Movies like Family Film

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Family Film (2015)
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Family Film (2015)
Original name: Rodinný film
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, France, Slovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ending.
Style: sentimental, sincere, captivating, melancholic, sad, suspenseful, poignant, crying, gaming
Audience: family outing
Plot: lost dog, brother sister relationship, dog, vacation, teenage boy, family relations, shipwreck, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, marital crisis, brother brother relationship, family tragedy, survival, teenager, school, island, student, sex scene, love triangle, missing person, teenage girl, boat, fear ...
Place: central europe, prague, prague czech republic

Most similar movies to Family Film

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, touching, captivating and sincere films with plots about family relations, teenager, teenage girl, teenage boy, father son relationship, coming of age and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Family Film: Filthy (2017), Twisted Roots (2009), Green Butterflies (2017), Little Men (2016), Amreeka (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Filthy (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lena is a 17-year old girl, experiencing her first love, secret night- time adventures, and magical mornings at the river in Bratislava. Her dream world is shattered after being raped by her math teacher. Lena must set out on a journey that is not ...
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, sincere, crying ...
Plot: teenage rape, teenage girl, coming of age, first love, suicide attempt, teacher student sex, doctor, mental institution, older man younger woman relationship, teenage protagonist, traumatic experience, female friendship ...
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Twisted Roots (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, touching
Plot: family relations, secret, parent child relationship, little girl, husband wife relationship, adoption, family secret, family problems, adopted daughter, interracial adoption, dysfunctional family, family crisis ...
Place: finland
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Green Butterflies (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mateo is an intelligent boy who falls in love with Daniel, but when everyone reveals that relationship, Mateo is at a crossroads, and he will have to decide between fighting his adversities or giving up everything, even his life.
Style: touching, psychological, disturbing, sincere, serious ...
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, gay slur, friend, lgbt, closeted gay, lgbtq, dysfunctional family, humiliation, sexual tension, secret, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Little Men (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece, Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute ...
Style: social, sentimental, captivating, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: boy, father son relationship, 13 year old, bullying, best friend, landlord tenant relationship, coming of age, friendship, aspiring actor, teacher, teenage girl, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa
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72%
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Amreeka (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Kuwait, Jordan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), divorcée Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour) leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, single parent, job seeking, starting over, culture clash, society, social relations, brother in law sister in law relationship, hopes, family in crisis, financial problem, youth ...
Time: year 2009, year 2003, 21st century
Place: palestine, illinois, middle east, usa, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Garden of Children (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two people deal with their problems
Style: crying, freeze frame
Plot: father son relationship, aunt nephew relationship, jealous boyfriend, bare chested male, car crash, rural setting, egocentrism, egoist, jealous man, passive aggressive woman, passive aggressive behavior, emotional blackmail ...
Place: prague
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71%
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Respiro (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and ...
Style: sincere, talky, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot: island, coming of age, family relations, mental illness, skinny dipping, villager, mentally unstable, human nature, family life, injustice, small town life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Almost 18 (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Almost 18 is a charming and unaffected film about five 17-year-old guys from Helsinki in 2010. Karri, Peter, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, touching, homoerotic, non-linear
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, teenager, coming of age, family relations, adulthood, father son relationship, father son estrangement, parenthood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of father, mother son relationship, friendship between men ...
Place: eastern europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Psychobitch (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Frida is different. Self chosen different. Marius, on the other hand is the most perfect boy in class, and likes to show off. When they have to work together at school, it's the start of a turbulent and challenging relationship. Generation ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: emotional abuse, group of friends, mother daughter relationship, school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, socially awkward, classmate classmate relationship, shyness, small town, chase, photographer, friend ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Umbrella (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alexander Way, a secondary school teacher with a fractured personal life, finds himself attempting to rescue a woman from a violent sexual attack. Alexander finds himself overpowered, beaten & taken to hospital. Jesiah Jarvus, a famous British ...
Style: captivating, touching, psychological, sentimental, independent film
Plot: family relations, school, marriage, doctor, teacher, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, violence, cancer, hospital, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 7.8
 15K
System Crasher (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The wild and energetic journey of 9-year-old girl Benni through all possible stations of German Child Proctective Services.
Style: realistic, psychological, disturbing, sincere, intense ...
Plot: problem child, teenager, social problems, parents and children, outcast, social outcast, fighting the system, society, school, family problems, life is a bitch, rebel ...
Time: year 2019
Place: germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.2
 128
Open Future (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A 16 year old boy growing up in the 60's, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
Style: freeze frame
Plot: lgbt, woods, bare butt, bare chested male, nudity, male pubic hair, photography, drug, cycling, striptease, anti conformist, passive aggressive woman ...
Time: 60s
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54%
 5.5
 318
Seaside (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: infidelity, family business, resort, love triangle, hopes, couple relations, elderly lovers, dull life, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.6
