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After Thomas (2006)
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After Thomas (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with his dog, Thomas.
Style: captivating, motivational, entertaining
Plot: autism, parenthood, disability, dog, coping, fighting illness, relationships, family relations, relationship problems, problem, family problems, husband wife relationship, problem solving, little boy, couple relations, friendship, youth, illness, boy, mental health, animal, boyhood, autist, hospital, grandmother ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, sincere and touching films with plots about family relations, family problems, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, relationships, couple relations and male female relationship mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like After Thomas: Almost Like Us (2015), Before the Vigil (2013), A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009), Miracle Run (2004), Then Barbara Met Alan (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Almost Like Us (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The film is a retelling the story of actor Francis Perrin and his autistic child. Séverine and Christophe are young loving parents. Very quickly, they must recognize that in their son Tom, contrary to the falsely soothing words of pediatricians ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating
Plot: coping, parents and children, perseverance, fighting illness, relationships, family relations, couple relations, male female relationship, parenthood, autism, husband wife relationship, parent child relationship
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95%
Before the Vigil (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: cancer, fighting illness, family relations, married couple, husband wife relationship, illness, coping, marriage, family problems, marital problem, problem, changing lives ...
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A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Just after losing her husband to a similar condition, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition. So she plans to end her life herself. Based on a true story.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense
Plot: euthanasia, wanting to die, family relations, doctor, female doctor, sick woman, illness, social problems, relationship problems, sick, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch ...
Place: switzerland
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60%
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Miracle Run (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Single mom Corrine discovers that her twins are autistic. She refuses to give up on their potential, even though it seems that the rest of the world has turned its back on them. Thanks to this incredible mother's support, her boys accomplish ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, touching
Plot: twins, disability, youth, human spirit, against the odds, family relations, hopes, single parent, society, mentally challenged, social misfits, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Then Barbara Met Alan (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 67 min.
Story: The untold disability civil-rights love story of two cabaret performers, Barbara and Alan, who met at a gig, fell in love, and became the driving force behind an unprecedented campaign of direct action that ultimately led to the passing of the 1995 ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, dramatic
Plot: disability, protest, love story, couples, political activism, social activism, activism, relationships, love, couple relations
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Dog Gone (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When his beloved dog goes missing, a young man embarks on an incredible search with his parents to find him and give him life-saving medication.
Style: psychological, realistic, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: missing dog, lost, father, dog, family relations, father and son, family problems, owner dog relationship, father son relationship, human dog relationship, problem, hiking ...
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49%
A Boy Called Po (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When David Wilson's young wife falls victim to cancer, he is left a single working dad with the sole responsibility of caring for his sixth grade son with autism. Patrick, who prefers to be called 'Po,' is a gifted but challenged ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, sentimental
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: autism, wife, middle school, cancer, parent child relationship, boy, family relations, parents and children, life philosophy, disorder, friendship, illness ...
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To Olivia (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relationship put to the test by a tragic loss.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, depressing
Plot: bereavement, family tragedy, biopic, marriage, family problems, child illness, parents and children, terminal illness, fighting illness, illness, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship ...
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44%
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When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot: father son relationship, memory, coming of age, teenager, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, death, writers ...
Time: year 2007, 80s, 60s, year 1962, year 1989
Place: brighton, london
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43%
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I Am Potential (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A father's journey to help his blind and wheel-chair bound son to overcome impossible odds and allow the world to see his God-given potential.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, christian film
Plot: father, wheelchair bound, handicapped, coping, disabled child, father and son, christian, father son relationship, family relations, kids and family, parenthood, physical disability ...
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41%
The Lighthouse of the Orcas (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A mother travels to Patagonia with her autistic son with the hope that a ranger and a pod of wild orcas can help him find an emotional connection.
Style: sincere, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, cute
Audience: chick flick
Plot: autism, parent child relationship, love, lighthouse, boss, fall in love, couples, illness, youth, special needs, water, wild animal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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41%
In the Name of the Land (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to find Claire his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded, so did the family. It's the time of happy days, at least at the beginning. The debts accumulate and ...
Style: thought provoking, touching, captivating, melancholic, light
Audience: kids
Plot: farm, family relations, husband wife relationship, medicine, peasant, father son relationship, love, family life, family farm, family problems, friendship, countryside ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1979
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Gabby Petito Story (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Follows Gabby's tragic murder. Centering in her complicated relationship with her fiancé Brian Laundrie and what may have gone wrong during their cross-country trip. The disappearance of Gabby Petito captured America’s attention, setting off ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating
Plot: mental health, relationship problems, couple relations, family problems, problem, murder mystery, life is a bitch, murderer, male female relationship, murder
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Nowhere Special (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Romania, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, ...
