Movies like A Stranger's Heart
If you like "A Stranger's Heart" you are looking for touching, sentimental and uplifting movies about / with human spirit, love affair, orphan, love and romance, couples, terminal illness and transplant themes of Romance genre shot in USA.
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.
A Stranger's Heart (2007)
434
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Man and woman (Peter Dobson and Samantha Mathis) fall in love in a heart transplant facility. They are both attracted to a little girl (Mary Matilyn Mouser) who turns out to be the orphan of their heart donors...
Style:
touching, sentimental, uplifting, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
human spirit, love affair, orphan, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, transplant, tragic hero, hopes, doctors and patients, bittersweet, little girl, death, loss of father, grandfather granddaughter relationship, female protagonist, misfit, family relations, life is a bitch, mentally challenged, family problems, disability, child illness, family in crisis, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to A Stranger's Heart
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, unfulfillment, bittersweet, hopes, fall in love and family relations mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Stranger's Heart: Shadowlands (1986), The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999), Vernie (2004), Happy Birthday (2007), Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.
Style:
christian film, talky, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
writers, death, faith, cancer, christianity, marriage, art, family relations, family problems, disability, religions or cults, couples ...
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
patient, twins, memory, hospital, terminal illness, couples, family relations, family problems, unfulfillment, coming of age, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style:
touching, uplifting, emotional, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, friendship, terminal illness, pregnancy, tragic hero, couples, family problems, hopes, youth, best friends, life is a bitch, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rene Liu successfully delivers the complex role of Mi, who chooses to remain single rather than risking the slightest chance of being dumped. She loves her friend Nan (Louis Koo) more than anyone, yet she asks him to be her best friend instead of ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, love affair, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, uncover truth, dealing with death, siblings relations, best friend, loss of loved one, disappearance, birthday, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
tragic love, family relations, couples, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, looking for love, diary, baby born, baby, letter, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Also search:
The Fault in Our Stars similar movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
Style:
sad, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
sex, hospital, bittersweet, redemption, unfulfillment, prostitute, youth, social misfits, drug dealing, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, going straight ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
thanksgiving, writers, mental health, couples, love and romance, opposites attract, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, tragic hero, terminal illness, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A study of a relationship that starts quickly, burns bright, and then gets rocky, not from any one thing, but from an accumulation of civilization and its discontents. Stuart is glib and generous, Nicole is shy and forthright. Is love enough to see ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
couples, couple relations, hopes, destiny, fall in love, sexual relations, brother brother relationship, marriage, marriage proposal, husband wife relationship, wedding, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year, as a hopeless agoraphobic, until he meets a young woman who slowly coaxes him out of his self imposed bondage.
Style:
touching, serious, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
love affair, couples, hopes, life is a bitch, dishonesty, love and romance, destiny, impossible love, bondage, family problems, dull life, estate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, starting over, coping, couples, workplace, love and romance, hopes, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, bus ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Also search:
Movies like The Best of Me
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad take on the title characters in a modern adaptation of the timeless classic, Romeo and Juliet. This Broadway stage production is being broadcast in movie theaters.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, interracial relations, tragic hero, true love, parents and children, youth, society, fall in love, family relations, young lovers, tragic love, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, surprise ending
Plot:
biker, african american, love, motorcycle racing, black romance, motor sport, family relations, power relations, couples, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
It’s a full Valentine’s Day weekend at the Inn when Olivia and Mick host Mick’s sister Bonnie and her finance Sean, Mick’s daughter Julie and her boyfriend Wyatt, and Olivia’s mother Nora and her boyfriend Johnny. Bonnie brings her new ...
Style:
emotional, talky, touching, romantic, psychological ...
Plot:
true love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, valentine's day, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, wedding ceremony, wedding dress, father daughter relationship, family relations, love affair, love and romance, lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
Style:
captivating, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot:
ballerina, couples, relationship vs career, doctors and patients, fall in love, city life, terminal illness, opposites attract, ambition, hopes, unlikely couple, love and romance ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, winds up working in a halfway house full of mildly brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
mentally challenged, human spirit, starting over, hopes, rehabilitation, love and romance, family relations, disability, defiant, doctors and patients, bittersweet, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Also search:
P.S. I Love You related movies
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, life is a bitch, young lovers, love and romance, unlikely couple ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
461
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Bridgette is an actress teaching aerobics, and she falls in love with idle playboy Adam, who runs his father's gym. One day she finds out that one of her ex-lovers died of AIDS and, thinking that Adam is having an affair with another woman, ...
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
hiv, love affair, female protagonist, aerobics, love, aids, sexually transmitted disease, mortality, playboy, aspiring actress, bittersweet, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Andy Lau plays a husband who only learns the importance of expressing his tremendous love for his wife when it is too late.
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, estrangement, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, destiny, transplant, hopes, crumbling marriage, fake identity, car accident ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Movie in collections
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teenager who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer has a romance with a boy from the wrong side of town.
Style:
touching, romantic, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot:
swimming, fall in love, teenage life, social differences, couples, family relations, working class, parents and children, family life, love and romance, hopes, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, couples, family relations, family problems, pregnancy, death in the family, parents and children, boarding school life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Also search:
Movies like Love Story
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, clever ...
Plot:
hospital, opposites attract, couple relations, love affair, against the odds, terminal illness, introspection, life is a bitch, workplace, family problems, couples, dark humor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Kayla, at the age of seventeen, moves to a foreign city with her rich father, whom she saw for the first time in her life. Then she falls in love with a bad boy. Meriç is a child who chooses to live alone among solid walls and darkness. Kayla ...
Style:
sweet, romantic, sentimental, uplifting, touching
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love, fall in love, destiny, couples, couple relations, youth, love and romance, love affair, friendship, society, adaptation, life philosophy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
For some, the lives we have are not always the lives we wanted. For Joe, a small time guy from the small time town of Sandwich, Illinois, his has not even come close - until now. Faced with death and having recently met the girl of his dreams, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, romantic ...
Plot:
terminal illness, love affair, introspection, against the odds, life is a bitch, best friends, race against time, bittersweet, small town, male female relationship, dying, disease ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Movie in collections
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Alice, a young and talented sous chef at NY's top restaurant, receives an invitation to judge a food competition for a prestigious annual fundraiser.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, romantic, touching
Plot:
fall in love, love, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, relationships, lovers, young lovers, couples, true love
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Tom learns that he has terminal brain cancer, he decides to find a replacement husband for his wife and a father to his daughter, before it is too late. Unbeknownst to his wife Valentine, Tom sets up an on-line dating profile for her, and ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love, wife, cancer, daughter, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, terminal illness, parents and children, fall in love, cooking, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Also search:
Films like Sweet November
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, psychological, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, family problems, unfulfilled love, couple relations, couples, human nature, society, hopes, bittersweet, life is a bitch, cafe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, human spirit, follow your dream, lifestyle, couples, dance school, against the odds, hopes, ambition, contests and competitions, society, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 is a 1978 film directed by Larry Peerce. It stars Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms. It is a sequel to The Other Side of the Mountain
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, physical disability, quadriplegic, love, paralysis, love and romance, misfit, hopes, unfulfillment, human spirit, life is a bitch, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, uplifting, touching, erotic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, family in crisis, unfulfilled love, family life, single parent, disability, babies and infants, family problems, parents and children ...
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
disability, human spirit, hopes, college, artists and showbiz, misfit, unfulfillment, forbidden love, mother daughter relationship, love, father daughter relationship, teenage girl ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
mexico, latin america, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Related movie lists
