Movies like Blackbird
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Blackbird (2019)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, disturbing, touching, heartbreaking, compassionate
Plot:
euthanasia, dying man, family relations, meaning of life, life & death, family problems, problem solving, death of mother, dark secret, doubts and hesitations, health situation, suffering, moral dilemma, suicidal thoughts, life philosophy, near death experience, love, death, illness, terminal illness, lesbian couple, christmas, sex, lesbian, dancing ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, serious, sincere and realistic films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, food, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship and hospital mostly in Drama, Biography and Mystery genres. Some movies like Blackbird: 3 Generations (2015), James White (2015), Life as a House (2001), The Wife (2017), Columbus (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
Style:
disturbing, sincere, captivating, emotional, sexy ...
Plot:
lesbian, grandmother granddaughter relationship, lgbt, single mother, mother daughter relationship, teenager, transsexual, lgbtq, gender roles, gay, gender, strong female character ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style:
sad, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, promise, friendship, terminal illness, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, new life, addiction, gay, cancer, self destructing ...
Time:
year 1983, year 2000, year 2013
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
relationships, terminal illness, dying, reconciliation, house, divorce, father son relationship, suburbs, redemption, illness, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
41K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, lyrical, emotional, intellectual ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, marriage, aspiring writer, sexism, father son relationship, family relations, novelist, professor, twists and turns, adulterous husband, award ...
Time:
year 1992, 60s, 90s, 50s, year 1960 ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city, sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship ...
Style:
captivating, touching, sincere, serious, cerebral ...
Plot:
father son relationship, architecture, mother daughter relationship, coma, korean american, relationships, small town, friendship, family relations, male female relationship, family problems, social problems ...
Time:
year 1950, year 1954, 2010s, year 2008
Place:
indiana, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Movies similar to Manchester by the Sea
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK, Norway
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
wedding, marriage, poverty, family bonds, wealth, family relations, family problems, family secret, hopes, couple relations, parents and children, financial problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Hungary, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A grieving woman embarks on an emotional journey after the Ioss of her baby.
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
loss of child, birth, midwife, pregnancy, couples, grieving, marriage, mother in law son in law relationship, love, husband wife relationship, infidelity, death ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, family problems, estrangement, elderly, gender, love and romance, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california, miami, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, inspirational, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
terminal illness, human spirit, against the odds, family relations, life is a bitch, disability, courage, cure, boy, hopes, research, parent child relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, year 1986, year 1983, 80s
Place:
washington d.c., rome italy, italy, edinburgh scotland, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, touching
Plot:
mother, drugs, mother daughter relationship, heroin, recovering drug addict, drug addict, rehabilitation, family relations, parents and children, family problems, mother and daughter, dysfunctional family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Movies like The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
Style:
sentimental, captivating, melancholic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, memory loss, mother daughter relationship, lie, blizzard, self discovery, introspection, woman, marriage, illness, dementia, snow ...
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, california, sacramento california, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, sincere, realistic
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, estrangement, love and romance, siblings relations, family life, terminal illness, haunted by the past, parents and children, homosexual, secret, photographer ...
Place:
new york, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The prestigious Danish filmmaker Bille August, winner of an Academy Award and two Palme d'Or in Cannes, returns with a highly personal drama. Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, family life, life is a bitch, family problems, couple relations, couples, family gatherings, siblings relations, parents and children, euthanasia, terminal illness, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece, Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, atmospheric, compassionate, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
best friend, father son relationship, landlord tenant relationship, coming of age, acting class, absent father, brother sister relationship, teenage boy, marital problem, grandfather grandson relationship, teenage girl, bullying ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, depressing, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
grief, friendship, dealing with death, mental illness, tragic event, friends, loss of loved one, alone, buddies, psychology, mental disorder, loss ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Movies similar to Pretty Baby
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, road trip, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, partners, parents and children, parent child relationship, last will and testament ...
Time:
year 1989, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, london, california, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as ...
Style:
controversial, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
child prostitution, virginity, innocence lost, prostitution, loss of virginity, girl man relationship, world war one, photographer, sexuality, brothel, child prostitute, prostitute ...
Time:
victorian era, 1910s, 90s, 20th century, year 1917
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
30K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of ...
Style:
melancholic, suspenseful, serious, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
unemployment, coming of age, bus, teenage boy, infidelity, parents and children, fired from the job, family relations, marital separation, unemployed, father son relationship, loss of job ...
Time:
60s, year 1960
Place:
montana, portland oregon, idaho, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Style:
sentimental, touching, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
actor, filmmaking, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, death, factory, singer, doctor, pneumonia, anxiety, dancing, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
Style:
scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
sex, stalking, paranoia, fear, secret, love and romance, adultery, unfaithful husband, mental illness, family problems, couples, dishonesty ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
australia, kosovo, melbourne australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, coming out, lgbtq, gay interest, bondage, family relations, gay relationship, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
138K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Style:
sad, touching, heartbreaking, emotional, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, memory loss, mother daughter relationship, supportive spouse, columbia university, terminal illness, illness, family bonds, psychology, mental illness, doctors, relationships ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
85K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A Korean-American family moves to Arkansas in search of their own American Dream. With the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother, the stability of their relationships is challenged even more in this new life in the ...
Style:
sad, captivating, sincere, relaxing, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
korean american, countryside, grandmother grandson relationship, husband wife relationship, american dream, friendship, farmer, korean, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family relations, coming of age, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, starting over, small town life, love and romance, couple relations, brother brother relationship, suburbs, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, single parent ...
Place:
florida, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out ...
Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, pregnancy, teenage mother, loss of son, family relations, crumbling marriage, youth, family problems, parents and children, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
cheerleader, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, overprotective mother, daughter, freedom, beauty queen, breakup, money problems, american dream, single mother, talent show ...
Time:
year 1865, year 2004, year 2019
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for mentally retarded children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
teaching, school, teachers and students, mentally challenged, dedicated educator, human spirit, hopes, youth, orphan, medical, psychiatry, psychopath ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1959
Place:
usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mother with seven sons feels like she's losing control of her life and her family. But personal...
Style:
touching, realistic, melancholic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, character study, pain, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, mother son relationship, couples, estrangement, terrorism ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
london, new jersey, middle east, utah, beirut lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenager, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, haunted by the past, family in crisis ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Style:
touching, melancholic, emotional, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, dysfunctional family, tragedy, relationships, women, life, parenthood, honest, parents and children, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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