Movies like When the Sun Shines

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When the Sun Shines (2016)
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When the Sun Shines (2016)
Original name: Når solen skinner
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Sofus, a young terminally ill cancer patient is enrolled in a hospice feeling ready to die. Shortly after arriving, he meets Sarah a charming young hospice worker. Sarah's impulsiveness and interesting approach to life intrigues him. However, Sarah hides a dark past, her father died of cancer and never gave her the chance to say goodbye. Sarah and Sofus spends a day together and Sarah shows Sofus a glimpse of the life he has never lived. On what seems to be the peak of their happiness together Sofus relapses and has an epileptic seizure which causes Sarah to shut Sofus out of her life afraid of losing him as she lost her dad. Sofus comfort in dying is now replaced with a fear of missing out on the life that he never knew he missed. Sofus realizes than in order to regain comfort in his remaining days, he has to understand the life and youth he has never experienced and have Sarah forgive her dead farther in order to start a new life.
Plot: love, life, cancer, summer, teenage crush, romanticism, young people, director cameo

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, touching, psychological and sincere films with plots about love, cancer, life, family relations, female protagonist, summer and couples mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like When the Sun Shines: Notes for My Son (2020), She Lives! (1973), Suicide Service (2017), Jakarta, City of Dreamers (2020), Hadi Be Oglum (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Notes for My Son (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Battling terminal cancer, a woman writes a one of a kind notebook about life, death and love for her son to remember her by. Based on a true story.
Style: sentimental, compassionate, touching, suspense, sad ...
Plot: cancer, love, mother son relationship, terminal illness, family relations, family problems, life, female protagonist, family crisis, hospital, parent child relationship, fighting illness ...
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She Lives! (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Plot: cancer, love, death, college student, star crossed lovers, disease, dying young, melancholy, terminal illness
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Suicide Service (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The motivations of two men running an illegal assisted suicide service to help relieve suffering change with the the appearance of two very different women in their lives.
Style: neo noir
Plot: moral ambiguity, euthanasia, murder, love, male nudity, bisexual, cancer, homosexual, gay
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The Forgettable Life of Liam White (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Liam White's career has peaked—to put it kindly. Uninspired and burnt-out, the titular character loses his will to finish his next novel and even shirks his public appearance commitments. To top it all off, Liam is told by his oncologist that ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: writers, cancer, love, novelist, support, sick, writer's life, confronting the past, relationships, male female relationship, fighting illness, relationship vs career ...
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Jakarta, City of Dreamers (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dom came to Jakarta with a hope of becoming an actor. His encounter with Pingkan and Radit brings him deep into the labyrinth of drug trafficking. Will he abandon his dream?
Style: bleak, tense, suspenseful, captivating, dramatic
Plot: city, life, business, drug, love, dream, drug dealing, dreaming, big city, city life
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Hadi Be Oglum (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Ali, a fisherman, devoted his life to his young son, Efe. Efe was the only son of Ali who was in this life. Efe is different from other children. Efe, who has a communication problem, is not a child who can laugh and play and react to what he hears. ...
Style: emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic
Plot: love, father son relationship, ship, sea, summer, family relations, youth, couples, suicide, death of mother, piano, understanding ...
Place: turkey
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Il tuffo (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Physical laws and human relations. In Terni (in the center of Italy), during a hot summer, Matteo, 30-years old with a degree in physics but unemployed gives private lessons to Elsa and Giulio. The three of them soon become friends but Matteo and ...
Plot: summer, soccer, car, wedding dress, love, bicycle, teaching, party, school, swimming, teenager, friend ...
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John From (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with her friend Sara. From Portugal to the South Pacific, the pleasures of this routine will take a turn when the young girl visits the art show of a new ...
Style: surreal, light, captivating, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot: friendship, photographer, summer vacation, female protagonist, teenage girl, neighbor neighbor relationship, teenage crush, friendship between girls, youth, love and romance, love, neighbor ...
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Sixteen (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nora and Leo, 16, live in the same town, in the same suburbs, go to the same highschool, but everything opposes them: their social backgrounds, their families religions, their everyday lives. Yet, they fall in love at first sight. But from a theft ...
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Shattered Glass (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Un hombre enfermo de leucemia busca desesperadamente un donador de médula.
Plot: cancer, leukemia, family secret, sibling rivalry, dysfunctional family, mental illness
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Pan (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very ...
Plot: scandinavian culture, murder, love, unfaithfulness, forest
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The Other Woman (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the divorce from Michael, Tessa raises her daughters Kate and Lara alone. None of them can stand Michael's new young wife Carolyn, a model. But when Tessa learns that she's suffering from cancer and soon will die, she tries to get ...
Style: realistic
Plot: cancer, model, divorce, love, family relations, terminal illness, parent child relationship, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
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South (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
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Tucked (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
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The Shadow Box (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, love, marriage, letter, cancer, gay, homosexual, ex husband ex wife relationship, terminal illness ...
Place: california
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46%
Pitong Dalagita (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: touching, serious, sincere, psychological, suspense
Plot: suicide, love, friendship, self discovery, teenager, lesbian, school, muse, coming of age, life, gay, teen romance
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46%
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Skin, Skin (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mikko Niskanen's famous new wave film about the '60s urban intellectuals who get faced in the Finnish countryside with loads of beer.
Style: black and white
Audience: teens
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Time: 60s
Place: finland
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Genre: Drama
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For My Brother (2014)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
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Country: USA
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Country: UK
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Potential Inertia (2014)
Genre: Drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: touching, disturbing, thought provoking, sincere
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36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece, France, UK
Duration: 93 min.
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