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Avalon (1990)
7K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Avalon is the third in Levinson's semi-autobiographical series of four "Baltimore Films": Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film is set in Baltimore in the early 1950s and explores the themes of Jewish assimilation into American life.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, cult classic, semi autobiographical, atmospheric, semi serious, clever, touching, feel good, depressing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
thanksgiving, immigrant, culture clash, american history, children, hospital, television, immigration, family drama, independence day, youth, past, intrigue, culture, migration, nostalgia, cultural difference, genealogy, sword and sorcery, sorcery, revolutionary war, family relations, rabbi, synagogue, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, 1910s, year 1948, 20th century, 1900s, year 1914, year 1919 ...
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, russia, poland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about family relations, society, parents and children, youth, hopes, family life and friendship mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Avalon: A River Runs Through It (1992), Stolen Summer (2002), Face (2002), Diner (1982), Ocean of Pearls (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, period piece, inspirational, thought provoking ...
Plot:
coming of age, fishing, father son relationship, childhood, river, brother brother relationship, beautiful scenery, self discovery, brothers, wilderness, death of brother, gambling ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
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sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, food, coming of age, diner, gambling debt, christmas, love and romance, adulthood, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, youth, introspection ...
Time:
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Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
doctors and patients, culture clash, surgeon, workplace, discrimination, immigrant, ambition, society, hopes, hospital, parents and children, family relations ...
Place:
usa, michigan, detroit, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New York during the 1940s, this provocative film follows the son of an orthodox rabbi and the son of a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, thinking, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, orthodox jew, jewish culture, religion, judaism, friendship, rabbi, culture clash, chosen one, world war two, family drama ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, suspense, talky, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
world war two, small town, friendship, secrets, mentor, manipulation, love story, adolescence, crime gone awry, family relations, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
1940s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, new jersey
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19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friends, friendship, obsession, family relations, social relations, interracial relations, family life, society ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, nevada
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19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The third installment of the Sarah trilogy provides a glorious and touching story of a family drawn together by adversity. On a cold winter day a stranger shows up at the farm. He is slow to reveal his identity. When they find out he is Jacobs ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Netherlands, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, intense ...
Plot:
children, court, lawyer, mercy, family problems, unemployment, against the odds, parents and children, fighting the system, single father, courtroom drama, 007 ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, hispanic
Plot:
immigrant, lifestyle, human spirit, rise to the top, family life, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, hopes, youth, single parent, teachers and students ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, puerto rico, usa, latin america, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, sexual
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
arizona
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18%
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Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, emotional, sentimental, touching, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
hospital, medical, cancer, doctor, medicine, redemption, health, doctors and patients, coldhearted, surgery, business, mental health ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
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18%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
family life, family problems, parents and children, single parent, family gatherings, society, hopes, small town, death in the family, bittersweet, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
philadelphia
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17%
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Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
culture clash, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, family relations, love and romance, immigrant, political unrest, teenage love, youth, family problems, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s
Place:
iraq, israel
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
christmas, human spirit, family life, family problems, couples, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, road not taken, parents and children, miraculous event, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
music band, rivalry, ambition, lifestyle, follow your dream, desire for fame, rebelliousness, friendship, social relations, ego clash, hopes, youth ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1963
Place:
new jersey, usa, los angeles, california, pacific ocean
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An Irish immigrant family adjusts to life in the United States, a chance to get over the lost son. They have no money and the apartment is in bad condition.
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, sad ...
Plot:
childhood, redemption, immigrant, immigration, artist, loss of son, starting over, dying, children, society, overcoming, acceptance ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
new york, ireland, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
anamorphic, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
texas, america, austin texas, usa, london ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, starting over, friendship, contests and competitions, athlete's life, parents and children, ambition, youth, farm, rivalry, family relations, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's ...
Style:
christian film, sincere, sentimental, sad, spiritual ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
god, faith, letter, hopes, cancer, pastor, brain tumor, terminal illness, child illness, christian, sick child, salvation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
city life, immigrant, self discovery, friendship, restaurant, diner, family relations, social misfits, workplace romance, workplace, lonely, unfulfilled love ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, follow your dream, teenage life, family business, society, youth, hopes, human spirit, workplace, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
17%
249
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A silent film about Louis Armstrong as a young boy and how he acquired his first cornet.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
follow your dream, musician's life, prodigy, self discovery, social relations, small town, jazz, hopes, artists and showbiz, music, rivalry, society ...
Time:
1900s
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, gang, homecoming, family problems, self discovery, aging, redemption, single parent, youth, going straight, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, louisiana
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