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Top Hearts! (1999)
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Top Hearts! (1999)
Original name: Haut les cœurs !
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A woman (Karin Viard) in the fourth month of her first pregnancy fights to save the baby while being treated for breast cancer.
Style: emotional, medical drama, inspirational, tense, bleak, reflective, independent film
Plot: breast cancer, hospital, pregnant woman, pregnancy, motherhood, life & death, female protagonist, determination, resilience, ethical dilemma, cancer, survival, courage, realism, doctor patient relationship, female empowerment, romantic relationship, hopes, female friendship, social commentary, doctor, shaved head, female director
Time: 90s, 1990s
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, tense, realistic and medical drama films with plots about resilience, hopes, female protagonist, hospital, urban, survival and motherhood mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Top Hearts!: Her Only Choice (2018), Kalimannu (2013), Special Ed (2005), Hello Beautiful (2025), Hana's Miso Soup (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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