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Love's Unfolding Dream (2007)
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Love's Unfolding Dream (2007)
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 and deeply wants a career as a doctor. She manages to prove her abilities while assisting the local doctor and caring for an old woman who recently experienced a stroke. Belinda nurses her back to health and helps her regain the use of her arm again. Belinda also meets the nephew of their deceased neighbor. Drew comes to town to get his uncle's farm in shape to sell. After that he intends on returning to New York to join his father's law practice. He has no desire to stay in this small, unsophisticated town. But after meeting Belinda he has second thoughts. Belinda also feels something for Drew, but she is conflicted because she wants to be a doctor...
Style: sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, saga, historical romance, serious, uplifting ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: family life, fall in love, social differences, ambition, relationship vs career, family relations, follow your dream, hopes, blind ambition, workplace situations, love, christian, father son relationship, hospital, faith, christianity, prairie, old west, youth, legal action, feminism, love and romance, adoption, scout, young lovers ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, new york
Keyword: doctors

Most similar movies to Love's Unfolding Dream

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about family relations, hopes, small town, parents and children, small town life, love and romance and christian mostly in Drama, Family and Western genres. Some movies like Love's Unfolding Dream: Love Comes Softly (2003), Little House on the Prairie (1974), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), Love Takes Wing (2009), Love's Enduring Promise (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love Comes Softly (2003)
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 ...
Style: touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night
Plot: faith, fall in love, marriage of convenience, couple relations, survival, love and romance, pregnancy, single parent, farm, christian, starting over, family life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: usa
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100%
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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, feel good, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, toddlers, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: parents and children, farm, family life, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, youth, husband wife relationship, optimism ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, 1800s
Place: minnesota, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
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, serious, realistic, touching, medical drama ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing
Plot: family values, old west, doctors and patients, small town, female doctor, parents and children, medical, medicine, love and romance, children, american indian, society ...
Time: 19th century, 90s
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Love Takes Wing (2009)
Genre: 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: uplifting, sentimental, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: small town, plague, love and romance, love affair, christian, fall in love, small town life, child illness, friendship, love, prairie, medical ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, missouri
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100%
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Love's Enduring Promise (2004)
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: uplifting, serious, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: farm, old west, christian, fall in love, love triangle, couples, family relations, lifestyle, young lovers, countryside, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Love Finds A Home (2009)
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, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: crumbling marriage, couples, hopes, young lovers, couple relations, feminism, gender, small town, parents and children, family relations, small town life, youth ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Love Begins (2010)
Genre: Family, 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: uplifting, sentimental, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Audience: family friendly, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, adventurer, old west, disagreement, couple relations, unlikely couple, hopes, rivalry, family relations, couples, one more chance, love ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
When Calls the Heart (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Elizabeth Thatcher, a cultured young teacher in 1910, fears leaving her comfortable world in the city. But when she accepts a teaching position in a frontier town, she finds new purpose and love with a handsome Royal Canadian Mountie.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: teacher, small town, sister sister relationship, ambition, workplace situations, diary, reading someone else's diary, female teacher, disorder, power relations, hopes, misfit ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1994)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in ...
Style: saga, captivating, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, farm, social relations, uninhibited rivalry, underdog, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, dishonesty, blind ambition, intrigue, chases and races ...
Time: 19th century
Place: australia, oceania
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100%
Love's Unending Legacy (2007)
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: uplifting, serious, sentimental, touching, saga ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: orphan, adoption, starting over, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, single parent, optimism, social relations, parents and children, small town ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Love's Abiding Joy (2006)
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: uplifting, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: family relations, christian, family problems, optimism, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children, death in the family, love, death of child, faith, prairie ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Love's Long Journey (2005)
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: uplifting, sentimental, touching, emotional, saga ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: newlyweds, ranch, farm, pregnancy, settler, starting over, friendship, family relations, couples, danger, love, christian ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Love's Everlasting Courage (2011)
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: uplifting, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: farm, family problems, family relations, dealing with death, single parent, fall in love, parents and children, death in the family, love, father son relationship, christian, prairie ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: youth, family relations, teenage life, estrangement, family problems, hopes, family life, social relations, mother daughter relationship, prejudice, gold, prairie ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: california, new england, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Maldonado Miracle (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: miraculous event, small town, coming of age, family relations, church, hopes, human nature, society, clergy, family life, religions or cults, village ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Virginia's Run (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A teenage girl, trying to come to grips with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, adult
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, mischievous children, against the odds, teenage life, youth, love and romance, rehabilitation, contests and competitions, hopes, athlete and trainer, family life ...
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Diary of Preston Plummer (2012)
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, young lovers, college graduate, social relations, family problems, fall in love, island, small town, love, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Little House on the Prairie (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 255 min.
TV show
Story: Little House on the Prairieis a TV miniseries based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: society, family relations, escapades, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, manners, small town, farm, small town life, american history, prairie ...
Place: kansas, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: 12-year-old Jessica Jones world is torn apart when she is taken out of her abusive home and placed in to Foster care. Jessica will grapple with her past, present, and future, and meet numerous struggles along the way. Her story is the reality of so ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating
Plot: custody, foster parent, kids in trouble, starting over, family life, haunted by the past, family problems, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, parents and children, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Red Pony (1973)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, farm, friends, pets, parents and children, family relations, family problems, horse, boy, father son relationship, grandparents, pony ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The River Within (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Jason returns home to get away while he studies for the upcoming bar exam. After visiting his oldest friend, a "coulda-been-girlfriend" who is now engaged, and a pushy preacher, his easygoing summer becomes filled with unwanted drama. Over ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christian, small town, couples, family relations, youth, society, self discovery, introspection, religions or cults, small town life, homecoming, clergy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Painted House (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop. Meanwhile, the boy dreams of living in better conditions. However, with this particularly tough farming ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, lifestyle, self discovery, hopes, farm, poverty, survival, nature, farmer, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1952
Place: arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Like Dandelion Dust (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A compelling drama that explores the different meanings of being a parent through the gritty, realistic lives of a struggling family, and a privileged family. Their lives intersect, intertwine and collide, all for the love of a little boy. This film ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: custody, adoption, starting over, family relations, parents and children, hopes, social worker, family life, wife abuse, adopted son, christian, faith ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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A Time to Remember (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An artist and single mother returns to her childhood home to patch things up with her mother who has Alzheimers disease.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot: thanksgiving, family relations, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, single parent, hopes, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, reconciliation, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Way Home (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An inspirational true story about how a rural community rallied around a distraught family to search for their missing two year-old boy and through doing so changed the lives of many of those involved.
Style: sincere, touching, uplifting, emotional, serious ...
Plot: missing child, hopes, couple relations, couples, social relations, family problems, family relations, family in crisis, christian, missing person, gospel, faith ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
My Louisiana Sky (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, self discovery, family life, family problems, society, parents and children, disability, small town life, child's point of view, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Johnny (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Dr. Drew Carter tragically loses his ten-year old son in a car accident, he didn’t expect to lose his whole family as well. Since the accident, his wife (Julia) has become emotionally absent towards him and their daughter. When Johnny, a ...
Style: realistic, christian film, sentimental, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: adoption, terminal illness, leukemia, family relations, family problems, child illness, religions or cults, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment, family in crisis, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Charms for the Easy Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, interracial relations, small town life, family relations, fall in love, family life, homecoming, estrangement, couples, family problems, social relations, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1910s, 1900s, 1920s
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Last Sin Eater (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.
Style: emotional, christian film, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: christian, family problems, redemption, girl, christianity, hopes, parents and children, society, death in the family, faith, religion, dark secret ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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