Movies like Pursuit of Loneliness

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Pursuit of Loneliness (2012)
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Pursuit of Loneliness (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After an elderly hospital patient dies, a nurse tries unsuccessfully to contact the next of kin. Later, a social worker continues the effort but finds only the neighbor who was feeding the patient’s dogs. A county investigator fails to locate any relatives and ultimately must process the belongings in the decedent’s home. Meanwhile, we follow a frail man’s discharge from the hospital and an older woman’s day spent running errands and trying to stay cool during a heat wave.
Style: sincere, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, fake documentary
Plot: veterinarian, old age, nurse, loneliness, hospital, isolation, social worker, pet dog, social issues, family relations, ranch, old woman, pharmacy, elderly woman, jehovah's witness, hospital room, drinking water
Time: 2000s
Place: texas, los angeles

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Most similar movies to Pursuit of Loneliness

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, sincere and serious films with plots about family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, society, hopes, hospital and redemption mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Pursuit of Loneliness: Bella Mia (2013), Manglehorn (2014), The Last Rites of Joe May (2011), Ocean of Pearls (2008), Come Home Raquel (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bella Mia (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Due to suspicion of BSE (mad cow disease), a herd of cows from a small farmstead is sentenced to be killed. The animals revolt and try to escape. People try to hunt them down but the herd, led by Bella, manages to protect itself. Further failures of ...
Style: sincere, psychological, contemplative, captivating, unusual plot structure
Plot: veterinarian, farm, parent child relationship, love, nature, freedom, father daughter relationship, hunting, calf, cow
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Manglehorn (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day. But there is more to Manglehorn than meets the eye: he’s ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot: loneliness, starting over, small town, haunted by the past, elderly, aging, hopes, father son relationship, locksmith, mental disorder, twins, aged person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, austin texas
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89%
The Last Rites of Joe May (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: redemption, family relations, aging, father son relationship, self discovery, con artists, bittersweet, friends, single parent, elderly, pneumonia, hustler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Ocean of Pearls (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: culture clash, doctors and patients, surgeon, discrimination, workplace, immigrant, hospital, parents and children, hopes, society, ambition, family relations ...
Place: usa, michigan, detroit, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Come Home Raquel (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Raquel, a 13 year old living in Queens, NY, struggles to make sense of her life after the deportation of her parents. Things quickly change upon the arrival of a new teacher and the return of her young uncle.
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: teacher student relationship, uncle niece relationship, new teacher, missing mother, broken family, teenager, second chance, coming of age, children, latina, middle school, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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80%
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The Dry Land (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A U.S. soldier returning home from war struggles to reconcile his experiences abroad with the life and family he left in Texas.
Style: realistic, contemplative, sentimental, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, soldier, homecoming, society, redemption, family life, buddies, life is a bitch, parents and children, husband wife relationship, psychopath, ptsd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, el paso texas
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78%
75 Degrees in July (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sibling rivalry and other conflicts are revealed as one daughter, now a successful modern artist living in New York, returns to visit her Texas family.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, captivating, psychological
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, rancher, sibling rivalry, manipulation, homecoming, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, family reunited, male female relationship ...
Place: austin texas, texas
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75%
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Cook County (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, parents and children, homecoming, drug abuse, methamphetamine, adolescence vs adulthood, small town ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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The Northern Kingdom (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The lives of three disparate families are illuminated by a meteor shower on a winter night.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: psychology, social issues, social problems, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, farm, stepfather, dysfunctional family, family relations, psychologist
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71%
Silence in Dreamland (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those four walls to a timeless magic land where the sea speaks ...
Style: captivating, touching, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: loneliness, widow, old lady, dog, death of husband, isolation, imagination, female nudity, death, bird, old woman, sea ...
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71%
A Country Called Home (2015)
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: sincere, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: death of father, alcoholic father, road trip, friendship, lifestyle, travel, changing lives, father daughter estrangement, female protagonist, lgbt, family reunited, reunion ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Eugene O'Neill's semi-autobiographical masterpiece pulls back the curtain on the Connecticut home of the Tyrone family, where deep-seated resentments and bourbon-fueled tirades cause a family to expose their darkest natures. Starring ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: family problems, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, large family, family relations, family crisis, eccentric family, family secret, life is a bitch, social problems, dance
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The New Year Parade (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children, family life, family in crisis, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, breakup, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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64%
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Heart of Now (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: "Heart of Now" concerns a young woman with a profound longing for a sense of family. Amber is devastated after her boyfriend abandons her because she's pregnant. She is whisked across a contrast of urban, natural and emotional ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: desert, looking for love, introspection, haunted by the past, redemption, downfall, spirituality, female protagonist, breakup, problem solving, relationship problems, pregnancy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
