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Sons & Lovers (2003)
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Sons & Lovers (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 192 min.
Story: Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be struggling with nearly a century later. Human relationships remain as fragile as ever, and the only constant in life seems to be a humbling sense of uncertainty. Sarah Lancashire stars in a drama detailing the anguish of first love, and the awkward confusion of first sex.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, romantic, period drama
Plot: family relations, self discovery, parents and children, love and romance, couples, dysfunctional family, family problems, family in crisis, writer's life, crumbling marriage, female nudity, death in the family, unfulfillment, sex, skinny dipping, nude model, dealing with death, miner, male pubic hair, male nudity, pubic hair, female full frontal nudity, sleeping nude, romance
Time: edwardian era

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about couples, family problems, family relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, crumbling marriage and parents and children mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Sons & Lovers: The Mermaid Chair (2006), Blame It on Mum (2009), Fine Things (1990), Open Window (2006), Mile Zero (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Mermaid Chair (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
Style: serious, touching, romantic, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mermaid, family relations, forbidden love, self discovery, clergy, religions or cults, estrangement, family problems, couples, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Fine Things (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Standard romantic melodrama from novelist Danielle Steele finds a couple embroiled in marital conflict with a nasty child-custody battle at its center.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: youth, love, wedding, couples, family relations, family problems, terminal illness, missing person, family life, pregnancy, custody, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 6.1
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Open Window (2006)
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, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film
Plot: dysfunctional family, rape, introspection, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female nudity, family in crisis, vegetarian ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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 118
Mile Zero (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mile Zero is a story about a father with a remarkable capacity to love.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, gloomy
Plot: kidnapping, estrangement, couples, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, breakup, wilderness, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, parents and children, utopia ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 5.5
 347
Alpha Male (2006)
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, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Satin Rouge (2002)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whilst looking for Salma late one night, Lilia stumbles upon a belly dance cabaret and though initially reserved and taken aback by the culture of ...
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious, islamic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cabaret, nightclub, starting over, fall in love, self discovery, lifestyle, destructive relationship, introspection, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
Place: middle east, tunisia
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Alexander the Last (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style: mumblecore, serious, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, couple relations, actor's life, family relations, couples, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: family relations, downfall, mischievous children, family life, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, society, social differences, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, edwardian era, 1890s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Belonging (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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 7K
Take My Eyes (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: domestic violence, violent husband, starting over, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, siblings relations, understanding, family problems, therapy, crumbling marriage, fall in love, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.7
 703
Sunday (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling creature of that name since "Vertigo" is a middle-aged, moderately successful actress. Oliver/Matthew is either a homeless man or a ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: diner, self discovery, hobo, tramp, homeless, couple relations, unfulfillment, friendship, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, society ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.6
 575
The Nanny (1999)
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, psychological, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: nanny, dysfunctional family, single parent, adoption, power relations, master and servant, society, family life, family in crisis, youth, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Policeman's Wife (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: accident, couple relations, family problems, domestic violence, family relations, couples, small town, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
La séparation (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: betrayal, adultery, dysfunctional family, infidelity, unfaithful wife, cuckold, family life, lovers reunited, crumbling marriage, breakup, estrangement, couples ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Best Intentions (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Norway, Iceland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Ã…kerbloom, the daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden. After a few ...
Style: sincere, manga, emotional, serious, touching ...
Plot: family relations, biopic, clergy, nordic, scandinavian culture, art history, religion, wedding, unfulfillment, society, family problems, couples ...
Time: year 1992, 1900s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Daddy (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Oliver Watson has never been luckier: he is a successful advertising executive, shares a marriage of eighteen years with Sarah and has three loving kids: 17-year-old Ben, 15-year-old Melissa, and 9-year-old Sam. His perfect life suddenly falls apart ...
Style: semi serious, realistic
Plot: single parent, single father, marital problem, love, couples, family problems, family relations, family life, custody, parents and children, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Comedy-drama about a middle-aged Italian businessman Vittorio Gassman who is married to Eleanor Parker and is innocently introduced one day to a schoolgirl with pigtails named Carolina. Years later, that young schoolgirl has become a vivacious ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, woman with a gun, redheaded woman, mistress, older man younger woman relationship, elderly, love and romance, self discovery, crumbling marriage, couple relations, unfulfillment, human nature ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Style: emotional, serious, psychological, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, cheating wife, parents and children, love triangle, polyamory ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: marseille, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Once in a Lifetime (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, family problems, family relations, couples, pregnancy, parents and children, hospital, boarding school life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Closing the Ring (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to ...
Style: serious, touching, suspenseful, realistic, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, optimism, couples, death in the family, couple relations, battles, family problems, family relations, parents and children, wartime life, love and romance, sex ...
Time: 90s, 50s, 1940s
Place: ireland, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
My Friend & His Wife (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two young men, Ye-joon and Jae-moon, have been close friends since doing military service together. Ye-joon has lately worked his way up to becoming a successful financier, while the unambitious Jae-moon has opted for a much less conspicuous route. ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family in crisis, family relations, unfulfillment, family problems, parents and children, couples, crumbling marriage, best friend, love triangle, tragedy, betrayal, car accident ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Sofie (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story: From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, religions or cults, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, fall in love, society, love and romance, introspection ...
Time: year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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With or Without You (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, sexual, independent film ...
Plot: infidelity, male pubic hair, sex scene, nudity, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couple relations, unfulfillment, family problems, couples, thirtysomething life, love triangle ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.3
 639
The Bridge (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, emotional, semi autobiographical
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love triangle, midlife crisis, looking for love, parents and children, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.3
 326
The Weekend (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the one-year anniversary of the death of John's brother, the handsome and charismatic Tony, who ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: lgbt, glbt, loss of lover, aids, gay interest, mourning, couples, family relations, estrangement, family problems, haunted by the past, terminal illness ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.8
 6K
Stricken (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: cancer, cancer patient, true love, self discovery, infidelity, womanizer, love affair, crumbling relationship, life turned upside down, terminal illness, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
Style: period piece, serious, stylized, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, greed, deception, marriage for money, family problems, couples, society, fall in love, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, parents and children ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place: england, italy, britain, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.2
 491
Three Sisters (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Laurence Olivier's film of Chekhov's play.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough, touching ...
Plot: family problems, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, infidelity, small town, human nature, unfulfillment, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time: 1900s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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 293
Bedrooms (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Bedrooms tells a story about the walls that separate people, the heartbreak and infidelity that's often the result and the redemption that comes from tearing those walls down. The film is told in 4 stories by 3 filmmakers. Three of the stories ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: love and romance, breakup, introspection, couple relations, family problems, family relations, twins, unfulfillment, infidelity, sexuality, multiple storylines, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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