Movies like Surviving Family

If you like "Surviving Family" you are looking for psychological, serious and captivating movies about / with mental illness, dysfunctional family, wedding, sibling relationship, sister sister relationship, family relations and engagement themes of Drama and Romance genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Surviving Family (2012)
 7.0
 4K
Surviving Family (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Terry hasn't seen or spoken with her family in 2 years. When she shows up unannounced on her father's doorstep - with her fiancé and a plan to get married in 5 days - she learns that she's not the only one with secrets.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, crying
Plot: mental illness, dysfunctional family, wedding, sibling relationship, sister sister relationship, family relations, engagement, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, drug addict, bipolar disorder, suicide, alcoholic, addiction, manic depression, siblings, drinking, alcoholism, combat, children, junkie, painter, artist, party, death ...

Most similar movies to Surviving Family

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and touching films with plots about family relations, couples, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, family problems, life is a bitch and love mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Surviving Family: Rachel Getting Married (2008), When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), The Woman Who Drinks (2001), In My Pocket (2011), A Woman Under the Influence (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Style: independent film, emotional, serious, talky, intellectual ...
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, drug addiction, addiction, favoritism among siblings, marriage, sisters, wedding preparations and rituals, sister sister relationship, character study, family problems, self destructing ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: connecticut, usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Style: sentimental, romantic, intense, touching, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot: alcoholic, family values, addiction, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, family in crisis, alcoholism, recovery, love story, tragedy, love, single father ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, usa, denver colorado, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Woman Who Drinks (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: À la veille de ses derniers instants, une femme se remémore son passé d'alcoolique. Elle revoit toute sa jeunesse dont une cuite qui, à 46 ans, lui a coûté tout ce qu'elle avait. «La solitude, le vieillissement sont des thèmes qui ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot: addiction, life is a bitch, fall in love, social differences, couples, aging, crumbling marriage, elderly, infidelity, alcohol abuse, love affair, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 4.8
 234
In My Pocket (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A harrowing journey down the dark spiral of drug addiction. As Stephen Jameson's carefully constructed life slowly falls apart, his belief system is shattered when he discovers that he's no longer the functioning addict that he once was.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: addiction, drug addict, drug abuse, life is a bitch, pills, couples, society, introspection, drug addiction, recovery, drug, junkie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Movie in collections
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Mabel, a mother and wife, is on the brink of insanity as her blue-collar husband Nick attempts to understand her plight.
Style: independent film, art house, psychological, depressing, intense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mental illness, marriage, dysfunctional family, love, working class, insanity, mental disorder, construction worker, mental health, illness, visceral, couples ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Martha... Martha (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious
Plot: family reunited, family relations, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, depression, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, mother child relationship, children, female pubic hair, female nudity, suicide ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Heaven None Missed 3 (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Meirose strives to create heaven in her family, with her husband and their two children. One day, Ray, a man from her past, returns and wants to build his lost paradise with Meirose and Akbar.
Style: thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, psychological
Plot: family relations, family problems, family life, ex couple relations, tragic love, male female relationship, troubled past, relationships, confronting the past, husband wife relationship, love interest, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Touched with Fire (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, mental health, mental disorder, illness, couples, friendship, hospital, hopes, special needs, real world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Movie in collections
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Style: depressing, disturbing, melancholic, sexual, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: addiction, loneliness, alcoholism, prostitute, prostitution, alcohol abuse, alcoholic, depression, self destructing, tragedy, medical, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Prince of Tides (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
Style: psychological, touching, emotional, sad, therapeutic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, psychiatrist, psychiatry, love, haunted by the past, rape, sexual abuse, women, memory, suicide attempt, love story, transformation ...
Time: 90s
Place: south carolina, new york, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.6
 15K
Moonlight Mile (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style: sentimental, emotional, realistic, clever, art film ...
Plot: murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, fall in love, haunted by the past, death in the family, family problems, grief, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 2002, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.4
 127
Runaways (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Steve Moore is sixteen and lives with his younger sister, mother Cheryl and her boyfriend John, in a modest house in Bakersfield, California. An abusive and often intoxicated man, John rules the household, and though his attacks on Steve result in ...
Style: realistic, serious, independent film, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: troubled youth, juvenile delinquency, downfall, on the run, teenage life, dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, family problems, society, youth, destructive relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Opium: Diary of a Madwoman (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A drug-addicted doctor who works in an asylum discovers that one of his patients is a gifted writer.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: mental illness, couples, obsession, addiction, love affair, mentally unstable, rehabilitation, doctors and patients, drug abuse, dangerous attraction, life is a bitch, writer's life ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Style: sexy, poignant, realistic, depressing, black and white ...
