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Follow The Stars Home (2001)
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Follow The Stars Home (2001)
Original name: Follow the Stars Home
Genre: Drama, Romance, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad brother pulls his disappearing act. Mark walks out on wife Dianne after learning that the baby they're expecting has severe genetic abnormalities. Dianne is nonetheless determined to bear her child, with support from her mother and Mark's brother David, a pediatrician whose love for Dianne is unspoken but obvious. How do they cope with the challenges of raising this little girl named Julia?
Style: uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, erotic, feel good, serious, emotional, realistic, romantic drama
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, parents and children, family life, couples, babies and infants, family problems, single parent, disability, family in crisis, unfulfilled love, pregnancy, girl, unrequited love, youth, family relations, singleness, custody, siblings relations, bittersweet, unfulfillment, couple relations, family gatherings, physician ...
Time: contemporary
Place: san francisco

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, love and romance, family life and single parent mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Follow The Stars Home: Loverboy (2005), Love Comes Softly (2003), One Christmas (1994), A Christmas Romance (1994), Desert Bloom (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Loverboy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Style: psychological, sentimental, serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot: obsession, mental illness, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, parents and children, life is a bitch, single parent, family problems, family relations, teenage life, babies and infants, possessiveness ...
Time: year 2005
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Love Comes Softly (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Marty is a 19 year old pioneer woman, recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Clark Davis, a widower, offers her a marriage of ...
Style: touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night
Plot: faith, fall in love, marriage of convenience, couple relations, survival, love and romance, pregnancy, single parent, farm, christian, starting over, family life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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One Christmas (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: TV film that was to be Katherine Hepburn's last performance. Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
Style: christmas classics, realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, youth, holiday, family relations, estrangement, family problems, family gatherings, child as adult, dysfunctional family, road not taken, family life, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s
Place: new orleans, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Christmas Romance (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Julia Stonecypher is finding it difficult to get into the Christmas spirit. Having recently lost both her husband and her job, Brian Harding, the vice president of the local bank arrives on her doorstep amid a snowstorm, to inform Julia that her ...
Style: serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental
Audience: girls' night, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, youth, xmas, eviction, snow, single parent, unlikely couple, life is a bitch, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Desert Bloom (1986)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, desert, dysfunctional family, youth, bittersweet, single parent, introspection, crumbling marriage, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, bad father ...
Time: 1950s, year 1986, 50s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
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Stella (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single parent, working class, pregnancy, society, breakup, moral dilemma, love and romance, starting over, youth, family life, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Bread, My Sweet (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dominic works round the clock: nights making biscotti for his family's bakery in a working-class Italian neighborhood in Pittsburgh, then days downtown where he's a specialist in firing people at a company that negotiates mergers. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: fall in love, looking for love, family life, unfulfilled love, best friend, couples, family problems, human nature, unlikely couple, single parent, dream come true, parents and children ...
Place: usa, pittsburgh
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40%
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Wild Iris (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: parents and children, dysfunctional family, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, introspection, lifestyle ...
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40%
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Table for Five (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie ...
Style: independent film, uplifting, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: cruise ship, cruise, coming of age, ship, family relations, divorce, youth, family vacation, single parent, human nature, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: mediterranean sea, italy, tunisia, cairo egypt, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
What Girls Learn (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, human nature, love and romance, youth, estrangement, couples, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, usa, new york
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39%
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, starting over, infidelity, love triangle, working class, breakup, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, human nature ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: washington state, seattle
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39%
Once in a Lifetime (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, family problems, family relations, couples, pregnancy, parents and children, hospital, boarding school life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Fine Things (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Standard romantic melodrama from novelist Danielle Steele finds a couple embroiled in marital conflict with a nasty child-custody battle at its center.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: youth, love, wedding, couples, family relations, family problems, terminal illness, missing person, family life, pregnancy, custody, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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38%
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot: couples, family relations, tragic love, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, looking for love, baby born, diary, baby, holiday, letter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Treading Water (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Casey (Angela Redman) has rejected her privileged upbringing and restores old boats for a living. She lives a cozy life with her beautiful social worker girlfriend Alex (super sexy Nina Landey) until her stuffy family demands that she come home for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, eccentric family, culture clash, fish out of water, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, couples, society, addiction, family life, family relations ...
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Alpha Male (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Saint Maybe (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A lonely teen troubled by a past family tragedy is suspicious of his sister-in-law, believing she is being unfaithful. His confrontation with his brother sets off a series of tragic events.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christmas, tragedy, family relations, church, redemption, haunted by the past, homecoming, death in the family, adoption, family in crisis, family life, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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All You Need (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, emotional, touching, talky
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, family life, family gatherings, human nature, couple relations, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Bridge to Silence (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman with a hearing problem tries to get het life back together after a car accident that killed her husband.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: deaf, sexual abuse, sign language, family relations, life is a bitch, society, mute or deaf, opposites attract, single parent, misfit, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Sex & the Single Mom (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jess Gradwell and her teenage daughter boast a superclose relationship. When it comes to sex, however, Mom won't stand for anything less than premarital celibacy. So she gets a pretty healthy dose of her own medicine when she winds up getting ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sexual
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Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
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37%
The Evening Star (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious granddaughter, and another grandson living just above the poverty ...
Style: touching, cult classic, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: death, dysfunctional family, family relations, women, family gatherings, grandparent grandchild relationship, single parent, love and romance, human nature, family problems, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 80s, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas
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36%
More Sex & the Single Mom (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high ...
Style: touching, emotional, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family gatherings, parents and children, looking for love, family relations, love and romance, midlife crisis, lifestyle, youth, couples, teenage life, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
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36%
Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Summer 1966. It's time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, coming of age, elderly lovers, youth, family life, family problems, couples, estrangement, lifestyle, love and romance, dysfunctional family, bittersweet ...
Time: 60s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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
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36%
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Dying Young (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, sad, touching, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love story, life & death, leukemia, love, beautiful scenery, doctor, human nature, unfulfillment, parents and children, social differences, women ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: oakland california
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36%
Booky & the Secret Santa (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Booky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, family life, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems, friendship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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36%
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he ...
Style: emotional, talky, intense, humorous, touching ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family problems, family in crisis, family gatherings, couples, husband wife relationship, mountain, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, equality ...
Time: 60s, year 1963
Place: wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Christmas Bunny (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Christmas Bunny tells the story of a lonely foster child (Sophie Bolen) who finds a lost, injured rabbit in the woods on Christmas Eve. The rabbit is nursed back to health by The Bunny Lady (Florence Henderson), who runs a rabbit rescue in an ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: christmas, family relations, friendship, nursing, family life, pets, coming of age, orphan, youth, farm, rabbit, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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36%
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The Reception (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The complex relationship between a wealthy French woman and her best friend a, gay black American, is thrown into turmoil when her estranged daughter comes to visit them with her new husband for the weekend in upstate New York. Through a series of ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot: wedding, family relations, family gatherings, homecoming, parents and children, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, couples, estrangement, family life, unfulfillment, gay african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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35%
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