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Union Square (2011)
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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 family and cut off communication, seeking a more ordered life far from her roots in the Bronx. And she's almost ready to commit to her longtime fiancé when her sister Lucy - the personification of all that Jenny has been trying to flee - surprises her at a critical time. Lucy and Jenny's combustible reunion brings both of them to unforeseen places, shattering and reconstructing the worlds they have both carefully constructed.
Style:
sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, talky, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family problems, siblings relations, rivalry, lifestyle, city life, estrangement, ego clash, twists and turns, mental disorder, lost girl, urban, strong female presence, snobbism, family relations, reunion, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and sincere films with plots about family relations, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, parents and children, siblings relations and family in crisis mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Union Square: Possible Side Effects (2008), Particles of Truth (2003), Alpha Male (2006), A Long Way Home (2003), Little John (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A television drama that revolves around a family that runs a pharmaceutical company.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, dramatic ...
Plot:
family business, pharmaceutical company, family relations, workplace, family problems, parents and children, love, rivalry, couples, ethical dilemma, family drama, morality ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, estrangement, mental illness, human nature, family problems, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, estrangement, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, elderly lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, parents and children, domestic disturbance, family in crisis, life is a bitch, hopes, family problems, redemption, estrangement, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, her father took the boy and raised him. Twelve years later, she is now a successful ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
adoption, orphan, estrangement, single parent, custody, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, hopes, pregnancy, love, child hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, england, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, pregnancy, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, marriage, love, rivalry, realism, compromise ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
hip hop, introspection, lifestyle, teenage life, youth, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, family life, siblings relations, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
752
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.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, understanding, friendship, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend, sex
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, britain
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The night before Jack (Gil Bellows) is slated to begin a five-year prison sentence for murder, his wife, Melanie (Jennifer Beals), and assorted siblings gather for a dinner to bid Jack farewell and good luck on his trip up the river. But the party ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, couple relations, family secret, sibling rivalry, family drama, conflict, parents and children, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
terminal illness, dysfunctional family, estrangement, leukemia, family drama, father daughter relationship, family problems, single parent, siblings relations, sibling relationship, unfulfillment, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
florida, usa, ohio, orlando florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
asthma, parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Patricia (Kate Fahy) and her two children, young adults Edward (Tom Hiddleston) and Cynthia (Lydia Leonard), arrive for a break at a holiday cottage. As rain and wind lash against the windows, Patricia grows exasperated at the absence of her ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sincere, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family in crisis, parents and children, estrangement, siblings relations, family gatherings, introspection, mental disorder, grief, nature, road trip, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The coming of age story about two brothers who struggle to mend their estranged relationship as their college campus gears up for a major Stepshow competition.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film
Plot:
college, family relations, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, family problems, hopes, college life, hip hop, youth, estrangement, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, loneliness, trouble, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
738
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But as the festivities come to an end, repressed conflicts rise to the surface. Old wounds are opened and a new family is ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, family gatherings, under the surface, parents and children, estrangement, strong female presence, family problems, siblings relations, male nudity, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, transsexual, lgbt, gay, homecoming, going straight, starting over, redemption, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, holocaust, life is a bitch, memory loss, estrangement, parents and children, deportation, uncover truth, jew persecution, past, world war two, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, hopes, society, working class, domestic disturbance, sex ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, ireland, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, family problems, dysfunctional family, aging, family relations, estrangement, memory loss, parents and children, elderly, father son relationship, love, brothers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, self discovery, elderly, hopes, family problems, countryside, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, rough, informative ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, addiction, family relations, human nature, society, family problems, family in crisis, women of color, feminist, child abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
death in the family, last wish, family problems, family relations, introspection, hopes, siblings relations, dealing with death, brother brother relationship, minimalism, very little dialogue, death of mother ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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544
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, swimmer, sex crime, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, autumn, estrangement, parent child relationship, rich and poor, siblings relations, parents and children, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, family life, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
boston, europe, england, usa, harvard university
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Friends and family of Cory, a young man who has died of an overdose, gather at a Baltimore-area karaoke bar for his wake and compare stories about him. Gradually, as it becomes clear that there are many holes in their recollections about Cory, they ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family problems, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, death in the family, social relations, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, family in crisis, father daughter relationship, overdose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, maryland, baltimore
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.
Style:
psychological, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
clinic, parent child relationship, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, power relations, family relations, doctors and patients, parents and children, therapy, mother daughter relationship, mother ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
Style:
contemplative, serious, emotional, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
unfaithful wife, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, unrequited love, sisters, family relations, family problems, estrangement, lifestyle, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, family gatherings ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
greece, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After his parents’ death, Shawn, 19 and mildly delinquent, tries to look after his little sister to cash in on his dad’s life insurance. But you can’t buy love -- and you sure can’t ignore it. Shawn will find out he’s got more to gain by ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
custody, family problems, coming of age, teenage life, family relations, youth, rivalry, small town, family life, dog, homeless, poverty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
michigan, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, psychological, uplifting ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, rivalry, death in the family, sport team, athlete's life, last will and testament, estrangement, father son relationship, getting home, sex with brother in law, american football ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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