Movies like The Glass Menagerie 1966

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The Glass Menagerie (1966)
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The Glass Menagerie (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.
Plot: dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, domineering mother, absent parent, theatre play, merchant marine, family relations, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, mother son relationship, anxiety, overbearing mother

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and sincere films with plots about family relations, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, family problems, father son relationship and sibling relationship mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Glass Menagerie: What Hedwig Didn't Tell Us (1995), Shouting Secrets (2011), An Unexpected Life (1998), The Wind of Change (1961), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Glass Menagerie (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adaptation, brother sister relationship, aging, family in crisis, parents and children, family life, family problems, unfulfillment, domineering mother, cripple, mother ...
Time: year 1987, 1930s, 20th century, future
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Glass Menagerie (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "gentleman caller" appears, things move to crisis ...
Style: novela, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, single parent, family problems, introvert, loneliness, sad ending, literary, escapism, absent parent, absent husband, high school friend, past ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: missouri, usa, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
What Hedwig Didn't Tell Us (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A sad story about a young girl who is forced to move from one foster home to another.
Plot: children's home, mother daughter relationship, christmas, female protagonist, girl, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, child protagonist, family relations, 12 year old
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Shouting Secrets (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shouting Secrets is a hopeful and heartwarming, universal story taking place in a present day Native American family. It's a story that is at once about the constancy and the fragility of love, as well as the importance of family.
Style: realistic, sincere, captivating, serious, independent film ...
Plot: native american, getting home, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, family relations, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, indigenous people, native, american indian, indians, brother sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 ⇓
57%
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 ⇓
53%
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.
Style: southern gothic
Plot: gay, homosexual, american south, closeted gay, alcoholism, gay subtext, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, inheritance, dark secret, homosexuality, father in law daughter in law relationship ...
Place: southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Migrants (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Plot: labor, union, strike, poverty, family conflict, hardship, rural setting, farm hand, family relations, corruption, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Brotherly Love (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also ...
Plot: madness, love, psychiatric hospital, female nudity, mental illness, mental institution, farm, incest, brother sister relationship, sibling relationship, dance, shooting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Style: talky, tense, sincere, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: estate, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, plantation, frigidity, alcoholic, male homosexuality, estrangement, sexual dysfunction, family relations, family problems, couples ...
Place: usa, new orleans, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 267
Our Town (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
Plot: literary, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, wedding, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, small town, death, ghost, funeral, brother sister relationship, death in childbirth ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s
Place: new england, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Three Sisters (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most ...
Style: captivating
Plot: three sisters, sister sister relationship, family relations, relationships, coping, male female relationship, dream, sisters, life, sister, anton chekhov, dysfunctional family ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play.
Plot: drug addiction, actor, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, washed up star, tuberculosis, family relations, junkie, family tragedy, drug, alcoholism, essay ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
Style: sincere, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, family gatherings, holiday, family relations, estranged father, homecoming, sibling relationship, parents and children, brother sister relationship, xmas, siblings, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ireland, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The House of Bernarda Alba (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, ...
Plot: illicit affair, tragedy, authoritarianism, tradition, jealousy, suicide, mourning, death of husband, reputation, domineering mother, oppression, half sister ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
39%
 6.2
 350
Vacation (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that ...
Plot: children, marriage, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional family, summer, woods, family life, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, house, family relations
Place: east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
 6.1
 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 ⇓
36%
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 217
Lola (2024)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 19-year-old Lola James is trying to work to save enough money to get her beloved little brother, Arlo, out of their toxic home. Until one tragic night, when her whole world gets uprooted. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same.
Style: crying
Plot: stripper, mother daughter relationship, dog, singing, fired from the job, friendship, single mother, little boy, gay slur, male female relationship, family relations, mother daughter conflict ...
Time: year 2002
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Beyond Brotherhood (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Panama, USA, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two young siblings ended up living on the streets, having nothing left but their love. It's a story about survival, second chances and second falls, with an unexpected turn at the end.
Style: captivating, sincere
Plot: brother sister relationship, orphan, brother and sister, problem solving, family relations, male female relationship, brother, relationships, family problems, relationship problems, life, siblings ...
Place: panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Sound and the Fury (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, southern gothic, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, downfall, family problems, family in crisis, life is a bitch, family life, siblings, mental retardation, suicide ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: mississippi, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 309
Blue River (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Edward's father walked out on his family years ago. In the years since, his mother has become a fundamentalist Christian and fallen for the school's self-righteous principal, Henry Howland. When Howland begins to mistreat Edward's ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic
Plot: dysfunctional family, arson, sibling relationship, betrayal, youth, single parent, society, vengeance, coming of age, small town life, teenage life, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 8.2
 20
Cold Water (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This is the story of Alice Fuller (Amy Shelton-White) struggling to come to terms with her past in order to embrace her future. Shot almost entirely in and around Estes Park, Colorado, the film follows Alice as she is forced to spend one final week ...
Style: scenic, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family drama, mother daughter relationship, hiking, fight, wildlife, dealing with the past, acceptance, flashback, father daughter relationship, death, deer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
A Delicate Balance (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the quartet maintain a delicate ...
Style: independent film, tense, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, friendship, best friend, family problems, uninvited guest, couples, alcohol abuse, suburbs, family life, family in crisis, suburban life ...
Time: 70s
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, abusive husband, family problems, family relations, rape, redemption, unfulfillment, love and romance, obsession, infidelity, couples, human nature ...
Time: 50s
Place: new orleans, mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 430
Two for Joy (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Coming of age drama following a daughter, her mother and her wayward younger brother as their relationship reaches critical mass.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: depression, rebel, dysfunctional family, family relations, family life, male female relationship, relationships, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family problems, eccentric family, seaside ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.5
 239
The Shadow Box (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, love, marriage, letter, cancer, gay, homosexual, ex husband ex wife relationship, terminal illness ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.5
 73
Hard Sun (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the death of her parents, a young woman assumes primary guardianship of her special needs brother. But as she attempts to balance her new life with her brother and her own blossoming romance, it becomes painfully clear that life will only make ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, family in crisis, youth, dysfunctional family, family problems, brother sister relationship, autism, special needs, guardian, child care, sibling relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.1
 222
Lily Dale (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A precocious teenager abruptly altered family life. His brother, a young a little strange, returns home after years away and threatens to reveal a secret that could devastate the family.
Plot: train travel, 18 year old, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, malaria, salesman, theater, stepfather, wedding ring, fiance fiancee relationship, alienation, estrangement, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 1910s
Place: texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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