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Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter (1993)
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Original name: Liar, Liar
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An 11 year old girl accuses her father of incest.
Style:
historical drama, crying, independent film
Plot:
child abuse, boy, anal rape, father daughter incest, incest, sexual abuse, dysfunctional family, children, court, father, father daughter relationship, liar, woman in danger, repressed memory, accusation, trial, school, rape, lawyer, teacher, female nudity, legal action, judge, family relations, baby ...
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and psychological films with plots about family relations, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, child abuse, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse and children mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter: A Thousand Acres (1997), Just a Game (1983), Hands of a Mother (2016), Aurore (2005), Accused (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
Style:
psychological, touching, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
farm, child molester, dysfunctional family, shakespeare, domineering father, jealousy, tragedy, women, incest rape, incest, sex with father, father daughter sex ...
Time:
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Place:
iowa, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a strangely aloof and uninvolved story of incest, director Brigitte Sauriol takes a certain distance in her treatment of a couple with two daughters on a summer vacation in Quebec. Scenes with the father and older daughter soon reveal that an ...
Style:
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Plot:
father daughter sex, sexual abuse, father daughter relationship, trauma, child sexual abuse, sexploitation, taboo subject, dysfunctional family, domestic drama, victimization, father, accusation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A family reunion aboard a ship becomes a turning point in the life of 39-year-old engineer Markus. When his son Adam (4) gets a little cut after going to the bathroom with his grandmother Renate, Markus recalls for the first time what his mother did ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, serious, psychological
Plot:
sexual abuse, rape, parent child relationship, domestic violence, family secret, childhood trauma, dysfunctional family, mental illness, repressed memory, psychotherapy, child abuse, husband wife relationship ...
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Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, depressing, art house ...
Plot:
child abuse, stepmother, abuse, stepdaughter, domestic disturbance, physical abuse, life is a bitch, family relations, society, parents and children, hidden truth, trial ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, bleak, sexual ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, child abuse, incest, swimming pool, lawyer, family relations, under the surface, parents and children, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, illicit affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A badly abused girl of 6 is saved from having to be admitted to an institution by a dedicated Special Education teacher whose class she's been placed in until there is an opening in the hospital. In that time they form a strong bond and the ...
Style:
tear jerker, bleak, intense, compassionate, educational ...
Plot:
abuse, child abuse, childhood trauma, healing, child protagonist, bonding, children, teacher student relationship, mental health, psychologist, rescue, caretaker ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, talky, compassionate, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
incest, coming of age, brother sister incest, brother sister sex, forbidden sex, sex with sister, sex, sex with brother, teenage life, sister sister relationship, siblings relations, incestuous relationship ...
Time:
90s, near future, year 1993
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A new mother is haunted by postpartum depression. Based on a true story.
Plot:
incestuous relationship, repressed memory, sexual abuse, childhood sexual abuse, therapy, sexual cruelty, illicit affair, childhood memory, depression, memory, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A poignant story, told with sincerity and humor, about a young woman´s dramatic childhood and about her grief and the struggle to move on. Noomi Rapace plays the main character in her first feature after the success with the Millennium trilogy and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, family problems, haunted by the past, parents and children, nordic, child abuse, husband wife relationship, abusive husband, addiction, drug addiction ...
Time:
year 2010, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.
Style:
disturbing, uplifting, heartbreaking, sad, suspenseful ...
Plot:
child abuse, sexual assault, trial, child, psychotherapist, hopes, rapist, recovery, sexualized violence, hospital, father daughter relationship, victim ...
Place:
east asia, korea, south korea
Similarity:
24%
521
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
Style:
crying
Plot:
altar boy, childhood sexual abuse, pedophile priest, sexual abuse, little boy, bare chested male, coming of age, youth, child molester, lawsuit, holy communion, christian ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In this moving drama, three young Canadian women embark upon a journey to face and lay to rest their painful pasts. Though Kirsti (Jhene Erwin) is twenty-one and living independently as a college student, she remains haunted by horrible memories of ...
