Movies like Where Love Has Gone
If you like "Where Love Has Gone" you are looking for slasher, sincere and serious movies about / with teenage daughter, murder, trial, betrayal, courtroom, lawyer and teenage girl themes of Drama genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Where Love Has Gone (1964)
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Style:
slasher, sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, campy
Plot:
teenage daughter, murder, trial, betrayal, courtroom, lawyer, teenage girl, domineering mother, drug addiction, minefield, marriage, investigation, family relations, manipulation, custody, haunted by the past, battles, alcohol abuse, parents and children, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, sexual relations, couples, love affair ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Where Love Has Gone
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about couples, family problems, family relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, life is a bitch and crumbling marriage mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Where Love Has Gone: Return to Peyton Place (1961), A Thousand Acres (1997), Back Street (1961), Deceit (2004), Guilty Hearts (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
Style:
retro, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
small town, scandal, infidelity, mother in law, family relations, dysfunctional family, social relations, couples, estrangement, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent ...
Time:
year 1961, 50s
Place:
new york, massachusetts, new hampshire, usa, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
Style:
psychological, touching, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
farm, child molester, dysfunctional family, shakespeare, domineering father, jealousy, tragedy, women, incest rape, incest, sex with father, father daughter sex ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
iowa, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
fashion show, fashion designer, extramarital affair, department store, fashion industry, marriage, feminism, lonely, infidelity, love and romance, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, new york, usa, paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
155
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ellen's life is turned upside down after her wealthy hubby vanishes at sea. Everyone close to her is a liar - especially Ellen's missing spouse. Was this a case of an affair gone bad? A corporate cover-up? Or something far more sinister? ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending
Plot:
couple relations, infidelity, murder, love affair, couples, dishonesty, life is a bitch, who done it, dangerous attraction, alcohol abuse, debt, father figure ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
53%
Movie in collections
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, church, love affair, investigation, family problems, couples, fall in love, infidelity, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, love and romance, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, new york
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bill Hooper -- bitter after a messy divorce -- tries to help a friend gain custody of his child any way he can.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
battle of the sexes, family relations, family problems, courtroom drama, breakup, legal action, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, custody battle, divorce, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
feminist, hospital, mental illness, murder, infidelity, violent content, dishonesty, couple relations, feminism, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, estrangement, mental illness, human nature, family problems, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
49%
Movie in collections
419
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, touching
Plot:
love affair, family relations, family problems, society, family in crisis, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, couples, betrayal, love and romance, working class, crumbling marriage ...
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
horse, father daughter reunion, youth, teenage life, parents and children, family life, family problems, family relations, single parent, love and romance, dysfunctional family, estrangement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Esther Cimino, a music teacher who has reached retirement age, finds that her mental faculties are slipping somewhat. The film is a trenchant, realistic study of the ravages and displacements, socially, physically, and mentally, that are visited ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere, emotional
Plot:
aging, bondage, courtroom, pianist, fighting the system, single parent, society, love and romance, misfit, elderly, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Style:
realistic, emotional, offbeat, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, writers, marriage, infidelity, husband, wife, adultery, violence, marital crisis, mistress, youth ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 70s
Place:
bay area, san francisco, california
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The gory ax-murder of one mousy, suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: self-defense. Could it be so?
Style:
spooky, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
self defense, crimes of passion, lawyer, law, killing spree, serial killer, extramarital affair, true crime, murder, manipulation, couples, protagonist as suspect ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, black comedy ...
Plot:
aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, father son relationship, writers, human nature, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, writer's life, parents and children, extramarital affair ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
france
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, parents and children, domestic disturbance, family in crisis, life is a bitch, hopes, family problems, redemption, estrangement, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
420
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style:
touching, serious, psychological, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, friendship, parents and children, solace, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, family life, family problems, estrangement, impossible love, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vermont
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Sarah Walsh, a tough New Orleans attorney who serves on a murder trial jury and does some investigating of her own.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom, trial, uncover truth, investigation, courtroom drama, false accusation, life is a bitch, legal, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer, prosecutor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four young black men kill a white woman, the D.A. is very cautious in how to proceed...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, hotshot lawyer, dishonesty, law enforcement, lawyer, nypd, interracial relations, racism, injustice, courtroom ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
48%
Movie in collections
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
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for nothing son Berry-Berry..
Style:
black and white, social, retro, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love triangle, family relations, christmas, passionate kiss, adolescence, drug addiction, bus, beat generation, siblings, age-gap relationship, pregnancy, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ohio, florida, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Style:
southern gothic, talky, tense, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
estate, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, alcoholic, plantation, frigidity, male homosexuality, estrangement, couples, sexual dysfunction, family problems, family relations ...
Place:
new orleans, usa, mississippi
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the one-year anniversary of the death of John's brother, the handsome and charismatic Tony, who ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
gay interest, skinny dipping, loss of lover, aids, mourning, lgbt, glbt, family problems, couples, family relations, estrangement, family in crisis ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A law student is seduced by a beautiful woman he doesn't know, and after a one night stand with her, his roommate warns him to be careful because he suspects she may have other motives. Years later, she returns and hires him as her lawyer to ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, lawyer, couples, power relations, haunted by the past, college, rivalry, orphan, protagonist as suspect, witnessing a crime, dangerous attraction, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
47%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, vengeance, crumbling marriage, family problems, parents and children, love affair, dishonesty, redemption, introspection, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style:
grim, tense, depressing, talky, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, redemption, actor, family life, alcohol abuse, human nature, actor's life, lifestyle, morphine, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1912, year 1962, 60s ...
Place:
connecticut, ireland
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, sad, gloomy ...
Plot:
down syndrome, haunted by the past, disability, child illness, family problems, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance, obsession, hidden identity, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
kentucky, pittsburgh
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, tense ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, couples, family life, family in crisis, midlife crisis, family problems, parents and children, society, crumbling marriage, suburban life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons), a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, couples, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, love and romance, unsupportive spouse, crumbling marriage, couple relations, impossible love, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
60s, year 1969
Place:
bahamas, denver colorado, colorado
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness arrives exhausted at the fort, a wilderness station, claiming she murdered her husband. She's placed in a cell; for the next several months, she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, erotic, bleak ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, marital rape, rough sex, vengeance, mysterious character, starting over, investigation, manipulation, family problems, life is a bitch, love and romance, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Centers on Sara, a beautiful but unhappily married female photographer who begins a torrid affair with Jack, a lawyer for a powerful family.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, heartbreaking
Plot:
betrayal, family problems, cheating wife, infidelity, love affair, extramarital affair, family in crisis, husband wife relationship, murder, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Related movie lists
