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My Brilliant Life (2014)
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My Brilliant Life (2014)
Original name: 두근두근 내 인생
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A couple of teenagers have a son who suffers from progeria, a rare genetic disorder which makes one age exponentially faster than normal. 16 years later, the child has the body of an 80 year old in the final days of his life writing a book about his parents' love story.
Style: sincere, captivating, tear jerker, tearjerker
Plot: rapid aging, sick child, aging, relationships, teenage life, male female relationship, teenager, illness, romantic relationship, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fighting illness, love interest, couple relations, depression, homeless, poverty, family
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, romantic, psychological and sincere films with plots about relationships, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, male female relationship, romantic relationship and love story mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like My Brilliant Life: It's Time to Love (2013), My Brother's Girlfriend (2017), Heart Beats (2021), My Heart Leaps Up (2016), Life and Death on the Shore (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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It's Time to Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: On-yoo is an adult childhood cancer survivor. When he's not practicing with his boy band, Oh-yoo often volunteers at the hospital's pediatric cancer ward. One day, he recognizes the familiar face of an overdose patient.
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating
Plot: patient, overdose, cancer, hospital, volunteer, love and romance, relationships, fighting illness, assistant, couple relations, illness, love affair ...
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95%
My Brother's Girlfriend (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Reiko is a sister who is studying with his successful lawyer brother Sato as a role model. She joins Saburo who is a motivator of the same subject, and she introduces Saburo’s sister, Maya, to her brother to turn her brother’s heart, who does ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: love affair, love interest, romantic relationship, love and romance, in love, couples, fall in love, romancing partners, love story, relationships, couple relations, male female relationship ...
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82%
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Heart Beats (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Tsukasa was a middle school student, she had a crush on transfer student Hayato and even confessed her feelings to him. She was turned down by Hayato. Now, Tsukasa and Hayato are classmates in high school. Hayato treats Tsukasa as just a ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, romantic
Plot: fall in love, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love affair, teenage love, teenager, in love, couple relations, teenage protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, teenage life ...
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81%
My Heart Leaps Up (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While working on clipart with her schoolmates, 17-year-old Beijing high school student Liu Weiwei develops a crush on her art teacher.
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: teacher student relationship, male teacher female student affair, teenage love, relationships, forbidden love, teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, artist, unrequited love, teenage girl, tragic love, love interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Life and Death on the Shore (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. He is admired by the children on the island and he is interested in learning the island song as well as drinking with his men. Toe is an ...
Style: captivating
Plot: world war two, tragic love, wartime life, male female relationship, romantic relationship, in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, love interest, love and romance, relationships, wartime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Life without Sara Amat (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Pep, a 13-year-old boy, is in love with a girl from his grandparents village, Sara Amat. One summer night Sara disappears without a trace. After a few hours, Pep finds her hiding in his room. Although Pep knows that the entire town is looking for ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: teenager, lie, double life, love and romance, escape, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, couple relations, love affair, teenage love, love interest, teenage life ...
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60%
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Double Patty (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Kang Woo-ram is busy preparing to get a job. Lee Hyun-ji is a would-be anchor, but she works at a homemade hamburger restaurant. One night, Woo-ram visits the hamburger restaurant and orders a double patty hamburger, which has a "buy one, get ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, sincere, sentimental, exciting ...
Plot: love and romance, love affair, love, couple relations, female protagonist, love story, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, relationships, male female relationship
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59%
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Heart (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Style: captivating
Plot: adultery, tragic love, relationships, romancing partners, romantic triangle, love affair, love and romance, male female relationship, couple relations, love interest, romantic relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Sweet September (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rebecca and Bruno meet in a bar, in a not particularly happy moment of their life, and they start dating. They consider themselves just friends and talk to each other about everything. But if Rebecca stops being so worried about what the bourgeoisie ...
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological
Plot: relationships, love story, long distance relationship, romantic friendship, couple relations, male female relationship, couples, self discovery, in love, best friend, love affair, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Into Dad's Woods (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gina, 15, lives in a city on the edge of the forest. She admires her father, unpredictable and whimsical, able to take his children at night in the woods, even to forget them. Jimmy's more and more frequent skids end up alarming his wife ...
Style: captivating
Plot: mental illness, family relations, mental institution, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, relationships, family problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, love affair, parents and children, couple relations ...
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55%
High Resolution (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An adaptation of Tao Lin’s beloved cult novel "Taipei". As one relationship collapses, another blooms for Erin, swept into the world of Paul Chen, a mysterious, charismatic author. When he proposes documenting every aspect of their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: couples, love interest, relationships, relationship problems, romantic relationship, wooing, romantic obsession, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, in love, seduction ...
Time: 21st century
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54%
My Girl and I (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Su-ho is a plain high school boy, and Su-eun is a bright and beautiful girl in the same school. For some unknown reason, Su-eun has a crush on the boy, and for equally mysterious reasons she rescues Su-ho in the sea (though he doesn’t know who ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love, tragic love, asian, couple relations, teenager, love and romance, unfulfilled love, saving a life, relationship problems, romantic relationship, male female relationship, couples ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Dreamy Eyes (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Mắt Biếc (Dreamy Eyes) tells the story of the one-sided love of Ngan for Ha Lan — his childhood friend.
Style: romantic, captivating, disturbing, sincere
Plot: love and romance, love story, couple relations, relationships, love affair, romantic friendship, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, romantic relationship, true love, love
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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April Bride (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but ...
