Movies like I Will Follow

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I Will Follow (2010)
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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, emotional, realistic, captivating, bleak, gloomy, sexual, sexy, black cinema
Plot: relationship vs career, life turned upside down, family relations, interracial relations, couples, single parent, estrangement, dull life, society, supportive spouse, feminist, feminism, blaxploitation, women of color, african american, woman, grief, urban, black american, friends, doctors and patients, unfulfillment, moving, pizza, afro ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: indiana, chicago

Most similar movies to I Will Follow

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and captivating films with plots about family relations, society, couples, parents and children, family problems, unfulfillment and love and romance mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like I Will Follow: Middle of Nowhere (2012), Mother of George (2013), A Butterfly Kiss (2011), An Open Heart (2012), 3 Backyards (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, social ...
Plot: prison, self discovery, family problems, introspection, human nature, supportive spouse, black, family in crisis, medical school, urban, blaxploitation, women of color ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, los angeles, africa
Similarity:
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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, visually stunning, psychological ...
Plot: couple relations, immigrant, trying to get pregnant, society, couples, lifestyle, afrofuturism, african, female protagonist, parents and children, changing lives, cultural difference ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, africa
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A Butterfly Kiss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, introspection, society, couples, suburban life, suburbs, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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An Open Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mila and Javier, both renowned surgeons and both passionate about their work, have been madly in love for the past 10 years. They have always taken great care to preserve their extraordinary love for each other and refuse to succumb to the routine ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: pregnancy, couples, couple relations, pregnant woman, addiction, supportive spouse, husband wife relationship, relationships, male female relationship, physician, relationship vs career, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, france, paris france
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3 Backyards (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot: suburbs, society, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, dull life, human nature, multiple storylines, one day, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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66%
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, touching ...
Plot: asthma, parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Similarity:
65%
Come Rain Come Shine (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: David Jason stars as cockney ex-docker Don Mitchell in this emotional drama. Don is incredibly proud of his son David’s affluent lifestyle. The cars, the detached house and private schooling for the children were things Don could only dream about ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot: working class, family relations, parents and children, estrangement, relationship vs career, couples, emotionless, society, family in crisis, life turned upside down, husband wife relationship, heart attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
Similarity:
65%
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Mentor (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, unfulfillment, friendship, university, college, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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65%
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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: emotional, sincere, touching, rough, informative ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, addiction, family relations, human nature, society, family problems, family in crisis, women of color, feminist, child abuse ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: mississippi, usa, africa
Similarity:
65%
She's Lost Control (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
Style: sexy, serious, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot: life turned upside down, prostitute, women, female protagonist, couples, society, sex, female nudity, doctor patient relationship, sex therapy, psychotherapy, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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65%
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August Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A film about a farm worker named Jaime and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, as their lives are in turmoil.
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, touching ...
Plot: farm hand, family relations, aging, immigrant, single parent, society, parents and children, farm, family life, human nature, working class, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
Similarity:
65%
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About Sunny (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: poverty, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
Similarity:
65%
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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, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: couples, family problems, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, destiny, hopes, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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65%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
64%
In Between Days (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style: realistic, emotional, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, society, youth, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
64%
We All Want What's Best for Her (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: introspection, rehabilitation, accident, starting over, family relations, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment, couples, trauma, recovery, character study ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, catalonia, europe
Similarity:
64%
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All Around Us (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: couple relations, estrangement, family problems, pregnancy, death in the family, society, social decay, dysfunctional family, love and romance, unfulfillment, painter, painting ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
64%
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Custody (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wealthy entrepreneur enters his daughter's life for the first time and wows with riches, forcing her to decide if she would rather live with her foster parents or him.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, sentimental
Plot: daughter, love, parents and children, custody, family relations, entrepreneur, family problems, single parent, estrangement, custody battle, family drama, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Similarity:
64%
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Alice's House (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children, the eldest of whom is doing his military service, and a mother who works as a maid in her house. None of the three siblings pay much attention to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, melancholic, sexual ...
Plot: beauty salon, estrangement, family relations, betrayal, couples, obsession, family life, midlife crisis, society, feminism, working class, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
64%
The Hungry Ghosts (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A New York City-set drama of interlocking stories which occur over a 36-hour period.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: human nature, city life, estrangement, redemption, introspection, hopes, addiction, unfulfillment, lifestyle, multiple storylines, family problems, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
Similarity:
64%
Charms for the Easy Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, interracial relations, small town life, family relations, fall in love, family life, homecoming, family problems, social relations, couples, estrangement, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1910s, 1900s, 1920s
Place: north carolina, usa
Similarity:
64%
Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: kidnapping, uncover truth, family relations, danger, parents and children, under the surface, disorder, life turned upside down, secret, women of color, african american, black girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
63%
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God's Sandbox (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn ...
Style: psychological, serious, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love affair, culture clash, haunted by the past, forbidden love, estrangement, couples, family problems, missing child, parents and children, on the run, danger, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Similarity:
63%
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The Amati Girls (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: family life, family problems, parents and children, single parent, family gatherings, society, hopes, small town, death in the family, bittersweet, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia
Similarity:
63%
Women or Children First (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France). Trouble comes when Tom ex girlfriend reappears, asking for help, announcing him that she had a girl from him 9 years ago.
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, midlife crisis, hopes, friends, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, fatherhood, ex girlfriend, boy, love, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brittany
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63%
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Ballast (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: small town, single parent, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, danger, suicide, juvenile delinquent, robbery, mother son relationship, poverty, society ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, mississippi, africa
Similarity:
63%
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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, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: blaxploitation, adoption, african, black, black history, orphan, siblings, sister sister relationship, black american, redemption, family relations, foster home ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: africa
Similarity:
63%
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Meth Head (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Kyle Peoples never wanted to be the man he has become in his 30s, an accountant stuck in a dead end job, with a lover who is more successful than he and a family that doesn't get him at all. So when a night of partying leads to a new family of ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot: addiction, mistaken identity, couples, drug abuse, society, life is a bitch, friendship, gay, lgbt, male nudity, male rape, gay subtext ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Similarity:
63%
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, serious, hood, crime drama, feel good ...
Plot: hopes, going straight, family relations, parents and children, street kid, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, gang, blaxploitation, urban, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, usa
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63%
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Constellation (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: family relations, interracial relations, estrangement, interracial rape, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, society, hopes, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, family gatherings ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
Similarity:
62%