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Two for Joy (2018)
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Two for Joy (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Coming of age drama following a daughter, her mother and her wayward younger brother as their relationship reaches critical mass.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: depression, rebel, family relations, dysfunctional family, relationships, family life, life is a bitch, male female relationship, relationship problems, family problems, eccentric family, seaside, widow, death of husband, coming of age, problem child, boat, holiday, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, thunderstorm, gay slur, accidental death, death of father, amusement park ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and suspense films with plots about family problems, family relations, relationship problems, relationships, dysfunctional family, male female relationship and life is a bitch mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Two for Joy: I Remember (2005), Interlude (2016), The Animal's Wife (2016), A Distant Cry from Spring (2018), Putham Pudhu Kaalai (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Remember (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The memories of Guiga, from early childhood to young adulthood: his family, relatives, friends, fears, dreams and reality in a still provincial city of Salvador, Bahia, from the 50s to the 70s.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: coming of age, puberty, boy, erotica, family problems, dysfunctional family, social problems, childhood memory, relationship problems, family relations, mother son relationship, memories ...
Place: brazil
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100%
 6.2
 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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32%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Distant Cry from Spring (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Distant Cry from Spring (TV Movies)
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: farm hand, widow, family problems, murderer, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, murder mystery, family relations, secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Putham Pudhu Kaalai (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
Style: anthology, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: relationships, relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, lifestyle, family life, family relations, multiple storylines, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, tamil
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
North to Home (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Suzanne McBride is excited to spend her birthday with her family. It will be the first time that her three adopted daughters will be together in years. This seems like a great time for a family reunion, but the sisters are each wrestling with unique ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: family reunited, confrontation, mother daughter relationship, family problems, mother daughter reunion, sister sister relationship, family relations, sisters, relationship problems, family secret, eccentric family, mother and daughter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
24%
Father's Acre (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Love makes a bad relationship between father and son all the more rancorous in this drama from Hungarian director Viktor Oszkar Nagy. A convict (Janos Derzsi) returns home after a long stretch in prison to a less than enthusiastic welcome; his son ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: parent child relationship, father son relationship, father son estrangement, father son reunion, father and son, estrangement, male female relationship, life is a bitch, relationships, relationship problems, family relations, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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A House on Fire (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A House on Fire follows brilliant doctor and mother Deborah Green (Stephanie March) who had the epitome of a picture-perfect life with two children, an adoring husband (Shaun Benson) and a beautiful house in an opulent neighborhood. But behind the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional
Plot: unhappy marriage, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, relationships, dysfunctional marriage, marital crisis, troubled marriage, family relations, family life, female protagonist, family problems, marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Crown of Tears (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Corona de Lágrimas is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa. It is a remake of Corona de Lágrimas, produced in 1965 and starring Prudencia Grifell and Jorge Lavat. Victoria Ruffo, Africa Zavala and Mané de la ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, telenovela
Plot: family problems, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, social problems, unfulfilled love, parents and children, couple relations, life is a bitch, eccentric family, family life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Sange Mar Mar (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
TV show
Story: The story focuses on the family of Gulistan Khan, a cruel man who rules his family with an iron will and wields considerable influence in the area where he lives
Style: captivating, psychological, suspenseful
Plot: family relations, family problems, relationships, love and romance, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, relationship problems, forbidden love, love affair, male female relationship, life is a bitch, kids and family
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
 91
North Star (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: mother daughter relationship, family relations, wedding, sister sister relationship, sister, family life, relationships, sisters, family problems, lifestyle, mother and daughter, relationship problems ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.6
 7K
Sundown (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Mexico, Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, serious, art house ...
Plot: brother and sister, vacation, rich man, emergency, family relations, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, family problems, relationships, marital crisis, marital problem, dysfunctional family ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
 442
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Three Sisters (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The awkward, distant, and wounded three sisters gather at their hometown for their father’s birthday. However, on the day of the party, there is a big mess because of their little brother Jinseob’s abnormal behavior, and the past of the three ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: sister sister relationship, family problems, sisters, relationships, family relations, life is a bitch, women, brother sister relationship, confronting the past, dysfunctional family, troubled past, tragic past ...
