Movies like The Gin Game 1981

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The Gin Game (1981)
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The Gin Game (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Set in an old folks home, senior citizen Weller Martin (Hume Cronyn) has the disease of Old Age, meets an old woman named Fonsia Dorsey (Jessica Tandy) who's diabetic. They both discuss issues such as society, the hospitals, money, families, and the folks home where they live, over a game of Gin Rummy. Fonsia has never played before so Weller teachers her. Instantly she goes on a winning streak, making it very hard for Weller not to lose his temper. But he does. Both put out an excellent performance with a lot of swearing!
Plot: elderly, stage play, theatre play, retirement home, drink, filmed play, wife and husband lead actors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about elderly, family relations, retirement home, friendship, aging, couples and old man mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Gin Game: Foxfire (1987), To Dance with the White Dog (1993), Camilla (1994), Hamlet (1964), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Foxfire (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handle the wilderness on her own.
Style: realistic, uplifting, emotional, feel good, touching
Plot: afterlife, hillbilly, mountain, family relations, couples, elderly, human spirit, hopes, ghost, couple relations, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, appalachia, florida
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To Dance with the White Dog (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is the touching story of an elderly widower trying to work through his grief. When Sam Peek's beloved wife, Cora, dies, a white dog suddenly materializes as his new companion and confidant. Sam takes the dog on a nostalgic journey which ...
Style: tear jerker, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Camilla (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Freda Lopez, an aspiring musician, travels with her husband to the beautiful beaches of Georgia where she befriends Camilla, an odd and exotic elderly woman who plays the violin. When the two embark on a journey together, Camilla reclaims a lost ...
Style: feel good, sincere, touching, sentimental, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, friendship, couples, self discovery, aging, elderly, road trip, violin, senior citizen, girl, kidnapping, best friend ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: georgia, cincinnati ohio, toronto ontario canada
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77%
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The Gin Game (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This powerfully bittersweet comedy follows the relationship that develops between nursing home residents Fonsia (Mary Tyler Moore) and Weller (Dick Van Dyke) during a series of gin games in which their ailments, misfortunes and losses are exposed in ...
Plot: retirement home, genie, friendship, card playing, sad ending, estranged family member, dancing, money, deception, anger, single mother, male female relationship ...
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Hamlet (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story: A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
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Plot: friendship, small town, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, small town life, cannibalism, female bonding, midlife crisis, female protagonist, discrimination, lesbian love ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana
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The Locket (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.
Style: sentimental, uplifting, sincere, touching, serious ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.
Style: psychological, captivating, social, apocalyptic
Plot: elderly, quarantine, pandemic, isolation, lifestyle change, retirement home, epidemic, workplace, isolated house, dystopia, social realism, father daughter relationship ...
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Last Man Club (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A WW2 veteran destined for life in a retirement home escapes his difficult family situation and embarks on a cross country adventure to find the last remaining members of his B-17 bomber crew with the help of a beautiful accomplice.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: friendship, veteran, young woman, elderly man, woman in danger, escapades, old friends reunited, world war two veteran, runaway, elderly, friends, reunited friends ...
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Max Rose (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An ageing jazz pianist learns something about his wife of 65 years, leading him to question their life together.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: aging, introspection, jazz, flashback sequence, memory, death of wife, friendship, elderly, dishonesty, dealing with death, wife, death ...
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The Glass Menagerie (1966)
Genre: Drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dean Jones is Saint John in this intimate, inspiring one-man presentation of John in exile on Patmos. Full of humor, strong in spirit, and resolutely committed to Christ, John shares his account of the events that changed the course of human ...
Style: one man show
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Time: 1st century
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The Little Bedroom (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 87 min.
Story: One day, a bad fall forces Edmond to accept Rose's help. Eventually, the two grow closer. The young woman finds relief in confiding painful memories to the older man; things she cannot even bring herself to tell her husband. Meanwhile, Edmond, ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: retirement home, against the rules, family relations, aging, confined, elderly, parents and children, nursing, solitude, social relations, dealing with death, rebellion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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The Brig (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: aging, family relations, on the run, elderly, couple relations, nursing, haunted by the past, youth, love and romance, introspection, parents and children, couples ...
Time: year 2007
Place: canada
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Away from Her (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
Style: sincere, melancholic, sentimental, depressing, realistic ...
Plot: elderly, alzheimer's disease, mental illness, true love, loneliness, love, tragedy, existentialism, marriage, human spirit, fighting illness, hopes ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
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Annie's Point (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Annie (Bette White) wants to disperse her husband's ashes at a locale in California that they had named Annie's Point. Annie needs a bypass immediately and she wants to send out the ashes on her 50th wedding anniversary.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic
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It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Tells the story of Paul (Steven C. Stewart), a man suffering from Cerebal Palsy, who spends his days wasting away in a nursing home. To pass his time, he fantasizes about the man he should be despite his twisted body. People are able to understand ...
Style: experimental, serious, surreal, atmospheric, explicit ...
Audience: adult
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: serious, emotional, sincere, touching, independent film ...
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Opening Night (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
Style: independent film, serious, cerebral, thought provoking, art house ...
Plot: aging, actor, actress, theater, thoughtful, beat generation, existentialism, strong female lead, art, mental disorder, time travel, filmmaking ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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24%
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her colored chauffeur Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters in a time when those ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family outing
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Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: georgia, atlanta georgia, usa
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A Lady in Paris (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Estonia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. ...
Style: witty, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: elderly, love and romance, friendship, boss and employee, power relations, unfulfilled love, obnoxious boss, unfulfillment, emigration, loneliness, immigrant, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Duck (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An elderly man loses his wife and is in despair. He saves the life of a duck
Style: touching, uplifting, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot: pets, redemption, self discovery, on the road, orphan, hopes, survival, elderly, family relations, bittersweet, death in the family, homelessness ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Zatoichi Live (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Takashi Miike directs a stage version of Zatoichi, the tale of the blind swordsman.
Plot: martial arts, samurai, zatoichi, stage play, filmed play
⇓ similarity ⇓
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