Movies like Fathers & Sons

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Fathers & Sons (1992)
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Fathers & Sons (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A beach runner and bookworm (Goldblum) has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy with a serial killer coming between him and his son. The ensuing E.S.P. experiences and danger bond father and son.
Style: independent film, touching, offbeat, serious, realistic
Plot: serial killer, investigation, friendship, murder, addiction, alcohol abuse, orphan, family relations, parents and children, family life, life is a bitch, profanity, supernatural ability, family in danger, gang, beach, recluse, single father, runner, director, prediction, dysfunctional family, shooting, father son relationship, premonition ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new jersey
Keyword: new yorker

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about murder, deadly, life is a bitch, parents and children, investigation, family relations and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Fathers & Sons: Runaway (2005), Tucked Away (2007), Mother's Boys (1993), Bottled Up (2013), Skeletons in the Closet (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Runaway (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: starting over, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, teenage life, on the run, obsession, family problems, investigation, hiding, small town, fall in love, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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95%
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Tucked Away (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
Plot: investigation, life is a bitch, murder, secret, aging, abusive father, deadly
Time: 21st century
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87%
Mother's Boys (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, mentally unstable, family problems, dysfunctional family, family in danger, family life, danger, stalking, hidden identity, murder, women, peeping ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 269
Bottled Up (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A solitary woman (Melissa Leo) earning her living by delivering mail and body piercing, makes every attempt to help her volatile adult daughter (Marin Ireland) get on her feet, and in-so-doing neglects herself, channeling all of her womanly desires ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, fall in love, parents and children, love and romance, life is a bitch, drug abuse, addiction, single parent, profanity, domestic drama, petty theft, contaminated water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Skeletons in the Closet (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, murder, mind game, uncover truth, mysterious character, investigation, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, law enforcement, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place: usa, new england
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63%
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Blood Crime (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, police investigation, murder, law enforcement, life is a bitch, small town, mistaken identity, nypd, violent content, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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53%
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Deadline (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, murder, interracial relations, idealism, dishonesty, parents and children, society, redemption, life is a bitch, family relations, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, tennessee
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52%
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The Wool Cap (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwilling guardian to a young girl with a bit of an attitude. The film is an updated and Americanized ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, spiritual ...
Plot: friendship, introspection, redemption, misfit, human nature, hopes, family life, custody, dysfunctional family, rehabilitation, addiction, elderly ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Without Evidence (1995)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: It is based on the true story of Michael Francke, who was the Head of Corrections for the state of Oregon before being murdered. Just before his murder, Francke visits his brother and informs him of a drug ring involving his prison colleagues. When ...
Style: spectacular, independent film, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, prison, conspiracy, murder, law enforcement, political conspiracy, rivalry, police investigation, dedicated lawyer, life is a bitch, legal, heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Shadow Hours (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michael is a recovering addict. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy ...
Style: serious, disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: illegal drugs, life is a bitch, addiction, murder, danger, dishonesty, drug dealing, mental disorder, mythical creature, psychology, nightlife, nightshift ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Turn the River (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Style: realistic, psychological, bleak, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: billiards, gambling, kidnapping, family relations, family problems, hopes, dysfunctional family, addiction, parents and children, estrangement, introspection, starting over ...
Time: year 2007
Place: canada, new york, usa
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47%
The Grief Tourist (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, childhood trauma, murder, obsession, twists and turns, friendship, anti hero, violence, killing spree, child abuse, prostitute, transsexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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43%
King of the Jungle (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a ...
Style: psychological, serious, disturbing, tense, independent film ...
Plot: fighting crime, vengeance, life is a bitch, losing-it hero, social decay, disability, society, parents and children, addiction, murder, mental illness, drug abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Blood and Ties (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, murder, uncover truth, investigation, moral dilemma, danger, hidden identity, woman in danger, parents and children, single parent, reporter, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Complicity (2000)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, journalism, murder, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, investigation, police detective, false accusation, frame up, legal, dishonesty, media ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, england
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42%
As God Commands (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A 14-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad are both outcasts in their suburban town.
