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Dream and Silence (2012)
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Original name: Sueño y silencio
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, sincere, serious, gloomy
Plot:
parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, family problems, introspection, memory loss, life turned upside down, accident, death, architect, funeral, school teacher, loss of daughter, youth, death in the family, beach, painting, sister sister relationship, mourning, urban, classroom
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
paris france, france, europe, catalonia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, youth, hopes, family in crisis and death in the family mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Dream and Silence: Family Tree (2010), Bad Girl (2012), All Is Forgiven (2007), The Dune (2013), Belleville-Tokyo (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
captivating, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, coming out, family problems, haunted by the past, introspection, hopes, aging, bittersweet, death in the family, gender, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
parents and children, family problems, couples, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, strong female presence, pregnant woman, bullfighting, female nudity, church ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
drug addiction, redemption, teenager, crumbling marriage, family relations, family problems, addiction, parents and children, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, estrangement ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
259
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An Israeli man searches for his father in France.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
introspection, family relations, hopes, investigation, family problems, estrangement, midlife crisis, haunted by the past, parents and children, gays and lesbians, redemption, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, love and romance, boss and employee, male female relationship, pregnant woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
country girl, animal lover, lawyer, sister, introspection, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, hopes, family problems, death in the family, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, breakup, parents and children, life is a bitch, couples, downfall, unfulfillment, down on your luck, job seeking, adultery, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two families bond when their teenage sons are killed in an explosion at a suburban mall only to discover one of their children is the prime suspect.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, dishonesty, police investigation, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, death in the family, shopping mall, terrorism, suburbs, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mark is a struggling actor stuck between the life he once knew and the one waiting for him. When the mother of his two-year-old son suddenly passes away, Mark is forced to confront his shortcomings. Their fates, now intertwined, hang in the balance ...
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
single father, family relations, single parent, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis, life turned upside down, parent child relationship, babies and infants, death in the family, father son relationship, baby ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and falls in love with Alex, a ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family problems, single parent, love and romance, parents and children, family relations, haunted by the past, sister sister relationship, woman, relationships, psychology, female nudity, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, lyon
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, stylized, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, self discovery, family relations, human nature, hopes, terminal illness, parents and children, loss of mother, loss of child, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, loss of daughter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
madrid, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, hopes, self discovery, elderly, family problems, parents and children, countryside, adolescence vs adulthood, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, youth, car accident, death of wife, accidental death, grief, love, society, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, fall in love, friendship, family relations, supportive spouse, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family relations, friends, life turned upside down, youth, society, couples, twentysomething life, student life, student
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
norway, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When Yuki finds out that her parents are separating and she is moving to Japan with her mother, she and her best friend Nina devise ways to reunite the feuding adults.
Style:
serious, touching, stylized, sincere, realistic
Plot:
friendship, forceful separation, family relations, family problems, parents separation, best friends, hopes, on the run, starting over, youth, breakup, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A coming of age drama about two young brothers whose lives are thrown into turmoil when their mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves. While Danny loses himself in music, sex and drugs, his younger brother Jack transforms a life ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, humorous, gloomy
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, brother brother relationship, teenage life, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, death in the family, death of mother, coming of age, sibling relationship, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijin. (TIFF)
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, death in the family, elderly, little girl, grandfather grandson relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, cousin cousin relationship, little boy, youth, nude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, single parent, obsessive quest, self discovery, coming of age, godparent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, lyon, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
death, introspection, self discovery, family problems, parents and children, parent child relationship, dealing with death, lifestyle, hopes, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Way We Are is a respectful, unglamorous, and serenely charming portrait of regular people and a Hong Kong town that normally gets a bad rap. It may put you to sleep, but the visit and Ann Hui's quiet touch are exceptionally worthwhile.
Style:
touching, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, working class, single parent, society, family problems, unfulfillment, poverty, boy, loss of daughter, hopes, death in the family, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle ...
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emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, family problems, dysfunctional family, aging, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, memory loss, elderly, father son relationship, brothers, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Akim, young Muslim will become imam sees his upset when he is touched by the love of Christ ... In a family chaos that opposes his brother identity Akim attempt to be accepted by his family.
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
self discovery, religions or cults, society, cause and meaning, introspection, family in crisis, life turned upside down, family problems, religion, family relations, faith, family conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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, hopes, family relations, estrangement, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, family secret, car accident, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and because she feels she has someone to love; someone who can love her in return. Everything changes when ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, teenage life, immaturity, family problems, couples, hopes, babies and infants, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, youth, mother child relationship, motherhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, small town, introspection, friendship, human nature, family problems, family relations, family in crisis, swimming, sex crime, dysfunctional family, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
starting over, couple relations, parents and children, lovers reunited, family relations, couples, death in the family, dead son, loss of child, dealing with death, cemetery, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, single father, family problems, law firm, death in the family, family in crisis, death of mother, little girl, ethical dilemma, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, self discovery, family relations, on the road, youth, hopes, family problems, parents and children, teachers and students, coming of age, search for father, unknown father ...
Time:
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Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
accident, family problems, couple relations, couples, family relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, small town, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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