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Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Three narratives ("Cutting Moments," "Home" and "Prologue") combine to create a shocking trilogy of modern American life, a portrait drawn with brushstrokes of hidden violence and disturbing cruelty. Directed by Douglas Buck, this unflinching film reveals what lies behind the drawn curtains of so-called "ordinary" households.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, depressing, tense, bleak, realistic, anthology
Plot:
husband wife relationship, dysfunctional family, social decay, murder of family, family life, life is a bitch, society, family problems, americana, couple relations, sexual abuse, family in crisis, child molester, guilt, rapist, suspense, exploitation, serial killer, incest, child abuse, castration, shame, self mutilation, teddy bear, family relations ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and tense films with plots about family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, society, parents and children and family in crisis mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America: Lust (2010), Return to Innocence (2001), Redland (2009), Accused (2005), Ritual (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Egypt, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
“Lust” takes us into the lives of the inhabitants of a marginalised street in Alexandria, Egypt, before the revolution. Each character is isolated in their fierce, yet fragile dreams, including Umm Shooq, who has deserted her wealthy family to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, rough, bleak
Plot:
social decay, family relations, urban ghetto life, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, family problems, realism, low lives, death in the family, child illness, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Director Rocky Costanzo's searing legal drama centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist named Glen Erskine (Richard Meese) whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating. ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
child abuse, pedophilia, coming of age, courtroom, man boy relationship, teenage life, parents and children, custody, sexual abuse, dysfunctional family, redemption, life is a bitch ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, rough, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, love affair, family life, survival, love and romance, family problems, pregnancy, isolation, dysfunctional family, parents and children, prohibition era, family in crisis ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, incest, child abuse, lawyer, under the surface, family relations, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, youth, incestuous relationship, degradation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A young man drops out of college to fix his family when he senses something is terribly wrong at home.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, controversial, cynical ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, redemption, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, youth, domestic disturbance, curses spells and rituals, family life, social decay, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bahamas, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the surface it seems Jade has it all, including a successful marketing career, a husband admired and respected in the community, and a young daughter they both dote on. However, behind closed doors, her life is far from perfect.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional
Plot:
lifetime, husband wife relationship, relationship vs career, marital problem, relationship problems, family problems, troubled marriage, society, family relations, unhappy marriage, suspense, secret ...
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90%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, a young taxi driver becomes entangled in the criminal underworld.
Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, rough, emotional ...
Plot:
addiction, dysfunctional family, moral dilemma, unlikely criminals, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, family in crisis, youth, society, teenager, oedipus complex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A 2002 French experimental film directed by Philippe Grandrieux and starring Zachary Knighton and Anna Mouglalis. The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
obsession, life is a bitch, social decay, nihilism, society, prostitute, destructive relationship, couples, starting over, dancer's life, sexual relations, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, france, london, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A son tries to restore the honour of his father, who was imprisoned during the 1980 military coup.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot:
family relations, lifestyle change, coup d'etat, society, changing lives, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, parents and children, social problems, family problems, family life, social relations ...
Place:
turkey
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86%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
child abuse, pedophile, rape, sex, sexual abuse, child molester, parents and children, child rape, coming of age, police, psychologist, innocence lost ...
Place:
tennessee, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, psychiatrist, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, sexual abuse, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, hopes, redemption, domestic disturbance, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In this drama thriller set in the South, a young boy named Green (Bret Harrison) longs to escape his unhappy life but feels trapped in his hometown. A gifted special-effects makeup artist, Green has big dreams of working in Hollywood. But the ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, psychological, biting
Plot:
alcohol abuse, social relations, family problems, hollywood, small town life, small town, dysfunctional family, youth, life is a bitch, suspense, religion, abuse ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, family relations, social decay, rich and poor, woman in danger, life is a bitch, family problems, city life, urban ghetto life, youth, gender, sexual harassment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
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85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The wife and son of an unemployed, foul-tempered man suffer under ever-worsening domestic violence. One day while his father is taking a nap, the young son decides to take matters into his own hands. In a panic, the wife and son both believe the man ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, realistic, psychological
Plot:
domestic violence, abusive father, family problems, family relations, disability, family in crisis, life is a bitch, domestic disturbance, dysfunctional family, parents and children, couple relations, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
There are two of them: a mother and a girl. They have no names. And they are in a constant run. The mother runs away from the daughter in an attempt to start new life, and the girl runs after her mother as she has no idea how to live without her. ...
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, tense, neorealism ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, family problems, alcohol abuse, little girl, parents and children, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, negligence, loneliness, family relations, ex convict, werewolf ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
sexual abuse, coming of age, rape, domestic violence, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, life is a bitch, pedophile, children, sexual assault, family in crisis ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, society, addiction, human nature, family relations, family problems, family in crisis, child abuse, women of color, racial issues ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
africa, mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, emotional, talky
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, family gatherings, family life, parents and children, human nature, couple relations, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Style:
talky, realistic, serious, emotional, biting ...
Plot:
hollywood, aids, family relations, father son relationship, family problems, showbiz, terminal illness, infidelity, artists and showbiz, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Noe he's returned to ...
Style:
erotic, serious, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
making love, sex scene, alcohol abuse, infidelity, neo nazism, couples, psychopath, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
virginia, west virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five friends welcome real life vampirism into their lives. They cut their own wrists and let their friends drink from them. Rod, the leader, and a very psychotic young guy, ends up killing Heathers parents and stealing their car to go on a crazy ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, uncover truth, leadership, investigation, suburbs, vampire, supernatural being, goth, suspense ...
Time:
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Place:
florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
countryside, sexual abuse, nude, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, strong sexual content, down on your luck, dysfunctional family, woman in danger, parents and children, peeping tom ...
Time:
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Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A pseudo-documentary edited from the home movies of serial killers Wayne & Andrea Montgomery, presenting a look into their quiet, suburban lives...as well as the graphic & disturbing details of their horrific crimes.
Style:
serious, bleak, scary, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, found footage, murder, violence spree, couples, psychopath, partners, society, couple relations, lifestyle, family life, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge - how to survive. For they are cannibals. They have always existed on a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, slasher, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summer of 2008.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, tense, biting
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, suspense, youth, human nature, social decay, society, rich, suburban life, suburbs, teenager, summer, international crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, scary, mystical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary ...
Style:
disturbing, touching, thought provoking, rough, tense ...
Plot:
orphan, child abuse, rescue, family relations, selflessness, dysfunctional family, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, abuse, love, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, redemption, pregnancy, family problems, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, family life, social decay, babies and infants, female friendship ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the quartet maintain a delicate ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, talky ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, friendship, introspection, couple relations, unfulfillment, golden years, best friends, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, society, elderly, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Smiths -- a family with a secret past -- are visited by a sweet-talking southern gentleman who is looking for small town humanity. But they'll soon find out that kindness towards strangers is not always rewarded, and the secretive ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, psychopath, mysterious character, violent death, family problems, obsession, vengeance, family life, haunted by the past, family secret, serial killer, twists and turns ...
Time:
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82%
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