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One Day You'll Understand (2008)
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Original name: Plus tard tu comprendras
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, contemplative, gloomy
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, parents and children, family life, love and romance, death in the family, against humanity, society, trial, elderly lovers, autobiography, court, mother son relationship, old photograph
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, germany, europe
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Most similar movies to One Day You'll Understand
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, society, love and romance, family problems, haunted by the past and life is a bitch mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like One Day You'll Understand: Kabei: Our Mother (2008), A Week's Holiday (1980), When the Night (2011), Tsili (2014), The Visit (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her ...
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, world war two, life is a bitch, japanese military, nationalism, parents and children, wartime life, political unrest, single parent, unsupportive parent, state affairs, death in the family ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan, asia, tokyo
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
discipline, couples, family relations, contests and competitions, love and romance, youth, family gatherings, school teacher, fear of commitment, sex talk, high school, self confidence ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place:
lyon, france
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After meeting during their vacation, two young people with solitary lives suddenly come into a relationship that could benefit both of them.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, love and romance, fall in love, unfulfilled love, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment, mountain, holiday, snow, brother brother conflict, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
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74
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp, Tsili hides in the forest, free from hatred and men, until the arrival of Marek, a stranger who speaks to her in Yiddish.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing, tense
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, holocaust survivor, against humanity, youth, danger, woods, hiding, coming of age, violinist, rainstorm ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
71%
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297
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, redemption, destiny, society, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, hopes, family life, parents and children, black, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An expatriated French novelist (Jeanne Moreau) returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block. What she doesn't count on is that she has to confront many old issues dating back to her childhood and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, talky
Plot:
age-gap relationship, world war two, immigrant, self discovery, society, writer's life, couple relations, human nature, family relations, dull life, couples, family life ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
new york, paris france, france, usa, europe
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
family life, family problems, parents and children, single parent, family gatherings, society, hopes, small town, death in the family, bittersweet, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years after the end of the previous film. In the earlier film, a young man has moved with his family to Marseilles from ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, turkish history, diaspora, immigration, genocide, survivor, immigrant, love and romance, elderly lovers, elderly, writer's life, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ottoman empire, europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran, all reunite decades after bonding and surviving together in a detention camp during World War ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, homecoming, haunted by the past, human spirit, confined, hopes, wartime life, anti semitism, infidelity, concentration camp, survival ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
france, paris france, europe, canada
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, holocaust, life is a bitch, memory loss, estrangement, parents and children, deportation, uncover truth, jew persecution, past, world war two, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, family problems, hopes, aging, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, society, eviction, culture clash, unfulfillment, politics, sibling relationship, siblings, estrangement, funeral, forgery, last will and testament ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, germany, palestine, france
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa ...
Style:
touching, bleak, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, parents and children, life turned upside down, single parent, disorder, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, youth, parents, children, addiction ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, erotic, touching ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, false accusation, sister sister relationship, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, disability, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship, wrongful conviction ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, fish out of water, culture clash, family life, homecoming, society, family problems, terminal illness, parents and children, life is a bitch, under the surface, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, north korea, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, culture clash, haunted by the past, forbidden love, estrangement, couples, family problems, missing child, parents and children, on the run, danger, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
hospital, family relations, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, male nudity, suffering, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During an interview, Max Baumstein (Piccoli), respected chairman of a humanitarian organisation, shoots the Paraguayan ambassador dead, in cold blood. Tried for first-degree murder, he explains himself: the ambassador was a former Nazi official, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, revenge, avenger, cabaret, heroes, life is a bitch, vigilantism, vengeance, state affairs, idealism, moral dilemma ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
france, europe, berlin germany, paris france
Similarity:
45%
337
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, memory loss, investigation, haunted by the past, flashback, family relations, society, family life, amateur detective, friendship, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
How should you spend your time if your days are numbered? This is the question facing Linda, a young woman suffering from a congenital heart defect. Contrary to her doctors’ expectations she has managed to survive to celebrate her thirtieth ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
sisters, introspection, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, surgical operation, journey, dealing with death, unfulfillment, siblings relations, sister sister relationship, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany, hamburg germany, paris france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
culture clash, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, family relations, love and romance, immigrant, political unrest, teenage love, youth, family problems, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s
Place:
iraq, israel
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, uncover truth, self discovery, haunted by the past, identity, hidden truth, escapades, elderly, family relations, obsessive quest, lifesaver ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia, belgrade, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, village life, immigrant, haunted by the past, culture clash, love, identity, nostalgia, elderly, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
greece, turkey
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline ...
Style:
thought provoking, biting, bleak, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, society, survival, life is a bitch, injustice, village life, social differences, isolation, wartime life, village, countryside ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, captivating, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
fall in love, friendship, world war two, love affair, violin, violinist, holocaust, musician's life, family relations, destiny, love and romance, flashback ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
prague, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
39%
152
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, emotional, spooky ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, teenage life, introspection, culture clash, hopes, society, homecoming, immigrant, love and romance, youth, family life, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, france, africa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, estrangement, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, elderly lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
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