Movies like Sea Lights
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Sea Lights (2021)
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Original name: Meeresleuchten
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Thomas Wintersperger, a man who has to learn to deal with his grief, sees his loss as an opportunity to reorganize his life.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, reflective, atmospheric, realistic, nostalgic
Plot:
grief, family drama, bereavement, starting over, small town, resilience, memorial service, cathartic, intimate, friendship, harbor, provincial life, slow burn, narcissism
Time:
contemporary
Place:
east germany
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Most similar movies to Sea Lights
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and reflective films with plots about intimate, grief, small town, family drama, loss, slow burn and resilience mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Sea Lights: Shadow Kids (2007), Grief Share (2024), Pendulum Swings (2011), Downeast (2021), Committee Kurrollu (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
"Grief Share" centers around a diverse group of individuals who are brought together by their mutual desire to heal. Each member of the class has experienced a profound loss and each individual's story parallels the parables of Jesus.
Style:
emotional, inspirational, sincere, reflective, spiritual ...
Plot:
grief, faith healing, loss, healing, bereavement, support group, hopes, empathy, mourning, faith based, religious, community ...
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93%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
PENDULUM SWINGS follows a man into a dark place in his life - a place at which he arrives through a combination of bad decisions and forces beyond his control. When he finally hits bottom, he is presented with an opportunity to climb out of his ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, serious, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
compassion, redemption, empathy, second chance, character study, recovery, moral dilemma, morality, healing, resilience, self destructing, humanity ...
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84%
299
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dives into the often ignored seedy underbelly of Maine and it follows Emma Maddox as she returns to her hometown years following the mysterious death of her brother, Mikey. As she reconnects with his best friend Tommy, the two rekindle their flame ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
redemption, revenge, small town, problem, bereavement, life is a bitch, lie, getting home, investigation, betrayal, friendship, coastal town ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Go back in time and experience a roller coaster ride of emotions with the Committee Kurrollu.
Style:
tension, heartfelt, melancholic, reflective
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, village life, betrayal, small town, slice of life, intimate, families, moral dilemma, resilience, regret, reconciliation, coming of age ...
Similarity:
81%
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:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This is a heart-wrenching story about a happy-go-lucky 17 year-old boy with a passion for life and love. Under his free spirit are problems that he must deal with. His mother died, his alcoholic father is unapproachable, and ...the biggest problem ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, poignant, reflective, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, cancer, family drama, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, friendship, mortality, adolescence, bittersweet, tragedy, grief, coming of age ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After the death of his father, a teenage boy forms a healing friendship with a park ranger in the Yorkshire Dales.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, melancholic, pastoral, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
coming of age, teenage protagonist, park ranger, landscape, father son relationship, friendship, grief, family drama, healing, nature, resilience, companionship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
yorkshire
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
motherhood, domestic drama, character study, identity, female protagonist, gender roles, intimate, realism, family secret, trauma, friendship, intimacy ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
Style:
realistic, emotional, dark comedy, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
christmas, family drama, siblings, domestic drama, holiday, bittersweet, family reunited, terminal illness, life & death, grief, reconciliation, family secret ...
Similarity:
68%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
To please his dying daughter, a father tries to create the Durga Puja festival, usually held in October, during the month of April, in Kolkata.
Style:
emotional, poignant, tear jerker, melancholic, uplifting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terminal illness, family drama, compassion, sacrifice, hopes, celebration, religion, grief, bereavement, intimate, resilience, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Four Women, Four Dreams, Four Realities
Style:
realistic, independent film, emotional, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
self discovery, grief, friendship, loss, intimate, relationships, introspection, identity crisis, slice of life, party, mourning, slow burn ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
64%
833
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Style:
emotional, reflective, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
boxing, ex boxer, father daughter relationship, mortality, character study, als, terminal illness, redemption, illness, reconciliation, loss, bittersweet ...
Place:
germany, german democratic republic, east germany
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Three distanced, discordant brothers strive to put aside their differences as they reunite after decades at their ancestral home to give their dying mother a peaceful send off, but soon are at loggerheads as the house brings up painful memories of ...
