Nostalgia movies and TV shows – page 5
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List of nostalgia movies
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
A look back at each character's journey over the past 10 seasons of the series, "Shameless."
Style:
emotional, reflective, comedy drama, dark comedy, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family drama, nostalgia, mature, character study, bittersweet, alcoholism, addiction, working class, siblings, poverty, parenting ...
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Adventure, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles and he takes an internal journey of fleeting memories of ...
Style:
epic, poetic, melancholic, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
mythology, odyssey, journey, nostalgia, getting home, sea voyage, shipwreck, loneliness, regret, sea, memory, flashback ...
Place:
ancient greece, greece, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Animation, Family, Music
Country: USA
Story:
Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, the video, is a truly altoonative collection of cartoon classics. Hosted by Drew Barrymore, this ultimate party tape features footage from your favorite cartoons with unrestrained performances by some ...
Style:
retro, cult classic, feel good, parody
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
nostalgia, pop culture, alternative rock, tribute, irreverent, rock music, satire, music, cartoon dog, great dane, scooby doo, surrealism ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, China
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Wizard of Oz was an animated television series produced by DiC in 1990 to capitalize on the 50th anniversary of the 1939 classic film. The series featured thirteen episodes and premiered on ABC, starting on September 8, 1990.
Style:
mystical, colorful, lighthearted, juvenile, whimsical ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
fantasy world, wizard of oz, witch, wizard, nostalgia, magical, good versus evil, friendship, quest, heroine, children, balloon ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan (Mastroianni), who inherited it from his father. The theater is in decay and only generates debts and trouble, but Jordan gets aid in his almost quixotian quest from projectionist Luigi ...
Style:
poignant, sentimental, period piece, tragicomedy, emotional ...
Plot:
projectionist, film history, nostalgia, loss, bittersweet, memory, melancholy, friendship, legacy, slice of life, character study, mourning ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.
Style:
independent film, existential, sentimental, period piece, allegory
Plot:
loner, small town, war veteran, conflict, vietnam war, nostalgia, countryside, melancholy, loneliness, veteran, memory, character study ...
Time:
year 1981, 70s
Place:
kansas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of friends reunite after 30 years to climb the Mont Ventoux again. Memories to a happy youth but also new discoveries from the past. One person is not present at the reunion. Why is that? What happened?
Style:
emotional, captivating, unusual plot structure, light, contemplative ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cycling, friendship, mountain, loss of friend, nostalgia, grief, memory, friends, flashback, escapades, aging, secrets ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
The live special event features reenactments of episodes from “The Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes”.
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, nostalgia, lifestyle, tribute, school, friendship, social issues, travel and leisure, improv, interracial relations, behind the scenes, charity event ...
Time:
80s, 2020s
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An evening in an old time dance hall in Sao Paulo introduces us to local characters who reminisce about the past, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, of course, dance. Its earthy humour and eternal themes of ageing, loneliness and ...
Style:
retro, period piece, wistful
Plot:
aging, nostalgia, reminiscence, old age, loneliness, flirting, intimate, bittersweet, slice of life, character study, nightlife, community ...
Time:
future
Place:
brazil
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, homecoming, friends, introspection, novelist, exile, nostalgia, society, character study, realism, slice of life, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
cuba
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Summer 1985, Istanbul. Hakan and Gaye want to give back a music tape to their friend Selen before they leave. Things won't go as planned.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, satirical, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, nostalgia, escapades, friends, music, satire, urban, summer, coming of age, slice of life, misadventure, personal growth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Graduados (English: The Graduates) concerns a group of people who graduated from high school in 1989 and reunite twenty years later. The main character, Andrés Goddzer (Daniel Hendler), discovers that María Laura Falsini (Nancy Dupláa) was ...
Style:
thrilling, satirical, romantic drama, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love triangle, high school reunion, nostalgia, family relations, relationships, male female relationship, lovers reunited, fatherhood, couple relations, lgbt, husband wife relationship, love affair ...
Time:
80s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, romantic comedy, sentimental ...
Plot:
love and romance, haunted by the past, couples, family relations, destiny, new year, love, winter, nostalgia, fall in love, fate, second chance ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
moscow russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
A special event is what reunites who were classmates during the best age of their lives. All of them have changed with the passage of time, some more than others, as their teachers say, although some of them seem to have trouble remembering who they ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, nostalgia, classmate classmate relationship, secret, relationships, classmate, reunited friends, male female relationship, love story, teenage love, old friends reunited, love interest ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Aarya, Dev, Deva and Gaurav go back to school after 10 years only to realise its important to look back to move forward. Friendships, relationships and some memories are at stake. Amidst ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, dramatic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
friendship, relationships, high school, nostalgia, memories, party, childhood memory, school, girlfriend, high school friend, social relations, friends ...
