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To Return (2006)
 7.6
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To Return (2006)
Original name: Volver
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their father. A former neighbor from their hometown reports that she has seen the ghost of Irene and both daughters do not believe her. After a murder and a family tragedy, Irene's spirit materializes around her daughters to help comfort them.
Style: black comedy, emotional, dark comedy, touching, hispanic, psychological, humorous, stylized, erotic, visual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: secret, death, ghost, rape, child abuse, lust, twists and turns, family secret, dark secret, superstition, adultery, women, dysfunctional family, murder, haunted by the past, incest, neighbor, disposing of a dead body, family relations, life & death, secrets, abusive father, parents and children, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, europe, barcelona, venezuela ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about family relations, death, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, adultery, kiss and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like To Return: Talk to Her (2002), Secrets & Lies (1996), The Celebration (1998), The Skin I Live In (2011), Law of Desire (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Talk to Her (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Style: psychological, emotional, surreal, sexy, sincere ...
Plot: rape, tragic love, friendship, suicide, loneliness, female nudity, obsession, impossible love, tragic event, hospital, sex, women ...
Time: near future, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, jordan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 47K
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A middle-aged London factory worker is shocked when the mixed-race daughter she gave up at birth decides to track her down. At first she denies she is her mother. All family members become emotional, as everyone's secrets are exposed.
Style: emotional, independent film, realistic, touching, dark comedy ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adoption, birth mother, great ending, bittersweet, working class, loneliness, family secret, women, black, mother, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: london, england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Celebration (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: dogme 95, suicide, incest, family secret, child abuse, hotel, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, birthday, depression, party, birthday party ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, kidnapping, twists and turns, rape, skin, revenge, isolation, insanity, sexual perversion, gender bending, abuse, plastic surgery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place: spain, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.1
 14K
Law of Desire (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When porn director Pablo reluctantly breaks up with his boyfriend, Juan, he encourages him to stay in touch. Juan moves away to live in a lighthouse and eventually writes his ex, but in the interim Pablo has taken up a psychotic new lover, Antonio ...
Style: surreal, sexy, stylized, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot: gay, murder, lgbt, love, male nudity, movie business, obsession, filmmaking, love triangle, family relations, gays and lesbians, writers ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, morocco, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Toto the Hero (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he ...
Style: touching, epic, sad, cult classic, inspirational ...
Plot: coming of age, hide and seek, neighbor neighbor relationship, death of sister, child, youth, children, jazz, train, time travel, adolescence, inspiration ...
Time: year 1991, future, 90s
Place: france, germany, europe, dover england, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, enigmatic, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, female protagonist, farce, adultery, twists and turns, frustration, suicide attempt, couple relations, women, satire, mental health, male female relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, year 1998, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, stylized, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, male pubic hair, grandmother grandson relationship, telekinesis, pedophilia, exhibitionist, dressmaker, dark humor, male nudity, domestic abuse, maid ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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All About My Mother (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
Style: sad, hispanic, art house, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: aids, transvestism, lgbt, lesbian, transgender, prostitute, grief, friendship, transsexual, single mother, women, gay ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.0
 65K
The Dressmaker (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Style: romantic, period piece, melancholic, satirical, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fashion, bullying, women, dressmaker, small town, mother daughter relationship, seamstress, memory, illegitimate daughter, accidental death, murder mystery, false accusation of murder ...
Time: 1950s, 1900s, year 1951
Place: australia, oceania, france, new york, milan italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.0
 17K
High Heels (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: High Heels is a murder mystery comedy centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo and her daughter Rebecca, a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life when she comes to perform a concert. ...
Style: sentimental, art house, enigmatic, serious, sexy ...
Plot: transvestism, murder, obsession, guilt, women, mother daughter reunion, family relations, couples, lgbt, mother daughter relationship, lgbtq, transvestite ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 70s
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, caribbean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Parallel Mothers (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
Style: dramatic, sincere, tear jerker, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: motherhood, single mother, spanish civil war, lesbian, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, pregnancy, child, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lovers apart, life philosophy, justice ...
