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Plot Summary:
A good-natured homeless man and an ill-tempered student become good friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The Christmas Choir (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, The Christmas Choir is the inspiring account of how one man can make a remarkable difference simply by giving of himself. Workaholic accountant Peter Andrews (Jason Gedrick) has overlooked Christmas, friends and even his fiance for far too long. As a result, his life begins to fall apart. But a chance encounter with a homeless man named Bob (Tyrone Benskin) changes everything and inspires Peter to start a choir that eventually goes on to enormous success. With the help of the unconventional Sister Agatha (Rhea Perlman) and his new found friends at the shelter, Peter learns that Christmas is not a season but a state of mind and that everyone deserves a second chance at life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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A Season for Miracles (1999)
Plot Summary:
A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after her sister is hospitalized following yet another overdose, she flees with them until they land in the sleepy town of Bethlehem just before Christmas and a series of kindnesses and coincidences gives the trio a chance at happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Christmas Comes Home to Canaan (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Bobber undergoes experimental surgery to help him walk again, Daniel Burton falls in love with his beautiful rehabilitation doctor and invites her to spend Christmas at the farm.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental, visually appealing
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Christmas in Conway (2013)
Plot Summary:
Duncan Mayor decides the perfect Christmas present for his beloved wife, Suzy, is a ride on a real Ferris wheel, set up in their very own back yard. As a young man, it was the perfect place for a wedding proposal. Now, years later, in order to relive the experience with his wife, Duncan will go to any length to make their fantasy become a reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, serious, emotional, realistic
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Christmas (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alejandro and Aurora, two young students, leave Santiago and are on their way to spend Christmas with family in Aurora. At the foot of the Andes, the frustrations of Alejandro and Aurora’s doubts about her sexual identity cause tension. The two teens are on the verge of collapse when they discover the presence of a young girl, Alicia, a fragile girl of sixteen years who has fled her home. Gathered around an improvised Christmas tree, Alejandro and Aurora are fascinated by the enigmatic Alicia, who is becoming the object of their desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy
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Gift of the Magi (2010)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, captivating, light, humorous, serious
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Mingle All the Way (2018)
Plot Summary:
Molly is determined to prove to her family that her new networking app—designed to pair busy professionals together for upcoming events, without long-term romance—is a success. When Molly joins Mingle All the Way and is matched with Jeff, they are both horrified to realize they’ve already had not one, but two disastrous previous encounters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: emotional, light, captivating, realistic, romantic drama
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Christmas Cookies (2016)
Plot Summary:
Aunt Sally's Christmas Cookie Company is sold to a large conglomerate and executive Hannah must seal the deal and shut down the factory, which is the small town of Cookie Jar's lifeblood. What was supposed to be a simple assignment for Hannah becomes complicated when she meets Jake, the factory owner who's determined to keep the factory in town. Despite not being a fan of the holiday, the Christmas spirit in this small town is infectious and she gets swept up in the joy of the season while also falling in love with Jake.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, romantic, feel good, sweet
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Matchmaker Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
As the Christmas party for a book publishing company approaches, editor Maggie volunteers to help her boss Amanda find a date. Matchmaking is a bit of a hobby for Maggie, but she is thrown off her game when Jaxson, her old boyfriend from her college years, shows up at her work — as a newly signed, successful author. Maggie would love to deny she feels anything for him still, but Jaxson isn’t making it easy. She’ll have to face her decisions of the past, along with Amanda eyeing Jaxson, to bring together the perfect matches at Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, emotional
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A Hobo's Christmas (1987)
Plot Summary:
A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son played by Gerald McRaney, and get to know the grandchildren he has never met. McRaney, still resenting the fact that Hughes ran out on his family 25 years earlier, gives his father only one day with his grandkids; after that, he's expected to leave and never come back. All the while Hughes' friends warn him that his son and the past are memories that are best left alone, and should leave, but he has to find out for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, serious, emotional, realistic
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Hitched for the Holidays (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple of single adults agree to pose as each others significant other throughout the holidays to keep their meddling families from harassing them, only to find that their feelings for each other are real.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, touching, emotional, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Christmas on the Bayou (2013)
Plot Summary:
When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother, Lilly in her home town on the bayou. When Caleb tries to rekindle a childhood romance and convince her to move back home, Katherine is torn between the bright lights of the big city and the quiet, gentler rhythms of her Southern roots. Only a Christmas miracle orchestrated by Papa Noel can steer her heart to her true home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, sincere, captivating, emotional, humorous, semi serious
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Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (2018)
Plot Summary:
Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver's Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents recently passed, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane after the New Year, leaving Emma in charge of its belongings. While antiques expert Morgan Shelby appraises Emma's mother's collection, they find a hidden surprise in an antique desk that takes them on a journey to discover the power of love and family during the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, light, captivating
