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Family Party (2015)
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Original name: Familienfest
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the 70th birthday of famous piano virtuoso Hannes Westhoff, a celebration is to take place at the patriarch's estate. For this occasion, his second wife Anne not only invited Westhoff's three sons Max, Fredrik and Gregor, but also their mother, Westhoff's ex-wife Renate. While Anne tries to maintain a friendly atmosphere, old conflicts resurface among the family. With tensions already high, things take a turn for the dramatic when son Max reveals shocking news.
Style:
tense, realistic
Plot:
family reunited, family secret, family drama, sibling rivalry, birthday party, betrayal, single, bittersweet, gay couple, lgbt, midlife crisis, money, death, doctor, wealth, pianist, father son relationship, ex wife, villa, loss of son, frustration, dying young, drunken woman, psychological drama, campfire ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Family Party
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, emotional, tense and melancholic films with plots about family drama, family secret, intimate, bittersweet, family relations, psychological drama and betrayal mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Family Party: Dying (2024), All My Loving (2019), Copacabana (2007), Saturday, Sunday, Monday (1978), October November (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again.
Style:
poignant, reflective, dark comedy, tragicomedy
Plot:
family drama, mortality, terminal illness, grief, family reunited, regret, reconciliation, mourning, acceptance, humanism, intimacy, retirement home ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
relationships, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, family drama, siblings, family relations, siblings relations, coping, introspection, changing lives, lifestyle change, family problems ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
germany
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Maria and Herbert Schubert have been married for 35 years. They want to celebrate their anniversary with their children at their weekend home. The harmony within the family turns out to be an illusion. Maria isn't the only one planning to leave ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
dysfunctional family, relationships, marriage crisis, midlife crisis, family drama, family secret, family reunited, separation, infidelity, regret, intimate, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins.
Style:
realistic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family drama, family relations, female protagonist, betrayal, family dinner, mature, character study, infidelity, midlife crisis, family secret, bittersweet, argument ...
Time:
year 1970
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Three brothers reunite at a remote cabin in the woods, when beckoned by their father. The brothers are left to deal with the dark secrets and demons that have haunted them their whole lives. The resulting truths they must face, end in an explosive ...
Style:
tragic ending, intense, tense, psychological horror, suspense ...
Plot:
trauma, family secret, dysfunctional family, dark past, brothers, sibling rivalry, guilt, family drama, grief, moral ambiguity, betrayal, haunting ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets.
Style:
bleak, reflective, emotional, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
introspection, family drama, character study, family secret, intimate, getting home, jealousy, sibling rivalry, bittersweet, illness, regret, small town ...
Place:
alps, austria
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The Berger and Böttcher families come to Dorothea's finca on Lanzarote for a weekend trip. The mood is tense and escalates as various mysteries are revealed.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, satirical, funny, tense ...
Plot:
family reunited, family relations, family drama, problem, couple relations, satire, relationship problems, family secret, weekend getaway, intimate, slow burn, betrayal ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A jaded mother makes a last-ditch effort to keep her family together by taking them on a trip to their teenage daughter’s pole dancing competition.
Style:
heartfelt, family comedy, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
family drama, motherhood, family reunited, parenting, reconciliation, teenage daughter, personal growth, bittersweet, mother son relationship, sacrifice, self discovery, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic health problems. When ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
manipulation, mother daughter relationship, family drama, investigation, grief, tragedy, family secret, suspicion, obsession, guilt, moral dilemma, intimate ...
Similarity:
56%
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, dark comedy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, couple relations, family secret, sibling rivalry, family drama, conflict, parents and children, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A generous and stubborn elderly boxing coach gets along with everyone except his own son. They're reunited after the death of the old man's wife and forced to face old grievances.
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, grief, boxing, family drama, loss of spouse, mourning, reconciliation, regret, forgiveness, elderly man, bittersweet, small town ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
An offbeat yet serious family drama about coming home, arrested development and infidelity.
Style:
reflective, serious, realistic, melancholic, offbeat
Plot:
infidelity, getting home, family drama, arrested development, betrayal, house, homecoming, midlife crisis, mature, personal growth, intimate, loss ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Taru elää ratsutilalla harmonista elämää miehensä Harrin ja tytärpuolensa Ninnin kanssa. Kaikki muuttuu, kun Ninni loukkaantuu hevosonnettomuudessa. Kymmenen vuotta sitten Ruotsiin lähtenyt Ninnin biologinen äiti Eve kutsutaan paikalle ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, tense, melancholic, suspenseful
Plot:
motherhood, half sister, family secret, family drama, sisters, accident, identity, mother and daughter, introspection, intimate, conflict, grief ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Josephine, the matriarch of a sprawling family, is delighted to gather everyone for Easter lunch for the first time in two years. While they all share a joyful meal, an incident ignites underlying tensions between the family members and leads them ...
