Movies like The Keys to the House
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The Keys to the House (2004)
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Original name: Le chiavi di casa
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, emotional, sincere, bleak, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
parents and children, teenage life, single parent, estrangement, human nature, hospital, disability, self discovery, redemption, hopes, family relations, suffering, therapy, youth, misfit, dysfunctional family, society, family problems, family in crisis, family reunited, haunted by the past, love and romance, love, teenager, dancing ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
italy, germany, europe, norway, berlin germany, milan italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, hopes, life is a bitch, youth and single parent mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Keys to the House: Libero (2006), Pure (2002), System Crasher (2019), Mirage (2004), Phantom Pain (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
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Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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realistic, psychological, disturbing, sincere
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, bleak
Plot:
poet, hopes, family relations, teenage life, friendship, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, dysfunctional family, parents and children, soldier, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
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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, touching, sincere, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
cyclist, hopes, life is a bitch, disability, couple relations, misfit, family relations, parents and children, redemption, human spirit, human nature, new love ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best ...
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serious, sincere, psychological, touching, realistic
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, estrangement, love and romance, haunted by the past, terminal illness, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, homosexual, death of father, aids ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, family relations, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, redemption, life is a bitch, domestic disturbance, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, family problems, sexual abuse ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Pip, a street kid just turning 18, receives his grandfather's World War II-era memoirs and discovers parallels to his own life.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, psychological
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
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serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, self discovery, hopes, elderly, estrangement, parents and children, countryside, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, aging ...
Time:
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Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
working class, life is a bitch, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, society, lifestyle, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, dysfunctional family, hopes, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, family relations, human nature, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. He has heart problems, seeks a transplant, and then goes in search of a son sired years before in Tahiti. Told elliptically, with few words, we see ...
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psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, heart transplant, family problems, family relations, estrangement, terminal illness, redemption, parents and children, going straight, black market, transplant ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, touching, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Style:
realistic, bleak, psychological, serious, gloomy
Plot:
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Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the ...
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thought provoking, touching, captivating, sincere, neorealism ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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