Movies like Touched with Fire

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Touched with Fire (2015)
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Touched with Fire (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. Despite doctors' and parents' attempts to separate them, they pursue their beautiful but destructive romance which swings them from fantastical manic highs to suicidal depressive lows, until they have to choose between sanity and love.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, psychological, spiritual, factual
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, mental health, mental disorder, illness, couples, friendship, hospital, hopes, psychology, psychopath, relationships, addiction, autism, forgiveness, poetry, real world, special needs, psychiatric hospital, waking up, mental institution, trailer, mental disorders, romance
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, psychological, touching and serious films with plots about couples, mental illness, love, love and romance, mental health, illness and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Touched with Fire: Frances (1982), Mr. Jones (1993), Dirty Filthy Love (2004), Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013), Angel Baby (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Frances (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style: depressing, disturbing, compassionate, factual, psychological ...
Plot: mental illness, hollywood, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, family relations, showbiz, rise to the top, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: california, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Mr. Jones (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.
Style: compassionate, melancholic, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, psychiatrist, psychology, hospital, loneliness, adaptation, addiction, love affair, forbidden love, rehabilitation ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
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100%
Dirty Filthy Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: mental illness, doctors and patients, self discovery, support group, friendship, couples, human nature, mental disorder, uncontrollable, introspection, obsessive compulsive disorder, mental health ...
Time: 21st century
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35%
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental health, mental disorder, ptsd, suicidal, illness, psychology, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Angel Baby (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
Style: psychological, touching, neurotic, independent film, serious ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, insanity, mental disorder, mental health, psychosis, therapy, psychopath, destruction, illness, love story, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
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30%
Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, emotional, intense ...
Plot: suicide, mental institution, suicidal, coma, mental illness, psychiatrist, terminal illness, suicide attempt, female protagonist, depression, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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27%
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Mabel, a mother and wife, is on the brink of insanity as her blue-collar husband Nick attempts to understand her plight.
Style: independent film, art house, psychological, depressing, intense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mental illness, marriage, dysfunctional family, love, working class, insanity, mental disorder, construction worker, mental health, illness, visceral, couples ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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26%
Transference: A Bipolar Love Story (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Katarina, a Norwegian nurse in London, embarks on a passionate affair with a fellow immigrant nurse that suffers the consequences of unresolved mental health issues from the lovers' secret pasts.
Style: touching, psychological, talky, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental health, romantic relationship, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, relationships, love, love interest, young lovers, lovers, fall in love ...
Place: england
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25%
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Thanks for Sharing (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle together against a common demon: sex addiction.
Style: sexy, melancholic, touching, intense, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: addiction, friendship, recovery, sex, dysfunctional family, life philosophy, relationships, unlikely friendships, character study, father son relationship, sex addict, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Helen (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a ...
Style: psychological, emotional, realistic, depressing, sentimental ...
Plot: mental illness, family relations, suicide, love affair, parents and children, couples, friendship, unfulfillment, mental disorder, self mutilation, psychological disorder, mental health ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
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For the Love of Grace (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With a great career, close friends, and an upwardly mobile fiancé, ‘How To’ book writer Grace (Chandra West) appears to have the perfect life. Meanwhile, local firefighter Steve (Mark Consuelos), having just been suspended for his reckless, yet ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: love, fire, infidelity, daring rescue, couples, estrangement, love triangle, loss of wife, society, friendship, cooking, firefighter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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24%
Waking Madison (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, psychiatrist, dishonesty, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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23%
The Ultimate Life (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Despite his best intentions, billionaire Jason Stevens can’t find enough time to keep his beloved Alexia a priority. But when he discovers his late grandfather’s journal, he is transported back to Red Stevens’ incredible world. With everything ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: christian, self discovery, rags to riches, life lesson, introspection, sent to the past, wisdom of life, family relations, teaching the ways of the world, destiny, once in a lifetime opportunity, lawsuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tibet, haiti
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23%
Christmas on the Bayou (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother, Lilly in her home town on the bayou. When Caleb tries to ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, couples, hopes, miraculous event, family relations, christmas romance, love, hometown, comeback, girl, christmas season ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
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23%
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Of Two Minds (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Follows the story of the challenging relationship between Billie and her younger schizophrenic sister, Elizabeth Baby. After their mother dies, Billie takes responsibility by moving Baby in with her family, including her husband, their teenage son ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: mental illness, family life, single parent, babies and infants, couples, estrangement, adoption, moral dilemma, mental health, child care, autism, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
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Blue Sky (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons-testing in 1950's America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different ...
