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How to Make Gravy (2024)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Prisoner Joe writes a letter to his brother Dan about wanting to be with family at Christmas, lamenting how he can't make the gravy for the roast and how much he misses everyone. Based on the iconic Australian song by Paul Kelly.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, poignant, sentimental
Plot:
christmas, longing, isolation, nostalgia, sibling relationship, intimate, remorse, adaptation, regret, imprisonment, character study, redemption, jail cell, homecoming, small town, voice over narration, male nudity, legend, holiday, letter writing, folk music, group shower, holiday season
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, independent film and reflective films with plots about intimate, small town, bittersweet, nostalgia, character study, regret and slice of life mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like How to Make Gravy: Where I Begin (2011), The Family Tree (2020), The Low Land (2025), The Space Between (2016), Something About Love (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Panama
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
An old Panamanian holiday tradition personified as a homeless man disrupts the life of a workaholic animal rescuer to show him the true meaning of love, friendship and family.
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, reflective, surreal ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, friendship, male pubic hair, nostalgia, lgbt, animal rescue, homelessness, gay, redemption, love, magic realism ...
Place:
panama
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Carmen, a well-known writer on her fifties, has returned a year ago to a farmhouse in the small town where she was born, in Bajo Aragón (Teruel, Spain). Her vital crisis is complicated when Eduardo, a film producer with whom she had a love affair ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric
Plot:
female protagonist, midlife crisis, nostalgia, homecoming, regret, getting home, memory, farmhouse, small town, remote village, intimate, screenwriter ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marco is a 35 year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father. Even when offered a job at a restaurant in Melbourne, he declines using his father as the excuse. When ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
relationships, parent child relationship, self discovery, grief, couple relations, father son relationship, male female relationship, relationship vs career, career change, chef, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, bleak, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
father son relationship, alzheimer's disease, family drama, small town, memory loss, character study, estranged son, getting home, regret, mortician, reconciliation, homecoming ...
Place:
nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, canada, los angeles
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Love can be timeless and boundless. Story revolves around a true love blossoming between 2 sweet adorable persons belonging from two different timelines (1983 and 2020), a HAM Radio acting as fate connecting them to fulfill their destiny.
Style:
heartfelt, romantic drama, emotional, period piece, sentimental ...
Plot:
communication, soul mate, heartwarming, longing, star crossed lovers, nostalgia, female protagonist, intimate, bittersweet, male protagonist, small town, love ...
Time:
80s, 2020s
Similarity:
68%
663
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Slovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An aged farmer moves to the urban city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery boy in the neighborhood and their connection changes the course of both their lives and the boy's family.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, heartfelt, emotional, reflective
Plot:
loneliness, empathy, intergenerational friendship, solitude, bonding, introspection, slice of life, urban, fish out of water, isolation, intimate, minimalism ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
small town, redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, family relations, lifestyle, hopes, homecoming, parents and children, going straight, social relations, male protagonist ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
idaho, america, usa
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Anand, in the travel back to his home to reunite with his friends , looks back at his life in 8 chapters, trying to find an answer to the question of “What’s happiness / Am I happy?
Style:
poignant, contemplative, emotional, melancholic, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, introspection, slice of life, self discovery, personal growth, road trip, getting home, homecoming, nostalgia, bittersweet, flashback, acceptance ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dylan Derringer, a lonely dentist in Florida, is confronted by a figure from the past bringing news that sends him on an eventful and ultimately life-altering journey of discovery.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, loneliness, character study, personal growth, relationships, haunted by the past, changing lives, relationship problems, lifestyle, male female relationship, lifestyle change, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
florida
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she wanders from room to room, she gropes her way through memories and ...
Style:
family saga, melancholic, contemplative, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
memory, family drama, inheritance, family secret, grief, mourning, nostalgia, flashback, house, homecoming, literary, adaptation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
northern germany
Similarity:
54%
113
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but when she is unexpectedly confronted with romantic love, old wounds are opened.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, art house, contemplative
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, longing, introspection, city life, urban, bittersweet, loneliness, desire, self discovery, confrontation, realism ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
54%
100
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Joža was wounded in combat during the events of the Croatian War of Independance and now works as a taxi driver in Zagreb, encountering various clients, all of which help him to cope with his past, and reveal to him what it truly means to be human.
Style:
emotional, reflective, poignant, melancholic, anthology
Plot:
taxi driver, loneliness, humanity, war veteran, wounded soldier, empathy, intimate, slice of life, character study, passenger, healing, identity ...
