Movies like The Fourth Wish

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The Fourth Wish (1976)
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The Fourth Wish (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Style: crying, independent film, juvenile
Plot: dog, airplane, queen, youth, fishing, death, illness, desire, meteorite, beach, priest, hospital, church, tragedy, taxi, single father, lie, picture, mother daughter relationship, rain, photograph, crisis, strength, beer, mirror ...
Place: australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
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Most similar movies to The Fourth Wish

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and touching films with plots about apology, cigarette smoking, telephone call, telephone, opening a door, night and lying on bed mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like The Fourth Wish: High Tide (1987), Heatwave (1982), Hotel Sorrento (1995), Annie's Coming Out (1984), Wedding in White (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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High Tide (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, biting, touching ...
Plot: woman, women, youth, surfing, ocean, car trouble, life is a bitch, redemption, social misfits, unfulfillment, family relations, social relations ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Heatwave (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman attempts to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity.
Style: neo noir, retro, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: heat wave, christmas, redheaded woman, injustice, against the odds, fighting the system, rivalry, society, state affairs, rebellion, father daughter relationship, party ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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Hotel Sorrento (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir ...
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: beach, sibling relationship, couples, writers, seaside town, family reunited, love triangle, family secret, drowning, youth, elderly, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, london, england, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Annie's Coming Out (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It tells the story of a young female social worker who begins work at a hospital for retarded children, and discovers that some of the psychological problems attributed to these children are incorrectly diagnosed. Proving this to be the case is ...
Style: independent film, learning
Plot: disability, voice over narration, assassination attempt, dog, countdown, doctor, court, lawyer, young couple, boy, man with glasses, courtroom ...
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Wedding in White (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone ...
Style: independent film, crying
Plot: teenage pregnancy, world war two, dysfunctional family, rape, parent child relationship, daughter, father, redhead girl, older man younger woman romance, priest, staircase, store ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, post world war two
Place: canada
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74%
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Fast Talking (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
Style: independent film, detective
Plot: motorcycle, con artists, teenage boy, school expulsion, troubled teen, stealing a car, running from police, ex convict, corporal punishment, teacher student relationship, school principal, drug dealing ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Captain Johnno (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: "Captain Johnno" is a deaf boy who befriends an Italian fisherman in this Australian made-for-TV family film.
Style: children's story
Plot: coming of age, youth, deaf, young boy, physical disability, town, deaf child, man with glasses, teaching, priest, disability, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, year 1953
Place: south australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Style: independent film
Plot: judaism, boy, youth, renaissance, jewish culture, fishing, nostalgia, working class, tragic event, antique shop, bigger dreams, invention ...
Time: year 1975, 1920s
Place: eastern europe, middle east, montreal, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: fashion, model, photographer, fashion industry, fashion model, mental illness, photograph, modeling, photography, drug addiction, character study, sex crime ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, jamaica, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Lonely Hearts (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, crying, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: age-gap relationship, dating, looking for love, adult virgin, love affair, computers and web, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, lifestyle, hopes, human nature ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The FJ Holden (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Suburban Australia in the late 70s. It was the era of the drive-in movie, the Chico Roll girl and the beloved FJ Holden. Boasting drunken fist fights, back seat sex, illegal drag racing, a classic Oz rock soundtrack (featuring Ol'55, Skyhooks ...
Style: road movie, independent film
Plot: carsploitation, car, teenage girl, bare butt, teensploitation, television reporter, gas station, italian man, sex in car, security guard, police sergeant, tv reporter ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, juvenile delinquent, teenager, rebel, probation officer, breaking the law, pregnant girl, boat ride, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, job interview, lie ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Handyman (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles ...
Plot: two brothers, boy, husband wife relationship, friendship between men, sandwich, adultery, golf club, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, singing, telephone call, roommate ...
Time: year 1980
Place: montreal
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55%
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The Midwife (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, ...
