Movies like Goodbye Christopher Robin
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Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
32K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.
Style:
thought provoking, sad, factual, melancholic, cynical, depressing, crying, inspirational, motivational, period drama ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers
Plot:
childhood, father son relationship, winnie the pooh, traumatic childhood, writers, biopic, fame, marital problem, playwright, husband wife relationship, bullying, nanny, toys, little boy, mother son relationship, child's point of view, overnight success, poet, writer's life, teasing, world war two, abandonment, youth, betrayal, summer ...
Time:
year 1941, post world war one, future, 1930s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1934
Place:
england, new york, london, west end london
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Most similar movies to Goodbye Christopher Robin
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, inspirational, serious and thought provoking films with plots about biopic, husband wife relationship, friendship, father son relationship, drinking, drinking alcohol and flashback mostly in Drama, Biography and Family genres. Some movies like Goodbye Christopher Robin: The Case for Christ (2017), Breathe (2017), Finding Neverland (2004), Beautiful Boy (2018), Saint-Ex (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.
Style:
christian film, disturbing, biblical, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
christianity, christian, atheist, investigation, journalist, faith, religion, reporter, trial, court case, religious, interview ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1980, year 1987
Place:
chicago, los angeles, california, indiana, jerusalem ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Switzerland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Style:
sad, touching, inspirational, compassionate, factual ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
disability, illness, supportive spouse, paralysis, marriage, husband wife relationship, love, hospital, quadriplegic, biopic, adaptation, human spirit ...
Time:
year 2017, 50s, year 1971, year 1981, year 1965 ...
Place:
africa, england, germany, spain, kenya
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, heartbreaking, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
single parent, writers, friendship, writer's life, parents and children, death, biopic, peter pan, stage play, country house, passion, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, turn of the century, future ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, canada
Similarity:
100%
125K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son Nic, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Style:
disturbing, rough, captivating, sentimental, social ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, boy, teenage boy, father son relationship, divorce, coming of age, rehabilitation, methamphetamine, drug use, teenager ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, los angeles, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Plot:
bedouin, writers, art, aviation, world war two, airplane, 007, poet, friend, marriage, wedding, hallucination ...
Time:
1940s, year 1996, 1920s, 1900s, 1930s ...
Place:
lyon, saigon, new york, argentina, mediterranean sea ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 1843, Dickens was a literary rock star, but struggling financially after the slow sales of his previous novel, Martin Chuzzlewit. Seized with the vision of a story that would fire the hearts of humanity, Dickens pitched his publishers A Christmas ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, feel good, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
christmas, writers, charles dickens, victorian england, book, publisher, holiday, inspiration, father son relationship, debt, poverty, christmas carol ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 1800s, year 1943
Place:
turkey, england, new york, london
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style:
sad, touching, depressing, compassionate, serious ...
Audience:
toddlers, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, ira, injustice, parents and children, youth, family relations, depression, life is a bitch, death, children, rich and poor, human nature ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 90s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place:
ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
41%
111K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
Style:
inspirational, touching, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, small town, teacher, follow your dream, teenage life, against the odds, competition, mathematics, generation gap, scientist, biopic, nerd ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1957, year 1999, 90s ...
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, indianapolis indiana, appalachia ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
dog, friendship, loyalty, animal, pets, human animal relationship, life & death, loss of friend, loneliness, loss, death, friends ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 1930s
Place:
japan, rhode island, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in England during the early 19th century, Pandaemonium evokes late-1960s America in its depiction of the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roach) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Instead of going to Vietnam, Wordsworth ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, captivating, costume drama ...
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, politics, drug abuse, addiction, prodigy, lifestyle, writer's life, tragic hero, rise and fall, tragic love, society ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1790s, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
france, england, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style:
inspirational, unusual plot structure, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Plot:
disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, paralysis, handicapped, medical, painter, poet, art ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1989, 1930s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe, canada
Similarity:
40%
195K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style:
inspirational, touching, uplifting, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot:
bullying, friendship, school, child, happy ending, middle school, truancy, deformity, family relations, father son relationship, science teacher, disability ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton ...
Style:
independent film, period piece, witty, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, writers, gay cruising, male nudity, glbt, lgbt, murder, lgbtq, homosexual, gay relationship, biopic ...
