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Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:36 |
Characters | Teens, Teachers, Doctors, Musicians, Family |
Plot | Love, Relationship, Friendship, Adoption |
Place | School, Hospitals, USA |
Time | Graduation |
Style | To cry, For girls |
A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | fantasy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain, USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
Characters | Monsters, Giants, Family, Pupils, Terminally ill |
Plot | Friendship, Loneliness, Death, Depression, Cancer |
Place | School |
Style | To cry, Touching |
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:59 |
Characters | Teens, Photographers, Girlfriends, Cats, Single mothers |
Plot | Dancing, Fight, Loneliness, Breakup, Cancer |
Place | Aircraft, Beach, USA |
Style | Light, To cry, Fascinating, Numbers in the title |
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:31 |
Characters | Family, Writers, Friends, Single mothers, Mothers |
Plot | Love, Relationship, Loneliness, Jealousy |
Place | USA, Small cities |
Style | Touching |
Set nearly a decade after the finale of the original series, this revival follows Lorelai, Rory and Emily Gilmore through four seasons of change.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
Characters | Doctors, Artists, Psychologists, Friends, Terminally ill |
Plot | On real events, Revenge, Friendship, Death, Cancer |
Place | Hospitals, USA |
Style | To cry, Soulful, Vital signs, Touching |
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
Characters | Teens, Students, Friends, Terminally ill |
Plot | Friendship, Loneliness, Depression, Cancer |
Place | School, USA |
Style | Psychological problems, To cry, By books, Smart, Vital signs |
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:33 |
Characters | Family, Friends, Brothers, Comedians |
Plot | Love, On real events, Fate |
Place | Hospitals |
Style | To cry, Cute, Vital signs, Touching |
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Canada, USA |
Duration | 02:28 |
Characters | Family, Neighbors |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Wedding, Friendship, Chase |
Place | Australia, New York |
Time | Graduation |
Style | Cute, Fascinating |
The continuing adventures of the Portokalos family. A follow-up to the 2002 comedy, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:23 |
Characters | Dogs, Family, Lawyers, Photographers, Losers |
Plot | Love, Money, Friendship, Loneliness, Cancer |
Place | Prison, Trains, Hospitals, Cemetery, USA |
Style | Philosophical |
Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug and obsessed with his past.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:00 |
Characters | Musicians, Photographers, Friends, Guitarists, Mothers |
Plot | Love, Money, Friendship, Loneliness, Depression |
Place | Hospitals, Cemetery, USA, Night Clubs, New York |
Time | Halloween |
Straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
Characters | Students, Writers, Friends, Fathers, Mothers |
Plot | Love, Adventure, Travel, Chess, Wedding |
Place | Village, Russia, College, USSR, USA |
Style | Fancy, Heartbreaking |
Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress America is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat-stealing.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Characters | Writers, Friends, Terminally ill |
Plot | Dancing, Soccer, Friendship, Cancer |
Place | School, USA |
Time | New Year |
Style | Romantic, To cry, Touching |
When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
Characters | Friends, Poets |
Plot | Love, Revenge, Passion, Friendship, Loneliness |
Place | School, College, USA, Small cities |
Style | To cry, Soulful |
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
Characters | Teachers, Students, Terminally ill, Teachers |
Plot | Life, Adventure, Meaning of life, Friendship, Death |
Place | College |
Style | To cry, Vital signs, Fascinating, Makes me think, Touching |
A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, musical, music |
Country | USA, Hong Kong |
Duration | 02:16 |
Characters | Musicians, Pianists, Actors |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Passion, Music, Money |
Time | New Year |
Style | To cry, For girls, Touching, Sad ones, Good music |
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:55 |
Characters | Doctors, Friends, Terminally ill, Nurses |
Plot | On real events, Friendship, Cancer |
Place | Hospitals |
Style | To cry, Inspirational, Soulful, Touching |
Patch Adams is a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humour is the best medicine and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it means risking his own career.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:32 |
Characters | Teens, Writers, Disabled people, Friends, Nurses |
Plot | Time travel, Travel, Friendship, Loneliness, Death |
Place | USA |
Style | Kind, To cry, Cute, Black humor, Touching |
Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama, family |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:50 |
Characters | Gods, Family, Friends, Terminally ill |
Plot | Love, On real events, Life, Friendship, Cancer |
Style | To cry, Soulful, Serious |
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's journey and his family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:24 |
Characters | Teens, CIA, Hired assassins, Killers, Friends |
Plot | Friendship, Loneliness, Death, Fate, Moving |
Place | USA |
Style | Interesting, Romantic, Light, Cute, Smart |
When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a retired CIA assassin – deals with a terminal prognosis, and Ed deals with adjusting to life with his newly single mom and developing relationship with a brainy classmate, Eloise.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:00 |
Characters | Family, Friends, Terminally ill, Lovers, Parents |
Plot | Life, Friendship, Jealousy, Divorce, Family life |
Place | School, New York |
Style | To cry, Inspirational, Touching, Sad ones |
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest, while they have the chance.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:48 |
Characters | Doctors, Family, Friends, Old man, Orphans |
Plot | Love, On real events, Friendship, Cancer, Birthday |
Place | Hospitals, USA, Country houses |
Style | Touching |
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Characters | Teens, Friends, Terminally ill, Girlfriends |
Plot | Friendship, Loneliness, Cancer, Dreams |
Style | To cry, Smart, Vital signs, Touching |
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:49 |
Characters | Friends |
Plot | Love, Life, Friendship, Family life |
Place | USA |
Style | Light, To cry, Cute, Soulful, Touching |
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:06 |
Characters | Family, Friends, Terminally ill, Widows |
Plot | Love, Travel, Relationship, Friendship, Death |
Place | Ireland |
Style | Sad ones, To cry, Touching, Serious |
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:00 |
Characters | Family, Friends, Terminally ill, Actors |
Plot | Life, Friendship, Meaning of life, Family life |
Place | Hospitals, USA |
Style | To cry, Smart, Touching |
A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while staying off the booze.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | Japan, USA |
Duration | 01:55 |
Characters | Witch, Spy, Artists, Lawyers, Photographers |
Plot | On real events, Dancing, Time machine, Friendship, Loneliness |
Place | Village, Aircraft, Court, Hotels |
Style | Interesting, Kind, To cry, Inspirational, Soulful |
When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
Characters | Teachers, Friends, Actors |
Plot | Love, Friendship, Loneliness, Seduction, Fate |
Place | Village, Aircraft, USSR, USA, Small cities |
Style | Romantic, Light, Cute, Touching |
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:33 |
Characters | Blonde girls, Family, Military, Soldier, Pilots |
Plot | Love, Passion, Relationship, Loneliness, Love triangle |
Place | Islands, USA |
Style | Romantic, Smart, Beautiful landscapes |
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:23 |
Characters | Dogs, Gangsters, Friends, Fathers, Actors |
Plot | Love, Death, Depression, Cancer, Computers |
Place | Italy, USA, Office |
Time | New Year |
Style | Psychological problems, To cry, Inspirational, Heavy, Touching |
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.