Movies like Silence Like Glass

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Silence Like Glass (1989)
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Silence Like Glass (1989)
Original name: Zwei Frauen
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Style: independent film, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot: friendship, forbidden love, friends, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, society, working class, terminal illness, clinic, artists and showbiz, hopes, unfulfillment, dancer's life, ballet, death, cancer, dream, silence, dancer, strength, target, companionship, chemotherapy, bald
Time: 80s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about unfulfillment, family relations, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples and friendship mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Silence Like Glass: Six Weeks (1982), A Time for Dancing (2002), Bereft (2004), Always Outnumbered (1998), The Mulberry Tree (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Six Weeks (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, christmas, illness, cancer patient, campaign, couples, family relations, forbidden love, youth, life is a bitch, dancer's life ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: new york, california
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A Time for Dancing (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, terminal illness, friendship, life is a bitch, follow your dream, teenage life, cancer, single parent, lifestyle, society, unfulfillment, determination ...
Time: 90s
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Bereft (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style: touching, psychological, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: haunted by the past, parents and children, friendship, family problems, estrangement, family life, impossible love, couples, solace, life is a bitch, love and romance, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vermont
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Always Outnumbered (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to ...
Style: hood, crime drama, realistic, serious, rough
Plot: black, ex convict, cancer, gang, blaxploitation, ghetto, retirement home, terminal illness, family relations, family problems, couples, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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The Mulberry Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A drama centered on a young man working in Rhode Island's state corrections system and his relationship with a convicted murderer who is dying of AIDS and spending his remaining days on hospital detail.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: prison, hospital, redemption, family relations, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, one more chance, terminal illness, life sentence, haunted by the past, murderer ...
Place: rhode island, usa
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The C Word (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The C Word is an adaptation of Lisa Lynch's inspiring and candid book, based on her blog, about her battle with cancer.
Style: uplifting, sincere, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: family relations, optimism, human spirit, life turned upside down, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, terminal illness, journalism, hopes, cancer, blogger ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: spain
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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Double Standard (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of a judge who lives a double life, and stays married to two women for more than 15 years. While one knows nothing of the other, his second wife doesn't care that he is married already as long as he comes home to her as well. ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sexual
Plot: love, couples, injustice, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love triangle, infidelity, family relations, bigamist ...
Time: 80s
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Oxygen (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two young man share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying?
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: transplant, human spirit, friendship, terminal illness, hopes, optimism, life is a bitch, coming of age, buddies, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, germany, europe
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Matching Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style: sincere, uplifting, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, coming of age, hopes, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, bittersweet, terminal illness, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, child illness, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, ireland
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You Can't Write a Letter (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julien and Nina sign a pact with the universe: they must enjoy life, whatever the cost. Will that decision lead them to happiness, or to their disappearance?
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, offbeat
Plot: terminal illness, optimism, life is a bitch, hopes, couple relations, couples, sister sister relationship, love, death, unfulfillment, flashback, train ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Memories of Tomorrow (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, family relations, mental illness, family problems, unfulfillment, family in crisis, supportive spouse, terminal illness, businessman, love, society, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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The Miracle of the Cards (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: "The Miracle of the Cards" is based on the true story of Marion Shergold and her son, Craig, an eight-year-old English boy who had a brain tumor. Several events convinced Marion that God was leading her to a cure for Craig and that the ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, serious
Plot: brain tumor, human spirit, child illness, terminal illness, christian, hopes, life is a bitch, disability, miraculous event, journalism, faith, child hero ...
Place: canada
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Girlfriend (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, love and romance, single parent, impossible love, hopes, society, misfit, human spirit, social relations, mother son relationship, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Between Two Women (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother ...
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, period piece ...
Plot: lesbian, forbidden love, love affair, female friendship, family relations, couples, fall in love, society, feminism, friendship, working class, homecoming ...
Time: 1950s
Place: britain, europe, england, northern england
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Surrender, Dorothy (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: family problems, homecoming, tragic love, dysfunctional family, best friend, couples, starting over, hopes, life is a bitch, single parent, orphan, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
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Something Like Happiness (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: mental illness, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, eccentric family, love and romance, single parent, working class, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
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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
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The Three Wishes of Billy Grier (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, emotional, touching
Plot: unfulfillment, aging, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, jazz, terminal illness, teenager, rapid aging
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
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A Cooler Climate (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, female bonding, master and servant, human nature, crumbling marriage, couple relations, boss and employee, follow your dream, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
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Hysterical Blindness (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style: psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, working class, loneliness, character study, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, usa
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Mentor (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, university, friendship, college, unfulfillment, ambition, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Fall to Rise (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood.
Style: contemplative, emotional, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: ambition, artists and showbiz, introspection, strong female presence, dancer's life, hopes, women, dancer
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Lullaby (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Jenkins) fights a zero sum ...
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, sad
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, mercy killing, life is a bitch, estrangement, siblings relations, parents and children, family problems, estranged family member, death in the family, death, choice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, new york, los angeles
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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: patient, twins, memory, terminal illness, hospital, bittersweet, friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, love and romance, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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Steam (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
Style: serious, talky, touching, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: sauna, widow, introspection, female friendship, life is a bitch, human spirit, self discovery, love and romance, elderly, hopes, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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Harrison Montgomery (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the ...
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot: elderly, lifestyle, friendship, follow your dream, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, buddies, love and romance, danger, poverty, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
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I Don't Give a Damn (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Like many, another young Israeli, Rafi never gave much thought to the fact that when he reached a certain age, he would be expected to serve in the Israeli Army and that he would experience active duty in combat. It certainly never occurred to him ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot: military, hopes, youth, love and romance, introspection, soldier, life is a bitch, down on your luck, life turned upside down, disability, nudity, photographer ...
Time: 80s
Place: israel, tel aviv israel
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Spring Forward (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As the seasons change in a Connecticut town, two men of different age and backgrounds who work together outdoors for the local park system, share thoughts and feelings that gradually deepen into a relationship approaching father and son. Paul is ...
Style: realistic, talky, touching, independent film, existential ...
Plot: working class, friendship, gay subtext, partner, odd couple, love and romance, society, hopes, boss and employee, buddies, human nature, starting over ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
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