Movies like The Broken Circle Breakdown

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The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
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The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.
Style: heartbreaking, sad, touching, depressing, sentimental, lyrical, light, atmospheric, talky, intense ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: grief, terminal illness, depression, relationships, love story, love, cancer, musician, character study, honest, mental illness, parenthood, life philosophy, tragic event, loss of daughter, coping, love affair, family problems, acceptance, fighting illness, dying, couple relations, music, passion, melancholy ...
Time: year 2012, 90s, near future, 2010s, 2000s, september 11 2001, 21st century ...
Place: belgium, scandinavia, europe, san francisco
Keyword: dutch, americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, emotional, touching and serious films with plots about love, love story, love and romance, relationships, couples, illness and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like The Broken Circle Breakdown: Blue Valentine (2010), Stricken (2009), Crazy Heart (2009), My Life Without Me (2003), Love Story (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Blue Valentine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style: touching, romantic, psychological, emotional, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, alienation, strong sexual content ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
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Stricken (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: cancer, cancer patient, true love, self discovery, infidelity, womanizer, love affair, crumbling relationship, life turned upside down, terminal illness, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Crazy Heart (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an ...
Style: touching, romantic, depressing, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: musician, country music, loneliness, alcoholism, addiction, music, journalist, country singer, alcohol abuse, love and romance, alcoholic, love ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, texas, austin texas, usa, nashville tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
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37%
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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
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32%
Autumn in New York (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: love story, love, true love, older man younger woman relationship, terminal illness, age difference, opposites attract, couple relations, couples, older man young girl relationship, autumn, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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32%
A Moment to Remember (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
Style: touching, realistic, romantic, sincere, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love affair, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, love story, couple relations, love, love and romance, asian, class differences, memory, father daughter relationship, resentment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Remember Me (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws ...
Style: touching, sad, romantic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: love story, 9/11, relationships, death in the family, suicide, family drama, teenager, young love, loss of sibling, love and romance, love, dealing with death ...
Time: year 2010, september 11 2001, 2010s, year 2001, 2000s ...
Place: new york, iran, usa, brooklyn new york city
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31%
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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 ⇓
31%
 6.6
 63K
Like Crazy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style: sincere, romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: long distance relationship, fall in love, love story, forceful separation, relationships, couples, bittersweet, immigration, love, parents, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: united kingdom, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 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 ⇓
30%
 7.8
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Once (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, musician's life, pianist, street musician, friendship, love, singer, love and romance, musician, recording studio, immigrant, rock and roll ...
Time: year 2007, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, london, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love, memory loss, love story, love and romance, amnesia, true love, marriage, relationships, couple relations, wooing, power of love, couples ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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29%
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Rust and Bone (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Singapore
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Style: heartbreaking, sad, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: disability, love, depression, illegal fistfight, female nudity, sex with neighbor, opposites attract, disabled person, family drama, redemption, orca, amputee ...
Time: year 2012, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, cote d'azur, french riviera, europe, riviera ...
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Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.0
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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 ⇓
28%
Listen to Your Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: mute or deaf, family relations, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, musician's life, couples, misfit, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.4
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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 ⇓
28%
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Biutiful (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story: This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style: depressing, bleak, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: single father, cancer, terminal illness, death, parenthood, immigrant, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, reconciliation, parents and children ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, iran, senegal, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.0
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Dying Young (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, sad, touching, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love story, life & death, leukemia, love, beautiful scenery, doctor, human nature, unfulfillment, parents and children, social differences, women ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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 ⇓
28%
 6.0
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The Last Song (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.
Style: touching, romantic, serious, teen, emotional ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: fall in love, love, teenage love, teenage life, father daughter relationship, youth, teen romance, love and romance, parents and children, love story, cancer, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: georgia, north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.5
 95K
The Piano (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, France, New Zealand
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man ...
Style: period piece, psychological, sexual, scenic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: piano, desire, sexual relations, adultery, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, love triangle, human nature, mother daughter relationship, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 90s, 1800s ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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To the Wonder (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
Style: emotional, melancholic, philosophical, stylized, intense ...
Plot: love affair, crumbling marriage, marriage, love, love triangle, love story, couple relations, introspection, starting over, homecoming, extramarital affair, love and romance ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, oklahoma, usa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.6
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50/50 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Style: touching, sentimental, tragicomedy, depressing, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, friendship, chemotherapy, relationships, weed, meaning of life, doctor, patient, coming of age, best friend, life ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, iran, washington state, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. ...
Style: emotional, visual, art house, philosophical, spiritual ...
Plot: loneliness, loss of child, solitude, grief, loss of spouse, depression, stripper, classical music, existentialism, philosophy, love, trauma ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity ...
Style: depressing, sad, realistic, heartbreaking, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: holocaust, world war two, against humanity, nazi, concentration camp, mental illness, wartime life, obsession, tragedy, melancholy, loneliness, relationships ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1982, 1930s, post world war two
Place: poland, new york, middle east, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.7
 18K
Restless (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A powerful and emotional coming of age story, this remarkable tale is told with honesty and originality that will leave audiences moved. In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and ...
Style: serious, offbeat, psychological, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: terminal illness, sadness, teenage love, love, cancer, coming of age, hospital, death, funeral, brain tumor, teenager, illness ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.9
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Amour (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Style: philosophical, sad, sincere, art house, reflective ...
Plot: elderly, aging, death, old couple, life & death, elderly lovers, husband wife relationship, life philosophy, illness, love, family relations, daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: paris france, germany, nebraska, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.4
 284K
Me Before You (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, quadriplegic, euthanasia, caregiver, handicapped, relationships, death, accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, usa, mallorca, paris france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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