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Love Comes Softly (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Marty is a 19 year old pioneer woman, recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Clark Davis, a widower, offers her a marriage of convenience: she needs food and money, and he needs someone to take care of his daughter Missie. She accepts his proposal as a temporary solution.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, feel good, serious, uplifting, saga, heartbreaking, funny, romantic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, marriage of convenience, love and romance, faith, christian, couple relations, pregnancy, couples, hopes, farm, single parent, wagon train, religion, starting over, family life, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, love, loss of husband, female protagonist, widow, survival, passion, dating ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era, victorian age
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Love Comes Softly
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, sentimental and serious films with plots about family relations, love and romance, couples, love, fall in love, parents and children and hopes mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Love Comes Softly: Love's Enduring Promise (2004), Love's Unending Legacy (2007), Love's Everlasting Courage (2011), Love Finds A Home (2009), Love's Long Journey (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In this Janette Oke sequel to "Love Comes Softly," the eldest child in an 1800s frontier family, Missie Davis is a bright and beautiful elementary schoolteacher whose love for the prairie is matched only by her passion for books. When ...
Style:
touching, christian film, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
farm, young lovers, parents and children, old west, christian, fall in love, love triangle, family relations, couples, lifestyle, haunted by the past, countryside ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scuffle. She and Maddy move back in with her parents Clark and Marty. She finds a new home, and finds a new teaching position that she settles right ...
Style:
saga, serious, touching, sentimental, sex comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
orphan, hopes, family relations, starting over, social relations, optimism, love and romance, single parent, fall in love, parents and children, small town, death in the family ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Clark Davis struggles to maintain his land and support his family during a long drought. With a bank loan to repay, his wife, Ellen, takes a job in town as a seamstress, but soon becomes ill with scarlet fever. Devastated to lose his beloved wife, ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
farm, family problems, family relations, single parent, dealing with death, death in the family, parents and children, fall in love, love, father son relationship, christian, prairie ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this sequel, Lillian has been adopted and it's several years later. Annie, married and pregnant, visits her fellow doctor friend, Dr. Owen. Dr Owen desperately wants a baby, but seems unable to become pregnant. Lillian finds a love ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
hopes, young lovers, couples, couple relations, parents and children, gender, small town, small town life, family relations, youth, feminism, love ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
usa, missouri
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband, Willie, have headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie home of Missie's ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, costume drama, historical romance ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
newlyweds, farm, ranch, settler, pregnancy, starting over, friendship, family relations, couples, danger, true love, love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Centers on Missy's adopted daughter Belinda Tyler as she follows her dream. Belinda wants to be a doctor, but this time period does not look kindly on women with careers, especially one in the medical field. But Belinda is a strong-minded woman ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, captivating, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
family life, fall in love, relationship vs career, social differences, family relations, hopes, blind ambition, follow your dream, workplace situations, love, christian, father son relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was spread from the town orphanage and wants to see it shut down. Belinda ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
small town, old west, plague, love affair, love and romance, christian, friendship, small town life, fall in love, child illness, love, cholera ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
usa, missouri
Similarity:
100%
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, melancholic ...
Plot:
marriage of convenience, arranged marriage, love and romance, world war two, society, destiny, pregnancy, unhappy marriage, pretend relationship, hopes, soldier, marriage ceremony ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944, 50s
Place:
usa, colorado
Similarity:
97%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
farm, parents and children, family life, pioneer, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, rural setting, optimism ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1870s, 1880s ...
Place:
minnesota, kansas
Similarity:
96%
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie begins to realize her passion for teaching as Willie cares for the couple's young daughter ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, historical romance ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
christian, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family problems, optimism, parents and children, death in the family, love, death of child, faith, ranch, prairie ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1880s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Clark Davis (Wes Brown) adventurous dreams of seeing the world are put into jeopardy after he and a friend start a fight which damages a local cafe. Through a plea deal with the Sheriff (Jere Burns) and café owner Millie (Nancy McKeon), Clark works ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, saga ...
Audience:
family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
marriage proposal, fall in love, farm, adventurer, disagreement, old west, one more chance, family relations, couples, couple relations, unlikely couple, hopes ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
88%
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 friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
prairie, farm, bereavement, family life, parents and children, woman in labor, single parent, self discovery, love affair, small town life, human nature, countryside ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place:
kansas, maine, america, new england, usa ...
