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The Police Officer's Wife (2013)
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Original name: Die Frau des Polizisten
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one another as they discover the new town. It is only a matter of time before the conflicts within the family manifest themselves.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
couple relations, accident, family problems, family relations, couples, parents and children, small town, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, police officer, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence, female nudity, father daughter relationship, nude, pubic hair, female full frontal nudity, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and sincere films with plots about family relations, family problems, couples, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage and parents and children mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Police Officer's Wife: Prague (2006), A Quiet Little Marriage (2008), Open Window (2006), My Friend & His Wife (2006), Life in a Fishbowl (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Christoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father, evolves into the story of a brake-up. With the dead father lurking in the background, secrets gradually emerge threatening to destroy their marriage.
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
marriage, love, infidelity, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, resentment, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, unfulfillment, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
czech republic, denmark, europe, central europe, prague
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, pregnancy, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, marriage, love, rivalry, realism, compromise ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, rape, female nudity, introspection, family problems, couples, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, couple relations, haunted by the past, family in crisis, flashback ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two young men, Ye-joon and Jae-moon, have been close friends since doing military service together. Ye-joon has lately worked his way up to becoming a successful financier, while the unambitious Jae-moon has opted for a much less conspicuous route. ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, unfulfillment, businessman, family problems, couples, parents and children, crumbling marriage, best friend, tragedy, love triangle, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
family in crisis, prostitute, estrangement, single parent, relationship vs career, family problems, haunted by the past, writer's life, crumbling marriage, alcohol abuse, couples, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, iceland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story is one of an architect that has lost his inspiration and goes looking for those motivations that pushed him as a youngster to take up the profession. Inspiring him was the baroque movement and all of its artifices: the Guarini in Turin and ...
Style:
sexy, serious, stylized, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
couple relations, introspection, follow your dream, hopes, human nature, family problems, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, illness, architect ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
hospital, family relations, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, male nudity, suffering, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.
Style:
erotic, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
incest, mother son relationship, mother son incest, mother son estrangement, sex with mother, incestuous sex, ballerina, incestuous relationship, incestuous desire, forbidden sex, taboo sex, mother son reunion ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, realistic, bleak
Plot:
abusive husband, marital rape, abusive relationship, best friend, pregnancy, family relations, fall in love, couples, family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
193
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female pubic hair, bullfighting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, West Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Anna is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents ...
Style:
art house, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, on the road, women, feminist, female nudity, existential loneliness, nude girl, filmmaking, modernism, lgbtq, woman, woman peeing ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
france, brussels, germany, belgium, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, tear jerker, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
infidelity, couple relations, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, marriage, empathy, society, journey, rivalry, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The night before Jack (Gil Bellows) is slated to begin a five-year prison sentence for murder, his wife, Melanie (Jennifer Beals), and assorted siblings gather for a dinner to bid Jack farewell and good luck on his trip up the river. But the party ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, couple relations, family secret, sibling rivalry, family drama, conflict, parents and children, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
169
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nutsa, a young mother, lives with her two children in a suburbs of Tblissi in Georgia. Her partner Goga is in prison. They get married, so she gains the right to talk to him once a month in the visiting room on the other side of the glass. The ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, couple relations, family relations, prison life, crumbling marriage, parents and children, couples, life is a bitch, family problems, motherhood, female protagonist, social realism ...
Time:
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Place:
georgia, tbilisi, caucasus, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and because she feels she has someone to love; someone who can love her in return. Everything changes when ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, teenage life, immaturity, family problems, couples, babies and infants, hopes, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, youth, mother child relationship, birth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
unfaithful husband, family relations, couple relations, family problems, couples, family in crisis, siblings relations, human nature, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, painter, marriage crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.
Style:
psychological, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
clinic, parent child relationship, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, power relations, family relations, doctors and patients, parents and children, therapy, mother daughter relationship, mother ...
Time:
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Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, breakup, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, sister, death in the family, sister sister relationship, female nudity, alienation, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
sex scene, dominant woman, marriage, family problems, couples, police officer, conflict, unsupportive spouse, love, family relations, society, sex with friend's wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
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Style:
saga, realistic, costume drama, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family business, fall in love, workplace, society, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, victorian england, rivalry, impossible love, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
cyclist, life is a bitch, couple relations, hopes, disability, parents and children, human nature, misfit, human spirit, redemption, family relations, new love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
22%
129
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
couples, family problems, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, destiny, hopes, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, hopes, siblings relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
184
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in Germany. Back with his family, friends, and ex-comrades, including his former lover Inga, Jens’ ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot:
family relations, haunted by the past, friendship, parents and children, couple relations, life turned upside down, under the surface, dishonesty, betrayal, couples, terrorism, state terrorism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family business, parents and children, follow your dream, couples, workplace, couple relations, family problems, cooking and food, hopes, father daughter relationship, death, food ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, usa, europe, new york, scandinavia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A couple in a failing marriage begin to cheat on each other using the power of the internet.
Style:
realistic, sexy, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
cheating wife, couple relations, infidelity, couples, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love and romance, crumbling marriage, sexual relations, affair, illicit affair, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
664
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
estrangement, human nature, extramarital affair, adultery, family life, coming of age, farm, love and romance, unfulfillment, cheating wife, deaf, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, car accident, family secret, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
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19%
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