Self fulfillment movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant self fulfillment movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, serious, humorous, feel good and semi serious films and TV shows about / with self fulfillment, family relations, lifestyle, husband wife relationship, friendship, society, hopes, mother son relationship, couples and self discovery plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as self fulfillment: English Vinglish (2012), One Chance (2013), Erin Brockovich (2000), Julie & Julia (2009), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Greenberg (2010), Huff (2004), Precious (2009), The Best of Men (2012), Real Women Have Curves (2002).
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
ENGLISH VINGLISH is the story of a woman who does not know English and is made to feel insecure by her family and society at large. Circumstances make her determined to overcome this insecurity, master the language, and teach the world a lesson on ...
Style:
feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, lighthearted ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing
Plot:
self fulfillment, self esteem, language learning, housewife, unsupportive spouse, language barrier, self discovery, teachers and students, fish out of water, family relations, doubts and hesitations, humiliation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa, india
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good, uplifting ...
Plot:
opera, bullying, biopic, follow your dream, opera singer, talent show, lifestyle, musician's life, against the odds, self fulfillment, audition, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, venice, england
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
environmental, justice, court, lawyer, contamination, small town, single mother, investigation, corporate crime, business, lawsuit, legal ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, y2k, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and ...
Style:
inspirational, feel good, light, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, chef, women, food, self fulfillment, couple relations, love, blogger, blog, relationships, cookbook ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 2000s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, new york, france, europe, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Style:
romantic, sexy, sexual, philosophical, artsy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
artist, polyamory, love triangle, art, bohemian life, love and romance, women, love affair, painter, love, love story, couples ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, europe, spain, catalonia, new york
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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
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Huff is an American television comedy-drama series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt, a psychiatrist whose life changes abruptly ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sentimental, funny ...
Plot:
disorder, psychiatrist, sexual perversion, dysfunctional family, self fulfillment, direction and purpose, mental disorder, family relations, family problems, sanity, life is a bitch, fighting illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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120K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style:
depressing, emotional, inspirational, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, coming of age, poverty, teacher, sexual abuse, illiteracy, african american, domestic violence, aids, child abuse, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers ...
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
disability, changing lives, hospital, self fulfillment, human spirit, against the odds, rehabilitation, paralysis, hopes, dignity, contests and competitions, doctors and patients ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.
Style:
touching, clever, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, overweight, mother daughter relationship, first sex, dressmaker, youth, culture clash, women, physical appearance, factory, husband wife relationship, dating ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new york, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, self fulfillment, libertarian, rebellion, ambition, visionary, radical, workplace, lifestyle, idealism, rebelliousness, human spirit ...
Time:
future, year 2012
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style:
depressing, sincere, talky, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, coming of age, father son relationship, infidelity, boy, adultery, marriage, drinking, cat, underage drinking, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, near future, year 2005, 80s, 2000s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A wild bachelor party and an agonizing defeat in floorball awakens Fredrik's passion for male synchronized swimming.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, self fulfillment, buddies, youth, life is a bitch, ambition, sport team, society, family relations, athlete and trainer, physical appearance, underdog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Fat Friends was an ITV drama, following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, humorous, hilarious ...
Plot:
support group, obesity, weight loss, self fulfillment, family relations, friendship, society, hopes, physical appearance, overweight, bulimia, colleague ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
northern england, yorkshire, england, europe
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary, Canada, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolph Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, disturbing, realistic, avant garde ...
Plot:
nazi, abstract art, world war two, friendship, art, painter, biopic, propaganda, anti semitism, world war one, controversy, self discovery ...
