Movies like Blessing

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Blessing (1994)
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Blessing (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set on a Wisconsin dairy farm, Randi, the daughter, is trying to find a way to escape the farm, but her devotion to her family especially Clovis her younger brother is preventing her from doing that; until, that is, she met the local milk truck driver.
Style: independent film
Plot: youth, religion, photographer, bunker, family relations, neighbor, farm, father daughter relationship, drifter, mother daughter relationship, lottery, dysfunctional family, cow, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, drunkenness, astrologer, cafe, husband wife relationship, waitress, twenty something, abusive father, milkman, dairy farm, drinking ...
Time: 90s, 1990s
Place: wisconsin

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Most similar movies to Blessing

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, brother sister relationship and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Blessing: Who Will Love My Children? (1983), Running Wild (1998), Shiba (1993), The Shunning (2011), Red Roses and Petrol (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Who Will Love My Children? (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on a true story of Iowa farm wife Lucile Fray. Ann-Margret plays a dying mother of ten whose last wish is to find loving families for her children.
Style: depressing
Plot: adoption, cancer, disease, youth, little boy, sacrifice, self sacrifice, death, father daughter relationship, orphan, last will and testament, farm ...
Place: iowa
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95%
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Running Wild (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A drama directed by Timothy Bond.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, family life, animal life, family relations, danger, obsessive quest, heroes, escapades, father daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, poaching, helicopter ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa
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86%
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Shiba (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with ...
Plot: hooker, rural setting, cultural difference, village, seaside, dice, brother sister relationship, family relations, prostitute, hotel manager, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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The Shunning (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, serious, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: amish, adoption, family relations, identity crisis, family problems, religions or cults, youth, hopes, dishonesty, self discovery, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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: sincere, captivating, touching, psychological, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, family reunited, secret, family conflict, family gatherings, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, husband wife relationship, brother sister relationship, family tragedy ...
Place: ireland, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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 2K
Tully (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, young lovers, womanizer, couples, family problems, youth, society, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000
Place: nebraska, england, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Down in the Delta (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also ...
Style: touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: slavery, black, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, women of color, african american, storytelling, drug addiction, solace, black girl, anti racism, racism ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: mississippi, chicago, indiana, usa, atlanta georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
An Unexpected Life (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sequel to "An Unexpected Family."
Plot: adoption, youth, orphan, family relations, aunt nephew relationship, custody, baby, mother daughter relationship, aunt niece relationship, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Perfect Gift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A spoiled schoolgirl, her overworked executive mother, and a disillusioned young minister each receives an uplifting message about friendship, commitment, and the truest meaning of Christmas from a friendly, but mysterious drifter.
Style: serious, realistic, christmas classics, christian film
Plot: christmas, youth, religion, spoiled brat, friendship, family relations, hopes, human spirit, high school, parents and children, clergy, christian ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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The City (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
Style: black and white, independent film, anthology, serious, realistic ...
Plot: immigrant, homeless, working class, culture clash, money, father daughter relationship, school, storytelling, poverty, photographer, boy, ethnicity ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
62%
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Country (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot: survival, family farm, farm, farmer, family relations, life is a bitch, couple relations, family business, against the odds, couples, crumbling marriage, human nature ...
Time: 80s
Place: iowa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Blinded by the Light (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: David Bowers is a teenager who runs away from home to join a quasi-religious cult. His sister Janet is determined to find him, but almost winds up getting brainwashed by the cult herself.
Plot: religion, teenager, parents, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, love, sacrifice, kidnapping, sect, salvation, brainwashing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Autumn Heart (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a school bus driving woman (Tyne Daly) has a heart attack, she makes one request of her three daughters (Ally Sheedy, Marla Sucharetza, Marceline Hugo) - she wants them to find their long lost brother, who was taken away by their father (Jack ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, autumn, estrangement, parent child relationship, couples, family problems, family life, family in crisis, rich and poor, parents and children, dysfunctional family, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston, england, usa, europe, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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All You Need (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
Style: realistic, semi serious, emotional, touching, talky
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, drunkenness, thanksgiving, social decay, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, family life, family gatherings, human nature, couple relations, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Beyond Honor (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by ...
Plot: female nudity, family relations, slaughterhouse, sex scene, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, drinking, smoking, violence
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Father's Choice (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere
Plot: horse, youth, parents and children, family life, teenage life, family relations, family problems, love and romance, single parent, dysfunctional family, estrangement, farm ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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A Family Upside Down (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Plot: mature, aging, retirement home, family relations, picnic, mother daughter relationship, death, doctor, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, dying, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of... something else. Encouraged by her best friend, Carol, Beth reluctantly accepts the romantic ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, clever, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, friends, small town, drinking, stoner, road trip, highway, salesman, self discovery, desert, friendship, deaf man ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: arizona, usa, las vegas, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Wind of Change (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 64 min.
Story: Taking its title from Harold Macmillan's widely-reported Cape Town speech about the process of decolonisation in Africa, The Wind of Change showed the other side of the coin: the impact of colonial immigration at 'home'. The film ...
Style: noir, independent film, vintage
Plot: race riot, racist, brother sister relationship, racial violence, generation gap, dysfunctional family, racism, working class family, knife fight, working class, prejudice, juvenile delinquency ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Prodigal (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.
Style: christian film, independent film
Plot: religion, faith, assault, student, lecture, father son relationship, criminal, book, drunkenness, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, prodigal son ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Memory in My Heart (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-TV drama as Rebecca Blake, a bookstore employee who lives contently in San Pedro, California with her construction-worker husband Joe (A Martinez). A chance meeting with a woman named Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, emotional
Plot: memory loss, small town, strong female presence, couple relations, uncover truth, disorder, family relations, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, parents and children, recurring nightmare, father son relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Children of Love (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shows us a weekend in the life of a family torn by disputes and disappointments.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Plot: youth, family relations, custody, starting over, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, child custody, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels, europe, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Ritual (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A young man drops out of college to fix his family when he senses something is terribly wrong at home.
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, youth, crumbling marriage, domestic disturbance, life is a bitch, redemption, family life, curses spells and rituals, social decay, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: malibu california, bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style: christian film, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friendship, bittersweet, self discovery, restaurant, solitude, hospital, storytelling, death, food, christian, abortion ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
42%
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Virgina (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: "Virgina" tells a tale from the end of the 19th century. It took place in a isolated village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families without male heirs are cursed. When the ...
Plot: boy, patriarchy, sister sister relationship, teenage girl, neighbor, husband wife relationship, lie, curse, superstition, village, religion, poverty ...
Time: 19th century
Place: balkan, serbia, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Take Me to the River (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A naive California teen plans to remain above the fray at his Nebraskan family reunion, but a strange encounter places him at the center of a long-buried family secret.
Style: ambiguous ending, psychological, suspenseful, sincere, touching ...
Plot: river, child abuse, family secret, injustice, suspicion, children, cousin cousin relationship, summer, farm, child sexual abuse, lgbt, precocious child ...
Place: nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Passover Fever (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Part funny part sad movie about a family Passover dinner.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: israeli, twins, family relations, single parent, dealing with death, nanny, eating disorder, family problems, couples, family gatherings, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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