Movies like The One That Got Away

If you like "The One That Got Away" you are looking for captivating, sentimental and psychological movies about / with gossip, divorce, small town, fish out of water, homecoming, fall in love and couples themes of Drama and Romance genre shot in Canada.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
The One That Got Away (2008)
 5.0
 152
The One That Got Away (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Joanna, recently divorced, decided to return with her daughter to the town where she was born. There, she confronts the memories of the past when he meets his former lover, now married.
Style: captivating, sentimental, psychological, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: gossip, divorce, small town, fish out of water, homecoming, fall in love, couples, family relations, lawyer, theft, love, single mother, middle east conflict, extramarital affair, hometown, friendship, love and romance, single parent, social relations, disorder, bittersweet, small town life, warehouse, old love, child custody ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to The One That Got Away

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sentimental, serious and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, fall in love, family relations, small town, love and small town life mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The One That Got Away: No Looking Back (1998), Dear Viola (2014), Class (2010), The Only Thrill (1997), Swann (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
No Looking Back (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, working class, rock, old love, waitress, love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, family relations, couples, friends, social relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.1
 661
Dear Viola (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kellie Martin plays an accountant who submits a reply to a "dear viola" letter to the editor that she works for, as an accountant. She has a real knack for writing to people and getting to the heart of the matter, and soon the whole town ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, captivating, emotional, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, letter, social relations, media, fall in love, journalism, friendship, advice, widower, hopes, hidden identity, dating ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.9
 500
Class (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Preppy and wealthy Whitt Sheffield is in his last semester of law school when a professor assigns him to act as an advocate for a young, single mother who needs help finding - and keeping - a job. Whitt, whose snooty father wants Whitt to follow him ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single parent, law student, fall in love, couples, rich and poor, society, parents and children, law school, lawyers and clients, lawyer, social differences, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
The Only Thrill (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfaithfulness, widow, small town, hospital, bittersweet, family problems, social relations, couples, family relations, single parent, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1997, 60s, 90s, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Movie in collections
canada movies
1797
lawyer movies
3472
 5.1
 163
Swann (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, social relations, friends, countryside, murder, friendship, small town life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.2
 1K
The Playboys (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: love, circus, sin, society, fall in love, small town life, small town, social relations, human nature, pregnancy, beauty, theatrical troupe ...
Time: year 1992, 50s
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.7
 343
Cole (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small town youth finds fulfillment and romance in a big city's creative writing course, but feels obliged to sacrifice them when his sister's home life deteriorates in his absence.
Style: sincere, serious, sentimental, touching, multicultural ...
Plot: interracial romance, small town, interracial relations, social differences, follow your dream, fall in love, self discovery, family problems, couples, small town life, dysfunctional family, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Back to You & Me (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Her surgeon boyfriend, who has been sarcastically nick named "Mr. Personality" and "Settle For" by Syd's best friend ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: high school reunion, starting over, doctor, couples, estrangement, couple relations, fall in love, homecoming, ex-lover, small town, small town life, single father ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Movie in collections
theft movies
2702
emotional movies
6204
love movies
14399
 5.2
 1K
See Girl Run (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in hopes of invigorating her present.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, couples, small town, unfulfillment, ex lover, love and romance, family relations, coming of age, graduation, thirtysomething life, dull life, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love, forbidden love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Felix and Meira (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot: fall in love, society, unlikely couple, religions or cults, infidelity, love story, social differences, friendship, couples, israeli, religious, lady ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, israel, brooklyn new york city, montreal, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Light of My Eyes (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, ...
Style: sentimental, serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Plot: isolation, single parent, gangster, bittersweet, custody, family relations, unlikely criminals, single mother, loner, taxi driver, store, orchestral
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.7
 784
Cuckoo (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Visually-challenged Tamizh and Suthanthirakodi fall in love with each other, but her self-centred brother wants to marry her off to his friend, which leads to the lovers' separation. Can their love help them find each other?
Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: love and romance, blindness and impaired vision, friendship, disability, fall in love, love story, relationship vs career, couples, unfulfillment, journey, society, train travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Changing Hearts (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A modern Prodigal Son story starring Brian McNamara, Daphne Zuniga, and Brad Johnson. James Reed, quite content with his current life, reluctantly returns home to the family business, a sick father, and a brother with whom he's always at odds.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: family business, homecoming, parents and children, family problems, family relations, workplace, small town, marital argument, getting home, business, relationships, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
An Italian Romance (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, couples, lovers reunited, impossible love, fall in love, relationships, tragic love, betrayal, love interest, male female relationship, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Messages from the Sea (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A man witnesses the drastic changes in society as he goes back to the Alexandria of his youth.
Style: realistic, captivating, sentimental, psychological, islamic ...
Plot: society, fall in love, prostitute, homecoming, unfulfillment, speech impediment, friendship, homosexuality, misfit, cause and meaning, love and romance, disintegration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.0
 246
Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: love triangle, love affair, social differences, social relations, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, rivalry, society, friendship, small town, stranger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Sense of Humor (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Élise lives with her 10-year-old son Léo, whose father is deceased. She has a chaotic relationship with Paul her lover. They go from happy moments to intense feuds. Élise introduces him to Léo and in time, they get to know and appreciate each ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, pregnancy, parents and children, couples, single parent, breakup, love, friends, couple relations, son, divorced divorcee
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Movie in collections
Maria's Lovers (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ...
Style: sincere, emotional, erotic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: marital problem, world war two, couples, fall in love, human nature, soldier, love affair, small town, homecoming, erotica, husband wife relationship, marriage ...
Time: post world war two
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.6
 513
Rust (2010)
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, serious ...
Plot: clergy, self discovery, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, homecoming, religions or cults, friendship, society, small town, human nature, direction and purpose ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
You're My Home (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After returning back to family, Leyla tries to fix everytihng while starting a new life wit Iskender. Everything goes smoothly until troubles find Leyla...
Style: romantic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, tragic love, love and romance, family relations, couples, love, destiny, relationships, dialogue, friendship, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.5
 935
Wonderful Town (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Takua Pa is a small town in the South of Thailand. Ever since the tsunami, people have lost their jobs and remember better times in the past. One day a stranger comes to town. His name is Ton, he is an architect. He rents a room in a small hotel ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love affair, social relations, fall in love, couples, seaside town, small town, hotel, secret, love and romance, family relations, small town life, handsome man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot: family relations, love triangle, love affair, teacher, obsession, fall in love, infidelity, unfulfillment, small town, social differences, family problems, love ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Movie in collections
friendship movies
18934
touching movies
11218
realistic movies
29790
 4.0
 263
Together (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Comprised by two love stories: The first story features Donnie Yen as a traffic cop, “Mr. Cool” who never smiles due to a rare disease. He meets and falls in love with Michelle Chen, a patient with amnesia, and spends most of her time looking ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, love affair, couples, friends, police officer, haunted by the past, dating, amnesiac, couple relations, love and romance, cop, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ...
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot: veterinarian, adoption, single parent, homecoming, life is a bitch, parents and children, terminal illness, couples, couple relations, social relations, unfulfillment, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Getting Married in Buffalo Jump (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Years have passed since Sophie (Wendy Crewson) left the ranch her family calls home to pursue her dream of becoming a singer. The death of her father means that Sophie, now 30, must return to the home she left behind so long ago. Once there, ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: nudity, small town, rodeo, cattle ranch, small town life, infidelity, parents and children, fish out of water, moral dilemma, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Christmas Everlasting (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Christmas is fast approaching and years of long workdays employed at New York’s top corporate law firm are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey will be made partner after the New Year. However, when Alice, her older sister with special needs, ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental
Plot: christmas, holiday, homecoming, love interest, small town, niece, love, couples, fall in love, family relations, snow, fishing ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Finding Christmas (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Single mother Ryan has just about given up on dating after her divorce, happily accepting her young son as the most important man in her life. That all changes when Ryan's brother Owen, also feeling unlucky in love after a bad breakup, swaps ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, captivating, sincere, christmas special ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, love and romance, fall in love, couples, single parent, family relations, christmas romance, xmas, love, holiday, christmas season, looking for love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, north carolina, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.0
 295
The Affair (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: disability, polio, terminal illness, songwriter, lawyer, love, family relations, couples, unlikely couple, forbidden love, unfulfillment, young lovers ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.5
 2K
Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: friends, love affair, fall in love, wooing, couples, couple relations, looking for love, love and romance, urban, loneliness
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie