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Train Dreams (2025)
71K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, contemplative, bleak, reflective, period piece, historical drama, art house, existential, depressing ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, loss, memory, love, loneliness, working class, nostalgia, grief, character study, tragedy, village life, isolation, solitude, parenthood, marriage, man versus nature, bittersweet, intimate, slow burn, social change, literary, native american, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship ...
Time:
1920s, year 1917, 60s, 1960s
Place:
poetic realism, idaho
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Most similar movies to Train Dreams
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, existential and contemplative films with plots about intimate, memory, loss, grief, isolation, character study and bittersweet mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Train Dreams: South Mountain (2019), Pilgrim Hill (2013), Man Alive (2008), How Far, How Near (1972), Balance and Movement (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When her teenagers head off to camp and her husband abruptly leaves her to begin a new family, Lila is left to her own curious and chaotic devices for a summer in her rural home in the Catskill mountains.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, sentimental, light, disturbing ...
Plot:
friendship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, adultery, father daughter relationship, marital separation, domestic drama, character study, infidelity, loss, grief, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A middle-aged bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland has to deal with isolation and loneliness.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, contemplative, existential ...
Plot:
loneliness, isolation, village life, hardship, realism, social isolation, loss, minimalism, slice of life, intimate, slow burn, small town ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
In and around America and the autumn of 1963. A man and his tools. A boy and his shoes.
Style:
independent film, reflective, art house, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
compassion, empathy, intimate, character study, isolation, small town life, minimalism, solitude, abandonment, trauma, autumn, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
america, massachusetts
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
suicide, memory, existential crisis, symbolism, loss, midlife crisis, self discovery, guilt, flashback, mature, regret, isolation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
91%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman in love, a weak man, a father stumbling with his emotions, an uncle dependent on the past and a teenager meet at Zagor’s boarding house. Despite the serenity of the house, they all struggle to find the peace that they each need.
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
boarding house, character study, teenager, father son relationship, love, household, slice of life, domestic drama, intimate, memory, isolation, loss ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
91%
195
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, ...
Style:
poignant, art house, melancholic, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, female protagonist, memory, family drama, loss, reflection, regret, ghost, family secret, grief, aging, introspection ...
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, grief, suicide, seaside, empathy, loneliness, trumpet player, salvation, healing, intimate, mourning, redemption ...
Similarity:
90%
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:
90%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A Mexican teen Lucas in a gray industrial town befriends co-worker Oscar. Oscar leaves, entrusting Lucas with treasures. Through photography, Lucas captures observed light, finding connection and solace.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, art house, independent film, slow cinema
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, self discovery, working class, loneliness, photography, realism, introspection, intimate, memory, solitude, slow burn ...
Place:
mexico, poetic realism
Similarity:
90%
534
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend's funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of love in a time of pain.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
mourning, memory, nostalgia, past, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, romantic relationship, troubled past, male female relationship, couples, love story ...
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Being Dead The film adaptation of Jim Crace's award-winning novel that follows a mid-life couple's effort to rekindle their marriage by traveling back to the place where they fell in love -- only to arrive at the point of their sudden ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, tragic ending, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mortality, death, marital crisis, troubled marriage, marital problem, marriage, married couple, unhappy marriage, literary, fatal accident, sudden death, loss ...
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The Lord of the Seagull (MEF) is a man living a calm life on the seashore in Istanbul. There is someone he has been waiting for years. Finally the guest he waits will come out. In white, a woman who shoots on the shore like a tale will change the ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, slow cinema, contemplative ...
Plot:
hopes, schizophrenia, suicide, love, love and romance, loneliness, isolation, fall in love, couples, recluse, village, tragedy ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, poetic realism
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with ...
Style:
art house, melancholic, reflective, poignant
Plot:
winter, grief, mourning, nostalgia, bittersweet, loneliness, loss, character study, memory, regret, aging, family tragedy ...
Place:
japan, hokkaido
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An aging jockey is determined to win one last championship, but his dream is complicated when a young rookie shows up claiming to be his son.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
jockey, father son relationship, horse race, character study, racehorse, relationships, paternity revealed, ambition, athlete's life, competition, horse trainer, legacy ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot:
memory, memories, relationships, flashback sequence, introspection, lifestyle, past, self discovery, bittersweet, longing, loss, love story ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman, and her last memories of the five people who loved her most, recalled while experiencing a catastrophic event.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
memories, female protagonist, death, memory, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love affair, lifestyle, trauma, loss, grief ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The film is Sokurov's feature film debut and is based on the novel The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov. It's a story about the lives of people in the Russian countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was completed in 1979 ...
Style:
poetic, melancholic, psychological, art house, existential ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, isolation, post war, trauma, alienation, memory, slow burn, bittersweet, moral dilemma, symbolism, desperation ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
soviet union, poetic realism, ussr, russia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not ...
Style:
slow cinema, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, alienation, isolation, everyday life, intimate, minimalism, bittersweet, character study, intimacy, coastal town, sexual tension, dog ...
Place:
poetic realism, chile
Similarity:
85%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, melancholic, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
father son relationship, brother brother relationship, brotherhood, family drama, brothers, reconciliation, recluse, siblings, estrangement, slow burn, empathy, secrets ...
Place:
northern england, ireland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Polish Psychological Drama
Style:
reflective, existential, philosophical, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, mortality, character study, memory, mountain, friendship, fear of death, male friendship, crisis of faith, nostalgia, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
grief, ghost, loss, isolation, lake, mourning, haunting, supernatural, bereavement, cottage, afterlife, memory ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
Similarity:
83%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An apotheosis of loyalty and love. A tale of lost happiness and dreams, fears and transience, supremacy of fate and laws of nature, gratitude and cruelty of nature, inability of man to change that and influence the course of his own life.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, contemplative, meditative ...
Plot:
love, nature, loss, fate, loyalty, tragic romance, bittersweet, grief, fatalism, destiny, retiring, nostalgia ...
Time:
70s
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu telling the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, meditative, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, dying man, memory, haunting, ghost story, family life, near death experience, life & death, family problems, troubled past, mourning, elderly man ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Directed by Robert Kramer
Style:
experimental, touching, serious, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
working class, family relations, immigrant, husband wife relationship, mysterious man, dysfunctional family, blindness, immigration, exile, intimate, social realism, getting home ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, existential ...
Plot:
grief, loss, character study, loneliness, identity, intimate, country house, memory, minimalism, friendship, impostor, gardener ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, atmospheric, art house, poetic ...
Plot:
loneliness, obsession, grief, mourning, passion, loss, memory, delusion, male protagonist, symbolism, haunting, flashback ...
Place:
india, france, normandy
Similarity:
82%
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:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, grief, hopes, death of daughter, country house, family relations, teenage life, family problems, mother daughter relationship, mourning, loss, bereavement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He's an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He's offered work in the U.S. But a friend has cancer and the world ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, poetic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, inventor, friendship, character study, intimate, bittersweet, small town, humanism, loneliness, loss of innocence, nostalgia, mysticism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
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