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The High Cost of Living (2010)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But Henry is not quite the angel he seems...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, serious, dark, independent film, gloomy, psychological thriller, tragic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pregnant woman, protective male, drug dealer, pregnancy, fall in love, hopes, friendship, family relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, family problems, redemption, introspection, disorder, dishonesty, death in the family, life turned upside down, hit and run, accident, guardian angel, friends, urban, hidden identity, bittersweet, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to The High Cost of Living
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, family problems, hopes, friendship, parents and children, friends and life is a bitch mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The High Cost of Living: Nagima (2013), Something Like Happiness (2005), Amador (2010), Plans for Tomorrow (2010), Face (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
pregnancy, life is a bitch, looking for love, best friend, society, love and romance, social misfits, physical appearance, friendship, death in childbirth, death, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, eccentric family, single parent, friendship, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, unrequited love, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Plot:
pregnant woman, friends, friendship, aging, dealing with death, pregnancy, bittersweet, money, death, flowers, old man, church ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Three stories intertwined which occur in a single day. The day Ines discovers she is pregnant, Antonia decides to abandon her family and Marian realizes she is going to die.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
pregnancy, friendship, friends, couples, family problems, family relations, introspection, woman in danger, singleness, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
25%
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355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
hopes, infidelity, coming of age, bittersweet, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, life turned upside down, child illness, family in crisis, terminal illness, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, ireland
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
death in the family, last wish, family problems, family relations, introspection, hopes, siblings relations, dealing with death, brother brother relationship, minimalism, very little dialogue, death of mother ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot:
boxing, hospital, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, single parent, love, nurse, street fighter, loss, mother son relationship, black history ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, africa
Similarity:
23%
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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, sincere, realistic, serious, feel good ...
Plot:
redemption, friendship, introspection, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, human nature, family life, custody, addiction, hopes, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, redemption, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, dealing with death, cancer, illness, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Life was easy for Jackson White. With looks, brains, and athletic ability,the world's possibilities seemed limitless. But, when he came to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the music industry, he was so seduced by money and status that he lost ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
self discovery, homecoming, introspection, parents and children, family relations, estrangement, redemption, hopes, road not taken, bittersweet, unfulfillment, dying father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man's terminal illness reunites him with his estranged brother.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, haunted by the past, death in the family, aids, lgbt, brother brother relationship, death of father ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, interracial relations, addiction, drug abuse, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, hopes, couple relations, life is a bitch, rehabilitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
elderly, follow your dream, lifestyle, friendship, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, hopes, buddies, love and romance, poverty, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot:
friendship, friends, love affair, social relations, village, village life, fall in love, family relations, stranger, rivalry, love and romance, alcoholism ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
infidelity, couples, looking for love, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, redemption, haunted by the past, bittersweet, heartbreak, troubled marriage, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
disorder, redemption, friendship, friends, introspection, family life, life turned upside down, family relations, immigrant, adoption, misfit, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, hopes, friendship, racism, interracial relations, human spirit, redemption, family problems, dysfunctional family, social decay, life is a bitch, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, boy, foster home ...
Place:
new york, usa, texas
Similarity:
19%
200
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, introspection, breakup, couple relations, self discovery, countryside, family problems, disorder, rural setting, old woman, family crisis, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, normandy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A quirky coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy named Redwood who dreams that if he can beat Jack Nicklaus at the 1975 Master's of golf he'll reunite his parents.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
youth, golf, hopes, coming of age, teenage life, life turned upside down, disorder, family relations, daydreamer, misfit, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, canada
Similarity:
19%
239
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
Style:
serious, talky, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
sauna, making love, widow, introspection, female friendship, elderly, hopes, human spirit, self discovery, love and romance, life is a bitch, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, couple relations, parents and children, death in the family, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family crisis, mourning, stillborn child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Shiro’s struggle with his father’s cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it’s too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble ...
Style:
realistic, touching, contemplative, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
coping, family relations, redemption, terminal illness, parents and children, estrangement, unfulfillment, family in crisis, father son relationship, asian prostitute, family problems, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
19%
230
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since 1911. Hajime is in line to be the next head of a prominent electronics company. He toils day and night over ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, bleak
Plot:
introspection, follow your dream, moral dilemma, relationship vs career, ambition, workplace situations, parents and children, workplace, couples, hopes, family life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
845
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
orphan, introspection, redemption, haunted by the past, homecoming, elderly, starting over, human nature, betrayal, hopes, family problems, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
england, europe, canada, british columbia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A tragic street racing accident kills a wife and her child leaving her husband to pick up the pieces and pursue justice against the boy that killed them.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot:
life turned upside down, crime and punishment, legal, vengeance, death in the family, family problems, family relations, rivalry, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, christian, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, kansas
Similarity:
19%
236
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
self discovery, life turned upside down, love affair, couples, family relations, family problems, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, parents and children, breakup, mental breakdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
19%
497
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:
sentimental, touching, serious, talky, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, unlikely couple, hopes, family relations, family problems, teenage life, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, single parent ...
Similarity:
19%
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