Movies like Ring the Bell
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Ring the Bell (2013)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When high-powered sports agent Rob Decker arrives looking for his next major league prospect, he finds more than he bargained for at the Cooke Boys Ranch. As he works to secure Shawn Hart, the top high school baseball prospect in the country, he encounters a cast of characters who value happiness and common sense over dollars and cents.
Style:
serious, realistic, christian film
Plot:
small town, society, redemption, introspection, social relations, disorder, misfit, scout, americana, fish out of water, small town life, hopes, christian, rock concert, faith, baseball, reading the bible, baseball game
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Ring the Bell
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and christian film films with plots about society, hopes, small town, small town life, social relations, introspection and redemption mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Ring the Bell: Mrs. Worthington's Party (2007), What Would Jesus Do? (2010), Main Street (2010), The Encounter (2010), Harvest (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Father Jonathan Keene - a cold, impatient Catholic priest arrives in a tiny fishing village the week before Christmas to do what he does best: shut down a dying parish...
Style:
serious, feel good, touching, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
christmas, priest, introspection, society, self discovery, clergy, religions or cults, save the day, cause and meaning, moral dilemma, social relations, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The citizens of a small town lose their faith day by day. Poverty and hardships have been hard on them... when all of a sudden something changes. Their faith is reborn. And a question rises inside them: "What would Jesus do?"
Style:
christian film, realistic, serious, spiritual, fable
Plot:
pastor, christian, small town, human spirit, introspection, clergy, religions or cults, social relations, society, hopes, small town life, delusion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, xian
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89%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective life changes when outsider Gus Leroy brings something new and potentially dangerous into their ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
estrangement, introspection, mysterious character, small town life, hopes, dishonesty, small town, social relations, intrigue, city, high school sweetheart, loss of job ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When five strangers with nothing in common come together at a remote roadside eatery, they place their orders with the diner's omniscient owner, who seems to know everything about them ... and is eerily reminiscent of Jesus Christ.
Style:
christian film, tense, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
christian, faith, diner, jesus, human spirit, self discovery, society, hopes, introspection, mysterious character, human nature, mysterious place ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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310
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A DEA agent and a local sheriff have to wrestle with their consciences as they start raids on local farmers, who have started growing marijuana simply to keep their farms operational. Story focuses on a young man, who accidentally discovers that his ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative
Plot:
farm, social relations, stoners, small town, drug abuse, small town life, rebellion, immigrants, introspection, drug dealing, moral dilemma, innocence lost ...
Time:
90s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Movies similar to Courageous
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, atmospheric, serious, gloomy
Plot:
small town, diner, hopes, unfulfillment, dull life, introspection, love and romance, society, working class, fall in love, love affair, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve in the Arizona desert, a middle-aged man (Stephen Baldwin) and an old woman (K Callan) contemplate suicide. But through chance run-ins with strangers and perhaps some divine intervention, they cross paths and change each ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, suspenseful, serious, christian film ...
Plot:
christmas, church, life is a bitch, redemption, family relations, unemployment, love and romance, clergy, society, hopes, small town, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot:
cancer, heroic mission, human spirit, fighting the system, environmentalism, terminal illness, hopes, obsessive quest, society, social relations, small town, church ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A 91 years old carpenter, who is still in completely good health, has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.
Style:
serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
farm, african american, aging, society, ambition, underdog, human spirit, rivalry, best friends, fighting the system, hopes, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, americana, culture clash, society, love and romance, pregnancy, hopes, coming of age, youth, small town, road not taken, wooing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Films like The Preacher's Daughter
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Widower, Mark Jansen, owns and runs the local newspaper for the Midwest town he grew up in. As he struggles to make ends meet, his daughter takes his happiness into her hands by going down to the famous wishing well their little town is known for, ...
Style:
serious, feel good, touching, sentimental, emotional
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
small town, wish come true, journalism, introspection, money problems, newspaper, hopes, starting over, fish out of water, journalist, elderly, meteor shower ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
illinois, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When her husband dies, Mrs. Ester Hobbes (Ellen Bry, TV's St. Elsewhere) learns that his wealth was just an illusion. Her only real inheritance is a run-down Southern home occupied by a foster family. Slowly, Mrs. Hobbes finds herself making ...
