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A House on Fire (2024)
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Original name: Casa en flames
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Montse, divorced and with two children who have long ignored her, prepares for a family reunion at her home on the Costa Brava.
Style:
hilarious, dark comedy
Plot:
family drama, family reunited, divorce, single mother, family secret, female protagonist, mother daughter conflict, midlife crisis, regret, siblings, slice of life, slow burn, weekend getaway, claustrophobia, grief, resilience, identity, nostalgia, fire, high society, infidelity, divorced parents, domestic drama, family secrets
Time:
contemporary
Place:
spain, europe
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Most similar movies to A House on Fire
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, emotional and satirical films with plots about family drama, bittersweet, family secret, slice of life, regret, reconciliation and family relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres. Some movies like A House on Fire: The House (2024), Seven Billiard Tables (2007), The Weeping Walk (2024), Places in the Sun (2024), Eunice (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After the death of their father, three siblings return to the family home where they grew up. They intend to sell it and follow their very different paths. But as memories surface in every corner, a fear of getting rid of the past and an impulse to ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, semi serious, thrilling ...
Plot:
family reunited, siblings, memories, family drama, mourning, family home, grief, family relations, lifestyle, relationships, domestic drama, bittersweet ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Angela and her young son Guille travel to the big city to see Leo, her father and the boy's grandfather, when he suddenly takes ill. However, they arrive to discover that he has just passed away. Charo, the dead man's lover, explains the ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
billiards, family relations, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, grief, loss, swimming pool, character study, family drama, single mother, working class ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The death of Christine and the choice to bury her in Acanda lead to the unraveling of unexpected family secrets on the journey to her final resting place.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, suspense, tension, realistic ...
Plot:
mourning, family secret, grief, family drama, funeral, mature, flashback, road trip, intimate, regret, siblings, small town ...
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Samuela despairs of her lack of breakthrough as an author. When she is abandoned by her boyfriend, she secretly travels with her brother to the family holiday home in Lanzarote, where she wants to work on her novel. But instead of the peace she ...
Plot:
creative block, family drama, personal growth, sibling relationship, resilience, slice of life, summer, reconciliation, midlife crisis, family secret, isolation, aspiring writer ...
Place:
canary islands
Similarity:
85%
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319
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Moments in four different years in the lives of the Harper family beginning with 1955 as a hopeful Eunice prepares to go to a party, and her brother Phillip, a recent college graduate, departs for New York In 1963, a married Eunice and her husband ...
Style:
period piece, heartfelt, comedy drama, sentimental, dramatic
Plot:
female protagonist, family relations, family drama, dysfunctional family, regret, bittersweet, siblings, character study, mother daughter conflict, small town, homecoming, nostalgia ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 70s, year 1955, year 1963 ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lisa and Patrik have patched up their marriage after Patrik's infidelity, but everything turns upside down when they receive a letter from the district court about their divorce papers, which Lisa had forgotten she had filed.
Style:
comedy drama
Plot:
family drama, relationships, divorce, marriage, infidelity, bittersweet, couples, second chance, parenting, slice of life, reconciliation, midlife crisis ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three siblings find themselves in their childhood home. There is one thing the mother must say. These are the days before Christmas. There is also a girl, who finds herself living those days with them. It looks so familiar. There is an expectation ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
christmas, siblings, family secret, secret, family drama, childhood home, family reunited, brother sister relationship, family relations, problem, siblings relations, eccentric family ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, Zambia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
Style:
bleak, realistic, poignant, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
family drama, secrets, family secret, grief, funeral, female protagonist, social realism, memory, social commentary, identity, coming of age, reconciliation ...
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Italy, France, Ireland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other: a reclusive father visited by his grown children in the US, sisters visiting their novelist mother in Dublin, and adult ...
Style:
emotional, tension, reflective, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
estrangement, siblings, family drama, family reunited, mature, mother daughter relationship, bonding, grief, regret, tragedy, introspection, homecoming ...
Place:
dublin ireland, paris france, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Toni has spent her entire life putting other people’s needs before her own. When she was 20 years old, she was pushed by her mother to join a TV singing competition, becoming a national star. Twenty years and five children later, she is a ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, realistic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
single mother, female protagonist, parenthood, motherhood, family drama, singing, self discovery, women, identity crisis, slice of life, nostalgia, female empowerment ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
france
Similarity:
65%
129
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A single mother named Maria unespectedly inherits an hotel from her deceased father, where she will find the truth about her past while she tries get the business going.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, relationships, problem, family problems, family relations, satire, resort hotel, family business, hotel, business, hotel manager ...
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anna discovers that has a brother that went to Canada because of the hunger on World War II
Style:
historical drama, emotional, dramatic, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
siblings, post war, family drama, lost child, identity, migration, family secret, grief, loss, empathy, intimate, poverty ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
canada, italy
Similarity:
64%
526
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lola (40) enjoys a happy life until an unforeseen pregnancy throws her plans into disarray. Resistant to motherhood and confronted by societal expectations, Lola and her boyfriend, Bruno, deal with the situation. As Lola confronts her inner fears ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, melancholic, satirical
Plot:
pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy, motherhood, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female protagonist, couple relations, relationships, pregnant woman, problem, family relations, marital problem ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Morten Arnfred's warm comedy Lykkevej (Move Me) begins with Sara (Birthe Neumann) being left by her husband of a quarter century. Sara gets a job and moves into a new home on a street populated by eccentrics. Neighbor Robert (Jesper Lohmann) ...
Style:
heartfelt, feel good, romantic comedy
Plot:
divorce, neighborhood, personal growth, starting over, self discovery, independence, infidelity, midlife crisis, female protagonist, resilience, friendship, community ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Comedy about a family of Gran Canaria island that shown in a "situation totally on edge" and reflects the way to be the canaries, as its author.
