Movies like Vacation 2007
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Vacation (2007)
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Original name: Ferien
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that threaten to wreck the family’s fragile unity forever. (Berlinale)
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, art house
Plot:
children, relationships, family drama, character study, domestic drama, isolation, summer vacation, family secret, alienation, intimate, repression, family reunited, slice of life, bittersweet, claustrophobia, nostalgia, longing, summer, family life, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, marriage, woods, small town, house ...
Place:
east germany
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Most similar movies to Vacation
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, psychological, captivating and emotional films with plots about intimate, family drama, relationships, family relations, bittersweet, small town and slice of life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Vacation: Bright Nights (2017), Interlude (2016), Balance and Movement (2005), The Butterfly Swing (2020), The Siamese Bond (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, estrangement, coming of age, reconciliation, family drama, father son estrangement, estranged father, family problems, absent father, estranged son, journey ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Sofia, recently separated, takes her daughters to a small coastal town. Each one in their own universe, live the interlude as a challenge to free themselves and face their fears.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
separation, relationships, mother and daughter, mother daughter relationship, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, social problems, relationship problems, breakup, life is a bitch, family life ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman in love, a weak man, a father stumbling with his emotions, an uncle dependent on the past and a teenager meet at Zagor’s boarding house. Despite the serenity of the house, they all struggle to find the peace that they each need.
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
boarding house, character study, teenager, father son relationship, love, household, slice of life, domestic drama, intimate, memory, isolation, loss ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story is centered on the stubborn farmer Ernst and his wife Louise who are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a traditional Danish gold wedding for friends and family. However, the family carries several secrets and Ernest holds on to the ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family secret, marriage, farmer, village life, family drama, revelation, family relations, marital crisis, couple relations, life is a bitch, problem, relationships ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Estela and her mother Clota must travel from Junín, where they live, to the town of Costa Bonita, in Necochea, to see some apartments that Estela's father has inherited from her.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, road movie ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, relationships, inheritance, town, mother, family relations, women, character study, family drama, motherhood, intimate, slice of life ...
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Driven by childhood memories and the hope of a reencounter, Sarah visits her paternal grandmother in her village in Uruguay. She takes long to understand the prevailing unease… But she is soon faced with the gap between her fantasy regarding the ...
Style:
road movie, melancholic, reflective, slow cinema, art house ...
Plot:
family reunited, grandmother granddaughter relationship, sadness, bittersweet, nostalgia, female protagonist, tenderness, memory, slice of life, provincial, getting home, small town ...
Place:
uruguay
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
female protagonist, secret, character study, lifestyle change, relationships, male female relationship, relationship problems, intimate, city life, minimalism, slice of life, sibling relationship ...
Place:
korea, seoul
Similarity:
69%
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:
62%
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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:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, reflective, realistic ...
Plot:
sisters, grownups, family drama, family conflict, family love, sibling relationship, coming of age, sister, family relations, kids and family, relationships, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and cares. Their relationship seems headed for the rocks, and the only one who seems to still be looking ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, slow cinema, art house
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family drama, relationships, marriage, parenthood, alienation, disappearance, intimate, dysfunctional family, slice of life, couples, estrangement, minimalism ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Middle aged housewife Kim In-Hee's mother-in-law has Alzheimer's disease, her physician husband is always tired and indifferent to her needs and her children has become wayward. For her family, Kim In-Hee has devoted her life as a ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
illness, family drama, terminal illness, male female relationship, family life, kids and family, relationships, family relations, living together, family problems, nursing, parents and children ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
53%
500
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Costi (30) suddenly comes up with the idea of visiting his father, Sandu, and arrange a surprise reunion with the rest of the family that Sandu has neglected all his life. It's Costi's way of running away from his own couple issues for a ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, family drama, father son relationship, road trip, father, family relations, relationships, family problems, kids and family, father and son, estranged father, regret ...
