Movies like Running for Grace

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Running for Grace (2018)
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Running for Grace (2018)
Genre: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees.
Style: sincere, captivating, sentimental, touching, romantic, dramatic, romantic drama
Plot: forbidden love, love, racism, jungle, medicine, prejudice, coming of age, race against time, forest, love and romance, family relations, friendship, couples, adoption, happy ending, slice of life, plague, nanny, running, doctor, jazz, father daughter relationship, segregation, mentor, factory ...
Time: 1920s
Place: hawaii
Keyword: hawaiian

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Most similar movies to Running for Grace

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, romantic, touching and sentimental films with plots about love, love and romance, family relations, male female relationship, fall in love, couples and love affair mostly in Romance, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Running for Grace: Pizza My Heart (2005), Endless Love (2014), Love Under the Rainbow (2019), Liar's Moon (1981), Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pizza My Heart (2005)
Genre: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Another modern spin-off of Romeo & Juliet, this time about two families who each run rivaling pizza restaurants in New Jersey.
Style: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, rivalry, fall in love, family business, family relations, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, cooking and food, restaurant, relationships, couple relations, romantic relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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Endless Love (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: love, love story, forbidden love, teen romance, teenage love, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, father daughter relationship, relationships, couples, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Love Under the Rainbow (2019)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Lucy wasn't sure if she would find true love, until Jack moves to town with his daughter Sophie. Together they teach her it's never too late to start chasing rainbows!
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, light
Audience: family outing
Plot: female teacher, family relations, love and romance, love, friendship, father daughter relationship, male female relationship, ambition, fall in love, escapades, creativity, parents and children ...
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Liar's Moon (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, teenage love, teenager, coming of age, love, infidelity, social differences, parents and children, computers and web, small town life, small town, teenage life ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: texas, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy ...
Style: sex comedy, romantic drama, romantic, existential, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, animal, equestrian, orphan, great depression, women, world war one, age difference, coming of age, young love, medicine ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, georgia, north carolina
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30%
Destined at Christmas (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Kim and Theo meet in the midst of Black Friday shopping madness but there's a definite spark between them. When a power outage causes some panic at a store, the couple gets separated. With Christmas coming, there should be plenty of ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, humorous, light, sincere ...
Plot: christmas, couples, love affair, male female relationship, love, love and romance, destiny, relationships, fall in love
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28%
Love Takes Wing (2009)
Genre: Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was spread from the town orphanage and wants to see it shut down. Belinda ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: small town, plague, love and romance, love affair, christian, fall in love, small town life, child illness, friendship, love, prairie, medical ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Little Manhattan (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public school any ...
Style: touching, romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: first love, children, child's point of view, coming of age, school, friendship, love story, jealousy, bully, love, couples, childhood love ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Surprised by Love (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The story of a young businesswoman who tries to convince her uptight parents to accept her current boyfriend and instead finds herself falling for an old high school flame.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: opposites attract, pretend relationship, love and romance, parents and children, disorder, couples, fall in love, family relations, in laws, jealousy, love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Two Turtle Doves (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Dr. Sharon Hayes searches for a beloved family heirloom in a small Christmas town. When she unexpectedly discovers an adorable little girl and her disheartened father, she realizes that Christmas miracles really do happen.
Style: romantic, light, captivating, sincere
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas eve, christmas romance, father daughter relationship, love, tradition, friendship, christmas season, legacy, male female friendship, widower ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Royal Winter (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: While on a last-minute European holiday, a young woman finds herself in the middle of a real-life fairy tale when a chance meeting with a handsome local leads to something more. However, things get complicated when she learns that the ...
Style: sweet, romantic, captivating, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: prince, christmas, royalty, love, coronation, fall in love, proposal, class differences, destiny, youth, couples, love affair ...
Place: europe, alps, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Reading, Writing & Romance (2013)
Genre: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Struggling actor Wayne Wenders has to look for other options to pay his increasingly late rent and ends up interviewing for a gig teaching Shakespeare at the local high school. Wayne is soon surprising himself with his love of the job—and for ...
Style: light, sweet, captivating, feel good, emotional
Audience: family outing
Plot: adaptation, male female relationship, ambition, happy ending, love affair, friendship, promise, escapades, couples, society, love, parents and children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Father of the Bride (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 21 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. He becomes slightly insane, but his ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick, teens ...
Plot: wedding, father daughter relationship, marriage, husband wife relationship, wedding planning, wedding preparations and rituals, parents and children, event planner, meet the parents, childhood, wedding planner, comedy of errors ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Royal Treatment (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Isabella runs her own salon and isn’t afraid to speak her mind, while Prince Thomas runs his own country and is about to marry for duty rather than love. When Izzy and her fellow stylists get the opportunity of a lifetime to do the hair for the ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, feel good, satirical, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: prince, couple relations, love and romance, crown prince, couples, wedding, love, changing lives, in love, hairdresser, love interest, wedding preparations and rituals ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Midnight Masquerade (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Young businesswoman Elyse Samford's life takes a turn when she inherits Samford Candy, a multi-billion dollar corporation, from her retired father. A trademark infringement lawsuit against a rival company brings Elyse to Higgins Attorneys and ...
