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Little Chenier (2006)
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Little Chenier (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: LITTLE CHENIER: A CAJUN STORY is the story of a young man who lives a simple life on a houseboat in the Louisiana bayou with his mentally handicapped brother until one is accused of a crime in the small town.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: mentally challenged, mental illness, against the odds, family relations, family problems, disability, dishonesty, uneducated, brother brother relationship, mental retardation, alligator, autism, american south, small town sheriff, alcoholic father, handgun, sibling relationship, intellectual disability, misfit, love and romance, couples, infidelity, store, siblings relations, bait ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: louisiana, usa

Most similar movies to Little Chenier

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and touching films with plots about family relations, family problems, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, siblings relations and parents and children mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Little Chenier: My Brother (2006), Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005), Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003), Suburban Madness (2004), My Sister's Keeper (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Brother (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "My Brother" is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L'Tisha, finds herself in a tragic situation. Dying of tuberculosis, she desperately tries to get her two ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, heartfelt
Plot: disability, terminal illness, life is a bitch, family problems, family relations, mentally challenged, brother brother relationship, sick mother, down syndrome, poverty, homeless, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious
Plot: mentally challenged, disability, lifestyle, family relations, couples, dysfunctional family, family life, misfit, love and romance, family problems, siblings relations, bus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for himself when an unidentified automobile suddenly kills her. Free for the first time, Albert quickly responds to the bait dangling in front of him, ...
Style: realistic, serious, offbeat, suspense, dark comedy
Plot: misfit, mentally challenged, social misfits, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, small town, death of mother, con artists, mental illness, inheritance, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 2003
Place: wisconsin, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Suburban Madness (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the real story of Clara Harris, the Houston, Texas dentist who made headlines in July 2002 when she killed her adulterous husband by repeatedly running over him with her car.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, psychological
Plot: private detective, murder, family problems, couples, dishonesty, infidelity, serial killer, dentist, love triangle, under the surface, adultery, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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My Sister's Keeper (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two sisters take a journey of discovery and reconciliation based on the memoirs of Margaret Moorman. Christine has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and must rely on others for support even though she longs for and independent and ordinary life. ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: sibling relationship, sister, family problems, disability, split personality, siblings relations, mental illness, family relations, family life, sister sister relationship, schizophrenia, schizophrenic ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Virginia (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A sheriff sees his state senate bid slide out onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman with whom the sheriff has engaged in a two-decade-long affair.
Style: psychological, realistic, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot: sheriff, mother child relationship, parent child relationship, family problems, life is a bitch, misfit, family relations, couple relations, mentally unstable, love and romance, love affair, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, usa, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, abusive husband, family problems, family relations, rape, redemption, unfulfillment, love and romance, obsession, infidelity, couples, human nature ...
Time: 50s
Place: new orleans, mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Waking Madison (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, psychiatrist, dishonesty, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Infidelity (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A married family therapist cheats on her husband with a younger man and becomes trapped in her double life, unable to say anything and risk hurting either man in her life.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, love affair, couples, unfaithful, sexual relations, dishonesty, double life, rivalry, sex addict, love and romance, cuckolded husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
We Were the Mulvaneys (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, loneliness, fear, trouble ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style: talky, serious, realistic, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: rape, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, mental illness, family problems, couples, family relations, haunted by the past, down on your luck, siblings relations, infidelity, human nature ...
Time: 50s
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Particles of Truth (2003)
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, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, mental illness, human nature, introspection, haunted by the past, family life, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Hope for Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young woman is faced with a tough decision to stay with her husband and father of her son who is cheating on her. She takes a vacation where she runs into an old flame and begins to rekindle their chemistry. Torn between the two, she intends to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, dishonesty, couples, introspection, betrayal, self discovery, relocation, love and romance, urban, escape
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Jewel (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, family problems, family life, couples, social relations, couple relations, society, babies and infants, youth, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: mississippi, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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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 ⇓
86%
Signs & Wonders (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Style: serious, realistic, clever, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: infidelity, introspection, love affair, life turned upside down, love triangle, couple relations, crumbling marriage, betrayal, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, germany, greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Betrayed at 17 (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mother vows to get justice when her daughter's life is destroyed by a sex video that goes viral.
Style: serious, touching, suspenseful, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: high school, high school life, teenage life, righting the wronged, siblings relations, death in the family, parents and children, family relations, private vs public, social relations, family problems, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style: melancholic, touching, emotional, depressing, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, disability, self discovery, mental illness, small town, mentally challenged, responsibility, life philosophy, brothers, coming of age, family drama, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993, 60s, 70s
Place: iowa, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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My Louisiana Sky (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, self discovery, family life, family problems, society, parents and children, disability, small town life, child's point of view, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, love triangle, betrayal, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, female protagonist, masturbation, aunt, stealing ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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The Touch (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home.
Style: art house, independent film, realistic, serious, psychological
Plot: infidelity, love affair, crazy love, art, love story, nudity, affair, female nudity, church, wedding ring, hospital, extramarital affair ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Two Mr. Kissels (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Drama based on a true story. Rich, high-flying brothers Robert and Andrew Kissel seemingly have everything: beautiful wives who love them, great jobs and huge houses. But beneath the surface lie resentments and secrets that will eventually be their ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot: dishonesty, couple relations, family relations, couples, infidelity, murder, serial killer, blonde, voyeur, voyeurism, golddigger, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Stolen Child (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Amanda and Jason are happy marriage now, after years of frustration have finally managed to take a beautiful girl from a country in Eastern Europe through an international adoption agency. But when the doctor will perform a DNA test to small, finds ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot: adoption, kidnapping, kidnapped child, uncover truth, investigation, suspicion, couples, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental health, mental disorder, ptsd, suicidal, illness, psychology, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Good Time Max (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Two genius brothers grow up and grow apart as one becomes a successful surgeon and the other pursues a drug-fueled high life.
Style: serious, tense, rough, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: downfall, social differences, prodigy, family problems, family relations, misfit, human nature, drug, brother brother relationship, coming of age, siblings relations, social relations ...
Place: california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Fly Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: autism, nursing, moral dilemma, parents and children, single parent, society, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, social misfits, youth, family problems, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Daybreak (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 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: realistic, psychological, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, family problems, vengeance, crumbling marriage, love affair, parents and children, family relations, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, redemption, introspection ...
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Romeo Eleven (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Romeo11 is a frequent visitor to internet chat rooms and social networking sites, where he's been engaging in an ongoing flirtation with an attractive woman. But Romeo11 doesn't actually exist; he's the creation of Rami, a teenager ...
Style: realistic, sincere, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, siblings relations, disability, hidden identity, dishonesty, teenage life, parents and children, computers and web, restaurant, lie, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montreal, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Cries from the Heart (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama directed by Michael Switzer.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: autism, mentally challenged, children, youth, sexual abuse, child molester, family problems, power relations, family relations, misfit, life is a bitch, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: politics, political corruption, betrayal, dishonesty, fighting the system, state affairs, relationship vs career, legal, couple relations, workplace, moral dilemma, infidelity ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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