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A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
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A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, psychological, captivating, realistic, inspirational, philosophical, depressing, serious ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: cat, homeless, human animal relationship, street musician, pet cat, guitarist, addiction, drug addict, friendship, animal actor, singer, moral transformation, musician, pets, biopic, drug dealer, pharmacist, father son estrangement, changing lives, musician's life, drastic change of life, spoiled brat, writers, lifestyle change, recovery ...
Time: year 2016
Place: london

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sincere, touching, realistic and emotional films with plots about biopic, friends, friendship, inspiration, family relations, husband wife relationship and love mostly in Drama, Biography and Family genres. Some movies like A Street Cat Named Bob: A Christmas Gift from Bob (2020), Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), The Intouchables (2011), Marley & Me (2008), We Bought a Zoo (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Christmas Gift from Bob (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: James Bowen finds himself the target of an animal welfare investigation that threatens to take away his beloved cat, Bob, at Christmas.
Style: sweet, feel good, sincere, touching
Plot: christmas, human animal relationship, cat, street musician, father son estrangement, homelessness, lone hero, friendship, pets, moral transformation, creativity, self discovery ...
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Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
Style: touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: dog, friendship, loyalty, pets, human animal relationship, life & death, animal, loss of friend, loneliness, loss, friends, death ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s
Place: japan, rhode island, usa
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The Intouchables (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, emotional, motivational ...
Audience: date night, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: friendship, disability, friendship between men, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, disabled person, lifestyle change, human relationship, handicapped, culture clash, friends, interracial friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Marley & Me (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A newly married couple who, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of ...
Style: touching, sad, feel good, funny, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: dog, pets, animal, couple relations, life, parenthood, marriage, couples, friendship, family relations, children, family life ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: miami, ireland, usa, florida, pennsylvania
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100%
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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: single father, zoo, happy ending, animal, children, father son relationship, tiger, little girl, starting over, family life, countryside, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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100%
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Babe (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mom, Babe realizes that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, motivational, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot: dog, piglet, pig, farm, friendship, farmer, animal, talking animal, christmas, horse, adoption, childhood ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: australia, england, persia
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100%
Rescued by Ruby (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chasing his dream to join an elite K-9 unit, a state trooper partners with a fellow underdog: clever but naughty shelter pup Ruby. Based on a true story.
Style: entertaining, sincere, feel good, captivating
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, toddlers
Plot: dog, animal, dog training, human animal relationship, state trooper, puppy, search and rescue, dream, animal human communication, police officer, owner dog relationship, animal training ...
Place: rhode island
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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Style: inspirational, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot: homeless, life, human spirit, life philosophy, family drama, rags to riches, success, rise to the top, single father, against the odds, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 2010s, 20th century
Place: usa, san francisco, bay area, california, america
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100%
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Ray (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, pianist, disability, blind character, heroin ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, 20th century, 60s, 50s ...
Place: georgia, new york, indianapolis indiana, california, usa ...
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100%
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Hachi-ko (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took in Hachikō, a golden brown Akita, as a pet. During his owner's life, Hachikō walk with him in the morning and greeted him at the end of each ...
Style: depressing, educational, touching, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friends, friendship, dog, animal, sadness, time travel, best friend, bittersweet, loyalty, dog actor, waiting, owner dog relationship ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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100%
 7.5
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Christiane F. (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, depressing, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, junkie, drug abuse, drug addict, downfall, teenage girl, drug overdose, teenager, friendship, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1981
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, europe, west germany
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Nine Lives (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, China, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A stuffy businessman finds himself trapped inside the body of his family's cat.
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: cat, transformation, switching bodies, kids and family, happy ending, magic, children, father daughter relationship, love, animal, pets, redemption ...
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Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, sincere, christian film ...
Plot: homeless, bullying, homelessness, addiction, biopic, suicide, abuse, tragic hero, human nature, haunted by the past, suicide attempt, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: england
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100%
 6.5
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Paulie (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulie's story begins many years earlier when he is ...
