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To Dance with the White Dog (1993)
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To Dance with the White Dog (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is the touching story of an elderly widower trying to work through his grief. When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant. Sam takes the dog on a nostalgic journey which dramatizes the fulfillment he shared with his departed wife. Though overwhelmed with grief, Sam stubbornly insists that he continue to tend to his orchards, refusing to entertain his family's suggestions that he slow down. But when Sam cautiously reveals that he believes Cora has returned in the form of an elusive white dog, his adult children and grandson Bobby (Harley Cross) grow concerned about his sanity.
Style: tear jerker, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, tearjerker
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dog, afterlife, health, widower, animal, death, grief, lost love, ghost, supernatural, reincarnation, true love, family relations, love and romance, couples, self discovery, love affair, impossible love, elderly, aging, animal life, supernatural romance, hopes, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, sentimental and emotional films with plots about family relations, couples, hopes, parents and children, love and romance, elderly and couple relations mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Family genres. Some movies like To Dance with the White Dog: Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Foxfire (1987), Camilla (1994), The Truce (2003), The Locket (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: friendship, small town, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, small town life, cannibalism, female bonding, midlife crisis, female protagonist, discrimination, lesbian love ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana
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100%
 6.7
 438
Foxfire (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handle the wilderness on her own.
Style: realistic, uplifting, emotional, feel good, touching
Plot: afterlife, hillbilly, mountain, family relations, couples, elderly, human spirit, hopes, ghost, couple relations, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, appalachia, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.0
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Camilla (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly woman who plays the violin. When the two embark on a journey together, Camilla reclaims a lost ...
Style: feel good, sincere, touching, sentimental, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, friendship, couples, self discovery, aging, elderly, road trip, violin, senior citizen, girl, kidnapping, best friend ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: georgia, cincinnati ohio, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.3
 132
The Truce (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Martín Santomé has been woking in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.
Style: stylized, emotional, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, elderly, love affair, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, gender, couples, hopes, fall in love, midlife crisis, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Locket (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.
Style: sentimental, uplifting, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot: retirement home, hopes, friendship, investigation, family relations, love affair, betrayal, nursing, elderly, human spirit, love and romance, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Sweet Lorraine (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Serio-comic look at the residents and staff of a Catskill Mountains resort during its final days.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: hotel, summer, couples, family relations, friends, elderly, ambition, aging, hopes, love and romance, small town, love affair ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.6
 7K
Fluke (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, light, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: dog, reincarnation, human becomes animal, afterlife, death, animal, talking dog, family relations, family life, grief, life, getting home ...
Place: usa
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25%
 6.6
 3K
Paradise (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Willard Young is a 10-year-old boy who is sent by his mother to stay with her best friend Lily Reed, who lives in the Delta shrimp-fishing country in a town called Paradise. Lily and her husband Ben have been living in an unmentioned emotional ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, sad, cult classic ...
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Time: year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 117
The Gin Game (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Set in an old folks home, senior citizen Weller Martin (Hume Cronyn) has the disease of Old Age, meets an old woman named Fonsia Dorsey (Jessica Tandy) who's diabetic. They both discuss issues such as society, the hospitals, money, families, ...
Plot: stage play, theatre play, elderly, retirement home, drink, filmed play, wife and husband lead actors
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.7
 368
Annie's Point (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Annie (Bette White) wants to disperse her husband's ashes at a locale in California that they had named Annie's Point. Annie needs a bypass immediately and she wants to send out the ashes on her 50th wedding anniversary.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Stone Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The feisty aging Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her rebellious heart has always ruled and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. Faced with her own mortality, and desperate to find solace, she goes on the run. In ...
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional ...
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Time: year 2007
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Personal Belongings (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot: love affair, impossible love, immigrant, couples, introspection, fall in love, hopes, society, couple relations, love and romance, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Queen to Play (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a small Corsican village, the life of Hélène, ordinary and single, She works as a maid in a hotel and is married happily with her Husband Ange and her fifteen year-old daughter. Her modest and monotonous life seems to be predetermined... One ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good
Plot: chess, midlife crisis, family relations, island, couples, self discovery, follow your dream, hopes, dull life, parents and children, unfulfillment, couple relations ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, europe, corsica
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Old Cats (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Isidora, an old woman, discovers that her mind is quickly deteriorating. At an apparently relaxed dinner table, she will desperately try to hide her state from her daughter, a demanding woman who awaits any sign of senility in order to take way ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
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Common Ground (2002)
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Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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World Traveler (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, captivating, road movie, humorous ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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A Bird of the Air (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, witty ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Dodson's Journey (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Late Bloomers (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 11K
Noel (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina ...
Style: touching, emotional, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: christmas, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, angel, couple relations, holiday, winter, new year, jealousy, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2004
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 1K
Six Weeks (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less to live, the trio fly to New York City where the ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, christmas, illness, cancer patient, campaign, couples, family relations, forbidden love, youth, life is a bitch, dancer's life ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: new york, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Candles on Bay Street (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 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, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.5
 510
Da (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Style: independent film, uplifting, serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: ghost, human nature, unfulfillment, elderly, hopes, love and romance, single parent, dealing with death, family problems, family relations, tragic love, family life ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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