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Guest of Honour (2019)
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Guest of Honour (2019)
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: captivating, entertaining, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: father daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, self discovery, family problems, redemption, family drama, introspection, transformation, adaptation, storytelling, haunted by the past, hopes, female teacher, rabbit, death of father, scandal, extortion, death of pet, prison visit, psychological drama, eulogy

Most similar movies to Guest of Honour

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, psychological and realistic films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, redemption and father daughter relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Guest of Honour: Run the Tide (2016), Looking for Alexander (2004), Offline (2012), The Day I Was Not Born (2010), Erratum (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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She Is Not Crying, She Is Singing (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, family secret, car accident, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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95%
 5.2
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Run the Tide (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When their drug abusing mother is released from prison determined to rebuild their family, Rey kidnaps his younger brother Oliver and escapes their desert home for the California coast.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, touching, sincere, disturbing
Audience: family outing
Plot: dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, responsibility, transformation, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, runaway, escapades, self discovery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Looking for Alexander (2004)
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, mind bending ...
Plot: uncover truth, haunted by the past, police detective, family problems, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, parents and children, memory loss, a vision, hospital, coma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 7.1
 883
Offline (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot: haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, society, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, hopes, job seeking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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The Day I Was Not Born (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story: During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown ...
Style: realistic, psychological, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: redemption, self discovery, parents and children, uncover truth, protecting from truth, haunted by the past, adoption, family relations, hopes, society, life is a bitch, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.8
 564
Erratum (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, homecoming, haunted by the past, buddies, parents and children, family relations, hopes, redemption, profanity, friends, estrangement, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.9
 334
Love Come Down (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: family relations, self discovery, interracial relations, drug abuse, addiction, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Christmas Child (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A life-sized nativity leads a man to learn about his past and lost family.
Style: serious, emotional, captivating, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: christmas, redemption, self discovery, haunted by the past, road not taken, rehabilitation, journalism, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, hopes, family relations ...
Place: usa, texas, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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V.C. Andrews' Dawn (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Follows the dark and twisted history of Dawn Longchamp and her family, along with Cutler and Booth families.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: teen drama
Plot: domestic drama, family relations, female protagonist, family life, relatives, sibling relationship, family drama, parents and children, relationships, family problems
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.5
 144
You (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming-of-age journey for ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, coming of age, parents and children, haunted by the past, redemption, single parent, hopes, love, loss of mother, teenager, friendship, grieving widower ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.7
 564
Cook County (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, parents and children, homecoming, drug abuse, methamphetamine, adolescence vs adulthood, small town ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.6
 411
Parallel Roads (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gaby, Fer's mother and Silvia, Diego's mother, live their lives happily, until one day, due to Diego's kidney disease they find out that the kids were switched at birth. In order to save Diego’, both mothers end up in a legal battle ...
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: biological father, mother son relationship, illness, family relations, search for father, child illness, fighting illness, problem, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
A Long Way Home (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: psychiatrist, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, domestic disturbance, redemption, life is a bitch, family in crisis, hopes, parents and children, family problems, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.0
 461
Punch (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ariel is a troubled girl with more than the usual teenage problems. When her emotion and temper get the best of her, she is drawn into a world where she can take out her anger with her fists. In the tradition of 'Girlfight' comes a wildly ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, serious, rough, erotic ...
Plot: boxing, teenage life, athlete's life, lifestyle, rivalry, hopes, family relations, anger, parents and children, redemption, family problems, female boxer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Don't Be Afraid (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her fight against adversity and against herself, she will ...
Style: psychological, realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: haunted by the past, starting over, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, incest, abuse, rape, sexual abuse, girl, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.8
 323
Pearl (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.
Style: thrilling, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot: father daughter relationship, paternity revealed, family relations, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, family problems, relationship problems, female protagonist, murder mystery, family secret, family drama, student ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.6
 449
Gone Fishing (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A recovering alcoholic travels to the untamed coast of Patagonia to reconnect with his estranged daughter in this gentle yet deeply resonant drama from Argentine writer-director Carlos Sorin.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: rehabilitation, family relations, redemption, estrangement, introspection, parents and children, father daughter reunion, recovering alcoholic, self discovery, journey, shark, doom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.5
 218
Route 132 (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption.
Style: road movie, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: crime spree, self discovery, friends, introspection, haunted by the past, partner, buddies, countryside, dealing with death, unlikely criminals, hopes, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Heaven on Earth (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Chand arrives in Brampton, Ontario to meet her new husband, she leaves behind a loving family and supportive community. Now, in a new country, she finds herself living in a modest suburban home with seven other people and two part-time tenants. ...
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, sincere, multicultural ...
Plot: immigrant, couple relations, self discovery, destructive relationship, dysfunctional family, couples, family relations, family problems, hopes, redemption, society, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, india, asia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
As They Made Us (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, entertaining, touching
Plot: family relations, relationships, parents and children, eccentric family, family life, divorced mother, relationship problems, female protagonist, family problems, street life, choice, caregiver ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.6
 513
Rust (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: clergy, self discovery, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, homecoming, religions or cults, friendship, society, small town, human nature, direction and purpose ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
House Of Himiko (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: gay father, father daughter relationship, gay parent, family relations, lgbtq, money problems, female protagonist, father and daughter, financial problem, new job, family problems, parents and children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.0
 761
The Auction (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support ...
Style: touching, realistic, contemplative, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: farm, parents and children, introspection, selflessness, family relations, countryside, father daughter relationship, elderly, father, old man, farmer, rural area ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, france, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 6.9
 104
Life After You (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A suburban family struggles with the death of their 19 year-old son, following an overdose of heroin that was laced with fentanyl. The film explores the question of who and what is responsible for this tragedy.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: drug, drug overdose, life is a bitch, family tragedy, family problems, parents and children, social problems, loss of child, loss of family member, drug abuse, tragedy, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Skipping Stones (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: tragic event, relationships, life is a bitch, loss of brother, family relations, changing lives, friendship
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
33 Scenes from Life (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: death, family relations, introspection, self discovery, family problems, parents and children, parent child relationship, hopes, dealing with death, lifestyle, estrangement, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.3
 152
Reconciliation (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: RECONCILIATION is a groundbreaking, provocative story about an estranged father and son struggling to overcome the heartbreaking consequences of their past. Grant Taylor (Eric Nenninger) has been troubled by intense childhood memories ever since his ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, emotional ...
Plot: gay parent, family relations, redemption, haunted by the past, last wish, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, terminal illness, parents and children, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Gideon's Daughter (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, political, tense ...
Plot: election, love affair, introspection, relationship vs career, politics, redemption, family relations, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, manic pixie dream girl, summer ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Deiva Thirumagal (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story: A mentally retarded man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his opponent lawyer the value of love and family.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: handicapped, courtroom drama, father daughter relationship, mental illness, lawyer, mental retardation, child custody, disability, court, family relations, social problems, physical disability ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Return to Innocence (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Director Rocky Costanzo's searing legal drama centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist named Glen Erskine (Richard Meese) whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating. ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: pedophilia, coming of age, courtroom, man boy relationship, redemption, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, parents and children, dysfunctional family, teenage life, custody, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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