Movies like Mister John

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Mister John (2013)
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Mister John (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Singapore, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After discovering his wife's infidelities, Gerry leaves London to look after his deceased brother's business and family in Singapore. Discovering a foreign world of opportunity that had not existed before gives Gerry a chance at starting over by slipping into his brother's life - both emotionally and physically. However, leaving his wife and child behind in the UK is not so easy as Gerry must choose between becoming his brother's alter ego 'Mister John' or returning to London to face his failing relationship.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, tense
Plot: family relations, starting over, couple relations, couples, infidelity, crumbling marriage, under the surface, father daughter relationship, widow, husband wife relationship, husband wife estrangement, death of brother, englishman abroad, violent content, prostitute, snake, island, cheating wife, morgue, hotel, hospital, teenage girl, boat, interracial relations, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: singapore, ireland, asia
Keyword: irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and captivating films with plots about couples, couple relations, family relations, family problems, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Mister John: The Policeman's Wife (2013), In the Open (2011), Wreckers (2011), Everyday (2012), Satisfaction (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Policeman's Wife (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: accident, couple relations, family problems, domestic violence, family relations, couples, small town, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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95%
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In the Open (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Elisa, a thirty-eight-year old woman, leaves for a week with her husband and young daughter on a vacation to a house in the country. Everything is going for her: she has a successful professional career, loves her family, has enough money for a ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: countryside, family problems, couple relations, estrangement, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, relocation, making love, domestic disturbance, crumbling marriage, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.8
 3K
Wreckers (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A married couple move back to his childhood village to start a family but a surprise visit from the husband's brother ignites sibling rivalry and exposes the lies embedded in the couple's relationship.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, sex comedy ...
Plot: family relations, village, brother brother relationship, infidelity, siblings relations, newlyweds, couple relations, couples, countryside, female protagonist, marriage, hot and sexy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.2
 841
Everyday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 7.2
 4K
Satisfaction (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Story: A provocative drama that explores modern marriage at its midpoint. Through the lens of one couple, Neil Truman and his wife, Grace, this series answers the question, “What do you do when having it all is not enough?” by delving into their ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, couple relations, under the surface, male escort, marriage, adultery, infidelity, family problems, couples, dysfunctional marriage, dating ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 7.1
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Webdultery (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A couple in a failing marriage begin to cheat on each other using the power of the internet.
Style: sexy, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: cheating wife, infidelity, couples, couple relations, extramarital affair, unfulfillment, love and romance, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, sexual relations, affair, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
We All Want What's Best for Her (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching
Plot: rehabilitation, starting over, estrangement, introspection, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, accident, escape, society, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.7
 753
Silver Tongues (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two lovers travel from town to town playing a dark game of deceit that soon spirals out of control, threatening their very relationship.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: hidden identity, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, juggling, love and romance, society, crumbling relationship, mental disorder, sexual content, infidelity, manipulation
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.7
 3K
Prague (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Christoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father, evolves into the story of a brake-up. With the dead father lurking in the background, secrets gradually emerge threatening to destroy their marriage.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love, marriage, family relations, infidelity, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, dishonesty, couples, resentment, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic, denmark, europe, central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.1
 184
Bad Girl (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: parents and children, family problems, couples, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female nudity, bullfighting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.7
 180
You (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, gloomy
Plot: love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.9
 670
Alice's House (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children, the eldest of whom is doing his military service, and a mother who works as a maid in her house. None of the three siblings pay much attention to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, melancholic, sexual ...
Plot: beauty salon, betrayal, estrangement, family relations, midlife crisis, family life, couples, obsession, sexually dissatisfied wife, family problems, working class, feminism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.4
 750
An Open Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mila and Javier, both renowned surgeons and both passionate about their work, have been madly in love for the past 10 years. They have always taken great care to preserve their extraordinary love for each other and refuse to succumb to the routine ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy
Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, couples, crumbling marriage, addiction, supportive spouse, pregnant woman, husband wife relationship, physician, male female relationship, relationships, relationship vs career ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Late Bloomers (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: crumbling marriage, self discovery, couple relations, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, midlife crisis, elderly, aging, husband, love story
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.3
 1K
Knifer (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Greece
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After his father death, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he starts taking care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he's wearing down into his misery routine, till the moment his ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: starting over, love triangle, family problems, couples, dull life, unfulfillment, infidelity, murder, sex scene, uncle nephew relationship, aunt, hot and sexy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Rose Plays Julie (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An adopted Dublin girl sets out to find her birth mother in London, despite knowing the woman has no desire to meet with her.
Style: melancholic, humorous, touching, disturbing, sentimental ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, revenge, father daughter relationship, foster child, girl, female warrior, sex with daughter, women, family relations, violence, husband wife relationship, love and romance ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Looking for Alexander (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
Style: psychological, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: uncover truth, haunted by the past, police detective, family problems, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, parents and children, memory loss, a vision, hospital, coma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 2K
Daybreak (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 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: realistic, psychological, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, family problems, vengeance, crumbling marriage, love affair, parents and children, family relations, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, redemption, introspection ...
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Signs & Wonders (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Style: serious, realistic, clever, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: infidelity, introspection, love affair, life turned upside down, love triangle, couple relations, crumbling marriage, betrayal, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, germany, greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.4
 298
Islander (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast but determined to win back the way of life he fought so hard to protect. Set against the stunning ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film
Plot: hopes, redemption, island, starting over, family problems, estrangement, social misfits, couple relations, human nature, friendship, ocean, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.6
 2K
The Dinner (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, biting, talky ...
Plot: family gatherings, life turned upside down, family life, parents and children, couples, under the surface, family problems, couple relations, siblings relations, family in crisis, disorder, suspicion ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.3
 522
The Fire (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A couple must hold on to $100,000 for 24 hours as they wait to buy a house. As the time ticks by, the true nature of their love unravels.
Style: touching, talky, realistic, serious, tense
Plot: breakup, couple relations, family problems, couples, sexual content, human nature, graphic violence, violent content, under the surface, indoor
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Belonging (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.4
 695
Constellation (2005)
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: interracial relations, family relations, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, hopes, unfulfillment, society, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, interracial romance ...
Time: 1950s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.2
 527
Among Us (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a mysterious stranger with ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: couple relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, thoughtful, life turned upside down, family in crisis, down on your luck, family relations, cigarette smoking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Life in a Fishbowl (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, psychological ...
Plot: life is a bitch, estrangement, relationship vs career, haunted by the past, alcohol abuse, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family problems, couples, writer's life, single parent, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.7
 1K
Mercy (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Norway, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A German couple, Niels and Maria, and their teenage son Markus move to the Norwegian coastal town of Hammerfest, hoping for a new beginning in the land of endless twilight. Instead they find themselves drifting further apart. Niels submerges himself ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: road accident, couples, winter, guilt, starting over, hopes, human nature, on the run, couple relations, terminal illness, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, scandinavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Delicate Balance (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the quartet maintain a delicate ...
Style: independent film, tense, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, friendship, best friend, family problems, uninvited guest, couples, alcohol abuse, suburbs, family life, family in crisis, suburban life ...
Time: 70s
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.0
 548
Family Secrets (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, suspense
Plot: life turned upside down, family life, love affair, crumbling marriage, couple relations, lifestyle, family problems, under the surface, infidelity, family in crisis, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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