Movies like Pipe Dreams

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Pipe Dreams (1976)
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Pipe Dreams (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Pipe Dreams is a 1976 film starring soul singer Gladys Knight in her acting debut as a woman who attempts to regain the love of her husband played by real-life spouse Barry Hankerson. In this drama, her husband must choose between reuniting with her or giving in to pressure of the local boss.
Style: independent film
Plot: black, money, prostitution, journey, husband wife relationship, employment, dead woman on bed
Time: year 1976
Place: alaska

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and touching films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, love and romance, couples, love, male female relationship and african american mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pipe Dreams: Part 2, Sounder (1976), Lumiere (1976), Fanny (1961), Nothing But a Man (1964), Prostitution (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Part 2, Sounder (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
Style: independent film
Plot: canine, black, african american, family relations, depression, band
Time: year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.9
 160
Lumiere (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sarah, an actress nearing 40, has invited the woman who has been her best friend for 16 years and two younger women to her vacation retreat in Provence. There are the simple pleasures of lounging in adjacent hammocks, the sun, the food, ...
Plot: swedish, suicide, female protagonist, countryside, actress
Time: year 1976
Place: france, europe, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.8
 3K
Fanny (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is ...
Style: independent film, touching, feel good, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teenage pregnancy, boat, broadway, yacht, loneliness, girl, journey, love, ocean, couples, relationship vs career, love affair ...
Time: year 1961, 1930s
Place: marseille, france, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Nothing But a Man (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Style: independent film, political, social, black and white, aesthetic ...
Plot: african american, black, discrimination, drug addiction, blaxploitation, american south, racial slur, racism, love, social justice, social change, racial issues ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Prostitution (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Soo-hyeon and Hye-ji are sitting on a pile of debt thanks to their husband and father who ran away in the middle of the night. Tae-san the loan shark demands the money no matter what. He rapes the mother and daughter and requires them to join ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing
Plot: money, money problems, forced prostitution, social problems, mother daughter relationship, teenage prostitute, rape, violence, family problems, relationship problems, family relations, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Oliver's Story (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of ...
Style: sad, realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional
Plot: widower, heiress, family relations, bereavement, in-laws, family problems, optimism, couples, true love, social differences, love affair, parents and children ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: hong kong, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.8
 3K
Strapped (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A routine trick propels a tall, dark, cynical hustler into a series of life-changing encounters in this drama. But this amicable and sexually efficient rent boy begins to look at himself differently when he finds himself lost in a maze-like ...
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, prostitution, apartment building, lgbt, gay sex, gays and lesbians, prostitute, loneliness, changing lives, couples, male prostitution, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Warm December (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: black romance, biker, black, african american, love, motorcycle racing, motor sport, bittersweet, power relations, couples, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 429
Boy Bye (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Veronica Love seems to have it all...she's smart, sassy and sexy and has a career as one of the most successful real estate entrepreneurs in California. Affectionately known as Love by her girlfriends Beverly and Charity, Love also happens to ...
Style: psychological, captivating, romantic, disturbing, romantic comedy
Plot: black, female protagonist, couples, fall in love, romantic relationship, love and romance, love interest, love affair, male female relationship, relationships, couple relations, in love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Indecent Proposal (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).
Style: sexy, sexual, emotional, psychological, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: gambling, adultery, husband wife relationship, infidelity, moral dilemma, love triangle, love story, sexual relations, cuckold, millionaire, lust, wealth ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Grasshopper (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
Style: sexual, erotic, sensual, independent film, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prostitute, showgirl, interracial relations, dream, couples, small town, chorus girl, looking for sex, love triangle, looking for love, infidelity, couple relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: las vegas, los angeles, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Summer Solstice (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering.
Plot: beach, flashback, aging, adultery, marriage, affair, husband wife relationship, death of child, memory, infidelity, artist, unfaithfulness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, gambling, marriage, jealousy, love, small town, interracial relations, human spirit, family problems, injustice, black, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.0
 629
Native Son (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, biting, gloomy ...
Plot: racism, african american, murder, lawyer, chauffeur, blaxploitation, black history, blindness, courtroom, paranoia, racial issues, black ...
Time: 1940s, year 1986, 1930s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.1
 2K
Mahogany (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound ...