Style:
emotional, intense, dark drama, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, rape, abusive father, survivor, mother daughter relationship, memory, sisters, stepfather, domestic abuse, confrontation, revenge, grief ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school graduate, is assigned to represent her case before Judge Martha Schulman, a veteran of the ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, dark
Plot:
abuse, single mother, lawyer, children, custody, hearing, class differences, courtroom drama, social issues, divorce, convict, family secret ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shows us a weekend in the life of a family torn by disputes and disappointments.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
youth, child custody, family relations, custody, starting over, dysfunctional family, family life, couples, family problems, love and romance, single parent, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, brussels, europe, brussels belgium
Similarity:
23%
839
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar's role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan, an ethereal boy that accompanies her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
Style:
realistic, serious, erotic, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
forbidden sex, pedophilia, mother daughter relationship, teenage sexuality, dysfunctional family, rape, family relations, parents and children, friendship, pedophile, friends, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, israel, middle east
Similarity:
22%
637
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
"Virgina" tells a tale from the end of the 19th century. It took place in a isolated village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the ...
Plot:
boy, lie, husband wife relationship, misogyny, masochism, neighbor, teenage girl, sister sister relationship, curse, coming of age, superstition, poverty ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
serbia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, dramatic
Plot:
father daughter incest, incest, coming of age, family drama, friendship, identity, self discovery, teenage life, social worker, resilience, adaptation, rebellion ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, child abuse, rape, coming of age, parents and children, childhood trauma, life is a bitch, pedophile, physical abuse, child molestation, sexual assault ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
south carolina, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, realistic
Plot:
family relations, family reunited, dysfunctional family, mother child relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, depression, sister sister relationship, children, hairy bush, female pubic hair, female nudity ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his ...
Style:
sexy, depressing, erotic, fairy tale, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, incest, sexy girl, bus, small town, family problems, grief, small town life, winter, law, adultery, flashback ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
canada, british columbia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two ...
Style:
inspirational, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
homeless shelter, coming of age, poverty, homelessness, unemployment, homeless, homeless man, homeless woman, apartment building, children, daughter, mother ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
Similarity:
22%
14K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style:
art house, black and white, depressing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
child abuse, coming of age, suicide, adolescence, minimalism, betrayal, sexual abuse, solitude, existentialism, children, poacher, humiliation ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, japan, tokyo, paris france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
boy, coming of age, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, prison, going straight, family problems, life is a bitch, prison life, love affair, confined, husband and wife, hot and sexy, husband wife relationship, cheating wife ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mississippi
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their ...
Style:
psychological, touching, serious, rough, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
poetic realism, turkey
Similarity:
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171
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Troubled Roula finds herself drawn to Leon, an author of children's books who has suffered an enormous emotional and creative blockage ever since his wife died in a motorcycle accident two years before. Leon has only his 12-year-old daughter ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual
Plot:
children, girl man relationship, female nudity, erotica, young love, sexual cruelty, making love, sex scene, sexual abuse, suicide, sea, nude bathing ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her fight against adversity and against herself, she will ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, haunted by the past, starting over, life is a bitch, family problems, family relations, parents and children, abuse, rape, girl, roulette, compulsive gambler ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: 8 years old Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
father daughter relationship, daughter, children, family problems, changing lives, kids and family, social problems, teenage life, family relations, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, teenager ...
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Summer 1966. It's time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, youth, family life, estrangement, family problems, couples, love and romance, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, bittersweet, single parent ...
Time:
60s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
21%
752
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives with his grossly insensitive mother and stepfather. Mado is a gawky 11-year old, who is neglected by her family because of the ...
Style:
controversial, crying
Plot:
11 year old girl, stockholm syndrome, seductive girl, children, adult child friendship, dysfunctional family, child kidnapping, kidnapped girl, cycling, kidnapper, rural setting, unemployment ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
21%
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