Movies like Christina
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Christina (2010)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story about a young German woman prepares to leave her war-ravaged city to begin a new life in America with her G.I. fiance. But standing between her and a hopeful future is a relentless police inspector, determined to prevent her from escaping her past. He pushes her to face the truth about a child, whose secret the woman has kept all this time. Before she can leave for her new life, she will be forced to confront the past she has been trying to leave behind.
Style:
emotional, tense, realistic, serious, bleak, historical drama, melancholic, dramatic, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
hidden identity, haunted by the past, love and romance, starting over, dishonesty, hopes, uncover truth, post war, escape, female protagonist, investigation, emigration, interrogation, shame, survivor, moral dilemma, police inspector, guilt, identity, child custody, confrontation, betrayal, redemption, forced confession, girl ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century, 40s
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Most similar movies to Christina
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, emotional, serious and tense films with plots about guilt, redemption, small town, investigation, moral dilemma, revenge and haunted by the past mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Christina: Archaeology of a Woman (2012), Shadow Kids (2007), Breaking the Silence (1992), All About Araya (2022), Her Second Chance (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A mother's dementia reignites a past of crime and lust, forcing her daughter to make difficult decisions.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
aging, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mentally unstable, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, love affair, love and romance, elderly, family drama, dementia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic health problems. When ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
manipulation, mother daughter relationship, family drama, investigation, grief, tragedy, family secret, suspicion, obsession, guilt, moral dilemma, intimate ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Defending a teen charged with patricide drudges up dark memories for a lawyer.
Style:
dramatic, dark, serious, emotional, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
patricide, trauma, child abuse, murder, courtroom, shame, guilt, ethical dilemma, defense attorney, family secret, character study, secrets ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
With the odds already not in her favor, Araya tells her side of the story while being interrogated for possibly killing the man who was responsible for her father's death.
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, psychological, dramatic ...
Plot:
interrogation, investigation, moral ambiguity, female protagonist, suspect, character study, murder, revenge, accusation, claustrophobia, guilt, police procedural ...
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After many years in jail, Sonjas returns to her home village where she takes up her fight for custody of her 8-year old son Tim. But neither the authorities, nor her in-laws, nor Tims foster parents will ever consider handing over little Tim to ...
Style:
emotional, intense, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
redemption, second chance, mother son relationship, motherhood, child custody, family drama, family secret, forgiveness, branding iron, legal battle, guilt, reconciliation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
74%
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:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary police officers were called to duty to face the formidable Mount Erebus. As the police recovered the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, disaster, survival, uncover truth, dishonesty, escapades, heroic mission, danger, aviation, forces of nature, air disaster, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, new zealand
Similarity:
67%
593
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style:
touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, small town, introspection, true love, haunted by the past, starting over, couples, couple relations, love and romance, leaving home, hopes, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
south korea, asia
Similarity:
66%
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121
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two brothers are forced to confront a terrible crime that was hidden in their past.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, rough, serious, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, false accusation, haunted by the past, murder, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal, injustice, life is a bitch, family relations, dedicated lawyer, clergy ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The lives of a Hollywood actress battling drug addiction, a teen with a violent past, a teacher fighting to keep a dream alive, and a cop caught in a love triangle are brought together by fate.
Style:
realistic, serious, independent film, tense, touching ...
Plot:
addiction, redemption, hopes, love triangle, haunted by the past, dedicated educator, youth, hollywood, rehabilitation, trauma, celebrity, recovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
Style:
serious, dramatic, emotional, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
domestic abuse, female protagonist, survivor, prison life, wrongful imprisonment, psychological trauma, legal battle, biopic, courtroom, escape, survival, female empowerment ...
Similarity:
59%
123
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Catholic priest, Father Anthony Romano (Nick Chinlund), intervenes with the police when his colleague attacks a drifter named Lil (Georgina Cates). When Anthony reluctantly provides her asylum in his rectory, the brash hustler soon discovers a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
false accusation, prostitute, celibacy, haunted by the past, redemption, lifestyle, clergy, moral dilemma, hopes, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
57%
521
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
New York City teenager Jo (Ana Villafañe) witnesses the gruesome murder of both her parents and is sent to rural Montana as part of the Witness Protection Program. On top of having no cell phone, email or any contact with her past life, plus hiding ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
murder, riddles and clues, hidden identity, witnessing a crime, teenage life, youth, starting over, good versus evil, countryside, hitman, haunted by the past, witness protection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, montana
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A few days before she travels to Mecca to perform Hajj, Ghada faces an emergency which forces her to reach out to people from her tainted past with whom she had cut off contact in order to collect a large sum of money. So, as she collects the money, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
female protagonist, moral dilemma, forgiveness, redemption, reconciliation, moral ambiguity, family drama, guilt, identity, urban
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, rise to the top, ambition, idealism, dishonesty, society, obsession, rivalry, family relations, love, ecological disaster, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A father with a dangerous secret searching for his daughter.