Place:
croatia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Kalin (35) is a talented advertising specialist, weary of life. Bilyana (35) is a free spirit, still uncertain of what she wants. They grew up in Socialist Bulgaria, where they were part of a mad group of friends, for whom every day was a different ...
Style:
romantic drama, reflective, melancholic, sentimental, period piece ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, bittersweet, memory, character study, second chance, nostalgia, regret, slice of life, intimate, destiny, city life, reunion
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A married couple review their lives and renew their love for one another while driving to a friend's funeral.
Style:
realistic, emotional, road movie, melancholic
Plot:
reconciliation, married couple, funeral, road trip, introspection, character study, intimate, reflection, communication, soul searching, memories, nostalgia ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
142
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Plot The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out ...
Style:
heartfelt, tear jerker, emotional, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
dog, animal, friendship, companionship, nature, bittersweet, wildlife, heartwarming, loneliness, slice of life, outback, farm ...
Time:
year 1983
Place:
australia
Similarity:
47%
394
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, bleak
Plot:
unemployment, family drama, alcoholism, father son relationship, poverty, character study, intimate, social realism, parenting, working class, empathy, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him again because he had arrested her brother, who he had been investigating. Dane is now determined to win ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, reflective, wistful
Plot:
second chance, secret, longing, intimate, forgiveness, reconciliation, small town, guilt, betrayal, family conflict, redemption, nostalgia ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Harkening back to the apartment movies of the 1970s, "Footnotes" is the story of neighbors and near total strangers, Will and Apurna. When they begin spending lock-down together in the wake of the 2020 pandemic, what starts as a platonic ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
longing, isolation, quarantine, intimate, character study, neighbor, relationships, social relations, romantic relationship, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Anna has lost her memory but she hasn’t forgotten how to cook. One night she shows up in a working-class neighborhood. There she meets Roula and gets a job as a cook and a place to stay at his shabby seaside tavern. In the kitchen, amidst the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
cooking, amnesia, female protagonist, food, identity, memory loss, character study, seaside, community, everyday life, friendship, working class ...
Place:
greece, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Jane fails her final college class, she returns home to her parent's lake house where she comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, lake, trauma, getting home, life is a bitch, character study, coming of age, self discovery, healing, mental health, intimate, acceptance ...
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
One of his earlier pieces, Don Coscarelli (of Phantasm Phame) has a knack for seeing the world through the eyes and heart of a young boy. He offers a Peter Pan-esque adventure to men from the boomers to present day, with each generation being ...
Style:
independent film, emotional, reflective, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
grownups, boyhood, nostalgia, coming of age, imagination, innocence, friendship, small town, bittersweet, family drama, personal growth, escape ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
39%
79
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
existential, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
grief, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, character study, search for father, alienation, minimalism, intimate, regret, male protagonist, urban ...
Similarity:
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376
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, art house
Plot:
domestic drama, family drama, relationships, character study, children, isolation, alienation, summer vacation, family secret, intimate, repression, bittersweet ...
Place:
east germany
Similarity:
36%
485
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Magnus, a handsome teenager, wants to commit suicide and his father tries to change his mind.
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, father son relationship, coming of age, family drama, intimate, mental illness, redemption, bittersweet, healing, dark humor, alienation, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
36%
294
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
gambling addiction, redemption, working class, gambler, second chance, lifestyle change, athlete's life, social issues, gambling, changing lives, problem, social problems ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Little Seung-jae stays up all night and writes letters to So-hee, pretending to be her father in Mars. Leaving Seung-jae's innocent heart behind, So-hee leaves for a big city. Both grown up to be adults, Seung-jae is a postman who writes ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, romantic drama, sentimental
Plot:
unrequited love, longing, postman, memory, coming of age, heartbreak, lost love, bittersweet, nostalgia, innocence, regret, small town ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Azerbaijan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the film follows a prodigal son who returns after 12 years. His reappearance at the family home in rural Azerbaijan significantly alters their way of life.
Style:
art house, melancholic, slow cinema, contemplative
Plot:
family drama, homecoming, character study, memory, regret, nostalgia, family conflict, prodigal son, symbolism, inheritance, bittersweet, small town life ...
Place:
azerbaijan, iran
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
The Christmas Wife is a made-for-cable television drama based on a story by Helen Norris. An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We make ...
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, romantic drama, reflective, sentimental ...
Plot:
christmas, widower, loneliness, christmas eve, companionship, grief, melancholy, aging, bittersweet, character study, intimate, secret past ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
A melodic, emotional exploration of one family falling apart in a sleepy Midwestern city, The Branches follows Claire (Kelly Brumbach) as she attempts to reconnect with the hometown life she left behind.
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
Place:
ohio, midwest
Similarity:
34%
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