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Christmas Ever After (2020)
Plot Summary:
Popular romance novelist Izzi Simmons spends every Christmas at her favorite snowy bed & breakfast, but this year, she's faced with an impending deadline and a severe case of writer's block. Luckily, inspiration strikes in the unlikely form of the B&B's new owner Matt, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the handsome hero from Izzi's novels. As both partake in the lodge's annual itinerary of Christmas activities, Izzi's writer's block is cured and the first pages of her and Matt's own love story may just be beginning.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 847
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, touching, feel good, fairy tale
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Ms. Scrooge (1997)
Plot Summary:
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, thought provoking, sad
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Stone Pillow (1985)
Plot Summary:
A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to offer the down-and-out clients she serves at the homeless shelter. Soon, however, Carrie realizes that she's the one who has much to learn.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Similar in 78%
Stella (1990)
Plot Summary:
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the perfect mother-daughter pair.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, sad, touching, realistic, sexual, erotic, romantic
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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
Plot Summary:
Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is one of NYC's subway lines). She dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty and street-corner life her friends seem to have accepted as their lot. But personal and sexual challenges confront Chantel on her way to fulfilling these dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, surprise ending, hood, black cinema
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Night Catches Us (2010)
Plot Summary:
After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. Interfering with Marcus's good intentions are the neighborhood's continuing racial and social conflicts, as well as old enemies and friends -- both with scores to settle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic, political, gloomy, independent film, black cinema
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Firelight (2012)
Plot Summary:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sincere, touching, serious, psychological, captivating
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Vernie (2004)
Plot Summary:
Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, uplifting, emotional, serious, realistic, crying
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Picnic (2000)
Plot Summary:
The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, tense
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One Special Night (1999)
Plot Summary:
Builder Robert is visiting his ailing wife in a nursing home and is having problems getting a taxi home due to an intense snow storm. One of the doctors, Katherine offers him a lift home however their car gets stuck and they have to spend the night in an empty cabin nearby. They talk and bond, but afterwards seem to have difficulty beginning a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, talky
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Sweet Jane (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sad, independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Christmas in August (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet corner of Seoul, Jung-won runs a small photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung-won goes about his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class heartthrobs for the neighborhood kids and photographing pictures to place on funeral altars. For Jung-won, life seems to be a series of peaceful events, but in reality his time on earth is too limited for comfort. Barely in his mid-30's, but perhaps too aware of the meaning of death, Jung-won accepts his fate despite the subtle gestures of concern he gets from his old father and younger sister. Life goes on as usual until one day he meets Darim, an employee at the Traffic Control Division of the local district office. She is a regular customer at the studio who comes everyday to develop snapshots of parking violations.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, serious, romantic comedy, crying, feel good
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
Plot Summary:
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time together and become friends. But because of their different characters they often quarrel with each other and finally seperate after Frank misbehaves to Walter's friend Elaine.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, light, sincere, captivating, touching, semi serious
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A Christmas Proposal (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two lawyers dueling over a proposal to turn a quaint mountain town into a ski resort discover they are former childhood sweethearts. Lisa is fighting to protect the hamlet, big city attorney Rick represents the developer who wants to plow it under. But when a car accident forces Rick to stick around, the small town, and his former beloved, begin to work their magic on him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, emotional, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Christmas Angel (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ashley has been on her own all her life. She feels even more alone this Christmas as she searches fruitlessly for a job. The seasonal cheer around her only rubs salt in her wounds as she scrapes by to support herself and her dog, Dash. But her neighbor, Nick, knows exactly what to do. He offers her a job, to be his assistant in the best work-helping others. There's one catch that Ashley must honor though-she can't tell anyone that her new boss is a sort of Secret Santa, helping others anonymously. Through her new job, Ashley meets Will, a writer for a business magazine who uncovers what Ashley is doing, and more importantly, Nick's involvement. As Ashley and Nick help people in need, Ashley tries to protect Nick's secret, and her own heart, while Will must weigh the consequences of what he does.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, christian film, christmas special, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Seasons Of Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, "Seasons of Love" is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against the odds, while reconciling with the past and learning the true value of family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: uplifting, humorous, semi serious, sincere, romantic, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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Explicit Ills (2008)
Plot Summary:
The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, freeze frame, sincere, realistic