Movies like The Homefront

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The Homefront (1998)
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The Homefront (1998)
Original name: Archibald the Rainbow Painter
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright works as a house painter. One family he paints a house for has a problem he can relate to: Elaine, a woman who hired him, left his husband J.P., also a Vietnam vet while he was in 'Nam, and J.P. became an alcoholic. Archibald tries to help their daughter Tory to maintain a connection with J.P., and Elaine is strongly against it.
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, alcoholic, family relations, vietnam veteran, waitress, house painter, commitment, alcoholism, parent child relationship, girlfriend, guitarist, teenage girl, post war, father daughter relationship, mansion, mother daughter relationship, ex soldier, republican, alcohol abuse, empire, inner city, vietnam war veteran
Place: los angeles, beverly hills

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and captivating films with plots about family relations, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, family problems, vietnam veteran, teenage girl and teenager mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Homefront: Love is Never Silent (1985), Eternal Salvation (2016), On the Nickel (1980), Family Pictures (2019), Sharing the Secret (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love is Never Silent (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds ...
Plot: deaf, family relations, deafness, sign language, parent child relationship, marriage, father daughter relationship, great depression, guilt, mother daughter relationship
Time: 1940s, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Eternal Salvation (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jonathan Wright has it all, a prestigious job, incredibly beautiful wife Amy, gorgeous 7-year-old daughter Megan and countless friends. In the prime of his life, Jonathan suffers a life threatening brain aneurysm that leaves him comatose. After ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: salvation, love, christian, friendship, filmmaking, family relations, best friend, father daughter relationship, friendship between men, friends, parent child relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
On the Nickel (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels ...
Style: independent film
Plot: friend, alcoholism, drunkenness, monologue, police, judge, friendship, homelessness, bum, street life, alcoholic, slum ...
Time: year 1980
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Family Pictures (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sylvie and Maggie are strangers living on opposite coasts, leading very similar lives with husbands that travel for work too much and daughters about to leave the nest. But when their daughters befriend each other on a college tour, they soon ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, serious, disturbing
Plot: family relations, family drama, family problems, alcohol abuse, love triangle, alcoholic mother, hippie, daughter, female alcoholic, alcoholic, family life, mother and daughter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Sharing the Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eating disorder, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, teenage daughter, bulimia, family relations, family life, parent child relationship, starvation, obsession, physical appearance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Coach of the Year (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An ex-football star, paralyzed from the waist down during Vietnam, accepts the challenge of coaching football in a juvenile reform school.
Plot: american football, vietnam war, coach, vietnam veteran, juvenile detention, wheelchair
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.
Audience: teens
Plot: drinking, recovery, alcoholism, substance abuse, babysitter, young adult, transformation, alcoholic, divorce, older man younger woman relationship, teen drinking, alcoholics anonymous ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Cease Fire (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Tim Murphy is a Vietnam Vet. When he loses his job he starts to relive all the pain and horror of his time in Vietnam. The stresses and strains nearly destroy his marriage and his family. Only after joining a veterans' therapy group does Tim ...
Style: independent film
Plot: vietnam war, love, nightmare, support group, vietnam veteran, ptsd, house, combat
Time: year 1985
Place: vietnam, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Shattered Spirits (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Martin Sheen plays an alcoholic father who loses his family.
Style: spiritual, contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: alcoholic, drinking, recovery, substance abuse, family relations, alcohol abuse, downfall, love and romance, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, family problems, couples ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Secret Life of Happy People (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Élevé par des parents parfaits dans une banlieue proprette, frère cadet d'une fille à qui tout réussit et flanqué d'un ami tombeur, le pauvre Thomas se sent bien ordinaire. Alors qu'il tente désespérément de terminer ses ...
Style: captivating
Plot: waitress, parent child relationship, father son relationship, relationships, family problems, male female relationship, family secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship problems, couple relations, family relations, changing lives ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 53
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 ...
Style: independent film
Plot: youth, family relations, milkman, lottery, drifter, brother sister relationship, farm, dysfunctional family, cow, abusive father, religion, dairy farm ...
Time: 90s
Place: wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Not My Kid (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. ...
Plot: group therapy, mother daughter relationship, illegal drugs, family conflict, family relations, drug rehab, lsd, helplessness, surgeon, frustration, drug addiction, drug addict ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 153
Hear No Evil (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A freak accident jolts 15 year-old Shelby Carson (Jahnee Wallace) from her peaceful world of silence and seclusion to the center of a world of chaos, confusion and imminent danger. As she struggles to cope with her new found circumstances, Shelby ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, emotional, sentimental, independent film
Plot: teenage life, life turned upside down, miraculous event, youth, family problems, mute or deaf, family in crisis, danger, misfit, school, healing, deaf ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Into Dad's Woods (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gina, 15, lives in a city on the edge of the forest. She admires her father, unpredictable and whimsical, able to take his children at night in the woods, even to forget them. Jimmy's more and more frequent skids end up alarming his wife ...
