Movies like Red Roses and Petrol

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Red Roses and Petrol (2003)
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Red Roses and Petrol (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch.
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, family conflict, family reunited, secret, love, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family tragedy, family gatherings, terminal illness, dancing, death, hospital, book, cocaine, fire, father daughter relationship, funeral, flight attendant, flashback, poem, ashes ...
Place: ireland, new york
Keyword: irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sincere, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about family relations, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, parents and children and family problems mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Red Roses and Petrol: Kids Run (2020), 75 Degrees in July (2000), Constellation (2005), Behind the Red Door (2003), Alpha Male (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kids Run (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Andi's life is a constant battle for his home, his three children and the woman he still loves. He only has two weeks to pay her back the borrowed 5,000 EUR. When he loses his job, an amateur boxing tournament looks like the only solution.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: love, money, boxing, poverty, family relations, boxer, blood, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, baby, assault, aggression ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
75 Degrees in July (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sibling rivalry and other conflicts are revealed as one daughter, now a successful modern artist living in New York, returns to visit her Texas family.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, captivating, psychological
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, rancher, sibling rivalry, manipulation, homecoming, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, family reunited, male female relationship ...
Place: austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Constellation (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: interracial relations, family relations, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, hopes, unfulfillment, society, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, interracial romance ...
Time: 1950s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Behind the Red Door (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: family relations, self discovery, love and romance, estrangement, siblings relations, family life, haunted by the past, terminal illness, parents and children, homosexual, photographer, secret ...
Place: newfoundland, boston, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
Style: sincere, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, family gatherings, holiday, family relations, estranged father, homecoming, sibling relationship, parents and children, brother sister relationship, xmas, siblings, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ireland, long island
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46%
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Alpha Male (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Twisted Roots (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, touching
Plot: family relations, secret, parent child relationship, little girl, husband wife relationship, adoption, family secret, family problems, adopted daughter, interracial adoption, dysfunctional family, family crisis ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Fiesta Patria (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, captivating
Plot: family secret, family relations, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, fiancee, military, family reunited, engagement, dictator, dictatorship, country, sex ...
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Gathering (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of his family are not exactly fond of him because he walked out on his wife and of his stubborn nature ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, in love, fall in love, bondage, family relations, terminal illness, family gatherings, elderly, life is a bitch, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Melting Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, parents and children, terminal illness, family relations, bittersweet, father son relationship, gay, transgender, hospital, israeli, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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35%
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Cold Water (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This is the story of Alice Fuller (Amy Shelton-White) struggling to come to terms with her past in order to embrace her future. Shot almost entirely in and around Estes Park, Colorado, the film follows Alice as she is forced to spend one final week ...
Style: scenic, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family drama, mother daughter relationship, hiking, fight, wildlife, dealing with the past, acceptance, flashback, father daughter relationship, death, deer ...
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35%
Those Who Remain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Dreams I Never Had (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A teenage girl is held captive in the home of a wealthy family. She is befriended by the family's young gardener, himself an illegal from Mexico. Their friendship carries both of them through their hopeless, sequestered lives and ultimately ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere
Plot: teenage girl, wealthy family, illegal alien, slave girl, domestic violence, couple relations, forbidden love, teenager, dysfunctional family, teenage love, male female relationship, slave ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Boomerang (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Antoine Rey looks for a special gift for his sister Melanie on her 40th birthday. He decides to surprise her with a trip to the French Island of Noirmoutier, where they spent many summers as children until their mother's death. On the drive ...
Style: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sincere
Plot: brother sister relationship, dysfunctional family, secret, christmas present, family secret, past, father daughter relationship, confronting the past, childhood memory, family relations, car accident, fired from the job ...
Time: year 2015
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33%
My Brother, My Sister (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When their father's will forces them to live together, siblings Nik and Tesla — and Tesla's kids — try to overcome their differences to become a family.
Style: disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating, emotional
Plot: brother sister reunion, family relations, family problems, family reunited, parents and children, father daughter relationship, kids and family, relationship problems, marital argument, living together, dysfunctional family, schizophrenic ...