Time:
year 2008
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, Greece, Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Based on the Take That musical, five best friends have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert. Twenty-five years later, their lives have changed in many different ways as they reunite for one more epic show by their ...
Style:
uplifting, feel good, sentimental
Plot:
boy band, loss of friend, group of friends, friendship, female friendship, pop music, nostalgia, second chance, concert, coming of age, pop culture, fan culture ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece, united kingdom
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Classic Doctor Who duos are reunited as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time.
Style:
captivating, sentimental, anthology, retro, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
doctor who, time machine, travel, nostalgia, back in time, time travel, time traveler, time jump, space exploration, time loop, spacecraft, space and aliens ...
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After ten years, a group of high school friends reunite at their alma mater to dig up their old time capsule. When they open it, they make a pact to recreate all their best high school moments. Little do they realize the power of the time capsule to ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, memory, high school, heartwarming, nostalgia, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, changing lives, lifestyle change, problem, friends ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades ...
Style:
sentimental, pastoral
Plot:
baseball, friendship, small town, community, nostalgia, bittersweet, memory, melancholy, reflection, slice of life, intimate, sunset ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new england, massachusetts
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A story of homecoming from late 1970s, when 10 year old Vicky arrives at his grandparents home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather's funeral. The disjointed family gathers together for the sixteen day long funeral period. During this ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, period piece, melancholic ...
Plot:
childhood, getting home, memory, nostalgia, coming of age, relationships, family relations, memories, childhood memory, countryside, family drama, grandparents ...
Time:
70s
Place:
india
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 27 min.
Story:
A memorial anime episode to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Monkey Punch's Lupin the Third manga series.
Style:
anime, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
lupin iii, nostalgia, tribute, travel, escapades, uncover truth, forensics, crime investigation, detective inspector, private investigation, crime solving, humour ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Three old friends who used to be part of a rock band reunite at the fourth member's funeral. They decide to band back together with the deceased's estranged son serving as the new fourth member.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, melancholic, comedy drama
Plot:
rock band, rock music, friendship, musician, nostalgia, bittersweet, midlife crisis, music band, musician's life, blind ambition, ambition, escapades ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea, seoul
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1993, timid and shy Zhou Xiao Zhi meets her table partner. Sitting in the classroom’s infamous back row is troublemaker Lin Yi. They go through junior high, high school, and college years together. Lin Yi said to Zhou Xiaozhi: ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, disturbing, romantic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
affection, memory, first love, coming of age, nostalgia, high school romance, love and romance, love interest, male female relationship, in love, love affair, romantic relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A car is left in the care of a genial landlord, who along with his wife, driver and villagers, gets very attached to it. Will they be able to handle it when the car is taken from them?
Style:
sentimental, heartfelt, emotional, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
love, vintage car, village life, nostalgia, slice of life, family relations, satire, car, couple relations, husband wife relationship, automobile, relationships ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his auto repair shop, though now he shares his home with Junnosuke, an orphan he's taken under his wing at the urging of pretty Hiroi, who continues to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
kaiju, godzilla, family drama, slice of life, nostalgia, working class, life is a bitch, family problems, lifestyle change, changing lives, rich and poor, social problems ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a son attempts to reconcile with his father, a series of fateful events allow him to experience the father’s life in the past.
Style:
sincere, satirical, disturbing, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
father son relationship, time travel, time paradox, nostalgia, family drama, sent to the past, family relations, satire, changing the past or future, time traveler, dealing with death, father and son ...
Time:
90s, year 2017
Is relevant?
534
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend's funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of love in a time of pain.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
mourning, memory, nostalgia, past, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, romantic relationship, troubled past, male female relationship, couples, love story ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film features a change of pace for comic actor Petchtai, who offers a sombre, dramatic portrayal of a taxicab driver who develops a relationship with a young woman (Woranut, in her debut feature film role) who is working in a massage parlor. The ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, romantic, poignant, entertaining
Plot:
taxi driver, loneliness, friendship, working class, nightlife, nostalgia, relationships, love and romance, love story, male female relationship, romantic relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story follows 27-year-old Tokyo office worker Mire Yoshizuki who just returned to Japan, 22-year-old fourth-year college student Sora Nagase who aspires to be a teacher, and 20-year-old boyish, part-time Hiroshima okonomiyaki shop worker and ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
magical girl, friendship, fantasy world, female protagonist, magic, women, nostalgia, female friendship, wizard, wizards and magicians, friends, magical power ...
Place:
tokyo, hiroshima japan
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After relocating to New York, former lovers feel the pull of romance once again.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
lovers reunited, lost love, true love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, love, nostalgia, second chance, high school sweetheart, first love, friends, intimate ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, beijing china, usa
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