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Plot Summary:
This new version of "The Sound of Music" will be a faithful adaptation of the original stage musical, to retell the story for a whole new generation. And more than that, it will be broadcast LIVE, adding a whole new level of immediacy and excitement. Get ready to reintroduce your family to the most joyful, most emotional and most musical family adventure of them all. Three-hour live event.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, captivating, uplifting, serious, realistic
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Gypsy (1993)
Plot Summary:
Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie - previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film - depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious, entertaining
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South Pacific (2001)
Plot Summary:
During World War II in the South Pacific love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush (Glenn Close) and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque (Rade Serbedzija). The war is tearing them apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Plot Summary:
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: romantic, educational, sentimental, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized
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Dodson's Journey (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his wife's decision to get a divorce.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, realistic
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A Country Christmas Story (2013)
Plot Summary:
A starry-eyed young girl journeys from the mountains of Appalachia to the stage at Dollywood, where she discovers the impact of African-Americans on the world of country music - while at the same time competing in a country music competition for kids, hosted by Dolly Parton herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Plot Summary:
This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Czarist Russia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: period piece, freeze frame, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, thought provoking, epic, inspirational, depressing
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Love's Unending Legacy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scuffle. She and Maddy move back in with her parents Clark and Marty. She finds a new home, and finds a new teaching position that she settles right into, but Missie has lost all faith in herself, until a chance encounter at her father's church where she adopts homeless orphan Belinda Marshall.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sentimental, touching, serious, saga, sex comedy, historical romance, emotional, realistic, christian film
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Heart of the Country (2013)
Plot Summary:
With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried emotions of sudden death of Faith’s mother years ago, and learn to be a family again. Like the Prodigal story, Heart of the Country is a tale of a father’s unconditional love. He simply wants a relationship with his children, and once that relationship is restored, he begins to create healing for his broken daughter. Her marriage has to be rebuilt, her belief in herself, and her peace with her mother’s death all come together through the quiet, selfless guidance of her loving father. The novel, written by Rene Gutteridge from the original screenplay by filmmaker John Ward, takes us from the glamour of Manhattan to the open beauty of the fields of rural Columbus County, North Carolina as the timeless tale of the Prodigal Son is reborn!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, emotional, romantic, captivating, christian film, inspirational, serious
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Mrs. Miracle (2009)
Plot Summary:
Overwhelmed widower Seth Webster is searching for a housekeeper to help him with his unruly six year old twin sons. "Mrs. Miracle" mysteriously appears and quickly becomes an irreplaceable nanny, chef, friend... and matchmaker.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, touching, light, semi serious, independent film
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The Music Man (2003)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and 1962 film, updated to reflect a few early twenty-first-century sensibilities: A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Back to You & Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Her surgeon boyfriend, who has been sarcastically nick named "Mr. Personality" and "Settle For" by Syd's best friend (Nurse Brenda), takes this opportunity to offer support and destroys it by telling Syd dying is part of life and she'd be a better doctor if she stayed more remote from her patients and, oh, by the way, "can I come over tonight"? He is surprised when she says "not tonight." Brenda tells Syd to get away for a few days and suggests Syd change her mind and go back to her small hometown for her school reunion.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious, sex comedy
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Don't Let Me Drown (2009)
Plot Summary:
In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, touching, serious, gloomy, independent film
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My Fair Lady (1964)
Plot Summary:
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, period piece, costume drama, light, humorous, captivating, sweet, clever, witty
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Preacher's Kid (2010)
Plot Summary:
Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling gospel show takes her on the road…and into romance, heartbreak and the realization that happiness may lie in the home she left behind.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, christian film, independent film
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Timboektoe (2007)
Plot Summary:
De ouders van Isa en haar oudere broer Kars gooien het roer om en beginnen een camping in Frankrijk. Isa en Kars hebben het gevoel naar Timboektoe te verhuizen en alles te verliezen. Lang klagen ze gelukkig niet, want al snel maken ze nieuwe vrienden. Maar terwijl nieuwe vriendschappen opbloeien, komt camping Timboektoe in de problemen. Niet ver bij hen vandaan is een andere camping geopend en de onsympathieke eigenaar probeert camping Timboektoe aan alle kanten te beschadigen. Het ziet er zelfs naar uit dat de camping moet sluiten…. Zal het Isa en Kars lukken om Timboektoe open te houden?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching, humorous, melancholic
