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Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (2003)
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Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America (2003)
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, suspense, anthology, depressing, tense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, dysfunctional family, social decay, murder of family, family life, life is a bitch, society, family problems, couple relations, sexual abuse, family in crisis, child molester, guilt, rapist, extreme, exploitation, confrontation, unsettling, serial killer, incest, child abuse, castration, shame, self mutilation, teddy bear ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: americana

Most similar movies to Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and psychological films with plots about life is a bitch, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, society and family in crisis mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America: Lust (2010), Redland (2009), Return to Innocence (2001), Ritual (2000), Accused (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lust (2010)
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: serious, realistic, emotional, rough, bleak
Plot: social decay, family relations, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, low lives, family in crisis, family problems, realism, dealing with death, death in the family, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, middle east
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95%
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Redland (2009)
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, mystic ...
Plot: life is a bitch, family life, love affair, survival, love and romance, family problems, pregnancy, isolation, parents and children, dysfunctional family, prohibition era, family in crisis ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Return to Innocence (2001)
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: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: pedophilia, coming of age, courtroom, man boy relationship, redemption, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, parents and children, dysfunctional family, teenage life, custody, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 99
Ritual (2000)
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, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, youth, crumbling marriage, domestic disturbance, life is a bitch, redemption, family life, curses spells and rituals, social decay, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: malibu california, bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Accused (2005)
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, family relations, under the surface, parents and children, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, incestuous relationship, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
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: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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A New Life (2002)
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, exciting, tense ...
Plot: obsession, life is a bitch, social decay, nihilism, society, prostitute, destructive relationship, couples, dancer's life, starting over, sexual relations, courtesan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, france, london, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
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, rough, serious, depressing ...
Plot: child abuse, pedophile, rape, sex, child molester, sexual abuse, child rape, coming of age, police, psychologist, child molestation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2004
Place: tennessee, indiana, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Glassland (2014)
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: realistic, rough, disturbing, serious, emotional ...
Plot: addiction, dysfunctional family, unlikely criminals, moral dilemma, youth, life is a bitch, family in crisis, family problems, family relations, society, oedipus complex, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Death Saved My Life (2021)
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, disturbing, suspense, captivating, emotional
Plot: unhappy marriage, family problems, husband wife relationship, marital problem, troubled marriage, relationship vs career, relationship problems, relationships, secret, family relations, society, family life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Our Story (2015)
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: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: lifestyle change, family relations, coup d'etat, changing lives, parents and children, social relations, social problems, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, coup, family problems, family life ...
Place: middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening (2001)
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, life is a bitch, family relations, social decay, woman in danger, rich and poor, family problems, city life, urban ghetto life, gender, youth, sexual harassment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Lightning Bug (2004)
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: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot: social relations, family problems, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, youth, dysfunctional family, small town, hollywood, small town life, religion, abuse, exploitation ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Everything Put Together (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Everything Put Together is a 2000 film directed by Marc Forster starring Radha Mitchell and Megan Mullally.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, touching, depressing ...
Plot: losing-it hero, redemption, pregnancy, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, social decay, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, family life, family problems, babies and infants, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Wolfy (2009)
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, dysfunctional family, little girl, parents and children, negligence, werewolf, loneliness, family relations, ex convict, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Home Sweet Home (2001)
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 relations, disability, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children, dysfunctional family, domestic disturbance, life is a bitch, couple relations, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Long Way Home (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: psychiatrist, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, domestic disturbance, redemption, life is a bitch, family in crisis, hopes, parents and children, family problems, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Shattering (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Claire has everything - money, a loving husband and a desired child. But suddenly her life changes. Doubts and lies bring her to the edge of insanity.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, family problems, marriage crisis, marital problem, family relations, relationships, infidelity, relationship problems, changing lives, female protagonist, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Serpent's Way (1986)
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: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: family relations, countryside, sexual abuse, nudity, family problems, life is a bitch, down on your luck, woman in danger, dysfunctional family, parents and children, castration, women ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: eastern europe
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45%
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Vampire Clan (2002)
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, rough, suspenseful, serious, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, investigation, uncover truth, gory, suburbs, vampire, goth, true crime, supernatural being ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 2000s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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All You Need (2001)
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, emotional, touching, talky
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, family life, family gatherings, human nature, couple relations, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
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: disturbing, realistic, emotional, touching, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, coming of age, rape, family relations, dysfunctional family, pedophile, parents and children, life is a bitch, domestic violence, child abuse, children, child rape ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, 1950s, 50s
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
An American Crime (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Style: disturbing, harsh, serious, bleak, brutal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: child abuse, true crime, torture, dysfunctional family, murder, captivity, courtroom drama, family problems, domestic violence, court, trial, mistreatment ...
Time: 60s, year 2007, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Little Boy Blue (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: incest, sexual abuse, missing person, dysfunctional family, murder, forced sex, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, haunted by the past, family problems, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, asia, usa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Turning (1992)
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, independent film, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: making love, sex scene, infidelity, alcoholic mother, neo nazism, couples, family problems, psychopath, family relations, society, life is a bitch, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: virginia, west virginia, usa
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38%
A Delicate Balance (1973)
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: independent film, tense, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, friendship, best friend, family problems, uninvited guest, couples, alcohol abuse, suburbs, family life, family in crisis, suburban life ...
Time: 70s
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Under the Bed (2012)
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: nightmare comes true, family in danger, supernatural, suburbs, creature, youth, brother brother relationship, supernatural horror, dark past, nightmare, recurring nightmare, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The New Year Parade (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children, family life, family in crisis, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, breakup, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Pop Skull (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams. This ...
Style: suspense, psychological, mumblecore, tense, captivating ...
Plot: haunted house, addiction, ghost, drug abuse, supernatural, crumbling marriage, danger, couples, teenage life, breakup, gory, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.6
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Last Breath (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A husband and wife, whose marriage is built on shifting sand, find themselves imprisoned by a sadistic killer - forced to make choices that will ultimately determine their family's survival or demise.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, independent film ...
Plot: redemption, survival, couple relations, danger, confined, vengeance, couples, gory, captivity, crumbling marriage, family problems, terror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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