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The Wolberg Family (2009)
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Original name: La Famille Wolberg
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, mayor of a small provincial city, madly in love with his wife, an interfering father and provocative son. This man is driven by an obsession with his family. Which leads him to test the force and fragility of these bonds.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, offbeat, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family life, dysfunctional family, family problems, family in crisis, estrangement, midlife crisis, introspection, small town, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, hopes, unfulfillment, dull life, birthday, mayor
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, hopes, family in crisis and unfulfillment mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Wolberg Family: The Amati Girls (2000), All Is Forgiven (2007), Archipelago (2010), Blondie (2012), Blame It on Mum (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
family life, family problems, parents and children, single parent, family gatherings, society, hopes, small town, death in the family, bittersweet, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
philadelphia
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, teenager, redemption, parents and children, addiction, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Patricia (Kate Fahy) and her two children, young adults Edward (Tom Hiddleston) and Cynthia (Lydia Leonard), arrive for a break at a holiday cottage. As rain and wind lash against the windows, Patricia grows exasperated at the absence of her ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sincere, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family in crisis, parents and children, estrangement, siblings relations, family gatherings, introspection, mental disorder, grief, nature, road trip, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
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738
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But as the festivities come to an end, repressed conflicts rise to the surface. Old wounds are opened and a new family is ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, family gatherings, under the surface, parents and children, estrangement, strong female presence, family problems, siblings relations, male nudity, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, tense ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, couples, family life, family in crisis, midlife crisis, family problems, parents and children, society, crumbling marriage, suburban life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, self discovery, elderly, hopes, family problems, countryside, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
27%
292
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An Israeli man searches for his father in France.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, estrangement, family problems, investigation, hopes, parents and children, midlife crisis, haunted by the past, gays and lesbians, redemption, aging ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
country girl, lawyer, sister, estrangement, family relations, introspection, siblings relations, family problems, hopes, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, marseille
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Three stories intertwined which occur in a single day. The day Ines discovers she is pregnant, Antonia decides to abandon her family and Marian realizes she is going to die.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
pregnancy, friendship, friends, couples, family problems, family relations, introspection, woman in danger, singleness, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
adult virgin, introspection, social decay, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, society, daydreamer, life is a bitch, small town, economist, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Maria's family give her a puzzle for her 50th birthday, and she loves it. Not only does the patient housewife have fun solving the puzzle, she's also really good at them. Overflowing with enthusiasm for her new-found passion, she goes back ...
Style:
touching, serious, sentimental, gloomy, realistic
Plot:
puzzle, family relations, introspection, contests and competitions, rise to the top, hopes, ambition, family life, bittersweet, midlife crisis, obsession, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly they discover that their son is brain dead. The parents are then faced with the hard decision to ...
Style:
spiritual, depressing, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
youth, killing spree, heartwarming, serial killer, family relations, dealing with death, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, transplant, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, hopes, cancer, chemotherapy, child illness, life is a bitch, babies and infants, optimism, couples, family problems, overcoming, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2011, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, marseille
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A father struggles with the past. A daughter fights for the future. A mother searches for answers. The Boyajians have not celebrated Christmas in 11 years. They lost their faith when they lost their son to the Persian Gulf War. Now a stranger has ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, christmas classics, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, hopes, grief, death of son, introspection, life is a bitch, redemption, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, family gatherings ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, estrangement, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, elderly lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
death in the family, last wish, family problems, family relations, introspection, hopes, siblings relations, dealing with death, brother brother relationship, minimalism, very little dialogue, death of mother ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
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544
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, swimmer, sex crime, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Shiro’s struggle with his father’s cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it’s too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble ...
Style:
realistic, touching, contemplative, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
coping, family relations, redemption, terminal illness, parents and children, estrangement, unfulfillment, family in crisis, father son relationship, asian prostitute, family problems, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a part of Flanders where flax is the main crop, farmer Vermeulen rules his estate like an 'old school' patriarch, stern and authoritarian, nobody else's word is ever taken seriously, just scolded fools, he rather risks being wrong ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
homestead, family relations, power relations, estrangement, family problems, farm, social relations, human nature, countryside, family life, family in crisis, village life ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, europe, france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, contemplative, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, autumn, estrangement, parent child relationship, rich and poor, siblings relations, parents and children, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, family life, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
boston, europe, england, usa, harvard university
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, car accident, family secret, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story of a destiny. Suzanne's and her family's. The ties that bind them, keep them together, and the love she pursues... to the point of leaving everything behind.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, bleak
Plot:
passionate love, love affair, family life, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, fall in love, coming of age, single parent, siblings relations, youth, working class ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
hospital, family relations, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, male nudity, suffering, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
parents and children, family reunited, introspection, redemption, aging, estrangement, family feud, hopes, unfulfillment, minimalism, marriage, retirement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe
Similarity:
23%
603
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, sincere, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, adoption, politics, power relations, babies and infants, society, master and servant, single parent, love and romance, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, rome italy
Similarity:
23%
845
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
orphan, introspection, redemption, haunted by the past, homecoming, elderly, starting over, human nature, betrayal, hopes, family problems, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
england, europe, canada, british columbia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, family problems, dysfunctional family, aging, family relations, estrangement, memory loss, parents and children, elderly, father son relationship, love, brothers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, family problems, hopes, aging, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
23%
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