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Foreverland (2011)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A sufferer of cystic fibrosis travels to a legendary shrine that reputedly has the power to heal his condition.
Style:
touching, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, humorous, serious, gloomy, semi serious, independent film
Plot:
healing power, miraculous event, self discovery, hopes, on the road, last wish, life is a bitch, terminal illness, bittersweet, road trip, church, shrine, curses spells and rituals, death, hospital, parent child relationship, male female relationship, stranded, ashes, broken down car, stealing a car, aunt nephew relationship, death of best friend, estranged sister, kiss ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
mexico, canada, latin america, washington state, vancouver, vancouver british columbia canada
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Most similar movies to Foreverland
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, captivating and serious films with plots about hopes, self discovery, life is a bitch, family relations, bittersweet, parents and children and terminal illness mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Foreverland: Those Who Remain (2007), Natural Sciences (2014), The Auction (2013), The Miracle of the Cards (2001), Home Again (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, family problems, hopes, youth, parents and children, teachers and students, coming of age, search for father, unknown father ...
Time:
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Place:
argentina, latin america
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66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support ...
Style:
realistic, touching, contemplative, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
farm, parents and children, introspection, family relations, selflessness, countryside, father daughter relationship, elderly, father, old man, farmer, rural area ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec, france
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"The Miracle of the Cards" is based on the true story of Marion Shergold and her son, Craig, an eight-year-old English boy who had a brain tumor. Several events convinced Marion that God was leading her to a cure for Craig and that the ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, christian film
Plot:
brain tumor, terminal illness, child illness, christian, hopes, life is a bitch, disability, miraculous event, journalism, sick child, faith, youth ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
deportation, culture clash, homecoming, immigrant, life is a bitch, hopes, society, starting over, injustice, rivalry, self discovery, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jamaica, africa, england, canada, usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds up on the lam with an 'anything-but-normal' 22-year-old girl.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, road movie, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terminal illness, friendship, on the run, introspection, on the road, life is a bitch, orphan, road trip, self discovery, aspiring writer, odd couple, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, winnipeg, vancouver
Similarity:
50%
578
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, haunted by the past, homecoming, family relations, buddies, parents and children, redemption, estrangement, bittersweet, profanity, friends, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, road movie, humorous ...
Plot:
family in crisis, midlife crisis, starting over, self discovery, obsessive quest, introspection, human nature, society, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sister Rachel Taylor of Boise, Idaho is an eager young missionary of the LDS Church who has been sent on an 18-month long mission to Austria. Rachel finds herself having a hard time adjusting to her new cultural surroundings in the foreign country. ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, religions or cults, church, society, clergy, hopes, missionary, friendship, love, latter day saints, book of mormon, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, usa, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
gender, terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, transgender, father son relationship, gay, hospital, lgbt, lesbian, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
46%
209
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three young people drive to Mexico to scatter their friend's ashes, they are forced to confront their own sense of family, identity and future.
Style:
road movie, captivating, emotional, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, college dropout, friendship, lifestyle, down on your luck, social misfits, self discovery, dealing with death, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., mexico, north carolina
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
youth, rabbi, racism, friendship, culture clash, bittersweet, anti semitism, life is a bitch, injustice, haunted by the past, society, gang ...
Place:
new york, czech republic
Similarity:
45%
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:
serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
gay parent, family relations, redemption, haunted by the past, last wish, estrangement, family problems, hopes, life is a bitch, terminal illness, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, self discovery, elderly, hopes, family problems, countryside, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, atmospheric, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, on the road, pregnancy, gypsy, family relations, travel, european, nudity, folklore ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
europe, romania
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A woman steals from her drug-dealer boyfriend and runs away. She meets a sympathetic woman on the way who helps her escape.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
escape, life is a bitch, self discovery, friendship, partner, drug dealing, society, on the road, travel, hitchhiker, seaside, mexican american border ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style:
touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, retirement home, friendship, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, couples, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
death, family relations, introspection, self discovery, family problems, parents and children, parent child relationship, dealing with death, lifestyle, hopes, estrangement, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems, sick mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
couple relations, family problems, self discovery, redemption, couples, hopes, moral dilemma, family relations, love, love triangle, society, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tang (Muo) goes on a trip to Taitung to record the sounds of nature, hoping the tape may save his relationship with his girlfriend who is leaving him. What he does not know, is that she has already moved away and another girl, Yun (Kwai), has moved ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lost love, suicide, introspection, self discovery, love triangle, on the road, couples, unfulfillment, cause and meaning, love affair, road trip, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, japan, asia, taipei
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Emprisoned by an illness, a young country girl decides to leave for Quebec City in order to study piano and discover an animated and enthralling lifestyle.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
flapper, pregnant woman, hopes, life turned upside down, terminal illness, city life, children, jazz club, jazz, urban, strong female presence, girl ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Frankie is dying. Irene hasn't forgiven him. And they are racing against time to find their way home. Frankie needs help and Irene is the one he turns to. He must go home one last time. And, like so many times before, Irene is extending herself ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, road movie ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, love and romance, one last chance, hospital, hopes, road trip, memories, memory, self discovery, indigenous people, tribe, native ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city
Similarity:
35%
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533
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.
Style:
realistic, psychological, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
female nudity, couple relations, couples, dealing with death, choir, husband wife relationship, police, funeral, letter, male pubic hair, male nudity, pedophile ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
35%
535
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
clergy, amateur detective, self discovery, uncover truth, redemption, religions or cults, family relations, homecoming, social relations, society, friendship, direction and purpose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Tennessee-set drama focused on an individual's spiritual redemption.
Style:
semi serious, atmospheric, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
blues, friends, self discovery, on the road, musician's life, music, friendship, haunted by the past, journey, blaxploitation, urban, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa, texas, alabama, nashville tennessee
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, young lovers, unlikely couple, love affair, interracial relations, life is a bitch, social differences, society, terminal illness, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, europe, asia, germany
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julien and Nina sign a pact with the universe: they must enjoy life, whatever the cost. Will that decision lead them to happiness, or to their disappearance?
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, offbeat
Plot:
terminal illness, optimism, hopes, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, sister sister relationship, love, death, unfulfillment, aids, supermarket ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
native american, obsessive quest, introspection, self discovery, hung over, on the road, indigenous people, american indian, dealing with death, tribe, native, indians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montana
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Morocco
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A European director is making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers. Because of his methods, his relationship with the children during shooting degenerates and transforms the evolution of the project.
Style:
realistic, captivating, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
filmmaking, culture clash, social differences, introspection, village, hopes, society, children, self discovery, research, youth, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, morocco, tangier morocco
Similarity:
32%
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