Movies like The Milk of Sorrow
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The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
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Original name: La teta asustada
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Spain, Peru
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.
Style:
sincere, rough, disturbing, bleak, depressing, political, art house, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
maid, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, injustice, society, woman in danger, against humanity, genocide, gender, feminist, magic realism, tragedy, erotica, depression, illness, health, sex crime, ptsd, women of color, rape victim, family relations, rape, bride and groom, gynecological exam, parents and children ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
peru, latin america, south america
Keyword:
feminist film, candy, challenge
Most similar movies to The Milk of Sorrow
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and crying films with plots about mother daughter relationship, death, singing, husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking, friendship and singer mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like The Milk of Sorrow: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Patti Cake$ (2017), Beyond Silence (1996), Cat's Play (1974), Vox Lux (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, bleak, melancholic, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
abortion, sexual abuse, friendship, unwanted pregnancy, communism, rape, realism, communist, doctor, coming of age, young woman, character study ...
Time:
80s, year 2007, 2000s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
romania, transylvania, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, captivating, exciting, independent film ...
Plot:
fat woman, rap, musician, aspiring musician, black american, rapper, friendship, loneliness, aspiration, depression, overweight woman, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sad, spiritual, crying ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, sign language, deaf mute, deaf, brother sister relationship, aunt niece relationship, love, bicycle, audition, deafness, music ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. In this follow-up to the ...
Plot:
shopping, unfaithfulness, fate, male female relationship, physicist, lost, old man, old woman, old age, retirement, memory, gluttony ...
Place:
munich germany, hungary, west germany, frankfurt germany, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
20K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of a catastrophe - while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. ...
Style:
exciting, inspirational, suspense, rough, thought provoking ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
pop star, transformation, female singer, mother daughter relationship, illness, friendship, parents and children, hopes, family relations, greed, music, adaptation ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, year 1999, year 2017, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, new york, los angeles, eastern europe, stockholm sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Movies like Incendies
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, youth, lifestyle, friends, parents and children, black, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, blaxploitation ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new york, usa, pennsylvania, russia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
15K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
country music, single mother, women's prison, bigger dreams, musician, singer, party, working class, mother daughter reunion, promise, rehearsal, released from prison ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, year 1943
Place:
nashville tennessee, glasgow scotland, scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Set in Montreal during the disco phenomenon some 35 years ago, Funkytown follows the life of a group of colorful characters. We follow their lives and tribulations as everyone converges on a regular basis at Montreal's hot disco spot: ...
Style:
serious, suspense, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
disco, gay hustler, nightclub, nightlife, addiction, lifestyle, social decay, artists and showbiz, society, actor's life, gay husband, social relations ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1971, year 1982 ...
Place:
montreal, canada, new york, toronto ontario canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
10K
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Teenage girl Osama cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widowed mother and grandmother. When Osama is called by the Taliban to join school and military training she embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
coming of age, islam, taliban, survival, oppression, child abuse, injustice, life is a bitch, brutality, justice, religion, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iraq, persia, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style:
road movie, art house, disturbing, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
homeless, loneliness, freeze to death, homelessness, feminist, death, wine, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, freedom ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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8 Mile related movies
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, lyrical, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
lesbian, culture clash, music, self discovery, fish out of water, social differences, love and romance, opposites attract, human nature, isolation, writers, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, appalachia, england, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
Style:
touching, feel good, captivating, sincere, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
groupie, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love affair, lifestyle, rock, opposites attract, musician's life, singer, infatuation, art, obsession ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
north carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Mauritania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of two people who cross paths in Nouhadhibou.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot:
isolation, prostitute, beach, desert, social relations, hopes, teenage life, culture clash, african, blaxploitation, black, alienation ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
africa, europe, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, black and white ...
Plot:
village, rebelliousness, rebellion, against the odds, injustice, life is a bitch, musician's life, society, political unrest, family in danger, state affairs, father son relationship ...
Time:
70s
Place:
latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Vietnam
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. In her mind she treated Mui as her daughter. 10 years later Mui (now a young woman) was sent to another ...
Style:
erotic, aesthetic, inspirational, retro, independent film ...
Plot:
buddhism, cooking, friendship, music, food, coming of age, youth, animal abuse, vietnam war, destiny, master and servant, death ...
Time:
year 1993, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
vietnam, saigon, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Plot:
pregnant woman, friends, friendship, aging, dealing with death, pregnancy, bittersweet, death, flowers, church, old man, money ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The movie is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), where we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, meditative, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, marriage, parenthood, character study, introspection, love and romance, parents and children, human nature, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, hopes ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
eastern europe, munich germany, helsinki finland, florence, hamburg germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
Style:
depressing, independent film, sincere, serious, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
depression, unemployment, injustice, working class, female protagonist, solidarity, workplace, loss of job, employer employee relationship, moral dilemma, guilt, poverty ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
belgium, france, ethiopia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Style:
depressing, atmospheric, bleak, meditative, clever ...
Plot:
music, homeless, musician, loneliness, cat, musician's life, financial problem, road trip, aspiring singer, depression, art, eccentricity ...
Time:
60s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1961, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, somalia, indiana, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, emotional, rough, cult classic ...
Plot:
sex scene, captive, nymphomaniac, unfaithful girlfriend, promiscuous woman, sex addict, friendship, drug, going straight, nervous breakdown, trauma, blues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, southern usa, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Piano Teacher related movies
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Chile, Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".
Style:
serious, rough, contemplative, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
dictatorship, brutality, murder, desire for fame, lifestyle, ambition, nightlife, showbiz, contests and competitions, life is a bitch, follow your dream, dictator ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1978
Place:
chile, santiago chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
4K
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:
touching, serious, erotic, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot:
pregnancy, hospital, mother daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, loneliness, parents and children, drinking alcohol, society, relationships, redemption, poverty, friendship ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
spain, europe, andalusia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style:
depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe, florida, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Clandestinely filmed on location in Chinese-ruled Tibet (several actors and crew members had their names withheld for fear of reprisal), documentarian Paul Wagner's compelling drama follows three young Tibetans faced with moral dilemmas: a ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
buddhism, buddhist, politics, murder, buddhist monk, life is a bitch, society, innocence lost, coming of age, state affairs, clergy, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, year 1979
Place:
tibet, himalaya, china, asia, nepal
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style:
disturbing, emotional, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
childhood, friendship, muslim, coming of age, guilt, courage, islam, betrayal, rape, mission, haunted by the past, child ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, china, iraq, bay area ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Films like Mommy
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, friendship, childhood, gay, audition, poverty, follow your dream, boxing ...
Time:
year 1984, 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s ...
Place:
england, northern england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Indian poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to attend the funeral of a dear friend.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, friendship, lifestyle, self discovery, haunted by the past, tragic love, best friend, obsessive quest, orphan, youth, betrayal, writer's life ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Style:
sexual, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bdsm, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, teacher, mother daughter relationship, sexual relations, desire, rape, masochism, fetish, sex, perversion ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, france, austria, europe, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.
Style:
independent film, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
ghetto, friendship, black, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, human nature, parents and children, family life, couple relations, family problems, african american, blaxploitation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
choir, music teacher, boys' school, singer, friendship, boys' choir, orphan, friendship between boys, gay, musician, relationships, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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