Movies like The Luck of Ginger Coffey

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The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
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The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An out-of-work Irish immigrant in Montreal remains hopeful that his luck is about to change but his disillusioned family grow tired of his pigheadedness and instability.
Style: independent film
Plot: stage play, scuffle, obsession, illness, divorce, judge, family relations, deception, irishman, lie, best friend, beer, father son relationship, drunkenness, unemployment, optimist, down on your luck, nervous breakdown, husband wife relationship, newspaper, layoff, arrest, public humiliation, wife leaves husband, blue collar ...
Place: montreal, montreal quebec canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and psychological films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, bare chested male, family problems, marriage and male female relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Luck of Ginger Coffey: The Game of Love (2016), The Letter (1982), The Children Act (2017), Sex, Lies & Obsession (2001), Heart of Steel (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Game of Love (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The family of a basketball club's president conspires to force him to sell it.
Style: captivating
Plot: father son relationship, basketball, competition, family relations, male female relationship, basketball coach, basketball team, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship vs career, relationships, love affair, husband wife relationship ...
Place: seattle
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The Letter (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
Style: eighties
Plot: blackmail, murder, deception, infidelity, husband wife relationship, trial, marriage
Place: malaysia
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The Children Act (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating, rough, serious ...
Plot: judge, jehovah's witness, illness, moral dilemma, courtroom, religion, teenager, leukemia, marriage crisis, hospital, cancer, crisis of faith ...
Time: year 2017
Place: london
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Sex, Lies & Obsession (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: adultery, sex addict, infidelity, obsession, dishonesty, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, family relations, addiction, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
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Heart of Steel (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him in this depressing drama.
Plot: drinking problem, labor, blue collar, layoff, unemployment, house, union, drinking, truck, job, family relations, contamination ...
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Time Out (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story: An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, depressing, compassionate, stylized ...
Plot: unemployment, self discovery, greed, character study, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, dishonesty, down on your luck, family problems, husband wife relationship, swindle ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, switzerland, europe
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Subwave (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last ...
Plot: statutory rape, abuse, rape, son, fire, regret, trial, family crisis, dormitory, bare chested male, swimming pool, mother ...
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Seize the Day (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but ...
Style: depressing, independent film, realistic, bleak, semi serious ...
Plot: unemployment, hotel, marketing, startup, family relations, stock market, salesman, job seeking, stock exchange, literary, single parent, going straight ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, year 1956
Place: new york, usa
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Ten Benny (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of a young shoe salesman whose overestimation of his own sharpness leads to gambling debts, pissed-off loan sharks, and overall misery.
Style: independent film, contemplative, gloomy, realistic, serious ...
Plot: profanity, violent content, gangster, best friend, sexual content, friendship, dangerous animal, twentysomething life, down on your luck, gambling, working class, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new jersey
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The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
Plot: aids, gay, family relations, hiv, lgbt, terminal illness, mother daughter relationship, homosexuality, grandmother, reconciliation, lighthouse, brother sister relationship ...
Place: ireland
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style: touching, sentimental, sad, realistic, clever ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: courtroom, divorce, lawyer, marriage, custody battle, single father, father son relationship, family drama, courtroom drama, family relations, court, legal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: new york, california, usa, persia, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: middle aged, unhappy marriage, family life, parents and children, family relations, family problems, marital problem, middle aged man, middle aged woman, couples, nursing, kids and family ...
Time: 2010s
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Men Don't Tell (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.
Style: emotional, sad
Plot: domestic violence, abusive wife, abusive relationship, domestic abuse, abuse, men's rights, child abuse, victim, sexual abuse, mental health, husband wife relationship, woman hits a man ...
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Hurry Sundown (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: erotica, african american, farm, family relations, racism, interracial relations, small town, racial segregation, social relations, battles, parents and children, culture clash ...
Time: 1940s, year 1967
Place: georgia, usa, louisiana, southern usa
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All the Way Home (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Plot: single mother, widow, father son relationship, death of father, death, accident, husband wife relationship, uncle nephew relationship, love, loss of father, family relations, loss of husband ...
Time: 1910s
Place: tennessee
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Thursday's Child (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked ...
Plot: teenager, heart transplant, illness, father son relationship, doctor, family relations, heart disease
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Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this film tells of a plastic surgeon who was suspected of causing the death of his first wife, the daughter of a wealthy member of Houston society. The doctor then marries his mistress, whom he had been keeping during his ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
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Story: When 21-year-old Ashley Beck-Ford finds her biological mother, Sara Hillman, online, she is shocked and thrilled… But building a relationship with her long-lost mother proves to be more dangerous than Ashley could have ever imagined. Soon after ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense
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Genre: Drama
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
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Style: retro
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The Young Lovers (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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