Movies like Red Leaves
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Red Leaves (2014)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, tense
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, society, family problems, immigrants, elderly, golden years, jewish
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
israel
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, society, youth and siblings relations mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Red Leaves: Things Behind the Sun (2006), Absence (2014), The Green Chariot (2005), Another House (2013), Waterproof (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, coma, husband wife relationship, hospital, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
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serious, touching, emotional, realistic, bleak
Plot:
teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, youth, family problems, child as adult, family relations, teachers and students, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boy ...
Time:
21st century
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93%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
jewish, moral dilemma, fall in love, love and romance, society, immigrants, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, misfit, engagement, emigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
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92%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, family problems, dysfunctional family, aging, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, memory loss, elderly, father son relationship, brothers, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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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, contemplative
Plot:
family relations, gang, homecoming, family problems, going straight, immigrants, aging, youth, redemption, self discovery, single parent, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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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, family problems, estrangement, hopes, aging, dysfunctional family, love, african american, women, asthma, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the lives of the two of them, and their friends and family.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot:
summer vacation, family relations, farmer, teenage life, estrangement, family problems, youth, friendship, parents and children, elderly, adolescence vs adulthood, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
Style:
serious, tense, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, parents and children, on the road, bittersweet, protecting from truth, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, under the surface, parents separation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Zion, aged 14 and his brother Meir, 17, are facing a crisis in their relationship after a terrible accident. They keep the secret to themselves and it haunts them until, finally, Zion re-examines his loyalty towards his older brother and decides ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, introspection, youth, society, siblings relations, teenage life, working class, haunted by the past, family in crisis, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, culture clash, single parent, society, neo nazism, immigration, holocaust survivor, jewish, misfit, siblings relations, immigrants ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
israel, middle east, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, family reunited, parents and children, aging, redemption, estrangement, family feud, unfulfillment, hopes, retirement, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, serious, tense
Plot:
coming of age, family problems, family relations, parents and children, teenage life, under the surface, dysfunctional family, small town, father son relationship, double life, father, favoritism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa ...
Style:
touching, bleak, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
working class, parents and children, disorder, youth, single parent, life turned upside down, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, addiction, children, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijin. (TIFF)
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, death in the family, elderly, little girl, grandfather grandson relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, cousin cousin relationship, little boy, youth, nude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
Style:
captivating, touching, atmospheric, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
missing child, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, self discovery, family relations, dysfunctional family, adolescence vs adulthood, rebelliousness, rebellion, estrangement, parents and children, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, jewish, coming of age, self discovery, clergy, society, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, parents and children, rabbi, religions or cults ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan, who is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts. Meanwhile, the rest of her family is falling apart, and her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, rescue, life is a bitch, youth, drug abuse, parents and children, life turned upside down, society, teenage prostitution, first sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But as the festivities come to an end, repressed conflicts rise to the surface. Old wounds are opened and a new family is ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
homecoming, family relations, family life, family gatherings, parents and children, estrangement, under the surface, siblings relations, family problems, strong female presence, dysfunctional family, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Only 5 flight hours from Paris, in a working-class suburb of Tel Aviv, two people meet. He is a bred-and-born Israeli and she is a Russian immigrant. He is a taxi driver and she is a music teacher. He has no aspirations. She gave up hers long ago. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, feel good
Plot:
love and romance, single parent, family relations, immigrants, society, fall in love, love, divorced parents, music teacher, airplane, fear of flying, choir ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, hopes, self discovery, elderly, family problems, parents and children, countryside, adolescence vs adulthood, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hayuta and Berl, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today's Israel and to the social changes surrounding them. After years of struggle, the two refuse to let go of their communal dreams, and of their revolutionary plans to build a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
elderly, introspection, idealism, society, life is a bitch, fighting the system, anti capitalism, social decay, golden years, husband wife relationship, public health, elderly lovers ...
Time:
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Place:
israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel ...
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Plot:
longing, family life, family problems, family relations, elderly, parents and children, nursing, golden years, dealing with death, manipulative person, family reunited, mother daughter relationship ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
starting over, redemption, haunted by the past, family relations, society, parents and children, human nature, family problems, dysfunctional family, hopes, life is a bitch, estrangement ...
Time:
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Place:
belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
342
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, emotional, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, opposites attract, family relations, friends, immigrants, love and romance, introspection, youth, single parent, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems ...
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serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, tense
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears
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serious, sincere, touching, realistic, sad
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Wongs struggle to cope with life, love, and family dysfunction in the suburbs of New York.
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serious, sentimental, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwilling guardian to a young girl with a bit of an attitude. The film is an updated and Americanized ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious, feel good
Plot:
friendship, redemption, introspection, elderly, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, human nature, addiction, hopes, custody, rehabilitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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