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Broken Windows (2008)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Four Women, Four Dreams, Four Realities
Style:
realistic, independent film, emotional, reflective, melancholic, existential, psychological, serious
Plot:
self discovery, relationships, friendship, grief, loss, introspection, identity crisis, slice of life, intimate, party, mourning, slow burn, interracial relations, love triangle, betrayal, urban, ethical dilemma, infidelity, sibling relationship, love and romance, couples, actor's life, artists and showbiz, brother sister relationship, romance
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Broken Windows
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, emotional and psychological films with plots about intimate, slice of life, bittersweet, introspection, grief, urban and relationships mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Broken Windows: A Death in the Family (2002), Guilty Hearts (2006), Migratory Birds (2018), Running (2022), Sriranga Neethulu (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
Style:
psychological, religious drama, captivating, thrilling, serious ...
Plot:
grief, bereavement, death of husband, widow, loss of faith, religious faith, crisis of faith, faith, loss of husband, family problems, loss of spouse, changing lives ...
Time:
1910s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
infidelity, couples, looking for love, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, redemption, haunted by the past, bittersweet, heartbreak, troubled marriage, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Diego is hosting a farewell party in his house before he leaves on a trip that no one knows about.
Style:
reflective, emotional, melancholic, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
secrets, house party, introspection, intimate, relationships, bittersweet, friendship, regret, single, identity, character study, slice of life ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A whole year went by before musician Juliane Hansen was able to put her running shoes back on — a year after her partner, Johann König, took his own life. Although her friend Rieke offers all the support she can, Juliane feels lonely and ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, emotional, psychological, slow cinema ...
Plot:
grief, healing, mourning, recovery, suicide, loss, bereavement, loneliness, running, loss of partner, guilt, cello ...
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Follows three characters from diverse backgrounds in their mid twenties. How consequences arise because of their flaws and what struggles they go through?
Style:
emotional, realistic, tense, melancholic
Plot:
young adult, coming of age, self discovery, personal growth, relationships, slice of life, identity crisis, intimate, realism, regret, friendship, urban ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Declan Holmes is graduating college, a hard enough time as it is, and heading out into the real world. The loss he experiences is like nothing he has ever known before. 'Potential Inertia' is the story of his journey through a very ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, independent film, black and white
Plot:
loss, coming of age, friendship, grief, mourning, personal growth, college graduate, relationships, identity crisis, intimate, bittersweet, mental health ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
"Letting Life In" explores a single year of life between two people. Michael, a reclusive novelist, lives in a small town in upstate New York. He knows nothing of living life beyond the suffocating walls he has built for himself. Sarah, a ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, life affirming, romantic drama, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, love story, relationships, assistant, personal growth, bittersweet, loss, cancer, healing, writer's life, introspection, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood.
Style:
emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
introspection, artists and showbiz, ambition, strong female presence, hopes, dancer's life, women, motherhood, dance, performance art, family drama, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Scorn takes a look into the trials and tribulations of a group of people dealing with relationships, love, pain and friendship during the course of one year.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
bittersweet, love, family problems, introspection, couples, couple relations, human nature, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, urban, abuse, friendship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
134
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Struggling to navigate a promising career, a new romance, and her family life, a photography student confronts notions of love and loss during her senior year of college.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, reflective, romantic drama ...
Plot:
photography, coming of age, relationships, student life, self discovery, college life, female protagonist, personal growth, young adult, realism, campus, slice of life ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An NFL journeyman struggles to deal with life's complexities after his professional career is over.
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
nfl, starting over, self discovery, introspection, love affair, hopes, homecoming, unfulfillment, football, male protagonist, father son relationship, financial difficulty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Antonia, a young, beautiful, intelligent and successful executive, is in deep depression, she's dealing with an unwanted pregnancy from his previous relationship with his partner Sebastian, a young and dreamer, renowned photographer, who will ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
unwanted pregnancy, female protagonist, relationships, second chance, mature, personal growth, self discovery, identity crisis, career woman, resilience, bittersweet, nostalgia ...
