Movies like By the Fire

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By the Fire (2011)
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By the Fire (2011)
Original name: Sentados frente al fuego
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Chile
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Daniel and Alejandra, a working class couple in their late 30s, move to the countryside near the Andes Mountains to begin the next chapter of their life together. Alejandra is ill, and Daniel looks after her, his soul mate. He scratches out a living doing farm work, while dreaming of buying his own plot of land. Over the course of a year, director Alejandro Fernández Almendras captures a life of love and frustration as Alejandra’s condition worsens, and Daniel can do nothing but keep on struggling.
Plot: illness, fire, kitten, terminal illness, rural setting, countryside, bedroom, bedridden
Place: chile

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Most similar movies to By the Fire

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, serious, sentimental and romantic films with plots about illness, terminal illness, love, hospital, death, love and romance and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like By the Fire: Orphan (2009), To Kill a Man (2014), The Birch Tree (1967), Dark Victory (1976), Malady of Love (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Orphan (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Chilean family deals with the new values in a quickly changing world.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere
Plot: family relations, social differences, family problems, parents and children, family life, hopes, society, introspection, human spirit, village, family in crisis, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
To Kill a Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: How far will you go to protect your family? Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: revenge, family in danger, couples, couple relations, danger, rivalry, vigilante, police, legal system, murder, justice, diabetic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.8
 858
The Birch Tree (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.
Style: depressing
Plot: village, dysfunctional marriage, rural setting, death, marriage, baby, death in the family, forest ranger, terminal illness, folklore
Place: croatia, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.6
 267
Dark Victory (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
Plot: terminal illness, female friendship, dying young, producer, doctor, anger, doctor patient relationship, love, marriage, brain tumor
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 5.6
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Malady of Love (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on ...
Plot: doctor, cancer, hairdresser, illness, male pubic hair, male nudity, pubic hair
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.5
 130
Late Spring (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in the 1960's. Joo-Goo (Park Yong-Woo) is viewed as Korea's best sculptor, but he suffers from a disease which will slowly paralyze his body. He gives up interests in the arts and just spends his days meaninglessly. His wife, Jung-sook ...
Style: sentimental, psychological, realistic, captivating
Plot: sculptor, model, jealousy, artist, illness, nude model, love, painting, couples, fall in love, post war, painter ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Let Me Eat Your Pancreas (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: I (Takumi Kitamura) am a high school student. I happen to find a diary by my classmate Sakura Yamauchi (Minami Hamabe) that reveals she is suffering from a pancreatic disease. I spent time with Sakura, but she dies. 12 years later, due to ...
Style: captivating, sincere, thought provoking, light, romantic ...
Plot: teenage girl, terminal illness, classmate, high school, best friend, superstition, love and romance, asian, friendship, couples, family relations, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
I Give My First Love to You (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: As a child Takuma is diagnosed with a heart condition that requires care from a cardiologist. He soon becomes friends with his doctors young daughter Mayu while being treated at the hospital. One day Mayu overhears her father saying that Takumas ...
Style: touching, sincere, suspense, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: terminal illness, first love, teen romance, japanese girl, love, hopes, tragedy, breaking up with girlfriend, illness, siblings, superhero, love story ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Last 10 Years (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The 20-year-old heroine learns that she only has 10 years to live due to an incurable disease of 1 in tens of thousands. She decided not to fall in love and not to be obsessed with living. But then, she met the hero at a local alumni association. ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic, sweet
Plot: terminal illness, love story, male female relationship, couple relations, fighting illness, love affair, in love, love and romance, illness, couples, relationships, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
More Than Blue (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A terminally ill man tries to find a suitable husband for the friend he has loved since childhood.
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, romantic comedy ...
Plot: love story, fall in love, terminal illness, first love, love, unfulfillment, love and romance, life & death, platonic, male female friendship, friendship, star crossed lovers ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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El leyton (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Leyton and his lifelong friend Modesto are both fishermen and as close as brothers, but very different in temperament. The braggart Modesto is a slave to progress, while the more unpretentious Leyton is content with the simple life. Modesto marries ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: anger, port, fisherman, best friend, seaside, ladies man, love triangle, beach, betrayal
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Five Feet Apart (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love.
Style: thought provoking, melancholic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: terminal illness, disability, fighting illness, star crossed lovers, true love, forbidden love, hospital, couple relations, danger, suffering, fall in love, illness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Akitsu Springs (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is ...
Style: avant garde
Plot: illness, alcoholism, water, love, world war two, spa, japanese new wave
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Sweet Jane (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: aids, terminal illness, hiv, illness, sex, quarantine, destruction, hospital, bittersweet, society, social misfits, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.5
 134
To the Night (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Norman, who lost his parents in a fire as a child, is obsessed with light and haunted by its destructive powers.
Style: light, avant garde
Plot: male nudity, fire, baby, death, beach, camera
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.7
 18K
