Movies like Home 2008
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Home (2008)
5K
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) and Michel (Olivier Gourmet) live with their three children in a remote house next to an abandoned highway using it as an extension to their property. One day without warning, construction workers begin to upgrade the road and the highway becomes open to traffic. Their lives are forever changed.
Style:
realistic, captivating, stylized, semi serious, social, thought provoking, clever, offbeat, surreal, grotesque ...
Plot:
isolated house, parents and children, highway, car, fighting the system, house, traffic, family relations, family life, eccentric family, absurdism, life turned upside down, rebellion, society, privacy invasion, countryside, husband wife relationship, architecture, nudist, cat, teenage girl, nude girl, mother daughter relationship, summer vacation, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and captivating films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, coming of age, family problems, society and teenage life mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Home: My Son (2006), Bad Spelling (2004), Jack (2014), The Wonders (2014), Everyday (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
germany
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100%
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Country: Italy, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film centers around a young French widow and her two adolescent children attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930's. Their efforts are hampered each year ...
Style:
sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
nudity, corruption, dam, lack of money, landowner, social differences, righting the wronged, fighting the system, parents and children, interracial relations, teenage life, rich and poor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
cambodia, indochina, asia
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22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
22%
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Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
oedipus complex, love triangle, impossible love, single parent, sex in car, coitus, fondling, couples, family life, breakup, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sad, erotic, sensual, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
50%
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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682
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
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122K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Georgia, Germany, France
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
serious, thought provoking, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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17K
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, psychological, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
morocco, africa, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
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Place:
europe, france, usa, virginia, switzerland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, captivating, suspense, sentimental
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
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Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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279
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
coming of age, sexual awakening, youth, teenage life, teenage love, family relations, parents and children, bittersweet, teenage boy, teenage girl, nude young male, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
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473
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, entertaining, emotional, humorous, uplifting ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
boy, mental disorder, mysterious character, birthday, parents and children, family problems, eccentric family, isolation, religions or cults, youth, commune, promise ...
Time:
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Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
disorder, redemption, friendship, friends, introspection, family life, life turned upside down, family relations, immigrant, adoption, misfit, single parent ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe
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