Movies like New Life 2016

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New Life (2016)
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New Life (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Benjamin Morton's life changed forever the day he met the little girl next door. Ava was and always would be the girl of his dreams. From the innocence of a childhood friendship, through adolescent attraction, their love strengthens and grows. When life takes a turn neither of them expected, their entire future is called into question.
Style: romantic, sincere, rough, thought provoking, touching, captivating, christian film, independent film
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friends in love, cancer, car accident, relationships, childhood friend, french girl, romantic relationship, childhood love, couples, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, tragic event, love and romance, family relations, society, relationship problems, couple relations, death, illness, life is a bitch, male female relationship, fighting illness, hopes, love, terminal illness ...
Time: contemporary

Most similar movies to New Life

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, romantic, realistic and sincere films with plots about kiss, love and romance, relationships, family relations, friendship, father son relationship and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like New Life: All My Life (2020), Our Friend (2019), Vernie (2004), The Choice (2016), Everything, Everything (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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All My Life (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A couple's wedding plans are thrown off course when the groom is diagnosed with liver cancer.
Style: romantic, heartbreaking, sentimental, compassionate, touching ...
Plot: cancer, asian man white woman relationship, star crossed lovers, terminal illness, wedding, dying, interracial romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, destiny, hopes, illness, fighting illness ...
Time: 2020s, year 2015
Place: bahamas, new orleans
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95%
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Our Friend (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
Style: sad, captivating, touching, cult classic, family comedy
Audience: date night
Plot: friends, terminal illness, cancer, friendship, family relations, husband wife relationship, best friend, supportive friend, couple relations, coping, assistant, help ...
Time: year 2008, year 2014, year 2012, year 2015, year 2010 ...
Place: new orleans
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79%
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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 ⇓
79%
 6.5
 45K
The Choice (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, sweet, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, happy ending, destiny, hospital, moral dilemma, life & death, love story ...
Time: year 1988, year 1946, year 1989, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Hateship Loveship (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage girl, addiction, redheaded woman, life is a bitch, coping, happy ending, family relations, loneliness, friendship, ambition, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans, iowa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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 ⇓
70%
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Love Story (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, fall in love, tragedy, death, college, love story, cancer, tragic love, ice hockey, graduation, young love, class differences ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, massachusetts, paris france, boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Style: independent film, psychological, meditative, surreal, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, obsession, suicide attempt, loneliness, philosophy, family relations, love affair, life turned upside down, marriage, breakup, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time: year 1951, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city, new haven connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Ordinary Love (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Style: sentimental, touching, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: cancer, love, hospital, love and romance, family relations, life philosophy, couples, lung cancer, destiny, illness, aged person, heartwarming ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Burning Man (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: grief, pain, marriage, coping, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, food, family relations, cooking and food, parents and children, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.9
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Life Itself (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Style: sad, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: pregnancy, tragic event, estranged couple, marriage proposal, jealousy, suicide, relationships, love story, love triangle, dead mother, orphan, death of mother ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, andalusia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.
Style: mind bending, romantic, funny, feel good, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, family outing, chick flick
Plot: in love, life, love story, love, follow your dream, following a dream, get rich quick scheme, miraculous event, widow, secret, single mother, destiny ...
Time: 2020s
Place: nashville tennessee, alabama, new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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In the Family (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: In the town of Martin, Tennessee, Chip Hines, a precocious six year old, has only known life with his two dads, Cody and Joey. And a good life it is. When Cody dies suddenly in a car accident, Joey and Chip struggle to find their footing again. Just ...
Style: lgbt cinema, sexy, sincere, independent film, freeze frame ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, gay parent, gay love, father son relationship, interracial relations, teacher, death of partner, family relations, gay rights, friendship, gay interest ...
Time: year 2011, year 2006, year 2002
Place: tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
My Life Without Me (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Pedro Almodovar production in which a fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies with out telling her family of her illness.
Style: sad, touching, contemplative, philosophical, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, secret love, illness, love and romance, dealing with death, death, parents and children, infidelity, hospital, relationships, love story ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Life in a Year (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, clever ...
Plot: terminal illness, teenager, cancer, couple relations, romantic friendship, romantic relationship, life, promise, adolescence, dream, dying, loneliness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Mothering Sunday (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set over a day in 1924, the story follows Jane Fairchild, a maid in the Niven household, who has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven attend a lunch to celebrate the engagement of their neighbour’s only remaining son, ...
Style: romantic, captivating, non-linear
Plot: chambermaid, female nudity, female pubic hair, sex scene, nudity, love, horse, secret relationship, car crash, unrequited love, relationships, love affair ...
Time: 1920s, post world war one
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.5
 10K
The Hero (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, touching, exciting ...
Plot: cancer, old man, marijuana, actor, audition, father daughter relationship, dying, drug dealer, beach house, aging, friendship, doctor ...
Time: year 2017
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 23K
Elegy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style: sexy, sincere, suspenseful, enigmatic, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, teacher student sex, obsession, hedonism, infidelity, couples, male teacher female student affair, love and romance, teachers and students, teacher, adultery ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
A Five Star Life (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: solitary, introspection, unfulfillment, midlife crisis, workplace, siblings relations, workplace situations, solitude, husband wife relationship, hotel, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco, italy, alps, berlin germany, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 9K
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 ⇓
57%
The Ultimate Life (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Despite his best intentions, billionaire Jason Stevens can’t find enough time to keep his beloved Alexia a priority. But when he discovers his late grandfather’s journal, he is transported back to Red Stevens’ incredible world. With everything ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: christian, self discovery, rags to riches, life lesson, introspection, sent to the past, wisdom of life, family relations, teaching the ways of the world, destiny, once in a lifetime opportunity, lawsuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tibet, haiti
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: cancer, teenager, love story, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, love, first love, youth, teen romance, true love ...
Time: year 2002, 1900s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Beginners (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
Style: touching, sad, sentimental, sincere, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, grief, homosexuality, gay father, father son relationship, relationships, cancer, self discovery, lgbt, dog, bittersweet, lgbtq ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 1950s, year 1978, 2000s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story follows a student navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia and battling wild hallucinations. An experimental drug trial promises to help hide his illness from his peers and, most importantly, from the girl of ...
Style: realistic, romantic, touching, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: schizophrenia, teenager, romantic relationship, teenage protagonist, diagnosis, hearing voices, high school, romanticism, hopes, love and romance, chance meeting, supportive parent ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: oregon, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Truth or Dare (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Aura and Gael's passionate new love is quickly overshadowed by horrible news: Aura is diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. Gael decides to stay in the relationship and support her, but don Julio, her father, deeply concerned about his ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, romantic, disturbing
Plot: cancer, male female relationship, couple relations, love and romance, romantic relationship, young couple, in love, illness, family disapproval, relationship problems, love story, couples ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.7
 94K
Sweet November (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, emotional ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love story, terminal illness, love, fall in love, cancer, tragic love, bittersweet, couples, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 7.8
 615K
The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love story, love and romance, love, fall in love, true love, youth, memory loss, love of one's life, power of love, love triangle, young lovers, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, 50s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: south carolina, north carolina, iran, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.0
 165K
One Day (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style: sentimental, romantic, sad, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love story, love and romance, best friends in love, friendship, male female friendship, couples, ambition, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, divorce ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: iran, scotland, paris france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Friends with Kids (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, toddlers
Plot: friendship, best friends in love, sex, relationships, love and romance, best friend, relationship problems, breast feeding, pregnancy, parenthood, love story, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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