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Eskil & Trinidad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eskil moves from town to town with his father in Northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things changes when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society spending her time building a great ship that perhaps could take Eskil to his mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental, light, sincere, captivating, exciting, tense
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A Soldier's Love Story (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ten year old Jared Marshall's life crumbled down after his parents' divorce a year ago. Not only does his dad put his job first since, mother uproots him from Iowa by moving in with her ma so she can take a job in California. When Jared's class writes letters to US troops in Bosnia from the nearest base, kindhearted Sergeant First Class Vince Carerra, who grew up fatherless and got divorced because his wife wasn't faithful while he was on tour of duty, takes to the kid and starts a correspondence with 'fatherly' advice. Once his unit returns to Fort Sebastian, Vince calls on Jared's home, warmly welcomed. Vince becomes Jared's personal baseball coach and after some Cupid encouragement, his mother's boyfriend, but on an understanding not to commit because he's likely to be redeployed.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, sex comedy
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The Nanny Express (2008)
Plot Summary:
With their mother dead, Emily and Ben torment their nannies to quit as fast as their father hires them. Till a nanny named Kate shows up and slowly wins Ben over. That's bad enough, but when her father and Kate start to fall in love, Emily sets out to break them up and match him with her ballet teacher.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, emotional, cute, sentimental, uplifting, realistic
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Booky & the Secret Santa (2007)
Plot Summary:
Booky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, sincere, captivating, feel good, serious
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Plot Summary:
The film that started the classic TV series. Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried - to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating. Sweet family comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sweet, emotional, disturbing, melancholic, uplifting, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Star! (1968)
Plot Summary:
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, non-linear, tension, suspense, 70mm film, cult film
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Hamilton (2020)
Plot Summary:
Presenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash hit is the story of America then, told by America now.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: epic, feel good, period drama
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Gypsy (1962)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious, entertaining, light
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The Greatest Showman (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 303000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: inspirational, uplifting, captivating, motivational, sincere, romantic, suspense, suspenseful, costume drama, feel good
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Thérèse (2004)
Plot Summary:
The mesmerizing story of a young girl's romance with God. Her faith, trials, and sacrifices reveal a way of life based on love and simplicity. A contemplative film based on the true story of Saint Therese of Lisieux, the most popular saint of modern times.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: uplifting, emotional, realistic, contemplative, spiritual, serious, captivating, stylized
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Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Plot Summary:
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, serious, retro, soap opera, juvenile, historical drama, realistic
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The Sound of Music (1965)
Plot Summary:
Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 253000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, christian film, touching, romantic, scenic, serious, epic, inspirational, period piece
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Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in Kansas in the year 1910. Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth several years earlier, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. He advertises in the newspaper for a mail-order bride. Sarah, from Maine, travels out to become his wife. But Sarah grow.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating, realistic, serious, crying, period drama
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It Takes Two (1995)
Plot Summary:
Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play matchmaker between Alyssa's dad, Roger, and the kind social worker who cares for Amanda.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sweet, feel good, funny, humorous, touching, fairy tale, teen, semi serious, light, inspirational
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A Christmas Wedding Tail (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jennie Garth of "90210" stars as Susan, an unemployed Los Angeles museum curator and widowed single mom temporarily living in a small California town with her three sensitive sons. Jake (Brad Rowe of "General Hospital") is a single dad of two tomboys who owns a local winery. When Susan's dog Rusty (voiced by Jay Mohr of "Ghost Whisperer") falls for Jake's poodle Cheri (voiced by Nikki Cox of "Las Vegas"), these canine matchmakers help their owners fall in love too. Now with a Christmas Day wedding to plan -- and major complications threatening to unravel it all -- can two mismatched broods find a way to make one happy family? Tom Arnold and Catherine Hicks ("Seventh Heaven") co-star in this heartwarming holiday film from the producer/director of The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation and Your Love Never Fails.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, touching, realistic, semi serious