Movies like Hello, Goodbye
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Hello, Goodbye (2016)
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Original name: ハローグッバイ
Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school non-existent. But when both girls are drawn to helping an elderly woman, they're forced to interact, confronting their differences and similarities as well as their deepest secrets.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, sensitive, atmospheric, dramatic, tension, psychological, moody
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, female friendship, loneliness, bullying, compassion, high school life, classmate, rivalry, humanity, character study, youth, healing, secrets, loss, slice of life, empathy, intimate, schoolgirl, terminal illness, outsider, redemption, small town, identity, relationships ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, psychological and captivating films with plots about coming of age, small town, friendship, intimate, slice of life, bittersweet and family drama mostly in Family, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hello, Goodbye: Becoming Jesse Tate (2009), Dance Together (2019), You Are My Home (2020), Before All Others (2016), Makuko (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jesse Tate is a vivacious thirteen year-old girl trying to cope with life while keeping a family secret. She struggles to be part of the "in crowd" and the weird new feeling that boys really aren't that dumb. It's a lot for ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, uplifting, realistic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, adolescence, coming of age, self discovery, grownups, personal growth, life lesson, identity, family drama, forgiveness, family secret, friendship ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dance Together follows two teen girls brought together by a passionate need to express themselves. Holly, an injured dancer, and Alex, a shy girl who is Deaf, have a chance meeting that sparks a creative partnership. Alex introduces Holly to ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, light, inspirational, uplifting ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
dance, teenage girl, deaf, shy girl, friendship, high school, female friendship, dancing, choreography, dancehall girl, help, assistant ...
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95%
Genre: Family
Country: USA, Italy, UK, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This drama follows the relationship of a heartbroken woman and a young immigrant girl who has lost her mother at the border, coming together just before Christmas.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, sentimental, romantic, talky ...
Plot:
christmas, true love, loss, immigration, grief, empathy, family drama, love and romance, male female relationship, couple relations, love story, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two schoolgirls volunteer at a local radio station that is a glue for the community. Ryuji and Natsuo have arrived in town to manage the station. They are looking for local stories, content and programming when they hear that a festival called ...
Style:
uplifting, feel good, lighthearted, emotional, realistic
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
radio station, small town, friendship, problem solving, teamwork, slice of life, everyday life, collaboration, japanese culture, high school, coming of age, pretty girl ...
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young woman's world is turned upside down when she is struck with a paralyzing disease and forced to live with her estranged grandmother who she hasn't seen since she was a little girl. Rose, a widowed and lonely senior, finds a new ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, sincere, psychological, poignant ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
paralysis, disability, female protagonist, family secret, faith, lifestyle, woman in a wheelchair, illness, family drama, changing lives, lifestyle change, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A 5th grade elementary school student meets a transfer student who has a mysterious charm about her. He then learns her big secret.
Style:
melancholic, psychological, tension, wistful
Plot:
coming of age, elementary school, teenage protagonist, youth, friendship, childhood, supernatural, small town, adolescence, mysterious girl, outsider, father son relationship ...
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
14 year-old schoolgirl Tsubame is into university student Toru. She sees him in her area and really wants to be his. She struggles with how to inform him of her love. Then her stepmother becomes pregnant and she is distracted with that development. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, atmospheric, melancholic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
adolescence, first love, teen romance, coming of age, female protagonist, relationships, teenage life, life, dysfunctional family, kids and family, family problems, family relations ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
On a mission to get God's attention in hopes that God will heal his sister from terminal cancer, a young boy begins answering the prayers left by church members in the pastor's prayer box after the pastor throws them away, jaded by his own ...
Style:
heartbreaking, emotional, thought provoking, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
faith, religion, brother sister relationship, fighting illness, kids and family, belief in god, family problems, religious faith, religious, illness, life is a bitch, brother ...
