Movies and TV shows like When Hope Calls

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When Hope Calls (2019)
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When Hope Calls (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The story of sisters Lillian and Grace who open an orphanage in the 1916 Western town of Brookfield. Caught between the traditions of cattle ranchers and the ambitions of a growing town, they strive to find romance and happiness while overcoming the challenges of helping the children in their care.
Style: light, sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, period drama
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: two sisters, children's home, family drama, sister sister relationship, orphan, family relations, orphanage, sisters, children, teacher, love and romance, mentor, small town, sibling relationship, siblings relations, couple relations, family bonds, christmas, reunion, uniform, romance, family, tv show
Time: 20th century, 1910s, edwardian era, 1900s
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sentimental, serious and touching films and TV series with plots about family relations, love and romance, couple relations, family life, couples, parents and children and siblings relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like When Hope Calls: Little House on the Prairie (1974), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993), Heartland (2007), The Waltons (1972), Anne of Green Gables (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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When Calls The Heart (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, soap opera ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: teacher, small town, upscale, lifestyle change, character change, instructor, female protagonist, social relations, christian, christmas, couple relations, rich and poor ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place: america, usa, canada
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100%
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Style: sentimental, sincere, feel good, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, toddlers, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: parents and children, farm, family life, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, youth, husband wife relationship, optimism ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, 1800s
Place: minnesota, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is an American Western drama series created by Beth Sullivan and starring Jane Seymour who plays Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn, a physician who leaves Boston in search of adventure in the American West and who settles ...
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching, medical drama ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing
Plot: family values, old west, doctors and patients, small town, female doctor, parents and children, medical, medicine, love and romance, children, american indian, society ...
Time: 19th century, 90s
Place: colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Heartland (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, medical drama ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: horse, horse ranch, small town, farm, wild horse, family relations, cattle ranch, siblings relations, animal life, workplace, youth, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada, hawaii, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Waltons (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and ...
Style: sitcom, absurd, juvenile, realistic, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, large family, team, parents, christian, girl, family affairs, real life, coming of age, family relations, small town, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: hawaii, virginia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Anne of Green Gables (1985)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, West Germany, USA
Duration: 199 min.
TV show
Story: At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, period piece, emotional, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: adoption, orphan, imagination, teaching the ways of the world, teenage love, coming of age, countryside, best friend, young heroes, love and romance, foster home, little girl ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 1800s, year 1985 ...
Place: canada, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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Dawson's Creek (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series created by Kevin Williamson which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. Filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, at EUE/Screen Gems studios ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, teen, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: couples, coming of age, teenage life, friendship, high school life, small town, love triangle, couple relations, self discovery, teenager, true love, high school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
McLeod's Daughters (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: McLeod's Daughters is an Australian television series that began airing on the Nine Network on 8 August 2001. This Logie award winning drama series follows the lives of half sisters Claire and Tess McLeod as they embark on a mission: to run ...
Style: realistic, witty, captivating, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: farm, feminism, family relations, couple relations, workplace, family business, sister sister relationship, family problems, estrangement, wilderness, strong female character, female protagonist ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: australia, south australia
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100%
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October Road (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: When Nick Garrett was 18, he packed up his truck and said goodbye for a summer road trip that turned into 10 years of being away. He has since become a literary celebrity in New York, living off the fame and fortune of his best-selling novel and ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot: small town, hometown, old friend, love and romance, homecoming, family relations, success, writer's life, parenthood, writer's block, village, thoughtful ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Road to Avonlea (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After her father is accused of embezzlement, wealthy Sara Stanley is sent to live with her deceased mother's relatives on Prince Edward Island. While there, she must adjust to life in the small rural town of Avonlea, learn to cope with her ...
Style: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, soap opera ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night
Plot: family life, small town, heroine, uncle niece relationship, teacher, parents and children, friends, couple relations, countryside, friendship, mischievous children, school ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, turn of the century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.6
 65K
Anne with an E (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood ...
Style: compassionate, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: orphan, friendship, coming of age, small town, teenage life, child's point of view, family relations, school, feminism, children's home, imaginary, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.7
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Providence (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Providence is an American television drama series that aired on NBC starring Melina Kanakaredes. The show ran for five seasons from January 8, 1999 until December 20, 2002.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, medical drama ...
Plot: family relations, hometown, living with parents, family problems, love and romance, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, looking for love, homecoming, small town life, medical ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.0
 3K
Cedar Cove (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Judge Olivia Lockhart is considered the community's guiding light in the picturesque, coastal town of Cedar Cove, Washington. But like everyone else, Olivia fights the uphill battle of balancing career with family and finding love, all the ...
