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Irish Blood (2025)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
Hot-shot Los Angeles divorce lawyer Fiona Sharpe receives a letter from her estranged father and sets out to uncover the mystery of his disappearance.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, melancholic, suspense, twisted
Plot:
divorce lawyer, father daughter relationship, family secret, female protagonist, family drama, self discovery, dark past, estrangement, investigation, inheritance, forgiveness, getting home, reconciliation, identity, intimate, betrayal, small town, moral ambiguity, slow burn, midlife crisis, road trip, estranged father, family secrets, return home
Time:
contemporary
Place:
ireland, los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, tense and suspense films and TV series with plots about small town, family drama, betrayal, family secret, slow burn, identity and female protagonist mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Irish Blood: A Journey Through Pines (2017), Landlocked (2021), Return to Las Sabinas (2024), The Last Will (2025), Monarch Cove (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A daughter finds a journal her dad left behind, only to discover there was another woman in his life she knew nothing about. She sets out to find this woman and the reason her father never ended up with the woman he must have loved.
Style:
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Plot:
father daughter relationship, family drama, female protagonist, self discovery, memory, intimate, bittersweet, personal growth, small town, reconciliation, investigation, identity ...
Place:
mississippi
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After his mother's death, a man is reunited with his estranged, transgender parent as they journey to scatter her ashes off the Georgia coast.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
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Gracia and Paloma return to Las Sabinas to look after their father, Emilio. Gracia reunites with her childhood sweetheart, Miguel, who is now engaged to Esther. Paloma takes over the family's land and clashes with landowner Paca Utrera, who ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 50 min.
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It is possible to start over even after experiencing hell. An unexpected inheritance and a crime give an unjustly treated woman the opportunity to change her life.
Style:
emotional, suspense, intense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Monarch Cove is a prime time telenovela that premiered on Lifetime Television on November 4, 2006. It ran for 14 episodes, ending on December 16, 2006.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, dramatic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
starting over, destructive relationship, family problems, homecoming, infidelity, wrongfully committed, released from prison, resort, small town, getting home, family drama, wrongful conviction ...
Time:
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72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Juliet and her daughter Aparna live in Kerala, while Juliet’s husband Nandan works abroad. Nandan decides to move back to Kerala, and it changes the lives of the mom-daughter duo.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, melancholic, contemplative
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Angel Falls is a drama series that aired from August 26, 1993 to September 30, 1993. The premise of the series is Rae Dawn Snow and her teenage son moving back to her Montana hometown after the death of her father.
Style:
emotional
Plot:
small town, family drama, homecoming, getting home, adultery, infidelity, mother son relationship, affair, love triangle, intimate, grief, teen romance ...
Time:
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Place:
montana
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68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
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Style:
satirical, captivating, feel good, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
getting home, female protagonist, relationships, homecoming, satire, lifestyle, secret, escapades, small town, island, secrets, identity ...
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2010s
Place:
korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
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Style:
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Plot:
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65%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
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Story:
Pu Tao is a tough girl who grew up depending on no one. Her father left her family, then later her mother left at a boarding school while taking care of her autistic brother. After no contact for 17 years, her mother leaves her with two autistic ...
Style:
dramatic, thought provoking, serious, rough, emotional ...
Plot:
autism, female protagonist, family relations, estranged father, father daughter relationship, empathy, family drama, betrayal, parents and children, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, fight ...
Time:
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Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, serious, realistic, melancholic, offbeat
Plot:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
female protagonist, family secret, investigation, mother daughter relationship, troubled past, secret past, confronting the past, uncover truth, multiple storylines, tragic past, journey, road trip ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
family drama, single mother, resilience, search for father, financial difficulty, female protagonist, reconciliation, everyday life, healing, working class, intimate, betrayal ...
Place:
virginia
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
A woman finds the strength to escape her past for a new beginning. Two brothers reveil the gap that separates them. A quiet Aegean island hides a volcano of guilty secrets that is ready to erupt! Can a dark past lead to a bright future?
Style:
dramatic, captivating, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
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Place:
greece
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323
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
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Style:
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Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
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new york
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: Mexico
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Style:
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Audience:
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Country: Estonia
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Style:
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estonia
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, suspense, tension, realistic ...
Plot:
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Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
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378
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Country: Norway
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Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
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Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sentimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, family drama, absent father, family life, unknown father, estranged father, father, lifestyle, family problems, family relations, lifestyle change, homecoming ...
Time:
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Place:
south korea, korea, middle east
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Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
dramatic, emotional, realistic, melancholic, suspense
Plot:
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Country: New Zealand
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Anaís Mallory is a smart and savvy homicide investigator who after returning to her hometown, and taking the lead detective position, faces a series of startlingly complex murders with links to her family's tragic history.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
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Place:
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Country: Turkey
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TV show
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Style:
serious, crime drama, suspenseful, psychological, intense ...
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Similarity:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, crime drama ...
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Place:
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