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The Crow Road (1996)
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The Crow Road (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 211 min.
TV show
Story: An adaption of Banks's dark novel, whose central character is Prentice McHoan, a young Scots history student. When Prentice's relatives begin to die in spectacular circumstances, and at an alarming rate, he begins to suspect that his family is hiding a secret.
Style: mind bending, serious, realistic
Plot: family secret, funeral, sexual content, dysfunctional family, missing person, family relations, family life, disappearance, serial murder, family problems, social relations, amateur detective, hidden truth, eccentric family, death in the family, uncover truth, motorcycle, female nudity, sex scene, murder, unrequited love, voyeur, religious fanatic, atheist, crematorium ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: scotland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and period drama films and TV series with plots about family relations, society, family problems, parents and children, couple relations, couples and family life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Crow Road: Clouds of Witness (1972), East of Eden (1981), The Ice Cream Girls (2013), 32 Brinkburn Street (2011), The Outcast (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Clouds of Witness (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Lord Peter's brother, the Duke of Denver is accused of murdering their sister Mary's fiancé. It's up to Lord Peter and his faithful man Bunter to untangle all the clues and the contradicting testimony of a cloud of witnesses to save ...
Style: talky, detective, mind bending, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: murder, amateur detective, society, estate, investigation, who done it, whodunit, murder investigation, detective inspector, red herring, aristocrat, deadly
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: england, europe
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East of Eden (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Story: A powerful eight-hour adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 generational saga stars Bruce Boxleitner and Timothy Bottoms as battling brothers reminiscent of Cain and Abel, and Jane Seymour as the malevolent young woman who toys with their ...
Style: atmospheric, gloomy, realistic, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: american history, civil war, dysfunctional family, estrangement, rebellion, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, couple relations, love triangle, prostitute ...
Place: hawaii
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88%
The Ice Cream Girls (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The Ice Creams is based on the bestselling book by Dorothy Koomson about two girls who, one brief summer, find themselves involved with an abusive, controlling man. The situation spirals out of control and they are trial for his murder; ultimately ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating
Plot: haunted by the past, uncover truth, murder, youth, life is a bitch, dishonesty, feminist, teenage girl, accused of murder, rape, sexual abuse, tragic past ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: ireland, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
32 Brinkburn Street (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Drama moving between the lives, loves and lies of two generations of the same family who live at 32 Brinkburn Street in 1931 and 2011.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, suspense, sentimental ...
Plot: attic, society, family relations, couples, haunted by the past, family life, parents and children, couple relations, interracial relations, family problems, step siblings, secret ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Outcast (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 179 min.
TV show
Story: Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis ...
Style: touching, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, family problems, youth, death of mother, life is a bitch, estrangement, love, father son relationship, parent child relationship, death in the family, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place: england
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64%
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Behaving Badly (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by Catherine Heath and Moira Williams is based on Heath's novel of the same name. It was initially broadcast by Channel 4. The series was released on DVD ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, housewife, power relations, family problems, couples, family relations, hopes, unlikely couple, human nature, couple relations, society, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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60%
Dirty Sexy Money (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The Darling family's obscene wealth and enormous power makes them easy targets for their rivals, enemies, and the tabloids. Patriarch Tripp uses his money and influence to shield his five adult children from the prying eyes of the world. As ...
Style: sexy, realistic, talky, serious, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: wealthy family, lawyer, hot and sexy, dysfunctional family, family problems, eccentric family, family life, lifestyle, dedicated lawyer, heir, workplace situations, mogul ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Diamond Hunters (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, Germany, Italy
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
Story: Set against the background of South Africa's emerald coast and diamond mines, Diamond Hunters traces the torrid fortunes of a family unable to forgive and forget. Johnny, a successful diamond hunter, gets sucked back into a family that had been ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
Plot: family business, haunted by the past, estrangement, gang, dysfunctional family, parents and children, criminal heroes, family gatherings, family in crisis, family relations, siblings relations, bare breasts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A modern interpretation of the classic Dickens novel.
Style: captivating, emotional, touching, serious, tense ...
Plot: life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, rich and poor, escapades, injustice, society, family problems, social problems, relationships, family life, financial problem ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, united kingdom
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58%
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One Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story: A first-born Chinese girl adopted by English parents gets called back to Guangzhou when her birth mother desperately seeks her assistance in her son. How far will Mei go to help the woman who gave her away and the brother she’s never met?
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: introspection, family relations, family life, society, family problems, rich and poor, adoption, human nature, parents and children
Time: 21st century
Place: england, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Anna Karenina (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: To help her brother mend his failing marriage, young Russian beauty Anna Karenina - who's married to eminent nobleman Alexei Karenin - leaves St. Petersburg for Moscow, where she meets the dashing Count Vronsky. They soon fall madly in love, ...
Style: captivating, realistic, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot: dishonesty, betrayal, tragic hero, infidelity, tragic love, breakup, extramarital affair, couples, family problems, love and romance, destructive relationship, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Wives and Daughters (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 301 min.
TV show
Story: Elizabeth Gaskell's enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in a gossipy English town comes to Masterpiece Theatre in a lavish four-part production of Wives and Daughters, adapted by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies.Davies, who ...
Style: uplifting, period piece, costume drama, serious, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: prejudice, aristocrat, family relations, love and romance, estate, aristocracy, secret marriage, marriage, gossip, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 18th century, 1820s ...
