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Journey to a Mother's Room (2018)
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Original name: Viaje al cuarto de una madre
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The movie about a daughter, who leaves home for the first time. Her mother, left behind, doesn't know how to fill the empty place.
Style:
captivating, social, independent film, entertaining
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, coming of age, loneliness, family relations, female protagonist, relationships, life, changing lives, grownups, lifestyle change, new year, dancing, birthday, fire, telephone call, new year's eve, au pair, mother and daughter, cigarette, cigarette smoking, telephone conversation, cigarette lighter, birthday cake, sewing machine, text messaging ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, thrilling and melancholic films with plots about relationships, female protagonist, family relations, changing lives, lifestyle change, coming of age and mother daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Journey to a Mother's Room: Camila Comes Out Tonight (2021), Little Girl Blue (2007), Totem (2023), The Macaluso Sisters (2020), 20,000 Species of Bees (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When her grandmother becomes seriously ill, Camila is forced to move to Buenos Aires, leaving behind a liberal public high school for a scholastic, traditional private institution. Suddenly a senior without any friends, and with her single mother ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, relationships, life is a bitch, grownups, lifestyle change, changing lives, latinx lgbt, tattoo ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a new dream house ... But she also has a secret that is slowly changing her idyllic life...
Style:
captivating, sincere
Plot:
family relations, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, lifestyle change, changing lives, relationships, family life, new life, confronting the past, kids and family, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and ...
Style:
captivating, psychological
Plot:
party, female protagonist, family relations, problem, changing lives, lifestyle change, dying father, birthday, father, cousin, life, thinness ...
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78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.
Style:
captivating, entertaining
Plot:
sister sister relationship, family relations, sisters, kids and family, love and romance, lifestyle change, changing lives, relationships, grownups, life, sister, feminist ...
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Lucía is a six-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she has a penis. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at the same time reflect on ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, powerful, intense
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family relations, bee, female protagonist, relationships, lifestyle change, changing lives, introspection, life is a bitch, self discovery, countryside, family problems ...
Place:
basque country, spain
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, touching, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
adult child friendship, mother daughter relationship, little girl, relationship problems, mother child relationship, parents and children, family problems, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, dysfunctional family, mother and daughter ...
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61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The ugly duckling of a fraught middle-class household has her life turned upside-down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student, in this caustic, absurdist satire of petit-bourgeois family life from Dutch director Michiel ten Horn. (TIFF)
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, taboo, loss of virginity, family problems, family relations, relationships, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, foreign exchange student, introspection, life philosophy ...
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60%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Director Lal Jose is all ready with Neela Thamara, a remake of the 1979 hit by the same name, that was scripted by M.T. Vasudevan Nair and directed by Yusaf Ali Kechery. The film has had its shoot at various locations as Pattambi, Malamalkavu, ...
Style:
romantic, romantic drama, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
female protagonist, legend, unrequited love, forbidden love, life is a bitch, lifestyle change, changing lives, self discovery, life, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Teresa changes her vacation plans to spend the summer with Ani, her mother. Living together day and night after so many years is not easy for either of them. Accustomed to living alone, it is difficult for them to agree on even the small things of ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, old woman, family drama, relationships, family problems, parent child relationship, social problems, female protagonist, relationship problems, women, problem, mother and daughter ...
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58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Asia is the single mother of 17-year-old Vika. Vika's deteriorating health urges Asia to finally find her voice as a mother and to embrace and cherish their time together.
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, social
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family relations, child, single mother, parents and children, fighting illness, family life, family problems, relationships, teenage life, teenage girl, illness ...
Place:
israel, palestine
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gina, 15, lives in a city on the edge of the forest. She admires her father, unpredictable and whimsical, able to take his children at night in the woods, even to forget them. Jimmy's more and more frequent skids end up alarming his wife ...
Style:
captivating, dramatic, teen, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
mental illness, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family relations, mental institution, coming of age, female protagonist, grownups, family drama, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems ...
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55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Franco is a young man in search of his identity who appears after the death of his mother to meet his biological father. Malva is a young woman who has a magnetic attraction in men who know her. Oscar is a finance executive who lives immersed in ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, romantic, thrilling
Plot:
father son reunion, love story, family relations, lifestyle change, changing lives, relationships, love affair, self discovery, life, love interest, couples, romantic relationship ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, art film, hispanic, period drama
Plot:
biopic, social relations, society, relationships, lifestyle change, life is a bitch, male female relationship, female protagonist, social problems, family relations, changing lives, writer's life ...
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Teresa’s life is turned upside down when she is forced to accept a job far away. On her way, she loses her bag, causing her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, reflective ...
