Movies like The House of Sand

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The House of Sand (2005)
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The House of Sand (2005)
Original name: Casa de Areia
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Style: sentimental, psychological, serious, emotional, inspirational, depressing, family saga, saga, realistic
Plot: desert, survival, parents and children, pregnancy, isolation, starting over, village life, homecoming, mother daughter relationship, stranded, widow, farm, solar eclipse, feminist, inspiration, small town, village, strong female presence, bittersweet, sea, loneliness, escape, scientist, female nudity, slave ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005, 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america, europe, former yugoslavia
Keyword: feminist film, portuguese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and emotional films with plots about parents and children, family relations, society, female nudity, social relations, homecoming and family problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The House of Sand: Ritual (2000), The King Is Alive (2000), Mending Fences (2009), Desert Dream (2007), Central Station (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ritual (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family life, family in crisis, family problems, parents and children, mental disorder, asian prostitute, alienation, artist, outsider, birthday, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: tokyo, usa, bahamas
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The King Is Alive (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, South Africa, Norway, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear ...
Style: bleak, stylized, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: desert, survival, dogme 95, stranded, shakespeare, dogma, isolation, culture clash, rescue, life is a bitch, danger, bus ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa, namibia
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Mending Fences (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot: corporate crime, family relations, farm, homecoming, legal, dishonesty, small town, love affair, rivalry, social relations, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nevada
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Desert Dream (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France, Mongolia
Duration: 123 min.
Story: This film takes place in a remote area, a desert region situated somewhere between the Mongolia and Chinese border. The town has become nearly void of all inhabitants except for Hangai, who works obsessively to plant trees in the desert area. ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: culture clash, immigrant, border, parents and children, friendship, single parent, isolation, village life, desert, misfit, social relations, horse riding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mongolia, china, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Central Station (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Style: touching, feel good, emotional, road movie, realistic ...
Plot: childhood, friendship, road trip, teacher, on the road, children, homeless, letter, poverty, youth, adoption, great ending ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro
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Wajma, an Afghan Love Story (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship—they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, forbidden love, parents and children, society, life turned upside down, honor, student, love, couples, youth, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
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The Bird of Happiness (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Carmen, a woman dedicated to the restoration of works of art, suffers a sexual assault shortly after being reunited with his only son. But she suffers from psychological disorder does not affect the man she lives. Deeply disappointed, he decides to ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, touching, emotional
Plot: strong female presence, introspection, parents and children, solitary, family relations, journey, male female relationship, breakup, middle aged, professor, father daughter relationship, painting ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Stay (2013)
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, single parent, unsupportive spouse, homecoming, family relations, love, vicious, women, family problems, troubled relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Soda Springs (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, family relations, hopes, going straight, lifestyle, homecoming, parents and children, social relations, christian ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Confetti Harvest (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dorsvloer vol Confetti tells the story of young Katelijne, who grows up in a religious family in the countryside in Zeeland. Based on the novel by Franca Treur.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, farm, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, society, village life, church, wedding, religion, rural setting ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: belgium, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
They Don't Wear Black Tie (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Otavio is an idealistic union leader trying to organize workers at a factory to resist the company's exploitative practices. His son, TiĂŁo, one of the employees, is more of a realist and doesn't want to risk losing his job by striking. ...
Style: political, thought provoking, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot: dictator, dictatorship, working class, blue collar, worker, family relations, military dictatorship, couple relations, life is a bitch, society, injustice, realism ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Spiral (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, touching, student film
Plot: social relations, immigrant, family in crisis, bittersweet, gender, family problems, homecoming, society, village life, strong female presence, unfulfillment, feminism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Blondie (2012)
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, emotional, atmospheric, serious, touching ...
Plot: family relations, homecoming, family life, family gatherings, estrangement, parents and children, under the surface, siblings relations, family problems, strong female presence, male nudity, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Once Upon a Time Veronica (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A finely tuned, emotionally raw portrait of a woman’s conflicted entry into adulthood, Once Upon a Time Veronica is a thoroughly modern anti–fairy tale. Director Marcelo Gomes shows a rare ability to get under the skin — and cut close to the ...
Style: realistic, sincere, psychological, touching, serious ...
Plot: introspection, unfulfillment, cause and meaning, dull life, graphic violence, sexual deviant, women, destruction, public nudity, female pubic hair, female nudity, orgy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Back to School Mom (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish her degree so that, for once, she can finally finish something she started. Back at her old ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: college, redemption, family relations, life is a bitch, college life, homecoming, social relations, starting over, bittersweet, small town, college friend, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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First Winter (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, mumblecore ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Paper Covers Rock (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Samantha is recovering from a suicide attempt and ready for a fresh start in life. She has to fight for the custody of her daughter.
Style: sincere, psychological, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot: parents and children, custody, mental illness, family life, hopes, starting over, family problems, family relations, mother daughter relationship, depressed woman, sister sister relationship, swimming pool ...
Time: 21st century
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64%
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Hide Away (2011)
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Duration: 88 min.
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Plot: starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, father daughter relationship, death of wife, redemption, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Silent Waters (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, poignant
Plot: islam, wartime life, family life, self discovery, politics, hopes, mother son relationship, small town life, haunted by the past, death in the family, family in crisis, culture clash ...
Time: 70s, 1940s, year 1979, year 1947
Place: pakistan, asia, india, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Richness of Internal Space (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: psychological, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: captivity, introspection, human spirit, freedom, confined, danger, survival, hopes, solitary, faith, kidnapping, free spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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63%
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Flying Lessons (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, inspirational
Plot: small town life, parents and children, memory loss, hopes, self discovery, friends, haunted by the past, sexual content, homecoming, small town, family relations, flying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Deserted Station (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On a pilgrimage to Mashad from Tehran, a couple's transportation breaks down, far from any major town. The husband, a photographer, seeks help at a nearby village and encounters a teacher who offers to help. Whilst the husband and teacher go ...
Style: serious, psychological, sentimental, touching, islamic ...
Plot: teacher, prodigy, self discovery, youth, teachers and students, on the road, society, religions or cults, isolation, school, train, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
So Hard to Forget (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, deep ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, starting over, haunted by the past, gender, breakup, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, lesbian love, depression, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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I Love You (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Man meets woman, and invites her home. The two start an intense relationship in order to shield themselves from loneliness.
Style: pornochanchada, realistic, psychological, serious, sexual ...
Plot: eroticism, lgbt, relationships, nudity, transsexual, sexual content, couples, couple relations, self discovery, sexual relations, bare breasts, transgender ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Rosetta (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Style: serious, bleak, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: unemployment, fishing, poverty, alcoholic mother, snitch, realism, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, alcoholic, life is a bitch, coming of age, family problems ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: belgium, france, europe
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63%
A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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62%
The Untouchable (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After learning from her mother that her father lives in India, a young woman goes there to meet him for the first time.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, parents and children, self discovery, single parent, estrangement, search for father, absent father, long lost relative, against the odds, family bonds, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, canada
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62%
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Delta (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new place by building a new home for himself on the delta. But ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: incest, forbidden love, brother sister incest, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, isolation, life is a bitch, obsession, sexual relations, village, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
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62%
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Mothers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning ...
Style: captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: parents and children, murder, elderly, introspection, estrangement, family relations, gender, society, life, small town life, relationships, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, macedonia
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62%
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Sounds of Sand (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On the one hand, there's the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there's the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, serious, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: family in danger, survival, on the road, life is a bitch, starvation, militant, parents and children, escapades, desert, social relations, survivor, water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
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