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere
Plot: love story, terminal illness, wedding, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations, true love, couples, love and romance, wedding preparations and rituals, arranged marriage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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52%
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The Reconquest (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Manuela and Olmo meet in a future as they had promised fifteen years earlier as teenagers, when they lived their first love. Based on this romantic situation, La Reconquista is in fact a film on a quest for time; or about the awareness of time: of ...
Style: romantic, captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love interest, lovers reunited, male female relationship, love affair, romantic relationship, relationships, love and romance, love story, couples, couple relations, women ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU– (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story: One day, Taichi, an ordinary university student, meets Mioka, a girl who is like a storm. Taichi finds himself drawn to Mioka, who lives freely as she wishes without holding back, and they eventually fall in love. However, Mioka tells Taichi of her ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, romantic, sad
Plot: terminal illness, male female relationship, love and romance, romantic relationship, love affair, relationships, life is a bitch, love story, fighting illness, couple relations, fall in love, love interest ...
Place: japan
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48%
Upcoming Summer (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When a white lie leads to unexpected results, Chen Chen and Zheng Yuxing forge a deep friendship and must face the harsh realities of growing up.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: family problems, relationships, love affair, relationship problems, male female relationship, teenager, teenage life, in love, depression, couple relations, adolescence, star crossed lovers
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Rite of Spring (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Laura has just arrived in Madrid to study at University. One night, she accidentally meets David, who has cerebral palsy. The relationship with the boy and his mother will give Laura the push she needs to overcome her complexes and insecurities and ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: cerebral palsy, couple relations, male female relationship, relationships, love and romance, romantic relationship, love interest, relationship problems, couples, fall in love, love affair, social problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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...ing (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Follows the life of a young woman (Min-ah) who has become reserved and indifferent to the world as a result of her chronic illness/deformed hand and quietly portrays the unconventional, yet endearing relationship between mother and daughter as well ...
Style: romantic, sincere, captivating, romantic comedy, masterpiece
Audience: teen drama
Plot: high school student, family relations, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, looking for love, couple relations, love story, love and romance, relationships, love affair, love interest, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 346
8 Times Up (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Elsa makes a living from little jobs, struggling to gain custody of his son. Mathieu, who lives next door, also keeps getting job interviews only to polish his art of failure. Their situation is increasingly precarious, but both are trying to bounce ...
Style: disturbing, touching, captivating, sincere, psychological
Plot: job seeking, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, relationships, romantic relationship, love story, love affair, male female relationship, social problems, love and romance, couple relations, loss of job ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
One Moment More (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Jerry is a wide-awake tourist guide in Cebu who knows all the angles, and who has supported his divorced mother and younger brother and sister since their musician father deserted the family for a younger woman. Jerry guides tour buses, taking the ...
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, in love, romantic friendship, male female relationship, love affair, love and romance, romantic relationship, couple relations, love story, love interest, relationships, photographer ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Love+Sling (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A former wrestler bonds with his son over the sport. But then the son's girlfriend falls in love with the father.
Style: light, captivating
Plot: wrestling, father and son, romantic rivalry, father child relationship, love triangle, father son relationship, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance, couple relations, relationships, love story ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Portrait of a Married Couple (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This entertaining 1970s drama from director Alberto Bojorquez illustrates the typical conflicts that arise in relationships involving middle-class couples. The cast includes Alma Muriel, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Jose Carlos Ruiz and Gonzalo Vega.
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, couples, husband wife relationship, love affair, young couple, in love, love story, romantic relationship, romancing partners, married couple ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Blindly in Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kentaro’s parents set up an arranged marriage interview with a girl named Nahoko and her parents, he falls in love for the first time in his life. ...
Style: romantic, light, captivating
Plot: blind woman, romantic relationship, blindness, couple relations, love story, blindness and impaired vision, matchmaking, male female relationship, love and romance, relationships, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: east asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Out of Love (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Out of Love encapsulates the sweltering and devastating dynamics of love in the turbulent relationship between Varya and Nikolai, where genuine love and hope contend with destruction and despair.
Style: captivating, sexy
Plot: relationships, true love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, male female relationship, love story, love and romance, love affair, punched in the face, man hits a woman, party, wound ...
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39%
The Sweet and the Bitter (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: mafia, tragic romance, romantic relationship, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, criminal, tragic love, male female relationship, gangster ...
Place: sicily, palermo italy
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39%
To Love Somebody (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Over the span of several weeks, two couples, who have been close friends for years, face several life-altering traumas out of their control. Mike and Meryl are recovering from their son's death and their inability to communicate. Joanna and Tim ...
Style: captivating, romantic, erotic
Plot: relationships, friend, parenthood, motherhood, miscarriage, dead child, love story, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, male female relationship, romantic relationship ...
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38%
 5.7
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Emily & Tim (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: marriage, love and romance, family life, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, relationships, family problems, love interest, male female relationship, family relations, couple relations, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Closer to Heaven (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A funeral director meets a man who has been battling Lou Gehrig's disease since he was young. The two fall in love and hope for a cure that can keep him alive.
Style: romantic, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot: romantic relationship, love and romance, relationships, fighting illness, couple relations, male female relationship, love story, love affair, fall in love, in love, terminal illness, director ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Romance of Our Parents (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An elderly couple looks back on their lives from the time when he was a naval officer who fell in love with a girl from a different background.
Style: captivating, sincere
Plot: love, flashback sequence, elderly man, memories, couple relations, couples, romantic relationship, love affair, relationships, fall in love, love and romance, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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