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My Mother (2019)
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Original name: Annem
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A self sacrificing, selfless mother who makes the impossible "possible" for her daughter - a daughter who is ashamed of her mother and wants to run away from her mother and her life with her. Her journey to the college drives Nazli away from the village she has grown up - but years later, she wants to go back to the village where she was born, back to her mother - after all those years passed by with tons of "I wish". Candan Ercetin performed her song "Annem - Mom" once again for the movie twenty years later.
Style:
emotional, sincere, captivating, tear jerker, tearjerker
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, mother, motherhood, sacrifice, relationship problems, family drama, kids and family, family relations, parents and children, family life, grownups, mother and daughter, family problems, education, getting home, female protagonist, selflessness, supportive parent, regret, homecoming, estrangement, aspiration, nostalgia, reconciliation, identity ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, emotional, psychological and realistic films with plots about family relations, family drama, family problems, parents and children, slice of life, bittersweet and relationship problems mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like My Mother: Mano po 6: A Mother's Love (2009), Claire Darling (2018), Lullaby (2022), A Long Visit (2010), Remember us (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Melinda Uy is a half-Filipino, half-Chinese struggling mother to four children married to a full-Chinese blood man. Her family was believed to bring curse to Olive's famiily. Because of this, Melinda was not accepted by Uy's family as one ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, sentimental, tear jerker, intense ...
Plot:
family reunited, teenage rebellion, sister in law, mother daughter relationship, relationships, mother and daughter, relationship problems, sacrifice, mother child relationship, motherhood, family drama, family conflict ...
Place:
the philippines
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, captivating, thrilling, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
motherhood, female protagonist, woman, family relations, parenting, newborn baby, domestic drama, mother child relationship, family life, family problems, kids and family, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
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77%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Daughter Ji-suk is now already a mother herself, but she'll always be a child in the eyes of her proud mom. The two decide to go on their first ever trip together. Over three days and two nights, their journey reveals the love and regrets, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Kaan has difficulty getting a higher position in his work where he has built a good career. While he was occupied with his wife, children and his work, he has pretty much neglected his father. Until one day he is obliged to take care of him.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
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68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Norma has to balance her love and attention for the two special people in her life: her daughter and her ward.
Style:
captivating, emotional, tension, tagalog
Plot:
nanny, mother daughter relationship, mother, single mother, domestic servant, ward, family drama, parenthood, parents and children, kids and family, mother and daughter, relationship vs career ...
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56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Middle-aged Riichi Takamiya drives the midnight bus between Tokyo and snow-swept Niigata, where he lives. Just as the relationship with his younger girlfriend is about to bloom, his emotionally desperate ex-wife suddenly reappears.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
divorced man, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, family drama, midlife crisis, male female relationship, relationship problems, family relations, family life, kids and family, family problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, character study, motherhood, family drama, poverty, family problems, family relations, social problems, relationship problems, kids and family, problem ...
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Yuko Morimiya is a high school student and she lives with her stepfather Morimiya. Morimiya is her third father. Her mother, Rika, is a free spirited person and has remarried several times. She disappeared from Yuko's life at a certain point. ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, emotional, tear jerker
Plot:
relationships, stepfather, family drama, family secret, female protagonist, family relations, parents and children, family problems, daughter, lifestyle, kids and family, family life ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, disturbing, psychological, historical drama ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, getting home, family relations, female protagonist, dictatorship, relationships, mother son reunion, homecoming, parents and children, relationship problems, kids and family, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
uruguay, south america
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
Style:
anthology, psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
relationships, multiple storylines, lifestyle, parents and children, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, family life, family relations, relationship problems, family problems, storytelling, slice of life ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
seoul
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
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Story:
A story about the tiring but sad love and hatred between a mother and her daughters. Lee Jin-ae has a love and hate relationship with her mother, Im San-ok. She dreams of becoming independent from her family and especially from her mother. Jin-ae ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, soap opera, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, motherhood, family drama, family life, mother in law daughter in law relationship, family relations, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, parents and children, mother and daughter ...
Time:
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42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
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40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, emotional, tear jerker, reflective, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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823
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, light, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, captivating, thrilling, psychological, tear jerker ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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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:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Juliet and her daughter Aparna live in Kerala, while Juliet’s husband Nandan works abroad. Nandan decides to move back to Kerala, and it changes the lives of the mom-daughter duo.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, melancholic, contemplative
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family drama, female protagonist, parenting, getting home, healing, estrangement, emigration, homecoming, reconciliation, forgiveness, intimate ...
Similarity:
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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:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, surreal, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, parents and children, family gatherings, unfulfilled love, road not taken, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, family reunited, nostalgia ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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218
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A U.S. soldier comes to Korea and tracks down his biological father in jail.
Style:
captivating, emotional, tear jerker, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, biological father, military, family drama, prisoner, family problems, relationship problems, jail, uncover truth, parents and children, soldier, search for father ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
punjabi, motherhood, mother son relationship, relationships, mother, family drama, bonding, problem, family relations, parent child relationship, life, family problems ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Sofia, recently separated, takes her daughters to a small coastal town. Each one in their own universe, live the interlude as a challenge to free themselves and face their fears.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
separation, relationships, mother and daughter, mother daughter relationship, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, social problems, relationship problems, breakup, life is a bitch, family life ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
24 hours in the life of a mother, caught in the relentlessness of daily life, between her work, her home and her children.
Style:
captivating, emotional
Plot:
motherhood, family life, slice of life, family relations, parenting, female protagonist, everyday life, mother, children, working mom, kids and family, parents and children ...
Place:
budapest
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own, it is four years before the authorities catch up with her and the young child.
Style:
psychological, captivating, emotional, intense, sad ...
Plot:
kidnapping, motherhood, relationship problems, parents and children, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, abduction, family life, kidnapper, tragic past, family tragedy ...
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