Style: captivating
Plot: mental illness, family relations, mental institution, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, relationships, family problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, love affair, parents and children, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.1
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Love Me (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old Maria is a troubled and lonely girl who falls in love with the grounded and patient Adam. He is the first boyfriend to treat her nicely, but Maria struggles with her past and the relationship with her dad, who left her when she was ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: parent child relationship, father daughter relationship, young couple, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, indecision, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, relationship problems, love story ...
Place: oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.5
 261
South Mountain (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When her teenagers head off to camp and her husband abruptly leaves her to begin a new family, Lila is left to her own curious and chaotic devices for a summer in her rural home in the Catskill mountains.
Style: melancholic, sincere, light, sentimental, disturbing ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, marital infidelity, adultery, father daughter relationship, marital separation, mother daughter relationship, family relations, love, friendship, couples, woman, waterfall ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Panic in Echo Park (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Style: tv series pilot
Plot: disaster, community, panic, race against time, urban, slum, medical, doctor, teenager, african american, cover up, hospital ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Captain Milkshake (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Marine on leave from Vietnam becomes involved with hippies, communes and drug-running.
Style: psychedelic, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: vietnam war, hippie, stoner, marine, vietnam veteran, lsd, cigar, army captain, morality, anti war, marijuana, drug ...
Time: 60s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 7.5
 397
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Bus Is Coming (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.
Style: black cinema
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, black, racial issues, african american, soldier, vietnam veteran, murder, police, harmonica, jukebox, small town ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly Hills, allegedly for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: courtroom, murder, family problems, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, courtroom drama, legal, life is a bitch, false accusation, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.9
 381
My Little Girl (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and tries to help them, but only gets herself into trouble with her parents and supervisor.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, homeless, poverty, white supremacy, racism, skepticism, teenage girl, 18 year old, rehabilitation center, homeless teenager, laundry, naivete ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Russell Girl (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Sarah Russell, a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student, visits her loving family to share some important news, but instead finds herself attempting to finally confront a difficult period from her past.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Audience: teen drama
Plot: female protagonist, father daughter relationship, getting home, ex boyfriend, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, relationships, family problems, confronting the past, family relations, christmas, accidental death ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The War at Home (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his ...
Style: anamorphic, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: thanksgiving, vietnam war, dysfunctional family, ptsd, family problems, autism, mental illness, problem, war trauma, aftermath, resentment, family relations ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Welcome Home (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An Air Force officer (Kris Kristofferson) returns to his father (Brian Keith), son and remarried wife (JoBeth Williams) in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, emotional, contemplative
Plot: vietnam war, vietnam veteran, grief, family relations, high school football, war veteran, power relations, hospital, military life, parents and children, anti war, captivity ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century
Place: vietnam, cambodia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Termini Station (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Termini Station is a Canadian made drama, released in 1989 and directed by Allan King. The film stars Colleen Dewhurst and Megan Follows as Molly and Micheline Dushane, a mother and daughter living in a small Northern Ontario town. Molly is an ...
Style: independent film
Plot: small town, drug addiction, alcoholism, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, poker, trailer park, prostitution, nipples visible through clothing, braless
Time: year 1989
Place: ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Foxes (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
Style: stylized, sexual, social, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, relationships, addiction, drug abuse, girl gang, sex, drug addiction, teen angst, hardcore, street kid ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Lady from Yesterday (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man (Rogers) with a wife (Bedelia) and two daughters and a flourishing career is visited by a woman (Chen) whom he had an affair with when he was in Vietnam. Who reveals to him that they have a son and that she wants him to take him (their son).
Plot: vietnam veteran, male female relationship, family relations, marriage, affair, past, secret, illegitimate son, father son relationship
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Style: sexy, poignant, realistic, depressing, black and white ...
Plot: addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, alcoholics anonymous, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, recovery, love, drinking, drunk, drug addiction, secretary ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place: san francisco, usa, texas, california, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 8.0
 99
Woh Chokri (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Woh Chokri (वह छोकरी) is a Hindi movie starring Pallavi Joshi, Neena Gupta, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and is directed by Subhankar Ghosh .
Style: art film
Plot: indian woman, alcoholism, family relations, school expulsion, murder, school, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, drunkenness, death, betrayal ...
Place: delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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