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Max Dagan (2024)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trying to get his dying father out of prison with a compassionate release, Max Dagan needs the help of the daughter of the man his father killed.
Style:
emotional, bleak, heartfelt, melancholic, tension
Plot:
prison, forgiveness, father son relationship, redemption, family drama, guilt, dying man, second chance, moral dilemma, reconciliation, family secret, grief, terminal illness, intimate, legal battle, small town, family secrets
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, realistic and independent film films with plots about family drama, small town, reconciliation, grief, intimate, forgiveness and family secret mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Max Dagan: All the Winters That Have Been (1997), Abandoned Man (2025), One More Chance (1981), Goodbye June (2025), Developing Sheldon (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
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 ...
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94%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jason, a Canadian Metis, who gets a visit from an American half-brother he didn't know he had. Harry says that their father is dying and needs a kidney. Jason could be the only one who can save the life of a man who ignored him for his entire ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, poignant, sincere ...
Plot:
identity, brotherhood, family drama, father son relationship, aborigine, intimate, forgiveness, moral dilemma, estranged father, half brother, reconciliation, confrontation ...
Place:
canada, usa
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An ex-convict, after spending six years in prison, tries to re-establish a relationship with the son he hasn't seen in all that time.
Style:
realistic, heartfelt, emotional, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
father son relationship, ex convict, family drama, second chance, redemption, reconciliation, estranged son, forgiveness, regret, male protagonist, parenting, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
83%
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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:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Sheldon's cancer has him navigating around his loving, but very dysfunctional family, providing comic relief as he follows his life's passion for photography. Left at the alter, he begins to realize that he's been in love with his ...
Style:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, cancer, love story, couples, love and romance, relationships, family relations, relationship problems, couple relations, male female relationship, love interest, eccentric family ...
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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:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After his mother's death, a man is reunited with his estranged, transgender parent as they journey to scatter her ashes off the Georgia coast.
Style:
melancholic, independent film
Plot:
parent child relationship, reconciliation, grief, family drama, loss of mother, road trip, acceptance, estrangement, forgiveness, empathy, identity, family secret ...
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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:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Peter King discovers that his father had audio recorded everything that happened in his childhood home. This comes as Pete and his family clean out the house before it is repossessed. With only five days left, he must reconcile with a past that has ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, independent film, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot:
father son relationship, religion, reconciliation, family drama, family secret, memory, loss of faith, grief, regret, intimate, small town, confession ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Behzad, who has been in prison for manslaughter for a long time, has a son who does not know about him. When he is introduced, the son goes through a conflict. Then, as a family, they go to the victim's family seeking consent so Reza would be ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, tension, contemplative
Plot:
prison, execution, family drama, parent child relationship, family conflict, forgiveness, moral dilemma, retribution, justice, humanism, bittersweet, empathy ...
Place:
iran, middle east
Similarity:
65%
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:
57%
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: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film describes the relationship between a father and his two motherless sons in Ireland, and how it changes when their aunt from London arrives.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, tension, melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
ireland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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394
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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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:
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Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A generous and stubborn elderly boxing coach gets along with everyone except his own son. They're reunited after the death of the old man's wife and forced to face old grievances.
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, existential, melancholic, tragic
Plot:
old age, mortality, family drama, dignity, elderly man, father son relationship, trauma, grief, mourning, accident, retirement, intimate ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Similarity:
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148
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
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Place:
maine
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40%
656
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Astrid is the wife of an acclaimed lawyer. Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their search for justice.
Style:
psychological, bleak, captivating, thrilling, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
tear jerker, melancholic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As he strives to make it on his own, Nick Ramsey has alienated his father by rejecting his upbringing and lifestyle. Now 25, Nick has been rejected by his girlfriend and vows to turn his life around.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Mitchell family deal with the devastating aftermath of an act of sexual abuse committed by a member of their own family who, after two years, is about to leave prison.
Style:
emotional, tense, intense
Plot:
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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