah Yoder is ready to become an Amish adult - which means baptism into the Church and marriage to her boyfriend, Samuel. However, her friends convince her to visit Hollywood for Rumspringa where she meets Josh and the two hit it off ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: pregnancy, religions or cults, forbidden love, couples, society, love and romance, youth, love affair, culture clash, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior ...
Style: black and white, christian film, touching, retro, social ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: desert, religion, nun, catholic, farm, friendship, literary, faith, christian, african american, courage, church ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 50s
Place: arizona, usa
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68%
Do You Believe? (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When a pastor is shaken by the visible faith of a street-corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a journey that impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.
Style: christian film, emotional, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Plot: christian, christianity, faith, self discovery, clergy, introspection, society, religions or cults, teaching the ways of the world, christian propaganda, myth, religious ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois, chicago, xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,
Style: tense, serious, realistic, epic, spiritual ...
Plot: pope, catholic church, politics, clergy, vatican, catholic, catholicism, cold war, state affairs, society, revolution, political unrest ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, china, asia, rome italy, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Standing Firm (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: David, a widower, is working himself to death. Late nights doing paperwork and running on fumes is normal. Bills are piling up by the week, and foreclosure looms on the horizon. Blaming God for his wife's death, he ends his relationship with ...
Style: christian film, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: christian, family relations, family problems, religions or cults, church, society, grieving widower, best friend, unsupportive spouse, hopes, parents and children, widower ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Mrs. Worthington's Party (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Father Jonathan Keene - a cold, impatient Catholic priest arrives in a tiny fishing village the week before Christmas to do what he does best: shut down a dying parish...
Style: touching, realistic, feel good, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: christmas, priest, clergy, introspection, society, self discovery, social relations, religions or cults, hopes, church, small town life, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Book of Ruth, is a triumphant love story in the face of adversity. This selfless journey of love and devotion is seen through the eyes of a young widow. Choosing to leave her homeland of Moab, she follows her mother-in-law Naomi to Israel after ...
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, biblical, realistic ...
Plot: bible, family relations, love affair, true love, hopes, love and romance, life turned upside down, rise to the top, interracial relations, society, starting over, state affairs ...
Place: holy land
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Sinner (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Catholic priest, Father Anthony Romano (Nick Chinlund), intervenes with the police when his colleague attacks a drifter named Lil (Georgina Cates). When Anthony reluctantly provides her asylum in his rectory, the brash hustler soon discovers a ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: prostitute, false accusation, celibacy, redemption, clergy, lifestyle, moral dilemma, haunted by the past, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Midnight Clear (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: On Christmas Eve in the Arizona desert, a middle-aged man (Stephen Baldwin) and an old woman (K Callan) contemplate suicide. But through chance run-ins with strangers and perhaps some divine intervention, they cross paths and change each ...
Style: realistic, captivating, suspenseful, serious, semi serious ...
Plot: christmas, church, redemption, life is a bitch, unemployment, family relations, love and romance, hopes, society, clergy, small town, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Household Saints (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A chronicle of an eccentric Italian-American family in New York City in the 1950's and 60's. Young Teresa dreams of joing the convent, over the objections of her family.
Style: period piece, independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: christian, catholic, mother-in-law, world war two, single parent, human nature, forbidden love, society, obsessive quest, youth, redemption, hopes ...
Time: 60s, year 1993, 1950s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Mass Appeal (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor. (TCM.com)
Style: talky, psychological, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, religion, homosexuality, priest, suburbs, catholic, church, christian, spirituality, lgbt, celibacy, gay subtext ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Wise Kids (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, contemplative, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, best friend, single parent, family relations, self discovery, introspection, teenage life, lgbt, youth, society, direction and purpose, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa, charleston south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.
Style: biblical, sincere, emotional, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot: jesus, bible, faith, jesus christ, christian, ancient, religious, belief in god, roman empire, myth, ancient rome, mythology ...
Time: 1st century
Place: holy land, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Stella Days (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Norway, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, intellectual
Plot: religion, confession, small town, idealism, clergy, religions or cults, social relations, small town life, hopes, society, belief in god, priest ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, year 1956, 1950s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Higher Ground (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark ...
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: faith, belief in god, evangelical christianity, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, introspection, self discovery, redemption, human spirit, hopes, religions or cults, society ...
Time: 2010s, 60s, 70s, 21st century
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54%
What If God Were the Sun? (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally ill woman with a quick with and strong faith.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: hospital, terminal illness, family relations, doctors and patients, hopes, family problems, religions or cults, unfulfillment, wedding, nurse, faith, nurse patient relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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48%
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My Own Country (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After obtaining his medical degree from Madras Medical College, Dr. Abraham Verghese decides to re-locate to Johnson City, Tennessee. He eventually gets married to Rajani, who is an accomplished dancer, and has a boy, Steven. Since Abraham ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere, touching ...
Plot: aids, medical, gay, lgbtq, hiv, lgbt, hospital, terminal illness, pregnancy, family relations, gay subtext, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 90s
Place: tennessee, usa, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
God's Army 2: States of Grace (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A drive-by shooting in Venice, California, changes the lives of five people forever. States of Grace tells the story of a homeless street preacher, Louis, a gang banger, Carl, an aspiring actress, Holly, and two young missionaries, Lozano and ...
Style: christian film, uplifting, touching, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: faith, redemption, mormon, missionary, human spirit, going straight, culture clash, religions or cults, church, society, gang, youth ...
Place: europe, italy, venice, california, utah ...
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47%
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The Truce (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Martín Santomé has been woking in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.
Style: stylized, emotional, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, elderly, love affair, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, gender, couples, hopes, fall in love, midlife crisis, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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A Question of Faith (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs
Style: touching, serious, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: clergy, christian, christianity, parents and children, religions or cults, family life, society, family problems, family values, religion, salvation, penance ...
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45%
The Rising Place (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic
Plot: injustice, life is a bitch, fall in love, soldier, working class, interracial relations, society, feminism, parents and children, social differences, family life, friendship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia, usa, mississippi
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44%
The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: marriage of convenience, arranged marriage, world war two, love and romance, pregnancy, soldier, society, unhappy marriage, hopes, fall in love, life is a bitch, pretend relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1940s, year 1944
Place: usa, colorado
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44%
The Perfect Stranger (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 'THE PERFECT STRANGER' tells the story of Nikki, a troubled attorney who one day receives a mysterious dinner invitation from a man claiming to be Jesus of Nazareth. Throughout their evening of conversation, arguments and spirited debate, ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot: religions or cults, society, hopes, legal action, faith, christian, religion, christianity, discussion, stranger, change of heart, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
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44%
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On the Downlow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Isaac and Angel are two young Latinos involved in a south side Chicago gang. They have a secret in a world where secrets are forbidden.
Style: serious, touching, emotional, rough, realistic ...
Plot: lgbt, confession, catholic priest, gay, injustice, forbidden love, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, life is a bitch, gang, society, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Reconciliation (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: RECONCILIATION is a groundbreaking, provocative story about an estranged father and son struggling to overcome the heartbreaking consequences of their past. Grant Taylor (Eric Nenninger) has been troubled by intense childhood memories ever since his ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, emotional ...
Plot: gay parent, family relations, redemption, haunted by the past, last wish, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, terminal illness, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, family problems ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
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42%
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