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A Delicate Balance (1973)
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A Delicate Balance (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the quartet maintain a delicate balance in their lives, held together by habit, shared memories, and considerable consumption of dry martinis.
Style: independent film, psychological, tense, clever, serious, realistic, talky, crying
Plot: dysfunctional family, friendship, family relations, alcohol abuse, parents and children, destiny, family life, midlife crisis, best friend, couples, society, family problems, uninvited guest, suburbs, elderly, introspection, lifestyle, family in crisis, suburban life, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, couple relations, family gatherings, alcoholic, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, connecticut

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and independent film films with plots about family problems, unfulfillment, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Delicate Balance: A Doll's House (1973), Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965), All You Need (2001), Blame It on Mum (2009), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Doll's House (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his ...
Style: talky, serious, psychological, realistic, clever ...
Plot: couples, working class, social differences, introspection, family problems, gender, society, human nature, unfulfillment, loneliness, stage play, women ...
Time: 19th century
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100%
Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Henry Thomas is out on parole in a small Texan town and, in the evenings, he is the lead singer in a band. He is being pressured by his foster mother to give up his singing and go back to school. His wife, Georgette, and young daughter unexpectedly ...
Style: retro, black and white, esoteric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: homecoming, parole, convict, singer, small town, marriage, little girl, dead wife, jail, father daughter relationship, secret, fight ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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100%
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All You Need (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, emotional, touching, talky
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, family life, family gatherings, human nature, couple relations, society ...
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51%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style: tense, talky, depressing, realistic, serious ...
Plot: addiction, dysfunctional family, alcoholism, drug addiction, redemption, family life, actor, alcohol abuse, actor's life, lifestyle, human nature, morphine ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s, 1910s, year 1912
Place: connecticut
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46%
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Style: talky, tense, sincere, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: estate, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, plantation, frigidity, alcoholic, male homosexuality, estrangement, sexual dysfunction, family relations, family problems, couples ...
Place: usa, new orleans, mississippi
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43%
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Wild Iris (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: parents and children, dysfunctional family, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, introspection, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Coast to Coast (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Contemporary story of a couple whose marriage has gone astray, partly due to the infidelity of both partners and also the fact that their eldest son was killed in a car accident 8 years before.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: road trip, family problems, human nature, introspection, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, elderly, crumbling marriage, hopes, on the road, moving, married couple ...
Place: connecticut, minneapolis minnesota, los angeles, california, usa
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42%
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The Slap (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: A family drama that explodes from one small incident where a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child. This seemingly minor domestic dispute pulls the family apart, exposes long-held secrets, and ignites a lawsuit that challenges the core ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
Plot: couples, family problems, friendship, infidelity, suburbs, parents and children, society, courtroom, friends, dishonesty, family in crisis, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Open Window (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film
Plot: dysfunctional family, rape, introspection, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female nudity, family in crisis, vegetarian ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Butterfly Kiss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, society, couples, introspection, suburbs, suburban life, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Curse of the Starving Class (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left ...
Style: gloomy, independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: poverty, farm, alcoholic, family relations, coming of age, social misfits, society, hopes, life is a bitch, couple relations, human nature, unfulfillment ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Turning (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Noe he's returned to ...
Style: erotic, independent film, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: making love, sex scene, infidelity, alcoholic mother, neo nazism, couples, family problems, psychopath, family relations, society, life is a bitch, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: virginia, west virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Cooler Climate (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, female bonding, master and servant, human nature, crumbling marriage, couple relations, boss and employee, follow your dream, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
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40%
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A Doll's House (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. A modern version of Ibsen's play.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, talky, tense ...
Plot: women's rights, friendship, friends, couple relations, crumbling marriage, introspection, unfulfillment, hopes, feminism, society, unsupportive spouse, gender ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Heaven's Heart (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, estrangement, best friend, anniversary, family problems, introspection, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, marriage, dinner ...
Place: denmark, eastern europe
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40%
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Family Secrets (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, suspense
Plot: life turned upside down, family life, love affair, crumbling marriage, couple relations, lifestyle, family problems, under the surface, infidelity, family in crisis, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
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40%
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Constellation (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: interracial relations, family relations, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, hopes, unfulfillment, society, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, interracial romance ...
Time: 1950s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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In Celebration (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, talky
Plot: wedding anniversary, family relations, family gatherings, parent child relationship, wedding, artists and showbiz, society, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, love and romance, gender ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: europe, england, london
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39%
The Glass Menagerie (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "gentleman caller" appears, things move to crisis ...
Style: novela, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, single parent, family problems, introvert, loneliness, sad ending, literary, escapism, absent parent, absent husband, high school friend, past ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: missouri, usa, st. louis missouri
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39%
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3 Backyards (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: society, estrangement, couples, couple relations, unfulfillment, lifestyle, suburbs, human nature, dull life, multiple storylines, one day, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Particles of Truth (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, mental illness, human nature, introspection, haunted by the past, family life, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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38%
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The New Year Parade (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children, family life, family in crisis, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, breakup, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Hysterical Blindness (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style: psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, working class, loneliness, character study, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
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38%
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Alice's House (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children, the eldest of whom is doing his military service, and a mother who works as a maid in her house. None of the three siblings pay much attention to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, melancholic, sexual ...
Plot: beauty salon, betrayal, estrangement, family relations, midlife crisis, family life, couples, obsession, sexually dissatisfied wife, family problems, working class, feminism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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September (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.
Style: talky, emotional, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adultery, friendship, couples, loneliness, depression, family relations, family problems, parents and children, friends, family gatherings, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Faces (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style: art house, intense, black and white, independent film, talky ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, feminism, feminist, sex, male nudity, drinking, thoughtful, minimalism, cheating, social outcast, time travel ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Ritual (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A young man drops out of college to fix his family when he senses something is terribly wrong at home.
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, youth, crumbling marriage, domestic disturbance, life is a bitch, redemption, family life, curses spells and rituals, social decay, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: malibu california, bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Belonging (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
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