Movies like Family Circle
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Family Circle (1980)
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Original name: Семейный круг
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The divorce proceedings of the aging Medvedev couple, handled by Tatyana Mikhailovna Somova, make her reflect on her own loneliness, her conflict with her grown-up children, and her separation from her husband.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, contemplative, reflective, period piece
Plot:
loneliness, divorce, aging, family conflict, marriage, domestic drama, mother daughter relationship, introspection, marital separation, intimate, house, loss, social realism, empathy, women's issues, bride and groom, routine, urban, nostalgia, reconciliation, courtroom, middle class, retiring, children, student ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Most similar movies to Family Circle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and reflective films with plots about intimate, slice of life, bittersweet, marriage, nostalgia, loss and urban mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Family Circle: Monologue (1973), Private Life (1982), As Simple as That (2008), Waiting (1981), Byelorussia Station (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mikhail Ulyanov is the Bergmanesque protagonist of the Russian Private Life. A government-appointed factory executive, Ulyanov is reduced to quivering confusion when he is dismissed. Recovering from this blow, he decides to review and realign his ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic, reflective, psychological, existential ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, loneliness, bureaucracy, humanist, middle aged, thoughtful, male protagonist, intimate, identity, bittersweet, aging, resilience ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A mother and wife is on the brink of an attack. Hengameh Tahareh Ghaziani lives with her husband, her son and daughter in a middle class neighborhood, and spends his days taking care of their needs.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, islamic
Plot:
iranian, wife, domestic drama, female protagonist, motherhood, intimate, social realism, realism, gender roles, slice of life, empathy, marriage ...
Place:
iran, persia
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
While waiting for her first child, young teacher Masha Pavlova suddenly decides that her husband does not understand her, and therefore does not respect her interests. Having ceased to understand each other, the couple divorced. Nikolai, who once ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pregnancy, loneliness, divorce, marriage, domestic drama, intimate, slice of life, regret, family drama, unrequited love, gender roles, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.
Style:
disturbing, touching, sincere, thought provoking, poignant ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
friendship, world war two, memory, society, life is a bitch, destiny, life & death, justice, hopes, loss, nostalgia, social realism ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
marriage, countryside, retirement, railway, train engineer, domestic drama, problem, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, family problems, married couple ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, period piece, satirical ...
Plot:
middle aged man, midlife crisis, character study, loneliness, regret, alienation, existential crisis, family drama, intimate, infidelity, urban, slice of life ...
Place:
soviet union, poetic realism, ussr
Similarity:
54%
663
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Slovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An aged farmer moves to the urban city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery boy in the neighborhood and their connection changes the course of both their lives and the boy's family.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, heartfelt, emotional, reflective
Plot:
loneliness, empathy, intergenerational friendship, solitude, bonding, introspection, slice of life, urban, fish out of water, isolation, intimate, minimalism ...
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ane and Thomas are in the middle of a divorce - when Ane suddenly suffers a stroke. They decide to stay together until Ane gets back on her feet, but as she struggles to return to life, love manifests where they least expected it.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, romantic drama, melancholic
Plot:
divorce, stroke, marriage, illness, mature, house, reconciliation, resilience, support, hospital, second chance, intimate ...
Similarity:
48%
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:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Making Waves is the story of Cella (Jacqueline Blom) and her 71-year-old mother Johanna (Kitty Courbois). Life smiles upon Cella. Happily divorced, having two children and a successful job as a presenter at a local station, for which she interviews ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, realistic, tragic
Plot:
mother and daughter, memory loss, domestic drama, aging, bereavement, grief, dementia, family secret, middle aged, illness, loss, intimate ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
netherlands
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An elderly couple, a house wife and a retired army man, go through some unanticipated moments during a rainy season in Chennai.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
aging, elderly, memory loss, empathy, domestic drama, house, marriage, slice of life, intimate, humanity, tenderness, loss ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Milutin’s harmony of life collapses when his wife Magdalena experiences a car accident, defending her body of a one-year-old son who was entrusted with the care of Milutin. Magdalena remains immobile. Love between Milutin and Magdalena has always ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
love, parenthood, family bonds, family drama, disability, marriage, sacrifice, accident, motherhood, trauma, loyalty, intimate ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Unable to stand up for himself, a talented scientist Rostislav Lyubeshkin is forced to leave the institute. Ordinary accountant Kosichkin is trying to protect a person he doesn't know in general. Kosichkin is demoted, his wife considers him a ...
