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Tenderness (2017)
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Original name: La tenerezza
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A retired lawyer becomes friends with a young wife who has just moved in the adjacent apartment with her family.
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
murder, family relations, parents and children, father daughter relationship, self discovery, father son relationship, life & death, stereotypes, lifestyle, social relations, life philosophy, idealism, cynicism, family tragedy, life turned upside down, racism, coma, translator, family secret, patricide, family secrets
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic and sincere films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, self discovery and lifestyle mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Tenderness: The Dinner (2014), The Festival of Troubadours (2022), Domestic Life (2013), The Deflowering of Eva van End (2012), Just Henry (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
64%
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:
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Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Prompted by horrific nightmares, Henry delves into the mystery of his past and begins to uncover the truth about his father's death, triggering a series of revelations that will change his family forever.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, murder, teenage life, coming of age, parents and children, teenage love, family life, youth, bittersweet, death, father son relationship, world war two
Time:
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Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When their father's will forces them to live together, siblings Nik and Tesla — and Tesla's kids — try to overcome their differences to become a family.
Style:
sincere, psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional
Plot:
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Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, psychological, captivating, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his ...
Style:
psychological, touching, captivating, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Veronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting out of the bounds of good behavior as the past haunts them.
Style:
entertaining, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
father daughter relationship, sexual assault, transformation, family problems, haunted by the past, family relations, introspection, life is a bitch, family drama, storytelling, redemption, adaptation ...
Similarity:
55%
313
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Milo, an isolated 10-year-old boy with 'sensitive skin', lives a life rigidly controlled by his father. Sparked by his first friendship, he runs away from home to attend the school camping trip - but never arrives. He falls into the hands ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, psychological, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, coming of age, friendship, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, friends, father son relationship, disease, runaway child, self discovery, hiking ...
Time:
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Place:
holland
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, captivating, suspense, mesmerizing ...
Plot:
photograph, on the run, photography, human nature, rivalry, mysterious character, love affair, lifestyle, on the road, life turned upside down, revenge, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, italy, europe, sicily
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
Style:
psychological, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
police detective, uncover truth, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, family problems, memory loss, parents and children, a vision, hospital, coma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
unhappy marriage, middle aged, family problems, marital problem, family relations, parents and children, family life, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, middle aged man, father son relationship, kids and family ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, life affirming
Plot:
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Country: Austria
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, emotional, disturbing, dark ...
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Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
46%
536
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
couple relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, thoughtful, life turned upside down, family in crisis, down on your luck, gift, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two families who live in neighborhood in south of Tehran have different looks to life. These differences make some troubles for both.
Style:
captivating
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, thought provoking, emotional, melancholic, sincere
Plot:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A husband, wife and their two daughters take a Christmas break at a lodge in the woods. There's evident tension between the couple. He's pulled by attention to his corporation and negotiations about a merger. Even on their vacation ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, lost in the woods, christmas eve, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, family relations, character change, self discovery, transformation, struggle for survival, coping, attempted murder ...
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A New York street hustler specializing in name-brand knock-offs finds his highly profitable game suddenly complicated when his ex-girlfriend shows up toting the son he never knew he had.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
parents and children, cons and scams, family relations, immigrant, city life, social differences, forgery, lifestyle, unfulfillment, father son relationship, african, family problems ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman decides to sell her virginity to pay off her mother's debts when she realises that her earnings as an online x-rated model are not enough.
Style:
captivating, psychological, sincere, romantic drama, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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