Movies like Beautiful Boy 2010

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Beautiful Boy (2010)
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Beautiful Boy (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.
Style: bleak, emotional, realistic, psychological, psychological thriller, depressing, social, educational, sad, multicultural ...
Plot: mass murder, school shooting, college, grief, murder, couples, death, haunted by the past, family problems, psychology, sociology, school massacre, death in the family, teen suicide, marriage, relationships, killings, suicide, destruction, dysfunctional family, forgiveness, victim, high school, loss, son ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and gloomy films with plots about family relations, family problems, dealing with death, grief, life is a bitch, death and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Beautiful Boy: Rabbit Hole (2010), Amish Grace (2010), Hello Herman (2012), Morning (2010), Things We Lost in the Fire (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Rabbit Hole (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Style: touching, sad, crying, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: grief, loss of child, death in the family, marriage, estrangement, tragedy, support group, memory, redemption, family problems, death of child, death of son ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Amish Grace (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated ...
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: faith, amish, murder, forgiveness, hopes, death in the family, religions or cults, dealing with death, introspection, child murder, hate, mass murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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100%
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Hello Herman (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: school shooting, social relations, haunted by the past, youth, losing-it hero, bullying, high school, loneliness, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, murder ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, iowa
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48%
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Morning (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark (Leland Orser) and ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, starting over, redemption, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, family in crisis, death in the family, death of child, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Style: depressing, touching, sincere, gloomy, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: addiction, heroin, grief, life is a bitch, love and romance, haunted by the past, loss of spouse, drug addiction, best friend, character study, childhood, starting over ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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44%
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Mass (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological, sad ...
Plot: tragedy, church, forgiveness, parents, grief, violent, mass murder, loss of child, multiple perspectives, relationship problems, backfire, marital problem ...
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43%
The Other Woman (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family life, parents and children, family problems, couple relations, death in the family, dishonesty, dealing with death, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, woman, making love, women ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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42%
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The Sisters (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
Style: serious, rough, emotional, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, unfaithful wife, sisters, sister sister relationship, family relations, family problems, estrangement, unhappy marriage, unrequited love, life is a bitch, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: greece, usa, new york
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42%
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Distance (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ...
Style: psychological, serious, bleak, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot: afterlife, destiny, supernatural, life is a bitch, danger, terrorism, estrangement, teenage life, death in the family, haunted by the past, dealing with death, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
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41%
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Open Window (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film
Plot: dysfunctional family, rape, introspection, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female nudity, family in crisis, vegetarian ...
Place: los angeles, usa
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41%
The United States of Leland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, murder, teacher, coming of age, dysfunctional family, writers, prison life, family relations, unlikely friendships, investigation, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, italy, paris france, california ...
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40%
Everything Is Fine (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also have killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, suicide, depression, friendship, loneliness, teen suicide, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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40%
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Normal (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, erotic ...
Plot: stepmother stepson relationship, sex with stepmother, older woman younger man relationship, incest overtones, adultery, sex with stepson, female nudity, caught masturbating, incest, mother son incest, car accident, obsession ...
Place: canada
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39%
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Aloft (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: As we follow a mother and her son, we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own and a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the ...
Style: psychological, serious, atmospheric, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, introspection, healer, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, estrangement, mother son relationship, grief, winter, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, canada, minnesota
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38%
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I'm Losing You (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Style: realistic, talky, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: aids, hollywood, family relations, father son relationship, terminal illness, showbiz, infidelity, family problems, dealing with death, artists and showbiz, family in crisis, family life ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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37%
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Cake (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style: heartbreaking, depressing, psychological, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drug addiction, loneliness, depression, obsession, suicide, friendship, suicide attempt, support group, character study, tragedy, mental illness, honest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, tijuana mexico, mexico
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37%
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American Gun (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A brilliant story with an unexpected twist. A father uses the serial number on a hand gun in an attempt to track down his daughter's killer. The truth he uncovers is an unsettling reminder of the dangers of keeping handguns. Stars the legendary ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, amateur detective, haunted by the past, escapades, on the road, loss of daughter, world war two veteran, violent content, chases and races, obsessive quest, dealing with death, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas
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37%
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The Frost (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A couple's marriage falls apart after the death of their son. Based on Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf"
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, bleak, psychological
Plot: couple relations, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, couples, death in the family, dealing with death, guilt, death, male nudity, female nudity, psychological drama, female full frontal nudity ...
Time: 21st century
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37%
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Ordinary People (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style: depressing, realistic, compassionate, sentimental, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, therapy, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, depression, grief, suicide, coming of age, father son relationship, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, middle east, houston texas ...
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37%
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The Stone Boy (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: One summer morning, 12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene wake at dawn to pick peas and perhaps shoot a wild duck on their family's Montana farm. In a nearby pasture, Arnold's gun fires accidentally. His brother ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: farm, coming of age, youth, boy, grief, hunting, depression, death of brother, guilt, family relations, death in the family, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s
Place: montana, usa
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37%
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The Rebirth (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, friendship, life is a bitch, small town, loss of daughter, forgiveness, friends, starting over, dealing with death, interview, very little dialogue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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37%
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American Gun (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
Style: thought provoking, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, on the road, family problems, teenage life, single mother, human nature, single parent, dealing with death, working class, parents and children, death in the family, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, virginia, oregon
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37%
Life as a House (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: terminal illness, father son relationship, dying, cancer, dysfunctional family, relationships, reconciliation, illness, divorce, fighting illness, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2001
Place: california, usa
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36%
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A Night for Dying Tigers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The night before Jack (Gil Bellows) is slated to begin a five-year prison sentence for murder, his wife, Melanie (Jennifer Beals), and assorted siblings gather for a dinner to bid Jack farewell and good luck on his trip up the river. But the party ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couple relations, parents and children, conflict, rapist, couples, siblings relations, rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Family Tree (2010)
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, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: family relations, deportation, family problems, aging, hopes, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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36%
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style: sad, depressing, heartbreaking, psychological, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: family drama, sadness, loneliness, depression, loss, suicide attempt, death, nephew, grief, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, adoption ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
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36%
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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 ⇓
36%
The Grief of Others (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, death in the family, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family crisis, mourning, reconciliation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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36%
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The Son's Room (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Style: touching, sincere, sad, depressing, meditative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychoanalysis, regret, loss of son, psychology, grief, parents and children, family problems, redemption, hopes, family in crisis, overcoming, running ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Heart of America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Starring Jurgen Prochnow ('The Replacement Killers' 'Air Force One' and Patrick Muldoon 'Stigmata' 'Starship Troopers'), 'Heart of America' is a powerhouse of a contemporary drama and essential ...
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: school shooting, high school, bullying, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, psychopath, teenage life, bully, life is a bitch, society, youth, social misfits ...
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35%
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