Time:
1920s, year 2002, 1910s, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place:
germany, middle east, austria, europe, munich germany ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two parents fall in love over the course of a single day while playing hooky from their children's college tour.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
middle age romance, college, fall in love, opposites attract, college campus, father son relationship, tour guide, self discovery, self fulfillment, love and romance, disorder, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, realistic, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
filmmaking, lifestyle, private vs public, privacy invasion, self fulfillment, family life, showbiz, family problems, american dream, parents and children, youth, human nature ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
california, usa, manhattan new york city, paris france, new york ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, independent film, powerful ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
communism, interracial romance, dancer, ballet, against the odds, hopes, dancing, ambition, ballerina, promise, immigrant, follow your dream ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1989, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
china, austin texas, texas, asia, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
BeTipul is an Israeli television drama revolving around the personal and professional life of an Israeli psychologist, Reuven Dagan, played by Assi Dayan. The series portrays a psychologist who treats patients at his clinic five days a week and then ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
psychotherapy, lifestyle, self discovery, ambition, introspection, relationship vs career, workplace, individualism, self fulfillment, doctors and patients, haunted by the past, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A documentary crew follows the stories of nine classmates during their high school years in Austin, Texas, and then revisits them ten years later to examine how far they have come.
Style:
sincere, humorous, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, videotaping, high school, youth, friendship, adulthood, friends, lifestyle, self fulfillment, adolescence vs adulthood, social relations, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, austin texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Solsidan is a Swedish television comedy series that premiered on 29 January 2010 on TV4. The series is named after a small part of Saltsjöbaden called Solsidan. It revolves around Alex and Anna who are expecting their first child and have just ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
social relations, family relations, lifestyle, couples, alienation, actress, greed, self fulfillment, ambition, parenthood, pregnancy, uninvited guest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 375 min.
TV show
Story:
Twelve-year-old Bastian Balthazar Bux had lost the wonderful imagination he had as a child somewhere between growing older, watching TV, going to school and playing with his Gameboy. But when his mother dies suddenly, Bastian's limitless ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, stylized, fairy tale ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
empress, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, young heroes, heroic mission, self fulfillment, save the kingdom, self discovery, escapades, youth, danger ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Terminal City was a Canadian mini-series about a woman diagnosed with breast cancer while running a failing reality tv show turning it into a hit as her life and body begin to change.
Style:
uplifting, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, self fulfillment, terminal illness, life is a bitch, lifestyle, society, hospital, change of luck, breast cancer, rivalry, women ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family’s bakery and plays goalie in his small town’s soccer team. When he both loses the big game, and is caught flirting with another player, his homophobic teammates throw him out. He vows to ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lgbtq, gay interest, gay, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay athlete, small town, self discovery, self fulfillment, injustice, sport team, grudge ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999 for seven seasons. It follows the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, ...
Style:
sexy, soap opera, captivating, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
love affair, manipulation, couple relations, rivalry, infidelity, advertising, neighbor, betrayal, husband wife relationship, love triangle, friends, intrigue ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, beverly hills, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Centers around four older ladies from the Emmental region. When four older women decide to turn the local corner shop into a chic lingerie store, the whole community is thrown into disarray.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, humorous, not serious, touching ...
Plot:
store, friendship, dream come true, self fulfillment, self discovery, best friend, feminism, hopes, follow your dream, elderly, gender, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on a Japanese manga, "Kanna-San, Daiseikou Desu," this story revolves around Kang Han-na (Kim Ah-jung), an overweight phone sex employee and secret vocalist for Ammy, a famous Korean pop singer who actually lip syncs as she cannot ...
Style:
touching, humorous, romantic, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
plastic surgery, physical appearance, love and romance, looking for love, unrequited love, obesity, father daughter relationship, talent, self discovery, hidden identity, self fulfillment, changing lives ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, east asia, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Shortly after 1800 hours, 11 July 2006, Mumbai was shattered by seven bomb blasts on Western Railway stations: Matunga, Mahim, Khar, Bandra, Jogeshwari, Borivali, and Bhayandar. It took the Police and ambulance over an hour to attend at various ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, thrilling, contemplative ...
Plot:
terrorism, coping, partner, introspection, police investigation, social relations, patriotism, self fulfillment, society, journalism, social differences, city life ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
Style:
feel good, romantic, humorous, funny, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, family outing, teens ...
Plot:
wedding, culture clash, mother daughter relationship, bride and groom, wedding preparations and rituals, love and romance, prejudice, dysfunctional family, love story, relationships, family bonds, stereotypes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, chicago, usa, seattle, san francisco
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style:
philosophical, cult classic, confusing, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
existentialism, depression, death, writers, theater, twists and turns, schizophrenic, loneliness, philosophy, writer's life, mental illness, actor ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, berlin germany
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