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A Sort of Family (2017)
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Original name: Una especie de familia
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Poland, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
What limits does Malena cross to get what she wants most? Malena is a 38 year old middle class doctor from Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives the call from Doctor Costas, who informs her that she must travel immediately to the north of the country: the baby she was waiting for is about to be born. Unexpectedly Malena decides to embark on an uncertain journey, full of crossroads, facing all kinds of legal and moral obstacles that will make her constantly wondering how far she is ready to go.
Style:
road movie, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate, art house, complex
Plot:
childbirth, adoption, money, corruption, travel, police, doctor, judge, baby, birth, pregnant woman, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, moral dilemma, arrest, police arrest, birth mother, injustice, social injustice, cat, pregnancy, swimming pool, corrupt cop, telephone call, dirty cop ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to A Sort of Family
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspenseful, suspense and tense films with plots about police, corruption, pregnancy, investigation, husband wife relationship, female nudity and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like A Sort of Family: Diane Has the Right Shape (2017), Orphan (2016), The Substitute (2022), Lost & Found (2022), Eye for an Eye (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Diane doesn't hesitate for a moment when her best friends, Thomas and Jacques, ask her to be their surrogate mother. It is in these hardly ideal circumstances that she becomes infatuated with Fabrizio.
Style:
exciting, sincere, captivating, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
childbirth, surrogate mother, gay, swimming pool, gay couple, pregnant woman, female protagonist, doctor, newborn, pregnancy, newborn baby, baby ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young woman who moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. The grown-up at last, an accomplished woman, who thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, non-linear ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
violence against women, teenage girl, female protagonist, prison, missing child, dark past, graphic violence, father daughter relationship, police, gambling debt, police arrest, orphan ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s
Place:
france, romania
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, Mexico, Italy, France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Lucio, a prestigious university professor, takes the position of substitute teacher at a high school in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, where he grew up. Through tales, novels and poetry, he tries to distract his class from the harsh reality of their ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
school, teacher, high school, poetry, substitute teacher, school teacher, apprentice, threat, drug lord, drug crime, education, gang violence ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mario, a worker in "lost and found" department, finds a suitcase with a dead baby inside.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, tense, captivating
Plot:
private investigator, investigation, murder investigation, puzzle, crime investigation, male protagonist, crime solving, slave trade, sleuth, undercover, criminal, human trafficking ...
Place:
south america, argentina, spain
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, drug dealing, drug dealer, murder, police raid, prison, doctor, lawyer, police, danger, organized crime, betrayal ...
Place:
galicia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband Eddie's flourishing drug business. When his dealing takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
police, runaway, family relations, husband wife relationship, drug dealer, murderer, family problems, marital problem, crime boss, drug dealing, marriage crisis, marital discord ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Qatar, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mariam just wanted to enjoy the night, when a tragic event occurs. Despite the trauma, the pretty tunisian student is determined to go to the police. But what can be done when your persecutor is your only chance?
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
sexualized violence, police station, police brutality, party, police, female protagonist, student, policewoman, violence against women, woman, women, muslim ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
tunisia, middle east, maghreb
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, France, Armenia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When a factory is bound to close, a group of workers decides to take action against the owner.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, art house, psychological
Plot:
problem solving, hostage, social injustice, social problems, class conflict, uncover truth, conflict, injustice, eccentricity, acquittal, capitalism, workplace problem ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A film based on a book by Jaroslav Kmenta tells the story of a mafioso who got rich by tax fraud of billions of crowns in transactions with petroleum products and who later tried to gain control of the state-owned petroleum concern. The main ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing, detective
Plot:
gangster, father son relationship, prison, police, murder, judge, lawyer, trial, assault, money, death, organized crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, prague, czech republic
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A husband and wife struggle with their consciences after they try to conceal a terrible crime committed by their teenage daughter.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
divorced parents, destroying evidence, ex husband ex wife relationship, murder mystery, dysfunctional family, parents and children, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, family relations, murder, hidden corpse, father daughter relationship ...
Similarity:
20%
645
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, Lithuania, Ireland, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young Oksana puts her newly born Denis in a baby box. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children's home, intent on making amends for her maternal neglect, and to exploit him to earn money in a corrupt legal system.
Style:
disturbing, melancholic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
mother son relationship, corruption, blackmail, lie, young man, extortion, criminal, bandit, organized crime, escapades, abandoned baby, doctor ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Over the course of one fateful day, a corrupt businessman and his socialite wife race to save their daughter from a notorious crime lord.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, f word
Plot:
corrupt businessman, kidnapped daughter, criminal, husband wife relationship, race against time, kidnapped child, child abduction, saving a life, kidnapped girl, kidnapping, problem, political corruption ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A struggling lawyer files a PIL in a hit-and-run case involving a business scion's son hoping that the resulting publicity would be good for his business.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
lawyer, fight for justice, attorney, courtroom drama, social injustice, courtroom, underdog, justice, hit and run, injustice, legal system, city ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A common man who represents his society, gets tired of the illegal activities happening around him and decides to take law into his own hands by punishing the wrong-doers!
