Movies like A Rather English Marriage
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A Rather English Marriage (1998)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
senior citizen, widower, friendship, family relations, odd couple, friends, parents and children, singleness, social differences, social worker, starting over, elderly, working class, social relations, bittersweet, dealing with death, dancing, loneliness, death, womanizer, hospital, suicide, ex military, old man, friendship between men ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and serious films with plots about friendship, family relations, bittersweet, friends, elderly, parents and children and aging mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Rather English Marriage: Last Orders (2001), The Dresser (1983), The White Angel (2007), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002), Ruby Blue (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
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Time:
year 1989, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, london, california, australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. ...
Style:
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Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style:
touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, retirement home, friendship, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, elderly, elderly lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
boarding school, dedicated educator, tragic hero, society, idealism, friendship, social differences, youth, family relations, teachers and students, teacher, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 90s, year 1914, edwardian era
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
haunted by the past, friendship, family relations, teenage life, fall in love, working class, love and romance, youth, single parent, death in the family, golden years, false accusation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, france, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
friendship, aging, couples, family relations, elderly, couple relations, parents and children, friends, golden years, bittersweet, hospital, heart attack ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
One day, a bad fall forces Edmond to accept Rose's help. Eventually, the two grow closer. The young woman finds relief in confiding painful memories to the older man; things she cannot even bring herself to tell her husband. Meanwhile, Edmond, ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
retirement home, against the rules, family relations, nursing, elderly, aging, confined, parents and children, social relations, solitude, golden years, rebellion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic
Plot:
orphan, social worker, single parent, man boy relationship, absent father, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family problems, hopes, family relations, village ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, europe, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.
Style:
realistic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
aging, introspection, jazz, flashback sequence, memory, death of wife, friendship, elderly, dishonesty, dealing with death, grandfather granddaughter relationship, retirement home ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Style:
touching, emotional, depressing, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, loneliness, aging, character study, retirement home, justice, adolescence, reconciliation, retirement home life, golden years ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, california, ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, realistic, touching, clever ...
Plot:
family relations, destiny, couples, family life, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis, student life, society, unemployment, social worker ...
Place:
latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An old woman helps a young boy resolve his feelings over the death of his mother.
Style:
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Plot:
stepmother, friendship, elderly, family relations, estrangement, family problems, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, youth, unlikely friendships, ghost ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is a touching and comical adventure dealing with friendship, heroism and love.
Style:
emotional, humorous, uplifting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, dealing with death, best friends, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, wilderness, suicide, one last chance, friends, unfulfillment, introspection, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
dog, afterlife, widower, grief, lost love, death, supernatural, hopes, unfulfillment, couple relations, aging, golden years ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marie is a young woman with a troubled past. Her passion is painting, but she never had any formal training. Living in the South of France, she takes whatever work she can get to make ends meet. Then she befriends the elderly painter Jaume and he ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot:
friendship, alzheimer's disease, painting, self discovery, hopes, starting over, elderly, mental illness, bittersweet, golden years, intergenerational friendship, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
france, south of france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, sincere, realistic
Plot:
life is a bitch, fall in love, parents and children, social differences, society, working class, feminism, injustice, interracial relations, friendship, human nature, pregnancy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
virginia, mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic (Nick Nolte) gets a younger friend (Trevor Morgan) and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
friendship, parents and children, teenage life, family relations, sport team, high school life, high school, youth, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, baseball, alcoholic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, melancholic, sentimental, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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touching, realistic, semi serious, uplifting, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The ...
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Plot:
teacher, boarding school, coming of age, preparatory school, marriage, male nudity, science, british, idealism, prejudice, friendship, fantasy world ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys ...
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
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Story:
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Style:
touching, semi serious, emotional, realistic, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson. Helena Bonham Carter stars as Maggi, a mother with seven children - three 'normal' daughters and four sons who are each, in one form or another, autistic.
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england
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27%
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