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The Ties (2020)
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The Ties (2020)
Original name: Lacci
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Naples, early 1980’s. Aldo and Vanda go through a separation, after he reveals his affair. Their two young children are torn between their parents, in a whirlwind of resentment. But the ties that keep people together are inescapable, even without love. Now, 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still married.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, realistic, complex
Plot: family relations, infidelity, family problems, crumbling marriage, teenager, loneliness, depression, justice, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, teenage life, society, husband wife relationship, social relations, life philosophy, estrangement, bittersweet, past, marriage crisis, marriage, woman with glasses, female full frontal nudity
Time: 80s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, society, dysfunctional family, couples and estrangement mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Ties: Family Secrets (2001), No Letting Go (2015), Blame It on Mum (2009), Return to Peyton Place (1961), Our Story (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Family Secrets (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, suspense
Plot: life turned upside down, family life, love affair, crumbling marriage, couple relations, lifestyle, family problems, under the surface, infidelity, family in crisis, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
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No Letting Go (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: What would you do to save your child? A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.
Style: suspense, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic ...
Plot: mental illness, mental health, coming of age, bipolar disorder, family relations, teenager, family problems, teenage boy, teenage life, motherhood, estrangement, adolescence ...
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86%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
Style: retro, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: small town, scandal, family relations, dysfunctional family, infidelity, mother in law, family problems, couples, estrangement, social relations, society, youth ...
Time: year 1961, 50s
Place: new york, usa, new hampshire, massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Our Story (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A son tries to restore the honour of his father, who was imprisoned during the 1980 military coup.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: lifestyle change, family relations, coup d'etat, changing lives, parents and children, social relations, social problems, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, coup, family problems, family life ...
Place: middle east, turkey
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84%
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Wild Iris (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: parents and children, dysfunctional family, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, teenage life, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent, introspection, lifestyle ...
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82%
In the Custody of Strangers (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing
Plot: prison, self defense, parents and children, custody, prison life, teenage life, unemployment, isolation, family life, alcohol abuse, family problems, injustice ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Anonymes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Switzerland, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.
Style: serious, thought provoking, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, coming of age, teenage life, family life, hopes, introspection, self discovery, parents and children, siblings relations, mother daughter relationship, arab, youth ...
Place: tunisia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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The Sex of the Stars (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Every child who has lost a parent early in life (whether due to death or the separations of divorce or for any other reason) longs to see that parent again. Many have kept up a running dialogue in their heads of things they would say to them if they ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: lgbtq, family relations, transsexual, parents and children, transvestism, estrangement, unfulfillment, gender, society, coming of age, gays and lesbians, human nature ...
Time: 90s
Place: quebec, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Mothers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning ...
Style: captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: parents and children, murder, elderly, introspection, estrangement, family relations, gender, society, life, small town life, relationships, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, macedonia
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80%
Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: poverty, honor, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, thief, accountant, missing child
Time: 2010s, 19th century
Place: france, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
All Is Forgiven (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, redemption, teenager, parents and children, addiction, crumbling marriage, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Our Life (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, working class, lifestyle, society, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Forgive Me (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Violette, an expectant wife, who opens a nasty barrel of worms by filming a documentary about her dysfunctional family, to be shown to her (as yet) unborn son.Through her ever-present lens, Violette begins to unearth one nasty family secret after ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, pregnancy, family problems, couples, infidelity, parents and children, uncover truth, disturbed childhood, adultery, adolescence ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Hidden Diary (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, gloomy
Plot: dysfunctional family, mysterious past, murder, parent child relationship, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, haunted by the past, bittersweet, small town, beach, cemetery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Mile Zero (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mile Zero is a story about a father with a remarkable capacity to love.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, gloomy
Plot: kidnapping, estrangement, couples, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, breakup, wilderness, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, parents and children, utopia ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Policeman's Wife (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: accident, couple relations, family problems, domestic violence, family relations, couples, small town, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Sunday's Illness (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: family relations, love, life philosophy, hopes, parents and children, ambition, friendship, society, youth, friends, small town, family problems ...
Place: barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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A Way of Life (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: At 17 LeighAnne Williams has a six month old baby to look after, with only the help of three teenage squatters who flog stolen gear to make ends meet. A neighbour (actually from Turkey) across the street becomes target to her growing paranoia that ...
Style: realistic, psychological, disturbing, bleak, sad ...
Plot: poverty, vandalism, delusion, family relations, family problems, social relations, life is a bitch, society, custody, interracial relations, parents and children, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Another Child (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 17-year-old Joo-ri discovers her father is having an affair with the mother of her hard-headed classmate Yoon-ah.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Audience: teen drama
Plot: love affair, mother daughter relationship, family problems, family relations, parents and children, male female relationship, relationships, teenage life, teenage girl, love interest, teenager, teenage protagonist ...
Place: korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, gloomy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: family problems, life is a bitch, youth, social relations, teenage life, high school life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy girl relationship, family relations, friends ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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The Fatherless (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: They never expected Kyra to turn up again. The two brothers and their sister, brought together when their father dies, are stunned by the appearance of their sister.Kyra suddenly vanished over twenty years ago during the breakup of the hippie ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: self discovery, family relations, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, family problems, death in the family, siblings relations, family secret, mother son relationship, family reunited, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Prague (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Christoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father, evolves into the story of a brake-up. With the dead father lurking in the background, secrets gradually emerge threatening to destroy their marriage.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love, marriage, family relations, infidelity, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, dishonesty, couples, resentment, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic, denmark, europe, central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Future Weather (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, dysfunctional family, teenage life, gain trust, youth, life is a bitch, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Heaven's Heart (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, estrangement, best friend, anniversary, family problems, introspection, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, marriage, dinner ...
Place: denmark, eastern europe
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76%
The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, family problems, couples, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Come Rain Come Shine (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: David Jason stars as cockney ex-docker Don Mitchell in this emotional drama. Don is incredibly proud of his son David’s affluent lifestyle. The cars, the detached house and private schooling for the children were things Don could only dream about ...
Style: realistic, psychological, contemplative, captivating, serious
Plot: family relations, parents and children, estrangement, relationship vs career, working class, society, couples, emotionless, life turned upside down, family in crisis, three generations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Things Behind the Sun (2006)
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: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot: estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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 ⇓
75%
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Emoticon ;) (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern means of communication.' All that changes when she meets her new boyfriend's teenage kids, who are going through their own journeys of ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, couple relations, teaching the ways of the world, profanity, bittersweet, love and romance, society, couples, power relations, teenage life, computers and web ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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