Movies like The Magic of Ordinary Days
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The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, melancholic, heartbreaking, sad, sweet ...
Plot:
marriage of convenience, hopes, destiny, world war two, love and romance, soldier, society, life is a bitch, fall in love, arranged marriage, unhappy marriage, friendship, pregnancy, farm, love, happy ending, christian, loveless marriage, marriage, pretend relationship, fake relationship, single parent, reconciliation, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1940s
Place:
usa, colorado
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and sincere films with plots about love and romance, family relations, hopes, society, couples, fall in love and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like The Magic of Ordinary Days: Loving Leah (2009), Love Comes Softly (2003), Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), The Lucky One (2012), Love Story (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
marriage of convenience, fall in love, couples, death in the family, society, religions or cults, cardiologist, family tradition, family relations, friendship, love and romance, happy ending ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 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:
sentimental, touching, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
single parent, marriage of convenience, loss of husband, pregnancy, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, survival, faith, christian, age difference, starting over ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story is set in Kansas in the year 1910. Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth several years earlier, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is ...
Style:
sentimental, captivating, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
bereavement, prairie, farm, single parent, family life, self discovery, small town life, love affair, parents and children, human nature, remarry, happy ending ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 1910s, 90s
Place:
kansas, usa, maine, new england, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, touching, sentimental, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
love story, love affair, true love, love and romance, destiny, obsessive quest, soldier, single mother, loss of loved one, marines, love, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, new jersey, middle east, new orleans, iraq ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, tragedy, death, college, fall in love, love story, tragic love, ice hockey, graduation, young love, class differences, destiny ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, paris france, massachusetts, boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to The Lucky One
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.
Style:
captivating, touching, sincere, contemplative
Plot:
amish, female bonding, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female protagonist, family relations, breakup, dating, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, female friendship, young woman, librarian ...
Place:
ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make sense of his experiences and find new meaning in life. While this film deals with weighty material such as the suicide of Eleanor's husband and ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, melancholic, romantic, touching ...
Plot:
fishing, love and romance, post war, kindness, war, anguish, romanticism, happy ending, life & death, human spirit, comeback, love story ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two, 1940s
Place:
usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Anna Friel stars in classy wartime drama The War Bride. She plays Lily, an orphan who suddenly finds herself married, with child and living with hostile in-laws in the wilds of Canada.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, culture clash, love and romance, wartime life, against the odds, family relations, couples, family problems, society, fall in love, homecoming, parents and children ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
canada, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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, sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, couples, estrangement, family problems, human nature, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
georgia, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with Pompe disease - a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the support of ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, inspirational, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
race against time, twists and turns, cure, hopes, human spirit, against the odds, family problems, unlikely partners, child illness, family in crisis, parents and children, doctors and patients ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston, las vegas, portland oregon, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Love Comes Softly
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The close friendship of two young women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose in their lives during this time of social injustice and world war.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, sincere, realistic
Plot:
life is a bitch, fall in love, parents and children, social differences, society, working class, feminism, injustice, interracial relations, friendship, human nature, pregnancy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
virginia, mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son is determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Style:
road movie, thought provoking, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
waitress, widow, diner, self discovery, single mother, arizona desert, relationships, suburbs, friendship, mother, children, road trip ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, phoenix arizona, california, new jersey, tucson arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps him in the afternoons. Once a sailor, Erik brags of having known hundreds of women. Out of the ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot:
housekeeper, animal sex, countryside, farmer, older man younger woman relationship, couple relations, fall in love, couples, summer, farm, farm hand, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
beautiful scenery, friendship, women, castle, love, self discovery, summer, marriage, vacation, idealism, love story, justice ...
Time:
1920s, future, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
italy, england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, rough, melancholic
Plot:
redemption, father son relationship, fall in love, life is a bitch, death, life & death, life philosophy, loneliness, family relations, unfulfillment, friendship, betrayal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, captivating, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, friendship, world war two, violinist, holocaust, musician's life, violin, family relations, destiny, love and romance, musician ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
prague, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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, realistic, touching, clever ...
Plot:
family relations, destiny, couples, family life, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis, student life, society, unemployment, social worker ...
Place:
latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental, touching
Plot:
love affair, impossible love, immigrants, love and romance, introspection, society, couple relations, hopes, couples, fall in love, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A chronicle of an eccentric Italian-American family in New York City in the 1950's and 60's. Young Teresa dreams of joing the convent, over the objections of her family.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, sentimental
Plot:
christian, catholic, mother-in-law, world war two, obsession, love and romance, redemption, single parent, human nature, hopes, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time:
60s, 50s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot:
elderly, lifestyle, follow your dream, friendship, hopes, buddies, love and romance, life is a bitch, family problems, poverty, single parent, performer's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
housekeeper, lgbt, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, follow your dream, hopes, couple relations, unfulfillment, society, human nature, boss and employee, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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, sentimental, emotional, realistic
Plot:
youth, mentally challenged, countryside, wooing, prank, self discovery, dysfunctional family, hopes, family problems, couples, society, human nature ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
single parent, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, family relations, couples, parents and children, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, society ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, americana, culture clash, society, love and romance, pregnancy, hopes, coming of age, youth, small town, road not taken, wooing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
hopes, family relations, friendship, destiny, starting over, redemption, human nature, love and romance, parents and children, small town, chance, legal action ...
Place:
north carolina, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, atmospheric, serious, gloomy
Plot:
small town, diner, hopes, unfulfillment, dull life, introspection, love and romance, society, working class, fall in love, love affair, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, friendship, family relations, couples, friends, interracial relations, human nature, hopes, opposites attract, introspection, golden years, society ...
Place:
georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, interracial relations, small town life, family relations, family life, fall in love, homecoming, estrangement, social relations, couples, family problems, feminism ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
MartÃn Santomé has been woking in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.
Style:
emotional, stylized, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, family relations, love affair, elderly, hopes, midlife crisis, aging, dealing with death, gender, gays and lesbians, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
124
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, human nature, family problems, couples, sexual relations, destiny, crumbling marriage, hopes, unfulfillment, womanizer, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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