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Still Walking (2008)
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Original name: 歩いても 歩いても
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn't the one who died; his new wife, Yukari, is awkwardly meeting the rest of the family for the first time. Daughter Chinami strains to fill the uncomfortable pauses with forced cheer.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, philosophical, thought provoking, disturbing, art house, contemplative
Plot:
family relations, family reunited, family gatherings, family life, generation gap, bereavement, parents and children, reconciliation, dealing with death, father daughter relationship, generation, love, grief, train, food, youth, death, summer, cult, dysfunctional family, family problems, homecoming, father son relationship, child, children ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
japan, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, family life, dysfunctional family, family gatherings and life is a bitch mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Still Walking: Like Father, Like Son (2013), Nobody Knows (2004), I Wish (2011), Alpha Male (2006), Be Sure to Share (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
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touching, emotional, disturbing, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
parents and children, coming of age, architect, father son relationship, family reunited, boy, family relations, self discovery, introspection, moral dilemma, identity crisis, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Style:
depressing, touching, serious, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
childhood, poverty, dysfunctional family, innocence lost, young kid, children, child abandonment, boy, tragedy, coming of age, family relations, greed ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, india, asia, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Two young brothers at opposite ends of Kyushu devise a magical plan to reunite their separated parents in Hirokazu Koreeda's benign and superbly acted picture of family life.
Style:
serious, touching, stylized, realistic, art film
Plot:
youth, parents and children, brother brother relationship, train, family relations, father son relationship, broken family, family problems, hopes, desire, child, separated parents ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Shiro’s struggle with his father’s cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it’s too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, terminal illness, parents and children, coping, estrangement, unfulfillment, family in crisis, father son relationship, asian prostitute, family problems, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, youth, car accident, death of wife, accidental death, grief, love, society, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot:
christmas, family gatherings, estranged father, family relations, homecoming, sibling relationship, holiday, parents and children, brother sister relationship, siblings, family reunited, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ireland, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Summer 1966. It's time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, elderly lovers, youth, family life, estrangement, family problems, couples, love and romance, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ...
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot:
afterlife, destiny, terrorism, supernatural, life is a bitch, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, teenage life, dealing with death, religions or cults, forest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chayo returns to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and cope with her death. Surrounded by love and sublime beauty, Chayo has to give up something that as a woman and mother is inalienable. That will be the price of her freedom.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, tradition, elderly, golden years, unfulfillment, homecoming, death in the family, female protagonist, day of the dead, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko (Japanese pop idol Yo Hitoto) keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father (Nanji Kobayashi) and stepmother (Kimiko Yo) or Hajime (Tadanobu Asano), the owner ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, art house ...
Plot:
pregnancy, love and romance, writer's life, youth, lifestyle, friendship, family life, train, single mother, cafe, food, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of his family are not exactly fond of him because he walked out on his wife and of his stubborn nature ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
christmas, bondage, fall in love, family relations, family gatherings, terminal illness, holiday, single parent, hopes, golden years, unfulfillment, introspection ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local ...
Style:
surreal, sentimental, talky, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
family life, family relations, parents and children, homecoming, unfulfilled love, siblings relations, family gatherings, unfulfillment, love and romance, road not taken
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly modulated blendings of comedy and tragedy.
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, infidelity, family business, adultery, dishonesty, parents and children, couples, love and romance, human nature, forbidden love, sister sister relationship, love ...
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbt, family relations, childhood, lgbtq, bereavement, bittersweet, resentment, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, homecoming, dysfunctional family, tragic love, family problems, best friends, haunted by the past, parents and children, couples, orphan, starting over, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, gloomy, sentimental
Plot:
family relations, widower, autumn, regret, cult, existential loneliness, wedding, family problems, couples, love and romance, buddies, single parent ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
redemption, orphan, introspection, haunted by the past, homecoming, betrayal, human nature, starting over, hopes, elderly, family life, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
europe, canada, england, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. The adults pretend ...
Style:
experimental, realistic, serious, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, youth, child abuse, dysfunctional family, train, boy, bad father, traumatic childhood, abusive father, father son relationship, stepmother, abortion ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
japan, hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijin. (TIFF)
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, death in the family, elderly, little girl, grandfather grandson relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, cousin cousin relationship, little boy, youth, nude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, world war two, parents and children, nationalism, wartime life, political unrest, single parent, unsupportive parent, state affairs, death in the family, wartime ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On the request of his mother Gitte, Marko, who has been living in Berlin for years, drives off to the countryside to visit his parents. His hopes of spending a quiet and relaxing time with his family fall short when Gitte surprises everyone by ...
Style:
serious, sincere, disturbing, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
parents and children, mental illness, family relations, introspection, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, suspense, life is a bitch, bittersweet, homecoming, family gatherings ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
redemption, family relations, cons and scams, addiction, high school, homecoming, family gatherings, drug abuse, parents and children, family life, teenage life, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman finds out she's pregnant and returns home when the expected father wants nothing to do with her.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, family life, parents and children, homecoming, single parent, unsupportive spouse, family relations, older man younger woman relationship, love, women, family problems, troubled relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Part funny part sad movie about a family Passover dinner.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
twins, family relations, dealing with death, nanny, single parent, family problems, couples, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, siblings relations, family life, death in the family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But as the festivities come to an end, repressed conflicts rise to the surface. Old wounds are opened and a new family is ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
homecoming, family relations, family life, family gatherings, parents and children, estrangement, under the surface, siblings relations, family problems, strong female presence, dysfunctional family, family in crisis ...
Time:
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Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
starting over, couple relations, parents and children, lovers reunited, family relations, couples, death in the family, dead son, loss of child, dealing with death, cemetery, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The prestigious Danish filmmaker Bille August, winner of an Academy Award and two Palme d'Or in Cannes, returns with a highly personal drama. Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, family life, life is a bitch, family problems, couple relations, couples, family gatherings, siblings relations, parents and children, euthanasia, terminal illness, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel ...
Style:
touching, realistic, stylized, serious, semi serious ...
Plot:
longing, family life, family problems, family relations, elderly, parents and children, nursing, golden years, dealing with death, manipulative person, family reunited, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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:
youth, horse, family life, parents and children, teenage life, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, single parent, love and romance, farm, estrangement ...
Time:
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Place:
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