Style:
comedy drama, dark comedy, queer cinema
Plot:
family drama, family conflict, sibling rivalry, gay lead character, mother son relationship, lgbtq, family secret, mother daughter conflict, small town, island, everyday life, provincial life ...
Place:
canary islands
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When old Mr. Park dies, his first son Chan-Wu, a film director, and his troublesome daughter Mi-Seon hurriedly come back to their rural hometown, and third son Chan-Se comes back to Korea from America. As the quiet country village gets busy ...
Style:
melancholic, black comedy
Plot:
mourning, funeral, getting home, family drama, grief, siblings, small town life, domestic drama, everyday life, bittersweet, family secret, reconciliation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
korea
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A middle-aged former criminal has little time to live due to cancer, so he gets to see his son after 5 years to spend his last week with him and teach him the principles he considers important in life.
Style:
emotional, touching, melancholic, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
reconciliation, mortality, life lesson, father son relationship, family drama, bonding, fatherhood, redemption, bittersweet, cancer, regret, second chance ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, redemption, personal growth, identity, estrangement, parenting, intimate, honesty, reconciliation, character study, humanism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The 3 Lacámara siblings feel that their lives have no meaning. Pedro is trying to be a successful writer like his father, Mario wants to feel like he is settling down, and Elena feels out of place everywhere. The 3 meet up with their mother and her ...
Style:
mumblecore, independent film, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
introspection, mother daughter relationship, family reunited, kids and family, siblings relations, self discovery, family problems, brother sister relationship, family relations, dysfunctional family, family drama, satire ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.
Style:
suspense, tense
Plot:
single mother, female protagonist, empowerment, investigation, resilience, journalism, hopes, realism, isolation, grief, working class, missile ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, year 1984
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Kolya and Vasylii learn that their father, who left them when they were children, is dying in Luxembourg, far away from them. One of them wants to go and find his father, while the other one does everything he can to prevent the first from leaving ...
Style:
emotional, road movie, melancholic, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
brotherhood, search for father, sibling rivalry, reconciliation, journey, european, bittersweet, confrontation, identity, self discovery, regret, family secret ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three different sisters, Iris, Anne and Marianne, get together to celebrate the birthday of their alcoholic mother Silvia.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, dark comedy, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
birthday party, ex husband, mother and daughter, family drama, three sisters, alcoholism, dysfunctional family, character study, family secret, intimate, bittersweet, small town ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jaap and Maartje have been together almost 50 years. Grumpy old Jaap is no longer terribly interested in doing much, but Maartje, despite her occasional confusion, is still keen to embrace everything life has to offer. When the couple receive a ...
Style:
heartfelt, romantic drama, emotional, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
journey, road trip, dementia, aging, elderly couple, marriage, memory, tenderness, bittersweet, nostalgia, long term relationship, companionship ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Trumpet player Géza Elekes does not play very well in his private life, and his fourth marriage has failed. One day he gets a call from his father, whom he hasn't spoken to in decades. This prompts her and her son, András, who is in the thick ...
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, melancholic, black comedy
Plot:
road trip, father son relationship, trumpet player, family drama, border crossing, reconciliation, slice of life, dark humor, grandfather, midlife crisis, bittersweet, humanism ...
Place:
budapest, transylvania, hungary, eastern europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A business mogul runs into his old small town girlfriend while she is visiting the big city only to find out that they had a child together that he was unaware of.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
longing, parent child relationship, regret, bittersweet, family secret, family drama, confrontation, mature, nostalgia, urban, social status, midlife crisis ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
30 years after the events of The Brothers McMullen, romantic entanglements plague a now fiftysomething Barry McMullen and his twentysomething kids, as well as his brother Patrick and widowed sister-in-law Molly, who are also facing similar ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, romantic comedy, romantic
Plot:
family drama, siblings, relationships, bittersweet, midlife crisis, intimate, brotherhood, slice of life, parenting, healing, reconciliation, loyalty ...
Similarity:
48%
206
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Victor wonders if he’s too late to join dating games in his 40s. His sister Annika, an opera singer, wonders how different life could have been after receiving a surprising medical diagnosis. Their grandmother wonders if she should end her life ...
Style:
life affirming, emotional, melancholic, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
terminal illness, opera singer, family drama, mortality, midlife crisis, bittersweet, hopes, intimate, sibling relationship, aging, grandmother, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
netherlands
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Family is an institution. Sometimes, you gotta break out. This is the story of how 17-year-old Candy finds the courage to walk away from everything she's ever known with the hope of discovering a better tomorrow.
Style:
emotional, realistic, independent film, period piece
Plot:
hopes, teenager, coming of age, family conflict, grownups, family drama, personal growth, female protagonist, self discovery, resilience, working class, optimism ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Stinging from the latest of several romantic break-ups, Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) retreats to the safety of her parents’ ramshackle upstate country house — just 45 minutes from Broadway— where her non-theatrical sister (Julie Davis) and ...
Style:
independent film, romantic drama, satirical
Plot:
sibling rivalry, family secret, family drama, domestic drama, jewish family, country house, love interest, intimate, bittersweet, weekend getaway, rivalry, improv ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The Berger and Böttcher families come to Dorothea's finca on Lanzarote for a weekend trip. The mood is tense and escalates as various mysteries are revealed.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, satirical, funny, tense ...
Plot:
family reunited, family relations, family drama, problem, couple relations, satire, relationship problems, family secret, weekend getaway, intimate, slow burn, betrayal ...
Similarity:
44%
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