Movies like Sea of Silence

If you like "Sea of Silence" you are looking for touching, serious and emotional movies about / with family life, village, youth, alcohol abuse, family relations, parents and children and farm themes of Drama and History genre shot in Netherlands or Belgium.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Sea of Silence (2003)
 6.6
 276
Sea of Silence (2003)
Original name: Verder dan de Maan
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 1969. Nine-year old Caro lives on a pig farm in a small town with her four other siblings and another on the way. She is curious and determined to understand the mysteries of the world around her. But her devout catholic father can't explain the new world and her mother is too busy for philosophy so she converses to God. One day at school she is horrified to learn that man will soon set foot on the moon. In her eyes it's not possible that God would allow anyone to get so close to Heaven. Her clowning father agrees and, unable to cope with modern-day progress, hits the bottle. Caro is preparing for her first holy communion to become 'a bride of God' but before that she seals a pact with her father to overcome her fear of swimming in exchange, he will not touch a drop of alcohol.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot: family life, village, youth, alcohol abuse, family relations, parents and children, farm, village life, coming of age, social relations, hopes, religions or cults, teacher, pregnancy, party, beach, church, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, swimming pool, little girl, bicycle, husband wife relationship, catholicism, crucifix ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: europe, holland
Keyword: french fries

Movie in categories

60s movies
60s
3140
village movies
3050
touching movies
11218
youth movies
12375
emotional movies
6204