Similarity:
52%
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:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but when she is unexpectedly confronted with romantic love, old wounds are opened.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, art house, contemplative
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, longing, introspection, city life, urban, bittersweet, loneliness, desire, self discovery, confrontation, realism ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Fred (Elliott Gould) lives with his Alzheimers' struggling wife, Susan in their home of over fifty years. Fred's grown up children try to convince him to move into a care home alongside Susan, however, he does not approve of this idea.
Style:
exciting, captivating, entertaining, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
family drama, teenage girl, aging, family life, kids and family, teenager, families, family problems, family home, teenage daughter, family relations, marriage ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, parents and children, family gatherings, unfulfilled love, road not taken, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, family reunited, nostalgia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Slovenia, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, atmospheric, existential, art house ...
Plot:
silence, family drama, mother son relationship, isolation, introspection, intimate, strained relationship, misunderstanding, motherhood, communication, minimalism, slow burn ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As Brian cares for his severely mentally disabled brother over a sweltering summer holiday he is forced to grow up, and finds unexpected love and affection.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
brother, sibling relationship, mental disorder, brotherhood, relationships, brother brother relationship, adolescence, family relations, teenage boy, intellectual disability, mental retardation, teenager ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When rebellious 16-year-old Grace takes off, her exasperated mum and dad enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective, and begin the long drive from Perth out to the West Australian wheatbelt to try to find her. On the journey, the two must ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
teenage rebellion, family drama, road trip, coming of age, parent child relationship, family relations, family problems, relationships, life is a bitch, mysterious disappearance, vanished man, male female relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Beto is the keeper of a house in Mexico City - empty for several years already - in which he used to work as a domestic help. The solitude of the last ten years, as well the monotony and routine of his job have made him lead a secluded life, which ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, contemplative, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
loneliness, solitude, social commentary, alienation, routine, character study, housekeeper, loyalty, repression, minimalism, slice of life, intimate ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Marco, a cynical and ambitious young lawyer, lives in Bari with his partner Martina and their eight-year-old son Mateo. Martina had left Chile and moved to Italy when she met Marco. Their relationship has run its course, however, and Martina longs ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Plot:
family drama, fatherhood, missing child, family problems, marital problem, relationships, unhappy marriage, marriage crisis, dysfunctional family, family relations, relationship problems, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
chile
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic health problems. When ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
manipulation, mother daughter relationship, family drama, investigation, grief, tragedy, family secret, suspicion, obsession, guilt, moral dilemma, intimate ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a woman on the outskirts of the city who lives with her husband and child, but the story of their lives changes.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, affair, husband wife relationship, lifestyle change, problem, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, changing lives, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate ...
Style:
melancholic, ambiguous ending
Plot:
character study, family drama, family secret, mental institution, female protagonist, intimate, mourning, getting home, family reunited, isolation, nostalgia, macabre ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mika arrives in Poland to pay a hospital visit to her father, who is suffering from severe brain injury and memory loss. It's the first time they have met in many years, yet her father thinks they still live together and she's a teenager. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, art film ...
Plot:
memory, father daughter relationship, memory loss, dementia, family relations, relationships, introspection, amnesiac, family life, estrangement, alienation, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
42%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, under his ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
wasteland, father daughter relationship, fatherhood, truck, father and daughter, father, daughter, family drama, road trip, relationships, family relations, parent child relationship ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the hospital due to a heavy attack, he starts to question his personal and familiar environment and discovers that his parents’ relationship – which ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
illness, coming of age, family drama, family secret, identity crisis, adolescence, escape, intimate, introspection, realism, isolation, alienation ...
Similarity:
41%
153
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Magnus is a photographer specializing in family portraits. When he plans for his mother’s 75th birthday he discovers family secrets that will change his life.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, family drama, family secret, family problems, family relations, secret, relationships, photographer, memory, house, intimate, realism ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Darcy, a composer, sees colors when she plays musical notes. When she notices her usually subtle colors changing, she realizes a profound change is upon her. Over a summer month, Darcy creates a time of music and reflection that help her make a ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
female protagonist, composer, music, life, changing lives, lifestyle change, musician, self discovery, character study, relationships, midlife crisis, intimate ...
Similarity:
41%
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