Movies like The Long Shadow 1992
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The Long Shadow (1992)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Hungary, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The story of a young man, a famous stage actor, who is notified of the death of his father whom he has never seen. In Israel where his father is buried, he meets with his father's young widow, as well as with a movie director who need the son to play his father in a missing scene about his father, an archeologist. But the physical similarities are too much for the young widow and she soon finds herself falling in love with her stepson.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
illicit affair, israeli, sexual attraction, affair, desert, journalist, archaeologist, sex with stepmother, cemetery, bible, actor, isolation, shakespeare, funeral, flight attendant, christian, reporter, father son relationship, male female relationship, airport, letter, widow, grief, filmmaking, death of father ...
Place:
jerusalem, israel, budapest, holy land, budapest hungary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, realistic, serious and sexy films with plots about father son relationship, grief, funeral, isolation, male female relationship, suicide and female nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Long Shadow: The Conductor (2012), The Shepherd (1984), The Passion of Anna (1969), Buried Cain (2014), A Perfect Day for Caribou (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The famous conductor (Vladas Bagdonas) goes with his orchestra to Jerusalem to perform the oratorio "St. Matthew Passion." The day before he receives a telegram, stating the suicide of his son, who lived in Israel. Conductor at the time ...
Style:
contemplative, psychological, touching
Plot:
suicide bomber, terrorist, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, monastery, suicide, twists and turns, orchestra, funeral, airport, vocalist, israeli ...
Place:
israel, jerusalem
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A father chooses between his enemy and the life of his own son. Bursting with “Top Gun” action, THE SHEPHERD explodes into the lives and conflicts of the men who push the edge of supersonic danger while defending our skies. The resulting ...
Style:
thrilling, suspense, intense, dramatic, christian film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
military, moral dilemma, father son conflict, grief, sacrifice, loss, moral ambiguity, guilt, regret, loss of spouse, heroism, brotherhood ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. ...
Style:
art house, cerebral, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
nightmare, depression, isolation, self pity, animal cruelty, suicide, guilt, female nudity, psychology, dialogue, insanity, nordic ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Buried Cain is a steamy southern gothic drama about two brothers, Christian and Cain, who have only two things in common - their love for their small town southern home and their love for the same woman - the girl they call 'Georgia'. ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, tense, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
sex with stepson, seduction, group of friends, love triangle, brother brother relationship, infidelity, jealousy, sex with stepmother, stepmother stepson relationship, cougar, menage a trois, voyeur ...
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, dramatic, serious, harsh ...
Plot:
father son relationship, son, father, father and son, cemetery, character study, estrangement, family drama, family relations, alienation, parents and children, estranged son ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Style:
erotic, psychological, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
stepmother stepson relationship, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, sex with stepmother, illicit affair, incest overtones, stepmother, sex with stepson, car accident, mother son incest, marijuana, obsession ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The phone call from Sybille was usual. Her family didn't even know that this call just started their last fine day...
Style:
realistic, bleak, heartbreaking
Plot:
suicide, depressed woman, father son relationship, loss of mother, father daughter relationship, loss of wife, brother sister relationship, funeral, family tragedy, bereavement, grief, depression ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.
Style:
pornochanchada
Plot:
teenage sexuality, coming of age, wedding, prostitution, lgbt, stepmother, affair, illicit affair, sex with prostitute, prison, death of wife, teenage boy ...
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Alessio, a young man from a well to do family, has been mute since the death of his mother two years ago. His father, who has subsequently remarried, sends him to his sister-in-law's house in the country to recuperate. While staying there ...
Style:
erotic, sexploitation film
Plot:
sex with stepson, sex with stepmother, brother in law sister in law sex, stepmother stepson relationship, erotica, illicit affair, cuckolded husband, stepmother, female masturbation, incest, erotic art, affair ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
48%
260
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
To be or not to be, etc.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, ghost, betrayal, tragic hero, tragic love, vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, uncover truth, parents and children, shakespeare, interracial ...
Time:
90s
Place:
southern usa
Similarity:
47%
175
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ilan Ben-Natan is a man on his sixties and a well-known professor of astrophysics at the University of Haifa. He is married with Naomi, a 28 years old, attractive book illustrator. Inclined to suspect, he finds out her wife's betrayal and then ...
Style:
realistic, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
affair, murder, obsession, couples, love triangle, redemption, crumbling marriage, husband and wife, investigation, disposing of a dead body, jealousy, lust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When the coffin of Etta Rose Callahan, a charismatic dance student, is uprooted from the earth after days of rain, the small college town of Remington is haunted with questions involving the young girl's sudden suicide. Jeremiah Mouthy, a ...
Style:
suspense, gothic
Plot:
obsession, suicide, small town, tragedy, character study, jealousy, haunting, loss of innocence, mourning, scandal, grief, funeral ...
Similarity:
45%
321
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
Style:
modern day adaptation
Plot:
shakespeare, death of father, funeral, family relations, chess, dead body, death, hamlet, shooting, widow, french countryside, filmmaker ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These ...
