Movies like Our Town 1977
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Our Town (1977)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
Plot:
ghost, wedding, death, family relations, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, birth, funeral, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, male female relationship, second chance, husband wife relationship, small town, breaking the fourth wall, death in childbirth, mother son relationship
Time:
20th century, 1910s, 1900s
Place:
new england, new hampshire
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and sentimental films with plots about family relations, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, death, father son relationship, father daughter relationship and male female relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Our Town: Romeo & Juliet (1994), All the Way Home (1981), Dearest Jane (2015), Summer and Smoke (1961), The Glass Menagerie (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives. Using metatheatrical devices, Wilder sets the ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot:
family relations, small town life, americana, family life, social relations, family problems, couples, love and romance, bittersweet, second chance, flash forward, wedding ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, new england, usa
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95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
Plot:
shakespeare's romeo and juliet, family relations, teenager, male female relationship, father son relationship, love, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, shakespeare, mother son relationship
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79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Plot:
single mother, widow, family relations, loss of husband, death of husband, uncle nephew relationship, accident, car, loss of father, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, love ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
tennessee
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76%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Another attempt to bring the 1960s primetime serial back to network television
Plot:
small town, scandal, generation, male female relationship, secret, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, family secret, village, respect, dark secret, missing person ...
Place:
new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
Style:
touching, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Plot:
husband wife relationship, friendship, change, acceptance, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, death, love, family relations, small town, suspense, love and romance ...
Place:
indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door. A 1961 film, adapted from a Tennessee Williams play, starring Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey, John McIntire, Una Merkel and Rita ...
Style:
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Plot:
small town, unfulfilled love, spinster, summer, womanizer, repression, family relations, love triangle, small town life, loneliness, cockfight, couples ...
Time:
1910s, pre world war one
Place:
mississippi, usa
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71%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment ...
Plot:
theatre play, sibling relationship, dysfunctional family, domineering mother, absent parent, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, family relations, mother son relationship, anxiety
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70%
Genre: Drama, Music, 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:
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Plot:
death of husband, family relations, small town, car accident, family problems, small town life, family in crisis, life turned upside down, parents and children, death in the family, society, human nature ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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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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68%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After learning she only has three months to live, Morgan flips her conservative protected life upside down. That is where she meets Jordan, a purse snatching cross dresser artist, who takes her on adventure of a lifetime.
Style:
sexy, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbtq, love, cancer, lgbt, death, gender, wedding, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, hospital, honeymoon, brain tumor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Plot:
family relations, long lost daughter, terminal illness, gay, homosexual, cancer, ex husband ex wife relationship, letter, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, marriage, love ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with ...
Plot:
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Place:
taiwan
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68%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Carson McCullers' classic play.
Style:
realistic, gloomy, touching, emotional, serious
Plot:
wedding, running away from home, tomboy, housekeeper, youth, runaway, coming of age, escape, innocence lost, melancholy, hotel, perfume ...
Time:
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Place:
georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
John and Abby Reynolds are a married couple who have been together since their days as high school sweethearts—when John was a football hero and Abby dreamed of becoming a writer.
Style:
sweet, touching, feel good, romantic, light
Plot:
wedding, true love, mother daughter relationship, love and romance, middle age romance, fall in love, husband wife relationship, happy ending, wedding preparations and rituals, life philosophy, male female relationship, marriage crisis ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the transition to leave her husband and go to this fellow.
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
Plot:
drifter, age-gap relationship, adultery, death, lust, infidelity, love, extramarital affair, small town, sex, passion, age difference ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
During a family reunion in 2000, guests decide to read out laud their "where i see myself in 10 years" wish lists which they wrote down during their 1990 family reunion.
Plot:
male female relationship, family reunited, family relations, rocket, teenage boy, letter, working class, death of wife, teenage girl, death of mother, debate, patriarch ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.
Style:
saga
Plot:
korean war, domineering father, parent child relationship, death, love, funeral, boss, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, dog, virginity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 50s
Place:
texas, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
self discovery, small town, couples, unfulfillment, ex lover, love and romance, family relations, coming of age, small town life, dull life, thirtysomething life, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
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Place:
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65%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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65%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A drama about a young widow who finds a guardian angel in the form of a hobo who comes to her rural community looking for work.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
Style:
romantic, light, sincere, touching, captivating
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
With Cara leaving on an international book tour in two weeks and Ben’s business expansion keeping him busy, the couple decides they won’t let work commitments postpone their nuptials any longer. With the help of their best friends Megan and ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing
Plot:
wedding, ski resort, marriage proposal, wedding ceremony, christmas, male female relationship, wedding preparations and rituals, couple relations, pianist, father daughter relationship, snowboarding, snowstorm ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Years have passed since Sophie (Wendy Crewson) left the ranch her family calls home to pursue her dream of becoming a singer. The death of her father means that Sophie, now 30, must return to the home she left behind so long ago. Once there, ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s, 60s, 70s, 90s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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