Bittersweet movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant bittersweet movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out melancholic, touching, realistic, emotional, sentimental and feel good films and TV shows about / with bittersweet, relationships, dialogue, storytelling, love, loneliness, life, destiny, life philosophy and life & death 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 bittersweet: Frances Ha (2012), A Walk on the Moon (1999), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), Love Actually (2003), The Descendants (2011), Ruby Sparks (2012), Mr. Nobody (2009), Sweet November (2001), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), In the Land of Women (2007).
Best films
List of bittersweet movies
102K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
Style:
mumblecore, realistic, poignant, sexy, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
female friendship, friendship, coming of age, bittersweet, best friend, relationships, female protagonist, dancer, self discovery, direction and purpose, dark humor, profanity ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2013, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, sacramento california, paris france, france ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Style:
sexy, romantic drama, sensual, romantic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, summer vacation, hippie, infidelity, cheating wife, love affair, erotica, bittersweet, skinny dipping, lust, sexual attraction, extramarital affair ...
Time:
60s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1969
Place:
new york, usa, woodstock, new york state, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, teen, reflective, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, love affair, older man younger woman relationship, parents and children, youth, sex, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, sex with a minor, sexuality, teenage girl, teenager, older man young girl relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, usa, san francisco
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578K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, touching, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, love, holiday, multiple storylines, love story, love and romance, couples, fall in love, relationships, marriage, first love, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
Style:
touching, depressing, sad, poignant, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
infidelity, teenage daughter, bittersweet, dying mother, family drama, grief, father daughter relationship, family relations, beach, dysfunctional family, cheating wife, death ...
Time:
year 2011, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, iran, california
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109K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin ...
Style:
psychological, romantic, independent film, feel good, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
bittersweet, writer's block, writers, redheaded woman, novelist, loneliness, dream, mental illness, life philosophy, manic pixie dream girl, imaginary character, family relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
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256K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
time, destiny, philosophy, choice, alternate reality, depression, twists and turns, butterfly effect, surrealism, utopia, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 1975, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love, love story, terminal illness, bittersweet, fall in love, life, tragic love, cancer, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, destiny ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, melancholic, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory, amnesia, relationships, surrealism, loneliness, existentialism, melancholy, love, love story, dream, memory loss, couples ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
persia, america, usa, north america, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size ...
Style:
touching, humorous, depressing, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
loneliness, mental illness, sex doll, shyness, doll, delusion, bittersweet, young man, introvert, small town, forbidden love, character study ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
bittersweet, mother daughter relationship, teenager, love story, love, suburban life, shopping mall, depression, neighbor, believe in yourself, self discovery, homecoming ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
california, detroit, michigan, los angeles, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, bittersweet, depression, small town, grief, melancholy, loner, train, new in town, loss, solitude ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city, canada ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, intellectual, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, friendship, character study, alienation, fish out of water, melancholy, unlikely couple, actor, hotel room ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, yale university, america ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Style:
romantic, road movie, sad, melancholic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
road trip, end of the world, apocalypse, bittersweet, love story, loneliness, asteroid, love, existentialism, catastrophe, destiny, riot ...
Time:
year 2012, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, england, new jersey
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679K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place:
north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
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199K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and make a pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi.
Style:
suspense, sweet, southern gothic, suspenseful, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, childhood, bittersweet, ex convict, first love, fugitives, teenage boy, love story, obsession, hopes, river ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, arkansas, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style:
romantic, sexy, poignant, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
long distance relationship, fall in love, love story, lovers, happy ending, forceful separation, couple relations, lovers apart, bittersweet, relationships, love and romance, immigration ...
Time:
year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, usa, los angeles, london, england ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sweet, sad ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, time, love story, love and romance, time traveler, time loop, love affair, true love, time paradox, couple relations, fall in love, impossible love ...
Time:
future, year 2009, 20th century, year 1995, 90s ...
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, dramatic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, immortality, love story, immortal, loneliness, supernatural, life & death, love and romance, destiny, impossible love, beautiful scenery, supernatural romance ...
Time:
future, edwardian era, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place:
san francisco, peru, california, oregon, arizona ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Style:
road movie, feel good, melancholic, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, honest, obsessive quest, escapades, coming of age, suicide attempt, journey ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
california, arizona, los angeles, nebraska, north america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to ...
Style:
sexy, heartbreaking, melancholic, emotional, light ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
wedding, couples, love story, infidelity, destiny, bittersweet, sex, ex husband ex wife relationship, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, hopes ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, london
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Buenos Aires screenwriter Pablo is hired to write a new romantic comedy. As he begins his story, he visualizes his characters living in Madrid. Pablo creates a meet-cute between Marina and Víctor, a cute couple in Madrid who are soon totally in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, romantic comedy
Plot:
couples, bittersweet, filmmaking, introspection, unfulfilled love, love affair, love and romance, unfulfillment, singleness, writer's life, artists and showbiz, creative process ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, spain, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his ...
Style:
sweet, sentimental, melancholic, road movie, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, love story, suicide attempt, love, bittersweet, stewardess, road trip, destiny, hometown, life philosophy, self discovery, on the road ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
kentucky, oklahoma city, usa, memphis, mississippi ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
bittersweet, coming of age, dysfunctional family, single parent, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, family drama, child protagonist, childhood, stepfather, estranged father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
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235
Genre: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jun-seo is tired of the relationship he is in with Mi-yeon. But one day she is in an accident and falls into a coma. Then, unbelievably Mi-yeon visits him the next day just like any other ordinary day. He starts searching for other traces of Mi-yeon ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, emotional, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
bittersweet, renewed love, couple relations, life turned upside down, couples, estrangement, car accident, car rollover, loyalty, memory, regret, guilt ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, antarctica, asia, korea
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311
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Five former high school friends reunite for an evening of fun, remembrance and sadness in this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship. A look at how youthful idealism turns into adult pragmatism, and how one can fight such changes, from the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
bittersweet, friendship, friends, best friend, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, female friendship, bereavement, nostalgia ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
118
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story:
Funny, moving and at times painful - Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode, one character undertakes a journey and we are along for the ride. In an age when technology would make us seem ever more ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
redemption, working class, bittersweet, workplace situations, family relations, society, workplace, introspection, parents and children, hopes, journey, moving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, northern england
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Kyle and Jen, estranged siblings, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there, they make a discovery that turns their world upside-down. A Picture of You is a serious movie ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
bittersweet, siblings relations, family problems, family relations, estrangement, life turned upside down, dealing with death, death in the family, siblings, secrets, family drama, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, bittersweet, coming of age, family problems, youth, family relations, older sister, imaginary friend, escape from reality, superhero, family drama, imagination ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, naples italy, southern italy, sicily
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Olga, Katya, and Andrey have known each other since childhood. They moved to Moscow many years ago and have become successful. Olga is an actress, Katya works for a large-scale PR agency, and Andrey is a political analyst. They buy cars, take ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, existential ...
Plot:
bittersweet, childhood, best friend, thirtysomething life, friends, unhappiness, unfulfillment, idealism, society, grudge, thirty something, boredom ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
moscow russia, ussr, russia
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