Style: humorous, touching, sad, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot: parrot, human animal relationship, animal, childhood, bird, road trip, friendship, animal rights, research, thief, welfare, life changing ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, los angeles
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100%
Finding Neverland (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style: touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, inspirational, clever ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, date night ...
Plot: writers, single parent, peter pan, friendship, writer's life, biopic, parents and children, death, family relations, stage play, human nature, artists and showbiz ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, future, 1910s ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe
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50%
 7.3
 19K
Red Dog (2011)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
Style: touching, sentimental, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog, human animal relationship, friends, obsessive quest, on the road, ambition, wilderness, pets, desert, multiple storylines, wildlife, teenage girl ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: australia
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50%
 7.2
 7K
Born Free (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Born Free (1966) is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, non fiction, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: animal, survival, lion, environment, jungle, wildlife, nature, friendship, lion cub, animal rights, human animal relationship, pets ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: africa, kenya, south africa
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17%
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
Style: sincere, serious, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: homeless, homeless teenager, against the odds, life is a bitch, drug addict, youth, starting over, university, family problems, dysfunctional family, society, aids ...
Time: 21st century
Place: america, nova scotia, new york, usa
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17%
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Bird (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, factual, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: jazz, music, biopic, drug abuse, addiction, heroin, musician's life, drug addict, character study, childhood, showbiz, musician ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city
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Beautiful Boy (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son Nic, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Style: disturbing, rough, captivating, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, teenage boy, father son relationship, methamphetamine, teenager, boy, divorce, coming of age, stepmother stepson relationship, drug ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, los angeles, new york
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Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug addiction, musician's life, artists and showbiz, society, addiction, life is a bitch, kgb, songwriter, actor, concert, writers, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1979
Place: soviet union, russia
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17%
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
Style: inspirational, sad, motivational, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: journalist, biopic, friendship, friendship between men, writers, journalism, celebrity, magazine editor, puppet, life philosophy, tv star, cynicism ...
Time: 90s, year 2019, 2010s, year 1998
Place: new york, pittsburgh
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17%
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The Soloist (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, sad, intense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: music, schizophrenia, homeless, prodigy, journalism, street musician, friendship, musician, cello, mental illness, biopic, artist ...
Time: year 2009
Place: los angeles, new york, usa, ohio
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The Elephant Man (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph ...
Style: emotional, touching, psychological, surreal, poignant ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: disability, hospital, freak, dignity, melancholy, disfigurement, social misfits, biopic, cruelty, isolation, life is a bitch, exploitation ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 20th century, near future, ancient times ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
 7.8
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Awakenings (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, ...
Style: inspirational, motivational, sentimental, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, hospital, illness, doctors and patients, medical, psychiatry, fighting illness, hopes, medicine, disability, patient ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1930s, 60s, year 1969
Place: america, new york, usa, bronx new york city
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16%
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
 7.8
 79K
My Left Foot (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style: touching, inspirational, sincere, unusual plot structure, dramatic ...
Plot: disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, handicapped, paralysis, medical, painter, art, poet ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: ireland, england, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A teenage boy fights to save the Spirit Bear.
Style: sentimental, sincere, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, nature, environmentalism, bear, wilderness, human spirit, fighting the system, heroic mission, campaign, society, obsessive quest, politics ...
Time: 21st century
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16%
 5.0
 2K
Whitney (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: musician's life, music, rising to stardom, desire for fame, ambition, couple relations, fall in love, addiction, celebrity culture, showbiz, price of fame, pop star ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: usa, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
 6.9
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Wish Man (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A motorcycle cop is still haunted by the traumatic separation from his father when he was a boy. After surviving a near-fatal accident and being framed for police brutality, his whole world falls apart. Unexpectedly, he finds hope in the shape of a ...
Style: inspirational, captivating, sincere, thought provoking, psychological ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: sick child, desire, unlikely friendships, changing lives, rehabilitation, help, new life, illness, lifestyle change, inspiration, terminal illness, police officer ...
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16%
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