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To Life! (2014)
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Original name: Auf das Leben!
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and purpose to live.
Style:
emotional, sincere, uplifting, captivating, reflective, life affirming, melancholic, realistic, existential
Plot:
friendship, age difference, cabaret singer, musician, older woman younger man relationship, relationships, life & death, terminal illness, bonding, mortality, empathy, bittersweet, male female relationship, lifestyle, musician's life, fighting illness, performer's life, couple relations, second chance, aging, companionship, intimate, healing, loss, slice of life ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, captivating, melancholic and realistic films with plots about intimate, relationships, bittersweet, friendship, healing, grief and slice of life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like To Life!: Letting Life In (2003), Footsteps (2006), All of Us (2019), My Father's Violin (2022), Impossible Things (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
"Letting Life In" explores a single year of life between two people. Michael, a reclusive novelist, lives in a small town in upstate New York. He knows nothing of living life beyond the suffocating walls he has built for himself. Sarah, a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the end, the only love which lasts is the love that has accepted everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire as deep as the simple desire for ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, reflective, realistic ...
Plot:
relationships, elderly man, loneliness, retirement, family drama, bonding, aging, friendship, companionship, daughter, widower, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a self-help group of 4 people with a terminal illness, led by a therapist without experience.
Style:
emotional, sincere, poignant, touching, existential ...
Plot:
mortality, support group, terminal illness, acceptance, personal growth, humanism, bittersweet, intimate, therapy, friendship, therapist, loss ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Through their shared grief and connection to music, an orphaned girl bonds with her emotionally aloof, successful violinist uncle.
Style:
sincere, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
violin, relationships, music, musician, grief, family drama, musician's life, uncle, family relations, healing, loss, bonding ...
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48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the death of her abusive husband, Matilde finds her new best friend in Miguel, her young, insecure, and disoriented neighbor.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, emotional, sensitive ...
Plot:
friendship, dealing with the past, relationship problems, widow, relationships, male female relationship, life philosophy, family problems, social problems, loneliness, companionship, grief ...
Place:
argentina
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47%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A lonely masseuse Sunny is reluctant to have an intimate relationship because of her painful memories of the past. Ji-seok comes to LA with a vague wish to meet his ex-girlfriend and becomes a roommate with Sunny. Young-shin, also known as Helen ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, sincere, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
relationships, intimate, healing, loneliness, female protagonist, love story, ex couple relations, male female relationship, troubled past, love affair, couple relations, new neighbor ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
los angeles
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46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 92-year-old man decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his life, including his lover – who is 55 years younger than him.
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, emotional, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, love, age difference, elderly man, mortality, older man younger woman relationship, age-gap relationship, life, love story, love and romance, love affair, couple relations ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Diagnosed with a terminal illness, a single mother encounters a suave bachelor as she grapples with the future of her headstrong six-year-old.
Style:
romantic, sincere, emotional, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
terminal illness, family bonds, life & death, motherhood, parent child relationship, relationships, fighting illness, male female relationship, single parent, love and romance, love interest, mental illness ...
Time:
future
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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:
captivating, sincere, disturbing, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
hospital, overdose, cancer, patient, boy band, volunteer, couple relations, romantic relationship, illness, love interest, love story, love affair ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
illness, family drama, terminal illness, male female relationship, family life, kids and family, relationships, family relations, living together, family problems, nursing, parents and children ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A heartwarming film that explores the concept of romance with episodes involving four sets of people of different age groups.
Style:
captivating, romantic, psychological, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
heartwarming, love interest, multiple storylines, couples, love affair, relationships, love and romance, male female relationship, love story, couple relations, romantic relationship, empathy ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marco is a 35 year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father. Even when offered a job at a restaurant in Melbourne, he declines using his father as the excuse. When ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
relationships, parent child relationship, self discovery, grief, couple relations, father son relationship, male female relationship, relationship vs career, career change, chef, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The appetizer is an introduction, the dessert is a farewell in this story of an indelible bond forged between a promising young filmmaker and an iconic actress.
Style:
reflective, emotional, contemplative, art house, life affirming ...
Plot:
friendship, chemistry, intimate, healing, grief, personal growth, film industry, bittersweet, mature, loss, aging, creativity ...
Similarity:
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172
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass execution where her boyfriend is killed. Years later, she’s in a close relationship with her new partner, Gabriel. At the Long Term Care Center where she ...
Style:
captivating, serious, thought provoking, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
grief, civil war, love, male nudity, female nudity, loss, trauma, survivor, couple relations, time, male female relationship, public execution ...
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, self discovery, teenage life, interracial relations, hopes, society, idealism, spoiled brat, quibbling, aging, death in the family ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, disturbing, psychological, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
friendship, terminal illness, road trip, bucket list, mortality, fighting illness, friends, loss, reconciliation, bittersweet, relationships, last wish ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies but ends up teaching the awkward funeral director, Bill Jankowski how to celebrate life.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, sincere, emotional, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
mortality, terminal illness, father daughter relationship, family relations, relationships, society, satire, lifestyle, family life, bucket list, husband wife relationship, slice of life ...
Time:
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Similarity:
32%
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Country: India
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, emotional, thrilling, romantic, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
india
Similarity:
32%
142
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, independent film, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
relationships, adultery, romancing partners, love affair, couple relations, male female relationship, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance, romantic triangle, tragic love ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
tear jerker, emotional, sincere, captivating, medical drama ...
Plot:
aging, illness, rapid aging, love, mother son relationship, terminal illness, parenting, mortality, family bonds, relationships, male female relationship, teenage life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns ...
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Clio befriends Fred, a homeless former jazz singer down on his luck. They form a special bond over music, and Clio, having just lost her own father, helps Fred reconnect with his own daughter, just in time for Christmas.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, uplifting, feel good ...
Plot:
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