Movies like The Midwife

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The Midwife (2017)
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The Midwife (2017)
Original name: Sage femme
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she works, her life is further turned upside down when Béatrice, her father's former mistress, turns up on the scene. Béatrice is a capricious and selfish woman, Claire's exact opposite.
Style: psychological, sentimental, sincere, touching, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crying
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hospital, illness, doctor, cancer, friendship, surgery, friend, student, death, drinking, life is a bitch, love, adaptation, life philosophy, drinking alcohol, hopes, mother, chemotherapy, grandfather grandson relationship, motherhood, gambling, poker, money, train, food ...
Time: year 2017, contemporary
Place: paris france, france

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Most similar movies to The Midwife

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, serious, realistic and psychological films with plots about hospital, family relations, kiss, mother daughter relationship, cigarette smoking, telephone call and food mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Midwife: Sorry We Missed You (2019), Nine Lives (2005), Violette (2013), My Mother (2015), James White (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A story exploring the issue of hardship in modern-day Britain through a young couple scraping to get by in a casual jobs market. A hard-up delivery driver and his carer wife are pushed to breaking point as they struggle to keep their family afloat ...
Style: social, political, psychological, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: poverty, working class, father daughter relationship, social realism, father son relationship, teenage boy, job interview, couples, life is a bitch, adaptation, dishonesty, intrigue ...
Time: 2010s, year 1984, year 1996, year 2008
Place: united kingdom
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Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles
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Violette (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian, gender, writers, lesbian relationship, friendship, writer's life, friends, society, lgbt, women, couples, erotica ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, 70s, year 1972 ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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My Mother (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Style: sentimental, touching, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: actor, filmmaking, brother sister relationship, factory, death, singer, doctor, pneumonia, anxiety, father daughter relationship, old woman, birthday ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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James White (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style: sad, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, mother son relationship, gay, drinking, friendship, promise, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, drinking alcohol, new life, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, year 1983, year 2013
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, mexico
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I've Loved You So Long (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: family drama, prison, physician, character study, ex convict, job seeking, complex characters, honest, parenthood, loss of son, sibling relationship, estrangement ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Poetry (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, lyrical ...
Plot: loneliness, bullying, self discovery, teenage rape, suicide, existentialism, teenager, introspection, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, grandparent and grandchild ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: korea, japan, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 8.0
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Mommy (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Style: melancholic, touching, depressing, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, oedipus complex, single mother, mentally unstable, juvenile delinquent, troubled teen, mother son relationship, mother love, teenage boy, violence, teenager, caught masturbating ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2015, near future, year 2010 ...
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Where Is Kyra? (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.
Style: captivating, suspense, bleak, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: black american, name calling, poverty, husband wife relationship, police detective, mother daughter relationship, street life, lie, ex husband ex wife relationship, illness, african american, theft ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
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The Safety of Objects (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to ...
Style: philosophical, psychological, depressing, compassionate, confusing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, loneliness, guilt, family relations, coma, family life, family problems, couple relations, society, crumbling marriage, single parent, parents and children ...
Time: year 2001
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That Evening Sun (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Style: serious, tense, sentimental, realistic, rough ...
Plot: farm, betrayal, retirement home, homecoming, parents and children, danger, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, family problems, grudge, country, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: tennessee, usa
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A Simple Life (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The relationship between a middle-aged man (Andy Lau) and the elderly woman (Deanie Ip), who has been the family's helper for sixty years.
Style: touching, contemplative, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: maid, retirement home, family relations, social differences, master and servant, society, family life, power relations, producer, film producer, senior citizen, urban setting ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
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The Young Lovers (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief meeting 15 years previously. Both are quite troubled to meet again and begin an affair. While ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man, woman, architect, taxi, husband wife relationship, bare breasts, seaside, elevator, hospital, dog, restaurant ...
Time: year 2006
Place: lyon, paris france, ireland
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100%
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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 ⇓
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Standing Tall (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
Style: disturbing, touching, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: juvenile delinquent, social worker, teen angst, juvenile delinquency, teenage boy, judge, nervousness, delinquent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, imprisonment, compassion, anger ...
Time: year 2015, 90s, year 1997
Place: france
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35 Shots of Rum (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A widowed metro conductor, approaching retirement, lives with his beautiful grown daughter – the object of a neighbor’s romantic interest. The man’s former girlfriend also lives in their building and plays a role in their closely-knit lives. ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: family relations, human nature, single parent, lifestyle, looking for love, love and romance, parents and children, love affair, midlife crisis, women of color, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Alone (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style: touching, serious, erotic, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: pregnancy, hospital, mother daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, loneliness, parents and children, drinking alcohol, society, relationships, redemption, poverty, friendship ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: spain, europe, andalusia
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22%
Heal the Living (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence is little more than an illusion. ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot: hospital, surfing, surfer, surgeon, surgery, death of son, multiple storylines, doctor, death, lgbt, friends, family relations ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Magnifico (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min.
Story: With a daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy and a son who's lost his much-needed scholarship, an impoverished married couple begins to abandon their faith and courage in the face of such misfortune. But when a gifted young boy called ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, prodigy, single parent, dealing with death, society, youth, disability, rich and poor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines, manila philippines
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21%
Pieces of a Woman (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Hungary, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A grieving woman embarks on an emotional journey after the Ioss of her baby.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: loss of child, couples, birth, midwife, pregnancy, grief, grieving, dog, mother in law son in law relationship, marriage, husband wife relationship, death ...
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Place: boston, massachusetts
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Declaration of War (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: hospital, child illness, chemotherapy, cancer, couples, family problems, optimism, life is a bitch, babies and infants, hopes, parents and children, overcoming ...
Time: year 2011, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, marseille
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The Girl on the Train (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The Girl on the Train is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: anti semitism, destructive relationship, false accusation, couple relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, journalism, seduction, railway, train, coming of age ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Pain and Glory (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
Style: sincere, touching, disturbing, twist ending, hispanic ...
Plot: gay, movie business, filmmaker, lgbt, actor, introspection, addiction, cinema, drawing, childhood memory, nostalgia, death of mother ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 1985, 1950s, year 1981
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Four Good Days (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, touching
Plot: heroin, mother, drug, drug addict, massage, recovering drug addict, family relations, rehabilitation, problem, parents and children, coping, mother and daughter ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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20%
The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Style: sincere, realistic, meditative, emotional, surreal ...
Plot: childhood, kids in trouble, boy, adoption, realism, orphan, youth, adoptive mother, coming of age, social problems, petty criminal, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2011, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, france
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My Favorite Season (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will come up, and will be ...
Style: sexy, psychological, anthology, erotic, anamorphic ...
Plot: aging, drinking, dysfunctional family, children, father daughter relationship, hospital, memory, christmas, sex scene, sensuality, making love, summer ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Around the Bend (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, road movie, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, death, road trip, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, aging, van ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
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19%
What They Had (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
Style: sentimental, captivating, sincere, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, memory loss, mother daughter relationship, drinking, lie, blizzard, self discovery, introspection, drinking alcohol, family drama, illness, dementia ...
Place: chicago, sacramento california, florida, california, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Columbus (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, serious, cerebral ...
Plot: father son relationship, korean american, relationships, coma, small town, architecture, friendship, family relations, family life, social problems, family problems, couple relations ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, year 1950, year 1954, year 2008
Place: indiana, midwest
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