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Candles on Bay Street (2006)
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Candles on Bay Street (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: DeeDee returns to her hometown with her 11 year old son, Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend, Sam, is now married and he and his wife, Lydia, are the town's veterinarians. Lydia is a little wary about DeeDee after Sam tells her that they were best friends growing up and DeeDee was his first crush. But DeeDee and Trooper find their way into many hearts of the townspeople with their sweet helpfulness and friendships. DeeDee sets up a candle making business in town square and invites many of the ladies of the town to weekly candle making parties, and through these parties she and Lydia become good friends. One evening after dinner with Lydia and Sam, DeeDee tells Sam she's very sick and she doesn't have much longer to live and she needs his help to find a good family in town to adopt Trooper. Sam later tells Lydia everything and they decide to adopt Trooper themselves if/when something happens to DeeDee.
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot: veterinarian, adoption, single parent, parents and children, life is a bitch, couples, terminal illness, social relations, homecoming, couple relations, small town, unfulfillment, youth, family relations, bittersweet, small town life, dog, party, cancer, puppy, music band, golden retriever, bicycle, funeral home, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: maine, usa

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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, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, terminal illness and family problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Candles on Bay Street: Invisible Child (1999), Imaginary Crimes (1994), Back to School Mom (2015), You're Not You (2014), What Girls Learn (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Invisible Child (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A woman with two children believes she has three and her husband and oldest daughter play along with her to keep her balanced (or as close to balanced that a woman with an invisible child can be). However, when the family hires a new nanny, it is ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: imaginary friend, youth, evil child, family relations, nanny, mental illness, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couples, master and servant, betrayal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: parents separation, family life, aging, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, mother and son, single parent, care, overprotective mother, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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Imaginary Crimes (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two teenage daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1950s Indiana.
Style: touching, sad, sentimental, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family relations, hopes, hustler, cons and scams, down on your luck, terminal illness, human nature, life is a bitch, single parent ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 1994
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Back to School Mom (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish her degree so that, for once, she can finally finish something she started. Back at her old ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: college, redemption, family relations, life is a bitch, college life, homecoming, social relations, starting over, bittersweet, small town, college friend, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, lyrical, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: terminal illness, friendship, dying, quadriplegic, life is a bitch, marital infidelity, character study, disability, musician, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Plot: cancer, family life, terminal illness, survival, family relations, parents and children, rebelliousness, dysfunctional family, couple relations, life is a bitch, single parent, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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The Event (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, couples, terminal illness, gays and lesbians, gender, human nature, life is a bitch, aids, euthanasia, hiv, couple relations ...
Time: year 2003
Place: new york, nova scotia, usa
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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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Due East (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, inspirational
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Dawn Anna (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: realistic, sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: edutainment, controversial, uplifting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: medical, youth, blaster, slice of life, health, medicine, child hero, hospital, family relations, bittersweet, small town life, terminal illness ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, sentimental ...
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23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, psychological ...
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21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, independent film ...
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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