Style:
emotional, serious, intense, realistic
Plot:
brothers, family drama, dying mother, sibling rivalry, bereavement, domestic drama, painful memories, estrangement, memory, grief, family secret, parent child relationship ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl grieving the horrific loss of her parents moves in with relatives, who try their best to welcome her into the family.
Style:
emotional, psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
mental health, uncle niece relationship, post traumatic stress disorder, ptsd, loss, grief, family drama, post traumatic stress, family life, loss of father, loss of mother, family problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, reflective, realistic ...
Plot:
relationships, elderly man, loneliness, retirement, family drama, bonding, aging, friendship, companionship, daughter, widower, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teenager struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered world in this emotional and bittersweet coming-of-age drama about those who are left behind.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, reflective, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, female protagonist, grief, sibling rivalry, loss, family drama, adolescence, self discovery, healing, mourning, identity, character study ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A whole year went by before musician Juliane Hansen was able to put her running shoes back on — a year after her partner, Johann König, took his own life. Although her friend Rieke offers all the support she can, Juliane feels lonely and ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, emotional, psychological, slow cinema ...
Plot:
grief, healing, mourning, recovery, suicide, loss, bereavement, loneliness, running, loss of partner, guilt, cello ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The men of a small town on the edge of nowhere mysteriously disappear, one by one, leaving women and children behind to fend for themselves in a desolate and dreamlike world.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal, poetic
Plot:
small town, abandonment, coming of age, family drama, adolescence, loss, isolation, desolation, mysterious disappearance, grief, motherhood, slow burn ...
Time:
future
Place:
california
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, existential ...
Plot:
grief, loss, character study, loneliness, identity, intimate, country house, memory, minimalism, friendship, impostor, gardener ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with ...
Style:
aesthetic, melancholic, emotional, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
disappearance, grief, loss, coming of age, family drama, loss of brother, dysfunctional family, twin brother, family problems, lifestyle, mysterious disappearance, memory ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, self discovery, teenage life, interracial relations, hopes, society, idealism, spoiled brat, quibbling, aging, death in the family ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
54%
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446
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Vanajan hails from a modest household and lives with his ailing father, wife and children. One day, he finds himself at a crossroads when his moneylender makes him an unusual offer.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, intense, tense
Plot:
loan shark, poverty, family drama, small town, empathy, moral dilemma, survival, working class, sacrifice, slice of life, desperation, intimate ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Slovenia, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, atmospheric, existential, art house ...
Plot:
silence, family drama, mother son relationship, isolation, introspection, intimate, strained relationship, misunderstanding, motherhood, communication, minimalism, slow burn ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Koen is a fatherless, eighteen year old boy who wants to free himself from the suffocating relationship with his mother. He struggels with the balance between independency and love. When he meets Colet, he tries to keep his distance, but she is both ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, teenager, coming of age, mother son relationship, independence, self discovery, search for father, family drama, young love, identity, absent father, intimate ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Milutin’s harmony of life collapses when his wife Magdalena experiences a car accident, defending her body of a one-year-old son who was entrusted with the care of Milutin. Magdalena remains immobile. Love between Milutin and Magdalena has always ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
love, parenthood, family bonds, family drama, disability, marriage, sacrifice, accident, motherhood, trauma, loyalty, intimate ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
51%
237
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A family of a father, a mother and their son is looking forward to go on vacation. On the way they experience an accident, and their lives are suddenly and unexpectedly turned upside down.
Style:
captivating, realistic, emotional, melancholic, heartfelt ...
Plot:
father son relationship, grief, family relations, mourning, family drama, bereavement, loss, lost love, loss of loved one, lifestyle change, drastic change of life, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, dramatic
Plot:
father daughter incest, incest, coming of age, family drama, friendship, identity, self discovery, teenage life, social worker, resilience, adaptation, rebellion ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, sentimental, dramatic ...
Plot:
aging, teenager, disease, mortality, family drama, coming of age, parent child relationship, hopes, grief, resilience, loss, intimate ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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