Style: sentimental, disturbing, sincere, captivating, sad ...
Plot: father son relationship, single father, single parent, dying father, terminal illness, foster home, family relations, father, adoption, parents and children, father and son, relationships ...
Place: northern ireland
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37%
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The Pension (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The four stories that possibly or impossibly can be happened in the pension; The parents who lost their child go to the pension with poison where the killer stays with his family; The husband and wife on a trip who are growing tired of their married ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, anthology
Plot: relationship problems, male female relationship, marital problem, husband wife relationship, multiple storylines, family tragedy, life is a bitch, family problems, relationships, family relations, couples, problem ...
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36%
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Emily & Tim (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: marriage, love and romance, family life, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, relationships, family problems, love interest, male female relationship, family relations, couple relations, love affair ...
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31%
Enslavement: The True Story Of Fanny Kemble (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble fictionalized made-for-TV movie adapted from her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, starring Jane Seymour and Keith Carradine.
Style: disturbing, captivating, sincere, period drama
Plot: slave, slavery, class struggle, showdown, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, fighting the system, social problems, family problems, domineering husband, family relations, social differences ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s
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30%
A House on Fire (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A House on Fire follows brilliant doctor and mother Deborah Green (Stephanie March) who had the epitome of a picture-perfect life with two children, an adoring husband (Shaun Benson) and a beautiful house in an opulent neighborhood. But behind the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional
Plot: unhappy marriage, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, relationships, dysfunctional marriage, marital crisis, troubled marriage, family relations, family life, female protagonist, family problems, marriage ...
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30%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Drowning in the depths of depression and sadness, burning with anger, and chained down by alcoholism, Jonathan couldn’t do it anymore. After the loss of his father as a young boy, facing countless horrific death scenes in the line of duty, and the ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, semi serious, suspenseful, christian film
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30%
Time Of My Life (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 'Tot altijd' introduces us to a band of friends in the eighties, who spend their days enjoying their youth and turbulent (love) life. Years later, Thomas, a recent medicine graduate and Mario's closest friend, ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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30%
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Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare ...
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, inspirational, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: terminal illness, human spirit, against the odds, family relations, medical, life is a bitch, disability, courage, cure, family drama, boy, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1984, year 1983, year 1986 ...
Place: washington d.c., pittsburgh, italy, rome italy, boston ...
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29%
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My Ain Folk (1973)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
Story: When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and ...
Style: bleak, art house, depressing, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: youth, children, childhood, autobiography, neglect, biopic, teenage life, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, boarding school life, down on your luck ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: scotland, europe
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28%
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The Son (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: mental health, divorced parents, family conflict, father, teen angst, depression, suicide, couple relations, father and son, love story, ex couple relations, family relations ...
Place: washington d.c., new york
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28%
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Meditation Park (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: suspicion of adultery, relationship problems, relationships, family relations, eccentric family, male female relationship, family problems, marriage crisis, dysfunctional family, suspicion, couple relations, marital infidelity ...
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27%
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David's Mother (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional
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Time: 90s
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27%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rendered a quadriplegic since a child from a near-fatal neck injury, a young girl fights against all odds to succeed in life from grade school to her acceptance into college under the assistance of her loyal and dedicated mother.
Style: sincere, uplifting, touching, sentimental, saga ...
Plot: quadriplegic, disability, college, against the odds, hospital, teenage love, human spirit, lifestyle, ambition, parents and children, family problems, survival ...
Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The love-hate relations between a girl and his disabled brother.
Style: sincere, captivating, social
Plot: down syndrome, incest, autism, incest overtones, brother sister relationship, problem solving, lifestyle, family problems, family life, brother, care, social problems ...
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26%
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Hattie (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Hattie is a television film on the life of the British comic actress Hattie Jacques, played by Ruth Jones, her marriage to John Le Mesurier (Robert Bathurst) and her affair with their lodger John Schofield (Aidan Turner).
Style: captivating
Plot: husband wife conflict, husband wife relationship, love story, jealousy, lovers, relationship problems, marriage, love interest, forbidden love, dysfunctional marriage, love affair, marital problem ...
Time: 60s
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26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, anthology
Plot: male female relationship, one night stand, relationship problems, marital infidelity, husband wife relationship, couple relations, family relations, relationships, infidelity, marital problem, married couple, marriage ...
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26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ben and Maura have been married for years, and they are in a rut…so much of a rut that they are contemplating if it would be better to live separate lives. That’s when their two teenage children step in and scheme to try to get them back ...
Style: romantic, captivating, emotional
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26%
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