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The Weeping Walk (2024)
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Original name: Waarom Wettelen
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, realistic, tension, tragic, nostalgic
Plot:
family secret, grief, family drama, mourning, funeral, mature, road trip, small town, flashback, regret, siblings, bittersweet, intimate, domestic drama, investigation, inheritance, healing, community, reconciliation, identity, slow burn, betrayal, ritual, family relations, death ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Weeping Walk
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, realistic and captivating films with plots about family drama, intimate, bittersweet, family secret, small town, grief and reconciliation mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres. Some movies like The Weeping Walk: The Good Half (2023), The House (2024), 3 Days with Dad (2019), Farewell My Darling (1996), A Picture of You (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After the death of their father, three siblings return to the family home where they grew up. They intend to sell it and follow their very different paths. But as memories surface in every corner, a fear of getting rid of the past and an impulse to ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, semi serious, thrilling ...
Plot:
family reunited, siblings, memories, family drama, mourning, family home, grief, family relations, lifestyle, relationships, domestic drama, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, light, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
family drama, parents and children, life, family problems, confronting the past, father son relationship, family relations, relationship problems, revelation, dealing with the past, relationships, guilty conscience ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When old Mr. Park dies, his first son Chan-Wu, a film director, and his troublesome daughter Mi-Seon hurriedly come back to their rural hometown, and third son Chan-Se comes back to Korea from America. As the quiet country village gets busy ...
Style:
melancholic, black comedy
Plot:
mourning, funeral, getting home, family drama, grief, siblings, small town life, domestic drama, everyday life, bittersweet, family secret, reconciliation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
korea
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Kyle and Jen, estranged siblings, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there, they make a discovery that turns their world upside-down. A Picture of You is a serious movie ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
bittersweet, siblings relations, family problems, family relations, estrangement, life turned upside down, dealing with death, death in the family, siblings, secrets, family drama, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A middle-aged former criminal has little time to live due to cancer, so he gets to see his son after 5 years to spend his last week with him and teach him the principles he considers important in life.
Style:
emotional, touching, melancholic, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
reconciliation, mortality, life lesson, father son relationship, family drama, bonding, fatherhood, redemption, bittersweet, cancer, regret, second chance ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Italy, France, Ireland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other: a reclusive father visited by his grown children in the US, sisters visiting their novelist mother in Dublin, and adult ...
Style:
emotional, tension, reflective, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
estrangement, siblings, family drama, family reunited, mature, mother daughter relationship, bonding, grief, regret, tragedy, introspection, homecoming ...
Place:
dublin ireland, paris france, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Following the death of his estranged father, Louis is left feeling he hasn't achieved as much as he had hoped for. A chance encounter with figures from his past triggers a set of events that shakes his perception of life.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
grief, coming of age, self discovery, mourning, loss, family drama, realism, male protagonist, bittersweet, chance meeting, intimate, memory ...
Similarity:
55%
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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:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After serving time in prison for his brother's crime, a man warily reunites with family, finding hope and healing in a life-changing bond with his niece.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, realistic, melancholic, suspense
Plot:
family drama, second chance, redemption, guilt, trauma, family secret, healing, uncle niece relationship, bittersweet, moral dilemma, intimate, forgiveness ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
30 years after the events of The Brothers McMullen, romantic entanglements plague a now fiftysomething Barry McMullen and his twentysomething kids, as well as his brother Patrick and widowed sister-in-law Molly, who are also facing similar ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, romantic comedy, romantic
Plot:
family drama, siblings, relationships, bittersweet, midlife crisis, intimate, brotherhood, slice of life, parenting, healing, reconciliation, loyalty ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anna discovers that has a brother that went to Canada because of the hunger on World War II
Style:
historical drama, emotional, dramatic, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
siblings, post war, family drama, lost child, identity, migration, family secret, grief, loss, empathy, intimate, poverty ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
canada, italy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Anna hasn’t seen her family for a decade. When her grandmother dies, she returns home to take care of her grandfather. In the week leading up to the funeral, nothing goes as expected, and Anna is forced to reconsider how she lives her life.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, realistic
Plot:
grief, grandfather, funeral, getting home, family conflict, family drama, loss, intimate, character study, small town, mourning, confrontation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
50%
194
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: South Korea, France, Canada, China
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to support her family and earn enough money to get her husband out of jail, a woman with an unusual crying style becomes a professional mourner.
Style:
melancholic, bleak, realistic, crying, tragic
Plot:
mourning, female protagonist, family drama, prison, grief, desperation, working class, survival, poverty, character study, ritual, social commentary ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
china
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American family unit, it's a deeply personal film about the human connections that bond us all together.
Style:
mumblecore, captivating, entertaining, light, emotional ...
Plot:
sisters, family relations, sister sister relationship, family drama, sister, grief, family reunited, interracial relations, identity, family secret, intimate, domestic drama ...
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
48%
378
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, family relations, grief, family problems, money problems, family business, problem, life is a bitch, satire, financial problem, realism ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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:
birthday party, ex husband, mother and daughter, family drama, three sisters, alcoholism, dysfunctional family, character study, family secret, intimate, bittersweet, small town ...
Similarity:
47%
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:
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three siblings find themselves in their childhood home. There is one thing the mother must say. These are the days before Christmas. There is also a girl, who finds herself living those days with them. It looks so familiar. There is an expectation ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
christmas, siblings, family secret, secret, family drama, childhood home, family reunited, brother sister relationship, family relations, problem, siblings relations, eccentric family ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man does everything in his power to keep ownership of a seaside cottage he built with his late wife.
Style:
satirical, captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
bereavement, mourning, loss, grief, satire, dysfunctional family, loss of wife, relationship problems, family problems, obsession, memory, character study ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A fractured family is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding.
Style:
emotional, semi serious, satirical, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
wedding, unrequited love, son, family drama, family relations, couple relations, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, parents and children, relationships, brother brother relationship, family problems, brothers ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A life shattering tragedy sends three people on vastly different paths to a similar goal of redemption and understanding.
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, dark ...
Plot:
redemption, loss, trauma, grief, guilt, multiple storylines, problem, life is a bitch, tragic event, tragedy, forgiveness, family drama ...
Similarity:
38%
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:
37%
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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:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After the death of her oldest sister, a 30 year old globe-trotting nature photographer is guilted onto a family trip to Cape Cod - along with the younger sister she used to torment. Amid recriminations, revelations, a very weird shopkeeper and an ...
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, emotional, sincere
Plot:
relationships, road trip, photograph, sibling rivalry, family drama, sisterhood, sister sister relationship, photographer, family problems, travel, photography, family relations ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
36%
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:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A daughter finds a journal her dad left behind, only to discover there was another woman in his life she knew nothing about. She sets out to find this woman and the reason her father never ended up with the woman he must have loved.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, melancholic, romantic drama, independent film
Plot:
father daughter relationship, family drama, female protagonist, self discovery, memory, intimate, bittersweet, personal growth, small town, reconciliation, investigation, identity ...
Place:
mississippi
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, satirical, disturbing ...
Plot:
manuscript, divorce, therapy, family problems, changing lives, broadway, lifestyle, lifestyle change, relationship problems, screenwriter, satire, marital problem ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Successful cartoonist Lisa and her siblings gather at their parents' farm for the first time in over ten years. The parents want only one of them to inherit the forest, which has been in the family's possessions for generations.
Style:
psychological, satirical, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family reunited, inheritance, siblings, family problems, family drama, relationships, family relations, satire, family life, siblings relations, eccentric family, brother sister relationship ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Eighty-year-old Tadeusz lives a quiet life as a pensioner with his wife Helena. After years of working in a hospital, he wants to enjoy old age and his charming house with a garden, where they soon plan to hold their beloved granddaughter’s ...
Style:
emotional, existential, melancholic, tragic
Plot:
old age, mortality, family drama, dignity, elderly man, father son relationship, trauma, grief, mourning, accident, retirement, intimate ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
33%
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