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: relationship vs career, small town, loss of son, small town life, courtroom, love and romance, looking for love, family relations, career woman, couple relations, legal, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington state, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
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Party of Five (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Following his parents' tragic death, 24-year-old Charlie Salinger is back at home – and in over his head – as his siblings' legal guardian. Together, Charlie, 16-year-old Bailey, 15-year-old Julia and 11-year-old Claudia share the ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: orphan, family relations, coming of age, siblings relations, child care, love and romance, dealing with death, family life, adolescence vs adulthood, teenager, sister sister relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.3
 27K
7th Heaven (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 7th Heaven is an American family drama television series, created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on August 26, 1996, on The WB, the first time that the network aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: child's point of view, family life, suburbs, suburban life, parents and children, society, religion, parenthood, family relations, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Husband for Rent aka Husband for Hire (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Marido En Alquiler is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Brazilian Rede Globo. It is a remake of the Brazilian telenovela, Fina Estampa, although the working title for the ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating, novela ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, social differences, infidelity, parents and children, love and romance, couples, family business, family in crisis, strong female presence
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Knots Landing (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, telenovela
Plot: women, poor, family relations, small town, couple relations, intrigue, love and romance, couples, family life, love affair, power, best friend ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Once and Again (1999)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Once and Again is an American television series that aired on ABC from September 21, 1999 to April 15, 2002. It depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the ...
Style: sincere, realistic, light, feel good, teen ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: couple relations, single parent, parents and children, love affair, starting over, lesbian, family relations, hopes, lgbt, coming of age, high school, lgbtq ...
Time: 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Soul Food (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, talky, sincere ...
Plot: black, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, family feud, family life, couples, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, family values, family tradition ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Thirtysomething (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, clever, sincere ...
Plot: yuppie, parenthood, parents, women, lgbt, villain, love, colleague, slice of life, family relations, advertising, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: philadelphia, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Beautiful People (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Beautiful People is an American drama television series about a family that moves from New Mexico to The Big Apple to make a fresh start on their lives. The series aired on the ABC Family Network from August 8, 2005, to April 24, 2006, lasting ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: single mother, starting over, lifestyle, fish out of water, family relations, youth, parents and children, family life, teenage life, city life, parents separation, mistress ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.9
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Felicity (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Felicity Porter decides to follow her long time crush to college in New York City.
Style: touching, sentimental, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: college, couples, coming of age, love triangle, love and romance, adulthood, looking for love, college life, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, youth, teenager ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Tide of Life (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: immigration, life turned upside down, tragic hero, love and romance, couple relations, life is a bitch, boss and employee, innocence lost, gender, society, farm, family relations ...
Time: edwardian era, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era
Place: northern england, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Beverly Hills, 90210 followed the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, soap opera, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, teenage love, friendship, teenage life, first sex, social issues, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, social relations, up and down relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: beverly hills, usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Thorn Birds (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 460 min.
TV show
Story: This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father ...
Style: sentimental, touching, family saga, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, clergy, catholic priest, tragic love, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, priest, family life, friendship, society ...
Time: 50s, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Howards End (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Style: costume drama, romantic, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: class differences, social class, wealthy family, class system, sister, house, couples, love affair, society, love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 1910s
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Love's Unending Legacy (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scuffle. She and Maddy move back in with her parents Clark and Marty. She finds a new home, and finds a new teaching position that she settles right ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, touching, saga ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: orphan, adoption, starting over, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, single parent, optimism, social relations, parents and children, small town ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Life Goes On (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, contemplative
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, protective parent, misfit, teenage life, family life, parents and children, couples, supportive parent, mentally challenged, couple relations, youth, young lovers ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Until the End of Time (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After their father's death, SofĂ­a Ripoll, the oldest of three sisters, takes over the family's fictional successful chocolate factory. Though she is engaged to a man who uses her for money, she quickly falls in love with Salvador Cruz, a ...
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental, soap opera ...
Plot: workplace intrigue, siblings relations, power relations, love and romance, couple relations, unlikely couple, family relations, master and servant, dishonesty, fall in love, infidelity, true love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
One Life to Live (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: One Life to Live is an American soap opera broadcast on television for more than 43 years on the ABC network, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network since April 29, ...
Style: soap opera, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Plot: couple relations, love and romance, family life, parents and children, friendship, family problems, infidelity, family feud, family relations, borderline personality disorder, lesbian, women ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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