Movies like Daughters
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Daughters (2021)
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Original name: Töchter
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy, Greece
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only faked his death wish in order to see the great love of his life again on Lake Maggiore, Betty mourns her stepfather Ernesto, who supposedly died years ago.
Style:
road movie, melancholic, reflective, dark comedy
Plot:
road trip, female friendship, grief, bittersweet, character study, family secret, escape, deception, reconciliation, father daughter relationship, female best friends, waiter, daughter, death of father, gas station, father daughter conflict, singing in a car, cigarette smoking, beer drinking, barefoot woman, drunk driving, reading a letter aloud, suicide note, german abroad, family secrets
Place:
italy, germany, greece
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Most similar movies to Daughters
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, road movie, emotional and realistic films with plots about bittersweet, road trip, reconciliation, slice of life, family secret, character study and grief mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Daughters: Orange Mittai (2015), Suck It Up (2017), Finding Camille (2017), As Green As It Gets (2018), The Breakup Girl (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The journey of an old man and an EMT specialist in an ambulance becomes unexpectedly meaningful for both of them.
Style:
road movie, existential, emotional, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
character study, road trip, mortality, father son relationship, grief, aging, life & death, ambulance, reconciliation, redemption, bittersweet, slice of life ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ronnie lost her brother, Faye lost her first love. These two best friends take off on a debaucherous road trip to the mountains to get over the death of the guy they both loved.
Style:
psychological, funny, touching, emotional, road movie ...
Plot:
road trip, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, loss, grief, mourning, female friendship, alcohol abuse, bereavement, drug, entertainment, female protagonist, new job ...
Place:
british columbia
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When dutiful and loyal Camille decides to go on a road trip down memory lane with her Alzheimer's suffering father, she must learn to let her father go or risk losing her own chance at a life and happiness.
Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, independent film, road movie ...
Plot:
family drama, memory loss, father daughter relationship, road trip, aging, bonding, nostalgia, bittersweet, loss, intimate, heartwarming, reconciliation ...
Place:
bosnia, switzerland, italy
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like to talk much. He never has. His marriage has long lost all its magic and on top of ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, sincere, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
gardener, self discovery, father daughter relationship, love, husband wife relationship, financial problem, flying, midlife crisis, escape, character study, bankruptcy, small town ...
Place:
bavaria, germany
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three estranged sisters deal with the death of their father.
Style:
tragicomedy, realistic
Plot:
grief, death of father, family drama, sisters, sibling rivalry, breakup, self discovery, reconciliation, personal growth, bittersweet, character study, motherhood ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, independent film, dark comedy
Plot:
grief, family drama, family relations, healing, reconciliation, mourning, mother son relationship, bereavement, memory, funeral, personal growth, bittersweet ...
Place:
cleveland ohio
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple of jovial life-long drunkards run into a shy architecture undergrad, whose way of seeing things will be transformed as the trio wanders from pub to pub in search of a buried treasure.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, road movie, melancholic, existential
Plot:
character study, midlife crisis, male bonding, intimate, bittersweet, nostalgia, slice of life, intergenerational friendship, friendship between men, friendship
Place:
italy
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Love and loss are closely linked in MY SON, an emotional drama about a teenager and his mother who go on a journey together after nearly having lost one another.
Style:
road movie, realistic, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
switzerland, germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Kolya and Vasylii learn that their father, who left them when they were children, is dying in Luxembourg, far away from them. One of them wants to go and find his father, while the other one does everything he can to prevent the first from leaving ...
Style:
emotional, road movie, melancholic, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
brotherhood, search for father, sibling rivalry, reconciliation, journey, european, bittersweet, confrontation, identity, self discovery, regret, family secret ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
58%
285
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A man embarks on a trip with his estranged cousin Hudson to spread his late mother's ashes. They meet an unusual woman along the way and their simple road trip turns into a dysfunctional adventure.
Style:
road movie, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
grief, road trip, changing lives, lifestyle change, journey, satire, second chance, recluse, friendship, empathy, bittersweet, intimate ...
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58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Faroe Islands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Recalling the works of Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders, this Danish road movie concerns a pair of women, Rannva and Barba, who return after a seven-year absence to their native Faroes Islands, a self-governing province of Denmark near Iceland. Dressed ...
