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October Road (2007)
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October Road (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: When Nick Garrett was 18, he packed up his truck and said goodbye for a summer road trip that turned into 10 years of being away. He has since become a literary celebrity in New York, living off the fame and fortune of his best-selling novel and movie, based on his hometown friends. To the literary world, Nick defined a generation, but to his hometown, he betrayed them by sharing secrets. Now, without inspiration for a new book, Nick returns to his hometown to find that feelings toward him have changed.
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: small town, hometown, old friend, love and romance, homecoming, success, family relations, parenthood, writer's life, writer's block, village, fishing village, thoughtful, teacher, student, creative block, alienation, ex husband, social relations, bittersweet, small town life, artists and showbiz, hopes, adultery, single mother ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, massachusetts, new england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and humorous films and TV series with plots about family relations, love and romance, small town, social relations, small town life, couples and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like October Road: Ed (2000), That '70s Show (1998), Hart of Dixie (2011), Gilmore Girls (2000), Everwood (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ed (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his small hometown of Stuckeyville where he buys the local bowling alley and attempts to win the heart of his high school ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, funny ...
Plot: bowling, small town, homecoming, looking for love, starting over, working class, old love, workplace situations, social relations, couples, old friend, workplace ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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That '70s Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: friendship, group of friends, teenage love, cannabis, small town, teenager, couples, couple relations, generation gap, parents and children, basement, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, wisconsin
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100%
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Hart of Dixie (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: New Yorker Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to work at a ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: small town, lifestyle change, small town life, lifestyle, doctor, social relations, female doctor, young woman, neighbor, fish out of water, clinic, doctors and patients ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, hawaii, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Gilmore Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, teenager, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend, friends, female protagonist, small town life, teenage life, looking for love, single mother, first love, everyday life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: yale university, connecticut, usa, new england
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Everwood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town life, doctor, small town, father son estrangement, first love, crush, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, friends in love, widower, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa
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Mystic Pizza (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style: light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, pizza, teenager, friendship, food, women, commitment, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, connecticut
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100%
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Providence (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Providence is an American television drama series that aired on NBC starring Melina Kanakaredes. The show ran for five seasons from January 8, 1999 until December 20, 2002.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, medical drama ...
Plot: family relations, hometown, living with parents, family problems, love and romance, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, looking for love, homecoming, small town life, medical ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
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When Calls The Heart (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, soap opera ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: teacher, small town, upscale, lifestyle change, character change, instructor, female protagonist, social relations, christian, christmas, couple relations, rich and poor ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place: america, usa, canada
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Men in Trees (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Men in Trees is an American romantic television comedy-drama series which premiered on September 12, 2006 on ABC and starred Anne Heche who played relationship coach Marin Frist. The series was set in the fictional town of Elmo, Alaska and concerned ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: starting over, looking for love, fish out of water, love and romance, social relations, dating, village life, lifestyle, writer's life, family problems, breakup, fall in love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
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Cedar Cove (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Judge Olivia Lockhart is considered the community's guiding light in the picturesque, coastal town of Cedar Cove, Washington. But like everyone else, Olivia fights the uphill battle of balancing career with family and finding love, all the ...
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: relationship vs career, small town, loss of son, small town life, courtroom, love and romance, looking for love, family relations, career woman, couple relations, legal, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington state, seattle, washington d.c.
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100%
When Hope Calls (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The story of sisters Lillian and Grace who open an orphanage in the 1916 Western town of Brookfield. Caught between the traditions of cattle ranchers and the ambitions of a growing town, they strive to find romance and happiness while overcoming the ...
Style: light, sincere, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: two sisters, children's home, family drama, sister sister relationship, orphan, orphanage, family relations, sisters, sibling relationship, couple relations, children, teacher ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place: usa
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Windfall (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Windfall is a serial drama television series about a group of people in an unnamed small city who win almost $400,000,000 in a lottvery.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, serious
Plot: lottery, disorder, couple relations, marital problem, family relations, single parent, love triangle, couples, teenage life, life turned upside down, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Stay Cool (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The film centers on a successful author who is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, adolescence vs adulthood, social relations, homecoming, high school life, hometown, disorder, prom, friends, teenage life, artists and showbiz, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Molly Dodd — a mid-30s, divorced woman living in New York — faces the comedy and drama of a widely changing career, difficulties of apartment living, love life and its consequences, and more.
Style: sitcom, realistic, offbeat, humorous, touching ...
