Movies like Anemone

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Anemone (2025)
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Anemone (2025)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Middle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship—one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier.
Style: emotional, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, contemplative, crying, moody, f word
Plot: father son relationship, brother brother relationship, brothers, family drama, reconciliation, brotherhood, recluse, estrangement, siblings, journey, memory, isolation, healing, family secret, secrets, regret, empathy, intimate, slow burn, male nudity, bare chested male, redemption, small town, guts, woods ...
Place: northern england, ireland

Most similar movies to Anemone

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, independent film and realistic films with plots about family drama, small town, intimate, reconciliation, grief, father son relationship and family secret mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Anemone: The Thing with Feathers (2025), Bright Nights (2017), A Father's Legacy (2020), Where I Begin (2011), Between The Walls (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Thing with Feathers (2025)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a tragic loss, a grieving father tries to raise his young sons whilst dealing with an unlikely, unpredictable, and uninvited houseguest.
Style: emotional, poignant, melancholic, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot: father son relationship, coping, bereavement, loss, family drama, mourning, brotherhood, healing, magic realism, symbolism, trauma, intimate ...
Place: united kingdom
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Bright Nights (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot: father son relationship, road trip, estrangement, coming of age, reconciliation, family drama, father son estrangement, estranged father, family problems, absent father, estranged son, journey ...
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A Father's Legacy (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been ...
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot: father son relationship, hostage, father, family secret, estranged father, family relations, change of luck, family problems, parents and children, search for father, fatherhood, character study ...
Time: 2020s
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Where I Begin (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A decade after a tragic event, Jacob decides to return home to his small southern roots, only to find that the past is not really the past and that people may change but they never forget. Can you ever really go home?
Style: melancholic, emotional, southern gothic, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot: regret, secrets, loss, character study, getting home, guilt, bittersweet, family secret, family conflict, longing, forgiveness, redemption ...
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Between The Walls (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Peter King discovers that his father had audio recorded everything that happened in his childhood home. This comes as Pete and his family clean out the house before it is repossessed. With only five days left, he must reconcile with a past that has ...
Style: emotional, realistic, independent film, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot: father son relationship, religion, reconciliation, family drama, family secret, memory, loss of faith, grief, regret, intimate, small town, confession ...
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Country (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film describes the relationship between a father and his two motherless sons in Ireland, and how it changes when their aunt from London arrives.
Style: emotional, atmospheric, tension, melancholic
Plot: father son relationship, family drama, family bonds, brothers, realism, loss, grief, small town, healing, family secret, slice of life, reconciliation ...
Place: ireland
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I'm Beginning To See the Light (2025)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style: emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot: lighthouse, grief, suicide, seaside, empathy, loneliness, trumpet player, salvation, healing, intimate, mourning, redemption ...
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A Perfect Day for Caribou (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, dramatic, serious, harsh ...
Plot: father son relationship, son, father, father and son, cemetery, character study, estrangement, family drama, family relations, alienation, parents and children, estranged son ...
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A Picture of You (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Kyle and Jen, estranged siblings, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there, they make a discovery that turns their world upside-down. A Picture of You is a serious movie ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: bittersweet, siblings relations, family problems, family relations, estrangement, life turned upside down, dealing with death, death in the family, siblings, secrets, family drama, loss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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Max Dagan (2024)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Trying to get his dying father out of prison with a compassionate release, Max Dagan needs the help of the daughter of the man his father killed.
Style: emotional, heartfelt, bleak, melancholic, tension
Plot: redemption, forgiveness, father son relationship, family drama, prison, guilt, moral dilemma, second chance, dying man, reconciliation, grief, family secret ...
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My Country (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the ...
Style: emotional, poignant, reflective, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: love, reconciliation, family bonds, family drama, family reunited, brothers, domestic drama, brotherhood, forgiveness, father son relationship, homecoming, redemption ...
Place: brazil, italy
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In Your Wake (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An estranged father returns with plans to open a bar with the son who still harbors resentment towards him.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: father son relationship, parents and children, criminal heroes, vengeance, heist, heist gone wrong, family relations, money problems, resentment, family drama, reconciliation, regret ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Paris, Texas (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style: road movie, touching, surreal, atmospheric, lyrical ...
Plot: amnesia, father son relationship, desert, redemption, on the road, road trip, relationships, memory, melancholy, motel, reconciliation, drifter ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place: texas, los angeles, houston texas, california, america ...
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Landlocked (2021)
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: melancholic, independent film
Plot: parent child relationship, reconciliation, grief, family drama, loss of mother, road trip, acceptance, estrangement, forgiveness, empathy, identity, family secret ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Broken Roads is a contrasted portrait of life, dealing with loss, a journey of rediscovery & the hills climbed which forever change us.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: small town, estrangement, teenage life, small town life, youth, family tragedy, loss, coming of age, grandmother grandson relationship, grief, accident, car crash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colorado
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
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Style: emotional, melancholic, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: family drama, hometown, family conflict, intimate, estrangement, getting home, character study, relationships, small town, introspection, homecoming, grief ...
Time: 2010s
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: emotional, intense, tense, realistic, psychological
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, black, car crash, friendship, trauma, tragedy, secrets, regret, grief, healing, reconciliation, redemption ...
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Style: reflective, contemplative, emotional, melancholic, period piece ...
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Country: USA
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Style: tragic ending, intense, tense, psychological horror, suspense ...
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Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, reflective, realistic ...
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Style: contemplative, reflective, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
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Style: melancholic, emotional, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
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Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
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Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, reflective ...
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