Movies like The True-Hearted

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The True-Hearted (1992)
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The True-Hearted (1992)
Original name: 心香
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The film illustrates classical Beijing Opera in different generations and the boy’s process of growing-up.
Plot: student, friendship, divorce, boy, family relations, old man, neighborhood, memory, childhood, girl, father son relationship, buddhist, opera, tradition, husband wife relationship, generation, aunt, 10 year old, friend, grandfather grandson relationship, divorced parents, husband wife reunion, absent husband, voice over narration, mother son relationship ...
Place: taiwan

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Most similar movies to The True-Hearted

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, sincere and serious films with plots about family relations, friendship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, friend, youth and boy mostly in Drama, Music and Family genres. Some movies like The True-Hearted: See You Tomorrow (1992), Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014), Together (2002), Tango Argentino (1992), Cavedweller (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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See You Tomorrow (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: No overview found
Plot: comic book, voice over narration, doctor, old woman, ritual, death, boy, dying, mortality, childhood, classmate, friendship ...
Time: 60s
Place: switzerland, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A struggling musician becomes a 12-year-old musical prodigy's guardian for a summer.
Style: psychological, light, contemplative, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: boy, friendship, child prodigy, au pair, prodigy, nanny, cellist, father son relationship, musician, young boy, fall in love, family relations ...
Place: usa, new york, new york state, manhattan new york city
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59%
 7.4
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Together (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - ...
Style: touching, sentimental, stylized, uplifting, atmospheric ...
Plot: father son relationship, youth, music, coming of age, prodigy, rise to the top, musician's life, teenage life, hopes, teachers and students, humanity, family relations ...
Time: year 2002
Place: china, beijing china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Tango Argentino (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.
Style: pre war
Plot: tango, retirement home, dysfunctional family, child's point of view, orchestra, music teacher, caretaker, communism, dog, singer, boy, father son relationship ...
Place: eastern europe, serbia, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Cavedweller (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A traumatic event sends a musician (Sedgwick) back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters she abandoned. To do so, she must confront her abusive ex-husband (Quinn), from whom she fled years ago.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, sexy
Plot: husband wife relationship, friendship, mother daughter relationship, musician, family problems, family relations, musician's life, troubled marriage, dysfunctional marriage, family life, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Vitus (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
Style: sincere, semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching ...
Plot: child prodigy, prodigy, boy, youth, music, coming of age, childhood, family relations, pianist, parents and children, overbearing parent, friendship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: switzerland, europe, zurich switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
My Friend Henry (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: childhood, parent child relationship, friendship, mental health, shoplifting, child, family relations, friend, father son relationship, family tragedy, secret, responsibility ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 8.7
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Orpheus (1978)
Genre: Music, Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Filmed 28 march - 20 April. Sound recorded 1 - 25 ...
Plot: opera, italian opera, hell, husband wife relationship, opera live performance
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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A Piggy Tale (1991)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Story: Dolly, a lovely, adorable little girl from the mountain region. Due to the death of her parents, she was sent to her parents' friend, Mrs. Chu's care. When Dolly and her mini pig playmate, Guava, first came to Taipei, they brought a great ...
Plot: family relations, pig, father son relationship, surrogate family, animal, girl, orphan, husband wife relationship, death of father, friendship, friend, death of mother
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Promise to Keep (1990)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Middle class parents, who already have three kids, take in their four orphaned nephews.
Audience: toddlers
Plot: youth, family relations, financial problem, composer, sea, train crash, cancer, death, uncle, brother brother relationship, children, piano ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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DonT Stop (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Prague, 1983. The communist regime, in a suffocating atmosphere ruled over by the secret police, imposes "normalization". Miki and David need some kind of motivation to carry on in the communist wasteland. They discover The Clash's ...
Style: freeze frame
Plot: father son relationship, friendship between men, teen rebel, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, student, teenage boy, friendship, rock music, husband wife relationship, musician, friend ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.5
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Cat's Play (1974)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. In this follow-up to the ...
Plot: shopping, unfaithfulness, fate, male female relationship, physicist, lost, old man, old woman, old age, retirement, memory, gluttony ...
Place: munich germany, hungary, west germany, frankfurt germany, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Dance of the Wind (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The mother of the Indian female singer Pallavi (Kitu Gidwani) is at the end of her life. She was master and teacher for her daughter for the art of Indian singing. But she will not be able to complete her lessons. So Pallavi experiences the lack of ...
Plot: little girl, death of mother, singing, emancipation, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, concert, death, tradition, singer, mourning, solitude ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Los Fabulosos 7 (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this story, a musical group whose music sets the mood for Events, finds itself at a very crucial moment in its carreer. All of the members face the dilemma of fighting for their dreams or quitting forever.
