Movies like After 2014
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After (2014)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A haunting and powerful psychological thriller. Set in icy upstate New York in the winter of 2002, "After" is about the Valentinos, a middle class clan facing financial hardship--their family stone cutting business is slowly failing--and coping with the usual rivalries and resentments that affect all but their absent daughter, Samantha, who has recently escaped Rochester for a new life in lower Manhattan. At their center is matriarch Nora (Quinlan), whose cheerful exterior masks an emotional fragility of which the entire family is painfully aware and fiercely protective. But, their delicate balance is threatened by a carefully concealed secret that, once revealed, will change their lives forever.
Style:
psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating, independent film, tense, serious, gloomy, crying
Plot:
family relations, family in crisis, family problems, haunted by the past, love, working class, secret, bankruptcy, confusion, bridesmaid, dancing, business, winter, wedding, violence, friendship, snow, death, racism, girlfriend, restaurant, female friendship, african american, problem child, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Most similar movies to After
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and touching films with plots about family relations, death, husband wife relationship, haunted by the past, family problems, father son relationship and mother daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like After: Interstate 84 (2000), Eroded (2011), Into the Fire (2005), Of Boys and Men (2008), Room (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of ...
Style:
captivating, serious, tense, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
police investigation, uncover truth, life is a bitch, introspection, murder, law enforcement, misfit, small town life, redemption, mysterious character, small town, addiction ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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95%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
"It is said that when left unhealed, the past can destroy our lives. When Billy Reid and his sister Sheila lose loved ones in a horrific accident, they must face the aftermath together. For Billy, that aftermath and the secrets that lie within ...
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, supernatural ability, life is a bitch, supernatural, family problems, memory loss, family in crisis, loss, car accident, destiny, woods ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, ohio
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
TV Movie Drama - Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
survival, friendship, hopes, fighting crime, danger, right hand man, haunted by the past, negligence, rescue, family life, curses spells and rituals, death in the family ...
Time:
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Place:
new york
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, youth, car accident, grief, accidental death, society, love, dealing with death, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Julia Barker, an over-worked, middle-aged Texas woman is haunted by psychic visions which drive her to New York in search of the Room.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, contemplative, serious, enigmatic ...
Plot:
hotel, room, midlife crisis, housewife, uncertainty, journey, city, loneliness, family relations, self discovery, nihilism, wandering ...
Place:
new york, usa, texas, houston texas
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! When an applicant with a mysterious past manages to get the ...
Style:
dramatic, tense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, governess, family relations, haunted by the past, cat and mouse, redheaded woman, problem child, orphan, young adult, lost girl, friendship, mental disorder ...
Time:
60s
Place:
brighton, dover england, england
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
nightmare, incest, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, abuse, family secret, family relations, introspection, self discovery, father daughter incest, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
usa, los angeles, italy
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, social ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
abuse, abusive husband, female protagonist, single mother, serial killer, police investigation, life is a bitch, parents and children, hopes, danger, disorder, love ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
pennsylvania, boston, usa
Similarity:
61%
Movie in collections
208
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young girl goes missing just as a convicted sex offender moves into town. The girl's father, the inhabitants of the towns and even law enforcement believe he is responsible for the disappearance.
Style:
psychological, tense, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
missing child, haunted by the past, family relations, social relations, village, investigation, rivalry, danger, pedophile, village life, siblings relations, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
59%
19K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
Style:
emotional, cult classic, melancholic, bleak, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, high school, bus, poem, bicycle, life philosophy, redemption, character study, investigation, life is a bitch, youth, teenage life ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
58%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Niccolo (Mac) Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers and leads their family after their beloved father dies. Their father was a builder and his sons continue in this family trade. At first, they work for Polowski, who does shoddy work and cheats on ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
working class, family business, ambition, workplace, society, boss and employee, family in crisis, family life, construction, brother brother relationship, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1992
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise loved Adam. Adam loved Louise. That is how it used to be. But a child has disappeared. Their child. The police said it was a drowning accident. Yet the truth is that their little boy’s body was never found. Lucas, ten years old. How easy it ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
grief, bereavement, family tragedy, missing child, loss, relationship problems, family relations, disappearance, relationships, life is a bitch, family problems, loss of child ...
