Movies like Middle of Nowhere 2012

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Middle of Nowhere (2012)
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Middle of Nowhere (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.
Style: captivating, sincere, serious, emotional, inspirational, social, realistic, gloomy, independent film, black cinema
Plot: prison, self discovery, family problems, introspection, supportive spouse, human nature, black, family in crisis, medical school, urban, love, hopes, blaxploitation, women of color, woman, breakup, african, solace, social issues, black history, family relations, profanity, couples, confined, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: indiana, los angeles, usa, africa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and emotional films with plots about family relations, family problems, hopes, couples, parents and children, society and couple relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Middle of Nowhere: I Will Follow (2010), Scorn (2011), Mississippi Damned (2009), Mother of George (2013), Automatic (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Will Follow (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Chronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: life turned upside down, relationship vs career, estrangement, couples, single parent, dull life, family relations, interracial relations, supportive spouse, society, feminist, women of color ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, chicago
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95%
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Scorn (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Scorn takes a look into the trials and tribulations of a group of people dealing with relationships, love, pain and friendship during the course of one year.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: family problems, introspection, couples, human nature, destructive relationship, couple relations, bittersweet, unfulfillment, love, abuse, urban, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Mississippi Damned (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style: touching, sincere, rough, emotional, informative ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, addiction, human nature, society, family relations, family problems, family in crisis, women of color, feminist, child abuse ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Mother of George (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, couple relations, society, couples, lifestyle, afrofuturism, african, trying to get pregnant, family relations, female protagonist, parents and children, cultural difference ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Automatic (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style: contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: family problems, couples, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, destiny, sexual relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.
Style: independent film, deep, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: black, african american, american horror, transformation, blaxploitation, black history, african, legal, family relations, domestic abuse, drifter, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1990, 80s
Place: indiana, los angeles
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80%
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Swimmers (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, dysfunctional family, sex crime, solace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
For Colored Girls (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in ...
Style: thought provoking, sincere, contemplative, serious, emotional ...
Plot: feminism, female protagonist, black, family problems, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, hopes, rape, woman, black history, women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Open Window (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film
Plot: dysfunctional family, rape, introspection, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female nudity, family in crisis, vegetarian ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Morning (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark (Leland Orser) and ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, starting over, redemption, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, family in crisis, death in the family, death of child, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Pariah (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lgbt teen, african american, lesbian teen, lgbtq, teenage sexuality, black lesbian, black, introspection ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
World Traveler (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, road movie, humorous ...
Plot: midlife crisis, self discovery, obsessive quest, introspection, starting over, society, human nature, love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, family life, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa
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77%
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Black Girl (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An aspiring dancer and her wicked sister's resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Style: social, independent film, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: blaxploitation, black, orphan, black history, african, adoption, siblings, sister sister relationship, black american, family relations, redemption, foster home ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
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77%
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Slam (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with the despair and poverty of his neighborhood by using his wits and verbal talent. Written ...
Style: independent film, hood, talky, psychological, uplifting ...
Plot: prison, hip hop, gang, art, urban, bittersweet, profanity, ghetto, african american, coming of age, hip hop culture, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., usa
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76%
The End of Innocence (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: nervous breakdown, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, rehabilitation center, addiction, power relations, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Imperial Dreams (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: going straight, life is a bitch, family relations, street kid, hopes, parents and children, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, black, blaxploitation, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The New Year Parade (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, crumbling marriage, parents and children, family life, family in crisis, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, breakup, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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75%
First Time Felon (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than ...
Style: hood, inspirational, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: black, urban, boot camp, ghetto, thug life, prison, black man, black history, blaxploitation, thug, drug dealing, drug dealer ...
Time: 90s
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75%
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Islander (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast but determined to win back the way of life he fought so hard to protect. Set against the stunning ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film
Plot: hopes, redemption, island, starting over, family problems, estrangement, social misfits, couple relations, human nature, friendship, ocean, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
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75%
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.
Style: independent film, realistic, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Plot: ghetto, friendship, black, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, human nature, parents and children, family life, couple relations, family problems, african american, blaxploitation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: los angeles
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75%
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Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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74%
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Love Come Down (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: family relations, self discovery, interracial relations, drug abuse, addiction, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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74%
Two Gates of Sleep (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: death in the family, hopes, introspection, last wish, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, siblings relations, brother brother relationship, minimalism, death of mother, journey ...
Time: 21st century
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74%
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Three Dollars (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: couple relations, self discovery, family problems, couples, hopes, redemption, moral dilemma, family relations, love triangle, love, society, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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74%
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The Event (2003)
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, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, couples, terminal illness, gays and lesbians, gender, human nature, life is a bitch, aids, euthanasia, hiv, couple relations ...
Time: year 2003
Place: new york, nova scotia, usa
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74%
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Emoticon ;) (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern means of communication.' All that changes when she meets her new boyfriend's teenage kids, who are going through their own journeys of ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, couple relations, teaching the ways of the world, profanity, bittersweet, love and romance, society, couples, power relations, teenage life, computers and web ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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73%
Alex of Venice (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: starting over, life turned upside down, ambition, self discovery, eccentric family, family problems, family relations, parents and children, relationship vs career, family life, breakup, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, venice california
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Gun Hill Road (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, lgbt, gay, transsexual, homecoming, going straight, starting over, family problems, estrangement, redemption, dysfunctional family, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
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73%
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