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Family Tree (2010)
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Original name: L'Arbre et la forêt
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, Frédérick's reasons and the painful secret Charles harbored for years threaten the foundations of the entire family.
Style:
psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, deportation, family problems, aging, introspection, haunted by the past, hopes, elderly, gender, bittersweet, death in the family, homosexuality, lgbt, holocaust, gay subtext, parents and children, gays and lesbians, family in crisis, dealing with death, world war two, forest, death, alcoholic, bisexual, mozart ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about family problems, family relations, parents and children, hopes, estrangement, introspection and dealing with death mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Family Tree: Reconciliation (2009), 33 Scenes from Life (2008), All Is Forgiven (2007), Irene (2009), The Dune (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
poland, europe
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, teenager, redemption, parents and children, addiction, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
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235
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
Style:
serious, touching, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, danger, unfulfilled love, dealing with death, artists and showbiz, hopes, unfulfillment, filmmaking, death ...
Time:
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Place:
lyon, france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An Israeli man searches for his father in France.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, estrangement, family problems, investigation, hopes, parents and children, midlife crisis, haunted by the past, gays and lesbians, redemption, aging ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot:
family in crisis, parents and children, introspection, family problems, family relations, life turned upside down, accident, architect, school teacher, death, funeral, loss of daughter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, catalonia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 1983, year 1942, 1950s, year 1952, 50s
Place:
paris france, lyon, france, europe, normandy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, haunted by the past, death in the family, aids, lgbt, brother brother relationship, death of father ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, hopes, siblings relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, self discovery, elderly, hopes, family problems, countryside, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, marseille
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbt, terminal illness, family relations, hiv, gay brother, gay son, bereavement, cancer, dying, childhood ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, car accident, family secret, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
26%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, holocaust, life is a bitch, memory loss, estrangement, parents and children, deportation, uncover truth, jew persecution, past, world war two, elderly ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
23%
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Country: Norway
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
22%
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Place:
england, europe, canada, british columbia
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, estrangement, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, elderly lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, death in the family, love and romance, against humanity, society, trial ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family problems, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, death in the family, social relations, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, family in crisis, father daughter relationship, overdose ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, maryland, baltimore
Similarity:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, contemplative, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
coping, family relations, redemption, terminal illness, parents and children, estrangement, unfulfillment, family in crisis, father son relationship, asian prostitute, family problems, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
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Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, enigmatic, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
gay, family relations, haunted by the past, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family business, sin, terminal illness, secret past, betrayal, spanish civil war ...
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gustav who gains interest in the young boy, as he reminds him of his lost love.
Style:
serious, captivating, touching, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
racism, male homosexuality, introspection, haunted by the past, friendship, redemption, elderly, hopes, youth, juvenile delinquency, society, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, austria
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
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:
20%
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