Style:
christian film, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
adoption, family problems, orphan, youth, introspection, society, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, redemption, self discovery, christian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for himself when an unidentified automobile suddenly kills her. Free for the first time, Albert quickly responds to the bait dangling in front of him, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, offbeat
Plot:
family relations, mentally challenged, social misfits, misfit, dysfunctional family, parents and children, small town, death of mother, suspense, con artists, mental illness, inheritance ...
Place:
wisconsin, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When a famous star is found dead at an exclusive Christmas Eve party filled with A-list Hollywood types, the police must hold for questioning a group of powerful entertainment industry players who are eager to leave the scene. As they reflect upon ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, psychotronic ...
Plot:
hollywood, society, actor's life, lifestyle, redemption, overdose, drug abuse, artists and showbiz, writer's life, hopes, starlet, cause and meaning ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When big-city preacher Debbie Laramie (Crystal Bernard) moves to the small town of Paradise with her son Hayden (Bobby Edner), she finds the local community unreceptive to her message of love and forgiveness. Determined to get through to her ...
Style:
realistic, uplifting, captivating, inspirational, serious ...
Plot:
church, small town, social relations, clergy, introspection, self discovery, love affair, hopes, society, village, preacher, community ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Movies similar to Do You Believe?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
love and romance, single parent, life is a bitch, impossible love, friendship, society, hopes, human spirit, misfit, social relations, mother son relationship, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
David, a widower, is working himself to death. Late nights doing paperwork and running on fumes is normal. Bills are piling up by the week, and foreclosure looms on the horizon. Blaming God for his wife's death, he ends his relationship with ...
Style:
realistic, serious, christian film, touching, sentimental
Plot:
christian, church, religions or cults, family relations, family problems, society, grieving widower, hopes, best friends, unsupportive spouse, parents and children, widower ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
hopes, family relations, friendship, destiny, starting over, redemption, human nature, love and romance, parents and children, small town, chance, legal action ...
Place:
north carolina, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, uplifting
Plot:
military, basic training, military training, mistaken identity, world war two, marine, dishonesty, war, hopes, getting home, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
missionary, self discovery, life is a bitch, redemption, youth, terminal illness, working class, couples, tragic hero, human nature, coming of age, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, prodigy, starting over, haunted by the past, lifestyle, rivalry, sport, hopes, on the run, redemption, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, juvenile delinquency, power relations, human spirit, society, hopes, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Everything can change in an instant ... and take a lifetime to unravel. When Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, the ensuing 17 years of bitterness and pain erodes his love for his family and leaves him angry with God ... and just about ...
Style:
christian film, touching, serious, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, christian, hopes, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, partners, faith, society, clergy, partners against crime, family problems, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, memphis, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ethan Jenkins (Michael W. Smith) and Jake Sanders (introducing Jeff Obafemi Carr) are both passionate pastors who worship the same God from the same book--but that's where the similarity ends. When they are suddenly thrown together in a tough ...
Style:
christian film, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
christian, suburban life, fish out of water, clergy, gang, buddies, city life, rich and poor, faith, religion, belief in god, christianity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
'THE PERFECT STRANGER' tells the story of Nikki, a troubled attorney who one day receives a mysterious dinner invitation from a man claiming to be Jesus of Nazareth. Throughout their evening of conversation, arguments and spirited debate, ...
Style:
sincere, christian film, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
religions or cults, society, legal action, hopes, christian, christianity, religion, discussion, stranger, change of heart, female protagonist, christian propaganda ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, cerebral ...
Plot:
death, introspection, aging, couples, elderly, redemption, architect, society, secret society, rape, art, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When a pastor is shaken by the visible faith of a street-corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a journey that impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.
Style:
christian film, thought provoking, emotional, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot:
christian, christianity, clergy, self discovery, faith, religions or cults, introspection, society, teaching the ways of the world, hopes, human spirit, doctors and patients ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois, chicago illinois, xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way.
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
small town, coming of age, introspection, life turned upside down, social relations, teenage life, brother sister relationship, grownups, love and romance, mother son relationship, car accident, infidelity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jay Austin wants to sell you a used car, but watch out! Many victims have fallen prey to his smiling face and hasty promises. Austin does everything his way until his dishonesty and manipulation are exposed. Like many men, he becomes disgusted by ...
Style:
christian film, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
change of heart, dishonesty, christian, starting over, introspection, moral dilemma, redemption, hopes, society, ambition, cons and scams, parent child relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
conspiracy, interracial relations, murder, friendship, social relations, law enforcement, society, lifestyle, dishonesty, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa
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35%
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