Time:
60s, year 1987, 20th century, 1950s, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, europe, australia, morocco, london ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, suspense, rough, retro ...
Plot:
world war one, teenage boy, orphan, boys' school, male friendship, priest, writers, treasure, friendship, soldier, coming of age, young soldier ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1914, year 1916, edwardian era ...
Place:
oxford university, birmingham alabama, europe, england
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.
Style:
sentimental, touching, factual, sad, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, adult
Plot:
childhood, filmmaking, biopic, hollywood, writer's life, success, love, family drama, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2013, edwardian era, 60s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
california, los angeles, australia, usa, london ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, contemplative, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
urban ghetto life, youth, family relations, friendship, interracial relations, culture clash, black american, parents and children, teenage love, injustice, family problems, discrimination ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1968, year 1977
Place:
usa, washington d.c., south africa, california, africa ...
Similarity:
39%
265K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, inspirational, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, family friendly, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, poverty, loneliness, courage, survival, childhood, mother son reunion, foster child, foster home, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, year 2016, year 2012, year 2010 ...
Place:
india, australia, tasmania, kolkata, melbourne
Similarity:
39%
104K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Style:
black and white, period piece, historical drama, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
screenwriter, beach, filmmaking, wealth, writers, biopic, movie business, politics, friendship, loneliness, movie studio, film history ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1936 ...
Place:
los angeles, mojave desert, california, usa, berlin germany
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style:
costume drama, sexual, talky, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1915, victorian era, 1910s, 1920s ...
Place:
england, wales, europe, italy, venice ...
Similarity:
39%
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:
teenager, father son relationship, memory, death, coming of age, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, writers ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2007, 80s, 60s, year 1962 ...
Place:
brighton, london, england
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and ...
Style:
touching, motivational, inspirational, captivating, educational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dyslexia, teacher, teachers and students, childhood, self discovery, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, dedicated educator, shyness, young heroes, hopes, school ...
Time:
future, year 2007, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
india, middle east, asia, mumbai india, africa
Similarity:
38%
23K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner’s Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named ...
Style:
period piece, talky, touching, intellectual, informative ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
writers, novelist, genius, book editor, book, mentor, brutality, relationships, biopic, literary, jazz, creativity ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
\When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle ...
Style:
christian film, inspirational, sentimental, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick
Plot:
christian, christianity, illness, faith, mother daughter relationship, medical, hospital, parent child relationship, sick child, child cancer, female protagonist, coping ...
Place:
boston
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Style:
inspirational, touching, sincere, captivating, sad ...
Plot:
marriage, friendship, ku klux klan, christian, homeless, homelessness, family relations, forgiveness, black, faith, love story, troubled marriage ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
texas
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, world war two, recluse, name calling, writer's life, novelist, obsession, father son relationship, friendship, teenage boy, father daughter relationship, friend ...
Time:
year 1946, 50s, year 2010, year 1939, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new hampshire
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, China
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.
Style:
thought provoking, sad, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
journalist, father son estrangement, death of mother, father son relationship, friendship, writers, biopic, journalism, puppet, celebrity, magazine editor, life philosophy ...
Time:
year 1998, 2010s, year 2019, 90s
Place:
new york, pittsburgh
Similarity:
38%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Style:
factual, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, political ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
writers, politics, world war two, fascism, friendship, culture clash, childhood, nazi, playwright, adaptation, character study, political unrest ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1977, pre world war two, year 1934 ...
Place:
germany, europe, moscow russia, warsaw poland, paris france ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style:
period piece, touching, emotional, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
writers, destiny, biopic, love story, friendship, mental disorder, bittersweet, couples, hospital, small town, loneliness, love ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, year 1933, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new mexico, texas, ireland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Style:
philosophical, meditative, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, journalism, writers, book, friendship, existentialism, writer's block, dog, poet, biopic, novelist, depression ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century, year 1996 ...
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, illinois, nebraska, new york, usa ...
Similarity:
38%
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, sincere, inspirational, sad, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
terminal illness, against the odds, family relations, human spirit, hopes, child illness, death, medical, life is a bitch, cure, disability, family drama ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1984, year 1983, year 1986 ...
Place:
washington d.c., pittsburgh, edinburgh scotland, london, england ...
Similarity:
38%
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