Similarity:
57%
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:
56%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
male nudity, brother brother relationship, teacher, high school, haunted by the past, teachers and students, self discovery, power relations, couples, couple relations, introspection, sex on a train ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 70s, year 1992, 1920s ...
Place:
england, pittsburgh, london, europe, germany
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
missing person, iranian, matchmaking, family relations, friendship, guilt, journey, parents and children, wedding planning, love and romance, couple relations, couples ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, maghreb, asia
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, family relations, homecoming, missing person, hopes, haunted by the past, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, youth, life is a bitch, parents and children, creative block ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, brittany
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch.
Style:
psychological, sincere, touching, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, secret, family relations, family reunited, family conflict, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, love, family gatherings, family tragedy ...
Place:
ireland, new york
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Sweden, Cayman Islands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, romantic drama, sentimental ...
Plot:
teenage love, youth, friendship, family life, parents and children, hopes, starting over, dealing with death, family in crisis, haunted by the past, siblings relations, family problems ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, new york
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Style:
serious, tense, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
farm, betrayal, retirement home, parents and children, homecoming, uninhibited rivalry, danger, dishonesty, family problems, grudge, country, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
48%
102K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Style:
inspirational, touching, depressing, sincere, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, grief, 9/11, mental disorder, dealing with death, mental health, trauma, character study, therapy, mental illness, tragic event, friends ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style:
psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, working class, loneliness, oral sex, character study, single parent, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
military, suicide of husband, french foreign legion, bad father, family relations, mental illness, murder, youth, prostitute, estrangement, family problems, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, europe, indochina, algeria, alps
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A woman turns her sister's belated birthday celebration into an intervention, but as events unfold, it becomes unclear which sibling needs the most help.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
addiction, introspection, haunted by the past, friendship, drug abuse, life is a bitch, sister sister conflict, self discovery, coming of age, eating disorder, friends, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
August is a 2008 drama film directed by Austin Chick and produced by 57th & Irving. The screenplay by Howard A. Rodman focuses on two brothers, ambitious dot-com entrepreneurs attempting to keep their company afloat as the stock market ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, suspense, touching
Plot:
brother brother relationship, wall street, family relations, siblings relations, rise and fall, workplace, down on your luck, parents and children, life is a bitch, interracial couple, finance, father son relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, welder, pregnancy, vietnam war, brothers, melancholy, murder, family problems, suicide, violence, blood, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1991
Place:
nebraska, usa, america, ohio, vietnam ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young couple embark upon their honeymoon against the chilling landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. But when tragedy strikes, gruesome secrets from their past collide with sinister forces of the present...
Style:
psychological, tense, scary, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
wedding, stalking, couples, haunted by the past, danger, couple relations, mind game, violence, family relations, death, peeping tom, stalker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon
Similarity:
44%
6K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriend a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
kidnapping, mental illness, missing child, little girl, missing person, schizophrenia, self destructing, delusion, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, poverty ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
Style:
sentimental, sweet, suspenseful, touching, non-linear
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
impossible love, afterlife, death, family in crisis, encounter, life & death, family problems, supernatural, secret, ghost, love, fish out of water ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. However, when a troubled young woman with a checkered past enters her life, old psychic wounds ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
missing person, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, loss of child, obsession, haunted by the past, loss of daughter, social misfits, isolation, family relations, misfit, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A prep-school student (Ezra Miller) accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
Style:
serious, cerebral, bleak, independent film, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
kids in trouble, voyeurism, teenage life, social misfits, misfit, coming of age, drug abuse, social relations, youth, life is a bitch, boarding school, violence ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 2000s, year 2006
Place:
connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
43%
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