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
As They Made Us (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, entertaining, touching
Plot: family relations, relationships, parents and children, eccentric family, family life, divorced mother, relationship problems, female protagonist, family problems, street life, choice, caregiver ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Meditation Park (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: suspicion of adultery, relationship problems, relationships, family relations, eccentric family, male female relationship, family problems, marriage crisis, dysfunctional family, suspicion, couple relations, marital infidelity ...
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22%
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Angel Face (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
Style: touching, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, single mother, adult child friendship, little girl, relationship problems, parents and children, mother child relationship, family problems, relationships, male female relationship, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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La casa delle donne (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It all begins in 1919 in the countryside surrounding Bari, Apulia. From a rich farmer and his three concubines(two of them the sisters of his handyman and the third his maid) a complicated family is formed, in which paternity and maternity is ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, family saga
Plot: older woman younger man sex, family relations, large family, relationships, male female relationship, life is a bitch, family life, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, family problems, brother in law sister in law sex, family affairs ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 60s, year 1980, year 1940
Place: southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Sex Life of Plants (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a head injury makes a dimwit stranger out Barbara's beloved Guille, she ceases to feel desire for him. Nearing 35, and longing for motherhood, she settles with a new partner, while the memory of lost love harrows her.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: relationship problems, relationships, marital problem, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, choice, family problems, male female relationship, family life, family relations, wanting a baby, cheating girlfriend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Hanging Garden (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, poignant, sincere
Plot: family relations, dominatrix, family conflict, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, marital argument, marital problem, relationship problems, relationships, brawl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Deflowering of Eva van End (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The ugly duckling of a fraught middle-class household has her life turned upside-down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student, in this caustic, absurdist satire of petit-bourgeois family life from Dutch director Michiel ten Horn. (TIFF)
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, loss of virginity, family problems, family relations, relationships, foreign exchange student, family life, life philosophy, lifestyle, introspection, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
When Time Got Louder (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Departing for college, Abbie leaves her parents and brother who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her independence and sexuality, she's torn between her new life and her love for her brother.
Style: lgbt cinema, captivating, psychological, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: lgbt, relationship problems, sexual desire, female protagonist, family problems, life is a bitch, love affair, relationships, family relations, forbidden love, brother sister relationship, woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Villon's Wife (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the ...
Style: semi autobiographical, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: family relations, male female relationship, writers, man-woman relation, family problems, dysfunctional family, social problems, relationship problems, family life, outcast, human relationship
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: coming of age, sexuality, father daughter relationship, family relations, family problems, parents and children, sexual relations, family life, father and daughter, relationship problems, sexual tension, relationships ...
Place: swiss alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Resisting Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, ...
Style: surreal, psychological, captivating
Plot: family relations, estrangement, family problems, surrealism, social problems, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, kids and family, family life, parents and children, alienation
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Raman Thediya Seethai (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The path of true love does not run smooth in this movie about love, expectations, and the range of abilities and access that different people have in this world.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: male female relationship, relationships, love story, family relations, couple relations, life is a bitch, love affair, family problems, relationship problems, love interest, fight, love ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.9
 50
The Pension (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The four stories that possibly or impossibly can be happened in the pension; The parents who lost their child go to the pension with poison where the killer stays with his family; The husband and wife on a trip who are growing tired of their married ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, anthology
Plot: relationship problems, male female relationship, marital problem, husband wife relationship, multiple storylines, family tragedy, life is a bitch, family problems, relationships, family relations, couples, problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Stonebreaker (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: father son relationship, relationship problems, promise, life is a bitch, family problems, single father, father and son, family relations, dysfunctional family, relationships, parents and children, single parent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 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
Plot: mother son relationship, family relations, dysfunctional family, homecoming, family problems, relationship problems, parents and children, family reunited, mother son reunion, kids and family, getting home, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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