Movies like Chrystal

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Chrystal (2004)
 6.5
 2K
Chrystal (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Man (played by: Billy Bob Thornton) is still in shock many years after a devistating accident takes the life of his only son and perminantly injures his wife. After all of these years the man finaly comes home to his still married wife (Played by: Lisa Blount)trying to redeem himself and work things out.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, starting over, homecoming, death in the family, addiction, family in crisis, grief, american south, missing child, family relations, parents and children, couples, family problems, rehabilitation, white trash, hopes, dealing with death, couple relations, sniper, psychic, female nudity, suicidal, car chase ...
Time: year 2004, contemporary

Most similar movies to Chrystal

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and touching films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family in crisis and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Chrystal: Morning (2010), Surrender, Dorothy (2005), Steel City (2006), Open Window (2006), Five Thirteen (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Morning (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark (Leland Orser) and ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, starting over, redemption, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, family in crisis, death in the family, death of child, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Surrender, Dorothy (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: family problems, homecoming, tragic love, dysfunctional family, best friend, couples, starting over, hopes, life is a bitch, single parent, orphan, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 6.3
 628
Steel City (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, ...
Style: emotional, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: police, family life, family relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, couple relations, introspection, youth, redemption, siblings relations ...
Place: usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.1
 1K
Open Window (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film
Plot: dysfunctional family, rape, introspection, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female nudity, family in crisis, vegetarian ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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 4.3
 725
Five Thirteen (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: starting over, going straight, hopes, family relations, parents and children, released from prison, father daughter relationship, false accusation, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, violent content, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Grief of Others (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, death in the family, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family crisis, mourning, reconciliation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.5
 897
Mainline (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 77 min.
Story: The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, gloomy
Plot: redemption, dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, family problems, rehabilitation, hopes, life is a bitch, addiction, drug abuse, parents and children, lovers apart ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, iran, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
A Long Way Home (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: psychiatrist, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, domestic disturbance, redemption, life is a bitch, family in crisis, hopes, parents and children, family problems, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 6.1
 6K
Stolen (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: loss of child, life is a bitch, dead child, missing child, haunted by the past, police detective, dealing with death, police investigation, interrogation, loss of son, uncover truth, children ...
Time: year 2009, 1950s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 7.1
 883
Offline (2012)
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: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot: haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, society, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, hopes, job seeking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The End of Innocence (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: nervous breakdown, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, rehabilitation center, addiction, power relations, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Adam: His Song Continues (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Follows the true story of John and Reve Walsh who, after their child was murdered, fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing children.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, emotional
Plot: child abuse, missing child, missing person, family problems, obsessive quest, dealing with death, society, kidnapping, death in the family, haunted by the past, child in peril
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Particles of Truth (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, mental illness, human nature, introspection, haunted by the past, family life, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.4
 695
Constellation (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: interracial relations, family relations, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, hopes, unfulfillment, society, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, interracial romance ...
Time: 1950s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Home Sweet Home (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The wife and son of an unemployed, foul-tempered man suffer under ever-worsening domestic violence. One day while his father is taking a nap, the young son decides to take matters into his own hands. In a panic, the wife and son both believe the man ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, realistic, psychological
Plot: domestic violence, abusive father, family relations, disability, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children, dysfunctional family, domestic disturbance, life is a bitch, couple relations, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.2
 214
Cost of a Soul (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: racism, murder, iraq war, urban ghetto, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, society, gang, war veteran, profanity, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.9
 410
Bereft (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style: touching, psychological, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: haunted by the past, parents and children, friendship, family problems, estrangement, family life, impossible love, couples, solace, life is a bitch, love and romance, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.7
 564
Cook County (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, parents and children, homecoming, drug abuse, methamphetamine, adolescence vs adulthood, small town ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 6.1
 189
The Repentant (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Algeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. In keeping with the law « of pardon and national harmony », he has to surrender to the ...
Style: serious, captivating, thought provoking, realistic
Plot: haunted by the past, terrorism, starting over, homecoming, society, hopes, parents and children, social relations, family relations, tragic past, village, loss of daughter ...
Time: 90s
Place: algeria, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.9
 334
Love Come Down (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: family relations, self discovery, interracial relations, drug abuse, addiction, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Night for Dying Tigers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The night before Jack (Gil Bellows) is slated to begin a five-year prison sentence for murder, his wife, Melanie (Jennifer Beals), and assorted siblings gather for a dinner to bid Jack farewell and good luck on his trip up the river. But the party ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couple relations, parents and children, conflict, rapist, couples, siblings relations, rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.3
 802
Emile (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: orphan, introspection, redemption, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, starting over, human nature, hopes, betrayal, elderly, family life ...
Place: canada, england, europe, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, unfulfillment, death in the family, small town, small town life, life turned upside down, family in crisis ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 6.4
 7K
Levity (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the paroled man attempts to find ...
Style: touching, emotional, melancholic, philosophical, psychological ...
Plot: murder, prison, friendship, robbery, justice, gang, going straight, haunted by the past, human nature, rehabilitation, ex convict, parole ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.1
 1K
The Wool Cap (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwilling guardian to a young girl with a bit of an attitude. The film is an updated and Americanized ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, spiritual ...
Plot: friendship, introspection, redemption, misfit, human nature, hopes, family life, custody, dysfunctional family, rehabilitation, addiction, elderly ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.7
 1K
Normal (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, erotic ...
Plot: stepmother stepson relationship, sex with stepmother, older woman younger man relationship, incest overtones, adultery, sex with stepson, female nudity, caught masturbating, incest, mother son incest, car accident, obsession ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.6
 263
Empire of Dirt (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Like many Native families, Lena Mahikan grew up in the cycle of abuse. Her father, a residential school survivor, was an alcoholic until he killed himself when Lena was 10. Her mother, only 14 years her senior, turned to the slots. By the time Lena ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, native american, youth, single parent, life is a bitch, danger, society, social misfits, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Reservation Road (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men (Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo) react in unexpected ways as a ...
Style: psychological, intense, suspenseful, bleak, emotional ...
Plot: investigation, obsession, dysfunctional family, lawyer, character study, family problems, losing-it hero, parents and children, death in the family, tragedy, vengeance, redemption ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.5
 347
Alpha Male (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.9
 766
Putty Hill (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Friends and family of Cory, a young man who has died of an overdose, gather at a Baltimore-area karaoke bar for his wake and compare stories about him. Gradually, as it becomes clear that there are many holes in their recollections about Cory, they ...
Style: sincere, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family problems, dysfunctional family, death in the family, drug abuse, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, social relations, estrangement, family in crisis, father daughter relationship, overdose ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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