Movies like Going Home 1971

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Going Home (1971)
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Going Home (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After doing 13 years in prison for the murder of his wife, mechanic Harry Graham is out on parole and looking to rebuild his life in a small seaside community. He settles into a trailer park and finds both a job and a girlfriend. But things get difficult for Harry when his estranged son, Jimmy, shows up. He witnessed his mother's murder as a child and, after years spent in foster homes, has come looking for revenge.
Style: neo noir
Audience: teen drama
Plot: revenge, murder, girlfriend, son, trailer park, father son relationship, wife, mechanic, witness, rape, father, family relations, bowling, bachelor party, getting home, motor home, marriage proposal, resentment, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rape victim, fistfight, trailer home, homecoming, confrontation, parole ...
Time: year 1971
Place: pennsylvania, new jersey

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, psychological and serious films with plots about father son relationship, family relations, father, bare chested male, family problems, parents and children and murder mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like Going Home: Summertree (1971), White Lie (1991), The Festival of Troubadours (2022), Your Son (2018), Subwave (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Summertree (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: vietnam war, age-gap relationship, college, dying man, father son relationship, musician, older woman younger man relationship, college dropout, battles, military life, parents and children, anti war ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: vietnam, canada
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White Lie (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.
Style: tension, reflective
Plot: blaxploitation, interracial relations, revenge, love, doctor, rape, murder, african american, father, death, black man, racial issues ...
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78%
The Festival of Troubadours (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An unexpected reunion between a traveling musician and his son opens old wounds as the two set out on a long journey to a troubadour festival.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, road movie
Plot: father son relationship, father son reunion, son, relationship problems, family relations, family reunited, self discovery, dysfunctional family, kids and family, father, illness, parents and children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.1
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Your Son (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story has a father as protagonist will always do what he believes best for his family: the life of Dr. Jaime Jiménez collapses when his 17 year old son is left in a vegetative state due to a beating he receives at the exit of a nightclub . ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot: revenge, rape, father son relationship, vigilante, doctor, medicine, blackmail, running, vigilantism, family relations, justice, society ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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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62%
The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jesse Hallum sells the family farm to see that his daughter receives the medical care she needs at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. The big city challenges him, though, especially when his illiteracy is exposed.
Style: semi serious, realistic, learning
Plot: family relations, family problems, human spirit, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, society, city life, dysfunctional family, countryside, family life, urban ...
Time: 80s
Place: ohio, kentucky, usa, cincinnati ohio
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61%
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Silent Witness (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The marriage of a young working-class woman is jeopardized when she witnesses her brother-in-law's participation in a gang rape of an intoxicated woman in a neighborhood bar.
Plot: family conflict, rape, love, fear, family relations, rapist, trial, brother in law, testimony, rape victim, courtroom, gang rape ...
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54%
Just Be There (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mitchell, a Vietnam veteran, returns home to Minneapolis with his girlfriend Kathy and intends to write a novel about his war experiences, but is pushed by his overbearing father into a job selling pork bellies at a commodities firm. Quickly ...
Plot: broker, country club, confrontation, homecoming, motorcycle, skinny dipping, father son relationship, aspiring writer, marriage proposal, police, vietnam veteran, letter ...
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53%
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No Place Like Home (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two ...
Style: inspirational, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: homeless shelter, coming of age, poverty, homelessness, unemployment, homeless, youth, family relations, homeless woman, homeless man, daughter, children ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.0
 98K
Sling Blade (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside ...
Style: independent film, southern gothic, neo noir, serious, bleak ...
Audience: manly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: small town, dysfunctional family, friendship, murder, mental institution, redneck, redemption, death threat, father figure, disability, mental illness, domestic violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: arkansas, usa
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49%
Baby Blue Marine (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A ...
Style: uplifting, captivating, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: basic training, military, military training, mistaken identity, world war two, marine, battles, disorder, social relations, dull life, power relations, cons and scams ...
Time: 1940s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: colorado, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.4
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The Son (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: mental health, divorced parents, family conflict, father, teen angst, depression, suicide, couple relations, father and son, love story, ex couple relations, family relations ...
