Movies like Father and Sons

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Father and Sons (2018)
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Father and Sons (2018)
Original name: Deux fils
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love...
Style: light, captivating, entertaining
Plot: father son relationship, brother brother relationship, brothers, family relations, parents and children, life, kids and family, brother, relationship problems, family problems, eccentric family, love, school, beer, swimming pool, funeral, telephone call, cigarette smoking, death of brother, loss of brother, kiss, telephone conversation, underwater scene, coffin, child smoking ...
Place: paris france

Most similar movies to Father and Sons

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, entertaining, light and humorous films with plots about family relations, parents and children, kids and family, family problems, father son relationship, relationships and brother brother relationship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Father and Sons: My Father's Stories (2020), 3 Days with Dad (2019), Fathers & Sons (2010), In Memory of My Father (2005), See You in Valhalla (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Father's Stories (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly ...
Style: feel good, captivating, light, funny, humorous ...
Plot: children, father son relationship, lie, parents and children, family life, father and son, kids and family, family relations, deception, con trick, heroes, white lie ...
Time: year 1961
Place: lyon
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100%
3 Days with Dad (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, light
Plot: life, relationship problems, family relations, overbearing parent, domineering mother, confronting the past, parents and children, relationships, dealing with the past, revelation, family problems, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Fathers & Sons (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A south-Asian accountant introduces his white fiance ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, death in the family, siblings relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, father and son, relationship problems, father son reunion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
In Memory of My Father (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The youngest son of a legendary Hollywood producer, a Robert Evans type, accepts a bribe from his father to document his death.
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, touching, entertaining ...
Plot: family relations, eccentric family, family problems, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, hollywood, narcissism, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, corpse, funeral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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See You in Valhalla (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years, to face her strange siblings, her out of touch father and her very touchy past.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, humorous
Plot: family problems, parents and children, brother sister relationship, secret past, family secret, relationship problems, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, family life, kids and family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
We Are Brothers (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two brothers were separated in childhood at an orphanage, only to find each other as adults 30 years later. But right after their reunion, their birth mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, suddenly disappears. So Sang-yeon and Ha-yeon ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, light
Plot: shaman, family relations, twins separated at birth, brothers, brother brother relationship, brother brother reunion, mother child separation, religious differences, relationships, family reunited, kids and family, cultural difference ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Father and Sons (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Léo, un vieux père de famille ancien représentant de commerce, est prêt à tout pour retrouver l'affection de ses trois fils, David, Max et Simon. Il va même jusqu'à invoquer une maladie et une intervention chirurgicale pour les ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, touching, entertaining ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, eccentric family, family gatherings, family life, unemployment, fake illness, father son relationship, father son reunion, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: quebec, canada, paris france, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Naija Christmas (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Three sons try to make their mother’s dreams come true by bringing home wives for Christmas.
Style: entertaining, captivating, satirical, semi serious
Plot: christmas, mother and son, eccentric family, parents and children, sibling rivalry, brother brother relationship, kids and family, competitor, family problems, black people, brothers, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Brothers (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Three brothers, a cook, an author and a convict, reunite to look for their father after their mother dies in Germany. Soon they realize that they know less about their mother (and have less in common) than they had thought.
Style: entertaining, captivating, light
Plot: family relations, brother brother relationship, family reunited, mother son relationship, brothers, family secret, search for mother, brother brother reunion, brother, relationships, cemetery, heart attack ...
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.8
 745
Dany (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Dany, the king of petty thefts, did not wait until the end of his prison sentence to reunite with his 13-year-old son Sullivan. The only thing he now needs is a job and an apartment to regain custody of his son.
Style: captivating, satirical, semi serious, disturbing, psychological
Plot: father son relationship, prison, parents and children, family relations, kids and family, father, family problems, parent child relationship, father and son, prisoner, jail, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
 1K
Not Like Dad (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min.
Story: The story of the journey of an adult hero to his Bata, a stern Russian peasant who became a father at the dawn of the nineties and raised his son the way all Soviet people did.
Style: light, captivating, humorous, entertaining
Plot: parenting, family relations, parents and children, father son relationship, father and son, humour, eccentric family, relationships, kids and family, gross out humor, father, son ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
My Boss, My Hero (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Sakaki Makio, also known as "Tornado" is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. By academic standards, he's pretty dumb. His father decides to force Makio to return to high school to receive his diploma and he asks an old friend ...
Style: dorama, captivating, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, school, brother brother relationship, rivalry, family relations, humour, brothers, life, father son relationship, makeover, organized crime, high school ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.3
 104
Dad for Rent (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.
Style: light, funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, father and daughter, parents and children, family relations, humour, money problems, relationship problems, family problems, financial problem, relationships, daughter
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.0
 578
The Relatives (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: One morning, the father of the family decides to fulfill his lifelong dream: to go with his family to the Grushinsky festival and perform his song there. The family is forced to come to terms with the desire of a tyrant father and go on a road trip ...
