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Looking for Alexander (2004)
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Looking for Alexander (2004)
Original name: MĂ©moires affectives
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, stylized
Plot: haunted by the past, uncover truth, memory loss, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, a vision, doctors and patients, crumbling marriage, police detective, hospital, coma, family relations, law enforcement, police investigation, power relations, violent content, winter, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, flashback, waking up from a coma, graphic violence, drugs/alcohol ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada

Most similar movies to Looking for Alexander

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and captivating films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, estrangement and hospital mostly in Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Looking for Alexander: A Night for Dying Tigers (2010), Don't Be Afraid (2011), Small World (2010), The Lazarus Child (2004), Cook County (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
Don't Be Afraid (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her fight against adversity and against herself, she will ...
Style: psychological, realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: haunted by the past, starting over, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, incest, abuse, rape, sexual abuse, girl, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
She Is Not Crying, She Is Singing (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, family secret, car accident, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.5
 648
Small World (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, investigation, memory loss, haunted by the past, society, family relations, family life, flashback, power relations, amateur detective, social differences, dishonesty ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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The Lazarus Child (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A road accident leaves seven-year-old Frankie Heywood gravely injured and deeply comatose, when she is hit by a bus, and her twelve-year-old brother Ben severely depressed and traumatised after he witnessed the event. Their parents, Jack and Alison, ...
Style: psychological, emotional, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: danger, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, hopes, youth, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, moral dilemma, redemption, power relations, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.7
 564
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 ⇓
76%
The Policeman's Wife (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: accident, couple relations, family problems, domestic violence, family relations, couples, small town, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Verdict in Blood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide investigation. Her only two clues are twin wills left by the victim -- one donating everything to the ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, police detective, journalism, law enforcement, murder, danger, who done it, nypd, strong female presence, police investigation, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Living Memories (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: The story of families haunted, despite themselves, by a past that has not died.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating
Plot: missing person, uncover truth, haunted by the past, under the surface, parents and children, couple relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, family problems, couples, lesbian love, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.4
 553
Hidden Diary (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, gloomy
Plot: dysfunctional family, mysterious past, murder, parent child relationship, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, haunted by the past, bittersweet, small town, beach, cemetery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 5.6
 513
Rust (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: clergy, self discovery, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, homecoming, religions or cults, friendship, society, small town, human nature, direction and purpose ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Sins of the Mother (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shay is a young African-American college student whom is forced to take a year off from school to return to her hometown where she struggles with her anger and insecurity when she's forced to confront her alcoholic mother, Nona, whom is ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching
Plot: college, homecoming, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, family problems, parents and children, single parent, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse, mother daughter relationship, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Guest of Honour (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting out of the bounds of good behavior as the past haunts them.
Style: entertaining, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: father daughter relationship, haunted by the past, family drama, family problems, transformation, hopes, redemption, self discovery, family relations, life is a bitch, storytelling, adaptation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.3
 126
Another House (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, elderly, parents and children, memory loss, father son relationship, love, brothers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Desolation Sound (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Noir thriller from Vancouver plays out a destructive friendship between a depressed housewife and her childhood friend to an ugly conclusion.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, obsession, femme fatale, haunted by the past, couples, family problems, police detective, couple relations, betrayal, dishonesty, crumbling marriage ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Day I Was Not Born (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story: During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown ...
Style: realistic, psychological, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: redemption, self discovery, parents and children, uncover truth, protecting from truth, haunted by the past, adoption, family relations, hopes, society, life is a bitch, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The End of Innocence (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: nervous breakdown, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, rehabilitation center, addiction, power relations, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.8
 195
Melting Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, parents and children, terminal illness, family relations, bittersweet, father son relationship, gay, transgender, hospital, israeli, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Mark of an Angel (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression in the midst of a divorce from her husband of 12 years develops an obsession with a seven year old girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas. Determined to find out ...
Style: sincere, psychological, suspenseful, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: obsession, family relations, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, mentally unstable, stalking, danger, parents and children, family problems, little girl, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.5
 430
Forgive Me (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Violette, an expectant wife, who opens a nasty barrel of worms by filming a documentary about her dysfunctional family, to be shown to her (as yet) unborn son.Through her ever-present lens, Violette begins to unearth one nasty family secret after ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, pregnancy, family problems, couples, infidelity, parents and children, uncover truth, disturbed childhood, adultery, adolescence ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.2
 527
Among Us (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a mysterious stranger with ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: couple relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, thoughtful, life turned upside down, family in crisis, down on your luck, family relations, cigarette smoking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
 347
Hidden Love (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.
Style: psychological, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: psychiatrist, parent child relationship, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, power relations, family relations, doctors and patients, mental institution, parents and children, clinic, therapy ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.8
 565
Wetlands (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: On a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships, in the middle of a drought and while the land is parching, a drama will disrupt the life of the Santerre family. Confronted to each other they will have to learn to forgive.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, avant garde ...
Plot: family problems, death in the family, estrangement, family relations, family business, parents and children, life is a bitch, down on your luck, voyeurism, forgiveness, gay, gay erotica ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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All Is Forgiven (2007)
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, redemption, teenager, parents and children, addiction, crumbling marriage, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.4
 1K
Liverpool (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: sailor, homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Things Behind the Sun (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot: estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.4
 328
A Number (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, cerebral ...
Plot: cloning, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, clone, father son relationship, hospital, genetics, doctor, uncover truth, misfit, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Dad for Christmas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: christmas, against the odds, adoption, custody, couples, family life, family relations, parents and children, hospital, single parent, holiday, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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