Movies like Beautiful Dreamer
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Beautiful Dreamer (2006)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A pilot (Egglesfield) gets shot down and gets amnesia, later on his stricken-with-grief wife (Langton) finds him in a small town and she is shocked that he doesn't remember her.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, dramatic
Plot:
world war two, amnesia, pilot, false identity, aviation, memory loss, happy ending, male female relationship, prison, husband wife relationship, medical examination, father figure, beating, female director
Time:
post world war two, 50s
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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 family relations, husband wife relationship, parents and children, life is a bitch, youth, society and family problems mostly in Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Beautiful Dreamer: Miss Rose White (1992), The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005), Wings (1966), The Mulberry Tree (2010), The Theory of Everything (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Rose White (Sedgwick) is a modern young career woman in post-World War II New York City who has largely relegated her Jewish heritage to scrapbooks and memories. Born in Poland but fortunate enough to escape the country before the Nazi occupation ...
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, family relations, bittersweet, solace, human spirit, immigrants, misfit, starting over, society, introspection, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
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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, sincere, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
marriage of convenience, hopes, destiny, world war two, love and romance, soldier, society, fall in love, life is a bitch, arranged marriage, unhappy marriage, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1940s
Place:
usa, colorado
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Maya Bulgakova gives a marvelous performance as a once heroic Russian fighter pilot now living a quiet, disappointingly ordinary life as a school principal.
Style:
art house, touching, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
aviation, midlife crisis, feminism, flashback, loneliness, great patriotic war, nostalgia, school principal, haunted by the past, wartime life, fish out of water, culture clash ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 60s, 50s
Place:
russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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, talky ...
Plot:
prison, hospital, redemption, estrangement, one more chance, family relations, haunted by the past, terminal illness, life sentence, hopes, life is a bitch, murderer ...
Place:
rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Does God exist? Does Science prove God's existence or provide more reasons to doubt? Doug Holloway (David de Vos), a family man on the verge of financial and marital ruin, embarks on a journey to find his birth father, Dr. Eugene Holland ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, christian film
Plot:
prodigy, religions or cults, family relations, on the road, memory loss, obsessive quest, research, scientist, husband wife relationship, illness, faith, christian ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Broken Roads is a contrasted portrait of life, dealing with loss, a journey of rediscovery & the hills climbed which forever change us.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
estrangement, teenage life, small town life, youth, small town, family tragedy, grandmother grandson relationship, curses spells and rituals, loss, love, death, coming of age
Time:
21st century
Place:
colorado
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54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
DeeDee returns to her hometown with her 11 year old son, Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend, Sam, is now married and he and his wife, Lydia, are the town's veterinarians. Lydia is a little wary ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
veterinarian, single parent, adoption, couple relations, couples, homecoming, terminal illness, life is a bitch, social relations, parents and children, small town, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Seth McArdle (Samuel Davis) is a high school senior with an especially full plate. Not only must he navigate the usual social and academic pitfalls of high school, but he has to contend with his young twin sisters, serving as de facto parent in the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, christian film
Plot:
absent father, belief in god, orphan, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, school, christian, responsibility, fight, bad father, death of mother ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, death in the family, against humanity, love and romance, society, jewish ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, germany, france, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
train, orphan, friendship, family relations, terminal illness, family problems, father figure, grief, coming of age, parents and children, collision, unfulfillment ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, friendship, family relations, couples, friends, interracial relations, human nature, hopes, opposites attract, introspection, golden years, society ...
Place:
georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, serious ...
Plot:
racism, family relations, discrimination, injustice, social differences, parents and children, rich and poor, single parent, follow your dream, couple relations, racial discrimination, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
50s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, juvenile delinquency, power relations, human spirit, society, hopes, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
family relations, inventor, military, family problems, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, relationship problems, world war two, invention, marital problem, female protagonist ...
Time:
post world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On the day of his college graduation, Preston Plummer cannot think of a single thing he really loves. Adrift, Preston follows a beautiful but troubled young woman to a small island town where he begins to fall for her, but it all threatens to fall ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, realistic, touching, romantic ...
Plot:
love affair, haunted by the past, family relations, college graduate, young lovers, social relations, family problems, small town, fall in love, island, love, happy ending ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
death in the family, hopes, introspection, last wish, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, siblings relations, brother brother relationship, journey, river, nature ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of good behavior after a rape sentence. His parents who run a modest barbershop, skeptic André and Rita, desperately try to keep him out of girl ...
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
mentally challenged, family relations, society, rehabilitation, misfit, life is a bitch, hopes, parents and children, forced into action, jail, punishment, rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Niccolo (Mac) Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers and leads their family after their beloved father dies. Their father was a builder and his sons continue in this family trade. At first, they work for Polowski, who does shoddy work and cheats on ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
working class, family business, ambition, workplace, boss and employee, society, family life, family in crisis, construction, brother brother relationship, gambling, peeping ...
Time:
50s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michelle Pfeiffer is ferocious in the role of a desperate mother whose 3-year-old son disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated. Based on Jacquelyn ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, missing person, children, family relations, parents and children, family life, disappearance, police detective, family problems, youth, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-TV drama as Rebecca Blake, a bookstore employee who lives contently in San Pedro, California with her construction-worker husband Joe (A Martinez). A chance meeting with a woman named Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful
Plot:
memory loss, small town, strong female presence, uncover truth, family relations, disorder, couple relations, life turned upside down, parents and children, haunted by the past, recurring nightmare, mother daughter reunion ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with Pompe disease - a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the support of ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, inspirational, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
race against time, twists and turns, cure, hopes, human spirit, against the odds, family problems, unlikely partners, child illness, family in crisis, parents and children, doctors and patients ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, boston, las vegas, portland oregon, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"My Brother" is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L'Tisha, finds herself in a tragic situation. Dying of tuberculosis, she desperately tries to get her two ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot:
disability, terminal illness, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, mentally challenged, brother brother relationship, sick mother, urban ghetto life, siblings relations, urban ghetto, performer's life ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary ...
Style:
disturbing, touching, thought provoking, rough, tense ...
Plot:
orphan, child abuse, rescue, family relations, selflessness, dysfunctional family, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, abuse, love, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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, touching, emotional
Plot:
youth, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, aging, terminal illness, teenage life, jazz, teenager, rapid aging
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, world war two, parents and children, nationalism, wartime life, political unrest, single parent, unsupportive parent, state affairs, death in the family, wartime ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Brad Randolph (David Carradine) is the World Champion aerobatic pilot but now, in his early 40s, he faces many challenges to maintain his position. His physical struggles are heightened by the presence of a youthful competitor, Tom Loomis (Joseph ...
Plot:
aviation, smuggling, pilot, male female relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Days before his birthday and weeks before his wedding, Tate Bradley, a twenty-five year old, African-American man attempts to commit suicide. He survives the ordeal, but from his actions, it is obvious that "Something is Killing Tate." The ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, touching, biting ...
Plot:
african american, haunted by the past, childhood trauma, society, life is a bitch, hopes, interracial relations, relationship problems, curses spells and rituals, suicide attempt, suicide, incest ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Drama starring Norma Aleandro, Conrado Valenzuela, Fabio Aste
Style:
serious, emotional, disturbing, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, isolation, estrangement, grandmother grandson relationship, dictatorship, death of mother, moving, youth
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, captivating, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, friendship, world war two, violinist, holocaust, musician's life, violin, family relations, destiny, love and romance, musician ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
prague, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.
Style:
touching, emotional, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, celebrity culture, family problems, social worker, family relations, obsession, prostitute, family in crisis, female nudity, society, journalism, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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