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Disappearance (2017)
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Disappearance (2017)
Original name: Verdwijnen
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 'Disappearance' takes place in the remote winter landscape of Norway. Roos visits her mother there yearly, but this time it's different: she brings bad news. However, old pain and numerous reproaches keep Roos from sharing anything with her mother. Aided by her half brother and her old flame, the two women reconcile and Roos is able to make her next and inescapable step.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: terminal illness, illness, pianist, snow, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, relationship problems, family problems, reconciliation, mother daughter estrangement, estrangement, estranged family member, exodus, dog, brother sister relationship, piano, half brother half sister relationship, photography, fishing, female nudity, sex scene, family relations, fish, woman, killing an animal ...
Keyword: norway

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, psychological and suspense films with plots about family problems, family relations, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, relationships and mother daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Mystery and Comedy genres. Some movies like Disappearance: April, May and June (2019), Interlude (2016), Culling Hens (2016), The Fatherless (2011), Paper Spiders (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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April, May and June (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: To inform each personally about her impending death, Mies summons her three daughters home. The three half-sisters April, May and June, each of whom has a different father, start to question their lives: "Where are we at in life? What do we ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: mother, sisters, mother daughter estrangement, family problems, sister sister relationship, family relations, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, estrangement, women, estranged sister, estranged family member
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95%
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 19
Interlude (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Sofia, recently separated, takes her daughters to a small coastal town. Each one in their own universe, live the interlude as a challenge to free themselves and face their fears.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
Plot: mother daughter relationship, separation, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, family life, breakup, mother and daughter, single mother, relationship problems, life is a bitch, relationships ...
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70%
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Culling Hens (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Story: A naive young farmhand stumbles upon a terrible scene after suspecting her husband of an affair. Unable to comprehend what she has seen, the woman resolves to confront her husband and discover what happens in the stables at night.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, underground film ...
Plot: bestiality, infidelity, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, family problems, family secret, animal, sex, killing, woman, husband ...
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67%
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The Fatherless (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: They never expected Kyra to turn up again. The two brothers and their sister, brought together when their father dies, are stunned by the appearance of their sister.Kyra suddenly vanished over twenty years ago during the breakup of the hippie ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: self discovery, family relations, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, family problems, death in the family, siblings relations, family secret, mother son relationship, family reunited, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Paper Spiders (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: coming of age, paranoid schizophrenia, mother and daughter, mental illness, mental health, grownups, paranoid, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood ...
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61%
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Original Bliss (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Helen Brindel is trapped in a violent marriage and the prison of her faith when she falls in love with a scholar, Professor Eduard Gluck. But he’s a secret porn addict. Slowly, carefully, two very different individuals get to know each other.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: sexually dissatisfied wife, marriage crisis, marriage, faith, desperation, psychologist, family problems, dysfunctional family, marital problem, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, family relations ...
Place: hamburg germany, berlin germany
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60%
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Happy Lambs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, sexy
Plot: prostitution, brothel, mother son relationship, dysfunctional family, family problems, prostitute, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, single parent, single mother ...
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The Animal's Wife (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: violent, violence, tragic love, forbidden love, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, dysfunctional family, relationships, relationship problems, male female relationship
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The Girl on a Bulldozer (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Haeyoung is a hopeless girl. She lives with her father who runs a Chinese restaurant, and a younger sibling. One day, her father has a mysterious accident, which places her in a position of responsibility. She is now not only the head of the house ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: female protagonist, accident, crime solving, family problems, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, relationship problems, investigation, family relations, private investigation, homeless, poverty ...
Place: korea
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57%
Who Never Lived (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young, charismatic priest John, his time missionary in Africa, every day helping Warsaw young people addicted to drugs. Unconventional methods, which are used in pastoral work, raise many doubts about his superiors. Surprisingly, however, his life ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: faith, intolerance, hiv, illness, life is a bitch, social problems, aids, family problems, drug addict, sick, dysfunctional family, terminal illness ...
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54%
Before the Rooster Crows (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot: coming of age, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, living with parents, teenage life, family relations, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, love interest ...
Place: puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Tammy's Always Dying (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A daughter's attempt to care for her ornery, ailing mother.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: family problems, mother and daughter, life is a bitch, alcoholic mother, female alcoholic, alcohol abuse, mother daughter relationship, moral dilemma, terminal illness, family relations, female protagonist, bad mother ...
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We Don't Belong Here (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A matriarch of a dysfunctional family is pushed to her tipping point by the disappearance of her son.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: family relations, mental illness, tragic event, family problems, dysfunctional family, matriarchy, female protagonist, mysterious disappearance, mother son relationship, disappearance, family tragedy, gay ...
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53%
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Another Child (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 17-year-old Joo-ri discovers her father is having an affair with the mother of her hard-headed classmate Yoon-ah.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Audience: teen drama
Plot: love affair, mother daughter relationship, family problems, family relations, parents and children, male female relationship, relationships, teenage life, teenage girl, love interest, teenager, teenage protagonist ...
Place: korea, south korea
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49%
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Novel for Men (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tragicomic story of three siblings whose lives changed dramatically after losing their parents during the Communist regime. The oldest, Cyril (Miroslav Donutil), grew up to be a corrupt judge who lives for luxury and takes whatever he wants ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: family relations, politician, brother brother relationship, male female relationship, family problems, siblings relations, relationships, political unrest, eccentric family, ski resort, mountain resort, stripper ...
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, teen, road movie
Audience: teen drama
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Sometimes Always Never (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, funny ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
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Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, neo western
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 88 min.
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Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing
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The Festival of Troubadours (2022)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 102 min.
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Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, road movie
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43%
Songs of Love and Hate (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In an idyllic wine region at the foot of the Swiss Alps lives Rico with his two daughters and his wife Anna. The charming daughter, Lili, brings turbulence into the so far harmonious family life because of the awakening of her sexuality. Her father ...
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42%
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Angel Face (2018)
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42%
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Lynn + Lucy (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
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Place: paris france
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41%
Dark Was the Night (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
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Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
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40%
 6.9
 102
Breadcrumbs (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, sincere, psychological
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Damaged Goods (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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39%
 6.1
 430
Two for Joy (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
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39%
 6.7
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Peaceful (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: cancer, medical examination, acceptance, mother son relationship, changing lives, family relations, fighting illness, life is a bitch, family problems, illness, lifestyle change, terminal illness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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