Movies like In the Heart
If you like "In the Heart" you are looking for psychological, sincere and touching movies about / with tragic love, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, life is a bitch and couples themes of Comedy and Drama genre shot in Netherlands or Belgium.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
In the Heart (2014)
327
Original name: Onder het hart
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Masha (37) is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
Style:
psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
tragic love, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, terminal illness, unfulfillment, relationships, fighting illness, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, down on your luck, pubic hair, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, holland
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to In the Heart
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, couples, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, life is a bitch and family problems mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like In the Heart: Those Who Remain (2007), Balancing Act (2012), Everyday (2012), Momma's Man (2008), Bad Girl (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, fall in love, friendship, family relations, supportive spouse, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, breakup, parents and children, life is a bitch, couples, downfall, unfulfillment, down on your luck, job seeking, adultery, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
818
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
prison, confined, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, drug smuggling, husband wife relationship, society, youth, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In Momma's Man an adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house. An odd premise, but executed with skill and tenderness.
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, introspection, family problems, eccentric family, family relations, family life, love and romance, unfulfillment, pregnancy, parents and children, relationship problems, living together ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Movie in collections
176
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
parents and children, family problems, couples, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, strong female presence, pregnant woman, bullfighting, female nudity, church ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Also search:
Films like The Last 10 Years
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Tom learns that he has terminal brain cancer, he decides to find a replacement husband for his wife and a father to his daughter, before it is too late. Unbeknownst to his wife Valentine, Tom sets up an on-line dating profile for her, and ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love, wife, cancer, daughter, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, terminal illness, parents and children, fall in love, cooking, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
accident, family problems, couple relations, couples, family relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, small town, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A film about the complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the potential lifelong consequences of those relationships.
Style:
talky, psychological, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
haunted by the past, couples, family relations, looking for love, introspection, couple relations, strong female presence, sexual content, parents and children, hopes, dating, lesbian ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Movie in collections
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, serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrants, couple relations, couples, society, lifestyle, trying to get pregnant, cultural difference, relationships, parents and children, changing lives, female protagonist, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, 'Tot altijd' introduces us to a band of friends in the eighties, who spend their days enjoying their youth and turbulent (love) life. Years later, Thomas, a recent medicine graduate and Mario's closest friend, ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating
Plot:
friendship, family life, terminal illness, friends, life is a bitch, buddies, family relations, bittersweet, rivalry, family problems, lifestyle, fighting illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, belgium, ghent, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Also search:
Eager Bodies related movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
estrangement, life is a bitch, writer's life, single parent, couple relations, family problems, family in crisis, relationship vs career, couples, alcohol abuse, crumbling marriage, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Marta may be an orphan, and she may be affected by a lethal illness, yet she is the most positive person one can meet. She wants a boy to fall for her. Not any boy - the most handsome of them all. One day, she may have found her match.
Style:
captivating, satirical, psychological, sincere, disturbing
Plot:
orphan, relationships, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, fighting illness, love and romance, male female relationship, couple relations, satire
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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, gloomy ...
Plot:
terminal illness, family relations, parents and children, introspection, couples, society, friends, suburbs, unfulfillment, suburban life, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in present day New York City, "Happy Hour" is a literate and often funny story of love and how to receive it. Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, love affair, going straight, redemption, lifestyle, once promising, dysfunctional family, addiction, parents and children, family in crisis, looking for love, terminal illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Hartmut Mackowiak, a German taxi driver, tries to help 6 year old Turkish girl to find her mother.
Style:
serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
taxi, family relations, couples, couple relations, taxi driver, little girl, personal growth, friends, love and romance, migration, re-education, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Also search:
Films like The Policeman's Wife
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The prestigious Danish filmmaker Bille August, winner of an Academy Award and two Palme d'Or in Cannes, returns with a highly personal drama. Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, family life, life is a bitch, family problems, couple relations, couples, family gatherings, siblings relations, parents and children, euthanasia, terminal illness, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Vince and Shonda have come to the proverbial end of their ropes with one another. Set in Atlanta during the 2008 Presidential Election season, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is the touching story of what happens when two people feel they have nothing ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
introspection, couple relations, breakup, couples, fall in love, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, african american
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The Pope's tailor sends his son, a virgin at 35, to Bologna hoping he will find a woman. Nello, a classicist moved by the romantic poetry of Ovid, proves to be a good teacher and also falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Angela Gardini. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
disability, relationships, social differences, tragic love, family relations, couples, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, unfulfilled love, infidelity, looking for love ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Movie in collections
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, erotic, contemplative
Plot:
family relations, young lovers, life is a bitch, terminal illness, adolescence vs adulthood, mercy killing, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, lifestyle, human nature, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
783
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, agent, dying, aging, dying father, estrangement, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, couple relations, prostitute ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Also search:
Movies similar to Virgin
542
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. The character's lives overlap and collide. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, family problems, couple relations, social relations, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, human nature, immigrants, working class, social differences, infidelity, culture clash ...
Place:
israel, tel aviv
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, hospital, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, cancer, illness, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family life, love affair, couples, family relations, family problems, youth, single parent, love and romance, parents and children, child as adult, midlife crisis ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Movie in collections
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sincere
Plot:
self discovery, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, terminal illness, family life, bittersweet, one night stand, husband wife relationship, cancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Marcela can't bear Jarda any longer, so she threatens divorce and takes the kids to her mom's, whose husband is a creep. While Marcela is there, Jarda is jailed, because he is part of a gang steeling cars and they get caught in the act. ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, psychological, clever ...
Plot:
couples, love triangle, love affair, parents and children, family life, manners, family relations, love and romance, siblings relations, couple relations, infidelity, hot and sexy ...
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Also search:
Films like Mind the Gap
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, love and romance, boss and employee, male female relationship, pregnant woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
family relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch, assassination, couple relations, working class, parents and children, unemployment, love and romance, immigrants, society, addiction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
marseille, provence, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
cyclist, hopes, life is a bitch, couple relations, disability, parents and children, misfit, human nature, human spirit, redemption, family relations, new love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
227
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot:
immigrants, family relations, life is a bitch, society, working class, unemployment, couple relations, unfulfillment, prairie, down on your luck, ship
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
starting over, couple relations, parents and children, lovers reunited, family relations, couples, death in the family, dead son, loss of child, dealing with death, cemetery, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Related movie lists
