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Archaeology of a Woman (2012)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A mother's dementia reignites a past of crime and lust, forcing her daughter to make difficult decisions.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, emotional, independent film, melancholic, suspenseful, art house
Plot:
aging, haunted by the past, uncover truth, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, life is a bitch, love affair, elderly, mentally unstable, mother daughter relationship, family drama, dementia, memory loss, secrets, grief, loss, small town, character study, intimate, domestic drama, investigation, missing person, morality, nostalgia ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa
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Most similar movies to Archaeology of a Woman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, emotional, serious and melancholic films with plots about family relations, intimate, grief, family drama, small town, bittersweet and parents and children mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Archaeology of a Woman: Tickling Leo (2009), Living Memories (2013), Reunion (2009), Soda Springs (2012), The Branches (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, holocaust, life is a bitch, memory loss, estrangement, parents and children, deportation, uncover truth, jew persecution, past, world war two, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
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Story:
The story of families haunted, despite themselves, by a past that has not died.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
missing person, uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, love and romance, life is a bitch, couple relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, family drama, grief ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
86%
134
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ten years after the death of a close friend, a group of Yale graduates who formed a secret society to make the world a better place reunite, only to discover how far from their ambitious, selfless goals they have strayed. Brett Cullen, Jessica Hecht ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, melancholic, tense
Plot:
friendship, college, introspection, human nature, friends, last wish, haunted by the past, character study, grief, mourning, secrets, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
small town, redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, family relations, lifestyle, hopes, homecoming, parents and children, going straight, social relations, male protagonist ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
idaho, america, usa
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
A melodic, emotional exploration of one family falling apart in a sleepy Midwestern city, The Branches follows Claire (Kelly Brumbach) as she attempts to reconnect with the hometown life she left behind.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric
Plot:
family drama, hometown, family conflict, intimate, estrangement, getting home, character study, relationships, small town, introspection, homecoming, grief ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
ohio, midwest
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen
Style:
bleak, tense, art house, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
secrets, family drama, character study, lie, betrayal, literary, moral dilemma, illegitimacy, adaptation, trust, guilt, loss ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman experiences a medical miracle, after which she has only a few days to bring together her estranged children, save the family's wallpaper business and rekindle an old flame.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, melancholic, road movie
Plot:
dementia, mother daughter relationship, family drama, memory loss, empathy, bittersweet, healing, second chance, aging, mature, heartwarming, small town ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, dramatic, serious, harsh ...
Plot:
father son relationship, son, father, father and son, cemetery, character study, estrangement, family drama, family relations, alienation, parents and children, estranged son ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, uncover truth, family relations, danger, parents and children, under the surface, disorder, life turned upside down, secret, women of color, african american, black girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
What happens when you receive someone else's heart and wind up with the transplant donor's personality traits and memories too? Jill Maddox, a middle-aged concert violinist, is about to find out! After her surgery, Maddox starts chugging ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, exciting, medical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heart transplant, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, parents and children, young at heart, family relations, optimism, organ transplant, mother daughter relationship, violinist, family drama, identity crisis ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A chronicle of a New York family as seen through the eyes of a charming yet self-destructive Broadway composer.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, family life, musician's life, lifestyle, parents and children, artists and showbiz, performer's life, family drama, character study, broadway, relationships, composer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
aging, elderly, drug abuse, introspection, disease, dealing with death, terminal illness, female protagonist, subconscious, character study, youth, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, estrangement, mental illness, human nature, family problems, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, self discovery, teenage life, interracial relations, hopes, society, idealism, spoiled brat, quibbling, aging, death in the family ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, parents and children, society, family problems, elderly, dysfunctional family, family drama, alienation, grief, assimilation, diaspora ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, israel
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Broken Roads is a contrasted portrait of life, dealing with loss, a journey of rediscovery & the hills climbed which forever change us.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
small town, estrangement, teenage life, small town life, youth, family tragedy, loss, coming of age, grandmother grandson relationship, grief, accident, car crash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, sentimental, dramatic ...