Plot:
traveling salesman, female protagonist, road trip, journey, self discovery, character study, relationships, changing lives, travel, lifestyle change, male female relationship, family relations ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Maria Chapdelaine tells the story of a young woman having to choose between three suitors promising each a different life. Faced with events that jostle her, Maria must then take his destiny into her own hands and decide what her future will be.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
teenager, relationships, family relations, love story, grownups, female protagonist, countryside, love triangle, moral dilemma, teenage girl, adolescence vs adulthood, love and romance ...
Time:
edwardian era
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A Female DJ finds love in a new city, and shares her music in honor of her late mother.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dj, female protagonist, love story, relationships, musician's life, love affair, family problems, social problems, music, musician, family relations, changing lives ...
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49%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
Manju, a village belle becomes popular after she participates in a reality show that records her day-to-day life events and telecasts it to the world
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional
Plot:
female protagonist, slice of life, privacy invasion, male female relationship, relationships, lifestyle change, changing lives, love affair, life, lifestyle, couple relations, realism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An illegal Chinese immigrant and her teenage daughter are held captive in their home after a stranger breaks in.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
prostitution, mother daughter relationship, changing lives, illegal prostitution, family relations, lifestyle change, prostitute, family problems, mysterious stranger, mother and daughter, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, teachers and students, disabled child, relationships, lifestyle, changing lives, family relations, lifestyle change, parents and children, horse, female protagonist, donkey ...
Time:
year 1900
Place:
paris france, rome italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
For Ella, the death of her alcoholic father leaves her with nothing but debt and the bitter memory of a complicated past. Abandoned by her mother at a young age, she has sacrificed her life, opportunities, and love to care for a man she resents, but ...
Style:
road movie, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
road trip, death of father, family drama, grief, loss, self discovery, coming of age, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, grownups, couple relations ...
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Amaia, who has just become a mother, decides to return to her parents' house along the Basque coast for guidance while her partner is temporarily away.
Style:
emotional, captivating, thrilling, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
motherhood, female protagonist, woman, family relations, parenting, newborn baby, domestic drama, mother child relationship, family life, family problems, kids and family, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
basque country, spain, iberian peninsula
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 90s, Isabella was eighteen and a star. 20 years later, she is still singing those same songs in small town bars with her son Bruno, playing guitar. It's because of him that her career stopped. At least it's what she tells herself.
Style:
dramatic, exciting, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
singing, family relations, female singer, pop star, relationships, guitarist, son, parent child relationship, single mother, mother and son, loneliness, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, 2010s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Darcy, a composer, sees colors when she plays musical notes. When she notices her usually subtle colors changing, she realizes a profound change is upon her. Over a summer month, Darcy creates a time of music and reflection that help her make a ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
female protagonist, composer, music, life, changing lives, lifestyle change, musician, self discovery, character study, relationships, midlife crisis, intimate ...
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41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.
Style:
heartfelt, captivating, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, female protagonist, teenage son, family relations, mother, teenager, lifestyle change, musician, relationships, bonding, family drama, self discovery ...
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An isolated farm in a remote part of the Jura region: this is where Pauline and Alex are living in complete self-sufficient harmony with nature. Their life project is sealed by their love, their ideals and their work. The couple is now ready to take ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic drama
Plot:
couples, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, farm, lifestyle change, relationship problems, love interest, female protagonist, farmhouse, farmer, changing lives ...
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40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, satirical
Plot:
unhappy marriage, pregnant woman, marital problem, pregnancy, relationship problems, money problems, changing lives, lifestyle change, family problems, fired from the job, loss of job, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A film from the skater world of São Paulo, where it is women who call the shots. Bagdá is surrounded by self-confident role models in her family. However, outside on the streets, in the venues and clubs, the old machismo continues to dominate. ...
Style:
light, captivating, independent film
Plot:
skateboard, coming of age, family relations, friendship, lifestyle, relationships, teenage life, lifestyle change, friends, drastic change of life, changing lives, skater ...
Similarity:
38%
797
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Spain, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ana, her mother and grandmother live in a small town in southeastern Spain where all three are regarded with suspicion.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tension, emotional ...
Plot:
storm, small village, prediction, relationships, threat, fortune teller, female protagonist, countryside, superstition, folklore, three generations, family drama ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot:
lifestyle change, female protagonist, female writer, ghost writer, changing lives, writer's life, mysterious character, secret, screenwriter, assassination, murder, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
rome italy, italy, palermo italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia, Germany, Russia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the Armenian ‘Sharakan’, a nine-part song that brings us gradually closer to meaning, Maria Saakyan’s new film further develops the poetic invention apparent in her first feature, The Lighthouse. Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
coming of age, older man teenage girl relationship, teenage girl, teenager, single mother, family relations, romantic relationship, teenage life, small town life, relationships, mother daughter relationship, love affair ...
Similarity:
37%
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