Place:
chile, santiago chile
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
relationships, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, family drama, siblings, family relations, siblings relations, coping, introspection, changing lives, lifestyle change, family problems ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
germany
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A couple mutually decide to give their baby up for adoption to go back to living their separate lives.
Style:
emotional, realistic, independent film, sincere, melancholic
Plot:
adoption, parenthood, intimate, character study, separation, loss, bonding, ethical dilemma, bittersweet, introspection, slice of life, grief ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot:
relationships, grief, loss, guilt, friendship, life is a bitch, tragic event, changing lives, loss of brother, family relations, healing, small town ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Miguel travels to Pontevedra, his hometown, with the request of serching for some locations for a movie. His trip takes him back to the place where he grew up, meeting up with some old friends, but also leads him to the possibility of a new ...
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, workplace, self discovery, workplace situations, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn't know that, and she ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, poignant, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, bittersweet, dying, mortality, love story, tragic romance, campus, relationships, intimate, introspection, mature ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot:
memory, memories, relationships, flashback sequence, introspection, lifestyle, past, self discovery, bittersweet, longing, loss, love story ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When Yasuko (Eriko Hatsune) was a child, her mother left their home. She grew up not knowing what an ordinary family is. Satoshi's (Kengo Kora) mother was the girlfriend of Yasuko's late father. One day, Satoshi appears in front of ...
Style:
melancholic, psychological, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
absent mother, orphan, family secret, mother daughter relationship, character study, love affair, love story, romantic relationship, love and romance, forbidden love, love interest, unrequited love ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, coming of age, personal growth, freedom, relocation, identity crisis, isolation, intimate, escape, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
An offbeat yet serious family drama about coming home, arrested development and infidelity.
Style:
reflective, serious, realistic, melancholic, offbeat
Plot:
infidelity, getting home, family drama, arrested development, betrayal, house, homecoming, midlife crisis, mature, personal growth, intimate, loss ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, friendship, death of father, alcoholic father, family drama, self discovery, road trip, changing lives, travel, father daughter estrangement, lifestyle, personal growth ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, self discovery, teenage life, interracial relations, hopes, society, idealism, spoiled brat, quibbling, aging, death in the family ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Terminally ill Anna returns to Oregon to reconnect with her estranged brother while simultaneously making the heart-wrenching choice to end her life putting to use the Death with Dignity Act.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, existential, realistic, independent film
Plot:
sibling relationship, terminal illness, euthanasia, ethical dilemma, family drama, loss, grief, brother sister relationship, reconciliation, acceptance, bittersweet, intimate ...
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The budding romance of a wannabe filmmaker, disturbed marital life of a techie, business troubles of the manager of the coffee shop are dealt with in detail.
Style:
romantic drama, suspense, disturbing, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
relationships, love and romance, love story, love affair, romantic relationship, male female relationship, couple relations, family relations, star crossed lovers, in love, couples, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
A melodic, emotional exploration of one family falling apart in a sleepy Midwestern city, The Branches follows Claire (Kelly Brumbach) as she attempts to reconnect with the hometown life she left behind.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric
Plot:
family drama, hometown, family conflict, intimate, estrangement, getting home, character study, relationships, small town, introspection, homecoming, grief ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
ohio, midwest
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Mara is a young creative writing professor struggling with problems in her marriage to an experimental musician. One day, she runs into Matt, a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past, when he wanders onto her university campus. Bonded by ...
Style:
romantic drama, reflective, emotional, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
chemistry, longing, literary, intimate, self discovery, road trip, nostalgia, slow burn, bittersweet, temptation, sexual tension, love triangle ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young copywriter moves to Rome in the wake of his screenwriter father's death, where he meets a publisher who wants to release his dad's autobiography.
Style:
melancholic, depressing, sad, bad ending, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
male protagonist, autobiography, father son relationship, loss of father, unfulfilled love, mental disorder, book, femme fatale, old woman, grief, identity, coming of age ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
19%
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