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Harry's Daughters (2005)
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Original name: Harrys döttrar
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
About two sisters, Marie and Ninni, both are pregnant for the first time. After conducting a joint survey, Ninni's child is found dead.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, dramatic, intense
Plot:
pregnancy, sisters, motherhood, grief, loss, family drama, bereavement, coping, birth, parenthood, newborn, sibling relationship, empathy, character study, trauma, intimate, husband, hospital, isolation, family secret, guilt, marriage, bonding, social realism, breast feeding ...
Time:
2000s, contemporary
Place:
eastern europe
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Most similar movies to Harry's Daughters
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, melancholic and psychological films with plots about intimate, grief, small town, loss, trauma, healing and family drama mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Harry's Daughters: All My Puny Sorrows (2021), The Ribbon (2024), A Part of You (2024), Reach the Sky (2019), All for Her (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.
Style:
psychological, poignant, emotional, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental health, sisters, self discovery, suicide attempt, writers, women, suicide, family drama, sibling relationship, life is a bitch, sister sister relationship, introspection ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Molly and Tim are happy newlyweds, but an unexpected miscarriage threatens to tear them apart until they meet Kristin, a pregnant homeless girl in need of a family.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, romantic drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, grief, miscarriage, empathy, loss, homelessness, motherhood, marriage, compassion, healing, social issues, domestic drama ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teenager struggles to pick up the pieces of her shattered world in this emotional and bittersweet coming-of-age drama about those who are left behind.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, reflective, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, female protagonist, grief, sibling rivalry, loss, family drama, adolescence, self discovery, healing, mourning, identity, character study ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Milutin’s harmony of life collapses when his wife Magdalena experiences a car accident, defending her body of a one-year-old son who was entrusted with the care of Milutin. Magdalena remains immobile. Love between Milutin and Magdalena has always ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
love, parenthood, family bonds, family drama, disability, marriage, sacrifice, accident, motherhood, trauma, loyalty, intimate ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a woman finally becomes pregnant but is diagnosed with a deadly condition, she must lean on her family to save her unborn child.
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy, relationships, woman, family relations, family drama, family bonds, motherhood, female protagonist, parenthood, pregnancy and birth, serious illness, couple relations ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The plague hits medieval Sweden.
Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, historical drama, captivating ...
Plot:
medieval, plague, danger, on the road, escapades, obsessive quest, love, survival, motherhood, struggle, getting home, resilience ...
Time:
14th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place:
europe
Similarity:
35%
173
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:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Aicha, a Tunisian mother gifted with prophetic dreams, lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband Brahim and young son Adam. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, trauma, motherhood, isolation, grief, domestic drama, secrets, family conflict, small village, darkness, guilt, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
north africa
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, independent film, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
character study, family drama, parenthood, parent child relationship, marital problem, everyday life, adoption, empathy, intimate, regret, loneliness, male protagonist ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, reykjavik iceland
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Taru elää ratsutilalla harmonista elämää miehensä Harrin ja tytärpuolensa Ninnin kanssa. Kaikki muuttuu, kun Ninni loukkaantuu hevosonnettomuudessa. Kymmenen vuotta sitten Ruotsiin lähtenyt Ninnin biologinen äiti Eve kutsutaan paikalle ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, tense, melancholic, suspenseful
Plot:
motherhood, half sister, family secret, family drama, sisters, accident, identity, mother and daughter, introspection, intimate, conflict, grief ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When their son drowns while saving the life of a friend, the couple offer to take the boy in. What can they do with the kid who outlived their own son? The father tries to teach him work and looks after him like family. The mother is distant to him ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, family drama, social problems, kids and family, family problems, life is a bitch, relationships, family relations, loss of child ...
Similarity:
32%
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:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A whole year went by before musician Juliane Hansen was able to put her running shoes back on — a year after her partner, Johann König, took his own life. Although her friend Rieke offers all the support she can, Juliane feels lonely and ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, emotional, psychological, slow cinema ...
Plot:
grief, healing, mourning, recovery, suicide, loss, bereavement, loneliness, running, loss of partner, guilt, cello ...