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After getting through the O/L Examination with outstanding results, Anuththara with his friends eagerly look forward to experience their final years in school as seniors in the A/L class. They befriend Ahinsa and the other new girls who join their ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, crying
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school life, coming of age, friendship, youth, classmate, high school drama, adolescence, grownups, self discovery, secrets, slice of life, rumor ...
Place:
sri lanka
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hope Douglas has a dream but her parents have thrown her into battle between playing sports and dancing ballet. When a tragedy strikes, Hope has to make a difficult choice that will decide her fate - which way does she go?
Style:
psychological, captivating, inspirational, heartfelt, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
ballet, choice, self discovery, dance, softball, ballerina, identity, coming of age, dream, family drama, personal growth, hopes ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In Neko Atsume no Ie, Atsushi Ito stars as Masaru Sakamoto, a novelist who moves to the countryside to try to combat a bad case of writer's block. While struggling to begin his next novel, Masaru spots a stray cat, which he decides to befriend. ...
Style:
touching, captivating, exciting, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
cat, animal, novelist, pets, obsession, life, writers, writer's block, woman, pet cat, loneliness, japanese woman ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Family
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Achu (Gopal) and Kichu (Vasudev), hailing from a hamlet in Kumarakom live by their dream of owning a geared bicycle. In their journey towards their dream, the boys gets separated in the city and face unseen challenges. Gold coins portrays the ...
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, inspirational, uplifting, melancholic
Plot:
dream, brotherhood, perseverance, bonding, aspiration, slice of life, resilience, coming of age, hopes, childhood, struggle, friendship ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Focusing on the lives (and a few deaths) of three filmmakers, Rikiya Imaizumi (Their Distance, Sad Tea) tackles weighty themes in this new ensemble drama set in Tokyo and Fukushima. Director Kajiwara, struggling to earn a living from film, gets an ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic, existential, art house, realistic ...
Plot:
death, filmmaking, grief, suicide, relationships, loss, fukushima, slice of life, isolation, cover up, regret, estrangement ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Nazario is a wanderer who makes his living playing an old guitar in the streets of Madrid. From what he gets, he lives together with Sam, an orphan of eight years, which he hosted for charity and adores. The problem is that a wealthy and childless ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, street musician, poverty, orphan, survival, compassion, street life, charity, working class, character study, hopes, social realism ...
Place:
madrid
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A suicidal high school student, a ramen shop owner closing shop after the passing of his wife, and a cuisine researcher stranded in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region get connected due to a bowl of ramen.
Style:
emotional, poignant, art house, indie film, spiritual ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, high school, loss, healing, loneliness, grief, connection, hopes, isolation, memory, widower, melancholy ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Sawako worked as an emergency physician at a university hospital. Due to to a situation, she returns to her father Tatsuro's home in Ishikawa Prefecture. She then begins to work at the local Mahoroba Clinic. She works with the clinic director ...
Style:
medical drama, witty, entertaining, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
physician, nurse, female doctor, doctor, medical clinic, doctors and patients, doctor patient relationship, patient, hospital, family relations, female protagonist, small town life ...
Similarity:
58%
127
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young girl deals with her guilt following the sudden and tragic death of her father. With the family facing financial ruin, the survivors move to Oklahoma to live with the girl’s grandmother outside of Tahlequah, atop Sparrowhawk Mountain. ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, inspirational, emotional, mystical ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
girl horse relationship, woman riding a horse, friendship, healing, redemption, guilt, grief, family drama, forgiveness, animal, horse ranch, human animal relationship ...
Place:
oklahoma
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Family
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A story of an eight year old girl nicknamed "Muffin" who is trying to adapt to life in a big city.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
child protagonist, coming of age, city life, childhood, innocence, adaptation, grownups, slice of life, urban, intimate, identity, loneliness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Young Berra has a friend, Ulf. Ulf has a grandfather which he likes very much, he gives Ulf presents and takes him on fishing trips. Berra doesn't have a grandfather, but he wants one that's nice to him and who can teach him to whistle. ...
