Movies like I Never Sang for My Father

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I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
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I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot: parent child relationship, professor, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, elderly, aging, introspection, father, time travel, mission, slice of life, character study, self-help, family relations, loneliness, death, doctor, hospital, wealth, long distance relationship, housekeeper, parenthood, funeral, brother sister relationship, piano ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 1960s
Place: new york, california
Keyword: orange

Most similar movies to I Never Sang for My Father

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, unfulfillment, couples, hopes and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres. Some movies like I Never Sang for My Father: Saraband (2003), Twice in a Lifetime (1985), Dad (1989), The Piano Lesson (1995), Pandora's Box (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Saraband (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The movie is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), where we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still ...
Style: psychological, emotional, meditative, sincere, touching ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, parenthood, character study, introspection, love and romance, parents and children, human nature, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, hopes ...
Time: year 2003
Place: eastern europe, munich germany, helsinki finland, florence, hamburg germany ...
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Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, starting over, infidelity, love triangle, working class, breakup, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, human nature ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: washington state, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Dad (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting, inspirational ...
Plot: father son relationship, aging, family drama, hospital, family bonds, doctor, hopes, parents and children, family life, terminal illness, redemption, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
The Piano Lesson (1995)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a glimpse of the conditions for African-Americans as well as some of the attitudes and ...
Style: family saga, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: piano, black, blaxploitation, family relations, introspection, hopes, estrangement, family problems, siblings relations, disagreement, family in crisis, family tradition ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh
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Pandora's Box (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, self discovery, hopes, elderly, family problems, parents and children, countryside, adolescence vs adulthood, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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79%
What Girls Learn (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, human nature, love and romance, youth, estrangement, couples, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, usa, new york
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78%
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Harry & Son (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard's lackadaisical lifestyle and has a strained relationship with his daughter Nina ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: single parent, working class, parents and children, family problems, aging, unfulfillment, idealism, starting over, estrangement, father son relationship, business, beer ...
Time: 80s
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76%
The Autumn Heart (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a school bus driving woman (Tyne Daly) has a heart attack, she makes one request of her three daughters (Ally Sheedy, Marla Sucharetza, Marceline Hugo) - she wants them to find their long lost brother, who was taken away by their father (Jack ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, autumn, estrangement, parent child relationship, couples, family problems, family life, family in crisis, rich and poor, parents and children, dysfunctional family, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston, england, usa, europe, harvard university
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76%
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Alpha Male (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Another House (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, elderly, parents and children, memory loss, father son relationship, love, brothers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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71%
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Light of Day (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fox and Jett play a brother and sister who are lead performers in a rock band, The Barbusters, in Cleveland, Ohio. The sister, Patti Rasnick, is an unmarried mother and has a troubled relationship with her own mother, who is deeply religious. ...
Style: touching, independent film, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: rock and roll, rock, rock band, cancer, music, working class, hospital, death, club, siblings, brother sister relationship, ambition ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: ohio, cleveland ohio
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70%
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Red Doors (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Wongs struggle to cope with life, love, and family dysfunction in the suburbs of New York.
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, family life, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, culture clash, single parent, human nature, youth, suburbs, family in crisis, lgbtq ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new york, usa
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64%
I Am Not a Hipster (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Things are not looking good for Brook, a young, talented singer/songwriter who has become the clichéd tortured artist. Slow to come to terms with the death of his mother, Brook is self-absorbed, aggressive, and the major obstruction to his own ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: musician's life, music, rock, siblings relations, parents and children, family problems, artists and showbiz, coping, creative block, estrangement, family relations, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: california, usa, san diego california
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59%
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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
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59%
I Could Go on Singing (1963)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental
Plot: singer, adoption, family relations, parent child relationship, showbiz, custody, lovers reunited, parents and children, couples, love and romance, single parent, musician's life ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: england, london, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Gathering (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of his family are not exactly fond of him because he walked out on his wife and of his stubborn nature ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, in love, fall in love, bondage, family relations, terminal illness, family gatherings, elderly, life is a bitch, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa
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57%
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Tully (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, young lovers, womanizer, couples, family problems, youth, society, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000
Place: nebraska, england, usa, europe
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56%
Memories of Me (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. This was the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: heart attack, father son relationship, hollywood, death of father, flashback, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son estrangement, surgeon, doctor, parent child relationship, bittersweet, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, new york
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55%
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Face (2002)
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, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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53%
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Style: visually stunning, visual, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, autumn, father, storytelling, minimalism, regret, perfection, alcoholic, slice of life, widower, wedding, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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52%
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Tender Mercies (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: country music, character study, music, self discovery, small town, alcoholism, comeback, musician's life, starting over, divorce, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: texas, midwest, austin texas, usa
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52%
A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she leaves her son with his grandmother. She joins the choir of a local church. She has some issues ...
Style: christmas classics, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: christmas, holiday, xmas, church, witnessing a crime, single parent, performer's life, innocence lost, starting over, artists and showbiz, clergy, obnoxious boss ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, san francisco
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51%
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Prague (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Christoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father, evolves into the story of a brake-up. With the dead father lurking in the background, secrets gradually emerge threatening to destroy their marriage.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love, marriage, family relations, infidelity, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, dishonesty, couples, resentment, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic, denmark, europe, central europe, prague
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50%
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On Golden Pond (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is forced to renew the bonds of love and overcome the generational friction that has existed for years. ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, realistic, touching, witty ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, elderly, aging, love story, family holiday, daughter, marriage, summer, alienation, couples, bittersweet, passion ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new hampshire, new england, maine
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Duet for One (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: disability, multiple sclerosis, tragic hero, life is a bitch, family problems, musician's life, crumbling marriage, couples, life turned upside down, family in crisis, violin, extramarital affair ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union, london
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47%
Broken Bridges (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A fading country music star (Keith) returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, independent film
Plot: starting over, artists and showbiz, homecoming, parents and children, music, unfulfillment, musician's life, family relations, family problems, haunted by the past, country, country music ...
Time: year 2006
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45%
The Substance of Fire (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the ...
Style: melancholic, talky, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: family bonds, writer's life, single father, writers, book, family problems, love and romance, introspection, dealing with death, family life, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time: year 1996
Place: new york, usa
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45%
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Two Weeks (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick, last goodbye. Instead, they find themselves trapped — together — for two weeks.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, spiritual ...
Plot: introspection, eccentric family, family life, estrangement, family problems, single parent, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, parents and children, homecoming, dying, terminal illness ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, north carolina
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44%
The Glass Menagerie (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adaptation, brother sister relationship, aging, family in crisis, parents and children, family life, family problems, unfulfillment, domineering mother, cripple, mother ...
Time: year 1987, 1930s, 20th century, future
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Night Has Settled (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, humorous, sexual
Plot: coming of age, youth, nanny, dysfunctional family, stroke, society, betrayal, survival, family life, parents and children, family relations, family problems ...
Time: year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york
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44%
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