Movies like The Milk of Human Kindness

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The Milk of Human Kindness (2001)
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The Milk of Human Kindness (2001)
Original name: Le Lait de la tendresse humaine
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman, scared by motherhood and her new born baby, runs away from her home and family to find a shelter at her upstairs neighbour's place.
Plot: adultery, family relations, neighbor, motherhood, newborn baby, lake, running away from home, postpartum depression, exhaustion, birthday cake, denial, female director
Time: 2000s
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and psychological films with plots about family relations, couples, female nudity, husband wife relationship, family problems, pregnancy and parents and children mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Milk of Human Kindness: Forgive Me (2006), The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (2014), Ombline (2012), Women or Children First (2002), Pretty Things (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Forgive Me (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Violette, an expectant wife, who opens a nasty barrel of worms by filming a documentary about her dysfunctional family, to be shown to her (as yet) unborn son.Through her ever-present lens, Violette begins to unearth one nasty family secret after ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, pregnancy, family problems, couples, infidelity, parents and children, uncover truth, disturbed childhood, adultery, adolescence ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two sisters, their families, and sometimes complicated lives.
Style: realistic, compassionate, sincere, cynical, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: family relations, direction and purpose, rising to stardom, disorder, aspiring writer, life turned upside down, sister sister relationship, parent child relationship, price of fame, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, working mom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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83%
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Ombline (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for ...
Style: serious, touching, bleak, realistic, gloomy
Plot: newborn baby, prison, single parent, hopes, family problems, life is a bitch, babies and infants, confined, starting over, family relations, prison life, released from prison ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Women or Children First (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France). Trouble comes when Tom ex girlfriend reappears, asking for help, announcing him that she had a girl from him 9 years ago.
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, midlife crisis, hopes, friends, couples, unfulfillment, human nature, fatherhood, ex girlfriend, boy, love, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Pretty Things (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lucie, who works as a white-hot fashion model, exhibits a dominant, often controlling, "Type A" personality, whereas identical twin Marie consistently projects a backward, reserved, laconic and unassuming attitude. When Lucie receives a ...
Style: serious, psychological, stylized, suspenseful, deep ...
Plot: singer, family relations, musician's life, switching roles, lifestyle, twins, physical appearance, love affair, betrayal, rescue, mentally unstable, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
In Safe Hands (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former ...
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, touching ...
Plot: adoptive mother, newborn baby, adoption, motherhood, social services, baby, foster home, childbirth, hospital, unwanted pregnancy, society, feminist ...
Time: year 2017
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Stranger in Me (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young couple in love: Rebecca (32) and her boyfriend Julian (34) are expecting their first child and are full of pleasant expectation. As Rebecca gives birth to a healthy boy their luck seems to be perfect. But instead of the unconditional ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling
Plot: postpartum depression, depression, life is a bitch, kids and family, problem, family problems, husband wife relationship, family relations, dysfunctional family, motherhood, mother son relationship, psychological disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Night and Day (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with ...
Plot: love, taxi driver, cat, taxi, male nudity, neighbor, female nudity, love triangle, job, apartment, taxi ride
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Nelly (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The four days following the death of a small town doctor, seen through the eyes of Nelly, his wife, a nurse.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: village, couples, social relations, love and romance, sexual relations, village life, family relations, town, death
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
I'm Alive and I Love You (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drama - During World War II, a woman aboard a railroad car full of deportees slips French railway worker Julien (JĂ©rĂ´me Deschamps) a note with an address and a simple message: "I am alive, and I love you," and he decides to track down ...
Plot: world war two, judaism, train station, family relations, nazi, courage, train, father son relationship, man boy relationship, german occupation, railway station
Time: 1940s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Young Casanova (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Gerard Casanova is the man that all the rich and beautiful women call when they need a little more then the husbands to give them. He's always on call to satisfy their every sexual urge.
