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Magnificent 7 (2005)
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Magnificent 7 (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson. Helena Bonham Carter stars as Maggi, a mother with seven children - three 'normal' daughters and four sons who are each, in one form or another, autistic.
Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: autism, motherhood, human spirit, family life, parents and children, mentally challenged, family problems, single parent, child illness, siblings relations, hopes, small town, bittersweet, large family, parent child relationship, misfit, family relations, strong female presence, mother daughter relationship, asperger's syndrome, adhd, mother son relationship, family
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and serious films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, hopes, single parent, youth and family life mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Magnificent 7: My Louisiana Sky (2001), Dawn Anna (2005), Fly Away (2011), Cries from the Heart (1994), ...First Do No Harm (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Louisiana Sky (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, self discovery, family life, family problems, society, parents and children, disability, small town life, child's point of view, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: louisiana, usa
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Dawn Anna (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.
Style: realistic, sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: high school, family problems, against the odds, terminal illness, child illness, human spirit, family relations, disability, relationship vs career, school, family in crisis, parents and children ...
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Fly Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: autism, nursing, moral dilemma, parents and children, single parent, society, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, social misfits, youth, family problems, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Cries from the Heart (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama directed by Michael Switzer.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: autism, mentally challenged, children, youth, sexual abuse, child molester, family problems, power relations, family relations, misfit, life is a bitch, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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...First Do No Harm (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and ...
Style: edutainment, controversial, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: medical, youth, blaster, slice of life, health, medicine, child hero, hospital, family relations, bittersweet, small town life, terminal illness ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Shirley Adams (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: disability, hopes, human spirit, life is a bitch, single parent, introspection, family relations, family problems, parents and children, misfit, society, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa
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29%
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Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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26%
Profoundly Normal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story. Donna Lee Shelby (Kirstie Alley), a mentally retarded girl who lives in Forest Haven, an institution for the developmentally disabled, meets Ricardo Thornton (Delroy Lindo), a fellow resident. When Forest Haven is closed by a ...
Style: serious, emotional, uplifting, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: couples, interracial relations, friendship, fighting the system, idealism, society, human spirit, hopes, family in crisis, coping, family life, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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I Know You Know (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality—an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for ...
Style: uplifting, semi serious, touching, witty, exciting ...
Plot: spy, espionage, secret agent, government agency, parents and children, working undercover, state affairs, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, eccentric family, undercover, parent child relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
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25%
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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
Plot: autism, single parent, asperger's syndrome, illness, family relations, rebellion, human nature, fighting the system, youth, misfit, society, legal action ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Place for Annie (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just wait for her to die, nurse Susan takes charge of Annie at her home. Two years later she ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching
Plot: adoption, aids, hiv, medicine, child illness, nurse, orphan, foster parent, women, homeless, poverty, child abandonment ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
My Sister's Keeper (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two sisters take a journey of discovery and reconciliation based on the memoirs of Margaret Moorman. Christine has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and must rely on others for support even though she longs for and independent and ordinary life. ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: sibling relationship, sister, family problems, disability, split personality, siblings relations, mental illness, family relations, family life, sister sister relationship, schizophrenia, schizophrenic ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Adopted (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and falls in love with Alex, a ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere, indie film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family problems, love and romance, single parent, parents and children, family relations, haunted by the past, sister sister relationship, bookstore, woman, psychology, relationships, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, lyon, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Christmas at Maxwell's (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A successful American family retreat to their summer home on the banks of Lake Erie to find meaning in life, illness, loss, and change this Christmas. With a successful career in the wine business, and two amazing children, what more can a family ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: christmas, human spirit, family life, life is a bitch, hopes, love and romance, family problems, couples, road not taken, homecoming, miraculous event, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Carry Me Home (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A widow named Harriet and her two children Carrie and Brian are living in rural New York in 1947 and are still recovering from the death of Harriet's husband killed in World War II. Carrie is a tomboy and hangs around with boys and they have ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic
Plot: youth, mentally challenged, wooing, self discovery, prank, dysfunctional family, hopes, couples, family problems, single parent, love and romance, society ...
Time: 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Framed (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The National Gallery in London has flooded, and senior curator Quentin Lester has a dramatic solution. He proposes that the entire collection of priceless paintings should be removed from London and stored in an abandoned slate mine inside a Welsh ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: art theft, family relations, culture clash, family business, secret place, parents and children, love and romance, fish out of water, family problems, family life, society, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Where Hope Grows (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life has thrown him. Today, he ...
Style: touching, uplifting, sentimental, sincere, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: mentally challenged, friendship, human spirit, human nature, misfit, redemption, optimism, parents and children, family problems, hopes, cause and meaning, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Boys Are Back (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his ...
Style: touching, inspirational, melancholic, sentimental, intense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single parent, single father, family drama, cancer, family relations, father son relationship, depression, life philosophy, brothers, overcoming, widower, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, australia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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This Is My Life (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Single mom Dottie Ingels sells cosmetics in a department store, but she dreams of being a comedian. When she inherits some money, she takes the chance and moves with her two children Erica and Opel to New York to perform in small bars. Soon her ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous
Audience: kids, girls' night
Plot: female friendship, feminist, slice of life, sister sister relationship, comedian, female protagonist, stand up comedian, family relations, siblings relations, teenage life, relationship vs career, showbiz ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: usa, new york, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Common Ground (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, clever, realistic ...
Plot: couples, family relations, family life, destiny, love and romance, human nature, college, family in crisis, social worker, student life, society, parents and children ...
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Dodson's Journey (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his wife's decision to get a divorce.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: youth, single parent, bittersweet, family relations, couples, family problems, parents and children, breakup, unfulfillment, human nature, hopes, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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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 ⇓
20%
Hidden in America (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Story of a man Bill Januson whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will ...
Style: crying, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: starving child, starvation, youth, doctor, single parent, unemployment, family problems, family relations, human nature, society, life is a bitch, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Mermaid (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: young heroes, bittersweet, single parent, hopes, friendship, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, child's point of view, widow, mother daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges she and her family face.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, hispanic
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20%
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Ocean Heaven (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of a father's tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill father's attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he passes away. It is also a poignant tribute to the infinite ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, cult classic ...
Plot: terminal illness, autism, single parent, life is a bitch, father son relationship, love, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment, disability, mentally challenged, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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20%
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Lapland (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Recently widowed Eileen Lewis,son Pete and his wife Mandy and daughter Paula with her spouse Ray,plus the grandchildren, leave Birkenhead to spend Christmas in Lapland.
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, parents and children, family relations, family life, hopes, lapland, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Louder Than Words (2013)
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: touching, emotional, serious, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: hospital, child illness, parents and children, human spirit, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, last wish, family relations, hopes, couple relations, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Latin Lover (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
Style: touching, tragicomedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, haunted by the past, family life, rivalry, ego clash, family problems, strong female presence, village, estate, siblings relations, family gatherings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Earthwork (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan's Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump. The multi-acre artwork was made from soil, rock, plants and vegetation near an ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, sentimental, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: human spirit, idealism, environmentalism, hopes, social differences, creative block, art, artists' life, performer's life, artists and showbiz, misfit, artist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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