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Family Viewing (1987)
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Family Viewing (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?
Style: sexy, tech noir, independent film, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, talky, gloomy
Plot: dysfunctional family, erotica, hotel, videotaping, phone sex, parent child relationship, video surveillance, grandparent grandchild relationship, dark humor, obsession, family relations, parents and children, midlife crisis, couples, family problems, elderly, amateur detective, eccentric family, unfulfillment, riddles and clues, sex, television, private detective, father son relationship, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and psychological films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, couples and estrangement mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Family Viewing: Another House (2013), Hidden Love (2007), Speaking Parts (1989), Blame It on Mum (2009), Baby Blues (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Another House (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, elderly, parents and children, memory loss, father son relationship, love, brothers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Hidden Love (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.
Style: psychological, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: psychiatrist, parent child relationship, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, power relations, family relations, doctors and patients, mental institution, parents and children, clinic, therapy ...
Time: 21st century
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Speaking Parts (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, stylized, tech noir ...
Plot: obsession, love triangle, wedding, love affair, couple relations, siblings relations, looking for love, couples, love and romance, power relations, family relations, master and servant ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: canada
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Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Baby Blues (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and because she feels she has someone to love; someone who can love her in return. Everything changes when ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: parent child relationship, teenage life, immaturity, family problems, hopes, babies and infants, couples, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, youth, mother child relationship, birth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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He Loves Me (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Laura begins to suspect her husband is cheating on her, she is devastated by his infidelity, despite having a torrid affair of her own. While she desperately tries to save her marriage, Laura's mysterious past begins to emerge, making her ...
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, sex scene, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, stalking, dishonesty, memory loss, suburban life, midlife crisis, manipulation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Glass Menagerie (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adaptation, brother sister relationship, aging, family in crisis, parents and children, family life, family problems, unfulfillment, domineering mother, cripple, mother ...
Time: year 1987, 1930s, 20th century, future
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Nanny (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: nanny, dysfunctional family, single parent, adoption, power relations, master and servant, society, family life, family in crisis, youth, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Prague (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Christoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father, evolves into the story of a brake-up. With the dead father lurking in the background, secrets gradually emerge threatening to destroy their marriage.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love, marriage, family relations, infidelity, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, dishonesty, couples, resentment, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic, denmark, europe, central europe, prague
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The Policeman's Wife (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 108 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
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53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mile Zero is a story about a father with a remarkable capacity to love.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, gloomy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: family relations, elderly, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family problems, society, immigrant
Time: 21st century
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49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
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Audience: girls' night
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Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, gloomy
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42%
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Never Die (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
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40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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The Dune (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, family problems, estrangement, hopes, investigation, haunted by the past, parents and children, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, gender, aging ...
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Country: Denmark
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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The Eye of the Storm (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
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Place: sydney australia, australia
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33%
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Crying Out (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: serious, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic
Plot: dysfunctional family, on the road, estrangement, family relations, family problems, haunted by the past, parents and children, life is a bitch, elderly, alcohol abuse, death in the family, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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32%
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All Around Us (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, serious ...
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Genre: Drama
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