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Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
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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 too difficult to handle alone. He advertises in the newspaper for a mail-order bride. Sarah, from Maine, travels out to become his wife. But Sarah grow
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating, realistic, serious, crying, period drama
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly
Plot: prairie, farm, bereavement, family life, parents and children, single parent, self discovery, love affair, human nature, small town life, sea, youth, storm, summer, prodigy, child prodigy, happy ending, mentor, progress, sibling relationship, remarry, gilded age, family relations, woman in labor, mail order bride ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place: kansas, usa, maine, america, new england, midwest
Keyword: americana, reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and sentimental films with plots about family relations, parents and children, love and romance, farm, hopes, family life and father daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like Sarah, Plain and Tall: Skylark (1993), Little House on the Prairie (1974), The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005), The Waltons (1972), Love Comes Softly (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Skylark (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Audience: kids
Plot: farm, prairie, drought, rural area, hunger, family life, against the odds, down on your luck, forces of nature, friends, family relations, couples ...
Time: edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place: kansas, maine, usa, midwest
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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
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100%
The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
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, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: marriage of convenience, arranged marriage, world war two, love and romance, pregnancy, soldier, society, unhappy marriage, hopes, fall in love, life is a bitch, pretend relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1940s, year 1944
Place: usa, colorado
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100%
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm. He is slow to reveal his identity. When they find out he is Jacobs ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: prairie, family relations, farm, hopes, society, redemption, couple relations, parents and children, siblings relations, nursing, family life, couples ...
Time: edwardian era, 90s, 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: kansas, usa, midwest
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100%
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The Waltons (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and ...
Style: sitcom, absurd, juvenile, realistic, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, large family, team, parents, christian, girl, family affairs, real life, coming of age, family relations, small town, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: hawaii, virginia, usa, southern usa
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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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Anne of Green Gables (1985)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, West Germany, USA
Duration: 199 min.
TV show
Story: At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, period piece, emotional, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: adoption, orphan, imagination, teaching the ways of the world, teenage love, coming of age, countryside, best friend, young heroes, love and romance, foster home, little girl ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 1800s, year 1985 ...
Place: canada, america
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Hidden Places (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A drama about a young widow who finds a guardian angel in the form of a hobo who comes to her rural community looking for work.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, crying
Plot: family relations, widow, farm, family life, hopes, human nature, parents and children, social differences, teaching the ways of the world, father in law daughter in law relationship, religions or cults, family in crisis ...
Time: 1930s, post world war one
Place: australia
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Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy ...
Style: sex comedy, romantic drama, romantic, existential, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, animal, equestrian, orphan, great depression, women, world war one, age difference, coming of age, young love, medicine ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, georgia, north carolina
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100%
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Little Women (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
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, uplifting, costume drama, period piece, tear jerker ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, family outing, teens, date night ...
Plot: sisters, family values, women, first love, christmas, family bonds, coming of age, civil war, life changing experience, friendship, everyday life, winter ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 90s, 1860s ...
Place: massachusetts, new york, usa, new england, paris france
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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 ⇓
100%
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
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100%
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
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100%
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century ...
Style: period piece, freeze frame, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot: judaism, dance, wedding, broadway, tradition, village, dancing, jewish culture, father daughter relationship, milkman, arranged marriage, anti semitism ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, russia, israel, ussr, europe ...
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100%
The Go-Between (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.
Style: sexy, disturbing, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, coming of age, class differences, summer, literary, love, first love, landscape, children, cricket, new love, trippy ...
Time: victorian era, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: england, america, europe
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22%
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
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22%
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Our Town (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives. Using metatheatrical devices, Wilder sets the ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, touching
Plot: family relations, family life, small town life, family problems, couples, social relations, love and romance, bittersweet, wedding, second chance, flash forward, messenger ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, 20th century
Place: new hampshire, new england, usa
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22%
Booky & the Secret Santa (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Booky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, family life, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems, friendship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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21%
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Sweet Land (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
Style: touching, melancholic, stylized, sweet, sincere ...
Plot: citizenship, countryside, immigrant, prejudice, friendship, mail order bride, society, social issues, small town, farmer, wedding, fall in love ...
Time: 1920s, year 2005, 60s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: minnesota, usa, germany, europe
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21%
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Mary Christmas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Californian widower Joel Wallace, a successful businessman, is a great catch in a grand mansion, but absorbed by his work. His daughter Felice writes to a TV Christmas special, hoping for a 'new mammy'.
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, family relations, nanny, single parent, hopes, family life, fall in love, wish come true, parents and children, birth mother, television reporter, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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21%
The Adventures of Ociee Nash (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Skyler Day stars as Ociee Nash, a spirited nine-year-old from rural Mississippi. Ociee's idyllic life is thrown into a tailspin when she's sent to live with her Aunt Mamie to become a "young lady". Ociee's true bravery, ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic, gothic ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, friendship, mischievous children, farm, young heroes, starting over, lifestyle, single parent, family life, teaching the ways of the world, adoption, nanny ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, 1890s
Place: north carolina, mississippi, tennessee, usa
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21%
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The film that started the classic TV series. Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried - to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his ...
Style: touching, sentimental, disturbing, sweet, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: single father, friendship, happy ending, parenthood, unlikely friendships, widower, single parent, lone hero, adolescence, mentor, family relations, wooing ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: new york
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21%
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
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21%
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The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: family relations, downfall, mischievous children, family life, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, society, social differences, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, edwardian era, 1890s
Place: america
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21%
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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
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Square Dance (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An awkward 13-year-old (Winona Ryder) leaves her cranky grandfather (Jason Robards) in rural Texas, to live with her mother (Jane Alexander) in Fort Worth.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, women, estranged family member, young love, 13 year old, intellectual disability, disabled child, social misfits, society, single parent, misfit, youth ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: texas, usa
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21%
Where the Lilies Bloom (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A family of children decide not to tell anyone their father has died, and to live on their own in the backwoods of rural North Carolina. If the state finds out they are on their own, they will be split up and sent to live in foster homes.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, hillbilly, backwoods, orphan, family relations, dealing with death, coming of age, good versus evil, human spirit, hopes, siblings relations, family life ...
Time: 70s
Place: north carolina, appalachia
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21%
The Cider House Rules (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life ...
Style: sentimental, touching, heartbreaking, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: date night, teens, kids
Plot: abortion, orphan, coming of age, adoption, mentor protege relationship, justice, premarital sex, love triangle, incest, childhood, self discovery, sick child ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 90s, year 1999, 1930s ...
Place: maine, usa, new england
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21%
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Mermaid (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: young heroes, bittersweet, single parent, hopes, friendship, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, child's point of view, widow, mother daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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20%
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
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20%
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