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
fight for justice, social injustice, social justice, corruption, vigilante, justice, middle class, fighting the system, fight, class struggle, social issues, social problems ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
india
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corruption, society, murder, friendship, danger, escapades, rivalry, small town, police, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2012, year 2002
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Manuel is a crooked politician who enjoys the lifestyle that kickbacks afford. He eats at fancy restaurants, parties with his friends on yachts, and provides a very luxurious lifestyle for his family. Manuel brazenly bribes, extorts, and pays off ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, political thriller
Plot:
corruption, treason, politician, corrupt politician, politics, journalist, arrest, husband wife relationship, deception, evidence, police, party ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, china, canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, thinking, controversial ...
Plot:
prison, communism, false accusation, anti communist, cell, humiliation, hopelessness, forced confession, injustice, society, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time:
1950s, post world war two, year 1982, 80s
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When the daughter of a powerful senator is kidnapped by a psychopath, the senator requests a particular homicide detective, Caitlyn Conner, to head up the case. She knows the kidnapper better than anyone else - he just killed her husband. Against ...
Style:
scary, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, female protagonist, policewoman, police officer killed, kidnapping, police protagonist, psychiatrist, investigation, kidnapped girl, cemetery, police department ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An accountant is found restrained inside a mansion, and she agrees to testify against her employer, who is the head of a massive scam against the Filipino people.
Style:
political thriller, crime drama, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, whistleblower, investigative journalism, government corruption, female protagonist, cover up, scam, testimony, investigation, social injustice, scandal, money laundering ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
18%
48K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young pregnant woman named Mia escapes from a country at war by hiding in a maritime container aboard a cargo ship. After a violent storm, Mia gives birth to the child while lost at sea, where she must fight to survive.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, absurd ...
Plot:
pregnancy, lost at sea, lost, blood, survival, escape, sea, storm at sea, fleeing, runaway, pregnant woman, violence ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
father son relationship, money, murder, police, heist, drug dealer, family relations, heroes, going straight, chase, violence, society ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
17%
274
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Ana, a young compliance manager, discovers unusually high bills among her company's records, she can't imagine what an avalanche her research will set off. Not only does she cross paths with an aging small-time crook and a Viennese ...
Style:
tense, suspense, crime thriller, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, money laundering, money problems, bandit, criminal gang, con artists, gangster, crime investigation, cons and scams, criminal, gang, organized crime ...
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. ...
Style:
intense, suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
police, police corruption, police investigation, corruption, organized crime, murder, investigation, conspiracy, cop, moral dilemma, american football, nypd ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, washington d.c., bronx new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
17%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Ordinary young couple Gemma and Richard have just bought their first home and are expecting a baby. It's all very exciting, and the couple settles in nicely to their new pad. Except for the screaming and shouting they hear at all times of the ...
Style:
captivating, serious, psychological, realistic, mockumentary
Plot:
young couple, child abuse, noisy neighbor, husband wife relationship, found footage, suspicion, neighbor, trespassing, new house, police, obsession, investigation ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, minimal cast, exciting, enigmatic ...
Plot:
nordic, police vigilantism, plot twist, police, telephone call, race against time, guilt, kidnapping, mission, police officer, revelation, saving a life ...
Time:
2010s, future
Similarity:
17%
949
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Qatar, Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the ...
Plot:
women's rights, family drama, bureaucracy, moral dilemma, social realism, shame, teenage pregnancy, guilt, identity crisis, girl, pregnant woman, birth ...
Place:
morocco
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A couple expecting their first child discover an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below them who are also having a baby.
Style:
suspense, scary, psychological horror, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, baby, pregnant woman, mother daughter conflict, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, name calling, dinner, relationships, pregnant wife, relationship problems, family problems ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspenseful, serious, clever, art house ...
Plot:
murder, social relations, social differences, female psychopath, secrets, psychology, manipulation, master and servant, society, village life, village, mental disorder ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
france, los angeles, usa, brittany
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call. He helps them install the security system, and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends a lot of time discussing the ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, neo noir, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
obsession, stalking, home invasion, vengeance, suburbs, police officer, voyeurism, psychopath, violence, police investigation, hostage, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young agent is tasked with investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in New York.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
wall street, banking, hacker, mafia, finance, money, cryptocurrency, criminal underworld, corruption, computer, geek, conspiracy ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
17%
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