Movies like Last Orders

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Last Orders (2001)
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Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, talky, atmospheric, sincere, serious, emotional, contemplative, road movie ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, parents and children, self discovery, partner, parent child relationship, last will and testament, old love, buddies, dishonesty, couple relations, death, melancholy, bittersweet, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, ashes, friends, hospital ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, europe, london, australia, california
Keyword: partners, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and contemplative films with plots about husband wife relationship, friendship, couples, couple relations, family relations, father son relationship and death mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Last Orders: Reign Over Me (2007), Another Year (2010), Around the Bend (2004), All or Nothing (2002), A Rather English Marriage (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Reign Over Me (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Style: touching, depressing, sincere, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: grief, friendship, 9/11, dealing with death, mental illness, friends, tragic event, loss of loved one, loss, alone, mental disorder, buddies ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: hotel, boarding house, spinster, female nudity, desperation, loneliness, piano, mental disorder, psychopath, aging, betrayal, bittersweet ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, america, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Another Year (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Style: emotional, touching, meditative, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: midlife crisis, friendship, jealousy, marriage, everyday life, family life, parents and children, suffering, loneliness, character study, desperation, divorce ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 90s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, paris france, ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Around the Bend (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, road movie, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, death, road trip, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, aging, van ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
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28%
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All or Nothing (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, florida, algeria
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27%
A Rather English Marriage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: senior citizen, widower, friendship, family relations, odd couple, gay interest, bittersweet, parents and children, singleness, working class, social differences, social worker ...
Time: 90s
Place: england
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Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles
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Liam (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: fascism, catholicism, youth, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, unemployment, sin, life is a bitch, starving child, society, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, ireland, middle east, europe, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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A Map of the World (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting ...
Style: black comedy, realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: sex crime, jazz, women, family relations, testimony, friendship, drowning, false accusation, sexual abuse, small town, dairy farm, female protagonist ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota, wisconsin
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23%
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Alone (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style: touching, serious, erotic, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: pregnancy, hospital, mother daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, loneliness, parents and children, drinking alcohol, society, relationships, redemption, poverty, friendship ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: spain, europe, andalusia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Heart of Me (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfaithful husband, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place: london, england, europe
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22%
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Morvern Callar (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use ...
Style: disturbing, talky, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, suicide, christmas, friendship, writers, life philosophy, supermarket, road trip, friends, couple relations, best friend, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2002, 90s
Place: scotland, spain, ibiza, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Is Anybody There? (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, loneliness, aging, character study, retirement home, justice, adolescence, sexual harassment, reconciliation, elderly ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2008
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Browning Version (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The ...
Style: talky, touching, colorful, anamorphic, grim ...
Plot: teacher, boarding school, coming of age, preparatory school, education, male nudity, drinking, science, marriage, bookstore, professor, academician ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: england, europe
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Wonderland (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, talky, erotic ...
Plot: working class, loneliness, life, multiple storylines, existentialism, parents and children, couple relations, society, relationships, sister sister relationship, missing person, melancholy ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: london, los angeles, england, europe
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Innocence (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her ...
Style: romantic, sincere, touching, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot: infidelity, aging, loneliness, lovers reunited, love triangle, crumbling marriage, family problems, adultery, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, love, death ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s
Place: melbourne, belgium, adelaide south australia
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21%
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Daybreak (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style: realistic, psychological, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, family problems, vengeance, crumbling marriage, love affair, parents and children, family relations, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, redemption, introspection ...
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Winter Solstice (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.
Style: sentimental, realistic, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, starting over, small town life, love and romance, couple relations, brother brother relationship, suburbs, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, single parent ...
Time: year 2004
Place: florida, new jersey, usa
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20%
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The Dresser (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. ...
Style: talky, realistic, psychological, gloomy, touching ...
Plot: gay lead character, lgbt, unrequited love, gay, backstage, world war two, friendship, shakespeare, actor, makeover, aging, railway ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, post world war two, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Old Joy (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Style: road movie, atmospheric, lyrical, talky, realistic ...
Plot: road trip, friendship, on the road, map, partner, buddies, hopes, couple relations, human nature, self discovery, thirtysomething life, couples ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, los angeles, europe, london, england ...
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20%
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Tully (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, young lovers, womanizer, couples, family problems, youth, society, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000
Place: nebraska, england, usa, europe
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20%
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Faces (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style: art house, intense, black and white, independent film, talky ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, feminism, feminist, sex, male nudity, drinking, thoughtful, minimalism, cheating, social outcast, time travel ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
After the Wedding (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK, Norway
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot: wedding, marriage, poverty, family bonds, wealth, family relations, nordic, family problems, family secret, couple relations, hopes, financial problem ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Waterland (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, offbeat ...
Plot: teacher, high school, haunted by the past, teachers and students, self discovery, power relations, couples, introspection, couple relations, friendship, father son relationship, mental illness ...
Time: 90s, 1940s, 70s, year 1992, 1920s ...
Place: england, pittsburgh, europe, london, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, family problems ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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X, Y and Zee (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, interesting ...
Plot: adultery, love triangle, infidelity, architect, dysfunctional marriage, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, haunted by the past, couples, other woman, lesbian teen, drug addiction ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: england, london, europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Ruby Blue (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, touching, crying
Plot: little girl, haunted by the past, friendship, family relations, working class, teenage life, fall in love, love and romance, youth, single parent, death in the family, false accusation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, france, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style: philosophical, meditative, bleak, depressing, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: philosophy, infidelity, adultery, destiny, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction, parents and children, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Men's Club (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style: sentimental, independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: stoner, erection, midlife crisis, infidelity, working class, friendship, threesome, social relations, thirtysomething life, couples, society, buddies ...
Time: 80s
Place: okinawa japan, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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