Style: sentimental, suspense, touching, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hospital, illness, doctor, cancer, surgery, friend, friendship, drinking, student, death, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: year 2017
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Goin' Down the Road (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Story of desolation as two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life. Drifting from job to job: bottling plant, car wash, bowling alley, newspaper delivery, and in between enjoying the night life of the big city. ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: on the road, friendship, friends, female nudity, survival, train, waitress, snow, bowling, pregnancy, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 70s
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Brilliant Lies (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: sexual harassment, family relations, sexual abuse, feminism, couples, courtroom, power relations, siblings relations, sexual relations, courtroom drama, workplace situations, false accusation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Ticket to Heaven (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: sleep deprivation, religious cult, religion, religions or cults, sect, atheism, hidden treasure, brainwashing, mind control, society, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: toronto ontario canada, california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Seize the Day (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but ...
Style: depressing, independent film, realistic, bleak, semi serious ...
Plot: unemployment, hotel, marketing, startup, family relations, stock market, salesman, job seeking, stock exchange, literary, single parent, going straight ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, year 1956
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Custodian (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Det. Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his 'straight' life to partner in crime with his co-worker, ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: husband leaves wife, corruption, police corruption, corrupt, cop, marital separation, coffee shop, police raid, redheaded woman, rape and murder, internal affairs, undercover ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Beyond the Stars (1989)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the first man ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: astronaut, secret, outer space, waking up, male protagonist, tragedy, promise, father son relationship, space exploration, mother son relationship, space, disease ...
Time: year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Innocence (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her ...
Style: romantic, sincere, touching, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot: infidelity, aging, loneliness, lovers reunited, love triangle, crumbling marriage, family problems, adultery, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, love, death ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s
Place: melbourne, belgium, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Stacy's Knights (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyone has a talent, and dreams do come true. Stacy Lancaster has an incredible knack for Blackjack. Once she joins up with daring Will Bonner the two young gamblers are on a non-stop roll. Soon the casino wants to even the odds. How long can ...
Style: independent film, thinking
Plot: gambling, casino, bare chested male, black man, recruit, tragedy, night, dead man, threat, happy ending, winning, black american ...
Time: year 1983
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Sunday Too Far Away (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Friday night he's too tired. Saturday night too drunk.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, independent film, homoerotic
Plot: strike, australian outback, drug, exodus, male objectification, nudity, beer, workplace, ambition, unfulfillment, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1950s, year 1975, 50s, year 1956
Place: australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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James White (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style: sad, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, mother son relationship, gay, drinking, friendship, promise, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, drinking alcohol, new life, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, year 1983, year 2013
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, mexico
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40%
Unfinished Business (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don Owen's acclaimed 1964 film "Nobody Waved Good-bye", "Unfinished Business" ...
Style: independent film
Plot: homeless shelter, environmental, cycling, night, basketball, old woman, teddy bear, environmental activism, mirror, policewoman, swing, black boy ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
What They Had (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
Style: sentimental, captivating, sincere, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, memory loss, mother daughter relationship, drinking, lie, blizzard, self discovery, introspection, drinking alcohol, family drama, illness, dementia ...
Place: chicago, sacramento california, florida, california, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have ...
Style: touching, psychological, realistic, sentimental, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: redemption, coming of age, teacher, dysfunctional family, single father, family problems, parents and children, family life, life is a bitch, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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So B. It (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
Style: sad
Plot: mother daughter relationship, cross country, coming of age, young girl, mental disorder, mentally challenged person, foster parent, bank, lake, baby girl, mail, bus driver ...
Place: reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Marion Bridge (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother and old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, alcoholic, small town, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, family life, parents and children, family gatherings, human nature, life is a bitch, lesbian ...
Place: nova scotia, nova scotia, canada, canada, australia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Erskineville Kings (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Barky, 25, lost soul, left home two years ago to escape his abusive father leaving behind everything in the world that was important to him; now that his father's dead, he thinks it's safe to come home.
Style: cult classic, independent film
Plot: bad father, escape, father, belt whipping, brother brother conflict, family conflict, bare chested male, friendship, friend, father son relationship, beer, drinking ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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