Movies like Paradise 2004

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Paradise (2004)
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Paradise (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by his wife, a Cape Canaveral groupie at the time Bobby was with NASA. Now they have built up an extensive TV empire. When their proposal to merge with a somewhat tarnished mogul is investigated by the government, skeletons in the Paradise closet come to light and the family either rallies behind or disparages the enterprise.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying, soap opera
Plot: televangelist, businessman, faith, infidelity, husband wife relationship, hypocrisy, extramarital affair, marriage, reverend, outer space, money, church, wealth, father son relationship, astronaut, sex, prison, airplane, lawyer, boxer, motorcycle, writers, religion, female nudity, murder ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and independent film films with plots about husband wife relationship, sex, infidelity, drinking, couples, kiss and adultery mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Paradise: The Starling Girl (2023), Speakeasy (2002), Leo (2002), Fathers and Sons (2005), White Oleander (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Starling Girl (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
Style: crying
Plot: sin, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, father daughter relationship, shame, alcoholic father, religion, secret relationship, masturbation, sexual repression, sexual awakening, loss of virginity ...
Place: memphis, kentucky
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Speakeasy (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two men become unlikely friends after a minor traffic accident.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, friendship, haunted by the past, drug addict, love and romance, hopes, redemption, introspection, human nature, homecoming, mute or deaf ...
Time: 1930s, 2000s
Place: los angeles
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54%
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Leo (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, sincere ...
Plot: released from prison, infidelity, prison, going straight, life is a bitch, family problems, love affair, prison life, confined, husband wife relationship, hot and sexy, pregnancy ...
Time: 60s
Place: mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Pastor Dave responds to the unimaginable tragedy of having his church, located on the grounds of the local university, burned down.
Style: christian film, realistic, captivating, psychological, rough ...
Plot: christian, faith, church, religious fanatic, brother brother relationship, christianity, university, protest, arson, doubt, lawyer, jail ...
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Fathers and Sons (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, estrangement, family problems, love and romance, elderly, gender, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san diego california, miami, los angeles
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White Oleander (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Style: intense, touching, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, bad mother, loneliness, dysfunctional family, women's prison, teenage life, murder, mother daughter estrangement, mental illness, teenager, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia, mexico
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A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The gory ax-murder of one mousy, suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: self-defense. Could it be so?
Style: spooky, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot: self defense, lawyer, extramarital affair, true crime, law, serial killer, murder, couples, dangerous attraction, vengeance, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa
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49%
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Faces (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style: art house, intense, black and white, independent film, talky ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, feminism, feminist, sex, male nudity, drinking, thoughtful, minimalism, cheating, social outcast, time travel ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
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49%
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Nomadland (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Style: road movie, serious, social, sad, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: van, homeless, traveler, motor home, loss of job, on the road, journey, nomad, road trip, homelessness, snow, loneliness ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011
Place: nevada, nebraska, arizona
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49%
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Levelland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A coming-of-age drama, with skateboards, set in Texas.
Style: crying
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, punk rock, age-gap relationship, punk, unfaithfulness, bare butt, nudity, psychiatric hospital, sex, infidelity, gay slur, loss of father ...
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Eve's Bayou (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, southern gothic, gothic, spooky ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: witchcraft, curse, coming of age, dysfunctional family, all black cast, black, implied incest, black history, african american, infidelity, redemption, women of color ...
Time: year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, indiana, usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Men's Club (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style: sentimental, independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: stoner, erection, midlife crisis, infidelity, working class, friendship, threesome, social relations, thirtysomething life, couples, society, buddies ...
Time: 80s
Place: okinawa japan, san francisco
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48%
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style: philosophical, meditative, bleak, depressing, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: philosophy, infidelity, adultery, destiny, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction, parents and children, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Jerome (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: factory, on the road, desert, petty theft, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, self discovery, society, hopes, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Miss Juneteenth (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: teenage girl, single mother, american dream, beauty queen, african american, cheerleader, black, breakup, talent show, money problems, overprotective mother, freedom ...
Time: 2020s, year 2004, year 1865, year 2019
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Dirty Pictures (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Style: disturbing, captivating, serious, thought provoking, erotic ...
Plot: museum, art, lawsuit, courtroom, jury, politics, courtroom drama, against the rules, fighting the system, righting the wronged, perversion, rebelliousness ...
Time: 90s, 80s, year 1990
Place: ohio, usa, cincinnati ohio
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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their ...
Style: erotic, sexy, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: sexual abuse, obsession, couple relations, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional marriage, nudity, infidelity, erotica, unfulfillment ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: rape, couple relations, danger, couples, rape and revenge, stranger, husband wife relationship, adultery, nudity, impotent husband, cuckolded husband, sexual content ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Baby Maker (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hippie, adoption, surrogate mother, psychedelia, parents, dilemma, orphan, love triangle, pregnancy, infidelity, baby, wedding ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1970
Place: beverly hills, california, los angeles
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48%
The Inheritance (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Christoffer take over management of the family industry which is in danger of bankruptcy. He is torn ...
Style: enigmatic, meditative, serious, sincere, stylized ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, secrets, suicide, family business, family life, adultery, family problems, family values, inheritance, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance ...
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, denmark, south of france, copenhagen
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48%
A Map of the World (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting ...
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Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota, wisconsin
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48%
The Promised Land (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional ...
Style: serious, realistic, biting, epic, crying
Plot: revolution, friendship, capitalist, renaissance, literary, identity, time machine, revolt, railway, artist, fire, adultery ...
Time: victorian era, year 1975, 19th century, turn of the century
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, berlin germany, europe ...
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47%
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Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, love affair ...
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47%
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As I Lay Dying (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, last wish, death in the family, family problems, husband wife relationship, dying, dead mother, american history, rural area, dealing with death, dark humor, broken leg ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: mississippi, southern usa, usa
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47%
The Indian Runner (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things ...
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Shoot the Moon (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Style: realistic, emotional, offbeat, serious, psychological ...
Plot: divorce, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, marriage, infidelity, husband, wife, adultery, violence, youth, women ...
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47%
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Genre: Drama
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Story: An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
Style: sexy, captivating, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: extramarital affair, sexual relations, infidelity, life turned upside down, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, dishonesty, love triangle, architect, sex scene, alienation ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Dark Matter (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, tense, serious ...
Plot: university, american dream, injustice, politics, student life, serial killer, misfit, inventions and discoveries, college, college life, immigrant, genius ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Laurel Canyon (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Laurel Canyon focuses on Sam and Alex, a pair of upper-middle class lovebirds from the East Coast who relocate to Los Angeles. Enter Jane, Sam's estranged mother, a successful record producer, who's more than willing to put the couple up ...
Style: sexual, psychological, independent film, sexy, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, culture clash, intern, music business, psychiatry, music, relationships, lesbian, fish out of water, couples, disorder, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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47%
The Happy Ending (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons), a woman who believes that ultimate reality exists above and beyond the routine procedures of conscious, uninspired, everyday ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, touching, suspenseful ...
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Time: 60s, year 1969
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