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The New Life of Paul Sneijder (2016)
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The New Life of Paul Sneijder (2016)
Original name: La Nouvelle Vie de Paul Sneijder
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Following a rare accident, Paul Sneijder opened his eyes to the reality of his life as a "senior manager" in Montreal: his work no longer interested him, his wife annoyed him and deceived him, his two sons despised him ... How can we continue to live under these conditions? Starting with a change of profession: dog walker for example! Will his relatives accept this change that will turn him into a free man?
Style: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating
Plot: dysfunctional family, existential crisis, ambition, husband wife relationship, psychiatrist, memories, loss of daughter, cheating wife, new job, lifestyle change, drastic change of life, family relations, changing lives, new life, relationship problems, family problems, lifestyle, marital problem, character change, dog, lawyer, snow, restaurant, hospital, accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: canada, dubai, montreal, montreal quebec canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and touching films with plots about family relations, family problems, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, parents and children and marital problem mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like The New Life of Paul Sneijder: We Only Know So Much (2018), A Kid (2016), My Happy Family (2017), The Deflowering of Eva van End (2012), Thanmathra (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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We Only Know So Much (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: middle aged, unhappy marriage, family life, parents and children, family relations, family problems, marital problem, middle aged man, middle aged woman, couples, nursing, kids and family ...
Time: 2010s
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A Kid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: unknown father, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, fatherhood, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, family problems, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family relations, bare chested male, alternative medicine ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: quebec, france, canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
My Happy Family (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Tbilisi, Georgia, 2016: In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, art house ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, family problems, lifestyle change, parents and children, changing lives, family life, relationship problems, patriarchy, lifestyle, husband wife relationship, post soviet, problem ...
Time: year 2017
Place: middle east, indiana, tbilisi, georgia
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73%
The Deflowering of Eva van End (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The ugly duckling of a fraught middle-class household has her life turned upside-down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student, in this caustic, absurdist satire of petit-bourgeois family life from Dutch director Michiel ten Horn. (TIFF)
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, loss of virginity, family problems, family relations, relationships, foreign exchange student, family life, life philosophy, lifestyle, introspection, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Thanmathra (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: A man leading a happy life with his loving wife and two children suddenly starts getting forgetful and lost. Then, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease leaving his family devastated.
Style: captivating, psychological, sad, touching
Plot: father son relationship, student, changing lives, lifestyle, family problems, kids and family, family relations, lifestyle change, alzheimer's disease, dream, son, husband wife relationship ...
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A Loving Husband (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Schoolteacher Yohei is married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years they begin to live by themselves when their son marries and moves out. Then Yohei discovers that all’s not well in his marriage.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Audience: family outing
Plot: husband wife relationship, family problems, relationship problems, male female relationship, lifestyle change, changing lives, marital problem, divorce, relationships, couples, lifestyle, marital crisis ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Hanging Garden (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, poignant, sincere
Plot: family relations, dominatrix, family conflict, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, marital argument, marital problem, relationship problems, relationships, brawl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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33 Scenes from Life (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: death, family relations, introspection, self discovery, family problems, parents and children, parent child relationship, hopes, dealing with death, lifestyle, estrangement, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, europe
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65%
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Sundown (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mexico, Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, serious, art house ...
Plot: brother and sister, vacation, rich man, emergency, family relations, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, family problems, relationships, marital crisis, marital problem, dysfunctional family ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Greshnik (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Vlad was five his mother was killed. And the only person whom Vlad blames for her death is his father . On the 20th anniversary of the tragedy the young man decides to gather all his relatives together to dot all the i's and cross all the ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: murder mystery, uncover truth, family secret, father son relationship, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, family tragedy, character change, changing lives, family relations, murder, family problems ...
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Not by Bread Alone (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: male female relationship, military, dysfunctional marriage, world war two, family problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, invention, inventor, marital problem, relationship problems, female protagonist ...
Time: post world war two
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After the Waterfall (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers his ex-wife Ana is pregnant to the policeman in charge of his missing daughter's case.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: cheating wife, male female relationship, relationship problems, marital problem, relationships, family relations, pregnant wife, infidelity, mysterious disappearance, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, police investigation ...