Style:
slasher, deep, contemplative, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
flashback, car accident, college, obsession, older man younger woman relationship, teacher student relationship, adulterous husband, university professor, dog, unrequited love, university student, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
oxford university, europe, england, london
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rebel. Icon. Legend. James Dean’s untimely death on September 30, 1955, shocked the world and helped define an entire generation. This gripping drama chronicles the reactions of an Arkansas college town to the tragedy and focuses on Jimmy J., a ...
Style:
southern gothic, period drama
Plot:
grief, tragedy, mourning, mental breakdown, self destructing, loss of innocence, car crash, teenage angst, obsession, youth culture, isolation, fan culture ...
Time:
1950s, year 1955, 50s
Place:
arkansas
Similarity:
44%
177
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
Eli is a 32 year old man who has problems with relationships with women. Hagar is a surrogate, an alternative partner for practical, sexual therapy. They meet once a week and practice a relationship and intimacy in laboratory conditions. The ...
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
israeli, therapy, male female relationship, childhood trauma, laboratory, sex crime, trauma, male nudity, female nudity, male pubic hair, nudity, female pubic hair ...
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A wealthy businessman takes on a pretty young wife - with deadly results.
Plot:
showgirl, marriage, exploitation, sex with stepson, sexploitation, lust, voyeur, prostitute, family business, male female relationship, illicit affair, stepmother ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul (David A.R. White and Kevin Downes), meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten ...
Style:
touching, psychological, captivating, disgusting, christian film
Plot:
christian, vietnam war, faith, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, religious conversion, road trip, robbery, soldier, christianity, war veteran, father son relationship, military life ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, Italy, USA, Lesotho
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites ...
Style:
slow cinema, meditative
Plot:
widow, mountain, resilience, elderly man, political protest, spirituality, haunting, female empowerment, rebellion, social realism, tragedy, isolation ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
40%
101
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
Style:
touching
Plot:
ballerina, love triangle, female protagonist, reporter, marriage proposal, dancer, love, dancing, muscleman, career, ballet, fired from the job ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A priest challenges the members of his congregation to not just go to church every Sunday, but to actually follow in Jesus's footsteps in their daily lives. From Charles M. Sheldon's book that launched the saying "What would Jesus Do?
Style:
christian film
Plot:
faith, christian, christianity, newspaper, reporter, mother daughter relationship, journalist, religious conversion, moral transformation, church, bible, selfishness ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Abraham, an old man, has a fruit garden in Jerusalem that is threatened by a number of people who want to buy him out or chase him off. One day, the old man finds a mute young woman (Melanie Griffith), confused after being attacked by thugs, ...
Style:
emotional, art house, contemplative, surreal, period piece
Plot:
mute girl, garden, religion, old man, melancholy, sexual assault, loneliness, urbanization, faith, trauma, social commentary, invasion ...
Time:
70s
Place:
jerusalem, israel
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drama about two families, each with a gay son. Jonathan is splitting from Miki because the more experienced Miki is playing around. Then Jonathan sees Thomas, the son and grandson of his neighbors, who is back in Israel after failing to make it as ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, dramatic, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbtq, aids, israeli, sexuality, family drama, lgbt, humanism, identity, illness, empathy, gay, grief ...
Time:
80s
Place:
israel
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A sexy daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean. Naturally, many sexual liaisons are ...
Style:
captivating, sexploitation film
Plot:
sexploitation, affair, plan, intrigue, seductress, sexual attraction, sexual relations, father daughter relationship, sexy woman, male female relationship, relationships, social problems ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A man (Rogers) with a wife (Bedelia) and two daughters and a flourishing career is visited by a woman (Chen) whom he had an affair with when he was in Vietnam. Who reveals to him that they have a son and that she wants him to take him (their son).
Style:
realistic, sentimental
Plot:
affair, fatherhood, family drama, marital crisis, war veteran, custody, responsibility, reconciliation, moral dilemma, identity, small town, suburban life ...
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, South Africa, Norway, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear ...
Style:
bleak, stylized, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
desert, dogme 95, stranded, shakespeare, dogma, isolation, culture clash, rescue, life is a bitch, danger, tragedy, bus ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, namibia, new jersey, australia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
This film depict events from the Life and ministry of Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon. The story culminates with a portrayal of the Ressurected Savior's visit to the ancient Americas as seen through the eyes ...
Style:
christian film, 70mm film
Plot:
mormon, father son relationship, faith, native american, latter day saints, christian, church, book of mormon, ancient civilization, miraculous event, artist, family conflict ...
Time:
1st century
Place:
america
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, road movie, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, father son relationship, road trip, death, dysfunctional family, aging ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004
Place:
new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Grab a six-pack, gather your closest friends and settle in for a night of solace and cheer-and of course, a few Drinking Games. Joseph Lawson's critically acclaimed debut film centers on six friends in Portland, Oregon, who come together ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, realistic, independent film
Plot:
funeral, friendship, loss, grief, regret, bittersweet, mourning, character study, party, guilt, slice of life, intimate ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A US politician visits his poet friend in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medieval island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja, a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen ...
Style:
philosophical, psychological, talky, existential, spiritual ...
Plot:
philosophy, dialogue, politics, island, isolation, social commentary, scientist, technology, environment, science, life, art ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
33%
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