Movies like Cool Kids Don't Cry
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Cool Kids Don't Cry (2012)
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Original name: Achtste Groepers Huilen Niet
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Adaptation of one of Benelux most famous children's novels. Tough prime school girl Akkie loves soccer and can be a real bully. Love is the only thing she's scared of. When Akkie is diagnosed with Leukemia, she has to fight for her life. On the verge of going to high school, Akkie has to allow love to enter her life, and thus gain courage to accept the inevitable.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere, psychological, captivating, sad
Audience:
family outing, teen drama
Plot:
terminal illness, youth, teenage love, teenager, school, life is a bitch, hopes, social relations, leukemia, sick child, cancer, cancer patient, first kiss, death, illness, child illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, true love, teenage life, relationships, teenage girl, love and romance, love affair, love story, fighting illness ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, holland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about youth, family relations, life is a bitch, terminal illness, teenager, coming of age and friendship mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like Cool Kids Don't Cry: Now Is Good (2012), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), A Walk to Remember (2002), Ways to Live Forever (2010), Louder Than Words (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Style:
sad, emotional, romantic, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, terminal illness, teenage love, cancer, youth, love and romance, fighting illness, dying, last wish, dealing with death, virginity, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style:
touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, teenager, terminal illness, fall in love, first love, youth, teenage life, dealing with death, friendship, coping, coming of age, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, amsterdam, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sad, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
teenager, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, cancer, love story, first love, youth, true love, love, high school ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
teenage life, youth, best friends, friends, coming of age, leukemia, human spirit, friendship between boys, death, life is a bitch, child illness, last wish ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After the unexpected death of their daughter, a couple work to build a state of the art children's hospital where families are welcomed into the healing process.
Style:
uplifting, emotional, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hospital, parents and children, child illness, human spirit, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, last wish, death of daughter, family relations, dealing with death, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Miracles from Heaven
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, thought provoking, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick
Plot:
christian, christianity, illness, faith, parent child relationship, sick child, little girl, child protagonist, miraculous event, mother daughter relationship, child cancer, female protagonist ...
Place:
boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's ...
Style:
christian film, uplifting, sentimental, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
god, letter, faith, pastor, hopes, christian, cancer, friendship, salvation, child illness, redemption, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The ...
Style:
sad, touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, lawyer, parenthood, mother daughter relationship, sisters, sick child, life is a bitch, family life, relationships, childhood, leukemia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa, los angeles, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
youth, life is a bitch, human spirit, family problems, family in crisis, hopes, coming of age, terminal illness, teenager, dealing with death, child illness, first love ...
Place:
ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, History, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tuur and Lambert are best friends. But the war is closing in and is about to change their lives forever. Tuurs dad joined the resistance and even his big brother seems so be part of it. Lamberts family on the other hand choose to obey the Germans. ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
friendship between boys, friendship, youth, coming of age, teenager, world war two, children in wartime, child, best friends, war, village life, village ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1943
Place:
holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Movies similar to A Walk to Remember
Genre: Drama, Family, Music
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jochem is the target of bullying. David does not participate, but he dares intervene. The class teacher also does not engage., Jochem seems to attract the harassment, which gets worse every day. One morning David feels guilty. Why did he never ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, sad, captivating
Audience:
family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, friendship, bully, coming of age, youth, high school, social relations, regret, suicide, teenage boy, teacher, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Karla met Jonas during a summer vacation at the lake. After being unable to stop thinking about him and their kiss she phones him, making up a school assignment about children living in an orphanage, which is precisely where Jonas lives.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, light, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenage love, youth, teenage life, family relations, orphan, on the road, isolation, child, friends, track down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A religious organization interferes with the life of a terminally ill girl.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, complex ...
