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Boxes (2007)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, the living and the dead. In this breakneck period of her life, time is running faster and faster and Anna takes a run-up to face the past and try to go towards the future. And, maybe, to manage to still believe in love?
Style:
bleak, melancholic, poignant, art house, atmospheric, existential, surreal, non-linear, semi autobiographical
Plot:
midlife crisis, memory, female protagonist, family drama, ghost, forgiveness, family secret, grief, aging, loss, introspection, reflection, regret, woman, isolation, redemption, reconciliation, flashback, symbolism, haunting, seaside, family relations, death, past, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
brittany
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Most similar movies to Boxes
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, existential and atmospheric films with plots about memory, grief, loss, isolation, intimate, mourning and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Boxes: 13 Summers Underwater (2017), How Far, How Near (1972), Courage (2022), Claire Darling (2018), The Quiet Roar (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
Style:
surreal, emotional, melancholic, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, memories, intimate, afterlife, a vision, mourning, supernatural, ghost, haunting, existentialism, spirituality ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
suicide, memory, existential crisis, symbolism, loss, midlife crisis, self discovery, guilt, flashback, mature, regret, isolation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the energy is spent on not wanting to see them. An intimate drama where, through fiction, the director ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
aging, motherhood, family drama, autobiography, loss, blindness, elderly man, grief, trauma, reflection, regret, realism ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
On this beautiful, bright first day of summer, Claire Darling has decided to get rid of all her estate. She’s laid down all her favourite objects on her front lawn for one splendid garage sale. As a horde of curious bystanders and neighbors fights ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family drama, memory, estrangement, parents and children, life & death, family relations, latter day saints, female protagonist, nostalgia, aging, intimate ...
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
aging, elderly, drug abuse, introspection, disease, dealing with death, terminal illness, female protagonist, subconscious, character study, youth, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, atmospheric, art house, poetic ...
Plot:
loneliness, obsession, grief, mourning, passion, loss, memory, delusion, male protagonist, symbolism, haunting, flashback ...
Place:
india, france, normandy
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
28%
353
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium, Lebanon
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a foreigner in her own country. But there's still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
female protagonist, identity, memory, homecoming, self discovery, introspection, life is a bitch, family relations, relationships, trauma, haunted house, family secret ...
Place:
lebanon
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
Style:
bleak, reflective, poignant, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
memory, identity, family drama, memories, family secret, trauma, grief, domestic drama, post traumatic stress, survivor, relationships, reconciliation ...
Place:
hiroshima japan
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother (Lou Castel), mother (Emmanuelle Riva) and pregnant lover (Angela Molina).
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, semi autobiographical
Plot:
suicide, twins, character study, grief, mourning, loneliness, existential crisis, midlife crisis, family secret, infidelity, small town, provincial life ...
Time:
year 1982
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ivan Semciuc (a journalist), is a charismatic man nonetheless guilty of cynicism and lack of compassion. A seemingly meaningless sexual encounter with a translator in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan’s unshakeable ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, surreal, moody
Plot:
death, guilt, loneliness, grief, regret, loss, memory, mourning, hotel, obsession, suicide, mature ...
Place:
bucharest, afghanistan
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman, and her last memories of the five people who loved her most, recalled while experiencing a catastrophic event.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
memories, female protagonist, death, memory, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love affair, lifestyle, trauma, loss, grief ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, art house ...
Plot:
homecoming, haunted by the past, childhood memory, heiress, house, landscape, love, grief, female protagonist, mourning, memory, inheritance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brittany, france, europe, cornwall, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Slovenia, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, atmospheric, existential, art house ...
Plot:
silence, family drama, mother son relationship, isolation, introspection, intimate, strained relationship, misunderstanding, motherhood, communication, minimalism, slow burn ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Following the death of his estranged father, Louis is left feeling he hasn't achieved as much as he had hoped for. A chance encounter with figures from his past triggers a set of events that shakes his perception of life.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
grief, coming of age, self discovery, mourning, loss, family drama, realism, male protagonist, bittersweet, chance meeting, intimate, memory ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mika arrives in Poland to pay a hospital visit to her father, who is suffering from severe brain injury and memory loss. It's the first time they have met in many years, yet her father thinks they still live together and she's a teenager. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, art film ...
Plot:
memory, father daughter relationship, memory loss, dementia, family relations, relationships, introspection, amnesiac, family life, estrangement, alienation, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.
Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, disorder, dull life, breakup, introspection, couples, nothing goes right, strong female presence, parents and children, homecoming, unfulfillment, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of ...
Style:
intense, grim, art house, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
family drama, trauma, family secret, fear, guilt, slow burn, realism, symbolism, regret, small town, isolation, male protagonist ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The action of the film takes place in two periods of time. An old man leads his son through a forest, and is simultaneously under his care confined to bed with a deadly illness.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father son relationship, illness, forest, dying father, old man, life & death, parents and children, nursing, multiple storylines, fighting illness, family relations, care ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Actress Leila bursts into laughter on camera during the filming of a dramatic scene. Her improper behavior is a reaction to the recent death of her husband Koshrow, who accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. And it is Koshrow who serves as the ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, melancholic, art house, metafiction ...
Plot:
death, grief, memory, character study, mourning, marriage, flashback, obsession, intimate, family secret, haunting, nostalgia ...
Place:
persia, iran
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an ...
Style:
psychological, mindfuck, atmospheric, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
trauma, grief, female protagonist, manipulation, memory, alienation, identity crisis, mental illness, haunting, violent death, rehearsal, coming of age ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men escape society and share ideals of freedom. Soon, he doesn’t want her to leave. Stuck in time, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, estranged father, father and daughter, relationship problems, father, family problems, parent child relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, relationships ...
Similarity:
21%
467
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. ...
Style:
reflective, contemplative, emotional, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, loneliness, scientist, family drama, professor, estrangement, introspection, reconciliation, family relations, parenting, empathy, aging ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cambodia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A lost film, buried beneath Cambodia's killing fields, reveals different versions of the truth. A contemporary story about love, family and the ghosts of Cambodia's past.
Style:
historical drama, reflective, poignant, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
flashback, post war, memory, genocide, trauma, khmer rouge, investigation, identity, family secret, haunting, ghost, love story ...
Place:
cambodia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
High school teacher Cheng looks back to his repressed childhood memories, as he finds an anonymous suicide note in the classroom. He strives hard to prevent another tragedy from happening, meanwhile facing a series of family problems, his wife is ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, poignant ...
Plot:
teacher, suicide, memories, domestic abuse, school, school teacher, student, memory, problem, traumatic memory, life is a bitch, coming of age ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, dramatic, serious, harsh ...
Plot:
father son relationship, son, father, father and son, cemetery, character study, estrangement, family drama, family relations, alienation, parents and children, estranged son ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
Style:
surreal, poetic, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, mother daughter relationship, longing, child protagonist, grief, loss, imagination, family drama, family secret, haunted house, mysterious disappearance, secrets ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, dark, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
memory, guilt, mountain cabin, psychological torment, grief, isolation, loss, haunting, obsession, moral ambiguity, redemption, slow burn ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
At the heart of the plot - the erroneous message about the death of Varvara Antonovna gathers around her son, daughter-in-law and grandson. They feel a sense of deep guilt, so carelessly treating a loved one for a number of years
Style:
emotional, bleak, melancholic
Plot:
guilt, family relations, family drama, mother son relationship, regret, telephone call, realism, introspection, family reunited, forgiveness, ethical dilemma, social commentary ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
19%
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