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The Tree (2010)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, emotional, romantic drama, romantic, stylized, sincere, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
tree, little girl, mother daughter relationship, desire, death of loved one, death of father, children, loss of father, grief, family relations, introspection, parents and children, death in the family, family problems, small town, youth, pagan, coming of age, hard life, nature, house, bird, destruction, imagination, funeral ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
australia, new zealand
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Most similar movies to The Tree
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, death, family problems, youth, sex and kiss mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Tree: December Boys (2007), That Night (1992), All the Way Home (1963), Rain (2001), Four Sheets to the Wind (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, sad, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
adoption, friendship, teenage boy, male friendship, couple relations, orphan, male bonding, youth, summer vacation, boy, male virgin, best friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 60s, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
australia, south australia, tasmania, tokyo, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, teenage pregnancy, bowling, young couple, summer, bullying, teenager, child protagonist, star crossed lovers, grief, girl, teen angst ...
Time:
year 1961, year 1992, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the ...
Style:
retro, realistic, serious, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
car accident, death of husband, grief, family relations, small town, family problems, family in crisis, death in the family, parents and children, small town life, life turned upside down, human nature ...
Time:
1910s, year 1963, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
tennessee, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
25%
2K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Janey is on vacation with her brother, Jim, mother, Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsual in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit around in the back yard all day drinking whiskey and Janey and ...
Style:
sexual, melancholic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, skinny dipping, beach party, vacation, boy, family vacation, women, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, infidelity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new zealand, iowa, australia, tokyo
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, parents and children, last wish, native, american indian, aunt nephew relationship, indigenous people, indians, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
love affair, teenage life, introspection, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, youth, love and romance, hopes, destructive relationship, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, europe, africa, brazil
Similarity:
21%
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, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, love, deaf, starting over, boarding school, dealing with death, youth, single parent, hopes, love and romance, couples, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
945
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duchess, Nastassja Kinski. Upon learning that she was previously the King's mistress, Sergio ...
Style:
romantic, neorealism, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
nobility, nobleman, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, mistress, male nudity, italian history, art, artist, loneliness, solitude, religions or cults ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
obsession, possessiveness, child abuse, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, parents and children, life is a bitch, single parent, family relations, family problems, teenage life, babies and infants ...
Time:
year 2005
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, family life, family problems, couples, hopes, couple relations, mental illness, family in crisis, haunted by the past, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, love and romance, family problems, family relations, resort, parents and children, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, first love, teenage boy, fight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, tuscany
Similarity:
20%
210K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time:
50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place:
france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In order to to see his idol, Jimi Hendrix, a twelve year old boy attempts a journey from his Quebec village to Woodstock.
Style:
psychological, realistic, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot:
death of father, family problems, family relations, youth, best friend, death in the family, coming of age, child romance, child protagonist, teenage boy, dream, boy ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place:
woodstock, canada, quebec
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style:
clever, sentimental, emotional, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
fall in love, murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, haunted by the past, death in the family, family problems, grief, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
courtroom drama, divorce, sex, children, women, love, friendship, lawyer, father daughter relationship, passion, mother daughter relationship, piano ...
Time:
80s
Place:
connecticut, maine, boston
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
separated parents, half sister half sister relationship, father daughter relationship, school, family problems, parents and children, youth, family life, suicide attempt, arrest, girl, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
Style:
sexual, crying, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian, midlife crisis, lesbian subtext, school, lesbian friend, sexual repression, small town, teacher, loss of virginity, lesbianism, outdoor sex, bird ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s
Place:
oregon, new england, usa, connecticut
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, young lovers, parents and children, troubled teen, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, loner, amor ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+, his family quickly rallys around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, crying ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
boy, youth, skinny dipping, hiv, gays and lesbians, friendship, coming of age, lgbt, tragic hero, family problems, family life, pregnancy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
paris france, europe, france, brittany
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a ...
Style:
sexy, touching, emotional, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, self discovery, teenage life, love and romance, dysfunctional relationship, sexual awakening, runaway, youth, menage a trois, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
australia, new south wales, california, new zealand
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Turkey
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, ...
Style:
sincere, talky, serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
gay, gays and lesbians, couple relations, friendship, gay relationship, infidelity, family problems, introspection, terminal illness, dealing with death, lgbt, dinner party ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out ...
Style:
touching, sincere, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, childhood sweetheart, teenage mother, loss of child, family relations, loss of son, crumbling marriage, youth, family problems, death in the family, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, coming of age, pregnancy, small town, friendship, single parent, youth, family problems, teenage life, human nature, employer employee relationship, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A man vacationing in the country with his wife and children finds ideas he has of himself unexpectedly challenged in director Zabou Breitman's intimate drama.
Style:
sexy, realistic, emotional, psychological, sexual ...
Plot:
love triangle, crumbling marriage, moral dilemma, couples, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, gender, love and romance, family problems, family relations, gay, summer vacation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
19%
11K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, period piece, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
happy ending, nobility, orphan, love triangle, fall in love, power relations, family relations, love and romance, haunted by the past, rich and poor, parents and children, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, year 1996, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
18%
4K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to ...
Style:
romantic, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, redheaded woman, unrequited love, family relations, male female relationship, autism, tenderness, mother in law son in law relationship, age-gap relationship, sibling relationship, women, psychopath ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Red Dirt offers the story of a young man's search to belong in this sublime expression of love and reconciliation. At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring for his unwell aunt, grieving the loss of their ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
homosexuality, aunt nephew relationship, social relations, friendship, drifter, family relations, leaving home, mentally unstable, love and romance, misfit, small town, secret ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, montana, louisiana, southern usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
starting over, family problems, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, hopes, death in the family, brother brother relationship, rescue from drowning, single father, father daughter relationship, widower ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, male nudity, death, teenager, skinny dipping, strained relationship, police officer, father son relationship, family relations, ira, politics, rural area ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland, europe, tokyo, japan
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, romantic drama, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, true love, countryside, young lovers, literary, woman in labor, outdoor sex, orphan, obsession, siblings relations, rich and poor, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, georgian era
Place:
england, britain, northern england, europe, yorkshire ...
Similarity:
18%
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