| A Good Year (2006) | 6.9 | |
| Safe Haven (2013) | 6.7 | |
| Brooklyn (2015) | 7.5 | |
| An Unfinished Life (2005) | 7.0 | |
| Blue Jasmine (2013) | 7.3 |
Starting over movies and TV shows – page 3
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List of starting over movies
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When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn.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:
touching, sentimental, sweet, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
interracial romance, friendship, nanny, self discovery, couples, daughter, interracial relations, single father, starting over, housekeeper, interracial love, hopes ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles, washington d.c., seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, psychedelic, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
midlife crisis, existentialism, satire, theater, surrealism, actor, dark humor, showbiz, father daughter relationship, mental illness, alter ego, backstage ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, ethiopia, america, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
restaurant, starting over, unemployment, workplace, society, hopes, love and romance, workplace romance, workplace situations, down on your luck, chef, food ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
This film concerns a Scandinavian gentleman who works in film, perhaps as a sort of financier/director/producer. He lives in Thailand with his Thai girlfriend, and most of the film is an exploration of that relationship. We also see her brother, and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, experimental ...
Plot:
starting over, gangster, prostitute, murder, lifestyle, couples, society, juvenile delinquency, youth, hopes, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Cayman Islands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An adulterous woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sex scene, adultery, love triangle, grief, guilt, betrayal, infidelity, starting over, terrorist, dangerous attraction, love affair, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son is determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot:
single mother, waitress, widow, on the road, diner, road trip, single parent, self discovery, relationships, friendship, mother, children ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
phoenix arizona, california, arizona, tucson arizona, monterey california ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dusty Chandler (Strait) is a super star in the country music world, but his shows have the style of a '70s rock concert. One day he takes a walk - out of his overdone concerts to find his real country roots. He's helped and hindered by ...
Style:
entertaining, scenic, light, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, manly, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
country music, love story, starting over, musician's life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, desire for fame, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, love affair, friends ...
Time:
year 1992
Place:
usa, las vegas, london, australia, texas
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, starting over, love triangle, infidelity, extramarital affair, dysfunctional family, working class, breakup, love affair, human nature, couple relations, hopes ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
washington state, seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
support group, starting over, dating, love affair, love triangle, infidelity, couple relations, hopes, thanksgiving, love, friendship, holiday ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
boston, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, period piece, romantic, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
golf, great depression, underdog, comeback, world war one, childhood, mysterious stranger, interracial friendship, friendship, love story, hopes, renewed love ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, y2k, year 2000
Place:
savannah georgia, georgia, america, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks with her "ghost" on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, melancholic, sex comedy, serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
beach, hopes, starting over, ghost, haunted by the past, teenage life, single parent, island, death in the family, women, grief, summer vacation ...
Time:
year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new england, usa, boston
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, male female relationship, masseuse, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
love and romance, country estate, gay lead character, love affair, forbidden love, starting over, social differences, family relations, family secret, family life, male female relationship, medical profession ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, post world war two, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
TV show
Story:
Caitlin's Way is a live action teen drama series that aired on Nickelodeon from 2000–2002. The show was co-created by Thomas W. Lynch. Aired on The N from January 2003 to September 27, 2009. It also aired on TeenNick from September 28, 2009 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, teen
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, culture clash, fish out of water, lifestyle, teaching the ways of the world, starting over, teenage life, young heroes, orphan, teenage love, family relations, haunted by the past ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
montana, usa, philadelphia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Pirated DVD seller Zafer who is formerly an extra in movies; swore to give up illegal works when his wife wanted to get divorce. To win his family back, he and his old-fashioned crew decided to make a movie called "Summit - The End Of ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
nothing goes right, film producer, follow your dream, starting over, actor's life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, couples, disorder, family relations, filmmaking, divorce ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day. But there is more to Manglehorn than meets the eye: he’s ...
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
loneliness, starting over, small town, haunted by the past, elderly, aging, hopes, mental disorder, father son relationship, dating, locksmith, twins ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ageing rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
musician, rock star, aging, musician's life, elderly, midlife crisis, transformation, family relations, starting over, introspection, cancer, love and romance ...
Time:
70s, year 2014, year 1971, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, los angeles, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A lonely, down-on-her-luck waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk and thinks that maybe, finally, she's met Mr. Right. The more Molly (Alexis Bledel) gets to know Gus (Zachary Levi), the more she's intrigued by him. But ...
Style:
touching, romantic drama, semi serious, humorous, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, flower shop, starting over, couples, family relations, hopes, passionate love, passion, charm, brain damage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
elderly lovers, female pubic hair, looking for love, female nudity, passion, starting over, love and romance, aging, singleness, haunted by the past, fall in love, divorce ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
chile, spain, latin america, santiago chile
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13K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, philosophical, stylized ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, bipolar disorder, murder, sodomy, oral sex, redemption, starting over, prison, society, unlikely criminals, self control, violence ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of ...
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, sincere, realistic
Plot:
family in crisis, restaurant, starting over, family relations, life turned upside down, food, disorder, family problems, single parent, couple relations, down on your luck, hopes ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, ontario canada, montreal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young transsexual prostitute. They ...
Style:
sexy, serious, sincere, emotional, erotic ...
Plot:
transsexual, incest, prostitute, gender, true love, drag queen, greek, starting over, love and romance, hopes, jail, gay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece
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29K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After 19 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new DNA evidence. Now he has to return to a world he no longer knows and his reentry into the outside ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, serious, realistic, cerebral ...
Plot:
wrongful conviction, ex convict, death row, lawyer, rape, starting over, haunted by the past, innocence, direction and purpose, homecoming, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
syria, georgia, usa, southern usa, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
starting over, human nature, lifestyle, family relations, city life, couples, introspection, waking up, urban, breakup, singleness, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Beautiful People is an American drama television series about a family that moves from New Mexico to The Big Apple to make a fresh start on their lives. The series aired on the ABC Family Network from August 8, 2005, to April 24, 2006, lasting ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
single mother, starting over, lifestyle, fish out of water, family relations, youth, family life, parents and children, teenage life, parents separation, mistress, city life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Harriet, Matthew and Malcolm couldn't be any more different, but when they cross paths, they realize they're all looking for a fresh start. The most unlikely of people are starting a law practice in the most unlikely of places -- a rundown ...
Style:
serious, clever, realistic, exciting, dramatic
Plot:
legal, law firm, lawyer, trial, courtroom, starting over, courtroom drama, workplace, partner, lawyers and clients, dedicated lawyer, legal action ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, cincinnati ohio
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40K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Style:
sexy, psychological, semi serious, independent film, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, personal assistant, fall in love, depression, musician, starting over, self fulfillment, misfit, mental illness, mentally unstable, love and romance, buddies ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, single father, death of wife, love and romance, death, love story, relationships, single parent, honest, family drama, family relations, starting over ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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17K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, sentimental, erotic ...
Plot:
musician, jazz, social problems, disappearance, musician's life, starting over, survival, tragic event, lifestyle, life turned upside down, talented, poverty ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a ...
Style:
independent film, bleak, cult classic, sexual, depressing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parole officer, drug abuse, fondling, prison, drug addict, orgasm, mother daughter relationship, support group, addiction, oral sex, starting over, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2006, 70s, 21st century
Place:
delaware, usa, new jersey
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