Movies like Columbus
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Columbus (2017)
19K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, sentimental, philosophical, sweet, experimental, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Plot:
father son relationship, architecture, mother daughter relationship, relationships, coma, korean american, small town, friendship, family relations, family life, life is a bitch, male female relationship, social problems, family problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, love, new year, winter, women, death, hospital, best friends, korean, library ...
Time:
2010s, year 1954, year 1950, year 2008
Place:
indiana, midwest
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sincere, serious, touching and realistic films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, food, father son relationship, friendship, telephone call and death mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Columbus: Minari (2020), The Florida Project (2017), Wildlife (2018), New Life (2016), Miss Juneteenth (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A Korean-American family moves to Arkansas in search of their own American Dream. With the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother, the stability of their relationships is challenged even more in this new life in the ...
Style:
sad, captivating, sincere, relaxing, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
korean american, countryside, grandmother grandson relationship, husband wife relationship, american dream, friendship, farmer, korean, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family relations, coming of age, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
arkansas
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Style:
touching, captivating, sincere, aesthetic, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
children, mother daughter relationship, friendship, poverty, eviction, motel, social services, little girl, summer, childhood, female friendship, single mother ...
Time:
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Place:
florida, orlando florida
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30K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of ...
Style:
melancholic, suspenseful, serious, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
unemployment, coming of age, bus, teenage boy, infidelity, parents and children, fired from the job, family relations, marital separation, unemployed, father son relationship, loss of job ...
Time:
60s, year 1960
Place:
montana, portland oregon, idaho, washington state
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19%
931
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Benjamin Morton's life changed forever the day he met the little girl next door. Ava was and always would be the girl of his dreams. From the innocence of a childhood friendship, through adolescent attraction, their love strengthens and grows. ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, sincere, rough, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cancer, car accident, relationships, childhood friend, french girl, best friends in love, couples, friendship, tragic event, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
cheerleader, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, overprotective mother, daughter, freedom, beauty queen, breakup, money problems, american dream, single mother, talent show ...
Time:
year 1865, year 2004, year 2019
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, family problems, estrangement, elderly, gender, love and romance, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california, miami, los angeles
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
relationships, terminal illness, dying, reconciliation, house, divorce, father son relationship, suburbs, redemption, illness, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
Place:
california, usa
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, starting over, small town life, love and romance, couple relations, brother brother relationship, suburbs, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, single parent ...
Place:
florida, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job - he is a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, free and true to life, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, filmmaking, family problems, life is a bitch, showbiz, couple relations, family life, husband wife relationship, parents and children, children, relationship problems ...
Place:
paris france, europe, france, italy, sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the ...
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, terminal illness, family problems, couples, gays and lesbians, human nature, life is a bitch, gender, euthanasia, aids, unfulfillment, couple relations ...
Place:
new york, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
euthanasia, dying man, family relations, meaning of life, life & death, family problems, death of mother, dark secret, doubts and hesitations, problem solving, health situation, life philosophy ...
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17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
On a summer break from college, Ivy, a young epileptic woman, struggles to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al crashes with her for the season.
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, realistic, mumblecore
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
looking for love, lovers apart, disability, youth, young lovers, introspection, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, coming of age, friends, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, party ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
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17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, bleak, meditative, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
philosophy, infidelity, multiple storylines, adultery, destiny, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction, parents and children, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greece
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17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angeles.
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, inspirational, funny ...
Plot:
uncle nephew relationship, travel, nephew, family relations, child protagonist, boyhood, road trip, radio announcer, relationships, child, boy, coming of age ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york, new orleans, los angeles, oakland california, venice beach california ...
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17%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to ...
Style:
psychological, depressing, philosophical, compassionate, disturbing ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, guilt, loneliness, family relations, suspense, coma, family life, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Films like The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style:
emotional, talky, intense, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, women, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, couple relations, human nature, love and romance ...
Place:
new jersey, los angeles
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17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style:
sad, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, promise, friendship, terminal illness, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, new life, addiction, gay, cancer, self destructing ...
Time:
year 1983, year 2000, year 2013
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, mexico
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17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Style:
thought provoking
Plot:
korean american, korean, airport, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, adoption, deportation, tattoo, east asian lead, man hits a man, tattoo on face, death ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1981, year 1945, year 2006, year 2009 ...
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly ...
Style:
serious, psychological, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, self discovery, couple relations, society, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, gay interest, birth mother, hiv positive, sea turtle ...
Time:
90s, 60s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2000 ...
Place:
north carolina, appalachia, usa
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17%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style:
talky, intense, stylized, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
abusive husband, starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, couple relations, human nature, parents and children, love affair, life is a bitch, self discovery, couples ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, new york state, haiti ...
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17%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
J.R. is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, feel good ...
Plot:
uncle nephew relationship, writers, bartender, drunken man, family relations, boy, adult child friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, bar owner, family life, social issues, social problems ...
Time:
year 1973, year 1986
Place:
long island, manhattan new york city, connecticut, north carolina, yale university ...
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17%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, lyrical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, self discovery, teenage rape, suicide, bullying, teenager, existentialism, introspection, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, society, grandparent and grandchild ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
korea, japan, asia, south korea
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16%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members together. All the while they are under the microscope of an American researcher documenting their recovery process.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, recovery, family problems, couples, love and romance, opposites attract, family in crisis, doctors and patients, bittersweet, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Style:
rough, melancholic, thought provoking, captivating
Plot:
old woman, drug addiction, friendship, memory, family relations, depression, religion, church, nurse, husband wife relationship, death, dying ...
Place:
usa
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16%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Henry Thomas is out on parole in a small Texan town and, in the evenings, he is the lead singer in a band. He is being pressured by his foster mother to give up his singing and go back to school. His wife, Georgette, and young daughter unexpectedly ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
homecoming, parole, marriage, singer, convict, small town, graphic violence, couples, estrangement, family relations, family problems, social relations ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
austin texas, texas, usa
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16%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day, however,the pattern ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, absurd
Plot:
immigrants, loneliness, hopes, society, rich and poor, fall in love, haunted by the past, city life, sadness, survival, life is a bitch, food ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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16%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style:
touching, sincere, romantic, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, first love, youth, adolescence, mental illness, suicide, teenage life, depression, shyness ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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16%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
women, friendship, immigrants, self discovery, chinese, haunted by the past, hopes, golden years, culture clash, parents and children, human nature, love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, china, asia, usa, california
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16%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photoshop him into their lives, despite his questionable past. Too bad Jake can not stop himself from stealing, being seduced by the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
family relations, older woman younger man relationship, small town, love affair, teenage life, forbidden love, couples, human nature, love and romance, youth, starting over, parents and children ...
Place:
montana, usa
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16%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
small town, coming of age, friendship, womanizer, lifestyle, young lovers, introspection, youth, society, couples, family problems, haunted by the past ...
Place:
nebraska, usa, europe, england
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16%
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