Similarity:
31%
203
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
sisters, sister sister relationship, father daughter conflict, traumatic childhood, sisterhood, family drama, family history, trauma, family secret, family relations, family conflict, father and daughter ...
Place:
algeria, france
Similarity:
30%
237
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A family of a father, a mother and their son is looking forward to go on vacation. On the way they experience an accident, and their lives are suddenly and unexpectedly turned upside down.
Style:
captivating, realistic, emotional, melancholic, heartfelt ...
Plot:
father son relationship, grief, family relations, mourning, family drama, bereavement, loss, lost love, loss of loved one, lifestyle change, drastic change of life, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot:
relationships, grief, loss, guilt, friendship, life is a bitch, tragic event, changing lives, loss of brother, family relations, healing, small town ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
Style:
emotional, medical drama, realistic, period drama
Plot:
pregnancy, childbirth, birth, hospital, adoption, motherhood, parenthood, doctor, women's issues, newborn, labor, crisis ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Un hombre enfermo de leucemia busca desesperadamente un donador de médula.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, melancholic, psychological, medical drama ...
Plot:
mental illness, leukemia, cancer, family drama, illness, family secret, relationships, family conflict, fashion, secrets, confrontation, intimate ...
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
grief, guilt, mother-in-law, family problems, loss, mourning, character study, bereavement, loss of daughter, mother in law, countryside, loss of wife ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman is faced with a choice to fight for her life or sacrifice it for another. After years of infertility, a newly-expectant mother is diagnosed with a life-altering disease.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, medical drama, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
motherhood, choice, female protagonist, parenthood, infertility, mother, pregnant woman, sacrifice, pregnancy, woman, ethical dilemma, mother love ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Jane fails her final college class, she returns home to her parent's lake house where she comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, lake, trauma, getting home, life is a bitch, character study, coming of age, self discovery, healing, mental health, intimate, acceptance ...
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the hospital due to a heavy attack, he starts to question his personal and familiar environment and discovers that his parents’ relationship – which ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
illness, coming of age, family drama, family secret, identity crisis, adolescence, escape, intimate, introspection, realism, isolation, alienation ...
Similarity:
24%
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887
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A woman dealing with the loss of her husband, the struggle of parenthood and finding work in a new state finds solace in her relationship with an 8 year old physically disabled girl named Justine who she takes care of.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
single mother, disability, friendship, lifestyle change, changing lives, friends, physical disability, self discovery, single parent, unlikely couple, female protagonist, woman in a wheelchair ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Maggie is struggling to keep her life together after the death of her mother when her addict brother shows up, forcing her to make sense of a reality that may not be what it seems.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, tense, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
sibling relationship, addiction, grief, family drama, trauma, female protagonist, character study, mourning, family secret, traumatic past, confrontation, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Georgia Benfield's, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child. As family and friends slowly begin to learn of the abuse, and long buried family ...
Style:
intense, tense, bleak, realistic, period drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family drama, domestic abuse, dysfunctional family, trauma, female protagonist, family secret, character study, emotional abuse, guilt, social issues, realism ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A couple mutually decide to give their baby up for adoption to go back to living their separate lives.
Style:
emotional, realistic, independent film, sincere, melancholic
Plot:
adoption, parenthood, intimate, character study, separation, loss, bonding, ethical dilemma, bittersweet, introspection, slice of life, grief ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alexander Way, a secondary school teacher with a fractured personal life, finds himself attempting to rescue a woman from a violent sexual attack. Alexander finds himself overpowered, beaten & taken to hospital. Jesiah Jarvus, a famous British ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
marriage, school, family relations, doctor, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, teacher, father daughter relationship, violence, cancer, trauma, hospital ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to Catti, his girlfriend of many years. But Catti has other plans ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, comedy drama, melancholic, cynical ...
Plot:
secret, birthday party, proposal, relationships, revelation, party, celebration, conflict, domestic drama, introspection, friends, decision ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
23%
38
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young married couple struggles to stay together after the husband suffers a crisis of faith.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, independent film, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
marriage, love, relationships, crisis of faith, intimate, communication, faith, identity, everyday life, loss, reconciliation, slice of life ...
Time:
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Similarity:
23%
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