Style:
melancholic, tragicomedy, comedy drama
Plot:
character study, scientist, accountant, bureaucracy, moral dilemma, humanism, misunderstanding, alienation, frustration, office politics, humiliation, retiring ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.
Style:
poignant, emotional, reflective, period piece, tragic
Plot:
theater, grief, mourning, loss, memory, melancholy, social realism, post war, solidarity, community, social commentary, intimate ...
Time:
80s
Place:
armenia, caucasus, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
37%
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:
psychological, heartbreaking, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, alzheimer's disease, memory loss, family drama, student, family relations, changing lives, lifestyle change, kids and family, family problems, lifestyle, grief ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, reflective, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
iranian, love, motherhood, persian culture, compassion, death, family home, nostalgia, memory, loss, children, house ...
Place:
persia, iran, tehran iran, middle east
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Many years brings the collective-farm postman Arina post to home folks. This village in one corner is calledl; Chistuy Kolodets; in other ; Chistaya Krinitsa Russians and Ukrainians live there. Arina's stories about village people and the ...
Style:
heartfelt, pastoral, poignant, intercultural, period piece ...
Plot:
village life, community, tradition, slice of life, daily life, folklore, postman, character study, memory, intimate, social realism, homecoming ...
Time:
60s
Place:
russia, eastern europe, ukraine, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Rikutaro and Mariko are in the same grade at an elementary school. They become brother and sister after Rikutaro's mother and Mariko’s father marry. After their marriage, the children become upset because they are teased by their classmates, ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, heartfelt, melancholic
Plot:
step siblings, family conflict, family drama, elementary school, innocence, divorce, bullying, parent child relationship, childhood, slice of life, social realism, parenting ...
Similarity:
35%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this evocative story told ingeniously with minimal dialogue, men and women from various backgrounds and places each deal with the loss of a loved one.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, loneliness, solitude, mourning, minimal dialogue, empathy, bereavement, memory, healing, intimate, soul searching ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min.
Plot:
husband wife relationship, wife, husband, hospital, secretary, doctor, nurse, colleague, engineer, inventor, patient, factory
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Fred (Elliott Gould) lives with his Alzheimers' struggling wife, Susan in their home of over fifty years. Fred's grown up children try to convince him to move into a care home alongside Susan, however, he does not approve of this idea.
Style:
exciting, captivating, entertaining, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
family drama, teenage girl, aging, family life, kids and family, teenager, families, family problems, family home, teenage daughter, family relations, marriage ...
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In ABODE, five interwoven stories explore the meaning of home, across city streets and country kitchens, strained families and surreal technologies, revealing how identity, memory, and connection shape the places we call our own.
Style:
emotional, anthology, tension, independent film
Plot:
house, connection, domestic drama, identity, memory, character study, marriage, homelessness, isolation, loss, intimacy, slice of life ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
32%
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376
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, art house
Plot:
domestic drama, family drama, relationships, character study, children, isolation, alienation, summer vacation, family secret, intimate, repression, bittersweet ...
Place:
east germany
Similarity:
32%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Vida and Bane are married couple who have been living in Scandinavia for a long time. They have successful careers, enough money for a decent life and a dog, but they do not have children.
Style:
realistic, reflective, emotional, melancholic, comfort
Plot:
couples, relationships, marriage, intimate, childlessness, domestic drama, communication, slice of life, nordic, real life, longing, bittersweet ...
Place:
scandinavia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Molly and Tim are happy newlyweds, but an unexpected miscarriage threatens to tear them apart until they meet Kristin, a pregnant homeless girl in need of a family.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, romantic drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, grief, miscarriage, empathy, loss, homelessness, motherhood, marriage, compassion, healing, social issues, domestic drama ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, coming of age, personal growth, freedom, relocation, identity crisis, isolation, intimate, escape, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Polish Psychological Drama
Style:
reflective, existential, philosophical, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, mortality, character study, memory, mountain, friendship, fear of death, male friendship, crisis of faith, nostalgia, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the end, the only love which lasts is the love that has accepted everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire as deep as the simple desire for ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, reflective, realistic ...
Plot:
relationships, elderly man, loneliness, retirement, family drama, bonding, aging, friendship, companionship, daughter, widower, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This life period of the main character Felix (L. Lutvinsky) coincides with rather complicated period of country history Chernenko dies, Gorbachev succeeds him, then Ligachev criticizes Eltsin, county is reined by deficit, backstairs influence, ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, existential, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social commentary, character study, alienation, escape from reality, loneliness, social realism, identity crisis, absurdism, minimalism, poverty, city life, working class ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
30%
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