Movies like Fly with the Crane
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Fly with the Crane (2012)
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Original name: 告訴他們
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijin. (TIFF)
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, elderly, death in the family, little girl, grandfather grandson relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, little boy, cousin cousin relationship, youth, death, cousin, cremation, nude, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
china
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Most similar movies to Fly with the Crane
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, death in the family, youth, dealing with death and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Fly with the Crane: Never Die (2012), A Time in Quchi (2013), Red Leaves (2014), A Rumor of Angels (2000), Lost and Love (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chayo returns to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and cope with her death. Surrounded by love and sublime beauty, Chayo has to give up something that as a woman and mother is inalienable. That will be the price of her freedom.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, tradition, elderly, golden years, unfulfillment, homecoming, death in the family, female protagonist, day of the dead, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, youth, elderly, village, countryside, school, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, tense
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, elderly, immigrants, golden years, society, family problems, jewish
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An old woman helps a young boy resolve his feelings over the death of his mother.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
stepmother, friendship, elderly, family relations, estrangement, family problems, death in the family, grief, dealing with death, youth, unlikely friendships, ghost ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After his young son goes missing, Lei (Andy Lau) begins a 14-year quest to find him.
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, serious, gloomy
Plot:
missing child, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, family problems, on the road, escapades, family relations, father and son, relationship problems, road trip, parents and children, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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375
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative's house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, couples, deaf, boy, youth, mute or deaf, couple relations, misfit, family problems, protecting from truth, on the road, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, tehran
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
171
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, realistic, bleak
Plot:
teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, youth, family problems, child as adult, family relations, teachers and students, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boy ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
starting over, couple relations, parents and children, lovers reunited, family relations, couples, death in the family, dead son, loss of child, dealing with death, cemetery, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In an old house in Hanoi, Bi, a 6-year-old child lives with his parents, his aunt and their cook. His favorite playgrounds are an ice factory and the wild grass along the river. After being absent for years, his grandfather, seriously ill, reappears ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, touching, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
childhood, dysfunctional family, family life, youth, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, alcohol abuse, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, coma, husband wife relationship, hospital, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Films like Mother and Son
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
destiny, parents and children, family problems, love and romance, dull life, life is a bitch, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, chance, sexual content, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. During a vacation they suffer a car accident that will change their lives.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family in crisis, parents and children, introspection, family problems, family relations, life turned upside down, memory loss, accident, architect, school teacher, funeral, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mark is a struggling actor stuck between the life he once knew and the one waiting for him. When the mother of his two-year-old son suddenly passes away, Mark is forced to confront his shortcomings. Their fates, now intertwined, hang in the balance ...
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
single father, family relations, single parent, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis, life turned upside down, parent child relationship, babies and infants, death in the family, father son relationship, baby ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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, dysfunctional family, aging, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, memory loss, elderly, father son relationship, brothers, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
death in the family, hopes, introspection, last wish, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, siblings relations, brother brother relationship, journey, river, nature ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Films like Still Walking
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, sad
Plot:
youth, single parent, family problems, working class, family relations, parents and children, society, siblings relations, suburbs, eviction, child, bittersweet ...
Place:
boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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, realistic, touching, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.
Style:
psychological, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, parent child relationship, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, power relations, family relations, doctors and patients, clinic, mental institution, parents and children, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the lives of the two of them, and their friends and family.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot:
summer vacation, family relations, farmer, teenage life, estrangement, family problems, youth, friendship, parents and children, elderly, adolescence vs adulthood, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Way We Are is a respectful, unglamorous, and serenely charming portrait of regular people and a Hong Kong town that normally gets a bad rap. It may put you to sleep, but the visit and Ann Hui's quiet touch are exceptionally worthwhile.
Style:
touching, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, working class, single parent, society, family problems, unfulfillment, poverty, boy, loss of daughter, hopes, death in the family, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When Yuki finds out that her parents are separating and she is moving to Japan with her mother, she and her best friend Nina devise ways to reunite the feuding adults.
Style:
serious, touching, stylized, sincere, realistic
Plot:
friendship, forceful separation, family relations, family problems, parents separation, best friends, hopes, on the run, starting over, youth, breakup, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
587
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two families bond when their teenage sons are killed in an explosion at a suburban mall only to discover one of their children is the prime suspect.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, dishonesty, police investigation, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, death in the family, shopping mall, terrorism, suburbs, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family relations, friends, life turned upside down, youth, society, couples, twentysomething life, student life, student
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
norway, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, single father, family problems, law firm, death in the family, family in crisis, death of mother, little girl, ethical dilemma, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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, hopes, self discovery, elderly, family problems, parents and children, countryside, adolescence vs adulthood, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Qiuming is a trainee at a digital mapping company. His job is to survey the streets of the ever-changing city and keep the mapping system up to date. Typical of his generation, Qiuming is upbeat, energetic, and totally immersed in the world of ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, atmospheric, touching
Plot:
investigation, family relations, privacy invasion, dishonesty, mysterious character, intrigue, parents and children, surveillance, urban setting, urban, bumper car, off the grid
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, coming out, family problems, haunted by the past, introspection, hopes, aging, bittersweet, death in the family, gender, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, jewish, coming of age, self discovery, clergy, society, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, parents and children, rabbi, religions or cults ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwilling guardian to a young girl with a bit of an attitude. The film is an updated and Americanized ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious, feel good
Plot:
friendship, redemption, introspection, elderly, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, human nature, addiction, hopes, custody, rehabilitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
283
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
optimism, family relations, hopes, society, family problems, unemployment, parents and children, village, husband wife relationship, loss of job, blaxploitation, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, colombia, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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