Movies like ABCD
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ABCD (1999)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The only goal of an ageing Indian-American widow is to see her son and rebellious daughter (described as an American Born Confused Desi or ABCD) married off to respectable Indian families.
Style:
multicultural, sincere, clever, touching, serious, realistic, talky
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, interracial relations, society, family problems, immigrants, introspection, culture clash, siblings relations, bittersweet, sex, business, wedding, death, happiness, dating, mother daughter relationship, accountant, brother sister relationship, tradition, arranged marriage, engagement, mother son relationship, indian american, indian pakistani ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york, india, asia
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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 family relations, society, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, hopes and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like ABCD: Children of Invention (2009), Cotton Mary (1999), The Autumn Heart (1999), Red Doors (2005), Deep in My Heart (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, sad
Plot:
youth, single parent, family problems, working class, family relations, parents and children, society, siblings relations, suburbs, eviction, child, bittersweet ...
Place:
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Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, interracial relations, babies and infants, master and servant, obsession, society, family relations, working class, parents and children, hospital, social differences, culture clash ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a school bus driving woman (Tyne Daly) has a heart attack, she makes one request of her three daughters (Ally Sheedy, Marla Sucharetza, Marceline Hugo) - she wants them to find their long lost brother, who was taken away by their father (Jack ...
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talky, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
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Plot:
family relations, autumn, estrangement, parent child relationship, family problems, couples, rich and poor, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, parents and children, siblings relations, family life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
boston, england, europe, usa, harvard university
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27%
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.
Style:
serious, sentimental, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian, family life, dysfunctional family, family problems, culture clash, parents and children, youth, single parent, human nature, family in crisis, suburbs, lgbtq ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In this made-for-tv movie, an adopted woman decides to find her birth mother. Her search leads her to a shocking discovery that she has to face and why her upbringing was not an easy one.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
women, interracial relations, adoption, strong female presence, society, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, mixed race, interracial rape ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family ...
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realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
interracial relations, family relations, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, unfulfillment, hopes, society, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, interracial romance ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, alabama
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22%
471
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
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22%
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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 ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, youth, car accident, death of wife, accidental death, grief, love, society, family problems ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A reluctant reunion of two estranged sisters. One is on the verge of marriage; the other is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Both struggle with truths they're hiding from each other - and from themselves. Jenny has rejected her tumultuous ...
Style:
talky, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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, serious, emotional, touching, tense
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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touching, emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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20%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
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realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A portrait of two couples at a crossroads. What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for two young lovers, turns into an uncomfortable confrontation when the young man's estranged father shows up ... with his own girlfriend. As their ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, talky ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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