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If You Could See What I Hear (1982)
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If You Could See What I Hear (1982)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
Style: touching, independent film, sentimental, uplifting, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, exciting, funny ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: blindness, disability, blind character, golf, blind man, wrestler, swimming pool, one night stand, interracial, misfit, love and romance, fall in love, couples, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, hopes, athlete's life, biopic, university, singer, pianist, harvard, cape cod massachusetts, love ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: massachusetts, ireland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about disability, hopes, ambition, biopic, misfit, human spirit and love and romance mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres. Some movies like If You Could See What I Hear: The Great Victory (2014), Touch of the Light (2012), Terry (2005), Blind Massage (2014), Margot (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Great Victory (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Independent feature film based on the biography of a Brazilian judo with a great victory that went beyond the mats and medals.
Style: captivating, touching, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, rise to the top, ambition, couples, athlete's life, hopes, couple relations, dysfunctional family, love and romance, parents and children, biopic, judo ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a beloved teacher for the blind who discovers she herself is losing her eyesight.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot: blindness, cancer, human spirit, renewed love, hopes, life is a bitch, love and romance, disability, lovers reunited, blind character, blind man, dedicated educator ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: arizona, usa
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Touch of the Light (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Yu-Siang is blind – but he has a superb sense of hearing. Born in rural Taiwan, this extremely talented musician moves to the capital Taipei to study the piano. But how will he manage on his own? Even the walk across campus from his halls of ...
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: blindness, prodigy, follow your dream, human spirit, artists and showbiz, musician's life, hopes, blind character, music, blind man, piano
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia, china
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26%
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in 1898, Cambridge, Massachusetts, depicts Annie Sullivan Macy supporting her student Helen Keller at Radcliffe College.
Style: captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: disability, deaf, power relations, hopes, youth, misfit, human spirit, young heroes, mute or deaf, love and romance, dedicated educator, against the odds ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1900s
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Terry (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: "Terry" tells the story of 21-year old amputee Terry Fox who attempted to run across Canada with only one leg. Unfortunately, he only made it to Thunder Bay, Ontario when he died, one month before his 23rd birthday yet his memories will ...
Style: uplifting, touching, realistic, sentimental, serious
Plot: running, marathon, cross country, terminal illness, human spirit, athlete's life, hopes, life is a bitch, disability, family relations, on the road, one legged man ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: newfoundland, canada
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Blind Massage (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A drama centered on the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: massage parlor, massage, love and romance, disability, misfit, love, blind man, flirting, blindness, sex worker, disappearance, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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Margot (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, stylized
Plot: love and romance, dancer's life, disability, couples, ambition, artists and showbiz, ballet, biopic, older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man, music, ballerina ...
Time: 21st century
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Cavalcade (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An accomplished playboy Leo neglects his girlfriend and enjoys parties. His girlfriend parts from him and then, when he wants to see her once more, he has an accident. He survives, but his whole life is now to be changed. This film is about fetching ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot: human spirit, redemption, life turned upside down, couples, love and romance, rehabilitation, couple relations, hopes, friendship, disabled person, physical disability, change of heart ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Risen (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: As one of the rising talents of amateur boxing, Howard Winstone, a young Welsh boy from Merthyr Tydfil, was fast making a name for himself with his knock out right hand. A long professional fighting career surely beckoned? Then disaster strikes. An ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, captivating, serious
Plot: human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, against the odds, rise to the top, boxing, rivalry, hopes, disability, lifestyle, contests and competitions, blind ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 50s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Three Stooges (2000)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Plot: three stooges, actor's life, ambition, rise to the top, lifestyle, showbiz, artists and showbiz, disability, comedian, hollywood, comedy team, biopic ...
Time: 90s
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21%
Touch the Top of the World (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The story of the first blind man ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest
Style: uplifting, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: heroic mission, against the odds, ambition, human spirit, hopes, disability, obsessive quest, self discovery, winter, blindness, mountaineer, landscape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mount everest
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Hammer (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship.
Style: uplifting, captivating, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: deaf, wrestler, mute or deaf, underdog, overcoming, athlete's life, human spirit, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, hopes, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Scent of a Woman (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Ciccio, and spends the next few ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, black comedy, uplifting, serious ...
