Movies like A Map of the World
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A Map of the World (1999)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting charges of child abuse.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
women, sex crime, friendship, sexual abuse, family relations, false accusation, small town, drowning, testimony, death, swing, swimming, zoo, child abuse, accident, farm, female protagonist, jail cell, tantrum, nurse, child neglect, school nurse, dairy farm, youth, map ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, minnesota, milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin
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Most similar movies to A Map of the World
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, couples, friendship, mother daughter relationship and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Map of the World: What Maisie Knew (2012), The Ice Storm (1997), The Shipping News (2001), Savage Grace (2007), Our Sons (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the Henry James novella, the story frames on 7-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother – a rock and roll icon – and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, atmospheric, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
divorce, childhood, dysfunctional family, unsupportive parent, step parent, child, marriage, crumbling marriage, starting over, family in crisis, family problems, lawyer ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her ...
Style:
realistic, depressing, sexy, visually appealing, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, swinger, thanksgiving, extramarital affair, coming of age, mate swapping, adultery, suburbs, snow, infidelity, sexual awakening, family relations ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, connecticut, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Style:
melancholic, stylized, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
small town, adultery, single parent, isolation, depression, reporter, survival, kidnapping, starting over, haunted by the past, loneliness, adaptation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, new jersey, atlantic ocean, newfoundland
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, erotic, controversial, emotional ...
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, gay, mother son relationship, adultery, murder, dysfunctional family, older woman younger man, sexual relations, love triangle, socialite, father son relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
europe, new york, london, spain, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
gay, aids, estrangement, hospital, family relations, parents and children, friendship, family problems, small town, gays and lesbians, lgbt, gay couple ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arkansas, usa, san diego california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, family problems, estrangement, elderly, gender, love and romance, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california, miami, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
amish, adoption, family relations, identity crisis, religions or cults, family problems, youth, hopes, dishonesty, self discovery, parents and children, last wish ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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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, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
small town, coming of age, friendship, womanizer, lifestyle, young lovers, introspection, youth, society, couples, family problems, haunted by the past ...
Place:
nebraska, usa, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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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:
depressing, fairy tale, erotic, heartbreaking, non-linear ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, small town, snow, family problems, small town life, winter, betrayal, redemption, sexual abuse, incest, village, tragedy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, road trip, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, partners, parents and children, parent child relationship, last will and testament ...
Time:
year 1989, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, london, california, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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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:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere
Plot:
released from prison, infidelity, prison, going straight, life is a bitch, family problems, love affair, prison life, confined, husband wife relationship, suspense, hot and sexy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style:
realistic, philosophical, sincere, depressing, surprise ending ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
depression, human nature, social problems, multiple storylines, child prodigy, introspection, dysfunctional family, loneliness, coincidence, drugs, drug addiction, death ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 60s, 50s, 1910s
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, starting over, small town life, love and romance, couple relations, brother brother relationship, suburbs, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, single parent ...
Place:
florida, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sexy, erotic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, hospital, mother in law son in law relationship, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, human nature, parents and children, society, relationships, redemption, father daughter relationship, poverty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain, tokyo, europe, andalusia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style:
emotional, talky, intense, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, women, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, couple relations, human nature, love and romance ...
Place:
new jersey, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
love triangle, betrayal, extramarital affair, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, society, human nature, family problems ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. Here Davey is befriended by a young man who helps her find the strength to carry on and conquer her fears.
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, realistic, touching
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, death in the family, bittersweet, grieving, depression, life is a bitch, young adult, village, love story, small town, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, sincere, christian film ...
Plot:
christian, redemption, family problems, girl, christianity, hopes, parents and children, society, death in the family, religion, dark secret, youth ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, semi serious, talky, touching
Plot:
infidelity, working class, midlife crisis, friendship, erection, misfit, unfulfillment, buddies, hopes, society, battle of the sexes, couple relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
okinawa japan, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, touching, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
infidelity, crumbling marriage, vengeance, family problems, introspection, dishonesty, redemption, couple relations, family relations, couples, parents and children, love affair ...
Place:
europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, death in the family, parents and children, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family crisis, mourning, reconciliation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
During his twenties, a young man works at various homeless shelters in Boston, where he often intersects with his brilliant but troubled father.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
homeless, father son relationship, absent father, homeless shelter, writer's life, homeless man, writers, estrangement, family relations, social misfits, life is a bitch, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston, massachusetts, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
sexual abuse, coming of age, rape, domestic violence, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, life is a bitch, pedophile, children, sexual assault, family in crisis ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, society, youth, parents and children, small town, teenage life, sexual abuse, teenage girl, pastor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, scary ...
Plot:
addiction, infidelity, rehabilitation, cocaine, dysfunctional family, going straight, family life, drug abuse, working class, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, cliche ...
Place:
new york, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification' in an attempt to rid themselves of their evil, which she believes to be the cause of their mother's mental illness. ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, atmospheric, controversial ...
Plot:
mental illness, girl, youth, dysfunctional family, coming of age, spirituality, child's point of view, obsession, sister sister relationship, self discovery, mysticism, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
housekeeper, lgbt, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, follow your dream, hopes, couple relations, unfulfillment, society, human nature, boss and employee, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to ...
Style:
psychological, depressing, philosophical, compassionate, disturbing ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, guilt, loneliness, family relations, suspense, coma, family life, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. ...
Style:
emotional, serious, psychological, rough, clever ...
Plot:
murder, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family problems, investigation, sex education, cheerleader, american football, babies and infants, teenage girl, teen social issues ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, serious, emotional, sad ...
Plot:
feminism, female protagonist, society, family problems, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, hopes, rape, woman, women, domestic violence, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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