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:
serious, psychological, touching, emotional, sincere, bleak, gloomy, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
human nature, hospital, disability, parents and children, self discovery, teenage life, single parent, estrangement, hopes, redemption, family relations, suffering, therapy, youth, misfit, dysfunctional family, family problems, haunted by the past, society, family reunited, reunion, family in crisis, love and romance, love, teenager ...
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, dysfunctional family, youth and estrangement mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Keys to the House: Phantom Pain (2009), Libero (2006), Behind the Red Door (2003), Our Life (2010), A Long Way Home (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
sincere, touching, serious, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
disability, couple relations, life is a bitch, hopes, human nature, redemption, human spirit, misfit, family relations, parents and children, new love, amputation ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
europe, germany
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Genre: Drama
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:
serious, emotional, touching, realistic
Plot:
unfaithful wife, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, coming of age, siblings relations, parents and children, lifestyle, single parent, youth, family problems, boy ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
italy, europe
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90%
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 ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, estrangement, love and romance, siblings relations, terminal illness, haunted by the past, family life, parents and children, homosexual, secret, photographer ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
boston, new york
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82%
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, touching ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, working class, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, lifestyle, society, wife husband relationship, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, psychiatrist, teenager, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, family problems, redemption, family in crisis, parents and children, domestic disturbance, hopes ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ 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:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, gloomy
Plot:
redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, human nature, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, family problems, parents and children, hopes, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, hopes, elderly, estrangement, family problems, introspection, parents and children, countryside, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
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Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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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, psychological, realistic, serious
Plot:
street kid, introspection, self discovery, survival, parents and children, teenage life, homecoming, redemption, hopes, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, youth ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Drama
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 ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
orphanage, social differences, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, society, family problems, gain trust, self discovery, on the road, honest law enforcer, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, sicily, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, heart transplant, redemption, parents and children, terminal illness, going straight, estrangement, family relations, family problems, transplant, black market ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, tahiti, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, sincere, gothic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
terminal illness, dying, cancer, father son relationship, reconciliation, dysfunctional family, architect, house, human nature, parents and children, hopes, layoff ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
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:
touching, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, hopes, midlife crisis, couple relations, family life, human nature, love and romance, family problems, innocence lost, haunted by the past, teenage life, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
israel, middle east, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
billiards, kidnapping, gambling, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, addiction, hopes, family problems, estrangement, introspection, family in crisis ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Chad, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative
Plot:
family relations, against the odds, missing person, young heroes, obsessive quest, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, youth, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
death, self discovery, introspection, parents and children, family problems, dealing with death, hopes, lifestyle, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, meditative, lyrical ...
Plot:
psychoanalysis, regret, loss of son, parents and children, family problems, overcoming, hopes, family in crisis, redemption, marriage crisis, loss of child, death in the family ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, chicago illinois, oregon, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, starting over, couple relations, small town life, love and romance, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy, social relations ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
florida, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Place:
nebraska, usa, england, europe
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
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Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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