Plot:
aging, teenager, disease, mortality, family drama, coming of age, parent child relationship, hopes, grief, resilience, loss, intimate ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Ashok makes a surprise visit to Los Angeles to visit his estranged son, the two begin a journey to mend their relationship until Sid discovers that his father has actually come in search of an old flame. A heartfelt and humorous exploration of ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, semi serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, unfulfillment, under the surface, estrangement, bittersweet, thirtysomething life, woman, father son relationship, relationships, family drama ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On the day of his college graduation, Preston Plummer cannot think of a single thing he really loves. Adrift, Preston follows a beautiful but troubled young woman to a small island town where he begins to fall for her, but it all threatens to fall ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, realistic, touching, romantic ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, love affair, family relations, young lovers, college graduate, family problems, social relations, fall in love, island, small town, love, happy ending ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
198
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, sincere, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, redemption, parents and children, starting over, hopes, family relations, friendship, empathy, realism, character study, isolation, independence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Grandfather of Ana is clearly experiencing Alzheimer. Family as no choice and make some decisions. This tense situation will change the life of Ana.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, touching, poignant ...
Plot:
memory loss, aging, family relations, elderly, life is a bitch, mental illness, grandfather granddaughter relationship, retirement home, senior citizen, alzheimer's disease, family drama, family conflict ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
45%
675
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their mother's past but uncovered secrets ...
Style:
melancholic, serious, depressing, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
missing person, missing woman, sister sister relationship, foster home, death of mother, female protagonist, mental illness, search for mother, family drama, family secret, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Place:
ireland, belfast, northern ireland
Similarity:
44%
278
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Three scenes from the marriage of Lou and Jacques as they wander around France.
Style:
erotic, melancholic, tense, art house, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
domestic drama, infidelity, loss, intimate, character study, regret, haunting, festival, love triangle, small town, cheating, alienation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The film follows Allison Forche-Marlow, a beautiful, bright, determined, and organized woman, who never gives up trying to heal her autistic son, whom she fiercely loves, no matter what it demands of everyone.
Style:
emotional, captivating, disturbing, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
autism, introspection, teacher student relationship, character study, dementia, adult child friendship, old man, dealing with the past, children, school, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Similarity:
44%
187
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story about a young German woman prepares to leave her war-ravaged city to begin a new life in America with her G.I. fiance. But standing between her and a hopeful future is a relentless police inspector, determined to prevent her ...
Style:
emotional, tense, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, hidden identity, uncover truth, love and romance, dishonesty, hopes, starting over, post war, escape, female protagonist, police inspector, guilt ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
On this beautiful, bright first day of summer, Claire Darling has decided to get rid of all her estate. She’s laid down all her favourite objects on her front lawn for one splendid garage sale. As a horde of curious bystanders and neighbors fights ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family drama, memory, estrangement, parents and children, life & death, family relations, latter day saints, female protagonist, nostalgia, aging, intimate ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-TV drama as Rebecca Blake, a bookstore employee who lives contently in San Pedro, California with her construction-worker husband Joe (A Martinez). A chance meeting with a woman named Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful
Plot:
memory loss, small town, strong female presence, uncover truth, couple relations, disorder, family relations, parents and children, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, recurring nightmare, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The aging Eszter clarify outstanding relationship.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, love and romance, life turned upside down, hopes, society, estrangement, destiny, misfit, estate, female protagonist, lost love, heartbreak ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
hungary, central europe, europe
Similarity:
40%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two brothers are forced to confront a terrible crime that was hidden in their past.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, rough, serious, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, false accusation, haunted by the past, murder, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal, injustice, life is a bitch, family relations, dedicated lawyer, clergy ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Kyle and Jen, estranged siblings, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there, they make a discovery that turns their world upside-down. A Picture of You is a serious movie ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
bittersweet, siblings relations, family problems, family relations, estrangement, life turned upside down, dealing with death, death in the family, siblings, secrets, family drama, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
39%
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