Place: rome italy, italy
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32%
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Hanging Garden (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, poignant, sincere
Plot: family relations, dominatrix, family conflict, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, marital argument, marital problem, relationship problems, relationships, brawl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Charter (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a recent and difficult divorce, Alice hasn't seen her children in two months as she awaits a custody verdict. When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the ...
Style: touching, sincere, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: custody battle, abduction, children, family relations, family conflict, on the run, husband wife conflict, father son relationship, resort, woman, european, mother daughter conflict ...
Place: canary islands, scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Cities of the Plain (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Directed by Robert Kramer
Style: experimental, captivating, touching, serious
Plot: family relations, immigrant, husband wife relationship, working class, mysterious man, dysfunctional family, blindness, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, money, wedding, flashback ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Shouting Secrets (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.
Style: realistic, sincere, captivating, serious, independent film ...
Plot: native american, getting home, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, family relations, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, indigenous people, native, american indian, indians, brother sister relationship ...
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30%
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Another House (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, elderly, parents and children, memory loss, father son relationship, love, brothers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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29%
The Significant Other (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Directed by Joel Lamangan, “The Significant Other” follows the story of a rising fashion model (Erich Gonzales) who catches up and becomes BFFs with her catwalk idol (Lovi Poe). But all hell breaks lose when they realize that they are in love ...
Style: captivating, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, ambition, husband wife relationship, femme fatale, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, love, mistress, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, class differences, friendship ...
Place: singapore
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29%
All Hell Let Loose (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Minoo returns to her family in Sweden to attend her sister Gita's wedding. Her mother and father believe that she has disgraced the family having worked as a stripper.
Style: touching, serious, sincere, realistic, bilingual
Plot: family relations, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, overprotective parent, dysfunctional family, stripper, wedding party, argument, bad father, father, hair salon, mother ...
Place: eastern europe
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29%
Broken Memories (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: “Broken Memories” is a romantic drama that depicts the often-untold story of a family caregiver tending to an elderly parent. Once estranged from his family, Levi (Ivan Sergei), puts his life on hold to care for his father, Jasper (Rance ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: secret, dysfunctional family, family problems, fighting illness, confronting the past, father son relationship, troubled past, caretaker, life is a bitch, alzheimer's disease, family relations, father
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28%
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Canvas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, coming of age, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, couple relations, working class, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hospital, teenage life ...
Place: florida, usa
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Generational Sins (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A dying mother, Sarah, tells her last wish to her eldest son, Drew, that he take his younger brother, Will, to the place they were born. Despite tragic family history, hope gives promise to the future.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, independent film
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, loss of mother, brother brother relationship, bereavement, life is a bitch, father son relationship, death
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26%
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Still Walking (2008)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 115 min.
Story: Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn't ...
Style: serious, contemplative, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: family reunited, family gatherings, family life, generation gap, bereavement, dealing with death, reconciliation, parents and children, old age, generation, father daughter relationship, love ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s
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26%
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Modesty (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is ...
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating, serious
Plot: husband wife relationship, unhappy marriage, secret admirer, dysfunctional family, guilt, adultery, loneliness, dementia, coming of age, bare breasts, sexually dissatisfied wife, hurricane katrina ...
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25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: redemption, family relations, aging, father son relationship, self discovery, con artists, bittersweet, friends, single parent, elderly, pneumonia, hustler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois, chicago
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25%
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In Our Nature (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A portrait of two couples at a crossroads. What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for two young lovers, turns into an uncomfortable confrontation when the young man's estranged father shows up ... with his own girlfriend. As their ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, introspection, estrangement, parents and children, dysfunctional family, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, country house, awkward situation, parenthood, estranged father ...
Time: 21st century
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25%
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DNA (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing ...
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, male female friendship, alzheimer's disease, family conflict, estranged father, family crisis, loss of grandfather, grandfather grandson relationship, grief, death of grandfather, woman, photography ...
Time: 2010s
Place: algeria, paris france
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25%
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