Place: washington d.c., new york
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46%
Relative Stranger (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, psychological, serious ...
Plot: family relations, rivalry, redemption, death in the family, sport team, athlete's life, estrangement, father son relationship, last will and testament, getting home, african american, american football ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.7
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Cape Fear (1962)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspense, disturbing, black and white ...
Plot: psychopath, stalking, revenge, lawyer, danger, obsession, serial killer, family in danger, villain, justice, vigilante, psychology ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
End of the Line (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story: Andrew has been in hiding ever since his mob boss father, killed his mother. Once his father gains word of his whereabouts he must make a decision to run, or finally confront his father.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, captivating
Plot: hiding, hitman, mafia, chase, murder, henchman, father son relationship, confronting the past, death of mother, girlfriend, flashback, mob ...
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42%
A Father's Legacy (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: father, father son relationship, hostage, family secret, estranged father, family problems, parents and children, change of luck, family relations, search for father, father and son, absent father
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Hamlet (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story: A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
Plot: shakespeare, murder, incest, fratricide, dysfunctional family, duel, skull, insanity, haunted by the past, castle, brother sister relationship, tragedy ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Glass Chin (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a ...
Style: neo noir, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological
Plot: boxer, murder, restaurant, boxing, revenge, danger, rivalry, buddhism, restaurateur, bare chested male, christmas
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, love triangle, friendship, fall in love, human nature, society, youth, family relations, working class, teenager, betrayal ...
Time: 80s
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Little Boy Blue (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: incest, sexual abuse, missing person, dysfunctional family, murder, forced sex, parents and children, older woman younger man relationship, haunted by the past, family problems, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, asia, usa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Love Machine (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.
Plot: showbiz, news anchor, female nudity, job promotion, wife, bare chested male, twin sister, narcissist, mansion, brawl, cheating wife, party ...
Time: year 1971
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38%
A Mother's Justice (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young girl named Debbie is attacked by a bus stop one evening and is blindfolded and raped. Her mother, Lila, who is consumed with guilt is determined to catch the rapist...
Plot: revenge, rape, obsession, mother daughter relationship, guilt, rape and revenge, rapist, victim, rape victim, bait
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38%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and ...
Plot: troubled teen, rape, voice over narration, assault, bicycle, student, teacher, teenage girl, school, female protagonist, marriage proposal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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36%
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37 (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On a March night in 1964, 37 neighbors in Queens, New York, witness the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese. None of them takes action or calls the police. 37 tells the story of a few of these people and what led up to the night when they unexplainably ...
Style: sad, independent film
Plot: feminist, woman, rape, murder, apathy, racism, loss of innocence, indifference, witness
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Caught Between the Two (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Caught Between the Two A very successful black woman named Taliyah finds out that she is in control of everything in her life except one thing. Just when Taliyah thinks her life is in the perfect place she happens to get an unexpected surprise that ...
Style: independent film, amateur film
Plot: girlfriend, nightclub, bare chested male
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 2K
Sam & Kate (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bill is an ailing larger-than-life father being taken care of by his son Sam, who has returned home to care for him. While home, Sam falls for a local woman, Kate. At the same time, Bill starts to fall for her mom, Tina.
Style: humorous, captivating, exciting, entertaining, light ...
Plot: hometown, homecoming, love, son, sick father, father son relationship, getting home, comeback, parent child relationship, father, relatives, father son reunion ...
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35%
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Dad's Home (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ben Westman is a widowed father who has to take care of his two young children, Lindsay of twelve, and little Dylan of eight. Things get complicated when he is fired. Now, all three must remain together and try to overcome the situation in which ...
Style: touching, captivating, psychological, unusual plot structure
Plot: single father, family relations, father son relationship, single parent, boy, uncle nephew relationship, brother brother relationship, parents and children, kids and family, parenthood, father and son, fatherhood ...
Place: cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Pontiac Moon (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An absent-minded-professor father and his son take off in an old Pontiac to bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.S. This while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, offbeat
Audience: family outing
Plot: road trip, on the road, youth, family relations, self discovery, moon landing, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, fear, redneck, pontiac, family problems ...
Time: year 1994, 60s, year 1969
Place: idaho, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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