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Buddenbrooks (2008)
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Buddenbrooks (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
Style: saga, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, political, family saga, sad, costume drama, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, family business, fall in love, society, workplace, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, rivalry, friendship, inheritance, german history, wealthy family, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, impossible love, family problems, urban, family in crisis, siblings relations, downfall, couple relations, wealth ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: germany, europe, northern germany

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, couples, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment, couple relations and society mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Buddenbrooks: The Best Day of My Life (2002), The Sound and the Fury (2014), Marie Kroyer (2012), The Policeman's Wife (2013), The New Year Parade (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, family problems, couples, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
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100%
The Sound and the Fury (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, southern gothic, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, downfall, family problems, family in crisis, life is a bitch, family life, siblings, mental retardation, suicide ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: mississippi, southern usa, usa
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100%
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Marie Kroyer (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Marie Krøyer is hailed as “the most beautiful woman in Europe” and leads a happy marriage life with her husband the great Danish painter P.S. Krøyer and an adorable daughter. However, not everything in her world is as perfect as it seems, and ...
Style: captivating, stylized, emotional, costume drama, realistic ...
Plot: painter, biopic, family problems, under the surface, mentally unstable, fall in love, crumbling marriage, self discovery, art, nordic, artist, art history ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century
Place: denmark, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Policeman's Wife (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: accident, couple relations, family problems, domestic violence, family relations, couples, small town, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The New Year Parade (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children, family life, family in crisis, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, breakup, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
A Butterfly Kiss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, society, couples, introspection, suburbs, suburban life, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Memories of Tomorrow (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, family relations, mental illness, family problems, unfulfillment, family in crisis, supportive spouse, terminal illness, businessman, love, society, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Wedding Dress (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Overly obsessive compulsive and too premature, Sora is easily distanced by her friends. Growing up without a father is something she would like to be fussy about with her mom, but Sora is still the one and only daughter of and the biggest support to ...
Style: semi serious, sad, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, wedding, family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, single mother, friendship, society, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 390
The Viceroys (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, psychological, epic, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, politics, political unrest, rivalry, intrigue, dishonesty, society, revolution, family life, palace intrigue, power struggle, revisionist history ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place: sicily, italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 347
Alpha Male (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
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, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Great Expectations (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, ...
Style: serious, emotional, costume drama, period piece, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couple relations, charles dickens, social differences, society, rise to the top, power relations, hopes, generosity, rags to riches, makeover, napoleonic era, orphan ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Lost Persons Area (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man trying to keep himself afloat and marry the woman he loves sees all that's dear to him threatened in this drama. Marcus (Sam Louwyck) works as a maintenance man for a Belgian power company, keeping lines and electrical towers in repair ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: estrangement, family relations, workplace, family life, parents and children, human nature, unfulfillment, love, accident, father daughter relationship, working class, life is a bitch ...
Place: belgium, europe, rotterdam netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.9
 410
Bereft (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style: touching, psychological, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: haunted by the past, parents and children, friendship, family problems, estrangement, family life, impossible love, couples, solace, life is a bitch, love and romance, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
 241
Sofie (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story: From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, religions or cults, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, fall in love, society, love and romance, introspection ...
Time: year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 829
Balancing Act (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, tense ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, breakup, life is a bitch, couples, unfulfillment, downfall, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Three Dollars (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: couple relations, self discovery, family problems, couples, hopes, redemption, moral dilemma, family relations, love triangle, love, society, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, boss and employee, love and romance, pregnant woman, family crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Red Roses (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Rote Rosen is a German telenovela produced by Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg and broadcast by Das Erste since November 6, 2006. The show is a complex telenovela, who tells one love story every season about women in their forties.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, couples, couple relations, love affair, love triangle, fall in love, hotel, parents and children, infidelity, love story, friendship, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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 ⇓
49%
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Belonging (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 902
All Around Us (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, serious ...
Plot: family problems, couple relations, estrangement, society, pregnancy, death in the family, social decay, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, love and romance, painter, painting ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.9
 427
Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Of Boys and Men (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, youth, car accident, grief, death of wife, accidental death, love, society, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
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: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Love Come Down (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: family relations, self discovery, interracial relations, drug abuse, addiction, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Autumn Heart (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a school bus driving woman (Tyne Daly) has a heart attack, she makes one request of her three daughters (Ally Sheedy, Marla Sucharetza, Marceline Hugo) - she wants them to find their long lost brother, who was taken away by their father (Jack ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, autumn, estrangement, parent child relationship, couples, family problems, family life, family in crisis, rich and poor, parents and children, dysfunctional family, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston, england, usa, europe, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.3
 936
Phantom Pain (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: cyclist, hopes, couple relations, life is a bitch, disability, parents and children, human nature, human spirit, redemption, misfit, family relations, new love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Country (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot: survival, family farm, farm, farmer, family relations, life is a bitch, couple relations, family business, against the odds, couples, crumbling marriage, human nature ...
Time: 80s
Place: iowa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
We Were the Mulvaneys (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, loneliness, fear, trouble ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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