 3K
We (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between ...
Style: erotic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex scene, sensuality, open relationship, nudism, female exhibitionist, nudity, orgy, nudist, sex orgy, exhibitionist, group sex, mother daughter conflict ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Tree of Knowledge (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, children, bullying, female nudity, troubled relationship, nordic, adolescence, school, classmate classmate relationship, new student, sexual tension, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1958, 1950s
Place: denmark, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 2K
52 Tuesdays (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, captivating, rough ...
Plot: teenage girl, gender, coming of age, transsexual, lgbt, family relations, disorder, youth, parents and children, transgender, lgbtq, realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, san francisco, antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.8
 2K
Sparrows (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík, She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, sincere, melancholic
Plot: coming of age, absent mother, sex scene, grandmother, small town, childhood friend, gay, incest, boyhood, father, child, boy ...
Place: iceland, reykjavik iceland
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50%
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 6K
Arrhythmia (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Finland, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA ...
Style: art house, depressing, melancholic, disturbing, sad ...
Plot: hospital, paramedic, doctor, nurse, male objectification, married couple, drinking alcohol, medical, family relations, bureaucracy, humanity, emergency ...
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Chosen Ones (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution network in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her. Adapted from Jorge Volpi’s novel, set in the ...
Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, touching, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: prostitution, teenage prostitution, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, brother brother relationship, following someone, father son relationship, family relations, escapades, youth, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Nenette and Boni (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, art house, sexy, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, obsession, sexuality, siblings relations, teenage life, love and romance, single parent, coming of age, runaway, siblings, incest, character study ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: vietnam, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.6
 2K
Mediterranea (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, captivating ...
Plot: illegal immigration, migration, interracial relations, job seeking, storytelling, family relations, promise, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, friendship, drunkenness, refugee ...
Place: italy, africa, libya, algeria, mediterranean sea
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46%
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 115K
The Fabelmans (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story about a young man’s discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and ourselves.
Style: semi autobiographical, dramatic, reflective, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: father son relationship, coming of age, childhood, bullying, family relations, relationships, mother son relationship, boy, filmmaking, mother, life, father ...
Time: 2020s, year 1964, year 1965, 20th century, year 1957 ...
Place: arizona, northern california, new jersey, california, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Jack (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, father son relationship, family life, teenage love, parents and children, self discovery, couples, family problems, teenage life, family in crisis ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Father of My Children (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job - he is a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, free and true to life, ...
Style: captivating, emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: filmmaking, family in crisis, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, couple relations, family life, showbiz, husband wife relationship, children, parents and children, relationship problems ...
Time: year 2009
Place: paris france, europe, france, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Nerd's Confession (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Eugene is a teenage nerd who lives in a small Russian town. He sits in front of his computer all day long, playing games and surfing the Internet. He decides to run a small porn website and soon as he earns his first money from e-commerce. His life ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: porn, student, socially awkward, teenage protagonist, family relations, flash forward, teenage boy, father son relationship, chase, friendship between men, interview, friendship between boys ...
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44%
The Home of Dark Butterflies (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani (Niilo Syvaoja) has been shuttled between foster homes ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, realistic, crying
Plot: juvenile prison, juvenile delinquent, isolation, friendship, juvenile detention, youth, school, teenager, bully, bullying, family relations, family problems ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Lakki... The Boy Who Could Fly (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Surreal tale of a 14 year-old boy who dreams of escaping the loneliness from an unhappy home & sexual abuse (from his mother's boyfriend who is also his school swimming coach). One day his back mysteriously sprouts feathers and he can ...
Style: surreal, crying
Plot: coming of age, children, lgbtq, youth, lgbt, male nudity, sexual abuse, caught stealing, pub, drug, caught cheating, male masturbation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Term of Trial (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Weir, an alcoholic schoolteacher, whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career, is looked upon with disdain by his headmaster, his pupils and even his wife. ...
Style: crying, detective
Plot: lawyer, traumatic childhood, first love, drug addiction, teenage crush, teacher, unrequited love, bad mother, photography, tram, conscientious objector, defense attorney ...
Place: paris france, england, northern england, london
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43%
After the Wedding (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK, Norway
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot: wedding, marriage, poverty, family bonds, wealth, family relations, nordic, family problems, family secret, couple relations, hopes, financial problem ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Standing Tall (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
Style: disturbing, touching, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: juvenile delinquent, social worker, teen angst, juvenile delinquency, teenage boy, judge, nervousness, delinquent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, imprisonment, compassion, anger ...
Time: year 2015, 90s, year 1997
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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