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Firelight (2012)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sincere, touching, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot:
youth, redemption, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, power relations, society, hopes, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, friends, girl, troubled youth, friend, juvenile delinquent, reach out, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and captivating films with plots about hopes, youth, society, friendship, family relations, friends and coming of age mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Firelight: Hide Away (2011), X/Y (2014), Beyond the Blackboard (2011), A Fine Step (2014), The Space Between (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, self discovery, friendship, small town, haunted by the past, hopes, death of wife, redemption, father daughter relationship, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, friendship, understanding, family relations, society, gay, best friends, twentysomething life, friend, sex, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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85%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter’s makeshift classroom. Set in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, serious, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
homeless, teacher, youth, changing lives, power relations, hopes, idealism, society, teachers and students, school, children, dedication ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
new mexico, usa, salt lake city utah
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
pre-teens, teens
Plot:
horse, contests and competitions, friendship, starting over, parents and children, athlete's life, ambition, farm, youth, family relations, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Montine McLeod, a world-weary flight attendant, and Omar Hassan, a prematurely wise 10-year-old Pakastani-American boy connect with one another amidst the chaos of September 11, 2001. When Montine discovers the boy's direct personal link to the ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terrorism, youth, on the road, friendship, stewardess, terrorist attack, cross country, father son relationship, boy, social problems, terror, social justice ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, starting over, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, society, relationships, friends, best friends
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
missionary, self discovery, life is a bitch, redemption, youth, terminal illness, working class, couples, tragic hero, human nature, coming of age, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, serious
Plot:
adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, redemption, hopes, petty criminal, road trip, foster home, boy ...
Place:
new york, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, unfulfillment, friendship, college, university, manipulation, mentor, power, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sister Rachel Taylor of Boise, Idaho is an eager young missionary of the LDS Church who has been sent on an 18-month long mission to Austria. Rachel finds herself having a hard time adjusting to her new cultural surroundings in the foreign country. ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, christian film ...
Plot:
self discovery, church, religions or cults, society, clergy, hopes, missionary, love, friendship, innocence lost, miraculous event, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When eighteen-year-old Brendan King attempts to leave his turbulent gang life behind him, his past continues to threaten his new-found faith, family, and future
Style:
christian film, realistic, touching, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, christian, adoption, haunted by the past, redemption, society, going straight, human spirit, youth, hopes, teenage love, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, small town, introspection, friendship, human nature, family problems, family relations, family in crisis, swimming, sex crime, dysfunctional family, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
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62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mark Thackeray (Poitier) is a West Indian, who in the 1967 film had taken teaching in a London East End school. He spent twenty years teaching and ten in administrative roles. He has taught the children of his former pupils, but is now retiring.
Style:
political, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
teacher, education, juvenile delinquency, african american, high school, dedicated educator, youth, hopes, idealism, society, hardcase students, undisciplined ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since ...
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serious, captivating, touching, emotional, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, protecting from truth, optimism, friendship, love and romance, human spirit, hopes, teaching the ways of the world, fall in love, village, dream, letter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lacrosse, friendship, self discovery, teenage life, coming of age, racism, youth, social differences, strong female lead, teenage rebellion, woman, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France). Trouble comes when Tom ex girlfriend reappears, asking for help, announcing him that she had a girl from him 9 years ago.
Style:
touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, midlife crisis, hopes, friends, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, fatherhood, ex girlfriend, boy, love, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brittany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming-of-age journey for ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, parents and children, haunted by the past, redemption, single parent, hopes, love, loss of mother, teenager, friendship, death of lover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, sincere, christian film ...
Plot:
christian, redemption, family problems, girl, christianity, hopes, parents and children, society, death in the family, religion, dark secret, youth ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Style:
touching, emotional, atmospheric, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, racism, culture clash, human spirit, life is a bitch, vengeance, injustice, haunted by the past, society, gang, anti semitism ...
Place:
czech republic, new york
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, farm, teenage life, friendship, self discovery, love and romance, society, incest, teenager, childhood, woman with a gun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gustav who gains interest in the young boy, as he reminds him of his lost love.
Style:
captivating, serious, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, male homosexuality, friendship, haunted by the past, introspection, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, juvenile delinquency, youth, elderly, society, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S. Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. Ibrahim lands in New York City the day before 9/11…and the events of the September ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, uplifting
Plot:
starting over, american dream, immigrants, society, hopes, 9/11, rivalry, lawyer, city, wrestler, lottery, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, prodigy, starting over, haunted by the past, lifestyle, rivalry, sport, hopes, on the run, redemption, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An R&B singer snagged by the trappings of superstardom loses his way and turns his back on his church and faith-filled beginnings. Tragedy strikes, leaving a chance for redemption in its wake. But with rebirth, first comes death.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
introspection, redemption, self discovery, musician's life, one more chance, celebrity culture, hopes, religions or cults, lifestyle, showbiz, hip hop, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, serious
Plot:
follow your dream, ambition, friendship, teenage life, society, family relations, hip hop, youth, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot:
disability, blindness, blind woman, rape, friends, family relations, society, life is a bitch, confined, youth, misfit, human spirit ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come ...
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realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family relations, friends, life turned upside down, youth, society, couples, twentysomething life, student life, student
Time:
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Place:
norway, europe
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, starting over, support group, hopes, college, mysterious stranger, rise to the top, society, friendship, lifestyle change, alcoholic, changing lives ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
mental illness, schizophrenia, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental disorder, psychology, strong female presence, hopes, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, bipolar disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
redemption, family relations, aging, father son relationship, self discovery, con artists, bittersweet, friends, elderly, single parent, father figure, pneumonia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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