Style:
emotional, pastoral, melancholic, period piece, feel good
Plot:
childhood, friendship, grandparents, heartwarming, loneliness, innocence, elderly, children, empathy, companionship, teaching, imagination ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
54%
3K
Genre: Family, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Imbam tells the story of a young cartoonist Nidhin and his emotional intimacy with an old publishing house called 'Shabdam', its fifty five year old owner, 'Karunakaran, and the lady proof-reader of the same office ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
cartoonist, publishing house, intimacy, character study, friendship, intimate, slice of life, bittersweet, male protagonist, healing, loss, loneliness ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. ...
Style:
melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, teenager, friendship, high school, adolescence, grownups, small town, betrayal, guilt, countryside, absent father ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Hanako Haibara was born and raised in the city of Tokyo. After she gets dumped by her boyfriend, while in her late 20's, she goes on blind dates to find a man to marry. Miki Tokioka was born in a province. She studied very hard and entered a ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
relationships, feminist, dating, relationship problems, female protagonist, breakup, couple relations, lifestyle, everyday life, female friendship, personal growth, realism ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When 12-year-old Rob Horton discovers a caged tiger in the woods near his home, his imagination runs wild and life begins to change in the most unexpected ways. With the help of a wise and mysterious maid, Willie May and the stubborn new girl in ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, mysterious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
tiger, friendship, boy, human animal relationship, family drama, coming of age, animal, teenager, friends, animal human communication, preteen, imagination ...
Place:
florida
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Family
Country: Denmark
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Story:
The twins Alma and Asks together with their best friends Tone and Elias, struggle with the unset of puberty and its awkward challenges. We are taken on their journey with parties, love and uncontrollable hormones.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teen drama
Plot:
grownups, adolescence, twins, youth, coming of age, friendship, puberty, nubile woman, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, social problems, teen romance ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young boy named Taichi Ogawara finds a fox cub on the side of the road and takes it home as a pet. He discovers it is blind, deaf, and mute. Because of this, he names it Helen, after Helen Keller.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
human animal relationship, blindness, deaf, friendship, fox, bonding, empathy, family drama, compassion, deafness, disability, animal human communication ...
Place:
hokkaido
Similarity:
49%
284
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, poignant, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, family drama, boyhood, bittersweet, empathy, life & death, grief, loss, small town, macabre, outsider ...
Time:
year 1993
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Antonio and Pietro, a man and his child, alone in Milan to fight against illness. Pietro has a brain cancer, to move from South to North Italy seems to be a chance, maybe salvation. Jaber, fifteen years old, lives in Milan with a group of fellow ...
Style:
independent film, emotional, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hospital, illness, immigration, adolescence, compassion, father son relationship, empathy, suffering, humanism, fighting illness, coping, life is a bitch ...
Place:
milan italy, north africa
Similarity:
48%
198
Genre: Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A warm, dramatic story about eleven-year-old Alise's encounter with a wild horse on the run.
Style:
captivating, psychological, pastoral, emotional, uplifting
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
horse, friendship, woman riding a horse, girl horse relationship, personal growth, human animal relationship, wild horse, animal human communication, animal, teenager, female protagonist, teenage girl ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
48%
4K
Genre: Family
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
good movie son of indra jit lankesh
Style:
heartfelt, romantic drama, emotional, realistic, intercultural
Plot:
urban, village life, small town, youth, coming of age, dream, aspiration, social commentary, ambition, class conflict, personal growth, city life ...
Place:
kannada
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Without problems no human being is on earth it can be love, study, career or anything else. Suicide is not the solution to any problem. We can make our future bright and beautiful, if we can give some space to move ahead, Our film is based on a ...
Style:
heartfelt, motivational, uplifting, inspirational, emotional ...
Plot:
hopes, personal growth, second chance, redemption, neglect, acceptance, resilience, empathy, character study, underdog, transformation, self discovery ...
Similarity:
44%
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