Style: retro, hood, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fashion, black, blaxploitation, african american, black woman, fashion model, fashion show, model, ghetto, fashion designer, disco, interracial ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: rome italy, chicago, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Appointment (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to believe that his wife Carla in secret is Rome's highest paid prostitute.
Style: bad ending, suspense, sentimental, cynical
Plot: prostitution, suspicion, marriage, secret, male female relationship, reputation, lawyer, jealousy, obsession, deception, law, fashion model ...
Time: year 1969
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Disappearing Acts (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zora Banks is a school teacher and aspiring singer hoping to become a successful star while taking a break from heartache. Franklin Swift is a down-on-his-luck construction worker and not-quite divorced father of two hoping to start his own ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, love affair, looking for love, family problems, opposites attract, couple relations, lovers reunited, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, follow your dream ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On the night of the 2016 Presidential election, Cass, an L.A. club promoter, takes a thrilling and emotional journey with Frida, a Midwestern visitor. She challenges him to revisit his broken dreams - while he pushes her to discover hers.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, political
Plot: african american, male female relationship, love affair, stormy night, introspection, changing lives, seduction, relationships, seductress, couple relations, love interest, black ...
Time: year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Harvest: 3,000 Years (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ethiopia
Duration: 150 min.
Story: In this meditative film, the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, and the drama arises out of the timeless but still contemporary issues of their lives.
Style: independent film
Plot: african, racial issues, black, blaxploitation, murder, poverty, landlord, farming, police chase, killing
Time: year 1976
Place: africa, ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son is determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Style: road movie, emotional, realistic, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot: single mother, on the road, widow, waitress, diner, road trip, self discovery, arizona desert, relationships, friendship, children, mother ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona, california, monterey california, tucson arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Animal Attraction: Carnal Desires (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When business becomes pleasure at a massage parlor, someone has to lose.
Style: erotic, sensual, sexy, sexual, hot ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, fatal attraction, sleaze, obsession, sexploitation, voyeurism, voyeur, sex, adultery, cheating, older woman younger man sex, male nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund--his brother, widow, and younger mistress--so he can get ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, rough, tense ...
Plot: social relations, obsessive quest, lifestyle, writer's life, college graduate, village, writers, male female relationship, journey, flirting, teacher, storytelling ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: uruguay, south america, latin america, greece, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 547
The Wedding (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who object to an inter-racial marriage, and Shelby's parents, who want her to marry a ...
Plot: interracial romance, interracial relations, black, blaxploitation, interracial, racial issues, grandmother granddaughter relationship, class differences, mother daughter relationship, adultery, engagement, musician ...
Time: 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 4.9
 152
Personals (1999)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Romance - Keith, a freelance journalist, knows sex sells. With the help of a personal ad, he decides to combine business and pleasure through a piece of freelance investigative reporting on the dating scene: 30 dates in 30 days, A Personal Journal. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: black, blind date, black romance, footsie under the table
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.4
 24K
Fireproof (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In Albany, the marriage of Caleb and Catherine Holt is in crisis and they decide to divorce. However, Caleb's father, John, proposes that his son delays their separation process for forty days and follow a procedure called "The Love ...
Style: inspirational, christian film, uplifting, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: christian, religious, self discovery, marriage, couple relations, faith, firefighter, couples, husband wife relationship, renewed love, relationships, god ...
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.7
 71
Othello (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Style: independent film
Plot: triumph, courage, tragedy, false accusation, maniac, racism, espionage, shakespeare's othello, deception, conspiracy, jealousy, betrayal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Girl in the Window (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light ...
Plot: prostitute, love, italian neorealism, holiday, coal, miner, male female relationship, gay bar, coal mining, man hits a woman, jealousy, mining ...
Place: amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.1
 164
Dearest Jane (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
Style: psychological, touching, suspense, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: friendship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, acceptance, love, father daughter relationship, death, family relations, love and romance, uncle niece relationship, small town, youth ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.6
 34K
The Immigrant (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style: atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation, sisters ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 20th century
Place: poland, israel, america, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.4
 138
The Good Life (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Christopher Nolen's "The Good Life" is the story of Jacques and Marianne Vandelay, a highly successful African American couple. They are happy but both are keeping dark secrets from each other.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, romantic, dark
Plot: couples, family secret, love and romance, relationships, romantic relationship, male female relationship, family relations, family life, secret, husband wife relationship, marital problem, african american ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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