Plot: gigolo, adultery, nudity, female pubic hair, male full rear nudity, sexually dissatisfied wife, horny wife, lesbian sex, cuckolded husband, bare breasts, unfaithful wife, cheating wife ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Under the Starry Sky (2013)
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: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Dazzled (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
Style: semi autobiographical
Plot: skinny dipping, female nudity, shoplifting, religious community, stealing, brother sister relationship, brotherhood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, police, arrest, meal, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Comedy of Power (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Plot: legal, embezzlement, dishonesty, political corruption, disorder, couples, legal action, legal investigation, couple relations, law enforcement, husband wife relationship, investigation ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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3000 Nights (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
Plot: motherhood, arab, woman, letter, childbirth, teacher, baby, blood, lawyer, photograph, women's prison, prison ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: palestine, lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Le Garcu (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A self-centered man (GĂ©rard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (GĂ©raldine Pailhas).
Plot: nudity, male female relationship, death of father, female nudity, extramarital affair, little boy, vacation, old age, childhood, immaturity, father, unfaithfulness ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Drift Away (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The life of a young police officer in a small town in Normandy is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a farmer threatening to commit suicide.
Plot: family relations, gendarmerie, children's choir, gendarme, job, town, peasant, jigsaw puzzle, moving, sailing, drunk, cow ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Sense of Humor (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Élise lives with her 10-year-old son Léo, whose father is deceased. She has a chaotic relationship with Paul her lover. They go from happy moments to intense feuds. Élise introduces him to Léo and in time, they get to know and appreciate each ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, pregnancy, parents and children, couples, single parent, breakup, love, friends, couple relations, son, divorced divorcee
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of JoĂŁo, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: poverty, honor, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, thief, accountant, missing child
Time: 2010s, 19th century
Place: france, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Nice Girl (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: The story of young mother Joanna and her soldier husband Steve. A tale of teenage pregnancy, ill-advised marriage, betrayal and despair.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: family relations, responsibility, pregnancy, betrayal, adultery, marriage, male female relationship, teenage pregnancy, sister, teenager
Place: wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Dreamchild (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth generation. He dreams of having a child. After years of failed fertility assistance, they ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: infidelity, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, pregnant woman, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, family relations, society, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Lullaby (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Amaia, who has just become a mother, decides to return to her parents' house along the Basque coast for guidance while her partner is temporarily away.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling, beautiful
Plot: woman, motherhood, family relations, mother child relationship, lifestyle, female protagonist, family problems, family life, kids and family, relationships, husband wife relationship, parents and children ...
Place: iberian peninsula
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Heritage (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Shipowner Kai Skaug is dead. The parson in his funeral speech speaks of a man who passed away in his prime, only 54 years old. The flower-decorated crematorium is filled with mourners. In the first row sits his old mother, his brother and sister, ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, extramarital affair, millionaire, money, secret, greed, heir, inheritance, unfaithful wife, business, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Making Plans for Lena (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any ...
Style: emotional, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, divorce, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, love and romance, human nature, couples, family relations, countryside, siblings relations, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, rome italy, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Lily Sometimes (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: country girl, lawyer, sister, introspection, estrangement, family relations, siblings relations, hopes, family problems, death in the family, dysfunctional family, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Week-ends (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: friendship, introspection, couple relations, self discovery, breakup, disorder, family problems, countryside, couples, family crisis, old woman, rural setting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Two (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Isabelle Huppert stars as a pair of twin sisters in Werner Schroeter's gorgeously composed and utterly berserk opus stuffed to overflowing with sailors, drag queens, suicides, cemeteries, doppelgängers, fickle foxes and operatic arias.
Style: non-linear, psychological, realistic, serious, controversial ...
Plot: family relations, strong female presence, opera, human nature, hopes, twins, destiny, cabaret, male nudity, town, mother, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, portugal, marseille, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Emergency Kisses (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such project in which she wanted to play herself.
Plot: loyalty, casting, marital discord, actress, frustration, love, husband wife relationship, filmmaker, boy, cinema, male female relationship, family relations ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 130
Twiggy (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Sarah seems to have the world at her feet. She's young, bright, pretty, free spirited yet hard working, with a real passion for life. Then, in just one day, she loses her job, is told she will have to move out of her apartment, and discovers ...
Plot: pregnancy, midwife, childbirth, young woman, museum, loss of job, studying, child abandonment, motherhood, medical examination, unwanted pregnancy, art exhibition ...
Place: marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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