Movies like The Tree
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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, stylized, sincere, serious, gloomy, fable
Plot:
tree, grief, family relations, children, loss of father, parents and children, death in the family, introspection, family problems, mother daughter relationship, death of loved one, death of father, australian, little girl, youth, countryside, small town, pagan, coming of age, love, women, religion, storm, beach, single mother ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
australia
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Most similar movies to The Tree
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, youth, mother daughter relationship, death, coming of age and kiss mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Tree: Rain (2001), Four Sheets to the Wind (2007), Night Sun (1990), Misunderstood (2014), That Night (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
bleak, melancholic, emotional, sexual, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, vacation, women, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, infidelity, crumbling marriage, youth, lolita, love and romance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new zealand, iowa, tokyo, australia
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95%
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:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
native american, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, last wish, parents and children, indigenous people, coming of age, starting over, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
772
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, serious, realistic, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot:
artist, art, italian history, loneliness, solitude, nobleman, mistress, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, swamp, religions or cults ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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, family relations, female protagonist, half sister half sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, school, family problems, parents and children, youth, family life, girl ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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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:
teenage pregnancy, coming of age, bowling, summer, bullying, teenager, father, teenage girl, rock and roll, self discovery, pregnancy, teen angst ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Movies like Me Before You
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, death in the family, best friends, coming of age, teenage boy, child protagonist, dream, boy, children ...
Time:
20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place:
canada, woodstock, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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, gloomy ...
Plot:
teenage life, love affair, introspection, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, destructive relationship, parents and children, hopes, youth, love and romance, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, europe, brazil, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, couples, family relations, family problems, pregnancy, death in the family, parents and children, boarding school life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund--his brother, widow, and younger mistress--so he can get ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, rough, tense ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, writer's life, lifestyle, social relations, college graduate, latin, village, writers, male female relationship, journey, flirting, student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
uruguay, latin america, south america, madrid, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 141 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, serious, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, family problems, family relations, love and romance, dysfunctional family, resort, parents and children, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, first love, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Movies similar to The Notebook
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:
sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, parents and children, young lovers, depression, compassion, desperation, jail, self discovery, bad father, melancholy, village ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, family life, family problems, couples, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, mental illness, haunted by the past, couple relations, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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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, women, cooking and food, love and romance, lifestyle change, culture clash, food, love, village ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, canada, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, boy, coming out, gay, gays and lesbians, friendship, brother brother relationship, coming of age, lgbt, tragic hero, hiv, life is a bitch ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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:
emotional, touching, realistic, sexy, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, mother daughter relationship, teenage life, teenager, love and romance, youth, dysfunctional family, sexuality, honest, visceral, solitude ...
Place:
australia, new south wales, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Movies like The Fault in Our Stars
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, captivating, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, pregnancy, teenage mother, loss of son, family relations, crumbling marriage, youth, family problems, parents and children, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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, touching, emotional, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
adoption, orphan, friendship, best friends, teenager, youth, summer vacation, rivalry, love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, orphanage ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 1930s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
australia, london, england, south australia, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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, life is a bitch, friendship, family problems, single parent, youth, teenage life, human nature, employer employee relationship ...
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, art house ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
true love, forbidden love, family relations, orphan, obsession, countryside, siblings relations, society, social differences, rich and poor, young lovers, tragic love ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era
Place:
england, northern england, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
mermaid, family relations, self discovery, forbidden love, clergy, religions or cults, couples, family problems, estrangement, love and romance, haunted by the past, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Cinema Paradiso related movies
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, dysfunctional family, mental illness, pregnancy, parents and children, single parent, life is a bitch, family problems, family relations, teenage life, babies and infants, possessiveness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Taking place during the full-moon night of traditional dances in August and set on the Japanese island of Amami-Oshima, the drama centers on a 14-year-old boy who finds a dead body floating in the sea. The young man enlists the help of his ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, touching, light, sincere ...
Plot:
nature, teenage love, island, teenage life, investigation, youth, love, young love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, swimming, boyhood, women of color ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
aunt nephew relationship, friendship, cousin cousin relationship, drifter, family relations, leaving home, love and romance, mentally unstable, social relations, misfit, small town, secret ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, louisiana, montana, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A drama about a young widow who finds a guardian angel in the form of a hobo who comes to her rural community looking for work.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot:
single parent, family relations, farm, family life, human nature, hopes, parents and children, social differences, teaching the ways of the world, father in law daughter in law relationship, religions or cults, family in crisis ...
Time:
1930s, post world war one
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, 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, melancholic, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, happy ending, orphan, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, power relations, love and romance, parents and children, haunted by the past, rich and poor, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, island, self discovery, uncover truth, homecoming, dysfunctional family, introspection, family life, parents and children, family problems, couples ...
Place:
maine, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Director Atom Egoyan explores the concept of cyberspace as a place for redemption in this drama about an adolescent boy named Simon who reinvents his life on the internet. Before long, Simon's deeply personal journey provokes strong reactions ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, touching, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
orphan, self discovery, haunted by the past, uncover truth, redemption, introspection, youth, parents and children, cyberspace, secret, high school, controversy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style:
sad, inspirational, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, first love, friendship, filmmaking, nostalgia, cinema, haunted by the past, philosophy, flashback, movie theatre, village ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, sicily, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alejandro and Aurora, two young students, leave Santiago and are on their way to spend Christmas with family in Aurora. At the foot of the Andes, the frustrations of Alejandro and Aurora’s doubts about her sexual identity cause tension. The two ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, young lovers, youth, introspection, family problems, friends, parents and children, teenage life, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
558
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
Style:
emotional, sincere, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
jewish, family relations, gulf war, family problems, dealing with death, death in the family, family life, siblings relations, jewish family, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, divorce ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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