Movies like The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story, Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system (which is unlike being born with AIDS). As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional, tear jerker, crying, tearjerker
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, family relations, isolation, parent child relationship, misfit, parents and children, love and romance, human nature, teenage crush, human spirit, life is a bitch, fall in love, unfulfillment, chess, police, stoner, moving, solitary, terminal illness, underdog, youth, teenage life, society, bittersweet, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1950s, 50s
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Most similar movies to The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, family relations, coming of age, youth, love, fall in love and hospital mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Boy in the Plastic Bubble: Phenomenon (1996), California Dreaming (1979), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Mask (1985), The Brooke Ellison Story (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Phenomenon (1996)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: genius, goodhearted, superhuman powers, miraculous event, small town, terminal illness, telekinesis, supernatural ability, psionic power, brain tumor, friendship, hopes ...
Time: future, year 1996, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 is a 1978 film directed by Larry Peerce. It stars Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms. It is a sequel to The Other Side of the Mountain
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: disability, physical disability, quadriplegic, grief, love, paralysis, hopes, human spirit, love and romance, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, misfit ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
California Dreaming (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: surfing, beach, coming of age, surf, lifestyle, fish out of water, infidelity, nudity, summer, youth, misfit, human nature ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: california, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 7.2
 32K
Mask (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
Style: uplifting, emotional, touching, sentimental, depressing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disability, coming of age, fall in love, human spirit, depression, adolescence, relationships, teenager, motorcycle, teenage love, family relations, protective parent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Brooke Ellison Story (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rendered a quadriplegic since a child from a near-fatal neck injury, a young girl fights against all odds to succeed in life from grade school to her acceptance into college under the assistance of her loyal and dedicated mother.
Style: sincere, uplifting, touching, sentimental, saga ...
Plot: quadriplegic, disability, college, against the odds, hospital, teenage love, human spirit, lifestyle, ambition, parents and children, family problems, survival ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Moment by Moment (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It tells the story of a romance between a young drifter named Strip Harrison (John Travolta) and an older wealthy woman, Trish Rawlings (Lily Tomlin).
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, age-gap relationship, stalking, infidelity, beach, couples, unrequited love, adulterous husband, delusional woman, foot fetish, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: california, los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Coming-of age feature, set in a New South Wales country town in the 1960s, about a 15 year-old boy. It follows his loves and how he copes with life's problems such as death and departure.
Style: sad, independent film, social, retro, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, small town, first love, childhood, friendship, love triangle, love, pregnant teenager, relationships, forbidden love, bittersweet, discrimination ...
Time: 60s, year 1987, 20th century, year 1962
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Here on Earth (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A rich college kid is taught a lesson after a joy ride ends up destroying a country restaurant.
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, romantic, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: teenage love, fall in love, rich and poor, cancer, small town, love story, social differences, teenage life, youth, couples, class differences, high school ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Ryan White Story (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of Ryan White, a 13-year-old haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from factor VIII, which was used to control this disorder.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot: aids, sick child, coming of age, hiv, youth, hiv positive, love, school, hospital, terminal illness, family relations, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: indiana, indianapolis indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Style: sexy, touching, romantic, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cheating wife, infidelity, hippie, bittersweet, coming of age, love affair, summer vacation, lust, erotica, family relations, secret relationship, sex in car ...
Time: 60s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: new york, usa, woodstock, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Flirting (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic ...
Style: realistic, touching, romantic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, friendship, interracial relations, high school, bullying, male nudity, love, teenage life, male pubic hair, teenage love, character study ...
Time: 60s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1965
Place: australia, uganda, paris france, kenya, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Good Humor Man (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A mischievous high school sophomore faces a conflict of conscience vs. character when his best friend becomes linked to the death of a youth from another clique in suburban Middle America circa '76.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, outdoor sex, teenage love, friendship, slacker, first love, wedding, female nudity, buddies, love and romance, teenage life, high school life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Style: serious, tense, emotional, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, painter, artist, art, couples, rise to the top, destructive relationship, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929, year 1932 ...
Place: usa, new mexico, manhattan new york city, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Whole Wide World (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, period piece, cult classic ...
Plot: writers, biopic, love story, destiny, friendship, bittersweet, couples, hospital, love, loneliness, poet, summer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: texas, louisiana, usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Gracie (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This is the story of a teenager named Gracie Bowen, who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about soccer, as are her three brothers and former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and father in the nightly ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: soccer, female athlete, human spirit, family problems, follow your dream, death in the family, athlete's life, football, family in crisis, cheerleader, society, ambition ...
Time: year 2007, 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.1
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Vernie (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style: touching, uplifting, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, friendship, best friend, pregnancy, terminal illness, tragic hero, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Now Is Good (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Style: sad, emotional, romantic, heartbreaking, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, dying, youth, teenage love, love and romance, fighting illness, last wish, dealing with death, virginity, depression ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: brighton, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Truth About Jane (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane's troubles when Jane's ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, school, high school life, youth, lesbian sex, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, gay teacher, mother daughter relationship, friendship, high school, loss of virginity ...
Time: 90s, year 1989, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Patch Adams (1998)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own ...
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, uplifting, compassionate ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, kids, teen drama
Plot: medical school, human spirit, hospital, compassion, medical profession, doctor, doctors and patients, friendship, dealing with death, mad scientist, stereotypes, medical ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 90s, year 1998, year 1969 ...
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Gaby: A True Story (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Style: realistic, uplifting, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: disability, hopes, human spirit, college, misfit, forbidden love, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, love, teenage girl ...
Time: 1940s, year 1987, 1930s
Place: mexico, latin america, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.
Style: realistic, romantic, teen, intense, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, coming of age, culture clash, high school, love, father daughter relationship, relationships, teenager, young lovers, loneliness, unhappiness, self destructing ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style: touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens
Plot: disability, genius, love, physicist, cambridge university, mathematics, prodigy, husband wife relationship, supportive spouse, scientist, against the odds, biopic ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 90s ...
Place: oxford university, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Everything, Everything (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.
Style: romantic, sincere, captivating, romantic drama, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, love, illness, neighbor, teen romance, teenage love, interracial love, interracial romance, teenage girl, love interest, teenage protagonist, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2017
Place: hawaii, america, new york, los angeles
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31%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, first love, couples, teenage love, high school, family relations, love, classmate, drinking problem ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Greatest (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out ...
Style: touching, captivating, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, teenage mother, childhood sweetheart, family relations, loss of son, loss of child, crumbling marriage, youth, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life ...
Time: year 2009, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 37K
Keith (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style: sad, romantic, psychological, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, terminal illness, cancer, love, youth, opposites attract, first love, teenager, love story, teen romance, teenage love, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Color of Time (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: poet, poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, professional, art ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 80s, 60s ...
Place: usa, detroit, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Hammers Over the Anvil (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, ...
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: horse, older woman younger man relationship, youth, true love, sex scene, making love, infidelity, love triangle, disability, family relations, love affair, tragic love ...
Time: year 1993, 1900s
Place: australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The First Grader (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Kenya, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: education, school, teacher, racism, hopes, boy, prisoner of war camp, social relations, human spirit, ex military, dedicated educator, follow your dream ...
Time: year 1963, 1950s, 21st century
Place: africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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