Time: 2020s, year 2016, 2010s
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
August: Osage County (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style: touching, melancholic, independent film, stylized, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, suicide, cancer, family secret, mother daughter relationship, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, drug addiction, pills, addiction, funeral, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: oklahoma, peru, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Sunshine Cleaning (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard ...
Style: feel good, dark comedy, humorous, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
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Place: new mexico, albuquerque new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Broken Embraces (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Style: neo noir, emotional, stylized, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot: obsession, filmmaking, jealousy, betrayal, destructive relationship, tragic love, actress, blind character, couple relations, blindness, family drama, suffering ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 20th century, 80s, 90s ...
Place: madrid, spain, iberian peninsula, ibiza, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Life During Wartime (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, psychological, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, father son relationship, loneliness, family relations, character study, sisters, family problems, couple relations, pedophile, parents and children, haunted by the past, family life ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: florida, new jersey, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Flower of My Secret (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than ...
Style: clever, erotic, sensual, hispanic, art house ...
Plot: women, writers, obsession, suicide attempt, love and romance, surrealism, daily life, old woman, novelist, parent child relationship, couples, family problems ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.4
 15K
Ham Ham (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia becomes pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose ...
Style: erotic, humorous, dark comedy, sensual, talky ...
Plot: sexuality, prostitute, passion, jealousy, male nudity, sex, matador, infidelity, sensuality, erotica, pregnancy, social differences ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
 7.3
 34K
Live Flesh (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
Style: sexy, psychological, intense, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, lust, unfaithful wife, nudity, disability, obsession, desire, older woman younger man, betrayal, sex, love triangle, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1970, year 1990 ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, sarajevo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Almodovar's first film of life in Madrid during the punk era and not one for the squeamish. He covers everything from drugs and sexual violence, to female masochism.
Style: social, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: lesbian, rape, satire, rape and revenge, gays and lesbians, gay, woman peeing, police officer, revenge, lgbt, bdsm, sex crime ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and ...
Style: touching, humorous, independent film, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, family drama, infidelity, family gatherings, homecoming, childhood home, death of father, children, family relations, loneliness, life & death, last wish ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Style: sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house, romantic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, stockholm syndrome, porn star, obsessive love, porn actress, kidnapping, female masturbation, sex, love and romance, bdsm, nudity, porn actor ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 90s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed ...
Style: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, wedding, nudity, complex characters, family relations, jealousy, character study, secrets, greed, confession, family problems, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, long island, harvard university, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 7.3
 251K
The Descendants (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, sad, tragicomedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: infidelity, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, teenage daughter, dying mother, bittersweet, family relations, cheating wife, greed, parenthood, family drama, estate ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Dim Sum Funeral (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An Irish funeral has a wake. A Jewish funeral has sitting shiva. A traditional Chinese funeral is something else entirely. Thats what the estranged siblings of the Chinese-American Xiao family must undergo upon news of their mothers death. The one ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot: estrangement, lesbian, self discovery, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, family gatherings, parents and children, family relations, haunted by the past, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Vicious Kind (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.
Style: independent film, black comedy, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: love triangle, thanksgiving, dysfunctional family, small town, adultery, infidelity, cheating, family relations, self destructing, betrayal, mistrust, couple relations ...
Time: 2000s
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Door in the Floor (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East ...
Style: psychological, emotional, erotic, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: writers, older woman younger man relationship, writer's life, dysfunctional family, masturbation, infidelity, unfaithful wife, older woman younger man sex, literature, art, cheating wife, secrets ...
Time: year 2004, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style: tear jerker, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, single mother, husband wife relationship, grief, adultery, terminal illness, death of daughter, relationships, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s ...
Place: texas, houston texas, new york, nebraska, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Isn't It Delicious (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, terminal illness, bittersweet, husband wife relationship, one night stand, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.1
 39K
The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, independent film, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, redemption, character study, family relations, childhood, parents and children, nursing, siblings relations, cheerleader ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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