Most similar movies to Sea of Silence

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, coming of age, society, hopes and family life mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like Sea of Silence: Love is the Word (2013), The Clay Bird (2002), Carol's Journey (2002), Pudana: Last of the Line (2010), Jewel (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Love is the Word (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, first love, love and romance, family relations, youth, first sexual experience, hopes, parents and children, village, teenager, age difference, teenage sex ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Clay Bird (2002)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: muslim, hopes, tradition, family relations, politics, village, estrangement, state affairs, coming of age, religions or cults, social relations, revolution ...
Time: 60s
Place: middle east, pakistan, bangladesh
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Carol's Journey (2002)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Carol, a 12 year old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot: spanish civil war, youth, coming of age, friendship, family relations, village, wartime life, human nature, parents and children, culture clash, single parent, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
Place: new york, spain, europe, usa, madrid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Pudana: Last of the Line (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign culture and new customs, Neko rebels and decides to flee, hoping to get back to her family and old ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: boarding school, fish out of water, social relations, family relations, parents and children, society, youth, culture clash, village life, bittersweet, girl, indigenous people ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Movie in collections
 6.4
 399
Jewel (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, family problems, family life, couples, social relations, couple relations, society, babies and infants, youth, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: mississippi, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Confetti Harvest (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dorsvloer vol Confetti tells the story of young Katelijne, who grows up in a religious family in the countryside in Zeeland. Based on the novel by Franca Treur.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, farm, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, society, village life, church, wedding, religion, rural setting ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: belgium, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
My Louisiana Sky (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: youth, self discovery, family life, family problems, society, parents and children, disability, small town life, child's point of view, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Life, Above All (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: child prostitution, poverty, little girl, human spirit, family relations, estrangement, social relations, family problems, hopes, social misfits, society, youth ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Movie in collections
The Last Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four good friends, all seventeen-year old, lose their innocence during their last summer together. Flanders 1996. Rik, Tim, Roel and Bart aimlessly wile away the summer days in a small village where nothing exciting ever happens. When Rik becomes ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, emotional
Plot: coming of age, teenage life, friendship, youth, intrigue, rivalry, domestic disturbance, buddies, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, summer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Silent Waters (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, poignant
Plot: islam, wartime life, family life, self discovery, politics, hopes, mother son relationship, small town life, haunted by the past, death in the family, family in crisis, culture clash ...
Time: 70s, 1940s, year 1979, year 1947
Place: pakistan, asia, india, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Paper Covers Rock (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Samantha is recovering from a suicide attempt and ready for a fresh start in life. She has to fight for the custody of her daughter.
Style: sincere, psychological, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot: parents and children, custody, mental illness, family life, hopes, starting over, family problems, family relations, mother daughter relationship, depressed woman, sister sister relationship, swimming pool ...
Time: 21st century
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.4
 234
Sisters (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: sisters, family relations, youth, introspection, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, siblings relations, single parent, self discovery, coming of age, obsessive quest ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: italy, lyon, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Groenten uit Balen (2011)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of the laborer family Debruycker during the turbulent strike by Vieille Montagne in 1971.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy
Plot: fighting the system, working class, labor union, parents and children, family life, human spirit, factory worker, workplace situations, life is a bitch, workplace, society, factory ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 186 min.
Story: The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, contemplative, spiritual ...
Plot: peasant, farm, countryside, village, family relations, clergy, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, hide and seek, parent child relationship, family problems ...
Time: 1900s, year 1978, 19th century, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 231 min.
Story: Follow-up to the TV trilogy "Heimat", this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, epic, stylized ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, emigration, society, parents and children, village life, diary, migrant, social problems, magic realism, social relations, youth ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2013
Place: brazil, germany, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, family problems, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, parent child relationship, sister sister relationship, youth, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on a short story by the acclaimed author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, comes a holiday story of family and forgiveness. Recently widowed Mary Bassett (Helene Joy) and her three children have hit difficult times on their farm. Suddenly, ...
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, period drama
Plot: thanksgiving, family problems, family relations, farm, youth, hopes, parents and children, teenage life, family life, loss of partner, christmas, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 1800s
Place: america, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Orheim Company (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, childhood, parenthood, parents and children, teenage life, haunted by the past, coming of age, youth, coping, orphan, criminality, mountain ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Movie in collections
 6.2
 351
Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.2
 474
Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: teenage life, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, love and romance, disgraced, single parent, youth, family life, friendship, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.5
 448
Waterproof (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Single mother Tyree Battle struggles to keep her young son Thaniel away from the gang-plagued city streets that he is mixed up in. Under severe gang pressure, Thaniel accidentally shoots Jewish shopkeeper Eli Zeal in a botched robbery attempt. ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, gang, homecoming, family problems, self discovery, aging, redemption, youth, single parent, going straight, heist, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
My Friend Victoria (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Aged eight, Victoria spends a night in the home of a wealthy white family; years later, she encounters them again and her life is changed forever.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot: interracial couple, adoption, family life, family relations, hopes, youth, society, rich and poor, parents and children, class differences, family reunited, orphan ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Secrets of the Heart (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: dog sex, coming of age, youth, boy, friends, village life, boyhood, trippy, friendship, village, aunt nephew relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 60s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Movie in collections
Cider with Rosie (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: village, coming of age, world war one, childhood, society, youth, friendship, village life, teenager, military police, anti war, girl ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Nobody Owns Me (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: working class, parents and children, life turned upside down, youth, family relations, single parent, disorder, family problems, dysfunctional family, children, addiction, parents ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.4
 242
To Life (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, auschwitz, human spirit, hopes, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, reunited friends, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Happiest Girl in the World (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Netherlands, France, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: youth, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, family life, family relations, moral dilemma, parents and children, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, small town, makeover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Sex of the Stars (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Every child who has lost a parent early in life (whether due to death or the separations of divorce or for any other reason) longs to see that parent again. Many have kept up a running dialogue in their heads of things they would say to them if they ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: lgbtq, family relations, transsexual, parents and children, transvestism, estrangement, unfulfillment, gender, society, coming of age, gays and lesbians, human nature ...
Time: 90s
Place: quebec, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
King of the Hill (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a ...
Style: touching, realistic, heartbreaking, serious, depressing ...
Plot: coming of age, hotel, childhood, dysfunctional family, against the odds, loneliness, child's point of view, children, family problems, parents and children, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Becoming Redwood (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A quirky coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy named Redwood who dreams that if he can beat Jack Nicklaus at the 1975 Master's of golf he'll reunite his parents.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot: youth, golf, coming of age, teenage life, life turned upside down, estrangement, daydreamer, family relations, parents and children, disorder, hopes, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie