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Here (2024)
27K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An odyssey through time and memory, centered around a place in New England where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Style:
dramatic, romantic, experimental, tear jerker, tearjerker
Plot:
christmas, dinosaur, halloween, thoughtful, love, wedding, life, birthday, evolution, grownups, alzheimer's disease, childhood, teenage pregnancy, thanksgiving, funeral, pregnant woman, newborn baby, aging, full moon, coming of age, new year's eve, storytelling, surprise party, urban setting, halloween party ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 1950s, 1940s, 1910s, 1900s, future ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and touching films with plots about family relations, love, depression, bittersweet, life, redemption and coming of age mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Here: Skateland (2010), Ironweed (1987), Forrest Gump (1994), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Kite Runner (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way.
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film
Plot:
small town, coming of age, introspection, life turned upside down, social relations, teenage life, grownups, love and romance, infidelity, divorce, car crash, manager ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery ...
Style:
touching, intense, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
homeless, alcohol abuse, redemption, halloween, mental disorder, female nudity, alcoholic, couple relations, rich and poor, parents and children, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1930s, 1900s, year 1987, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life philosophy, philosophy, life, mentally challenged, destiny, storytelling, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, vietnam war, life & death ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
china, alabama, vietnam, america, savannah georgia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
small town, friendship, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, feminist, small town life, lgbtq, cannibalism, midlife crisis, female bonding, female protagonist ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
friendship, childhood, redemption, islam, muslim, coming of age, mission, guilt, courage, bully, rape, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
afghanistan, china, middle east, california, iraq ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Style:
touching, emotional, melancholic, realistic, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, grief, relationships, homecoming, tragedy, family drama, argument ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style:
melancholic, depressing, touching, sad, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, disability, small town, mentally challenged, mental illness, self discovery, responsibility, brothers, character study, coming of age, life philosophy, life & death ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, 70s, 60s
Place:
iowa, texas, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business. Mon Oncle Antoine is Director Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A ...
Style:
art house, social, contemplative, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, small town, christmas, foster child, mining, uncle nephew relationship, youth, countryside, boy, infidelity, loss of son, catholic priest ...
Time:
1940s, year 1971
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to ...
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, dramatic, independent film ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
rural setting, african american, ordinary people, life, countryside, generation, female protagonist, slice of life, woman, life & death, coming of age, pregnancy ...
Place:
mississippi
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
Style:
experimental, historical drama, complex
Plot:
grandmother grandson relationship, african american, swimming, friendship between boys, friendship, boxing, black history, abuse, boxing match, american history, sexual abuse, civil rights movement ...
Time:
60s, 2000s
Place:
north america, florida
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
It's 1956 in the beach town of Trilby. After asking the questions pertaining to the situation, sixteen year old working class Robert Joseph Jones - who prefers to be called Bo Jo - asks his same aged girlfriend, upper middle class Julie Greher, ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, coming of age, family conflict, class differences, small town, working class, gender roles, societal hypocrisy, pregnant teenager, teenage mother, pregnancy and birth, romantic triangle ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Style:
intense, disturbing, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, mother daughter relationship, foster child, women's prison, manipulation, bad mother, murder, teenage life, mother daughter estrangement, borderline personality disorder, mental illness, adoption ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia, mexico
Similarity:
23%
380K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Style:
philosophical, melancholic, cerebral, touching, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, teenager, high school, adolescence, domestic abuse, family drama, youth, divorced parents, stepsister stepsister relationship, relationships, marriage ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 2000s, 90s, near future ...
Place:
texas, ethiopia, houston texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, sentimental, depressing, realistic ...
Plot:
elderly, alzheimer's disease, true love, love, mental illness, hopes, loneliness, lovers apart, marriage, tragedy, existentialism, human spirit ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
canada, iceland, ontario canada
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of devastating consequences. As Celina faces the compounded ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lesbian, woman, feminist, abortion, illegal abortion, abortion clinic, pregnant woman, feminism, pregnant teenager, loss of job, teenage pregnancy, discrimination ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
This biopic of the legendary actor Marlon Brando stars Damian Chapa as the two-time Oscar-winner and focuses primarily on the troubled relationship Brando had with his son Christian who battled drug addiction
Style:
serious, dramatic, emotional, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
biopic, troubled relationship, father son relationship, actor, hollywood, family tragedy, mature, drug addiction, celebrity culture, rise and fall, behind the scenes, legacy ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of the women and relationships that define a family across a century.
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, melancholic, family saga
Plot:
eternity, birth, love, family relations, family history, family values, loss of spouse, storytelling, loss of child, death, funeral, death of daughter ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, interracial relations, small town life, family relations, fall in love, family life, homecoming, family problems, social relations, couples, estrangement, love and romance ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1910s, 1900s, 1920s
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
sexual tension, funeral, mentor, haunted by the past, family problems, parents and children, family relations, drinking problem, chess, coming of age, love story, love ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 70s ...
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, southern usa, usa, alabama ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, wandering, disability, memory loss, relationship vs career, mental illness, terminal illness, friendship, college, couples, legal action, aging ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and ...
Style:
talky, melancholic, realistic, sentimental, family saga ...
Plot:
lawyer, culture clash, cancan dance, family problems, human nature, society, introspection, parents and children, sorority, family relations, dysfunctional family, bittersweet ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
usa, kansas city, missouri, kansas, cleveland ohio ...
Similarity:
21%
272K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, emotional, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, courtroom drama, hiv, lawyer, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, discrimination, gay interest, homosexual, lawsuit, medical ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
21%
133K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about a young man’s discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and ourselves.
Style:
semi autobiographical, dramatic, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, teenage boy, bullying, childhood, relationships, filmmaker, autobiography, boy, anti semitism, filmmaking, life ...
Time:
2020s, year 1957, 20th century, year 1965, year 1963 ...
Place:
arizona, northern california, new jersey, california, north america ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Depicts the factual accounts of Vincenzo Di Francesca and Parley P. Pratt and how they came to appreciate the contents of the Book of Mormon.
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, reflective, sincere, educational ...
Plot:
latter day saints, church, religious, devotional, testimony, biopic, redemption, intimate, evangelical christianity, priest, faith, soldier ...
Time:
19th century, 1910s, 1930s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
italy, america, new york, sicily
Similarity:
20%
150K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, sad, depressing, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, memory loss, illness, supportive spouse, mother daughter relationship, columbia university, family bonds, terminal illness, family drama, relationships, psychology, memory lapse ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, sad ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
child abuse, childhood, brother brother relationship, physical abuse, stepfather stepson relationship, road trip, bullying, boy, children, coming of age, dysfunctional family, childhood trauma ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1992
Place:
california, northern california, oklahoma
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, sentimental, dramatic ...
Plot:
aging, teenager, disease, mortality, family drama, coming of age, parent child relationship, hopes, grief, resilience, loss, intimate ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style:
touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, teenage love, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 1991, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, childhood, single parent, life philosophy, death, boy, good deed, disfigurement, addiction, abusive husband, childhood trauma, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
tibet, usa, nevada, las vegas
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
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Story:
Kane and Abel are born on the same day the same year on each side of the Atlantic. William Kane is born in one of the richest families of Boston and grows up to be a banker on Wall Street. Abel Rosnovski is born in the Polish countryside and has to ...
Style:
costume drama, saga, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
rich, wall street, rivalry, rise to the top, vengeance, uninhibited rivalry, hopes, ambition, society, social differences, business venture, temperamental ...
Time:
50s, 1900s, 60s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
usa, boston, massachusetts, new york
Similarity:
20%
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