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Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
3K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Style:
psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film, dark, suspenseful, teen, gloomy
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, parents and children, family problems, homecoming, redemption, hopes, child abuse, teenage girl, isolation, fish out of water, starting over, salvation, mother, age difference, woman, daughter, mother child relationship, family relations, child abduction, coming of age, rape, young, kidnap, coming-of-age ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, redemption, hopes, life is a bitch and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Stockholm, Pennsylvania: Room (2015), The King (2005), Coming Home (2012), Island (2011), Blood of My Blood (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
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Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, adult
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Time:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
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A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young woman tries to adjust to freedom after she spends eight years as a prisoner to a strange man.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
captivity, older man teenage girl relationship, kidnapping, starting over, confined, hopes, family relations, fish out of water, parents and children, homecoming, missing child, teenager ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
576
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate ...
Style:
serious, tense, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
island, incestuous relationship, undercover, hidden identity, family problems, dishonesty, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, illicit affair, mother daughter relationship, storm, mother ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, starting over, estrangement, hopes, on the road, criminal heroes, u.s. mexico border, mexican immigrant, boy, mexican american border, little boy ...
Time:
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Place:
brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A lone, struggling addict takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes will save his marriage.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, independent film, disturbing ...
Plot:
addiction, redemption, small town, hopes, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, danger, drug, desperation, loss, regret, anti hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
confined, heist, woman in danger, single parent, danger, unlikely criminals, isolation, crime gone awry, parents and children, bank, kidnapping, child in peril ...
Time:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
family in crisis, couples, family in danger, redemption, estrangement, homecoming, domestic disturbance, family relations, hopes, mentally unstable, family problems, disorder ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1951
Place:
missouri, usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, kidnapping, child kidnapping, family bonds, protective parent, domestic abuse, domestic violence, motherhood, abduction, marital problem, kidnapped child, family relations ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
methamphetamine, meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, drug abuse, homecoming, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, small town ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Secrets, murders and lies... all in the name of family. In the middle of nowhere sits the Armadillo Café.The once popular, but now desolate, café is run by a strange family led a troubled, booze-addled mother (Betty Buckley) and a disturbed family ...
Style:
tense, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
small town, redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, family relations, lifestyle, hopes, homecoming, parents and children, going straight, social relations, male protagonist ...
Time:
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Place:
idaho, america, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
uncover truth, life is a bitch, redemption, social relations, siblings relations, countryside, family relations, parents and children, family in crisis, small town, down on your luck, small town life ...
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, psychological, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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468
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, political unrest, society, state affairs, parents and children, danger, rivalry, human nature, greek, riot, profanity ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, tense, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
soccer, human trafficking, coming of age, illegal immigration, border crossing, social injustice, child labor, slave trade, life is a bitch, child, resilience, trauma ...
Place:
los angeles, mexico
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Life was easy for Jackson White. With looks, brains, and athletic ability,the world's possibilities seemed limitless. But, when he came to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the music industry, he was so seduced by money and status that he lost ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
self discovery, homecoming, introspection, parents and children, family relations, estrangement, redemption, hopes, road not taken, bittersweet, unfulfillment, dying father ...
Time:
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Place:
north carolina, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
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460
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, woman in danger, family problems, rivalry, hopes, redemption, murder, rehabilitation, violent content, graphic violence, psychopath, sport team ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The estranged daughter of a small town minister is forced to return to the strict, religious home of her youth where she must confront the troubled relationships that caused her to leave four years before
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, serious
Plot:
clergy, estrangement, society, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, small town, family problems, homecoming, religions or cults, christian, teen social issues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, life turned upside down, addiction, home invasion, car accident, faked death, husband wife relationship, abduction, kidnapping, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman is tortured by the sudden disappearance of her only child years before. Obsessed with having another baby, she is devastated and driven to emotional crisis when discovering her new husband is infertile. Gripped by despair, the woman begins ...
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, mind bending ...
Plot:
obsession, haunted by the past, family relations, life is a bitch, friendship, family problems, murder, family life, death in the family, trying to get pregnant, mysterious disappearance, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Single mother Tyree Battle struggles to keep her young son Thaniel away from the gang-plagued city streets that he is mixed up in. Under severe gang pressure, Thaniel accidentally shoots Jewish shopkeeper Eli Zeal in a botched robbery attempt. ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, gang, homecoming, family problems, self discovery, aging, redemption, single parent, youth, going straight, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.
Style:
road movie, serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, destructive relationship, family problems, on the road, jail, life is a bitch, teenage life, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, brother, marital problem ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, montana, wyoming
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On the afternoon of August 3, 2013, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson was abducted after finishing cheerleading practice in a San Diego suburb. When the bodies of her mother and brother were found in the burned home of family friend James DiMaggio later ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
true crime, child abduction, father daughter relationship, 16 year old, uncover truth, disappearance, crime solving, unsolved crime, teenage girl, forensics, investigation, crime investigation ...
Place:
california, san diego california, idaho
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
captivity, hostage, confined, vengeance, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, estate, dysfunctional marriage, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
19%
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