Movies like Peyton Place: The Next Generation

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Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985)
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Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Another attempt to bring the 1960s primetime serial back to network television
Style: soap opera
Plot: generation, small town, scandal, village, missing person, family relations, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship, family secret, respect, husband wife relationship, secret, dark secret, town, city, reunion, mill, missing, search
Place: new england

Most similar movies to Peyton Place: The Next Generation

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, touching, romantic and realistic films with plots about family relations, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, love and romance, small town, mother daughter relationship and love affair mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Peyton Place: The Next Generation: Our Town (1977), The Good Life (2012), Return to Peyton Place (1961), Dearest Jane (2015), The Lost Husband (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Our Town (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
Plot: literary, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, wedding, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, small town, death, ghost, funeral, brother sister relationship, death in childbirth ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s
Place: new england, new hampshire
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95%
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The Good Life (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Christopher Nolen's "The Good Life" is the story of Jacques and Marianne Vandelay, a highly successful African American couple. They are happy but both are keeping dark secrets from each other.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, romantic, dark
Plot: couples, family secret, love and romance, relationships, romantic relationship, male female relationship, family relations, family life, secret, husband wife relationship, marital problem, african american ...
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85%
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
Style: retro, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: small town, scandal, family relations, dysfunctional family, infidelity, mother in law, family problems, couples, estrangement, social relations, society, youth ...
Time: year 1961, 50s
Place: new york, usa, new hampshire, massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Karen Kingsbury's A Time to Dance (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: John and Abby Reynolds are a married couple who have been together since their days as high school sweethearts—when John was a football hero and Abby dreamed of becoming a writer.
Style: feel good, touching, light, romantic, sweet ...
Plot: wedding, true love, mother daughter relationship, love and romance, love story, life philosophy, male female relationship, happy ending, middle age romance, family relations, marriage crisis, crumbling marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Dearest Jane (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young girl learn to accept love and change, after being sent to live with her uncle in Indiana.
Style: psychological, touching, suspense, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: friendship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, acceptance, love, father daughter relationship, death, family relations, love and romance, uncle niece relationship, small town, youth ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac is a 1997 television miniseries that served as a reunion show for the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. It aired on CBS in two two-hour parts on May 7 and May 9, 1997. The miniseries takes place four years ...
Style: soap opera
Plot: family relations, love, power, small town, marriage, reunion
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Lost Husband (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
Style: romantic, sincere, light, captivating, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: farm, farmer, widow, new life, new love, mother daughter relationship, mother child relationship, farmhouse, loss of husband, in love, fall in love, love story ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Reunion: Forbidden Love (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A romantic drama depicting a housewife vacillating between a former lover and her husband directed by Narita Yusuke who was involved in the "Abunai Deka" and "BE-BOP High School" series. Odashima Yumiko (Kumakiri Asami), a ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: ex boyfriend, husband wife relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, ex couple relations, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love and romance, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic triangle, lovers reunited, romantic relationship, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Peyton Place (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969. Based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation. A ...
Style: soap opera
Plot: small town, town, women, virginity, drug addiction, teenager, dysfunctional family, overprotective parent, double standard, abusive parent, young love, morality ...
Place: new hampshire, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Love Finds You in Valentine (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.
Style: romantic, light, entertaining, realistic
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rancher, horse, family history, ranch, small town, love and romance, romanticism, relationships, suburban life, small town life, love affair, grandfather ...
Place: usa, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Only Thrill (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfaithfulness, widow, small town, hospital, bittersweet, family problems, social relations, couples, family relations, single parent, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1997, 60s, 90s, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
After Ever Happy (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: As a shocking truth about a couple's families emerges, the two lovers discover they are not so different from each other. Tessa is no longer the sweet, simple, good girl she was when she met Hardin — any more than he is the cruel, moody boy ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, romantic
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love, teenage crush, infatuation, lovers, relationships, couple relations, family secret, friendship, love and romance, relationship problems, love story, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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For One Night (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combining the proms, which would also mean more money for decorations. However, her idea shook the town up, ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sexual
Audience: teen drama
Plot: high school, racism, racial tension, family relations, small town, prom, teenage life, society, lifestyle, youth, friendship, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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See Girl Run (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, couples, small town, unfulfillment, ex lover, love and romance, family relations, coming of age, graduation, thirtysomething life, dull life, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
My Mother, the Mermaid (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, ...
Style: mind twisting, romantic, captivating, touching, mind bending
