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The Three Madeleines (2000)
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The Three Madeleines (2000)
Original name: Les Fantômes des trois Madeleine
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Three women who share a familial bond but little more come to know each other better in this beautifully-photographed drama. Marie-Madeleine (Sylvie Drapeau) is a photographer in her mid-30s who, for the first time, has come into contact with Mado (France Arbour), her biological mother, who put her up for adoption shortly after she was born. Marie-Madeleine is to take a long road trip for a magazine assignment, and she invites Mado along. Joining the two women is Marie-Madeleine's daughter (Isadora Galwey), who has yet to meet her German father. The three women share their thoughts and ideas as they travel through an idyllic setting to photograph birds. Les Fantomes des Trois Madeleine was shown at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors Fortnight series.
Plot: island, photographer, dream, on the road, family relations, memory, adoption, mother daughter relationship, absent father, grandmother granddaughter relationship, illegitimate daughter, voice over narration, convertible

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and touching films with plots about family relations, mother daughter relationship, adoption, friendship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Three Madeleines: The Fishing Trip (1998), The Sleepy Time Gal (2001), An Unexpected Life (1998), Absolution (2006), It’s Only Make Believe (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fishing Trip (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In this moving drama, three young Canadian women embark upon a journey to face and lay to rest their painful pasts. Though Kirsti (Jhene Erwin) is twenty-one and living independently as a college student, she remains haunted by horrible memories of ...
Style: independent film
Plot: stepfather stepdaughter relationship, sister sister relationship, child abuse, mother daughter relationship, road trip, father son relationship, revenge, teenage girl, family relations, sexual assault, sexual abuse, memory ...
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95%
The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother.
Style: independent film
Plot: job, mother, american revolutionary war, journey, writers, search for mother, remorse, black american, mortality, selfishness, regret, memory ...
Time: year 1982
Place: san francisco, new york, pennsylvania, manhattan new york city
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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
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Absolution (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: For 10 years, a journalist has avoided visiting her small hometown. When news spreads about a comatose man healing people from his home, she is sent to investigate.
Plot: miraculous event, family relations, mother daughter relationship, sexual abuse, confession, first love, heart attack, rape, coma, reporter, religion
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It’s Only Make Believe (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After serving 10 years in prison for murder, Jenny returns to society. She wants to live a quiet life and resume her responsibilities as a mother, but soon shadows from the past start to appear.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, touching
Plot: prison, haunted by the past, starting over, family relations, murder, drug dealing, hopes, adoption, criminal heroes, strong female character, mother daughter relationship, coping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Supa Modo (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, Germany
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl is taken back to her rural village to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage ...
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Monologue (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. ...
Plot: family relations, teenager, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, scientist, loneliness, soviet
Time: 70s
Place: soviet union
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52%
Just Like the Son (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, foster home, boy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Lotus Eaters (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus ...
Style: independent film
Plot: extramarital affair, teenage pregnancy, teacher, pig, boat, mine, island, family relations, farmer
Time: year 1993, 60s, 1950s
Place: canada, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Second Best (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot: orphan, adoption, social worker, man boy relationship, single parent, absent father, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, hopes, family relations, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
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49%
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In Her Place (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.
Plot: teenage pregnancy, adoption, nudity, rural setting, summer, shame, countryside, sex scene, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, female nudity ...
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Tammy's Always Dying (2019)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 85 min.
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Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
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47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
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Endorphine (2015)
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Duration: 84 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: erotic
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43%
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Miss Sweden (2004)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, sexual
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
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41%
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Duration: 106 min.
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Duration: 100 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
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Confessions Among Actresses (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
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37%
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The Wound (1998)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 105 min.
Story: No overview found
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Time: 60s
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37%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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