Movies like Widow on the Hill
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Widow on the Hill (2005)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A sexy young hospice nurse, is hired by a wealthy man to care for his sick wife who eventually dies. When the nurse becomes the widower's new bride and then he dies suspiciously leaving his vast fortune to the new Mrs., his daughter becomes convinced that her gold-digging stepmother is up to no good and could be a murderess.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense
Plot:
terminal illness, investigation, manipulation, murder, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, cons and scams, power relations, estate, death in the family, seduction, father daughter relationship, hypocrisy, widower, nurse, suspense, erotica, older man younger woman relationship, love, heist, strong female lead, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
virginia, usa
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Most similar movies to Widow on the Hill
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, couples, parents and children, family problems, love and romance, love and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Widow on the Hill: The Greatest (2009), The American Standards (2008), Fine Things (1990), Closing the Ring (2007), A Warm December (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out ...
Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, pregnancy, teenage mother, loss of son, family relations, crumbling marriage, youth, family problems, parents and children, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
At a crossroads in his life, Doc Jennings goes home to celebrate his mother's birthday and uncovers dramatic family secrets. Lies, affairs and afflictions bubble to the surface of his seemingly perfect family. Can they come back together or is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot:
family relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, family in crisis, wedding anniversary, life turned upside down, love, father son relationship, hospital, society, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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:
serious, realistic
Plot:
love, youth, wedding, family in crisis, death in the family, missing person, parents and children, couple relations, custody, pregnancy, terminal illness, kidnapping ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to ...
Style:
serious, touching, suspenseful, realistic, romantic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, couples, optimism, death in the family, couple relations, battles, family relations, family problems, parents and children, wartime life, love and romance, sex ...
Time:
90s, 50s
Place:
ireland, europe, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, surprise ending
Plot:
biker, african american, love, motorcycle racing, black romance, motor sport, family relations, power relations, couples, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Films like The Fault in Our Stars
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be ...
Style:
realistic, serious, romantic, sincere
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, family problems, couples, family in crisis, parents and children, dysfunctional family, crumbling marriage, love and romance, writer's life, female nudity, death in the family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama based on a true story. Rich, high-flying brothers Robert and Andrew Kissel seemingly have everything: beautiful wives who love them, great jobs and huge houses. But beneath the surface lie resentments and secrets that will eventually be their ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
dishonesty, couple relations, couples, family relations, infidelity, murder, serial killer, drugs, golddigger, voyeur, blonde, voyeurism ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
adultery, fall in love, family relations, love triangle, love affair, parents and children, couples, dishonesty, infidelity, last wish, funeral, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, boston, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, couples, family relations, family problems, pregnancy, death in the family, parents and children, boarding school life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
mermaid, family relations, self discovery, forbidden love, clergy, religions or cults, couples, family problems, estrangement, love and romance, haunted by the past, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Movies similar to Remember Me
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year, as a hopeless agoraphobic, until he meets a young woman who slowly coaxes him out of his self imposed bondage.
Style:
touching, serious, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
love affair, couples, hopes, life is a bitch, dishonesty, love and romance, destiny, impossible love, bondage, family problems, dull life, estate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
He risks it all for the love of a lifetime!
Style:
sad, semi serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
terminal illness, motorcycle, biker, small town life, small town, healing power, fall in love, love and romance, life is a bitch, redemption, social relations, family relations ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, island, self discovery, uncover truth, homecoming, dysfunctional family, introspection, family life, parents and children, family problems, couples ...
Place:
maine, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Sarah Walsh, a tough New Orleans attorney who serves on a murder trial jury and does some investigating of her own.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, tense
Plot:
murder, courtroom, courtroom drama, false accusation, investigation, uncover truth, legal, dishonesty, life is a bitch, dedicated lawyer, court, prosecutor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
native american, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, last wish, parents and children, indigenous people, coming of age, starting over, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Movies like A Walk in the Clouds
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After the death of her parents, a young woman assumes primary guardianship of her special needs brother. But as she attempts to balance her new life with her brother and her own blossoming romance, it becomes painfully clear that life will only make ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, brother sister relationship, autism, guardian, sibling relationship, child care, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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:
waitress, dream, food, alien contact, family relations, small town, hopes, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, love and romance, self discovery, dull life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The tragic struggle of an undocumented Latino family in Los Angeles after they have sent their eldest son to war.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
gang, parents and children, urban ghetto life, teenage life, immigrants, society, life is a bitch, family relations, coming of age, love and romance, couples, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mother vows to get justice when her daughter's life is destroyed by a sex video that goes viral.
Style:
serious, touching, suspenseful, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
high school, righting the wronged, teenage life, high school life, social relations, family relations, family problems, private vs public, death in the family, siblings relations, parents and children, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Amanda and Jason are happy marriage now, after years of frustration have finally managed to take a beautiful girl from a country in Eastern Europe through an international adoption agency. But when the doctor will perform a DNA test to small, finds ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
adopted daughter, adoption, kidnapping, investigation, uncover truth, suspicion, family problems, couples, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Films like Breathe In
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman with a hearing problem tries to get het life back together after a car accident that killed her husband.
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
deaf, sexual abuse, family relations, hopes, mute or deaf, misfit, introspection, opposites attract, life is a bitch, society, love and romance, single parent ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrants, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Western drama directed by Rod McCall. Henry deserted his family years before, Henry (James Brolin) kicks up a storm when he shows up to see his youngest daughter before her wedding. He has ulterior motives, including a divorce from wife Jenny (Sally ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nude, wedding, family relations, striptease, introspection, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, love and romance, couples, family problems, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new mexico, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, clever, bad ending ...
Plot:
murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, haunted by the past, fall in love, death in the family, family problems, dysfunctional family, grief, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
family relations, mischievous children, downfall, family life, couples, family problems, society, human nature, love and romance, dysfunctional family, parents and children, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, edwardian era, 20th century, 1890s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Movies like A Good Lawyer's Wife
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
love, love and romance, social differences, forbidden love, parents and children, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, step siblings, urban ghetto ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Tom learns that he has terminal brain cancer, he decides to find a replacement husband for his wife and a father to his daughter, before it is too late. Unbeknownst to his wife Valentine, Tom sets up an on-line dating profile for her, and ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love, wife, cancer, daughter, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, terminal illness, parents and children, fall in love, cooking, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
Style:
neo noir, serious, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
cons and scams, crime gone awry, couples, murder, betrayal, small town, drug dealer, inheritance, sheriff, love and romance, suspense, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After multi-millionaire Ted Ammon is found bludgeoned to death at his East Hampton estate, the fingers point to his estranged wife, Generosa Rand, and her lover, an electrician named Danny Pelosi.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot:
murder, adoption, family relations, love affair, family problems, couples, estrangement, infidelity, terminal illness, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Alma, a lonely woman, falls for the conman who steals her money after seducing her. Frank doesn't want Alma around him, but he cannot do anything about the situation in case she goes to the police. Hot on the trail of the two is a female ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
wedding, obsession, murder, police detective, couples, law enforcement, dishonesty, track down, police investigation, investigation, femme fatale, forgery ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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