Movies and TV shows like If There Be Thorns

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If There Be Thorns (2015)
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If There Be Thorns (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: The third installment in V.C. Andrews’ bestselling series that began with "Flowers in the Attic," "If There Be Thorns" follows Christopher and Cathy Dollanganger as they live together as man and wife with Cathy's two sons who are unaware of the incestuous nature of their parents' relationship. But when a mysterious woman moves in next door and befriends the younger boy, Bart, he begins a strange transformation and displays accusatory behavior towards Cathy and Christopher. When Christopher discovers their mysterious neighbor is, in fact, his mother Corrine Dollanganger, all of the family's long-hidden secrets are revealed in a tragic climax.
Style: serious, disturbing, emotional, realistic
Plot: brother sister incest, incest, youth, brother sister sex, family in crisis, family secret, secret, sibling rivalry, hidden identity, orphan, diary, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, family problems, problem child, house, boyhood, ballet, mansion, dancer, insanity, blackmail, attic, brother brother relationship, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california

Most similar movies to If There Be Thorns

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and captivating films and TV series with plots about family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, siblings relations, secret and youth mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like If There Be Thorns: Flowers in the Attic (2014), Seeds of Yesterday (2015), Hard Sun (2014), Petals on the Wind (2014), Flowers in the Attic (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Flowers in the Attic (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
Style: disturbing, sadistic, cliffhanger, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: brother sister incest, incest, attic, child abuse, mansion, family relations, abusive mother, domestic disturbance, brother sister sex, captive, widow, incestuous sex ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Seeds of Yesterday (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
TV show
Story: The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: brother sister incest, sex scene, incest, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, family life, death in the family, sexual relations, siblings relations, male nudity, mansion, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Hard Sun (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the death of her parents, a young woman assumes primary guardianship of her special needs brother. But as she attempts to balance her new life with her brother and her own blossoming romance, it becomes painfully clear that life will only make ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, family in crisis, youth, dysfunctional family, family problems, brother sister relationship, autism, special needs, guardian, child care, sibling relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Petals on the Wind (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story: This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic, emotional, dark drama ...
Plot: brother sister incest, incest, brother sister sex, family relations, vengeance, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, family problems, youth, young heroes, siblings relations, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place: usa, new york, south carolina, california, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Flowers in the Attic (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: incest, children, confined, survival, siblings relations, family life, estate, old mansion, child abuse, life is a bitch, danger, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 4.5
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Bloodknot (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A grieving family opens its household to an unknown women who claims to have been their dearly departed's girlfriend.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sexual ...
Plot: incestuous sex, incest, psychotic, woman seduces a man, sex in car, hidden identity, half sister, sex scene, female nudity, seductress, brother sister incest, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Cement Garden (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially ...
Style: disturbing, erotic, sexy, art house, talky ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: incest, coming of age, brother sister incest, teenage life, parents and children, male nudity, children, family relations, forbidden sex, male masturbation, brother sister sex, youth ...
Time: 90s, near future, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: missing child, uncover truth, parents and children, overprotective mother, child abduction, twists and turns, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, nobody believes, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Hellion (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: motocross, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquent, father son relationship, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, dysfunctional family, social worker, death of mother, family relations, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mississippi Damned (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style: touching, sincere, rough, emotional, informative ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, addiction, human nature, society, family relations, family problems, family in crisis, women of color, feminist, child abuse ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Princess Daisy (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
TV show
Story: The lovely Daisy is the daughter of a Russian prince and an American movie star. After her parents are killed, she flees from her half-brother Ram. She fights her way to the top of the modeling profession and falls in love with a company president. ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, romantic drama
Plot: incestuous relationship, rape, twins, aristocrat, family problems, injustice, family relations, life is a bitch, downfall, society, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.0
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Open Heart (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: In the wake of her father's disappearance, 16-year-old Dylan Blake falls in with the wrong crowd, gets arrested, and earns court-ordered community service volunteering at Open Heart Memorial, the hospital where her mother and sister are ...
Style: realistic, touching, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: hospital, friendship, investigation, uncover truth, teenage life, missing person, family relations, family problems, rebelliousness, youth, love and romance, amateur detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Flowers in the Attic: The Origin (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story: After a whirlwind romance, Olivia finds herself as the mistress of the imposing Foxworth Hall, where she soon discovers that the fairy tale life she expected has quickly become a nightmare.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, period drama
Plot: secret, family secret, society, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, husband wife relationship, religion, incest, gay ...
Time: 1910s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.7
 320
Annie's Garden (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In front of his 15-year-old son, a father loses his temper and strikes his younger daughter, thinking she's trying to run away from him. Jump ahead ten years: the dad is dead, the mom is gone, and the son, Luke, is raising his now grown sister, ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: bad father, small town, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, family relations, small town life, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, journal, secret, death of father ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Pasadena (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Pasadena is an American primetime soap opera originally broadcast in the U.S. from September to November 2001 on Fox.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, soap opera, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, family business, journalism, secret, mother daughter relationship, murder, wealth, wealthy family, gays and lesbians, media, siblings relations, corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Rebecca (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 182 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the Gothic romance novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca is a classic tale of love and hate. Maxim De Winter marries a woman half his age only a year after his first wife, the beautiful and accomplished Rebecca, dies. She finds herself in an ...