Style:
road movie, black comedy, tragicomedy, independent film
Plot:
road trip, fisherman, self discovery, getting home, female friendship, identity, melancholy, culture clash, hypocrisy, family secret, nostalgia, outsider ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ola sets off to Ireland to bring her father's body back to Poland after he dies in a building site accident. But never mind her dad, Ola wants to know if he had saved money for the car he had promised her. Dealing with foreign bureaucracy in ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, satirical, emotional ...
Plot:
personal growth, father daughter relationship, self discovery, coming of age, loss, family relations, lifestyle, relationships, family reunited, female protagonist, satire, intimate ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
poland, ireland
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It is Dr. Borlai's job to tell the patients that they just have a few days left. But one day his colleauge tells him this story. So the sample husband the best father and doctor comes up with a devilish plan. To ruin every relationship that he ...
Style:
dark comedy, existential, emotional, psychological, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
relationships, mortality, death, terminal illness, ethical dilemma, character study, bittersweet, loss, deception, grief, marriage, acceptance ...
Time:
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Similarity:
56%
821
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Although he's now eighty years old, Claude Lherminier is still as imposing as he ever was. But his bouts of forgetfulness and confusion are becoming increasingly frequent. Even so, he stubbornly refuses to admit that anything is wrong. Carole, ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, melancholic, comedy drama, existential ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, elderly man, aging, family drama, character study, memory loss, bittersweet, stubbornness, nostalgia, reflection, dementia, slice of life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Claire and Maurice have to take the whole family to Claire's father's funeral. This tightly knit family is not only composed of Claire's vegetarian son, Alex, who's secretly fond of Maurice's daughter, Lucie, the teenage ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing ...
Plot:
road trip, satire, funeral, kids and family, parents and children, family drama, dysfunctional family, inheritance, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, social satire ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, melancholic, cult classic, independent film
Plot:
friendship, small town, nostalgia, character study, memory, loss, grief, bittersweet, intimate, slice of life, road trip, coming of age ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, rhode island
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52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man is tasked with driving his embittered 80-year-old father-in-law cross country to be legally euthanized in Oregon, while along the way helping him rediscover a reason for living.
Style:
road movie, sincere, psychological, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
oregon
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
prejudice, xenophobia, ethnicity, identity crisis, social issues, satire, dysfunctional family, social problems, language barrier, immigration, working class, intimate ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a ...
Style:
road movie, semi serious, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, self discovery, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, bittersweet, parent child relationship, family drama, love, reconciliation, midlife crisis ...
Time:
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15K
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, entertaining, captivating, humorous, comedy drama ...
Plot:
brothers, travel, family reunited, journey, road accident, brother brother relationship, family relations, road trip, culture clash, cultural difference, sibling rivalry, character study ...
Place:
turkey, germany
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The death of Christine and the choice to bury her in Acanda lead to the unraveling of unexpected family secrets on the journey to her final resting place.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, suspense, tension, realistic ...
Plot:
mourning, family secret, grief, family drama, funeral, mature, flashback, road trip, intimate, regret, siblings, small town ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, Hungary, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
Plot:
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Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, comedy drama, road movie, melancholic, uplifting ...
Plot:
loneliness, road trip, aging, male bonding, second chance, intergenerational friendship, self discovery, bittersweet, humanism, empathy, character study, hitchhiking ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mirko and Genziano are two 35-year-old brothers who have not seen each other since their mother died in a freak accident in which they were involved—eighteen years ago. Since then, Genziano left to live in the UK and now is a stockbroker; Mirko ...
Style:
road movie, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
road trip, brothers, brother brother relationship, family problems, journey, sibling rivalry, reconciliation, family drama, life is a bitch, travel, relationship problems, male female relationship ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three different sisters, Iris, Anne and Marianne, get together to celebrate the birthday of their alcoholic mother Silvia.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, dark comedy, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
42%
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Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
journey, road trip, dementia, aging, elderly couple, marriage, memory, tenderness, bittersweet, nostalgia, long term relationship, companionship ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
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Country: Serbia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, melancholic, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, psychological, semi serious, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
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