Movies like Heaven's Door

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Heaven's Door (2012)
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Heaven's Door (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Julie Taylor has a problem how to cope with a pending divorce, find meaningful employment, live with her mother's constant advice and raise her two children. In their small rural town it isn't so much what people say as what they believe. And since the death of her father her no-holds-barred mother has been leaning more toward the belief that angels and heaven is right here with them. Unseen but as real as this world.
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, captivating, light, serious, emotional
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, parents and children, supernatural, miraculous event, family relations, small town, social relations, small town life, parallel world, christian, spirituality, girl, afterlife, society, parents separation, religions or cults, christmas, dog, cat, truck, halloween, model, illness, cemetery, mechanic ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, captivating and feel good films with plots about youth, family relations, parents and children, small town, friendship, small town life and hopes mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Heaven's Door: The Heart of Christmas (2011), The Christmas Bunny (2010), Miracle Dogs Too (2006), Christmas Spirit (2011), Mary Christmas (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Heart of Christmas (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Dax Ryan Locke, born to Julie and Austin Locke on June 26, 2007, was diagnosed with AML M7, a rare form of leukemia, when he was 13 months old. The Heart of Christmas is set in Washington, Illinois and at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, ...
Style: touching, uplifting, emotional, sad, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: sad ending, terminal illness, sick child, christmas, child illness, parents and children, family life, dealing with death, small town, leukemia, cancer, blog ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
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The Christmas Bunny (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Christmas Bunny tells the story of a lonely foster child (Sophie Bolen) who finds a lost, injured rabbit in the woods on Christmas Eve. The rabbit is nursed back to health by The Bunny Lady (Florence Henderson), who runs a rabbit rescue in an ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: christmas, family relations, friendship, nursing, family life, pets, coming of age, orphan, youth, farm, rabbit, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
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Miracle Dogs Too (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Zack, a young boy, finds two cocker spaniels caged in the woods and takes them home. The animals, Sissy and Buddy, have magical healing powers that change the people of a small town.
Style: sentimental, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: dog, small town, family relations, miraculous event, parents and children, hopes, animal life, young heroes, human spirit, pets, magic, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Christmas Spirit (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A cynical youth whose mother is about to lose her job right before the holidays is visited by a magical Christmas spirit.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, family life, youth, family relations, unemployment, parents and children, supernatural, friendship, miraculous event, dog, stupid kid, christmas season ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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Mary Christmas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Californian widower Joel Wallace, a successful businessman, is a great catch in a grand mansion, but absorbed by his work. His daughter Felice writes to a TV Christmas special, hoping for a 'new mammy'.
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, family relations, nanny, single parent, hopes, family life, fall in love, wish come true, parents and children, birth mother, television reporter, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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A Place Called Home (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tula Jetters is a stubborn widow living her older years in a huge, yet crumbling, country house. Wary of visitors, her routine is shaken by two con artists, Hank Ford and his daughter Cali, who are eying up Tula as their next victim.
Style: captivating, light, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, manipulation, small town, estate, parents and children, con artists, teenage girl, escapades, friendship, love, aging, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Saving Shiloh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this third movie about Shiloh, Judd Travers is accused of killing a man he once fought in a bar. Everyone in the town consider Judd to be guilty except Marty Preston, but even him has some doubts. Trying to clear Judd's name Marty and his ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, saga
Audience: family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: dog, youth, mischievous children, friendship, rescue, best friend, pets, family life, animal actor, small town, child, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2006
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Smitty (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it takes to pull him through. Mischievous thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to his grandfather's farm for the summer, where he crosses paths with a ...
Style: sincere, captivating, light, feel good, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, pets, coming of age, single parent, farm, dog, redemption, hopes, teaching the ways of the world, friends ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa
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Underdogs (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in rural Ohio, the birthplace of football, UNDERDOGS is the story of a small-town high school football team destined to play their cross-town rival, a perennial powerhouse, while standing up for an entire community.
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot: american football, cheerleader, high school football, high school, underdog, sport team, ambition, human spirit, athlete and trainer, rivalry, youth, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
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100%
Love Finds A Home (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this sequel, Lillian has been adopted and it's several years later. Annie, married and pregnant, visits her fellow doctor friend, Dr. Owen. Dr Owen desperately wants a baby, but seems unable to become pregnant. Lillian finds a love ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly
Plot: crumbling marriage, couples, hopes, young lovers, couple relations, feminism, gender, small town, parents and children, family relations, small town life, youth ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, missouri
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100%
The Trial of Old Drum (2000)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story set in Missouri, "The Trial of Old Drum" tells the story of a valiant golden retriever, Old Drum, an orphan dog that becomes a boy's best friend and is then forced to stand trial for killing a neighbor's ...
Style: touching, realistic, light, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog, youth, courtroom drama, golden retriever, boy, legal investigation, against the odds, righting the wronged, family relations, legal action, pets, rivalry ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
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100%
Midnight Stallion (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Fifteen year old Megan Shephard and her parents will do anything to save their struggling farm. When they discover a wild stallion in a nearby forest they begin to wonder if this could be the answer to their prayers.