Similarity:
86%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In Albany, the marriage of Caleb and Catherine Holt is in crisis and they decide to divorce. However, Caleb's father, John, proposes that his son delays their separation process for forty days and follow a procedure called "The Love ...
Style:
inspirational, christian film, uplifting, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
christian, religious, marriage, couple relations, couples, firefighter, renewed love, faith, self discovery, husband wife relationship, relationships, love and romance ...
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She ...
Style:
feel good, touching, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
dog, parents and children, fall in love, family relations, hopes, single parent, pets, friendship, couples, animal, holiday, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Julia Stonecypher is finding it difficult to get into the Christmas spirit. Having recently lost both her husband and her job, Brian Harding, the vice president of the local bank arrives on her doorstep amid a snowstorm, to inform Julia that her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas eve, snow, xmas, youth, eviction, fall in love, parents and children, unemployment, working class, family in crisis ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
marriage of convenience, fall in love, couples, society, religions or cults, death in the family, hopeless romantic, cardiologist, family relations, family tradition, love and romance, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., brooklyn new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, ...
Style:
sentimental, costume drama, uplifting, period piece, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family outing, teens, date night ...
Plot:
sisters, family values, coming of age, friendship, women, christmas, family bonds, first love, life changing experience, love and romance, everyday life, civil war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 90s, ancient times ...
Place:
new york, massachusetts, usa, new england, paris france ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
While still mourning the loss of her husband and daughter, recently widowed Ellie King visits her brother Aaron Davis and his children for Christmas. Ellie does her best to enjoy the holidays, even making new friends with Mrs. Thompson, a local shop ...
Style:
touching, disturbing, sweet, feel good, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, love, widow, brother sister relationship, mourning, male female relationship, parents and children, happy ending, second chance, new love, life is a bitch, life philosophy ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1800s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, romantic, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, love affair, homecoming, love and romance, countryside, hopes, getting home, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, village life, life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, realistic, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, vineyard, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, pretend relationship, rich woman poor man, wine, love story, parents and children, estate, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 90s
Place:
san francisco, california, sacramento california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, lost love, letter, grief, life philosophy, widow ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
ireland, seattle, europe, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad ...
Style:
sincere, uplifting, sentimental, touching, erotic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
pregnancy, love and romance, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, single parent, parents and children, family life, couples, family problems, unfulfilled love, family in crisis, disability ...
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
McLeod's Daughters is an Australian television series that began airing on the Nine Network on 8 August 2001. This Logie award winning drama series follows the lives of half sisters Claire and Tess McLeod as they embark on a mission: to run ...
Style:
realistic, witty, captivating, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
farm, feminism, family relations, sister sister relationship, couple relations, workplace, family business, estrangement, family problems, wilderness, strong female character, female protagonist ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
australia, south australia, new zealand
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Persuasion is the newest adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name published in 1818. Anne falls deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, sentimental, period piece, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
love affair, love, fall in love, rich and poor, relationships, love and romance, love story, couple relations, spinster, abbey, passionate love, enemies to lovers ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era, regency period, 1810s ...
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A romantic-drama, OLD FASHIONED centers on Clay Walsh, a former frat boy who gives up his carousing and now runs an antique shop in a small Midwestern college town. There, he has become notorious for his lofty and outdated theories on love and ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
opposites attract, couple relations, couples, fall in love, friendship, buddies, introspection, hopes, christian, faith based, religion, faith ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is an American Western drama series created by Beth Sullivan and starring Jane Seymour who plays Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn, a physician who leaves Boston in search of adventure in the American West and who settles ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, touching, medical drama ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, family outing
Plot:
old west, doctors and patients, family values, small town, female doctor, parents and children, couple relations, medical, love and romance, medicine, american indian, children ...
Time:
19th century, 90s
Place:
colorado, usa
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
tragic love, couples, family relations, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, looking for love, baby born, diary, holiday, infant, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Style:
sentimental, touching, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
working class, love story, opposites attract, food, happy ending, education, unemployment, love and romance, couple relations, teachers and students, family problems, couples ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style:
erotic, feel good, touching, sexy, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, victorian england, love affair, governess, couples, hopes, marriage proposal, estate, love and romance, parents and children, happy ending, british ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1997, 1830s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, san francisco
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Her surgeon boyfriend, who has been sarcastically nick named "Mr. Personality" and "Settle For" by Syd's best friend ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
high school reunion, starting over, doctor, estrangement, couples, couple relations, homecoming, fall in love, ex-lover, small town, small town life, hometown ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
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