Plot: time travel, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, missing father, family relations, search for father, family secret, male female relationship, uncover truth, love and romance, husband wife relationship, relationships ...
Place: jeju island
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Valentino Returns (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This film successfully reaches its target of depicting components of small town life in the city of Stockton and its environs, where most of the filming took place. Set in the mid-1950s, the work stars Frederic Forrest and Veronica Cartwright as a ...
Style: independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, daughter, parents, female nudity, male nudity, parents son relationship, slice of life, caught having sex, best friend, young love, preacher, biker ...
Time: 1950s, year 1989
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Color My World with Love (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Emma's daughter Kendall becomes engaged, but Emma is concerned as Kendall and her fiancé have Down Syndrome and Emma worries she's not ready to take this step.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: down syndrome, relationships, couple relations, family relations, lifestyle, love interest, male female relationship, social problems, love and romance, family problems, kids and family, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
No Greater Love (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jeff and Heather Baker were life long sweethearts and happily married... for a time. But at her greatest moment of weakness, Heather abandons Jeff, forcing Jeff to raise their young son alone. Ten years later, through a God ordained encounter, Jeff ...
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: christian, faith, church, couples, estrangement, missing person, family relations, pregnancy, babies and infants, society, single parent, forgiveness ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Baking Spirits Bright (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mira Varma takes pride in her family's business of making fruitcakes, despite the decline in its popularity of once being America's most-gifted holiday confection. When Mira's parents decide to hire Brady Phillips and his high-powered ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: christmas, coping, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, life, family business, love, love affair, ambition, relationships, family relations, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Seni Çok Bekledim (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: While the dirty secrets of the two families are revealed one by one, the love of Kadir and Ayliz has to pass this test.
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: family secret, relationship problems, secret, relationships, marital problem, love story, husband wife relationship, romantic relationship, male female relationship, family relations, family problems, love affair ...
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35%
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Texasville (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. ...
Style: independent film, crying, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: depression, dysfunctional family, small town, midlife crisis, homecoming, wealth, husband wife relationship, nostalgia, mental illness, reconciliation, dysfunctional marriage, dog ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Romeo & Juliet (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
Plot: shakespeare's romeo and juliet, shakespeare, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, love, father daughter relationship, family relations, male female relationship, teenager
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Romance at Reindeer Lodge (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Molly and Jared have both sworn off holiday events. When they find themselves stuck at a Christmas-themed ranch, they have no choice but to allow their cynical hearts to melt.
Style: feel good, romantic, touching, sweet, romantic drama
Audience: chick flick
Plot: christmas, christmas romance, love affair, love, couples, hopes, fall in love, destiny, friendship, youth, christmas spirit, snow ...
Place: chicago, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Secret Lives of Second Wives (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Lynn Hughes finds that marriage the second time around is far from idyllic when the ex wife and her children return to manipulate her husband Jack.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: second wife, ex couple relations, marital problem, ex husband ex wife relationship, troubled marriage, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, family life, ex husband, manipulative woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
Plot: polygamy, open relationship, misandry, affair, romantic triangle, disease, boarder, womanizer, family relations, disability, marriage, friendship ...
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33%
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Battlecreek (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Henry is a loner and a night owl. His rare skin disease has kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire life. One night, a young woman's car breaks down and Henry's life will change forever.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological thriller
Plot: skin disease, relationship problems, family relations, lifestyle change, couple relations, male female relationship, love affair, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, relationships, small town life, illness ...
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33%
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Fanny (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is ...
Style: independent film, touching, feel good, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teenage pregnancy, boat, broadway, yacht, loneliness, girl, journey, love, ocean, couples, relationship vs career, love affair ...
Time: year 1961, 1930s
Place: marseille, france, belgium, europe
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33%
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The Wash (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the transition to leave her husband and go to this fellow.
Style: independent film
Plot: family relations, east asian lead, mother daughter relationship, haunted by the past, wife leaves husband, racist, ex husband ex wife relationship, family drama, interracial marriage, unhappy wife, widower, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Summer and Smoke (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door. A 1961 film, adapted from a Tennessee Williams play, starring Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey, John McIntire, Una Merkel and Rita ...
Style: southern gothic, retro, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, unfulfilled love, spinster, womanizer, summer, stage play, family relations, repression, small town life, love triangle, loneliness, unrequited love ...
Time: year 1961, 1910s, pre world war one
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Love Always, Santa (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After losing her husband Bradley three years ago on Christmas Day, Celia Banks never thought she’d fall in love again. Now, her entire world revolves around taking care of her daughter, Lilly. Lilly writes a letter to Santa with one wish – for ...
Style: light, entertaining, romantic, captivating, romantic drama
Plot: christmas, christmas romance, love story, snow, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, inspiration ...
Place: minnesota, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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