Style:
emotional, realistic, political, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
secrets, redemption, guilt, loss, grief, identity, occupation, honor, betrayal, revenge, claustrophobia, israeli army ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
palestine, israel, middle east, jerusalem
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:
21st century
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the late 70s, young Petra Grust begins teaching at the progressive Odenwald School. She is flattered by the trust placed in her by its widely respected headmaster Simon Pistorius. But gradually certain incidents at the boarding school begin to ...
Style:
dark, bleak, tense, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
child abuse, boarding school, suicide attempt, childhood trauma, trauma, child sexual abuse, whistleblower, betrayal, haunting, moral dilemma, gay, guilt ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
INDISCRETION Drama/Suspense USA. 85 min. 2006 A harrowing morality tale of past sins exposed and old wounds reopened. Two brothers have conflict over their abusive father, interconnects with a 12-year-old's fate that hinges on a prayer and a ...
Style:
emotional, suspenseful, psychological, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
child abuse, priest, girl, loss of son, car accident, physical abuse, letter, innocence lost, domestic violence, trauma, moral dilemma, grief ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A female is harassed and takes the case to court.
Style:
emotional, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sexual harassment, female protagonist, stalking, office politics, social justice, confrontation, character study, moral dilemma, stalker, investigation, trial, courtroom ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
One day, Sedat, who works as a prison guard in Konya, is given the duty to take one of the prisoners, Musa, to his hometown. Musa does not intend to return until he finds out why his daughter was killed.
Style:
psychological, emotional, dramatic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
prison guard, investigation, prisoner, liar, lie, uncover truth, life is a bitch, hidden truth, loss, tragedy, father daughter relationship, getting home ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The aging Eszter clarify outstanding relationship.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, love and romance, life turned upside down, hopes, society, estrangement, destiny, misfit, estate, female protagonist, lost love, heartbreak ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
hungary, central europe, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen
Style:
bleak, tense, art house, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
secrets, family drama, character study, lie, betrayal, literary, moral dilemma, illegitimacy, adaptation, trust, guilt, loss ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
48%
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134
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ten years after the death of a close friend, a group of Yale graduates who formed a secret society to make the world a better place reunite, only to discover how far from their ambitious, selfless goals they have strayed. Brett Cullen, Jessica Hecht ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, melancholic, tense
Plot:
friendship, college, introspection, human nature, friends, last wish, haunted by the past, character study, grief, mourning, secrets, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, grim, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, greek island, guilt, moral ambiguity, redemption, literary, remote island, moral dilemma, religion, survival, isolation, widow ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Story of a newly married professor who suffers his whole life for having an affair with his student.
Style:
serious, tense, emotional, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
professor, abuse of power, marriage, student, infidelity, teacher student relationship, affair, adultery, relationships, moral dilemma, betrayal, scandal ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S. Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. Ibrahim lands in New York City the day before 9/11…and the events of the September ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot:
hopes, starting over, immigrant, society, 9/11, urban, immigration, rivalry, xenophobia, green card, perseverance, identity crisis ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate New York to interview the subjects for his latest project. But a chance encounter with a ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, tense, detective ...
Plot:
train, witnessing a crime, investigation, twists and turns, disappearance, adultery, murder, mystery woman, obsession, chance meeting, identity crisis, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
True story about a rape victim who took a stand that rape is never the victim's fault and inspired many other victims who felt shame about what had happened to them to speak out.
Style:
emotional, serious, inspirational, bleak, educational ...
Plot:
sexual assault, female protagonist, courage, biopic, resilience, strength, courtroom drama, traumatic memory, activism, social justice, legal battle, abusive husband ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
A troubled young man battles his inner demons as he seeks redemption and a second chance in his life.
Style:
reflective, emotional, realistic, serious, melancholic ...
Plot:
redemption, second chance, self discovery, personal growth, soul searching, regret, coming of age, trauma, moral dilemma, loss, isolation, identity ...
Similarity:
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