Movies like Born and Bred 2006
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Born and Bred (2006)
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Original name: Nacido y criado
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, contemplative, melancholic, existential, serious, tragic
Plot:
life turned upside down, life is a bitch, dealing with death, loneliness, car accident, melancholy, introspection, accident, destruction, trauma, isolation, self discovery, identity, silence, healing, grief, redemption, identity crisis, resilience, intimate, survival, mountain, memory, mature, rehabilitation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
argentina, patagonia
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Most similar movies to Born and Bred
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, psychological and realistic films with plots about intimate, grief, loss, isolation, healing, slice of life and introspection mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Born and Bred: Silence in Dreamland (2013), Blue Lips (2014), Running (2022), Broken Roads (2012), Last Child (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
slow cinema, touching, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
loneliness, dog, old age, loss, dream, isolation, death of husband, imagination, female protagonist, intimate, introspection, reflection ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Six people's lives come together.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
introspection, fish out of water, hopes, couple relations, cause and meaning, life turned upside down, bittersweet, disorder, dealing with death, encounter, rebirth, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, rio de janeiro, buenos aires argentina, rome italy, honolulu hawaii ...
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A whole year went by before musician Juliane Hansen was able to put her running shoes back on — a year after her partner, Johann König, took his own life. Although her friend Rieke offers all the support she can, Juliane feels lonely and ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, emotional, psychological, slow cinema ...
Plot:
grief, healing, mourning, recovery, suicide, loss, bereavement, loneliness, running, loss of partner, guilt, cello ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Broken Roads is a contrasted portrait of life, dealing with loss, a journey of rediscovery & the hills climbed which forever change us.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
small town, estrangement, teenage life, small town life, youth, family tragedy, loss, coming of age, grandmother grandson relationship, grief, accident, car crash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When their son drowns while saving the life of a friend, the couple offer to take the boy in. What can they do with the kid who outlived their own son? The father tries to teach him work and looks after him like family. The mother is distant to him ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, family drama, social problems, kids and family, family problems, life is a bitch, relationships, family relations, loss of child ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young up and coming artist in New York city has his life and dreams forever altered when the tragic events of 9/11 take the lives of his two best friends and he accepts guardianship of the couple's two young daughters. Now eleven years later, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
family drama, changing lives, social problems, problem, lifestyle change, child custody, foster home, foster parent, family problems, loss of family, foster child, terrorist attack ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
introspection, rehabilitation, accident, starting over, family relations, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment, couples, trauma, recovery, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, catalonia, europe
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman, and her last memories of the five people who loved her most, recalled while experiencing a catastrophic event.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
memories, female protagonist, death, memory, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love affair, lifestyle, trauma, loss, grief ...
Similarity:
59%
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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%
198
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, sincere, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, redemption, parents and children, starting over, hopes, family relations, friendship, empathy, realism, character study, isolation, independence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, grief, suicide, seaside, empathy, loneliness, trumpet player, salvation, healing, intimate, mourning, redemption ...
Similarity:
52%
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:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alexander Way, a secondary school teacher with a fractured personal life, finds himself attempting to rescue a woman from a violent sexual attack. Alexander finds himself overpowered, beaten & taken to hospital. Jesiah Jarvus, a famous British ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
marriage, school, family relations, doctor, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, teacher, father daughter relationship, violence, cancer, trauma, hospital ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman sabotages her own wedding in order to reclaim her identity and obliterates her life in the process.
Style:
captivating, dramatic, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, desert, wedding, mute, left for dead, runaway bride, woman, self discovery, identity, life, fiancee, sabotage ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
aging, elderly, drug abuse, introspection, disease, dealing with death, terminal illness, female protagonist, subconscious, character study, youth, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Mishima Kiko was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko was abused mentally and physically by her mother, stepfather, and younger stepbrother. She didn't belong to this ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
domestic abuse, abuse, trauma, domestic violence, neglect, bullying, dysfunctional family, social problems, life is a bitch, traumatic past, violence, family problems ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One morning Joel finds his wife's dog Elvis half dead. This forces him out of home, something he has avoided for a long time. After forgetting his keys inside, he'll spend the day desperately trying to get back into his flat, his shelter.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, sincere, realistic, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mourning, realism, dog, nothing goes right, human nature, society, social misfits, disorder, misfit, pets, dealing with death, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Damián, an 11-year-old boy who is separated from his violent family, is taken to live in a children's home by state intervention. Accompanied by Leandro, a social worker with a personal story similar to his, Damián will have to accept that ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological
Plot:
social issues, domestic violence, coming of age, childhood, trauma, foster home, children's home, healing, intimate, social worker, empathy, resilience ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A couple lose their home and later discover the husband has been diagnosed with a terminal illness as they embark on a year long coastal trek.
Style:
emotional, road movie, contemplative, poignant, realistic ...
Plot:
marriage, homelessness, terminal illness, sea, resilience, introspection, relationships, intimate, acceptance, partnership, nature, self discovery ...
Place:
britain
Similarity:
45%
353
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium, Lebanon
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a foreigner in her own country. But there's still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
female protagonist, identity, memory, homecoming, self discovery, introspection, life is a bitch, family relations, relationships, trauma, haunted house, family secret ...
Place:
lebanon
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, self discovery, teenage life, interracial relations, hopes, society, idealism, spoiled brat, quibbling, aging, death in the family ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
44%
462
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Caio is 40 years old and lives in the Rio de Janeiro's countryside, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On Christmas' Eve, he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, family problems, hopes, estrangement, christmas, intimate, soul searching, identity crisis, male protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Jane fails her final college class, she returns home to her parent's lake house where she comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, lake, trauma, getting home, life is a bitch, character study, coming of age, self discovery, healing, mental health, intimate, acceptance ...
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
43%
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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:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, anthology ...
Plot:
psychology, family relations, winter, meteor shower, social problems, multiple storylines, life is a bitch, social issues, snow, stargazing, intimate, slice of life ...
Similarity:
40%
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, emotional, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot:
small town, forgiveness, murder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, friendship, loss of daughter, widower, loss, mourning, loneliness, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, hokkaido, asia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Four Women, Four Dreams, Four Realities
Style:
realistic, independent film, emotional, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
self discovery, grief, friendship, loss, intimate, relationships, introspection, identity crisis, slice of life, party, mourning, slow burn ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, grief, hopes, death of daughter, country house, family relations, teenage life, family problems, mother daughter relationship, mourning, loss, bereavement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood.
Style:
emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
introspection, artists and showbiz, ambition, strong female presence, hopes, dancer's life, women, motherhood, dance, performance art, family drama, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In the unforgiving shadows of sympathy, Ganesh Gangadharan, a paraplegic designer, wrestles with his inner demons, striving for a semblance of normalcy.
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, intense, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
disability, paraplegic, resilience, introspection, character study, healing, isolation, identity, redemption, empathy, grief, loss ...
Similarity:
37%
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:
35%
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