Style: psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: unemployment, family relations, racism, parents and children, life is a bitch, social misfits, misfit, alcohol abuse, father son relationship, lgbt, father, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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41%
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Confession (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a small Catholic boarding school an unspeakable act has been committed. When High School student, Luther Scott, confesses to Father Michael Kelly, Kelly is bound silent to the particulars of a grisly murder. Now, framed guilty by the desperate ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: murder, catholic, courtroom drama, false accusation, investigation, moral dilemma, who done it, frame up, teenage life, life is a bitch, legal, clergy ...
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39%
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The Beat (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, and tries to teach them poetry.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot: gang, poetry, teenage life, fighting the system, youth, idealism, rebellion, life is a bitch, society, dedicated educator, stoner, school ...
Time: year 1988, 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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A Show of Force (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: murder, investigation, undercover, police corruption, media, legal, journalism, amateur detective, law enforcement, uncover truth, price of justice, working undercover ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: puerto rico
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38%
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Brad (Michael Shannon) has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place; Based on a true ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, surreal ...
Plot: mental illness, murder, psychopath, obsession, crazy, memory, family problems, family relations, law enforcement, delusion, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: california, peru, usa, san diego california
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38%
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Meeting Evil (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Follows disillusioned young family man John as a mysterious stranger, Richie takes him on a murder-fueled ride that transforms the weak-willed John into a desperate hero willing to go to any length to protect his family.
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, moral dilemma, family in danger, violence spree, human nature, life is a bitch, serial killer, gang, psychopath, sociopath, assassin, mysticism ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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38%
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, clever, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rape, murder, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, crime and punishment, obsession, suburbs, friendship, youth, teenage life, teenager ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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37%
Dead Connection (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a series of murders in motel rooms are connected, a cop, Dickson, heads out on the trail to find a serial killer. He discovers that he signs the motel guest-books with the names of boxers, and hence gets a lead on him. However, when he just ...
Style: detective, independent film, tense, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, interracial, police, psychopath, murder, phone sex, woman in danger, alcohol abuse, vengeance, investigation, rivalry, athlete's life ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: teenage life, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, love and romance, disgraced, single parent, youth, family life, friendship, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new england, maine
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35%
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Dallas 362 (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rusty (Shawn Hatosy) has been bailed out of bad situations more than once by his understanding but distraught mother, Mary (Kelly Lynch). When Mary starts dating a psychologist, Bob (Jeff Goldblum), Rusty connects with the man and begins talking to ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, grim, biting
Plot: going straight, friendship, parents and children, buddies, youth, society, family life, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, social decay, rehabilitation, boyfriend ...
Time: year 2003
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Playback (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A detective must uncover the truth behind the death of his daughter. But the truth hits close to home.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: investigation, riddles and clues, family relations, estrangement, danger, murder, parents and children, death in the family, father daughter relationship, police detective, murder investigation, porn industry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
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Final Cut (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of friends gather for a wake, and are shown a video shot by Jude (Jude Law) and starring them before he dies. Things go rapidly downhill.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, cynical, clever ...
Plot: murder, friends, infidelity, dishonesty, violence, investigation, greed, woman peeing, danger, love and romance, mother daughter relationship, existentialism ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.0
 731
Water's Edge (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Robert wanted an escape from the big city. He thought a small town by the water's edge would give him a new start. He couldn't have been more wrong. This little town has dirty secrets, and Robert just found the worst of them...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, surprise ending
Plot: femme fatale, murder, uncover truth, small town, investigation, dishonesty, life is a bitch, political corruption, betrayal, husband wife relationship, town mayor, woman with a gun ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Donato and Daughter (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work together to stop a serial killer. Along the way, the two find themselves forced to deal with a number of painful secrets from their past.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, family life, parents and children, law enforcement, amateur detective, fighting crime, estrangement, who done it, partner, nypd, tango ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Perfect Prey (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A former Texas Ranger is recruited by a Houston police captain to assist a homicide detective in the search for an elusive serial killer who collects antique dolls.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: serial killer, psychologist, texas ranger, serial murder, psychopath, police detective, law enforcement, police investigation, obsession, danger, chases and races, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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