Place: england, europe, london, britain, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Wind at My Back (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A recently widowed mother loses her children to a cold mother-in-law in Ontario during the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Based loosely on the books "Never Sleep Three in a Bed" and "The Night We Stole the Mounties’ Car" by ...
Style: bleak, sentimental, realistic, serious, period drama
Plot: youth, family relations, small town life, bittersweet, down on your luck, society, lifestyle, family life, life is a bitch, bankruptcy, unfulfillment, hopes ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Living Memories (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
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 ⇓
54%
Granite Flats (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: It's the 1960s. The height of the Cold War. The rural town of Granite Flats, Colorado, suddenly becomes a hotbed for mystery and intrigue. Almost a year after Hershel Jenkins was released from jail, mystery is still a permanent resident in ...
Style: realistic, stylized, serious, captivating, detective
Plot: cold war, uncover truth, investigation, amateur detective, youth, family relations, dishonesty, small town, society, empowerment, conspiracy, single parent ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Flambards (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 780 min.
TV show
Story: In the early 1900s in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, period drama
Audience: girls' night
Plot: makeover, world war one, couple relations, love and romance, society, fall in love, estate, uneducated, couples, family relations, countryside, manners ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
On Any Saturday (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: "Parashat HaShavua" follows four families through a dramatic year of their lives. Love, hate, friendships and secrets mixes up when the families connect.
Style: cynical, stylized, realistic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: parents and children, couples, family life, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, estrangement, couple relations, friendship, unfulfillment
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 566 min.
TV show
Story: An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.
Style: social, saga, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot: family relations, sibling relationship, immigrant family, immigrant, gangster, power relations, society, rise to the top, blind ambition, ambition, hopes, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 50s, 60s, 1940s
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49%
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The Sound and the Fury (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, southern gothic, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, downfall, family problems, family in crisis, life is a bitch, family life, siblings, mental retardation, suicide ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: mississippi, southern usa, usa
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49%
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, captivating, period drama
Plot: world war two, world war one, post war, love, high society, social relations, power relations, couples, lifestyle, society, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Peak Practice (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most ...
Style: medical drama, emotional, serious, touching, realistic
Plot: doctor, crumbling marriage, doctors and patients, couple relations, direction and purpose, power relations, workplace situations, unfulfillment, social relations, clinic, small town, infidelity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Small Faces (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging ...
Style: realistic, bleak, independent film, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, gang, youth, subculture, artist, violence, children, british gangster, angry, boy ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Madame Bovary (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 220 min.
TV show
Story: Would you risk everything to achieve your dreams? For beautiful young Emma Bovary, a life of passion and excitement is worth any price. Like a moth drawn to flame, she is entranced by the exotic worlds of romance and adventure found in her favorite ...
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric, period drama
Plot: adulteress, tragic hero, road not taken, couples, village life, unfulfillment, love affair, feminism, social relations, family relations, dull life, society ...
Time: 19th century
Place: normandy, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Street (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Street is a British television drama series created by Jimmy McGovern and produced by Granada Television for the BBC. The series follows the lives of various residents of an unnamed street in Manchester and features an all-star cast including ...
Style: anthology, sincere, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: neighbor, family life, couple relations, neighborhood, small town, crumbling marriage, dull life, family problems, social relations, friendship, household, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, manchester, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
From There to Here (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Created by Peter Bowker, From There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel Cotton, a Manchester family man who is torn between the life he wants and the life he could have. The story spans the four years that ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating
Plot: streetwise, family relations, parents and children, bombing, bittersweet, society, siblings relations, soccer, city life, ira, urban, bet ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: england, manchester
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43%
Olive Kitteridge (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 239 min.
TV show
Story: The story focuses on a middle-school math teacher Olive and her relationship with Henry which spans 25 years over the four parts. It is based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Style: meditative, realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: small town life, family problems, maturity, dysfunctional family, elderly, couple relations, couples, parents and children, family relations, psychology, complex characters, relationships ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: maine, new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Emily of New Moon (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Emily of New Moon is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it is currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and ...
Style: serious, realistic, period drama
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: orphan, adoption, family relations, child's point of view, starting over, uncover truth, youth, coming of age, young heroes, family problems, island, family life ...
Time: victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1900s, turn of the century
Place: canada
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42%
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
Story: In a drunken and disheartened state, Michael Henchard sells his wife at a fair. When he becomes sober again he realises what he has done, and though unable to find his wife and child, changes his ways. He becomes the Mayor of the town. Nearly twenty ...
Style: spiritual, talky, tense, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: spirituality, small town, society, betrayal, rivalry, rise and fall, tragic hero, social relations, power relations, haunted by the past, alcohol abuse, hidden truth ...
Time: 19th century
Place: england, europe
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42%
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Laurel Avenue (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Laurel Avenue is an American three-hour television miniseries which aired on HBO on July 10 and 11, 1993. It is the story of an eventful weekend in the lives of an extended African American family living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Paul Aaron and actor ...
Style: saga, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy ...
Plot: black, blaxploitation, family relations, interracial relations, profanity, society, single parent, life is a bitch, family problems, social relations, reform, suburban life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota
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41%
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The Slap (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 354 min.
TV show
Story: The Slap is a bold, provocative television drama series that forensically examines the mores and morality of contemporary middleclass life. Based on Christos Tsiolkas’ bestselling novel, this 8–part drama serial traces the shattering ...
Style: realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, tense ...
Plot: introspection, adulthood, parents and children, couples, family life, family relations, couple relations, friendship, suburbs, society, australian aboriginal, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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