Movies like The Blue Hour 2007

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The Blue Hour (2007)
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The Blue Hour (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Several strangers in Los Angeles weave their stories of loss and hope, not knowing that their lives have brushed up against each others in small but sometimes profound ways
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, touching, suspenseful, crying, independent film, hispanic
Plot: loner, mental illness, professor, male female relationship, generation gap, school, obsession, mother daughter relationship, multiple storylines, husband wife relationship, loss of wife, compassion, death of mother, marriage, child in peril, family tragedy, hopes, immigrant, twists and turns, mother son relationship, musician, island, clown, depression, water ...
Place: los angeles, california
Keyword: armenian, ipod, latin

Most similar movies to The Blue Hour

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, realistic, serious and touching films with plots about husband wife relationship, family relations, death, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, marriage and telephone call mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Blue Hour: Ilegales (2010), Reign Over Me (2007), Things That Hang from Trees (2006), Tony Takitani (2004), Rabbit Hole (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ilegales (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Tells the stories of a group of people in Ciudad de Juarez with one thing in common: they are all looking for a better life for them and their families. For many, that better life waits just a short walk away in the United States.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, touching, independent film
Plot: illegal immigrant, drug traffic, investigation, drug smuggling, murder, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, multiple storylines, cocaine, smuggling, child in peril, drug ...
Place: mexico, new mexico
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Reign Over Me (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Style: touching, depressing, sincere, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: grief, friendship, 9/11, dealing with death, mental illness, friends, tragic event, loss of loved one, loss, alone, mental disorder, buddies ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Things That Hang from Trees (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: St. Augustine, Florida, 1969. An eight-year-old boy's wish to see the fireworks from atop the city's lighthouse is complicated by his odd neighbors, abusive peers, and hopeless parents. The young boy's seemingly simple goal develops ...
Style: disturbing, touching, psychological, captivating, southern gothic
Plot: child abuse, bullying, american football, mother son relationship, boy, mental illness, husband wife relationship, small town, drunkenness, teasing, father son relationship, bad father ...
Time: 60s, year 1969
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Tony Takitani (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Tony Takitani had a solitary childhood. Being alone was normal since his mother died young and his father was always away with his jazz band. At school he studied art, but while his sketches are accurate and detailed they lack feeling. Used to being ...
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: emotionless, loneliness, obsession, couples, life is a bitch, alone, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, solitude, jazz, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Rabbit Hole (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Style: touching, sad, crying, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: grief, loss of child, death in the family, marriage, estrangement, tragedy, support group, memory, redemption, family problems, death of child, death of son ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Cake (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style: heartbreaking, depressing, psychological, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drug addiction, loneliness, depression, obsession, suicide, friendship, suicide attempt, support group, character study, tragedy, mental illness, honest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, tijuana mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Split Second (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Story: A split-second decision made in a fit of rage drives attorney and family man Michael Anderson to desperate measures.The stressed-out lawyer hits his melting point one fateful day, when he runs away from the consequences of his actions.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: hit and run, workplace situations, mental illness, rivalry, legal action, vigilantism, vengeance, dishonesty, fight, driving, arrest, businessman ...
Time: 90s
Place: edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
The Safety of Objects (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to ...
Style: philosophical, psychological, depressing, compassionate, confusing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, loneliness, guilt, family relations, coma, family life, family problems, couple relations, society, crumbling marriage, single parent, parents and children ...
Time: year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Ordinary People (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style: depressing, realistic, compassionate, sentimental, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, therapy, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, depression, grief, suicide, coming of age, father son relationship, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, middle east, houston texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Redwood Highway (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, estrangement, escapades, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, hopes, redemption, parents and children, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pacific ocean, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Style: depressing, touching, sincere, gloomy, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: addiction, heroin, grief, life is a bitch, love and romance, haunted by the past, loss of spouse, drug addiction, best friend, character study, childhood, starting over ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The United States of Leland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, murder, teacher, coming of age, dysfunctional family, writers, prison life, family relations, unlikely friendships, investigation, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, italy, paris france, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Son's Room (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Style: touching, sincere, sad, depressing, meditative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychoanalysis, regret, loss of son, psychology, grief, parents and children, family problems, redemption, hopes, family in crisis, overcoming, running ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 ⇓
53%
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Along the Way (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, gloomy, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: best friend, college, friendship, friends, youth, hopes, redemption, buddies, coming of age, showbiz, partner, doctor ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Summer Snow (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hallie Benson is a small girl with a big heart. Unfortunately, her creative ways of helping often create a mess. Dan Benson doesn't cook, do hair or know how to help his three children without his beautiful wife and her unshakable faith.
Style: suspenseful, touching, sincere, christian film
Plot: faith, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, strong female lead, grief, dead mother, friendship, strong female character, family tragedy, death of mother, death, tragedy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Like Normal People (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mentally-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and friends. Based on a true story.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, romantic, suspense
Plot: husband wife relationship, false accusation, male female relationship, marriage, independence, love, mentally unstable woman, society, dishonesty, forbidden love, love and romance, true love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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 ⇓
52%
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Babel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style: non-linear, bleak, sincere, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: multiple storylines, redemption, desert, woman urinating, deaf girl, mexican border, society, guilt, parenthood, depression, tragic event, immigrant ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
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51%
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The Promise (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lisa's husband, Bill, abuses her. With her sister's encouragement, she takes their three kids and leaves her husband. Bill keeps interfering with Lisa's attempts at a new life. She gets an order of protection against him, but the ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: abusive relationship, murder, domestic disturbance, hopes, danger, starting over, life is a bitch, injustice, family problems, family relations, family in danger, woman in danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style: sad, depressing, heartbreaking, psychological, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: family drama, sadness, loneliness, depression, loss, suicide attempt, death, nephew, grief, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, adoption ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Safe Passage (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mother with seven sons feels like she's losing control of her life and her family. But personal...
Style: touching, realistic, melancholic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, character study, pain, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, couples, estrangement, hopes ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new jersey, middle east, utah, beirut lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style: melancholic, touching, emotional, depressing, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, disability, self discovery, mental illness, small town, mentally challenged, responsibility, life philosophy, brothers, coming of age, family drama, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993, 60s, 70s
Place: iowa, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Madeline's Madeline (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines ...
Style: psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, theatre group, depression, husband wife relationship, brother sister relationship, underage drinking, african american, theatre director, public speaking, job, father ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Bachelor Next Door (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A newly engaged couple becomes intrigued by the young stranger who moves in next door. He's handsome, friendly and very helpful, but he's no stranger.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: nosy neighbor, couple relations, husband wife relationship, neighbor, relationship problems, stalking, new neighbor, family relations, neighbor neighbor relationship, male female relationship, obsession, stalker
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46%
I've Loved You So Long (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: family drama, prison, physician, character study, ex convict, job seeking, complex characters, honest, parenthood, loss of son, sibling relationship, estrangement ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Pieces of a Woman (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Hungary, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A grieving woman embarks on an emotional journey after the Ioss of her baby.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: loss of child, couples, birth, midwife, pregnancy, grief, grieving, dog, mother in law son in law relationship, marriage, husband wife relationship, death ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Tetro (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their ...
Style: psychological, black and white, talky, enigmatic, intense ...
Plot: road trip, family relations, confession, family drama, adaptation, art, dysfunctional family, creativity, family secret, musician, haunted by the past, greed ...
Time: year 2009
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina, south america, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Ponette (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; ...
Style: touching, realistic, talky, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: children, bereavement, little girl, child, adolescence, coming of age, grief, youth, girl, death, friendship, school ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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