Restless (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A powerful and emotional coming of age story, this remarkable tale is told with honesty and originality that will leave audiences moved. In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and ...
Style: serious, offbeat, psychological, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: terminal illness, sadness, teenage love, love, cancer, coming of age, hospital, death, funeral, brain tumor, teenager, illness ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
I'm Still Here (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Suffering from a terminal illness, a young loner makes plans for the little time he has left while coping with the five stages of death: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
Style: psychological, romantic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious
Plot: childhood, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, grief, depression, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, near death experience, acceptance, existentialism, adultery, sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Bobby Deerfield (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: tragic love, auto racing, racing, self discovery, couples, life is a bitch, ambition, love affair, hospital, motor sport, terminal illness, formula 1 ...
Time: 70s
Place: europe, florence, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Christmas in August (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a quiet corner of Seoul, Jung-won runs a small photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung-won goes about his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: maid, fall in love, friendship, single parent, tragic hero, love affair, tragic love, teenage love, destiny, family relations, youth, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.3
 3K
Hope (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A couple with a large blended family has grown apart. When the wife is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, their life breaks down and exposes neglected love.
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing, ambiguous ending
Plot: lung cancer, unhappy marriage, family relations, terminal illness, cancer, hopes, husband wife relationship, unsupportive spouse, life is a bitch, male female relationship, fighting illness, relationship problems ...
Place: oslo norway, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
 36K
Midnight Sun (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.
Style: romantic, sincere, sad, tear jerker, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teen romance, terminal illness, teenage love, true love, first love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, star crossed lovers, teenager, life & death, illness, tragic love, teenage girl ...
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Rustling Landscapes (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Luka leaves for the countryside unhappy with the way his girlfriend Katarina has treated him. She follows him hoping that they could sort out their relationship. Despite the beauty and tranquillity of their surroundings they go through twists and ...
Plot: love, child, photography, rural setting, longing, love triangle, older woman younger man relationship, cottage, frustration, monologue, pharmacy, jealousy ...
Place: slovenia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Much Ado About Nothing (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a night of partying, Vicente is involved in a hit-and-run that kills a man. Vicente claims his innocence, but he was drunk and high. A tangled web of lies buries the truth, making a social scandal disappear — exonerating the real culprit, ...
Plot: boy, hit and run, injustice, sex in car, female nudity, coastal town, car accident, summer, beach house, drunk driving, female full frontal nudity, smoking after sex ...
Time: year 2013
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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What's Left of You (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story: On his 18th birthday, wealthy but spoiled Ozgur(Ekin Koc) gets a surprise from his deceased grandfather's will. He has to leave his luxurious life in Istanbul and graduate from a public school in a small village on the Aegean coast. After ...
Style: romantic, light, sincere, colorful
Plot: school, first love, inheritance, last will and testament, orphanage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, promise, countryside, getting home, wealth, rural setting, flashback ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
More Than Ever (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Hélène, a 33-year-old woman from Bordeaux, France, lives happily as a couple with Mathieu, her husband of many years. Her life turns upside down the day she learns she has a rare lung disease. Thanks to a blog, she discovers Norway and decides to ...
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, serious, emotional, existential
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, skinny dipping, love, female protagonist, internet dating, couple relations, relationships, couples, love affair, male female relationship, disease, peace ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Voyage (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's mourning for Antonio ends when Cesar steps in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, tragic love, last wish, love story, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, terminal illness ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1900s
Place: sicily, italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Things we do when we fall in love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Second part of the trilogy
Plot: swimming pool, teacher, motel, on the road, highway, amusement park, secret, rural setting, sleepover
Place: southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Amelia Lópes O'Neill (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, Switzerland, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
Plot: woman, married man, prostitution, harbor, brothel, thief, sister sister relationship, journalist, suicide, doctor, virginity, young ...
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.0
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Christmas (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Alejandro and Aurora, two young students, leave Santiago and are on their way to spend Christmas with family in Aurora. At the foot of the Andes, the frustrations of Alejandro and Aurora’s doubts about her sexual identity cause tension. The two ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, youth, young lovers, dysfunctional family, introspection, friendship, family problems, friends, parents and children, teenage life, hopes, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
One-Two-Three Now! (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Jeppe falls deeply in love with the mysterious and beautiful girl, Cecilie, from school. But their time is limited as Cecilie is diagnosed with cancer and Jeppe has to balance school, social life and the dream of becoming a professional basket ball ...
Style: touching, sincere, suspenseful, sentimental, disturbing ...
Plot: teenage love, cancer, teen romance, sex scene, high school, drawing, party, illness, love story, in love, life & death, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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