V.C. Andrews' Dawn (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Follows the dark and twisted history of Dawn Longchamp and her family, along with Cutler and Booth families.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: teen drama
Plot: domestic drama, family relations, female protagonist, family life, relatives, sibling relationship, family drama, parents and children, relationships, family problems
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Broken Memories (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: “Broken Memories” is a romantic drama that depicts the often-untold story of a family caregiver tending to an elderly parent. Once estranged from his family, Levi (Ivan Sergei), puts his life on hold to care for his father, Jasper (Rance ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: secret, dysfunctional family, family problems, fighting illness, confronting the past, father son relationship, troubled past, caretaker, life is a bitch, alzheimer's disease, family relations, father
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The White Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, friendship, retirement home, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
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Adopting Audrey (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family. Based on a true story.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological
Plot: foster home, social problems, patriarchy, female protagonist, family life, relationships, patriarch, social issues, family relations, lifestyle, foster parent, women ...
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I Am (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the City of Angels, despair and heartache are the daily mail -- delivered with painful regularity whether we want them or not. Through I AM, we join an eclectic cast as they try to untangle themselves from the web of sin. All along the way, they ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: redemption, self discovery, society, religions or cults, unfulfillment, police, journalist, inheritance, cryogenics, faith, hopes, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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46%
Stopped on Track (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style: realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, children, wife, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
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46%
Northern Borders (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 'Northern Borders' tells the story of ten year-old Austen Kittredge who is sent by his father to live on his grandparents' Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It's 1956 ...
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: boy, child protagonist, family relations, childhood, child with gun, marital strife, coming of age, old man, bereavement, heist, youth, young boy ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: vermont
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Midnight Clear (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: On Christmas Eve in the Arizona desert, a middle-aged man (Stephen Baldwin) and an old woman (K Callan) contemplate suicide. But through chance run-ins with strangers and perhaps some divine intervention, they cross paths and change each ...
Style: realistic, captivating, suspenseful, serious, semi serious ...
Plot: christmas, church, redemption, life is a bitch, unemployment, family relations, love and romance, hopes, society, clergy, small town, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
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45%
L.A. Law: The Movie (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years since the series ended, the founding senior partner, Leland McKenzie, has retired and left Douglas ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, psychological
Plot: lawyer, law firm, courtroom, death row, legal, poor, nypd, law, reunion
Place: los angeles
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44%
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I Travel Alone (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, youth, friends, society, couples, nordic, twentysomething life, student life, night ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe
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42%
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Safe Harbor (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
Plot: troubled teen, social worker, juvenile delinquent, teenager, re-education, changing lives, relationships, lifestyle change, male female relationship, assistant, troubled youth, adoption ...
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42%
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Land Legs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his ...
Style: psychological, touching, contemplative, thought provoking, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: fisherman, father son relationship, divorced man, children, father daughter relationship, teenager, family relations, moral dilemma, storytelling, parents and children, dog, social worker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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40%
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Easy Land (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: mental breakdown, architect, mental illness, refugee, family relations, parents and children, youth, rescue, life is a bitch, society, danger, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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40%
Change in the Air (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they can't help notice that their strange new neighbor has a secret.
Style: disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating, surprise ending
Plot: faith, neighbor neighbor relationship, friendship, new neighbor, female protagonist, changing lives, social problems, lifestyle change, neighbor, lifestyle, social issues, pianist ...
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Absent Season (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When love has to compete with artistic inspiration and memories from a sheltering past come to take the artist to imaginary worlds that exist deep in his mind. This is the story of young Adrian, pianist and composer, in love with his sister and ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: forbidden love, love affair, musician's life, lifestyle, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, family relations, cause and meaning, loneliness, sexual content, love and romance, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
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39%
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Tyson's Run (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When fifteen-year-old Tyson attends public school for the first time, his life is changed forever. While helping his father clean up after the football team, Tyson befriends champion marathon runner Aklilu. Never letting his autism hold him back, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot: boy, marathon, father son relationship, running, runner, family relations, slice of life, ambition, coping, aspiration, kids and family, fighting illness ...
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39%
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