Plot:
child cancer, children, catholic school, guardian angel, family relations, doctors and patients, family problems, family in crisis, hopes, youth, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
dolphins, animals, young heroes, hopes, friendship, animal life, human spirit, summer, youth, destiny, child, mother son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Melissa is een meisje van 15 dat niets liever doet dan dansen. Haar ouders denken dat ze lessen in klassiek ballet volgt maar eenmaal op de dansschool stort ze zich vol overgave op de hiphop danslessen. Melissa is goed bevriend met Jordi en hij is ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, sincere
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dancing, ambition, teenager, dancer, friendship, dancehall girl, ambitious woman, friends, classmate classmate relationship, family relations, classmate, drug abuse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like The Fault in Our Stars
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
Children and teenagers become friends in a hospital where they are all patients. Together they try to escape the sad reality to create their own world with their own codes , while the nursing staff do their best to bring them a little happiness ...
Style:
captivating, touching, realistic, serious, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, teenage life, friendship, sick child, anorexia, doctors and patients, relationship problems, medicine, child cancer, medical, youth, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Dr. Drew Carter tragically loses his ten-year old son in a car accident, he didn’t expect to lose his whole family as well. Since the accident, his wife (Julia) has become emotionally absent towards him and their daughter. When Johnny, a ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
terminal illness, family relations, adoption, family problems, child illness, hopes, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, religions or cults, family in crisis, death in the family, christian ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
50 Cent stars as gifted college running back Deon in this touching drama. Deon's world turns upside down when an unexpected crisis jeopardizes his professional ambitions -- and causes him to look at himself and his life in a new way.
Style:
emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
american football, sport, terminal illness, athlete's life, human spirit, bittersweet, life is a bitch, hopes, ambition, sexual content, black, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sick child, sad ending, terminal illness, christmas, child illness, parents and children, family life, small town, dealing with death, leukemia, kindness, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, youth, life is a bitch, love and romance, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret, mother and daughter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A couple of teenagers have a son who suffers from progeria, a rare genetic disorder which makes one age exponentially faster than normal. 16 years later, the child has the body of an 80 year old in the final days of his life writing a book about his ...
Style:
captivating, sincere
Plot:
sick child, rapid aging, aging, teenage life, relationships, male female relationship, love interest, illness, family life, fighting illness, teenager, love and romance ...
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19%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nine year old Finn lives with his father in a small town. Together with his best friend Erik he plays football, but he prefers to play music. His dad wants him to play football, just like every other kid his age. Finn does not understand why, but ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, friendship, father figure, follow your dream, elderly, musician's life, hopes, parents and children, family relations, teachers and students, village, father son relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
cancer, cancer patient, true love, self discovery, infidelity, womanizer, love affair, terminal illness, life turned upside down, crumbling relationship, love and romance, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This is based on the true story about the relationship between Penn State football player John Cappelletti and his younger brother Joey, who has leukemia. John and Joey's bond is a strong one. Joey hangs out with John in the Penn State locker ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot:
american football, youth, contests and competitions, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, sport, athlete's life, hopes, sport team, family relations, power relations, terminal illness ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
"Spin" tells the story of a boy who loses his parents in a plane crash, is taken in by his uncle (Tucci), who then leaves him for ten years in the care of his Hispanic ranch hand (Blades) and his wife (Delany). Once in high school, Eddie ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
family relations, society, introspection, self discovery, youth, haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, friends, hopes, orphan, eccentric family ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
De ouders van Isa en haar oudere broer Kars gooien het roer om en beginnen een camping in Frankrijk. Isa en Kars hebben het gevoel naar Timboektoe te verhuizen en alles te verliezen. Lang klagen ze gelukkig niet, want al snel maken ze nieuwe ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
family relations, teenage love, siblings relations, teenage life, love and romance, parents and children, fish out of water, father son relationship, life turned upside down, youth, rivalry, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Jeppe falls deeply in love with the mysterious and beautiful girl, Cecilie, from school. But their time is limited as Cecilie is diagnosed with cancer and Jeppe has to balance school, social life and the dream of becoming a professional basket ball ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
teenage love, cancer, death, teen romance, high school, sex scene, drawing, party, illness, romantic relationship, cancer patient, in love ...
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage rape, teenager, school, handicapped, disabled person, love, disability, political persecution, female protagonist, ambition, lie, friendship ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer.
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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