Plot: addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, alcoholics anonymous, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, recovery, love, drinking, drunk, drug addiction, secretary ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place: san francisco, usa, texas, california, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.0
 725
Love, Again (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A couple on the brink of divorce decides to keep their marital woes a secret as they help their daughter plan her wedding. As the two work together on the happy occasion, they soon discover that their own marriage might just be worth saving.
Style: romantic, captivating, light, emotional
Plot: wedding ceremony, wedding, parents daughter relationship, husband wife estrangement, husband wife relationship, marriage, family relations, love and romance, romantic relationship, relationships, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.3
 3K
Loverboy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Style: psychological, sentimental, serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot: obsession, mental illness, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, parents and children, life is a bitch, single parent, family problems, family relations, teenage life, babies and infants, possessiveness ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
After the Reality (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The life of a contestant on a 'Bachelorette' style reality show is thrown into turmoil when the sudden death of his father forces him to quit the series prematurely and reconnect with his estranged sister at the family cabin.
Style: captivating, sentimental, light, entertaining, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dating show, estranged sister, death of father, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, waiter, brother sister relationship, sex scene, counselor, family relations, relatives, sibling relationship, siblings ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.5
 138K
The Hours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style: depressing, psychological, intellectual, touching, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, introspection, poet, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 1940s, 90s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 12K
Delibal (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A love story following two young people battling with their emotions and dreams, the pressures of career, family and not knowing what the future holds. Füsun is a brilliant student, destined for a successful career but can't help from falling ...
Style: neurotic, romantic, emotional, captivating, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: bipolar disorder, love, jealousy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, wedding, parents and children, living together, conflict, musician, suicide, illness ...
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 3K
Stella (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single parent, working class, pregnancy, society, breakup, moral dilemma, love and romance, starting over, youth, family life, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.3
 208
Close-Ups (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min.
Story: 37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.
Style: psychological, captivating, serious, sincere
Plot: mother in law son in law relationship, overprotective mother, mother daughter relationship, absent father, husband wife relationship, marital argument, domineering mother, dysfunctional family, sculptor, pregnancy, jealousy, desperation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 964
My Zinc Bed (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: addiction, going straight, obsession, self discovery, friendship, manipulation, hopes, downfall, writer's life, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.2
 255
Carving a Life (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Mitch must confront the haunting memories of his mother's tragic death and overcome his alcohol abuse, or lose all that is most precious to him.
Style: serious, romantic, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: second chance, alcohol abuse, family drama, love and romance, relationships, painter, love affair, love story, first love, relationship problems, struggling artist, love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Movie in collections
combat movies
2332
children movies
4576
junkie movies
676
She's So Lovely (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. When Eddie returns and finds his wife bruised, he goes ballistic, shoots a paramedic and ...
Style: melancholic, serious, psychological, realistic, talky ...
Plot: obsession, dysfunctional family, mental illness, mental institution, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, couple relations, love triangle, family problems, mentally unstable, love and romance, infidelity ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.1
 721
Crutch (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gay, dysfunctional family, family relations, rehabilitation, suburbs, kids in trouble, dangerous attraction, lifestyle, social decay, teenage life, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Four Sheets to the Wind (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, romantic comedy ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, last wish, native, american indian, indians, indigenous people, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Unanswered Prayers (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After his football career, Ben Beck returned to his Virginia small town and joined the family building firm. His family happiness with wife Lorrie and adolescent son Jessie is suddenly tested by the return of Ben's first high-school love, Ava ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, couples, homecoming, love and romance, society, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, infidelity, seduction, family business, lovers reunited, nude bathing ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.5
 73
Hard Sun (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the death of her parents, a young woman assumes primary guardianship of her special needs brother. But as she attempts to balance her new life with her brother and her own blossoming romance, it becomes painfully clear that life will only make ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, family in crisis, youth, dysfunctional family, family problems, brother sister relationship, autism, special needs, guardian, child care, sibling relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.5
 1K
Harry + Max (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Two brothers, 23 and 16, who are both teen idols, come to terms with their dysfunctional family past and deep affection for each other.
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, touching, sexy ...
Plot: gay, dysfunctional family, incest, gender, family relations, siblings relations, lgbt, teenage life, sexual relations, gay relationship, gay incest, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie