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The River Why (2010)
4K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and love.
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, romantic drama, indie film, realistic, independent film
Plot:
solitude, youth, wilderness, obsessive quest, self discovery, fall in love, escapades, philosophy, leaving home, river, fishing, skinny dipping, love, survival, sea creature, fly fishing, coming of age, nature, estranged father, father son reconciliation, love and romance, isolation, sexual content, first love, female nudity ...
Place:
oregon, usa
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Most similar movies to The River Why
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about love and romance, family relations, fall in love, couples, youth, coming of age and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like The River Why: Elvis and Anabelle (2007), The Yellow Handkerchief (2008), Summer Rain (2006), The Maid (2014), Falling Overnight (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey of self-discovery.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, psychological, fairy tale ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, funeral home, mortician, self discovery, fall in love, miraculous event, ambition, parents and children, love at first sight, suicide attempt, missing person, bulimia ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, realistic, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
self discovery, unlikely couple, starting over, haunted by the past, on the road, adolescence vs adulthood, youth, couple relations, unlikely partners, crumbling marriage, social misfits, teenage boy ...
Time:
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new orleans, southern usa, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
buddies, coming of age, obsession, love and romance, best friend, teenage life, teenage love, older woman younger man relationship, fascism, male female relationship, friends, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father's house.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
female nudity, coming of age, love, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, family relations, unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, parent child relationship, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Falling Overnight tells the story of twenty-two year old Elliot Carson on the day before he has risky surgery to remove a brain tumor. Facing what could be his last night, Elliot’s path intersects with Chloe Webb, a young photographer who invites ...
Style:
touching, serious, sentimental, sincere, mumblecore ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, lifestyle, cancer, male female relationship, brain tumor, photographer, escapades, terminal illness, thoughtful, hipster, coming of age, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A young couple bound by a seemingly ideal love, begins to unravel as unexpected opportunities spin them down a volatile and violent path and threaten the future they had always imagined.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, mumblecore ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
first love, relationship problems, couples, young adult, unfulfillment, twentysomething life, college, coming of age, friendship, love, youth, society ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, texas, houston texas, austin texas
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, family relations, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Style:
contemplative, sentimental, emotional, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, memory loss, teenage love, love triangle, self discovery, fall in love, social relations, youth, couples, society, amnesia, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, usa, asia
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A solitary woman (Melissa Leo) earning her living by delivering mail and body piercing, makes every attempt to help her volatile adult daughter (Marin Ireland) get on her feet, and in-so-doing neglects herself, channeling all of her womanly desires ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, fall in love, life is a bitch, addiction, drug abuse, love and romance, parents and children, single parent, sexual attraction, passionate kiss, profanity, hudson river ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by ...
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
country music, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, love and romance, spouse leaving, small town, fall in love, family relations, country, tragic romance, family curse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Golden-haired college soccer player William Katt falls hard for campus beauty Susan Dey, despite the fact that she's the mistress of an older, married attorney.
Style:
realistic, serious, sexual, touching, sexy
Plot:
love, first love, bare breasts, lust, male nudity, love triangle, mistress, college, soccer, lawyer, nudity, couples ...
Time:
50s
Place:
oregon, portland oregon
Similarity:
28%
987
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster) and an expatriate photographer (Azabal) who impulsively decide to travel across the remote ...
Style:
surreal, captivating, realistic, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
sex scene, male female relationship, journey, self discovery, satellite, on the road, love affair, society, culture clash, wilderness, road trip, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
armenia, caucasus
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sasha is a young Russian violinist on a scholarship to Juilliard, living with his affectionate but overbearing father, a cellist determined to manage his son's career. While Sasha prepares for a critical recital that will launch him on a path ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, musician's life, follow your dream, culture clash, self discovery, family relations, hopes, love and romance, parents and children, lifestyle, music band, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, heartfelt
Plot:
christmas, fall in love, love and romance, estrangement, estate, xmas, parents and children, youth, legal action, family relations, foster child, blind girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, love, deaf, starting over, boarding school, dealing with death, youth, single parent, hopes, love and romance, couples, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
25%
568
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, romantic drama, sexual ...
Plot:
adultery, fall in love, love triangle, love affair, family relations, couples, parents and children, infidelity, last wish, funeral, love and romance, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, boston, usa, oceania
Similarity:
24%
1K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
asthma, fall in love, self discovery, novelist, love affair, lifestyle, couples, unfulfillment, young lovers, society, in love, womanizer ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be ...
Style:
serious, realistic, romantic, sincere, period drama
Plot:
female nudity, skinny dipping, family relations, self discovery, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, writer's life, crumbling marriage, love and romance ...
Time:
edwardian era
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in 1974 Texas, three teen siblings struggle with the death of their father and try to live with their abusive mother. When one of the teens is sent away because the mother can't cope with his autism, the teens embark on a life changing road ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, dysfunctional family, family problems, on the road, youth, family relations, escapades, self discovery, obsessive quest, death in the family, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The story begins with Makoto Segawa, a freshman at Meikei University. On the day of his university entrance ceremony, Makoto meets a fresh-faced, quirky girl named Shizuru. Makoto has a complex which causes him to shy away from contact with other ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, young lovers, photograph, student life, photography, love triangle, youth, couple relations, love and romance, university, couples, dating ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
open relationship, love triangle, suburbs, polygamy, farm, friendship, widow, narration, friends, couples, small town life, fall in love ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
23%
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:
teen, touching, sincere, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, youth, couples, teenage love, first love, teenage life, love, teenage girl, family relations, high school student, classmate ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, key west florida, new jersey, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
self discovery, couples, small town, unfulfillment, ex lover, love and romance, family relations, graduation, coming of age, thirtysomething life, dull life, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, maine, new england
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, commitment, bare breasts, love, nudity, couple relations, love and romance, singleness ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
207
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Nadia (Béatrice Dalle) is in her 30s and begins a serious relationship with a teen named Pierre (Isaïe Sultan).
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, sexual tension, self discovery, teenage love, life is a bitch, youth, love and romance, addiction, adolescence vs adulthood, alcohol abuse, gay, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, freeze frame
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, teenage love, eccentric family, love and romance, countryside, teenage life, fall in love, parents and children, estate, bittersweet, coming of age, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
519
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A once-powerful, but now ailing movie director nears the end of his life. As he awaits death, he slips into a "dream" and is shown three "snippets" of the movie of his son's life. At first suspicious, then curious, and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, touching, emotional, spiritual ...
Plot:
filmmaking, introspection, self discovery, a vision, aging, family relations, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, father and son, love, friendship, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
740
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short contact with family brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, touching, sad
Plot:
family relations, single parent, haunted by the past, parents and children, youth, social relations, suburbs, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, teenager, boat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya Farrelly) for answers. When she refuses to provide any, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
love, coming of age, small town, bittersweet, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, young love, older man younger woman romance, male female relationship, father, misfit ...
Time:
year 1998, 1930s
Place:
ireland, illinois, chicago, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dream. They had one thing in common...the will to win. A group of college debaters learn ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
college, friendship, disability, teenager, love, politics, opposites attract, college life, social relations, couples, power relations, youth ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
21%
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