Movies and TV shows like One Bad Choice

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One Bad Choice (2015)
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One Bad Choice (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: How one bad decision can change where your life goes.
Style: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: redemption, life turned upside down, juvenile delinquent, haunted by the past, hopes, unlikely criminals, twists and turns, life, teenager, reenactment, bug, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and emotional films and TV series with plots about hopes, redemption, family relations, parents and children, haunted by the past, society and life turned upside down mostly in Drama, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like One Bad Choice: Moving On (2009), Firelight (2012), Refuge (2017), Hide Away (2011), The Manions of America (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Moving On (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: introspection, starting over, parents and children, optimism, life turned upside down, couples, family problems, couple relations, redemption, hopes, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Firelight (2012)
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, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Refuge (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The lives of a Hollywood actress battling drug addiction, a teen with a violent past, a teacher fighting to keep a dream alive, and a cop caught in a love triangle are brought together by fate.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, touching, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, haunted by the past, hopes, redemption, youth, dedicated educator, addiction, high school life, love
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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71%
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Hide Away (2011)
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, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, father daughter relationship, death of wife, redemption, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Manions of America (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 290 min.
TV show
Story: Film starring David Soul, Kate Mulgrew, Pierce Brosnan
Style: serious, sentimental, captivating, realistic, emotional
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: 007, american civil war, immigrant, love and romance, couples, hopes, starvation, follow your dream, ambition, renewed love, lovers reunited, society ...
Time: 19th century
Place: ireland, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Blue (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Blue is a mother with a secret life. She'll do anything to keep it from her son. But her past has other plans.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: double life, parents and children, single parent, family relations, protecting from truth, financial problem, sexuality, society, haunted by the past, strong female presence, sexual content, upscale ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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53%
The Mulberry Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A drama centered on a young man working in Rhode Island's state corrections system and his relationship with a convicted murderer who is dying of AIDS and spending his remaining days on hospital detail.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: prison, hospital, redemption, family relations, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, one more chance, terminal illness, life sentence, haunted by the past, murderer ...
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
All the Beautiful Things (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: All the Beautiful Things describes the palpable and uniquely portrayed real-life experience of two men seeking to repair their lifelong, but fractured, bond. Looking to move beyond their individual and shared histories of domestic violence, poverty, ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot: friendship, redemption, introspection, best friend, unsupportive friend, righting the wronged, betrayal, human nature, domestic violence, jazz, friendship between men, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, boston
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52%
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A Long Way Home (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: psychiatrist, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, domestic disturbance, redemption, life is a bitch, family in crisis, hopes, parents and children, family problems, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Lucky 7 (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: What would you do if you won the lottery? How would it change your life? Follow a group of seven gas station employees in Queens, New York, who have been chipping into a lottery pool for years, never thinking they'd actually win. They need to ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: lottery, family relations, parents and children, workplace, working class, couple relations, change of luck, society, lottery winner, bittersweet, gas station, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Morning (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark (Leland Orser) and ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, starting over, redemption, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, family in crisis, death in the family, death of child, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Hiding (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: In order to survive, Lincoln Swift must take his family into witness protection and give evidence against his former employer, vicious crime boss Nils Vandenberg. With new names and fresh identities, the Swifts are ripped from their Gold Coast home ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: witness protection, family in danger, hidden identity, witnessing a crime, life turned upside down, master criminal, hopes, dishonesty, parents and children, family relations, starting over, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Kita Yoshio's Tomorrow (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Can a coward commit suicide? Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, sex comedy ...
Plot: suicide attempt, suicidal, jazz, midlife crisis, hopes, introspection, down on your luck, unfulfillment, life, human nature
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Philanthropist (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Philanthropist is an American action drama series that premiered on NBC on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. The program was a limited summer series, principally filmed in South Africa. It opened to strong ratings, but saw a drop in viewers in ...
Style: contemplative, feel good, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: danger, haunted by the past, rescue, treatment, loss of child, ex couple relations, selflessness, hopes, disorder, self discovery, billionaire, rich man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Cleaner (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Plot: addiction, belief, rescue, hopes, going straight, life is a bitch, family life, family relations, human nature, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, drug rehab ...
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Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.9
 625
Saved (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
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Style: captivating, realistic, serious, psychological, medical drama ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, portland oregon
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42%
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Soda Springs (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, family relations, hopes, going straight, lifestyle, homecoming, parents and children, social relations, christian ...
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Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Three Rivers (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Three Rivers is an American television medical drama that debuted on CBS on October 4, 2009, starring Alex O'Loughlin in the role of an infamous transplant surgeon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On November 30, 2009, after just eight episodes of ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, moral dilemma, doctors and patients, human nature, workplace situations, power relations, surgery, dealing with death, race against time, change of heart ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Capadocia (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating
Plot: prison, women's prison, prison life, gang war, life turned upside down, dishonesty, corrupt law enforcer, warden, life is a bitch, bribery, uncover truth, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Trauma Center (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When a person is seriously injured in an accident, they often have only one hour to live. Dr. Michael "Cutter" Royce (James Naughton) leads a hospital's specialized emergency department that is designed to make maximum use of that one ...
Style: medical drama, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: rescue, hospital, workplace, boss and employee, doctors and patients, race against time, power relations, workplace situations, surgeon, rescue team, medical, paramedic ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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40%
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Samurai Girl (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
TV show
Story: This story follows Heaven, who at six months old was the sole survivor of a deadly plane crash. The press had named her Heaven, because it seemed that she fell from the sky. Soon after, she was adopted by the powerful Kogo Family and lived a very ...
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, teen ...
Plot: martial arts, grownups, adoption, orphan, rivalry, kickass women, tradition, society, friendship, supernatural, female protagonist, strong female lead ...
Time: 21st century
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40%
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Route 132 (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption.
Style: road movie, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: crime spree, self discovery, friends, introspection, haunted by the past, partner, buddies, countryside, dealing with death, unlikely criminals, hopes, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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40%
Just Like the Son (2006)
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, independent film ...
Plot: adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, foster home, boy ...
Place: new york, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Torn (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two families bond when their teenage sons are killed in an explosion at a suburban mall only to discover one of their children is the prime suspect.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: life turned upside down, police investigation, family in crisis, parents and children, family relations, dishonesty, family problems, shopping mall, death in the family, terrorism, dealing with death, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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39%
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Fall to Rise (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood.
Style: contemplative, emotional, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: ambition, artists and showbiz, introspection, strong female presence, dancer's life, hopes, women, dancer
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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38%
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You (2009)
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, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, coming of age, parents and children, haunted by the past, redemption, single parent, hopes, love, loss of mother, teenager, friendship, grieving widower ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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37%
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Reconciliation (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: RECONCILIATION is a groundbreaking, provocative story about an estranged father and son struggling to overcome the heartbreaking consequences of their past. Grant Taylor (Eric Nenninger) has been troubled by intense childhood memories ever since his ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, emotional ...
Plot: gay parent, family relations, redemption, haunted by the past, last wish, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, terminal illness, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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37%
 7.9
 40
Cloroform (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
TV show
Story: Life of boxing in Mexico city, bets, deception, love, crime and courage takes place in the lives of amateur boxers to professional fighters.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: athlete's life, desire for fame, ambition, hopes, once promising, life is a bitch, rivalry, redemption, disgraced, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, boxing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.0
 816
Tilt (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Young poker players must navigate their past along with the best players in the world to win.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
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Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, miami, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Finding Carter (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A teenager finds out she was abducted as a toddler and returns to her biological family.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: family reunited, life turned upside down, parents and children, teenage life, missing child, introspection, starting over, uncover truth, family secret, self discovery, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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