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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Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
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rehabilitation, addiction, drug abuse, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, youth, teenage life, parents and children, going straight, friendship, drug addiction, prostitute ...
Time:
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london, england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The wild and energetic journey of 9-year-old girl Benni through all possible stations of German Child Proctective Services.
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, bleak
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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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paris france, macedonia, france, europe, former yugoslavia ...
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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 ...
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Place:
europe, germany
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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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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 ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Place:
usa
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Country: Canada
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Story:
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Time:
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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:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Time:
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Country: Belgium, France
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