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
A Better Life (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating, sincere, realistic
Plot: restaurant, starting over, family relations, life turned upside down, disorder, family problems, couple relations, single parent, down on your luck, family in crisis, hopes, food ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france, montreal, ontario canada
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61%
Mourning for Anna (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: murder, grief, death of daughter, country house, family relations, teenage life, hopes, family problems, countryside, woods, youth, optimism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
She Is Not Crying, She Is Singing (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, family secret, car accident, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Little Girl Blue (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a new dream house ... But she also has a secret that is slowly changing her idyllic life...
Style: captivating, sincere
Plot: family relations, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, changing lives, relationships, family life, lifestyle change, teenage girl, relationship problems, kids and family, new life ...
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A Night for Dying Tigers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The night before Jack (Gil Bellows) is slated to begin a five-year prison sentence for murder, his wife, Melanie (Jennifer Beals), and assorted siblings gather for a dinner to bid Jack farewell and good luck on his trip up the river. But the party ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couple relations, parents and children, conflict, rapist, couples, siblings relations, rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Empty Rooms (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story: "Empty Room is a dark, highly erotic tale of a married couple whose relationship is slowly sliding into oblivion. Bored and sexually frustrated, the wife begins taking lovers while her unemployed husband spends his days wandering aimless around ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: cheating wife, husband wife relationship, bored housewife, family problems, male female relationship, family relations, adultery, relationship problems, infidelity, marital problem, cuckolded husband, wife leaves husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Daughter (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now ...
Style: touching, disturbing, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: incestuous relationship, friend, husband wife relationship, wedding, unemployment, family relations, family secret, uncover truth, family reunited, family problems, getting home, character change ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Sins of the Mother (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shay is a young African-American college student whom is forced to take a year off from school to return to her hometown where she struggles with her anger and insecurity when she's forced to confront her alcoholic mother, Nona, whom is ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching
Plot: college, homecoming, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, family problems, parents and children, single parent, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse, mother daughter relationship, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, washington d.c.
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49%
Putham Pudhu Kaalai (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
Style: anthology, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: relationships, relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, lifestyle, family life, family relations, multiple storylines, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, tamil
Place: india
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Things Behind the Sun (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot: estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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You Lucky Dog (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After her mother's death, New York City fashion designer Lisa Rayborn (Natasha Henstridge) returns to her hometown and family farm. Due to a weak economy, her brother Jim (Harry Hamlin) has converted the family business from a cattle farm into ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: dog, family relations, pets, small town life, farm, ambition, small town, animal life, competition, holiday, teenager, adoption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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43%
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Peaceful (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: cancer, medical examination, acceptance, mother son relationship, changing lives, family relations, fighting illness, life is a bitch, family problems, illness, lifestyle change, terminal illness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Kaseifu no Mita is a 2011 Japanese television drama series. The story revolves around a family who is grieving over their mother's recent suicide. They hired Mita as a housekeeper to upkeep the house, which has been thrown into disarray. Mita, ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: family problems, dysfunctional family, suicide, dark past, murder mystery, family relations, husband wife relationship, troubled past, changing lives, relationship problems, family secret, housewife ...
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Dream and Silence (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. During a vacation they suffer a car accident that will change their lives.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot: family in crisis, parents and children, family relations, family problems, introspection, life turned upside down, accident, architect, death, funeral, school teacher, loss of daughter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, catalonia
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39%
Det mest f?rbjudna (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: Freely adapted from the novel by Swedish writer Kerstin Thorvall.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: neglected wife, dysfunctional marriage, lifestyle, family problems, family relations, mental illness, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional family, relationship vs career, mental patient, family life, relationship problems ...
Time: year 1976, year 2005, year 1959, year 1968
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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She Walks (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An illegal Chinese immigrant and her teenage daughter are held captive in their home after a stranger breaks in.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: mother daughter relationship, prostitution, mysterious stranger, mysterious man, prostitute, illegal prostitution, family problems, lifestyle change, changing lives, family relations, street prostitution, life is a bitch ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Summer 1966. It's time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, coming of age, elderly lovers, youth, family life, family problems, couples, estrangement, lifestyle, love and romance, dysfunctional family, bittersweet ...
Time: 60s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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