Movies like Song of my mother

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Song of my mother (2014)
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Song of my mother (2014)
Original name: Annemin Şarkısı
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Nigar (Zübeyde Ronahi) is not accustomed to living in the big city of Istanbul and longs to return to her village in Southeastern Turkey from where she was supposedly forced to leave after the incidents of ethnic clashes in 90s. Her son Ali (Feyyaz Duman), on the other hand, has pretty much settled in the city and works ironically as a teacher of Turkish language as a Kurd. Will Nigar be able to convince Ali to take her back to their village? - Written by bennikov
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: family relations, parents and children, estrangement, misfit, society, elderly, aging, fish out of water, mother son relationship, life, getting home, homecoming, urban, unfulfillment, song, family
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: middle east, turkey

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about family relations, parents and children, society, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch and elderly mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like Song of my mother: Liverpool (2008), Pandora's Box (2008), Mothers (2010), Erratum (2010), Singing Women (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Liverpool (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: sailor, homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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95%
Pandora's Box (2008)
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, self discovery, hopes, elderly, family problems, parents and children, countryside, adolescence vs adulthood, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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75%
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Mothers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning ...
Style: captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: parents and children, murder, elderly, introspection, estrangement, family relations, gender, society, life, small town life, relationships, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, macedonia
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73%
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Erratum (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, homecoming, haunted by the past, buddies, parents and children, family relations, hopes, redemption, profanity, friends, estrangement, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Singing Women (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An island off the coast of Turkey is about to be evacuated due to a possible earthquake but its inhabitants have been stricken with a mysterious illness, consigning them to an uncertain fate.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, surreal, suspense ...
Plot: island, family relations, elderly, isolation, best friend, aging, parents and children, family problems, plague, confined, dysfunctional family, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, turkey
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66%
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The Pier (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After 20 years of no contact with his father, Jack McCarthy (played by Hurley) travels from New York to his father Larry's death bed in Cork. Upon arrival he is furious to find his father alive and well and even more so when he then discovers ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: homecoming, dying father, parents and children, aging, estrangement, family relations, haunted by the past, father son relationship, fall in love, estranged son, debt, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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59%
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Volcano (2011)
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: parents and children, introspection, family reunited, aging, redemption, estrangement, hopes, family feud, unfulfillment, minimalism, marriage, retirement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, europe
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57%
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The Lamb (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In a small village near Erzincan (Turkey) young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests of ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: village life, circumcision, tradition, family relations, parents and children, society, religions or cults, distopia, rural area, social relations, slaughterhouse, poor family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, turkey
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56%
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Our Homeland (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: fish out of water, culture clash, haunted by the past, family life, society, life is a bitch, homecoming, terminal illness, parents and children, under the surface, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, north korea, asia, tokyo
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55%
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Autumn (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot: starting over, love affair, homecoming, released from prison, life is a bitch, hopes, society, love and romance, family relations, reconciliation, parents and children, fighting illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: black sea, turkey
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55%
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Mommo (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.
Style: touching, sincere, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kids in trouble, dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, estrangement, siblings relations, family problems, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, death in the family, brother sister relationship, child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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50%
Sleeping Sickness (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ...
Style: atmospheric, emotional, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: losing-it hero, couples, couple relations, heroes, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, plague, getting home, homecoming, family relations, doctor, colonialism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
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49%
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Lou (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Living in rural New South Wales, working-class single mother Rhia is struggling to evade debt collectors and raise three young daughters. The eldest, and hardened beyond her years, Lou blames Rhia for the departure of her father, who walked out 10 ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, family relations, parents and children, mental illness, aging, estrangement, unfulfillment, family in crisis, youth, forgetfulness, sailor, debt collector ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Never Die (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chayo returns to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and cope with her death. Surrounded by love and sublime beauty, Chayo has to give up something that as a woman and mother is inalienable. That will be the price of her freedom.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, tradition, elderly, unfulfillment, death in the family, homecoming, female protagonist, day of the dead, mother daughter relationship, grandmother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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48%
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Angel's Fall (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: family problems, life is a bitch, love and romance, parents and children, dull life, death in the family, alienation, women's issues, turk, sexual content, chance, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Future Lasts Forever (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, emotional, art house ...
Plot: journey, unfulfillment, tragic love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, missing person, ethnic conflict, self discovery, society, strong female presence, wartime life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, kurdistan, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Here and There (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological
Plot: family relations, immigrant, society, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, getting home, music band, poverty, worker, migration, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, contemplative, captivating, serious
Plot: family relations, parents and children, estrangement, relationship vs career, working class, society, couples, emotionless, life turned upside down, family in crisis, three generations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Sea Is Behind (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: social misfits, performer's life, transvestism, gays and lesbians, family relations, misfit, family in crisis, society, bittersweet, gender, lgbt
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco
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43%
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Blondie (2012)
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, emotional, atmospheric, serious, touching ...
Plot: family relations, homecoming, family life, family gatherings, estrangement, parents and children, under the surface, siblings relations, family problems, strong female presence, male nudity, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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43%
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Red Leaves (2014)
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: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: family relations, elderly, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family problems, society, immigrant
Time: 21st century
Place: palestine, israel
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41%
Lost Persons Area (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man trying to keep himself afloat and marry the woman he loves sees all that's dear to him threatened in this drama. Marcus (Sam Louwyck) works as a maintenance man for a Belgian power company, keeping lines and electrical towers in repair ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: estrangement, family relations, workplace, family life, parents and children, human nature, unfulfillment, love, accident, father daughter relationship, working class, life is a bitch ...
Place: belgium, europe, rotterdam netherlands
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40%
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Blessed (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
Style: atmospheric, sincere, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot: self discovery, juvenile delinquency, missing child, teenage life, youth, family relations, rebellion, dysfunctional family, rebelliousness, family problems, estrangement, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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 ⇓
36%
Love Belongs to Everyone (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of good behavior after a rape sentence. His parents who run a modest barbershop, skeptic André and Rita, desperately try to keep him out of girl ...
Style: touching, captivating, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, misfit, society, forced into action, parents and children, jail, punishment, rape, prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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36%
The White Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, friendship, retirement home, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
My Only Sunshine (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany ...
Style: captivating, touching, sincere, sentimental, art house ...
Plot: single parent, youth, parents and children, family relations, poverty, society, teenage life, elderly, social misfits, grandfather granddaughter relationship, father daughter relationship, lonely ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, greece, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Marussia (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France, Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In cities like Paris there are countless people from Eastern Europe who have forsaken their homelands because they can see no future there. Lucia and her little daughter Marussia are two such people. They have been thrown out by the Russian ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot: childhood, society, immigration, family relations, family problems, poverty, single parent, family in crisis, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, exile, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Day I Was Not Born (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story: During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown ...
Style: realistic, psychological, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: redemption, self discovery, parents and children, uncover truth, protecting from truth, haunted by the past, adoption, family relations, hopes, society, life is a bitch, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Man, His Lover and His Mother (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lorenz Meran, (40) a successful gay author suffering acute writers' block, has to leave Berlin and return to eastern Switzerland to provide care for his aged mother, Rosie. When he finds himself confronted with the fact that fun-loving Rosie ...
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, midlife crisis, writer's life, homecoming, elderly, aging, small town, parents and children, small town life, writers, gay son ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, europe, alps, germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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