Plot: feminist, dating, family relations, singleness, love and romance, couples, interracial relations, pregnancy, woman, single mother
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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20%
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Relativity (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Relativity is an American drama television series which followed a twenty-something couple, Isabel Lukens and Leo Roth, and the lives and loves of their friends and siblings in Los Angeles. The short-lived ABC series was the product of ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, sentimental
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: twenty something, family relations, best friend, buddies, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, friends, twentysomething life, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
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19%
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Soda Springs (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, family relations, hopes, going straight, lifestyle, homecoming, parents and children, social relations, christian ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
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19%
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Solsidan (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Solsidan is a Swedish television comedy series that premiered on 29 January 2010 on TV4. The series is named after a small part of Saltsjöbaden called Solsidan. It revolves around Alex and Anna who are expecting their first child and have just ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: family relations, social relations, self fulfillment, greed, ambition, couples, alienation, lifestyle, actress, small town, small town life, parenthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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Fairhaven (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.
Style: realistic, sincere, captivating, thought provoking, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, funeral, small town, homecoming, introspection, estrangement, social relations, unfulfillment, death of father, student athlete, high school friends, village ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The One That Got Away (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Joanna, recently divorced, decided to return with her daughter to the town where she was born. There, she confronts the memories of the past when he meets his former lover, now married.
Style: captivating, sentimental, psychological, emotional, touching ...
Plot: gossip, divorce, fish out of water, small town, homecoming, couples, fall in love, family relations, lawyer, theft, single mother, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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18%
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Get Real (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Get Real was a short-lived comedy-drama on the FOX Network centering on the fictional Green family of Los Angeles. It ran from September 1999 to April 2000. It starred Eric Christian Olsen and Anne Hathaway in very early roles, as the older siblings ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, gay lead character, high school, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family relations, siblings relations, youth, love and romance, brother brother relationship, teenager, high school life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, san francisco
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18%
The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
Style: touching, sincere, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, family outing
Plot: writers, friendship, writer's life, dog, single parent, redemption, family relations, vacation, hopes, alcohol abuse, misfit, disability ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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18%
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Passionada (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: starting over, parents and children, gambling, love affair, teenage life, opposites attract, small town, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, small town life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, massachusetts
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18%
The Beauty Inside (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The story of "The Beauty Inside" is the story of a guy named Alex who wakes up every day as a different person. He is always the same person on the inside but on the outside he is somebody else. When he meets Leah and falls in love ...
Style: touching, sentimental, surreal, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: physical appearance, switching roles, true love, fall in love, bittersweet, supernatural, love story, passion, personal growth, sexual content, lonely, body swapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Changing Hearts (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A modern Prodigal Son story starring Brian McNamara, Daphne Zuniga, and Brad Johnson. James Reed, quite content with his current life, reluctantly returns home to the family business, a sick father, and a brother with whom he's always at odds.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: family business, homecoming, parents and children, family problems, family relations, workplace, small town, marital argument, getting home, business, relationships, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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18%
Billy & Billie (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Billy & Billie centers on two young adults as they fall in love. They face the usual barrage of attention from their friends and family, and the normal anxieties that come at the start of a new relationship-all further complicated by the fact ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, hilarious
Plot: stepbrother stepsister relationship, step siblings, fall in love, eccentric family, family relations, forbidden love, society, couples, love and romance, family problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, incest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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18%
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My Generation (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A documentary crew follows the stories of nine classmates during their high school years in Austin, Texas, and then revisits them ten years later to examine how far they have come.
Style: sincere, sentimental, humorous, realistic, serious ...
Plot: childhood sweetheart, high school, youth, friendship, lifestyle, adulthood, self fulfillment, friends, hopes, teenage life, social relations, videotaping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, austin texas
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18%
No Looking Back (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, working class, rock, old love, waitress, love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, family relations, couples, friends, social relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
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18%
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The Kitchen (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jennifer's thirtieth birthday party is supposed to be a special day. But what starts out as a day of celebration quickly spirals into a most ill-fated day Jennifer wishes she could forget, in this ensemble comedy set entirely in a kitchen.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: birthday, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, food, dishonesty, friendship, siblings relations, infidelity, wine, isolation, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Majestic (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Style: feel good, sentimental, inspirational, touching, period piece ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, mistaken identity, writers, writer's life, amnesia, happy ending, justice, life philosophy, hollywood, memory loss, memory, parents and children ...
Time: 1950s, year 2001, 20th century, 50s, year 1951
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Men of a Certain Age (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 942 min.
TV show
Story: Men of a Certain Age is an American comedy-drama television series, which premiered on TNT on December 7, 2009. The hour-long program stars Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula as three best friends in their late forties dealing with the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: group of friends, midlife crisis, friendship, family relations, bonding, family life, parenthood, old friend, salesman, age difference, marriage, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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