Movies like Choco
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Choco (2012)
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Original name: Chocó
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, optimism, parents and children, society, unemployment, family problems, hopes, husband wife relationship, loss of job, blaxploitation, life is a bitch, down on your luck, strong female presence, unsupportive spouse, school, children, birthday, fire, woman, female protagonist, husband, gold mine, village, young
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
africa, latin america, colombia
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Most similar movies to Choco
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, society, hopes and down on your luck mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Choco: A Long Way Home (2003), Offline (2012), Shirley Adams (2009), Under the Starry Sky (2013), Mainline (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, parents and children, domestic disturbance, family in crisis, life is a bitch, hopes, family problems, redemption, estrangement, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
895
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, family relations, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, hopes, job seeking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
disability, family problems, family relations, parents and children, hopes, single parent, human spirit, life is a bitch, introspection, small town, family in crisis, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, cape town south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
lovers apart, redemption, dysfunctional family, couples, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, rehabilitation, drug abuse, addiction, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a decadent life of crime.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, homecoming, moral dilemma, society, life is a bitch, working class, family relations, family problems, post traumatic stress disorder, ex soldier, urban, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
pension, colonel, hopes, small town, parents and children, family relations, downfall, couple relations, haunted by the past, small town life, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Samantha is recovering from a suicide attempt and ready for a fresh start in life. She has to fight for the custody of her daughter.
Style:
sincere, psychological, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
parents and children, custody, mental illness, family life, starting over, hopes, family relations, family problems, mother daughter relationship, depressed woman, rock paper scissors, suicide attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, fish out of water, culture clash, family life, homecoming, society, family problems, terminal illness, parents and children, life is a bitch, under the surface, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, north korea, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
144
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, France, Panama
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
With the closure of the sugar mill, the little town of Molasses is devastated, lifeless. Aldo and Monica form a young married couple that do not find a way to survive. By supporting each other, they try to save their world without loosing their ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
unemployment, working class, family life, social relations, parents and children, couple relations, family relations, couples, society, small town, poverty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking period she divorced and lost custody of her two boys. Now she wants them to be a part of her life ...
Style:
sexy, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, estrangement, starting over, parents and children, haunted by the past, family problems, family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, actor's life, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.
Style:
sincere, touching, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
aids, hopes, parents and children, family problems, injustice, life is a bitch, down on your luck, witch doctor, hiv, secret, girl, strong female lead ...
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems, sick mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, visually stunning, psychological ...
Plot:
couple relations, immigrant, trying to get pregnant, society, couples, lifestyle, afrofuturism, african, female protagonist, parents and children, changing lives, cultural difference ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation center, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, addiction, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
David, a widower, is working himself to death. Late nights doing paperwork and running on fumes is normal. Bills are piling up by the week, and foreclosure looms on the horizon. Blaming God for his wife's death, he ends his relationship with ...
Style:
christian film, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental
Plot:
christian, family relations, family problems, church, religions or cults, society, grieving widower, best friend, unsupportive spouse, hopes, parents and children, widower ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, realistic, clever, touching ...
Plot:
couples, family in crisis, destiny, family life, love and romance, family relations, social worker, unemployment, human nature, society, starting over, parents and children ...
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, breakup, couples, life is a bitch, downfall, unfulfillment, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
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:
emotional, sincere, touching, rough, informative ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, addiction, family relations, human nature, society, family problems, family in crisis, women of color, feminist, child abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Afghanistan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Saddled by a senile grandfather and a neglectful father, Mina, an impulsive twelve-year-old Afghan street seller sees her future slipping away when she is forced to neglect her education and walk the streets of Kabul to support her fragmented ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, rough, social, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, rebelliousness, realism, parents and children, youth, family problems, single parent, rebellion, child as adult, family relations, life is a bitch, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
family in crisis, life is a bitch, working class, lifestyle, society, parents and children, family problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of a man Bill Januson whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will ...
Style:
crying, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
starving child, starvation, youth, doctor, single parent, unemployment, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, human spirit, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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115
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chayo returns to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and cope with her death. Surrounded by love and sublime beauty, Chayo has to give up something that as a woman and mother is inalienable. That will be the price of her freedom.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, tradition, elderly, unfulfillment, death in the family, homecoming, female protagonist, day of the dead, mother daughter relationship, grandmother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
804
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In England, the Pakistanis Yasmin lives two lives in two different worlds: in her community, she wears Muslin clothes, cooks for her father and brother and has the traditional behavior of a Muslin woman. Further, she has a non-consumed marriage with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, culture clash, social differences, false accusation, life is a bitch, society, terrorism, parents and children, injustice, religions or cults, family in crisis ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
britain, pakistan, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
poverty, immigrant, family relations, urban setting, human spirit, starting over, family problems, working class, hopes, life is a bitch, american dream, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, new york, colombia, usa
Similarity:
100%
864
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, couples, family relations, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, everyday life, family drama, society, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
253
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style:
realistic, serious, period piece, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, working class, unemployment, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, prairie, great depression, drought, family drama ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
169
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nutsa, a young mother, lives with her two children in a suburbs of Tblissi in Georgia. Her partner Goga is in prison. They get married, so she gains the right to talk to him once a month in the visiting room on the other side of the glass. The ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, couple relations, family relations, prison life, crumbling marriage, parents and children, couples, life is a bitch, family problems, motherhood, female protagonist, social realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, tbilisi, caucasus, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
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