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Private Lives (2001)
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Original name: Vidas privadas
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Carmen Uranga is a 42 year-old woman who after 20 years jurisdiction of her native country (Argentina), she returns to solve a family problem related with the inheritance that her sick father wants to leave him. Their return trip results in the unavoidable memories of the torture that that was object during the dictatorship and a dramatic revelation.
Style:
serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
gender, mother son incest, accidental incest, older woman younger man relationship, incestuous sex, voyeur, incest, older woman younger man, older woman younger man sex, sex with mother, love affair, introspection, sexual abuse, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, dysfunctional family, rehabilitation, sexual dysfunction, hopes, parents and children, infidelity, family in crisis, assassination, fall in love ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
argentina, latin america
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Most similar movies to Private Lives
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and emotional films with plots about family relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, love and romance and unfulfillment mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Private Lives: Shoot the Moon (1982), Normal (2007), The Lighthouse (1998), Martin (1997), Cet amour-là (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Style:
realistic, emotional, offbeat, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, writers, marriage, infidelity, husband, wife, adultery, violence, marital crisis, mistress, youth ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 70s
Place:
bay area, san francisco, california
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Style:
erotic, psychological, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
stepmother stepson relationship, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, sex with stepmother, illicit affair, incest overtones, stepmother, sex with stepson, car accident, mother son incest, marijuana, obsession ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker, but they are actually very ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot:
lighthouse, young lovers, forbidden love, disability, orphan, family relations, starting over, hopes, love and romance, gender, gays and lesbians, dealing with death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina, latin america, uruguay, spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An emotionally distant father attempts to reconnect with the son he abandoned. After his estranged son (Juan Diego Botto) tries to commit suicide, Argentine expat Martín (Federico Luppi) brings the troubled teen live with him in Spain. But though ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
gay, gender, addiction, coming of age, love and romance, erotica, teenager, lgbt, filmmaking, truth, dialogue, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
madrid, spain, europe, argentina, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?
Style:
sexy, serious, talky, psychological, clever ...
Plot:
dogme 95, mental illness, depression, family problems, starting over, family relations, mentally unstable, dogma, real world, dysfunctional family, human nature, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, rape, female nudity, introspection, family problems, couples, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, couple relations, haunted by the past, family in crisis, flashback ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
260
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 146 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:
contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
arranged marriage, girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, nudity, religions or cults, family problems, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, psychological, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
incest, sexual abuse, parents and children, dysfunctional family, missing person, murder, forbidden love, female nudity, implied incest, child abuse, investigation, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, asia, usa, vietnam, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, erotic, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, gay, sexual relations, sex scene, adultery, crimes of passion, mother son relationship, son, older woman younger man, murder, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
london, europe, new york, spain, peru ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Charlotte, 27, meets her brother Henrik, 35, for the first time as an adult, it becomes an encounter without boundaries, between two people who don't know what a normal family is. How does sibling love manifest itself if you have never ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, brother sister sex, brother sister incest, incest, stepbrother stepsister relationship, incestuous relationship, female nudity, incestuous sex, sex scene, incestuous desire, forbidden love, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oslo norway
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, political ...
Plot:
operation condor, coming of age, life is a bitch, family life, family in danger, dictator, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
497
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, talky, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, unlikely couple, hopes, family relations, family problems, teenage life, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, single parent ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, black comedy ...
Plot:
aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, father son relationship, writers, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, writer's life, parents and children, extramarital affair ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
lovers apart, redemption, dysfunctional family, couples, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, rehabilitation, drug abuse, addiction, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
100%
712
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, breakup, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, sister, death in the family, sister sister relationship, female nudity, alienation, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, homecoming, dysfunctional family, tragic love, best friend, couples, single parent, orphan, hopes, life is a bitch, starting over, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Morocco
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, independent film, epic, psychedelic ...
Plot:
oedipus complex, mother son incest, roman empire, incest, ancient world, patricide, child abandonment, sex with mother, mythology, oracle, greek mythology, ancient ...
Time:
year 1967
Place:
rome italy, ancient greece, italy, greece, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, exciting, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stalking, interracial relations, couple relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, artists and showbiz, obsession, lifestyle, introspection, love and romance, unsupportive spouse, estrangement ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Since Luc granted a divorce to Pascale ten years ago, he paid generous alimony and left a fine country house as long as their twin sons remain at home. Pascale always acted as if she was the provider and head of the household, even now the ...
Style:
sexy, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
oedipus complex, love triangle, impossible love, single parent, sex in car, coitus, fondling, couples, family life, breakup, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation center, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, addiction, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
high school, family problems, child illness, against the odds, terminal illness, human spirit, family relations, disability, family in crisis, school, parents and children, relationship vs career ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, eccentric family, single parent, friendship, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, unrequited love, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, interracial relations, estrangement, interracial rape, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, society, hopes, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, family gatherings ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
usa, alabama
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems, sick mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new place by building a new home for himself on the delta. But ...
Style:
erotic, atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
incest, forbidden love, illicit affair, brother sister sex, brother sister incest, sexual relations, parents and children, incestuous relationship, family problems, obsession, life is a bitch, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
Style:
sexy, realistic, psychological, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
transsexual, gender, lgbtq, gender bending, transgender, family drama, sexuality, depression, society, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
illinois, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
betrayal, jealousy, infidelity, dysfunctional family, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, couples, family problems, clergy, countryside ...
Time:
year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
Similarity:
100%
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