Plot: blind man, blindness, blind character, bitterness, road trip, disability, soldier, female nudity, suicide, twins, woman with a gun, circus ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, naples italy, europe, napoli italy
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20%
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Good Luck (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bernard "Bern" Lemly (Gregory Hines) is fed up with being in a wheelchair and wants more out of life. Meanwhile, former football player Tony "Ole" Olezniak (Vincent D'Onofrio) is stewing after recently losing his sight. The ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: blindness, blind character, partner, hostage, friends, disability, ambition, misfit, human spirit, hopes, buddies, self discovery ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Terry Fox Story (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
Style: sad, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: running, physical disability, runner, illness, disability, heroes, cross country, biopic, family problems, family relations, athlete's life, doctors and patients ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place: newfoundland, canada, british columbia
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Blind (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: blindness, disability, love affair, love and romance, couples, dishonesty, writer's life, infidelity, blind man, novelist, moral dilemma, blind character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city
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Aglaya (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot: circus, ambition, performer's life, self discovery, dysfunctional family, desire for fame, family relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, eccentric family, youth, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Kenny (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan, USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kenny is a Canadian kid who has a couple of pals and, like a lot of the other lads, idolizes the jock his pretty older sister has chosen as her boyfriend. However, Kenny was born without legs or even the lower part of his body. He gets around (quite ...
Style: independent film, uplifting, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: disability, youth, child, family relations, society, self discovery, misfit, underdog, hopes, rehabilitation, mentally challenged, urban ghetto ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, philadelphia, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Mask (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
Style: uplifting, emotional, touching, sentimental, depressing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disability, coming of age, fall in love, human spirit, depression, adolescence, relationships, teenager, motorcycle, teenage love, family relations, protective parent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: california, usa
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19%
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Imagine (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Portugal, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: blindness, blind character, disability, hopes, human spirit, teachers and students, power relations, misfit, teaching the ways of the world, student, rebellion, blind man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal, eastern europe, poland, europe, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Door to Door (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply by their refusal to give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds and the dignity in which they go about their lives. ...
Style: feel good, serious, touching, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: salesman, human spirit, disability, cerebral palsy, against the odds, changing lives, underdog, misfit, ambition, society, hopes, door to door salesman ...
Place: oregon
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19%
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Céline (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A biopic on singer Céline Dion.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
Plot: desire for fame, rise to the top, prodigy, relationship vs career, ambition, musician's life, showbiz, couples, rising to stardom, lifestyle, fall in love, tragic love ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Happy Times (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Zhao is an old laid-off worker who's dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and ...
Style: touching, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: blindness, greed, fall in love, comedy of errors, misfit, introspection, hotel, bittersweet, deception, farce, irreverent, bus ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, tibet, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Brooke Ellison Story (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rendered a quadriplegic since a child from a near-fatal neck injury, a young girl fights against all odds to succeed in life from grade school to her acceptance into college under the assistance of her loyal and dedicated mother.
Style: sincere, uplifting, touching, sentimental, saga ...
Plot: quadriplegic, disability, college, against the odds, hospital, teenage love, human spirit, lifestyle, ambition, parents and children, family problems, survival ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers. Some topics discussed were Greg's childhood problems, his homosexuality, and him contracting the HIV virus.
Style: uplifting, captivating, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gay, hiv, aids, lgbt, lgbtq, biopic, olympics, olympic athlete, swimming, motivation, glbt, diving ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1984, year 1988, 80s
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18%
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The Athlete (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Ethiopia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Running the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent, Bikila was the first ...
Style: uplifting, touching, exciting, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: runner, disability, rehabilitation, starting over, human spirit, athlete's life, follow your dream, ambition, against the odds, marathon, rivalry, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: africa, ethiopia, rome italy
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18%
A Song from the Heart (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This poignant love story stars Amy Grant as a beautiful, blind concert cellist who falls for a famous, self-centered pianist but doesn't realize that true love is right before her eyes.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, feel good, emotional ...
Plot: blindness, blind character, blind man, love, relationships, concert, couples, disability, power relations, musician's life, music, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Elvis and Me (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: The story of Priscilla's life with rock and roll star Elvis Presley.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot: elvis presley, biopic, rock and roll, unhappy ending, couples, rock, music, couple relations, artists and showbiz, musician's life, desire for fame, introspection ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Whitney (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: musician's life, music, rising to stardom, desire for fame, ambition, couple relations, fall in love, addiction, celebrity culture, showbiz, price of fame, pop star ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, indiana
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18%
Turn the Beat Around (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An idealist young dancer named Zoe tackles the difficult issue of resurrecting disco dancing in today’s music business. She meets hostility beyond resistance on every dance floor where she spins and twirls. Fortunately, she has at least one ally, ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic ...
Plot: rivalry, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, dancehall girl, nightclub, couples, ambition, uninhibited rivalry, dancing, society, dance
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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