Style: light, melancholic, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mental illness, couples, infidelity, love, dysfunctional marriage, character study, secrets, couple relations, family problems, nymphomania, love affair, redemption ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: alabama, usa
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The American Standards (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: At a crossroads in his life, Doc Jennings goes home to celebrate his mother's birthday and uncovers dramatic family secrets. Lies, affairs and afflictions bubble to the surface of his seemingly perfect family. Can they come back together or is ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: family relations, family problems, couples, family in crisis, parents and children, wedding anniversary, life turned upside down, love, father son relationship, hospital, society, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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22%
Mozart and the Whale (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Style: touching, inspirational, sweet, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: asperger's syndrome, autism, mental illness, taxi driver, mathematics, disability, loneliness, bird, hopes, couple relations, support group, love story ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa
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22%
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All the Bright Places (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of Violet Markey and Theodore Finch, who meet and change each other’s lives forever. As they struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they come together, discovering that even the smallest places and moments can mean ...
Style: romantic, sweet, uplifting, teen, touching ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: teenager, interracial romance, love story, love and romance, teen romance, coming of age, true love, young adult, love affair, teenage crush, traumatic experience, mental illness ...
Time: 2020s
Place: indiana
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Opium: Diary of a Madwoman (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A drug-addicted doctor who works in an asylum discovers that one of his patients is a gifted writer.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: mental illness, couples, obsession, addiction, love affair, mentally unstable, rehabilitation, doctors and patients, drug abuse, dangerous attraction, life is a bitch, writer's life ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: hungary
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21%
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David and Lisa (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It was adapted as a stage play in 1967, and was remade as a television movie in 1998 starring Lukas Haas, Sidney Poitier and Brittany Murphy.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: split personality, love hurts, social relations, power relations, family relations, love and romance, hopes, unfulfillment, misfit, unlikely couple, youth, young lovers ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, los angeles
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Benny & Joon (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Style: touching, melancholic, sweet, feel good, compassionate ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, brother sister relationship, social misfits, love, love story, misfit, mechanic, disability, love and romance, mental health, dysfunctional family, schizophrenia ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, seattle, washington state
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21%
David and Lisa (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.
Style: psychological, social, retro, intense, spiritual ...
Plot: mental illness, multiple personality disorder, angst, mental disorder, schizophrenia, insanity, teenage love, mental institution, coming of age, psychiatric hospital, relationships, psychopath ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s
Place: philadelphia
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21%
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Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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20%
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Mad Love (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental ...
Style: romantic, touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, high school, love, bipolar disorder, on the road, mental institution, manic depression, obsessive love, coming of age, teenage love, hitchhiking, psychology ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: seattle, latin america, usa, mexico
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Numb (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a ...
Style: psychological, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: mental illness, therapy, introspection, misfit, couple relations, family relations, unfulfillment, mental health, depression, writers, estrangement, fall in love ...
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Don't Let Me Drown (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, family relations, youth, society, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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20%
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will ...
Style: feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, mental illness, writers, neighbor, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, gay, gender, looking for love, age difference, waitress, misanthrope ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, maryland, baltimore
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20%
The Waiting City (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, touching, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: adoption, couple relations, family relations, hopes, society, city life, love, rivalry, indian woman, culture shock, spirituality, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, kolkata
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20%
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Delibal (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A love story following two young people battling with their emotions and dreams, the pressures of career, family and not knowing what the future holds. Füsun is a brilliant student, destined for a successful career but can't help from falling ...
Style: neurotic, romantic, emotional, captivating, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: bipolar disorder, love, jealousy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, wedding, parents and children, living together, conflict, musician, suicide, illness ...
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
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