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It’s Only Make Believe (2013)
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It’s Only Make Believe (2013)
Original name: Eventyrland
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After serving 10 years in prison for murder, Jenny returns to society. She wants to live a quiet life and resume her responsibilities as a mother, but soon shadows from the past start to appear.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, suspense
Plot: prison, family relations, starting over, haunted by the past, murder, adoption, drug dealing, hopes, criminal heroes, strong female character, coping, mother daughter relationship, released from prison, unsupportive friend, pregnancy, crimes, release from prison
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: scandinavia
Keyword: norwegian, norway

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about hopes, family relations, starting over, parents and children, haunted by the past, society and life is a bitch mostly in Drama and Action genres. Some movies like It’s Only Make Believe: A Cross to Bear (2012), Offline (2012), Soda Springs (2012), Anita B. (2014), The Mulberry Tree (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Cross to Bear (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mother of a 15-month old daughter and would-be dancer, fighting alcoholism and the hardships of living on the streets gets help from a home for women and tries to find the will to live and get her life back on track
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, humorous
Plot: starting over, friendship, adoption, life is a bitch, pregnancy, couples, family relations, addiction, optimism, hopes, alcohol abuse, babies and infants ...
Time: 21st century
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95%
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Offline (2012)
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: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot: haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, society, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, hopes, job seeking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
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87%
 6.2
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Soda Springs (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, family relations, hopes, going straight, lifestyle, homecoming, parents and children, social relations, christian ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.6
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Anita B. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love affair, starting over, haunted by the past, auschwitz, youth, small town, hopes, family relations, adoption, post war, self discovery, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The Mulberry Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A drama centered on a young man working in Rhode Island's state corrections system and his relationship with a convicted murderer who is dying of AIDS and spending his remaining days on hospital detail.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: prison, hospital, redemption, family relations, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, one more chance, terminal illness, life sentence, haunted by the past, murderer ...
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Ombline (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for ...
Style: serious, touching, bleak, realistic, gloomy
Plot: newborn baby, prison, single parent, hopes, family problems, life is a bitch, babies and infants, confined, starting over, family relations, prison life, released from prison ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Orheim Company (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, childhood, parenthood, parents and children, teenage life, haunted by the past, coming of age, youth, coping, orphan, criminality, mountain ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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68%
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Everyday (2012)
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, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Morning (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five days in the life of an American couple immediately following the accidental death of their child. An every day story of tragedy, loss, acceptance, hope and renewal. 'Morning' follows the divergent paths of Mark (Leland Orser) and ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, starting over, redemption, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, family in crisis, death in the family, death of child, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Mourning for Anna (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: murder, grief, death of daughter, country house, family relations, teenage life, hopes, family problems, countryside, woods, youth, optimism ...
Time: 21st century
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The Combination (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in the maligned western suburbs of Sydney, Lebanese-Australian John gets out of gaol to discover his younger brother Charlie is caught up with drugs, hookers and crime. Charlie oscillates between the streets and school. Daily clashes between ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspense
Plot: racism, war on drugs, gang, criminal heroes, gangster, starting over, society, drug dealing, fall in love, homecoming, prison, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Paper Covers Rock (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Samantha is recovering from a suicide attempt and ready for a fresh start in life. She has to fight for the custody of her daughter.
Style: sincere, psychological, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot: parents and children, custody, mental illness, family life, hopes, starting over, family problems, family relations, mother daughter relationship, depressed woman, sister sister relationship, swimming pool ...
Time: 21st century
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.5
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Paju (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style: touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted by the past, true love, introspection, forbidden love, leaving home, couples, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, starting over, small town, small town life ...
Place: south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Applause (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking period she divorced and lost custody of her two boys. Now she wants them to be a part of her life ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, estrangement, starting over, family relations, family problems, hopes, actor's life, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, parents and children, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Flying Lessons (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, inspirational
Plot: small town life, parents and children, memory loss, hopes, self discovery, friends, haunted by the past, sexual content, homecoming, small town, family relations, flying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Animal (2005)
Genre: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, crime drama ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching
Plot: rehabilitation, starting over, estrangement, introspection, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, accident, escape, society, friends ...
Time: 21st century
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A Touch of Fate (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: hopes, friendship, family relations, starting over, redemption, human nature, love and romance, destiny, parents and children, small town, chance, legal action ...
Place: usa, north carolina, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Within These Walls (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Female prisoners train dogs to aid people with disabilities in a program started by a nun (Laura Dern).
Style: uplifting, sentimental, feel good, touching, serious ...
Plot: prison, dog, rehabilitation, starting over, drug abuse, prison life, addiction, disability, hopes, society, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Mila from Mars (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Fleeing an abusive relationship, Mila, a teen prostitute, finds herself in a border town, pregnant, alone, and, to her surprise, welcome. The remote village is on a marijuana plantation run by a group of elderly men and women. Not having known much ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, offbeat
Plot: marijuana, starting over, on the run, haunted by the past, social relations, drug dealing, youth, teenage life, village, teenage pregnancy, orphan, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria, europe
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38%
Home Beyond the Sun (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Home Beyond the Sun is the story of persecution, faith, and freedom escaping a world of fear. A bible college student, Jenna goes to teach in an area of China where her faith is forbidden. She discovers an orphanage and befriends a Chinese orphan, ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: orphan, family relations, rebellion, life is a bitch, society, hopes, rich and poor, adoption, religions or cults, christian, teacher, pursuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Hidden Diary (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, gloomy
Plot: dysfunctional family, mysterious past, murder, parent child relationship, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, haunted by the past, bittersweet, small town, beach, cemetery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 30
Refuge (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The lives of a Hollywood actress battling drug addiction, a teen with a violent past, a teacher fighting to keep a dream alive, and a cop caught in a love triangle are brought together by fate.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, touching, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, haunted by the past, hopes, redemption, youth, dedicated educator, addiction, high school life, love
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Like Dandelion Dust (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A compelling drama that explores the different meanings of being a parent through the gritty, realistic lives of a struggling family, and a privileged family. Their lives intersect, intertwine and collide, all for the love of a little boy. This film ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: custody, adoption, starting over, family relations, parents and children, hopes, social worker, family life, wife abuse, adopted son, christian, faith ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Year in My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, adoption, orphan, youth, family relations, foster parent, foster child, father son relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, family life, foster home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Traces of Sandalwood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, India, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Despite her fame and fortune, Mina, a successful Indian actress in Mumbai, can't forget her little sister Sita, from whom she was forced to separate after their mother's death in a village. Thirty years later she will finally find out that ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, haunted by the past, family relations, forceful separation, sibling relationship, actor's life, hopes, love, society, foster child, siblings relations, reunion
Time: 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.2
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Hours of Light (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating
Plot: prison, rehabilitation, redemption, unlikely couple, prison life, hopes, murder, love affair, impossible love, nudity, health, male pubic hair ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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