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Unanswered Prayers (2010)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava Andersson, who visits from Chicago, after a failed marriage, to bury her ma. Ava seduces Ben into reliving their courtship, which she traumatically broke off without a goodbye. Jesse reacts furiously, even backseats his own football scholarship bid, rather pa's projected ambition, in favor of a writing summer course
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, touching, serious, sexual, sexy
Plot:
family relations, love and romance, couples, homecoming, society, husband wife relationship, seduction, father son relationship, infidelity, family business, lovers reunited, nude bathing, youth, high school, couple relations, party, diving, affair, unfaithful husband, skinny dipping, embarrassment, adultery, sex, female nudity, male nudity ...
Time:
future
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, infidelity, society, couple relations and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Unanswered Prayers: Expecting Amish (2014), The Dive from Clausen's Pier (2005), The Casserole Club (2011), The American Standards (2008), Tempted (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
18-year-old Hannah Yoder is ready to become an Amish adult - which means baptism into the Church and marriage to her boyfriend, Samuel. However, her friends convince her to visit Hollywood for Rumspringa where she meets Josh and the two hit it off ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, forbidden love, amish, religions or cults, couples, youth, society, love and romance, culture clash, love affair, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Good boy Mike Mayer is looking at a fine future and enjoys life with Wisconsin small town friends and steady girlfriend Carrie Beal. Then a stupid accident, diving from the local pier when the water is too low, leaves him quadriplegic. As if that ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching
Plot:
quadriplegic, self discovery, friendship, starting over, looking for love, hopes, love and romance, disability, couples, small town, tragic event, journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Steve Balderson's new film, "The Casserole Club" focuses on a group of mod 1960's era suburban housewives. Close-knit and neighborly, they are all bent on one-upping each other, trying to prove that each is "the hostess with ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sexy, erotic ...
Plot:
swinger couple, female nudity, love and romance, suburbs, suburban life, contests and competitions, swinger party, cuckolded husband, dysfunctional relationship, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, mental breakdown ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1969
Similarity:
100%
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
Similarity:
25%
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568
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, romantic drama, sexual ...
Plot:
adultery, fall in love, love triangle, love affair, family relations, couples, parents and children, infidelity, last wish, funeral, love and romance, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, boston, usa, oceania
Similarity:
23%
487
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Johan Dros is born as eleventh consecutive son of soccer-obsessed pa Rinus, who raises his boys mainly as the small island Texel's team. Johan's rare reprieves from training for a sport he doesn't care for cease when ma dies. After ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, sport team, family life, fall in love, obsession, youth, gender, ambition, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, love at first sight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, love and romance, couples, family problems, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
591
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, psychological, captivating, 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, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jeff and Heather Baker were life long sweethearts and happily married... for a time. But at her greatest moment of weakness, Heather abandons Jeff, forcing Jeff to raise their young son alone. Ten years later, through a God ordained encounter, Jeff ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
christian, faith, church, couples, estrangement, missing person, family relations, pregnancy, babies and infants, single parent, society, forgiveness ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
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, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
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, realistic, captivating, touching, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
adoption, couple relations, family relations, society, hopes, city life, love, rivalry, indian woman, culture shock, spirituality, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, kolkata
Similarity:
21%
224
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Loving husband Lino is on a mission: His wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers wh make their ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, tagalog ...
Plot:
missing person, fall in love, couples, infidelity, couple relations, society, dangerous attraction, love and romance, travel, wife, woman, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, the philippines, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style:
mumblecore, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz, actor's life, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, family relations, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mrs. Mashreghi, who is a prominent university professor, is divorced from her husband. She leads a happy life for a while until one her students who is almost the same age of her daughter falls in love with her; a love which is completely rejected ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
iranian, intolerance, love triangle, starting over, false accusation, teachers and students, youth, crumbling marriage, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
lovers reunited, love affair, teenage life, couples, couple relations, fall in love, infidelity, bittersweet, male female relationship, age difference, young love, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
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 relations, family problems, workplace, small town, getting home, business, marital argument, relationships, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combining the proms, which would also mean more money for decorations. However, her idea shook the town up, ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, racism, racial tension, family relations, small town, prom, teenage life, society, youth, lifestyle, friendship, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After 22 years, Aziz decides to return to his hometown, to sell some family possessions, including the house where he was born. But for his astonishment, the place is now a small restaurant, run by four women, one of them a girl whom he once dated. ...
Style:
touching, realistic, feel good, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
opposites attract, homecoming, family business, love affair, lifestyle, family relations, social differences, couples, love and romance, lovers reunited, village, restaurant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
20%
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166
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Fifteen New Yorkers go into a Friday night unaware of the fact that their lives are about to change.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
lifestyle, looking for love, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations, infidelity, nightclub, meaning of life, male female relationship, multiple storylines, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
19%
212
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Gabe and Kakela are happily engaged couple in the mountain of Calabasas, CA. Gabe works as a horse riding instructor and Kakela is a trying-to-be writer. They live in house complex with Nina who is currently separated from her husband. One day, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, love affair, couple relations, breakup, vengeance, downfall, introspection, jealousy, seduction, sex scene, romantic triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Shot on digital , HD and 8 mm. Filmed through both sides of North America. 'Vicious Circle' pushes the limits of what can be accomplished on a bike. Featuring the first ever 65 foot 'Double Road Gap' , some of the gnarliest ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, lifestyle, false accusation, teenage life, family relations, society, destructive relationship, youth, love and romance, chess, interracial relations, skater ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Laurence Olivier's film of Chekhov's play.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, rough, sincere ...
Plot:
family problems, family life, society, love and romance, life is a bitch, small town, infidelity, human nature, unfulfillment, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, death of child, separation, infidelity, suicide attempt, grieving, breakup, life turned upside down, grief, loss of son, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
19%
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819
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, unfulfilled love, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, social differences, tragic love, infidelity, showbiz, love affair, society, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, love affair, couples, unfulfilled love, teenage life, hopes, society, friendship, male female relationship, looking for sex, youth, loss of virginity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
18%
283
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A soon-to-be groom learns that he may have contracted HIV. Waiting a full seven days for the test results turns out to be the most hectic week of his life.
Style:
touching, serious, psychological, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
aids, love and romance, couples, life is a bitch, society, hopes, buddies, friendship, haunted by the past, terminal illness, rich and poor, workplace ...
Time:
future
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A mother and wife finds herself haunted by a brief affair she had while separated from her husband. With her scorned lover refusing to give up, she must fight to keep her family and her secret safe.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, tense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
affair, family relations, writers, male female relationship, relationships, relationship problems, family problems, marital problem, female protagonist, adultery, couple relations, love and romance ...
Similarity:
18%
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, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
widow, unfaithfulness, small town, hospital, bittersweet, couples, social relations, family problems, family relations, love and romance, youth, society ...
Time:
80s, year 1997, 90s, 70s, 60s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, murder, betrayal, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, female protagonist, masturbation, psychopath, stealing ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship—they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
pregnancy, family relations, forbidden love, parents and children, society, life turned upside down, honor, student, love, rivalry, couples, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Similarity:
18%
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