Movies like Skylark

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Skylark (1993)
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Skylark (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience: kids
Plot: farm, prairie, drought, hunger, rural area, friends, misfit, family relations, human spirit, family life, disaster, couples, danger, down on your luck, forces of nature, against the odds, hopes, dancing, pregnancy, farmer, kitten, getting home, passionate kiss, lightning, husband wife relationship ...
Time: edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place: kansas, usa, maine, midwest

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Most similar movies to Skylark

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, hopes, couples, family life, society, parents and children and family problems mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like Skylark: Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), The Stone Boy (1984), The River (1984), Immediate Family (1989), Long Road Home (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story is set in Kansas in the year 1910. Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth several years earlier, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is ...
Style: sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot: prairie, farm, bereavement, family life, parents and children, single parent, self discovery, small town life, love affair, human nature, remarry, happy ending ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place: kansas, usa, maine, america, new england ...
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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm. He is slow to reveal his identity. When they find out he is Jacobs ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: prairie, family relations, farm, hopes, society, redemption, couple relations, parents and children, siblings relations, nursing, family life, couples ...
Time: edwardian era, 90s, 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: kansas, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Stone Boy (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: One summer morning, 12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene wake at dawn to pick peas and perhaps shoot a wild duck on their family's Montana farm. In a nearby pasture, Arnold's gun fires accidentally. His brother ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: farm, coming of age, youth, boy, grief, hunting, depression, death of brother, guilt, family relations, death in the family, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 7K
The River (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, gloomy, sincere
Plot: farmer, courage, survival, natural disaster, small town, society, river, countryside, strike, union, weather, volunteer ...
Time: 80s
Place: tennessee, usa, alabama, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Immediate Family (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that Linda and Michael will adopt Lucy's baby and that Lucy ...
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adoption, pregnancy, marriage, homeless, poverty, slice of life, parents, dilemma, birth control, love, social differences, teenage life ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: seattle, washington state
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19%
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Long Road Home (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A drama depicting the trials of a family of share croppers.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: family relations, labor union, life is a bitch, survival, society, farm, against the odds, family life, down on your luck, workplace situations, farm hand, great depression ...
Time: 1930s
Place: california, usa
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Morning (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark (Leland Orser) and ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, starting over, redemption, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, family in crisis, death in the family, death of child, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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19%
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Copperhead (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Style: realistic, tense, touching, serious, captivating
Plot: american civil war, anti war, family life, society, life is a bitch, farm, civil war, danger, relationships, intrigue, family relations, wartime life
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Bitter Harvest (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: environmental, biology, farm, contamination, ecology, family relations, family problems, environmentalism, government agency, dishonesty, hopes, society ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, michigan
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, touching, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, hopes, couple relations, redemption, misfit, starting over, family life, culture clash, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children ...
Time: year 2007
Place: china, usa, asia, washington d.c., persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, family problems, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, parent child relationship, sister sister relationship, youth, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
We Were the Mulvaneys (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, loneliness, fear, trouble ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Country (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot: survival, family farm, farm, farmer, family relations, life is a bitch, couple relations, family business, against the odds, couples, crumbling marriage, human nature ...
Time: 80s
Place: iowa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
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In the Gloaming (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, gay, lgbt, family relations, terminal illness, hiv, bereavement, lgbtq, childhood, cancer, dying, gay son ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york state
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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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Twelve Mile Road (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the lives of the two of them, and their friends and family.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Audience: teen drama
Plot: summer vacation, family relations, farmer, teenage life, estrangement, family problems, youth, friendship, parents and children, elderly, adolescence vs adulthood, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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Infidelity (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A married family therapist cheats on her husband with a younger man and becomes trapped in her double life, unable to say anything and risk hurting either man in her life.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, love affair, couples, unfaithful, sexual relations, dishonesty, double life, rivalry, sex addict, love and romance, cuckolded husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Of Mice and Men (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to ...
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy, touching
Plot: man child, great depression, labor, homeless, strike, union, drifter, friendship, human nature, society, misfit, social relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Jumpin' at the Boneyard (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Manny tries to get his crack addict brother, Danny, to clean up.
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot: drug addiction, heroin, sibling relationship, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, self discovery, going straight, hopes, society, rehabilitation, against the odds ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's ...
Style: anamorphic, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: oil, small town, farm, restaurant, progress, gilded age, hopes, rural area, aging, obsessive quest, danger, human spirit ...
Time: 1930s, year 1935
Place: texas, austin texas, america, usa
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17%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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On Valentine's Day (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elizabeth defies her wealthy parents by running off and marrying a young man of humble prospects, and her parents have not spoken to her since - even though the couple lives in a rooming house nearby, they are struggling financially, and she is ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, uplifting, sentimental ...
Plot: valentine's day, family relations, small town, couples, social relations, love and romance, hotel, humble, alcohol abuse, homecoming, love affair, adult virgin ...
Time: 1910s
Place: texas, usa
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17%
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Jewel (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, family problems, family life, couples, social relations, couple relations, society, babies and infants, youth, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: mississippi, california
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17%
A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
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A Fine Step (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, teens
Plot: horse, contests and competitions, friendship, starting over, athlete's life, parents and children, youth, ambition, rivalry, family relations, farm, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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16%
Profoundly Normal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story. Donna Lee Shelby (Kirstie Alley), a mentally retarded girl who lives in Forest Haven, an institution for the developmentally disabled, meets Ricardo Thornton (Delroy Lindo), a fellow resident. When Forest Haven is closed by a ...
Style: serious, emotional, uplifting, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: couples, interracial relations, friendship, fighting the system, idealism, society, human spirit, hopes, family in crisis, coping, family life, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
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Octavia (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Everybody has a little murder in their heart... somewhere.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sexual, touching ...
Plot: disability, blindness, blind woman, sexual awakening, female nudity, rape, friends, family relations, society, confined, youth, misfit ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
The Grief of Others (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, death in the family, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family crisis, mourning, reconciliation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
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