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To Sleep with Anger (1990)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
Style:
independent film, deep, tense, sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
african american, black, domestic abuse, legal, african, transformation, black history, family tragedy, american horror, blaxploitation, friendship, family relations, drifter, betrayal, friends, prodigy, family life, best friend, sexual relations, couples, society, opposites attract, family problems, introspection, family in crisis ...
Time:
year 1990, 80s
Place:
los angeles, indiana, africa
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Most similar movies to To Sleep with Anger
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and emotional films with plots about family relations, society, family problems, parents and children, couples, hopes and human nature mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like To Sleep with Anger: Decoration Day (1990), Killer of Sheep (1978), Face (2002), Middle of Nowhere (2012), Mississippi Damned (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, old people, friendship, family relations, couples, friends, interracial relations, opposites attract, human nature, hopes, society ...
Place:
georgia
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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, african american, friendship, black, dysfunctional family, human nature, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, couple relations, family problems, slaughterhouse ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
los angeles, africa
Similarity:
68%
355
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 ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, emotional, social ...
Plot:
prison, self discovery, family problems, introspection, human nature, supportive spouse, black, family in crisis, medical school, urban, blaxploitation, women of color ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa, los angeles, africa
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, rough, informative ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, addiction, family relations, human nature, society, family problems, family in crisis, women of color, feminist, child abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, africa
Similarity:
59%
544
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, swimmer, sex crime, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A successful American family retreat to their summer home on the banks of Lake Erie to find meaning in life, illness, loss, and change this Christmas. With a successful career in the wine business, and two amazing children, what more can a family ...
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
christmas, human spirit, family life, family problems, couples, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, road not taken, parents and children, miraculous event, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A television drama that revolves around a family that runs a pharmaceutical company.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, dramatic ...
Plot:
family business, pharmaceutical company, family relations, workplace, family problems, parents and children, love, rivalry, couples, ethical dilemma, family drama, morality ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friendship. Marvin wants to adopt Tige but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home. Then he ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
adoption, coming of age, racism, homelessness, alcoholism, racial discrimination, african, blaxploitation, family relations, suicide, couples, friends ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
atlanta georgia, africa
Similarity:
52%
18
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Scorn takes a look into the trials and tribulations of a group of people dealing with relationships, love, pain and friendship during the course of one year.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
bittersweet, love, family problems, introspection, couples, couple relations, human nature, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, urban, abuse, friendship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
All the Beautiful Things describes the palpable and uniquely portrayed real-life experience of two men seeking to repair their lifelong, but fractured, bond. Looking to move beyond their individual and shared histories of domestic violence, poverty, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, black and white
Plot:
friendship, redemption, introspection, unsupportive friend, righting the wronged, betrayal, human nature, best friend, domestic violence, jazz, friendship between men, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, boston
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sister's resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Style:
social, independent film, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, adoption, african, black, black history, orphan, siblings, sister sister relationship, black american, redemption, family relations, foster home ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
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Story:
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Style:
retro, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
black, rape, lgbtq, women of color, sexual abuse, sexualized violence, anti racism, lesbian, blaxploitation, lgbt, black cast, strong female lead ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 60s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
family in crisis, life is a bitch, working class, lifestyle, society, parents and children, family problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even ...
Style:
crime drama, independent film, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
black, blaxploitation, african, swing, racial issues, african american, performer's life, family relations, urban ghetto, society, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
Style:
independent film, touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
slavery, african american, old man, segregation, slave, social justice, interracial, youth, slave trade, suburbs, interracial relations, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, year 1998
Place:
virginia, usa, alabama, california
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style:
touching, serious, hood, crime drama, feel good ...
Plot:
hopes, going straight, family relations, parents and children, street kid, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, gang, blaxploitation, urban, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, indiana, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France). Trouble comes when Tom ex girlfriend reappears, asking for help, announcing him that she had a girl from him 9 years ago.
Style:
touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, midlife crisis, hopes, friends, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, fatherhood, ex girlfriend, boy, love, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
49%
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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:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, vengeance, crumbling marriage, family problems, parents and children, love affair, dishonesty, redemption, introspection, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
african american, sexual abuse, incest, lgbtq, domestic violence, life is a bitch, rape, racial discrimination, feminism, incest rape, wife abuse, abusive relationship ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place:
africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, interracial relations, addiction, drug abuse, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, hopes, couple relations, life is a bitch, rehabilitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Matthew Cameron (Jay Richardson) is a lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis despite having a seemingly perfect life with his wife, advertising executive Jessica (Candy Clark), and his young son. When he champions a homeless shelter facing eviction, his ...
Style:
independent film, captivating, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, injustice, power relations, couples, heroic mission, courtroom drama, family life, against the odds, midlife crisis, life is a bitch, legal, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
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:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, young lovers, coming of age, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, womanizer, youth, society, couples, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2000
Place:
nebraska, europe, usa, england
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, realistic, clever, touching ...
Plot:
couples, family in crisis, destiny, family life, love and romance, family relations, social worker, unemployment, human nature, society, starting over, parents and children ...
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also ...
Style:
touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
slavery, black, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, women of color, drug addiction, african american, storytelling, racism, solace, black girl, anti racism ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, chicago, indiana, usa, alabama ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, follow your dream, teenage life, family business, society, youth, hopes, human spirit, workplace, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
48%
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:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
family relations, pregnancy, family life, family problems, realism, husband wife relationship, marriage, psychiatrist, baby, working class, women of color, teenage son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
48%
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