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, independent film
Plot:
family drama, family gatherings, family secret, character study, matriarchy, sibling rivalry, claustrophobia, social commentary, social satire, single, moral ambiguity, class conflict ...
Place:
lebanon
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Ashok makes a surprise visit to Los Angeles to visit his estranged son, the two begin a journey to mend their relationship until Sid discovers that his father has actually come in search of an old flame. A heartfelt and humorous exploration of ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, semi serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, unfulfillment, under the surface, estrangement, bittersweet, thirtysomething life, woman, father son relationship, relationships, family drama ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, tense ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, couples, family life, family in crisis, midlife crisis, family problems, parents and children, society, crumbling marriage, suburban life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
To inform each personally about her impending death, Mies summons her three daughters home. The three half-sisters April, May and June, each of whom has a different father, start to question their lives: "Where are we at in life? What do we ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother, family drama, mother daughter estrangement, sister sister relationship, family problems, sisters, women, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, estrangement, family relations, estranged sister ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, reflective, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, estrangement, father, family relations, search for father, family drama, father son reunion, absent father, relationships, estranged father, relationship problems, family reunited ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
44%
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126
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A father and son work together as agents.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, relationships, problem, relationship problems, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, father, father and son, nightclub, family drama, nightlife ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, reflective
Plot:
male nudity, masturbation, female nudity, funeral, infidelity, illegitimate child, family drama, architecture, midlife crisis, estranged father, family reunited, character study ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
alps
Similarity:
40%
675
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, Serbia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother ...
Style:
tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, bleak ...
Plot:
family conflict, fatherhood, mediterranean, husband wife relationship, family relations, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, death of mother, family drama, father son estrangement, mother son relationship, reconciliation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, serbia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Mitchell family deal with the devastating aftermath of an act of sexual abuse committed by a member of their own family who, after two years, is about to leave prison.
Style:
emotional, tense, intense
Plot:
sexual abuse, family drama, family secret, anger, shame, grief, betrayal, confrontation, guilt, protective parent, moral ambiguity, released from prison ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
On a family visit, a young man and his girlfriend set out to discover why his eccentric uncle has been mysteriously confined to one room for years.
Style:
suspenseful, emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family drama, mental health, social problems, family problems, eccentric family, life is a bitch, secret, uncle nephew relationship, family secret, empathy, intimate ...
Place:
india, kolkata
Similarity:
38%
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542
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A couple must hold on to $100,000 for 24 hours as they wait to buy a house. As the time ticks by, the true nature of their love unravels.
Style:
tense, realistic, talky, touching, serious ...
Plot:
couples, couple relations, breakup, family problems, human nature, sexual content, graphic violence, money, dispute, marital crisis, character study, frustration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
38%
142
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, dramatic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
family drama, family secret, secrets, small town, friendship, outsider, isolation, motherhood, betrayal, racism, intimate, identity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, canada
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The life and journey of Hameed to find his biological mother and how his life changes when Aisha comes into his life.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
mother son relationship, search for mother, family drama, adoption, identity, self discovery, domestic drama, longing, family reunited, male protagonist, coming of age, family secret ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
Style:
realistic, emotional, dark comedy, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
christmas, family drama, siblings, domestic drama, holiday, bittersweet, family reunited, terminal illness, life & death, grief, reconciliation, family secret ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Georgia Benfield's, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child. As family and friends slowly begin to learn of the abuse, and long buried family ...
Style:
intense, tense, bleak, realistic, period drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family drama, domestic abuse, dysfunctional family, trauma, female protagonist, family secret, character study, emotional abuse, guilt, social issues, realism ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Ventilator is a Marathi Movie about Joint-Family relations and emotions.
Style:
emotional, comedy drama, sentimental, realistic, independent film
Plot:
hospital, family reunited, family drama, grief, empathy, heartwarming, mourning, slice of life, family secret, satire, family relations, patriarch ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.
Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, disorder, dull life, breakup, introspection, couples, nothing goes right, strong female presence, parents and children, homecoming, unfulfillment, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
35%
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