Style: gothic, stylized, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: estate, widower, master and servant, older man younger woman relationship, haunted by the past, age difference, betrayal, young love, past, jazz, interwar period, love ...
Time: 20th century
Place: england, cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Hidden Palms (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Hidden Palms is an American teen drama television series that ran from May 30 until July 4, 2007, on The CW in the United States. It was canceled after eight first-run episodes. The series, created by Kevin Williamson, portrays the fictional lives ...
Style: realistic, sexy, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: social relations, starting over, parents and children, youth, therapy, love, high school, rich kid, interracial couple, black american, rich, mysterious death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, palm springs california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, teen, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, lesbian, high school life, blackmail, gossip and rumors, threat, haunted by the past, teenage life, mysterious character, friendship, youth, friends ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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True Dare Kiss (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: True Dare Kiss is a British television drama produced for BBC One. It is written by Debbie Horsfield and produced by Marcus Wilson and features Dervla Kirwan, David Bradley and Lorraine Ashbourne. It concerns the reunion of four sisters and a ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot: haunted by the past, betrayal, uncover truth, rivalry, family problems, dysfunctional family, favoritism among siblings, life is a bitch, death of father, death in the family, sister sister relationship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: manchester, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
V.C. Andrews' Heaven (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story: Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers a dark secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her ...
Plot: incest, sex with a minor, corporal punishment, poor family, shakespeare, death of grandmother, grandmother granddaughter relationship, new student, poverty, birthday, marriage proposal, brother sister relationship ...
Place: atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Providence (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Providence is an American television drama series that aired on NBC starring Melina Kanakaredes. The show ran for five seasons from January 8, 1999 until December 20, 2002.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, medical drama ...
Plot: family relations, hometown, living with parents, family problems, love and romance, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, looking for love, homecoming, small town life, medical ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Bold and the Beautiful (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 19 min.
TV show
Story: Continuing drama combining romance and intrigue set against the glittering backdrop of Beverly Hills and the American fashion industry.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, soap opera ...
Plot: fashion, family relations, love triangle, intrigue, family problems, family business, rich and poor, family life, couple relations, lifestyle, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Chapelwaite (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 516 min.
TV show
Story: In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, spooky ...
Plot: stephen king, vampire, medieval, monster, supernatural, confronting the past, secret past, dracula, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, father son relationship ...
Time: 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Triumph of Love (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A love story between a young girl wishing to become a professional model and a rich boy who works in a fashion house and falls in love with her.
Style: emotional, serious, touching, sentimental, soap opera ...
Plot: lovers apart, forbidden love, hidden identity, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, starting over, rivalry, fashion, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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White Frog (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Story of a neglected teen with mild Asperger’s syndrome whose life is changed forever when tragedy hits his family
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: autism, asperger's syndrome, lgbt, coming of age, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, family problems, misfit, self discovery, dealing with death, teenage life, favoritism among siblings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Man in Room 301 (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
TV show
Story: Summer 2007, Finland. While the Kurtti are spending their annual holidays in their cabins in the land of a thousand lakes, the family is struck by a tragedy: Tommi, 2 years old, is killed by a gunshot. Elias, a 12-year-old neighbour, is blamed for ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: family problems, dysfunctional family, family secret, threat, secret, lifestyle change, changing lives, life is a bitch, life
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Into the White Night (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: What happens with two children commit two different muders in order to protect each other? Does salvation exist for them? In order to walk beneath the sun once more, Ryouji and Yukiho find themselves in a twisted web from which neither can escape ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: tragic past, life is a bitch, secret past, vengeance, secret, social misfits, tragic love, family problems, revenge, murder mystery, dysfunctional family, perversion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
McLeod's Daughters (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: McLeod's Daughters is an Australian television series that began airing on the Nine Network on 8 August 2001. This Logie award winning drama series follows the lives of half sisters Claire and Tess McLeod as they embark on a mission: to run ...
Style: realistic, witty, captivating, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: farm, feminism, family relations, couple relations, workplace, family business, sister sister relationship, family problems, estrangement, wilderness, strong female character, female protagonist ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Little Dorrit (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Story: The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, sincere, period piece, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: poverty, young woman, life is a bitch, uncover truth, society, secret, rich and poor, family problems, financial problem, money problems, co worker co worker relationship, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1800s, georgian era ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.2
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Fine Things (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Standard romantic melodrama from novelist Danielle Steele finds a couple embroiled in marital conflict with a nasty child-custody battle at its center.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: youth, love, wedding, couples, family relations, family problems, terminal illness, missing person, family life, pregnancy, custody, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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