Style: feel good, captivating, light, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, kids
Plot: horse, family relations, contests and competitions, family business, wild horse, horse riding, social relations, human spirit, against the odds, farm, ambition, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
The Good Witch's Charm (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Good Witch Cassie Nightingale (Catherine Bell) is back to her bewitching ways, but this time she’s also juggling a newborn daughter and her job as town Mayor. With such a busy schedule she and her husband, town sheriff Jake Russell (Chris Potter), ...
Style: feel good, captivating, sincere, light, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: witch, good witch, social relations, small town, supernatural, save the day, magic, heist, false accusation, escapades, friendship, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
My Dog's Christmas Miracle (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: University professor Madeline Walters isn’t doing too well in the dating game. Good men are hard to find, so she’s happy spending time with her Maltese puppy Cinnamon, and her precocious teenage daughter Chloe.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, pets, save the day, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, single parent, nothing goes right, friendship, rivalry, talking dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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100%
Love's Abiding Joy (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie begins to realize her passion for teaching as Willie cares for the couple's young daughter ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: family relations, christian, family problems, optimism, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children, death in the family, love, death of child, faith, prairie ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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Shiloh (1996)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond with the dog and names him Shiloh. His stern father won't let him keep the dog because it belongs to ...
Style: sweet, touching, emotional, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family friendly, family outing, teen drama
Plot: dog, animal rescue, pets, youth, animal, greed, destiny, hopes, friendship, heroes, disorder, family relations ...
Time: 90s
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Angels Sing (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, friendship, coming of age, holiday, mysterious character, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
Change of Plans (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.
Style: humorous, sincere, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: custody, adoption, parents and children, life turned upside down, couple relations, disorder, family life, couples, youth, orphan, girl, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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A Town Without Christmas (2001)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child's letter to Santa Claus captures the nation's attention. When the little boy, Chris, writes that he wishes to leave this world so he will no longer be a burden to his divorcing parents, a race ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional
Plot: christmas, small town, parents and children, missing child, family problems, small town life, family in crisis, media, journalism, love and romance, letter, little boy ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: washington state, washington d.c.
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What If... (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Fifteen years ago, Ben Walker made a decision to leave his college sweetheart and ultimately his faith, in order to pursue a lucrative business opportunity. Now with a high-paying career and a trophy fiancé, he is visited by an angel, who gives him ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, light, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: spirituality, fish out of water, angel, faith, christian, religious, family relations, disorder, family life, lifestyle, miraculous event, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Chilly Christmas (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Bobby Cole and his dog Chilly are best friends, living happily in their Southern California beach house. But when Bobby's father Patrick (C. Thomas Howell), a single parent and police detective, accepts a job in New York City, ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, youth, pets, family relations, disorder, parents and children, father son relationship, holiday, save the day, best friend, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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100%
Candles on Bay Street (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: DeeDee returns to her hometown with her 11 year old son, Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend, Sam, is now married and he and his wife, Lydia, are the town's veterinarians. Lydia is a little wary ...
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot: veterinarian, adoption, single parent, homecoming, life is a bitch, parents and children, terminal illness, couples, couple relations, social relations, unfulfillment, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
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100%
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Snowmen (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three young friends find adventure and purpose in their attempts to set a Guinness World Record. Set in a wintry mountain town, the unpopular trio pursues fame through a series of schemes and stunts that eventually imperil their own lives. Along the ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: youth, friendship, human spirit, elementary school, ambition, desire for fame, terminal illness, against the odds, social relations, life is a bitch, family problems, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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A Christmas Wish (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: MARTHA EVANS has been abandoned by her ne'er-do-well husband, who took all their cash and left her homeless and virtually destitute with her two daughters and stepson. Martha leaves town in hopes of finding a job and a place to stay, she ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, single mother, christmas season, small town, family relations, parents and children, down on your luck, parent child relationship, money problems, wish fulfillment, christmas spirit ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Due East (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: single parent, teenage pregnancy, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, couples, family relations, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
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100%
When the Game Stands Tall (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.
Style: uplifting, captivating, exciting, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: american football, rise to the top, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, coach, ambition, small town, high school football, youth, football, sport team, christian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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An American Girl: Saige Paints the Sky (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Meet nine-year old Saige, a talented artist with a passion for horses, in this modern-day story about finding your voice! Saige is excited about the new school year, until she discovers that art-her favorite class-has been cut. On top of that, her ...
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, horse, american girl, friendship, school, family relations, balloon, singing, art, friends, female protagonist, teenage girl
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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K-9 Adventures: A Christmas Tale (2013)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Luke Perry stars in this heartwarming "tail." Kassie, her friends and her dog, Scoot, organize a holiday fundraiser, but must protect the cash from some crooks in order to save Christmas.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sincere, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: christmas, dog, police dog, youth, child hero, animal life, friends, single parent, escapades, xmas, society, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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A Fine Step (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, teens
Plot: horse, contests and competitions, friendship, starting over, athlete's life, parents and children, youth, ambition, rivalry, family relations, farm, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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