Plot: male nudity, rehearsal, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, cocaine, unfaithful wife, jazz band
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The King of Masks (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot: children, art, women, monkey, circus, coming of age, poverty, opera, culture clash, loneliness, artist, actor ...
Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century, 1900s
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Armageddon Time (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A deeply personal story about the strength of family, the complexity of friendship, and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
Style: semi autobiographical, disturbing, captivating, psychological, period drama
Plot: boy, american dream, coming of age, friendship, first day of school, grandfather grandson relationship, brother brother relationship, urban setting, childhood, father son relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, high school friend ...
Time: year 1980, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 8K
Saraband (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The movie is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), where we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still ...
Style: psychological, emotional, meditative, sincere, touching ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, parenthood, character study, introspection, love and romance, parents and children, human nature, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, hopes ...
Time: year 2003
Place: eastern europe, munich germany, helsinki finland, florence, hamburg germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Borrowed Life (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule before WWII.
Style: family saga, period drama
Plot: biopic, family relations, father son relationship, boy, poverty, communism, countryside, nationalism
Time: 1950s
Place: taiwan, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Crows (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 66 min.
Story: A thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining a lover or is asleep. One morning, Crow sees ...
Style: surreal
Plot: children, magic realism, childhood, coming of age, woman, nudity, family relations, daydreamer, child neglect, child abduction, nude bathing, female nudity ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.1
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Sam & Me (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 23-year-old Nikhil comes to Canada from India to find his fortune and is convinced by his uncle to work as a companion and care-giver to Sam, an elderly Jewish man. An unlikely friendship ensues, which gives both men new insight into life.
Style: independent film, intercultural
Plot: immigrant, tradition, friendship, friend, transvestite, uncle nephew relationship, servant, party, fired from the job, family relations, interracial relations, tragic event ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Our Shining Days (2017)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A youth inspirational film, about how a group of high school students try to revive Chinese orchestra ensemble. They face many challenges along the way to compete nationally, including a rivalry with the more popular Western orchestra club.
Style: captivating, disturbing, entertaining
Plot: high school student, high school, orchestra, coping, school club, musician, student, problem solving, ambition, high school life, school, contest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.9
 2K
The Silence (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Iran, Tajikistan, France
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Khorshid lives with his mom in a house near a river somewhere in Tajikistan. Th landlord comes around every morning to ask for the rent. Khorshid has to provide the money or else they'll have to leave. His blindness has given him an amazing ...
Style: islamic, independent film, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, musician, blindness, boy, disability, muslim, family relations, eviction, blind boy, family drama, blind child, youth ...
Time: 90s
Place: middle east, iran, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, youth, lifestyle, friends, parents and children, black, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, blaxploitation ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: new york, usa, pennsylvania, russia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Revolving Doors (1988)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Set in a small Quebec town in the late '20s, this moving drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist, who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film accompanist. As an ...
Plot: male female relationship, interracial relations, family relations, jazz, widow, self sacrifice, african american, musician, teenage girl, artist, unemployment, piano ...
Time: 1920s
Place: new york, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.7
 142K
Billy Elliot (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, friendship, childhood, gay, audition, poverty, follow your dream, boxing ...
Time: year 1984, 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s ...
Place: england, northern england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Waiting for Happiness (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Mauritania
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot: isolation, prostitute, beach, desert, social relations, hopes, teenage life, culture clash, african, blaxploitation, black, alienation ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa, europe, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.4
 111K
August Rush (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style: touching, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: music, musician, childhood, prodigy, orphan, child prodigy, dancing, child protagonist, genius, youth, chance meeting, children ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, xian, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.8
 67K
The Chorus (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
Style: touching, inspirational, uplifting, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, teacher, childhood, music, teachers and students, children, boss, boarding school life, musician, friendship, orphan, school ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2004
Place: france, new york, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.5
 254
Boy's Choir (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: choir, music teacher, boys' school, singer, friendship, boys' choir, orphan, friendship between boys, gay, musician, relationships, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.5
 148
Lace (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Egypt
Story: Directed by Inas Al Degheidy.
Plot: family relations, divorce, friend, lawyer, singer, love, love triangle, marriage, dancing, husband wife relationship, singing, polygamy ...
Place: alexandria egypt, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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