Style: modern fairy tale, romantic, touching, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: rich woman poor man, lawyer, love, love and romance, friendship, rivalry, creativity, ambition, lifestyle, family relations, love triangle, fall in love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Project Christmas Wish (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: For years Lucy has played Santa to her small town’s community by making their holiday wishes come true. But when Lucy grants a little girl’s wish for a Christmas like she used to have with her mom, she unexpectedly finds her own wishes coming ...
Style: feel good, touching, sweet, inspirational, romantic ...
Plot: christmas, small town, father daughter relationship, carnival, eligible bachelor, christmas romance, fund raising, love and romance, making a wish, dream, parents and children, family relations ...
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23%
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The Remake (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sheridan O'Connor and Riccardo Rossi were destined to meet on the set of their first big movie together when barely out of their teens. What they didn't know was that their on-screen chemistry would translate into a hot and heavy ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, mysterious, tear jerker ...
Plot: love, father daughter relationship, daughter, revenge, marriage, family relations, filmmaking, impossible love, friends, romantic friendship, romancing partners, lost love ...
Place: california, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Heart of the Country (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: family relations, homecoming, parents and children, love affair, love and romance, countryside, hopes, getting home, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, life, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Sonny Boy (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: interracial relations, world war two, forbidden love, unlikely couple, coming of age, family relations, racism, society, love affair, couples, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: holland, europe
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22%
The Farmer and the Belle: Saving Santaland (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sparks fly between a famous model and a farmer with a young daughter when she visits her childhood home. The town is in danger of losing their beloved Santaland festival, but miracles can happen with a little love, family, and faith.
Style: touching, romantic, humorous, talky, psychological ...
Plot: christmas, family holiday, home alone, love and romance, love, love story, love interest, fall in love, family relations, relationships, young lovers, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
I'm Glad It's Christmas (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An aspiring Broadway singer is convinced to participate in a small-scale production for her local Christmas celebration. Along the way, she finds hope and unexpected mentorship towards her dream career. But will her professional success come at the ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, sincere, captivating, light
Plot: christmas, relationships, happy ending, male female relationship, love and romance, couples, love story, love, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Little Italy (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
Style: romantic, light, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, food, friendship, father daughter relationship, contests and competitions, rivalry, pizza, fall in love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Percy, Buffalo Bill and I (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Ulf think this is going to be an ordinary summer. Going to his grand parents and swim in the lake and tease his brother. But that's not the case, because this summer he will fall in love with Pia.
Style: sentimental, captivating, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, fall in love, best friend, family life, youth, escapades, family relations, summer vacation, love, boy, swimming, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Undercover Holiday (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When returning home for the holidays, newly minted pop star Jaylen tells her protective family that Matt is her new beau, when in reality, he’s her overzealous security guard.
Style: entertaining, funny, dramatic, light, feel good ...
Plot: christmas, pop star, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, family relations, couples, relationships, couple relations, love, love affair, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Christmas with the Darlings (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Just before the holidays Jessica Lew is ending her tenure as the assistant to her wealthy boss to use her recently earned law degree within his company, but offers to help his charming, younger brother as he looks after his orphaned nieces and ...
Style: talky, psychological, romantic, humorous, romantic drama
Plot: christmas, guardian, uncle niece relationship, uncle, male female relationship, niece, love interest, christmas party, opposites attract, christmas season, brother brother relationship, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, vermont, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Midway to Heaven (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Years after his wife Kate died, Ned Stevens still cringes at the thought of dating other women. After all, why would he start dating again when he still has to look out for his daughter Liz? But when Liz comes home for a visit from college, she ...
Style: christian film, humorous, light, sentimental
Plot: christian, parent child relationship, widower, father daughter relationship, single father, family relations, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, female nudity, friendship, faith, love ...
Place: utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
12 Pups of Christmas (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Recently single and starting a new job in a different city, Erin, a canine therapist, is getting a fresh start. But just when she thought her new life would be the reset she needed, her self-centered boss, Martin, tasks Erin with finding homes for ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, sweet, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, dog, love, love affair, animal life, escapades, happy ending, fall in love, opposites attract, new job, couples, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Puppy Swap: Love Unleashed (2019)
Genre: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An engaged couple adopts two puppies but when they decide to split up, the puppies hatch a plan to bring the two back together.
Style: romantic, entertaining, light, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: couples, relationships, couple relations, love and romance, pet dog, romantic relationship, husband wife reunion, puppy, love affair, family reunited, male female relationship, dog ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Love on the Vines (2017)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When overworked lawyer Diana’s (Margo Harshman) uncle, Hugh, passes away she’s called back to his vineyard to settle his estate. Hugh has left half of his Golden Range Winery & Vineyard to Diana and half to Seth (Steve Talley), his right ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, touching, suspense, romantic
Plot: father son relationship, jealousy, cooking, employer employee relationship, love, family business, love and romance, parent child relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, male female relationship, teenage love ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Three Steps Over Heaven (2004)
Genre: Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A bad boy and a socialite girl hook-up.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenage love, first love, forbidden love, opposites attract, teen romance, youth, friendship, virgin, best friend, blackmail, fistfight, love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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