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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, meditative, poignant, melancholic, slow cinema, 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, family drama, elderly man, grief, mourning, character study, friendship, ritual, lake, cornfield, longing, bittersweet, retiring, intimate, youth, death ...
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 realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, youth, death in the family, bittersweet and dealing with death mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Fly with the Crane: Suddenly (2006), Red Leaves (2014), A Time in Quchi (2013), A Rumor of Angels (2000), Never Die (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, parents and children, society, family problems, elderly, dysfunctional family, family drama, alienation, grief, assimilation, diaspora ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, israel
Similarity:
61%
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 problems, friends, family relations, parents and children, elderly, youth, countryside, school, little boy, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia
Similarity:
60%
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, esoteric ...
Plot:
stepmother, friendship, family relations, estrangement, family problems, elderly, death in the family, occult, grief, dealing with death, youth, myth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, usa, canada
Similarity:
54%
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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, unfulfillment, death in the family, homecoming, female protagonist, day of the dead, mother daughter relationship, grandmother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
53%
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:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, family problems, hopes, aging, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
bittersweet, coming of age, dysfunctional family, single parent, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, family drama, child protagonist, childhood, stepfather, estranged father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
52%
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, slow cinema ...
Plot:
family in crisis, parents and children, introspection, family problems, family relations, life turned upside down, accident, architect, school teacher, death, funeral, loss of daughter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, catalonia
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, self discovery, teenage life, interracial relations, hopes, society, idealism, spoiled brat, quibbling, aging, death in the family ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In 1980s China, the country is beginning to reform and workers who had been moved with their families to the provinces in the 60s now long to return to Shanghai. For one displaced family a conflict arises when their 19-year-old daughter finds love ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, forbidden love, family life, immigrant, life is a bitch, obsession, family relations, parents and children, family drama, female protagonist, young love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
china, shanghai, asia
Similarity:
49%
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, sincere, touching, stylized, slow cinema ...
Plot:
hopes, friendship, forceful separation, parents separation, family problems, family relations, youth, on the run, starting over, breakup, parents and children, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
49%
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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, islamic, gloomy ...
Plot:
couples, family relations, boy, deaf, sign language, youth, little boy, family problems, protecting from truth, mute or deaf, misfit, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, tehran
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, parents and children, family gatherings, unfulfilled love, road not taken, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, family reunited, nostalgia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
48%
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, family relations, estrangement, memory loss, parents and children, elderly, father son relationship, love, brothers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
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, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, estrangement, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, elderly lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A generous and stubborn elderly boxing coach gets along with everyone except his own son. They're reunited after the death of the old man's wife and forced to face old grievances.
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, grief, boxing, family drama, loss of spouse, mourning, reconciliation, regret, forgiveness, elderly man, bittersweet, small town ...
Similarity:
47%
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, contemplative ...
Plot:
childhood, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems, estrangement, youth, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, alcohol abuse, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, teenage love, rebelliousness, best friend, love and romance, youth, rebellion, boarding house, opera singer, friendship, reconciliation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
beijing china, china, asia
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an unexpected bond begins to blossom, as ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, meditative, slow cinema, melancholic ...
Plot:
village life, lovers apart, intimate, character study, farming, love story, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, love and romance, tragic love, star crossed lovers ...
Place:
poetic realism, china
Similarity:
47%
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:
redemption, friendship, introspection, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, human nature, family life, custody, addiction, hopes, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A divorced couple learns that the only way to possibly save their daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. The problem is they've both already remarried.
Style:
emotional, captivating, touching, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
child illness, parents and children, transplant, terminal illness, family relations, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, remarry, parents separation, love, family problems, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
47%
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:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
46%
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:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
summer vacation, family relations, farmer, teenage life, family problems, estrangement, youth, parents and children, friendship, elderly, adolescence vs adulthood, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
46%
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, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, couple relations, parents and children, death in the family, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family crisis, mourning, stillborn child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in 1974 Texas, three teen siblings struggle with the death of their father and try to live with their abusive mother. When one of the teens is sent away because the mother can't cope with his autism, the teens embark on a life changing road ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, dysfunctional family, family problems, on the road, youth, family relations, escapades, self discovery, obsessive quest, death in the family, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Thailand, Laos
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, down on your luck, parents and children, contests and competitions, society, human spirit, friendship, family relations, post war, change of luck, boy, children ...
Place:
asia, thailand
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Jojo lives with his father, a security guard with a volatile personality who drinks to manage the unspoken despair he feels about his wife's absence, which he refuses to discuss with his son. In the midst of so much uncertainty, ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
parents and children, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, bird, father son relationship, youth, pets, escape from reality, dishonesty, life & death, children ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
holland
Similarity:
46%
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:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
starting over, family relations, couples, lovers reunited, parents and children, couple relations, death in the family, dead son, loss of child, dealing with death, basement, cemetery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Marco, a cynical and ambitious young lawyer, lives in Bari with his partner Martina and their eight-year-old son Mateo. Martina had left Chile and moved to Italy when she met Marco. Their relationship has run its course, however, and Martina longs ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Plot:
family drama, fatherhood, missing child, family problems, marital problem, relationships, unhappy marriage, marriage crisis, dysfunctional family, family relations, relationship problems, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
chile
Similarity:
45%
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