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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's knowledge. Henry's fateful decision yields grave consequences for his family over the next 20 years.
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, sad, gloomy, serious
Plot:
down syndrome, haunted by the past, disability, child illness, parents and children, family problems, crumbling marriage, love and romance, obsession, dysfunctional family, hidden identity, hopes, unfulfillment, lie, husband wife relationship, nurse, mentally challenged, childbirth, poverty, winter, special needs, family in crisis, love, psychology, psychopath ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s, 1960s
Place:
kentucky, pittsburgh
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about family problems, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, unfulfillment and couples mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Memory Keeper's Daughter: Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005), A Child Is Waiting (1963), The Keys to the House (2004), A Christmas Visitor (2002), Surrender, Dorothy (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, serious
Plot:
mentally challenged, disability, lifestyle, family relations, couples, family life, dysfunctional family, misfit, love and romance, family problems, siblings relations, bus ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for mentally retarded children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
teaching, school, teachers and students, mentally challenged, human spirit, dedicated educator, hopes, psychiatry, youth, medical, american football, adoption ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s, year 1959
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style:
psychological, touching, emotional, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
estrangement, parents and children, single parent, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, redemption, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, germany, italy, berlin germany, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A father struggles with the past. A daughter fights for the future. A mother searches for answers. The Boyajians have not celebrated Christmas in 11 years. They lost their faith when they lost their son to the Persian Gulf War. Now a stranger has ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, christmas classics, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, hopes, grief, death of son, introspection, life is a bitch, redemption, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, family gatherings ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
iraq, iran
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, homecoming, dysfunctional family, tragic love, best friend, couples, single parent, orphan, hopes, life is a bitch, starting over, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
sister sister relationship, abusive husband, family relations, family problems, love and romance, obsession, unfulfillment, redemption, infidelity, couples, rape, human nature ...
Time:
50s
Place:
new orleans, mississippi, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, rape, female nudity, introspection, family problems, couples, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, couple relations, haunted by the past, family in crisis, flashback ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Meet the Hunters your typical all-American family: two committed parents and two lovely daughters. However, looks can be deceiving because this family is plagued by the nit-picking comments of an overzealous mother determined to keep her daughters ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot:
eating disorder, mental illness, mental institution, self harm, dysfunctional family, family relations, obsession, family problems, life is a bitch, physical appearance, parents and children, anorexia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nova scotia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Willard Young is a 10-year-old boy who is sent by his mother to stay with her best friend Lily Reed, who lives in the Delta shrimp-fishing country in a town called Paradise. Lily and her husband Ben have been living in an unmentioned emotional ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, sad, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, bullying, love, friendship, coming of age, youth, death, loss of son, child's point of view, village, children, childhood love ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
asthma, parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
family relations, interracial relations, estrangement, interracial rape, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, society, hopes, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, family gatherings ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
usa, alabama
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with Pompe disease - a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the support of ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, inspirational, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, kids, teens
Plot:
medical, hopes, race against time, family drama, cure, against the odds, family problems, unlikely partners, doctors and patients, child illness, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, portland oregon, boston, las vegas, california ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, domineering mother, adaptation, aging, family in crisis, parents and children, family life, family problems, unfulfillment, cripple, mother ...
Time:
year 1987, 1930s, 20th century, future, 70s ...
Place:
tennessee, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
grief, women, youth, friendship, dysfunctional family, housekeeper, child hero, black, sex crime, adolescence, racism, family relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
jamaica, baltimore, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
making love, family problems, couple relations, parents and children, crumbling marriage, dealing with death, unfulfillment, dishonesty, death in the family, sex scene, woman, women ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.
Style:
independent film, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, women, friendship, chase, dysfunctional family, nervous breakdown, lgbt, lgbtq, depression, forbidden love, unrequited love ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 70s
Place:
boston, new jersey, san francisco, california, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, hopes, siblings relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
parents and children, teenage life, love and romance, family life, dysfunctional family, friendship, single parent, youth, family problems, disgraced, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
maine, new england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
high school, family problems, child illness, against the odds, terminal illness, human spirit, family relations, disability, family in crisis, school, parents and children, relationship vs career ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, coming of age, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, couple relations, teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hospital, working class, single parent ...
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
603
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, sincere, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, adoption, politics, power relations, babies and infants, society, master and servant, single parent, love and romance, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
crumbling marriage, dysfunctional family, losing-it hero, obsession, ex husband, life is a bitch, breaking point, parents and children, mentally unstable, danger, family problems, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, southern gothic, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, downfall, siblings relations, family life, family problems, family in crisis, life is a bitch, male nudity, siblings, mental retardation ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, black comedy ...
Plot:
aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, father son relationship, writers, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, writer's life, parents and children, extramarital affair ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mother with seven sons feels like she's losing control of her life and her family. But personal...
Style:
touching, realistic, melancholic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, character study, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, couples, estrangement, hopes, single parent, terrorism ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 70s
Place:
new jersey, middle east, utah, beirut lebanon, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Gainesville Florida auto upholsterer (Giamatti) attempts to subvert his mundane life by training a wild, red-tailed hawk.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
obsession, family relations, mentally challenged, supportive spouse, family problems, midlife crisis, hawk, losing-it hero, death in the family, parents and children, uncle nephew relationship, kids and family ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of a father's tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill father's attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he passes away. It is also a poignant tribute to the infinite ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
terminal illness, autism, single parent, life is a bitch, father son relationship, love, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment, disability, mentally challenged, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
family farm, survival, farm, farmer, family relations, couples, couple relations, life is a bitch, family business, against the odds, family problems, human nature ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
iowa, america, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Style:
emotional, touching, lyrical, depressing, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, hopes, children, midlife crisis, family life, human nature, couple relations, haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, love and romance, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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