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Farewell, Kuro (2003)
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Farewell, Kuro (2003)
Original name: さよなら、クロ
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the school and becomes a special friend to everyone.
Style: tear jerker, tearjerker
Plot: dog, loyalty, school, friend, animal, animals

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, captivating and tear jerker films with plots about dog, animal, friendship, pets, human animal relationship, family relations and human dog relationship mostly in Drama, Family and Biography genres. Some movies like Farewell, Kuro: All About My Dog (2005), Hachi-ko (1987), Star Watching Dog (2011), Dusty (1983), Blue Spring (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Seven Days of Himawari and Her Puppies (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Set within an animal shelter, where if the owner of an animal doesn't claim their pet in 7 days, the animal is put to sleep. Himawari, is a female dog and a mother. She tries to desperately save her baby dogs.
Style: suspense, captivating, touching, sincere
Plot: dog, animal rights, animal, animal shelter, saving a life, human animal relationship, animal rescue, salvation, pets, puppy
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95%
All About My Dog (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A series of short stories all about dogs.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, anthology, semi serious ...
Plot: dog, canine, pet dog, puppy, animal life, animal, human animal relationship, multiple storylines, pets, animal protagonist, loyalty, noble ...
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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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82%
Quill:  The Life of a Guide Dog (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As a Labrador puppy, Quill is sent to live with a couple, Isamu and Mitsuko Nii, who work as volunteers, training guide dogs (seeing eye dogs). When he grows to an adult dog, he is taken to a guide dog school, by a friendly, yet firm trainer Satoru ...
Style: touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dog, friendship, elderly, pets, mistrust, animal training, optimism, disability, instructor, temperamental, human animal relationship, seeing eye dog ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Star Watching Dog (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified middle-aged man and a dog who seems to have died months later. This is the story of the life of the loving and faithful dog and his owner told from the ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, sad, depressing ...
Plot: dog, divorced man, social problems, human dog relationship, relationships, coping, owner dog relationship, lifestyle, relationship problems, divorced father, road trip, old man ...
Place: japan
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Dusty (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Plot The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out ...
Style: independent film
Plot: dog, ranch, animal, horse, horse riding, fence
Time: year 1983
Place: australia
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A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The touching and dramatic tale of the relationship between a Japanese family, their dog and her three puppies, set against the backdrop of a devastating earthquake and the ensuing chaos, rescues and heroism.
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, realistic, sad
Plot: dog, puppy, pet dog, human dog relationship, animal human communication, owner dog relationship, human animal relationship, saving a life, earthquake, child, wildlife, family drama
Place: japan
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Blue Spring (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of ...
Style: bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious, manga
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, high school, gang, society, high school life, teenage life, life is a bitch, friendship, youth, coming of age, school, asian ...
Place: japan, asia
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Wasao (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao himself turns part of the life of this former stray into an original story. Setsuko, who runs a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: dog, human dog relationship, pets, slice of life, lifestyle, traveler, drifter, human animal relationship, owner dog relationship, animal, animal human communication, live action
Place: japan
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Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A female is harassed and takes the case to court.
Plot: stalker, sexual harassment, trial, courtroom, true crime
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Lad: A Dog (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of the rough collie hero, Sunnybank Lad. Based on the book by Albert Payson Terhune.
Plot: animal, dog, human dog relationship, boy and dog, girl dog relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, family relations, dog actor, owner dog relationship, rescue, young ...
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Accidental Friendship (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Homeless woman Yvonne Caldwell is a woman with good reason to be bitter: she has lost everything except her two beloved dogs, Bebe and Man-Man. With her one friend, Wes, Caldwell lives the daily struggle of being homeless in Los Angeles until a ...
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
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Blood and Bones (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1923, the young Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island (South Korea), to Osaka (Japan). Through the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko (processed seafood products) in his poor Korean-Japanese ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, obsession, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, loan, violence, abusive relationship, badass, asian ...
Time: 1950s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
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A Dog Named Palma (2021)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is inspired by an incredible story of a shepherd dog named Palm who was inadvertently left in the airport by her owner. She befriends nine-year old Nicholas whose mother dies leaving him with a father he barely knows - a pilot who finds the ...
Style: touching, sincere, heartbreaking, sweet, sentimental ...
Plot: dog, airport, human dog relationship, pilot, son, friendship, animal, human relationship, bonding, lost, life philosophy, coping ...
Time: 70s
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52%
Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, evil man
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The Perfect Mother (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Since self-made immigrant Nico Podaras's death, widow Elenie runs his lucrative garage, with an illegal side business, generously using the profits to keep control of their three sons' lives. Simpleton Dan is happy to sire the crucial heir ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 118 min.
Story: Nana is the cutest girl. She is also smart and aware of her talents. She has paws and purrs. Her father Satoru cannot take of her anymore and must give her up. He searches for someone to take care of Nana and begins visiting people who may be good ...
Style: touching, sentimental, crying
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Place: mount fuji, kyoto japan
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A Story of Yonosuke (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ordinary in every way possible, he lives in a suburb far from the excitement of the big city and ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Plot: love, divorce, murder, revenge, courtroom, lawyer, true crime
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Untamed Love (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A badly abused girl of 6 is saved from having to be admitted to an institution by a dedicated Special Education teacher whose class she's been placed in until there is an opening in the hospital. In that time they form a strong bond and the ...
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Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, anthology
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Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland
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42%
Fly, Dakota, Fly! (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A British military transport plane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island. The residents on the island take care of the crew members until the plane can take off once again despite knowing that Britishers are their enemies.
Plot: royal air force, post war, japanese woman, crash landing, raf
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40%
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Belong To Us (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An injured dog finds it's way into the hearts of a family after escaping an underground dog-fighting ring.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
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Sam's Son (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Plot: hair, high school, success, long haired male
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To Dance with the White Dog (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is the touching story of an elderly widower trying to work through his grief. When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant. Sam takes the dog on a nostalgic journey which ...
Style: tear jerker, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
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38%
O Capacete Dourado (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars.Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight ...
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37%
Where the Red Fern Grows: Part Two (1992)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An embittered WWII veteran returns to his grandfather's home in the Louisiana woods. The old man helps his grandson readjust by giving him two hound dog puppies to care for.
Style: independent film
Plot: dog, canine, hunting, family relations, animal
Time: 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Heart of a Child (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A drama directed by Sandor Stern.
Plot: disability, medicine, christian, mother, heart transplant, heart, mother child relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Halam Geldi (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "Halam Geldi"(My Aunt has Arrived) does not just tell a story in the Greek village of Northern Cyprus, where the sounds of the Ezan is accompanied by the church bells, it also underlines a tradition in Anatolia; the drama of child brides. ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, touching, crying
Plot: child bride, military, family relations, friendship, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, school, corruption, loss of child, domineering father, young girl, border crossing ...
Place: cyprus
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Pimdao, a successful real estate developer and businesswoman, is injured in an accident that kills her beloved daughter at a time when the two are estranged. After the accident, Pimdao decides to take her daughter's place as a volunteer at an ...
Style: tear jerker
Plot: volunteer, rural area, rural setting
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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