Self-help movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant self-help movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, dramatic, sentimental, emotional and interesting films and TV shows about / with self-help, storytelling, mentor, destiny, family relations, catastrophe, friendship, runaway, redemption and dialogue plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as self-help: On Golden Pond (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983), The Breakfast Club (1985), Torch Song Trilogy (1988), The Doctor (1991), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), A League of Their Own (1992), A River Runs Through It (1992), A Bronx Tale (1993), The Joy Luck Club (1993).
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List of self-help movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years. ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, realistic, witty, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, elderly, love story, aging, marriage, summer, couples, bittersweet, senior citizen, family holiday, father daughter relationship, love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, new england, maine
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
relationships, family relations, mother daughter relationship, cancer, love, marriage, dysfunctional family, death, love affair, children, dying young, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
texas, new york, nebraska, usa, louisiana ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style:
talky, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, youth, teenage angst, adolescence, high school life, adolescence vs adulthood, teachers and students, introspection, loneliness ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him.
Style:
talky, sentimental, humorous, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbt, homosexual, gay interest, gays and lesbians, gay bar, gay bashing, lgbtq, homosexuality, christmas, gay slur, love and romance ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new york, san francisco, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
hospital, cancer, medical, redemption, coldhearted, doctors and patients, nurse, surgery, existentialism, psychiatrist, fantasy world, secrets ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco
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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, touching, captivating, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, kids
Plot:
small town, friendship, lesbian, self discovery, small town life, feminism, cannibalism, midlife crisis, women, lesbian subtext, aging, female protagonist ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
alabama, southern usa, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
baseball, world war two, sport, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, friendship, female athlete, women, sibling rivalry, female bonding, underdog, happy ending ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
oregon, chicago illinois, new jersey, usa, colorado ...
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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:
touching, emotional, sentimental, thought provoking, feel good ...
Plot:
coming of age, fishing, self discovery, beautiful scenery, father son relationship, americana, childhood, river, brother brother relationship, brothers, tragedy, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1910s, 1930s
Place:
montana, usa
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146K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, realistic, touching, reflective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, coming of age, organized crime, mentor, loyalty, gang leader, father son relationship, friendship, african american, gang, brutality ...
Time:
60s, year 1960, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
women, friendship, immigrants, self discovery, chinese, haunted by the past, hopes, golden years, culture clash, parents and children, human nature, love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, china, asia, usa, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, intellectual, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
chess, child prodigy, prodigy, children, mentor, genius, tournament, teacher, sport, coming of age, childhood, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, touching, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, child abuse, single parent, abusive stepfather, domestic violence, childhood, husband wife relationship, teenager, dysfunctional family, friendship, writers ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1957
Place:
seattle, washington state, salt lake city utah, washington d.c., california ...
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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, touching, emotional, depressing, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
disability, dysfunctional family, mentally challenged, self discovery, small town, mental illness, responsibility, coming of age, brothers, family problems, life philosophy, countryside ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
iowa, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole ...
Style:
sweet, touching, sentimental, light, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
interracial romance, friendship, self discovery, nanny, interracial relations, starting over, parents and children, single father, interracial love, housekeeper, single parent, couples ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles, washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, ...
Style:
sentimental, uplifting, fairy tale, sad, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family outing, teens, date night ...
Plot:
sisters, family values, women, christmas, first love, couple relations, family bonds, life changing experience, coming of age, civil war, love, parent child relationship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
massachusetts, new york, england, usa, new england ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, college, friendship, pregnancy, betrayal, small town, college life, adaptation, love affair, student, youth, love ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but ...
Style:
emotional, touching, inspirational, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
music, high school, classical music, school, composer, teacher, honest, musician, unlikely friendships, music teacher, teachers and students, follow your dream ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, 80s, 90s
Place:
portland oregon, oregon
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a ...
Style:
uplifting, emotional, touching, serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
goose, aviation, rescue, father daughter relationship, bird, animals, single father, childhood, environmental, tragedy, against the odds, loss of mother ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada, new zealand, north carolina
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, feel good, thought provoking, intense ...
Plot:
music, pianist, prodigy, classical music, child prodigy, psychology, piano, mental illness, insanity, overbearing parent, father son relationship, jewish ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s
Place:
australia, london, south australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will ...
Style:
sweet, sentimental, touching, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
dog, friendship, mental illness, writers, neighbor, older man younger woman relationship, gay, unlikely friendships, waitress, couples, age difference, psychology ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, cuba
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
Style:
inspirational, touching, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, date night
Plot:
small town, friendship, teacher, follow your dream, mathematics, against the odds, generation gap, teenage life, life philosophy, space program, scientist, dedicated educator ...
Time:
50s, future, 20th century, year 1957
Place:
west virginia, usa, appalachia, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, female protagonist, coming of age, insanity, suicide attempt, psychiatrist, teenage girl, psychology, borderline personality disorder, psychiatric ward, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drugs, heroin, insanity, drug addiction, mental illness, junkie, hallucination, drug abuse, depression, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, destiny, road not taken, parallel universe, life changing experience, alternate reality, time travel, workaholic, fish out of water, lifestyle change, midlife crisis, singleness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1987, year 2000
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. He is involved ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, heartbreaking, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, vengeance, family in crisis, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional family, revenge, grief, age difference, small town, jealousy, suspense, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, canada, new england
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138K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, gay, father son relationship, friendship, dancing, working class, childhood, audition, follow your dream, boxing, dancer's life ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, 90s, 80s
Place:
england, northern england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
relationships, terminal illness, dying, reconciliation, house, divorce, father son relationship, suburbs, redemption, illness, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, emotional, cerebral, motivational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
mathematics, mental illness, paranoia, schizophrenia, genius, insanity, scientist, obsession, mathematician, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend ...
Time:
60s, 1940s, 20th century, 80s, 90s ...
Place:
new jersey, boston, massachusetts, usa, stockholm sweden ...
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134K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style:
psychological, intellectual, depressing, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, women, poet, lesbianism ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 50s, year 2001 ...
Place:
new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
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91K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, tense, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, drug addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, peer pressure, dysfunctional family, addiction, underage drinking, teenage protagonist, self harm, teenager, kids in trouble ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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