Style: humorous, captivating, funny, feel good, light ...
Plot: road trip, parents and children, travel, humour, kids and family, eccentric family, escapades, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, travelogue, family relations, father daughter relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.5
 768
Call Mom! (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Parents wait all their lives for their children to say "Thank you!" And the children in turn wait for a "Sorry!". This impossible equation is the starting point in the comedy "Call Mom!" Niki has just turned 35 and has ...
Style: funny, light, captivating, fun
Plot: family relations, mother and daughter, grownups, adulthood, parent grown child relationship, parents and children, family conflict, lifestyle, conflict, kids and family, relationship problems, family life ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.5
 189
Bootleg Dad (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ian discovers that André, a former soap opera star and current alcoholic is his real father. Ian decides to go work at his ruined mascot business where he finds a place populated by extravagant people and discovers the meaning of fatherhood.
Style: captivating, entertaining, sincere
Plot: parenthood, teenager, fatherhood, humour, search for father, family relations, father, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, paternity revealed, absent father ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.3
 583
Disconnected (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Well-known writer Ettore takes his family on a mountain chalet getaway for his birthday, in an effort to create a bond between his two sons, Claudio and Giulio, and his second wife, Margherita. The group is also joined by Margherita's brother, ...
Style: light, entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Plot: eccentric family, kids and family, humour, family relations, large family, family problems, isolation, parents and children, mountain
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
All About Mothers (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: They are the President of the Republic, a nanny, a baker, an actress, a teacher, a florist, a journalist, unemployed, a pediatrician. They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in ...
Style: light, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, sincere
Plot: family life, parenthood, motherhood, life, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, relationships, family relations, mother son relationship, mother love, public nudity, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Dad's Lunch Box (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: This film was inspired by a real-life story of a Japanese father who for the three years his daughter spent at high school prepared daily bento lunch boxes for her leading to delicious, interesting or offbeat creations. In all cases, he put an ...
Style: captivating, sincere, light, entertaining
Plot: food, father daughter relationship, school, friend, father and daughter, parents and children, care, lifestyle, life, family relations, fatherhood, kids and family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
 1K
Brother (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of ...
Style: captivating, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: juvenile delinquency, brother brother relationship, scapegoat, father son relationship, abandoned baby, reform school, siblings, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, brother, brothers ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Boy Named Flora A (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A 28-year-old layabout begins to re-examine his life when his dysfunctional family assembles to pay respects to a dying grandmother who won’t pass on.
Style: captivating, light, entertaining, humorous, sincere
Plot: relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, family life, coping, lifestyle, kids and family, financial problem, family relations, dysfunctional family, social problems, marital problem ...
Place: taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Father Is a Cleaning Lady (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: teenage life, parents and children, family relations, youth, family life, introspection, teenage love, buddies, social relations, kids and family, nursing, humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.5
 21K
Father Figures (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: twins, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, fraternal twins, craziness, mother son relationship, search for father, unknown father, road trip, fool, hitchhiker, escapades ...
Time: year 2017
Place: usa, new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Fathers and Mothers (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Follows Piv and Ulrik, who are trying to become part of the parent group in their daughter's new school class, going to great lengths to be admitted.
Style: entertaining, exciting, dramatic, funny, humorous ...
Plot: parenting, school, daughter, parent child relationship, kids and family, parents and children, family problems, children, parents daughter relationship, family life, family relations, schoolgirl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.9
 82
Godfather (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A 2012 Kannada film
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense
Plot: revenge, father and son, mother and daughter, dysfunctional family, family problems, identity crisis, brother brother relationship, family relations, kids and family, parents and children, relationship problems, guilt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Greek Type of Problem (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 93 min.
Story: "Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child. But, some forty years and four sons later, nothing is happening like it should be during this month of August: as she arrives on Greek soil to ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, satirical, entertaining
Plot: punishment, family problems, satire, family relations, dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, parents and children, relationship problems, father son relationship, oedipus complex
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.0
 159
Normal (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William hangs out in his wardrobe and devises pranks and jokes to make his daughter smile, Lucie tries her ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, psychological, satirical, feel good ...
Plot: teenage girl, female protagonist, social worker, father daughter relationship, kids and family, family life, multiple sclerosis, lifestyle, crypt, relationships, satire, parents and children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Young Bodies Heal Quickly (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
Style: psychological, disturbing, satirical, captivating, independent film
Plot: family relations, violence, family problems, brothers, runaway, murderer, satire, brother brother relationship, problem, murder, murder mystery, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.0
 2K
Saint Amour (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French ...
Style: road movie
Plot: wine, on the road, father son relationship, taxi, drinking alcohol, twin sister, cattle, alcohol abuse, egg, drunkenness, realtor, cow ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film centers on three brothers who, upon learning they only have a few days left to live, set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Hopper and Simmons are playing the brothers' father and uncle, respectively, while Caan is one of the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, contemplative ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, last wish, family problems, ex athlete, self discovery, introspection, terminal illness, friendship, death, society, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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