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Más que el Agua (2021)
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Más que el Agua (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Nicolás and Carlitos live in the neighborhood near the old town of Santo Domingo. Nicolás is dedicated to the sale of cannabis, with what has survived since he and his brother were orphaned 15 years ago. Nicolás knows that it is time to take his brother out of the neighborhood if he wants him to progress in a society that is increasingly hostile to people like them.
Plot: abduction, marijuana, domestic violence, orphan, family relations, drug dealer, poverty, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, car theft, waiter, passionate kiss, class differences, rough sex, gay slur, fleeing, family drama, police raid, closeted homosexual, cannabis, abortion clinic, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, restraining order, bar, panties ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, serious and psychological films with plots about family relations, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, poverty, family problems, dysfunctional family and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Más que el Agua: Cold Water (2015), Who Will Love My Children? (1983), Valparaiso My Love (1969), Monologue (1973), The Policeman's Wife (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cold Water (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This is the story of Alice Fuller (Amy Shelton-White) struggling to come to terms with her past in order to embrace her future. Shot almost entirely in and around Estes Park, Colorado, the film follows Alice as she is forced to spend one final week ...
Style: scenic, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family drama, mother daughter relationship, hiking, fight, wildlife, dealing with the past, acceptance, flashback, father daughter relationship, death, deer ...
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95%
Who Will Love My Children? (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on a true story of Iowa farm wife Lucile Fray. Ann-Margret plays a dying mother of ten whose last wish is to find loving families for her children.
Style: depressing
Plot: adoption, cancer, disease, youth, little boy, sacrifice, self sacrifice, death, father daughter relationship, orphan, last will and testament, farm ...
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Valparaiso My Love (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
Style: freeze frame, slang
Plot: youth, childhood, mother, cinema, death of brother, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, bus, singing, mother daughter relationship, prison ...
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 7.5
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Monologue (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. ...
Plot: family relations, teenager, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, scientist, loneliness, soviet
Time: 70s
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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 ⇓
76%
 7.0
 107
Marion (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Marion is ten and befriends a couple so much that they want her to live with them.
Plot: rural setting, parisian, rich, family relations, wealth, marriage, friend, father daughter relationship, food, accident, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: normandy, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.0
 141
La capture (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 92 min.
Plot: abusive relationship, domestic violence, violence, blood, father daughter relationship, dance, dysfunctional family, animal, abduction, old woman, gun
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73%
 5.5
 436
Bleeding Love (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In an effort to reunite with his daughter after a period of absence, a father takes her on a road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Along the way they encounter some interesting characters and obstacles while sorting out their relationship.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, independent film
Plot: father daughter relationship, road trip, family drama, father and daughter, kids and family, family problems, father daughter estrangement, relationship problems, relationships, family relations, estrangement, estranged father ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Woh Chokri (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Woh Chokri (वह छोकरी) is a Hindi movie starring Pallavi Joshi, Neena Gupta, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and is directed by Subhankar Ghosh .
Style: art film
Plot: indian woman, alcoholism, family relations, school expulsion, murder, school, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, drunkenness, death, betrayal ...
Place: delhi
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68%
 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 ⇓
62%
 4.9
 381
My Little Girl (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and tries to help them, but only gets herself into trouble with her parents and supervisor.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, homeless, poverty, white supremacy, racism, skepticism, teenage girl, 18 year old, rehabilitation center, homeless teenager, laundry, naivete ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.1
 386
Some Dogs Bite (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Halliday (19), Casey (14) and baby Severino have been split up after their mothers death. Casey is in care; Severino has been fostered with a view to adoption, and no one really cares what Halliday does; even his mum thought he was a waste of space.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot: adoption, on the road, on the run, family relations, youth, estrangement, teenage life, parents and children, abduction, brother brother relationship, baby, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Family Pictures (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sylvie and Maggie are strangers living on opposite coasts, leading very similar lives with husbands that travel for work too much and daughters about to leave the nest. But when their daughters befriend each other on a college tour, they soon ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, serious, disturbing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.3
 414
The Unpolished (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their ...
Style: captivating, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot: teenage sexuality, generation gap, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, parent child relationship, relocation, coming of age, drug use, cheating wife, bare breasts, unfaithful husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Love is Never Silent (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds ...
Plot: deaf, family relations, deafness, sign language, parent child relationship, marriage, father daughter relationship, great depression, guilt, mother daughter relationship
Time: 1940s, 1930s
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53%
An Unexpected Life (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sequel to "An Unexpected Family."
Plot: adoption, youth, orphan, family relations, aunt nephew relationship, custody, baby, mother daughter relationship, aunt niece relationship, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.1
 179
Boxes (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.5
 261
South Mountain (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
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49%
 6.2
 1K
Charter (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: touching, sincere, realistic, captivating, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under questionable circumstances when he was three years old.
Style: depressing
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45%
 6.5
 133
Miriam Lies (2018)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.5
 430
Forgive Me (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
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Time: year 2006, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Gimme Shelter (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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44%
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Listen (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story: In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at school with their deaf daughter, the British social services grow concerned for the safety of their ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, social
Plot: deaf child, money problems, society, life is a bitch, social issues, family relations, social problems, father daughter relationship, family problems, kids and family, parents and children, deaf mute ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Russell Girl (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Sarah Russell, a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student, visits her loving family to share some important news, but instead finds herself attempting to finally confront a difficult period from her past.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Audience: teen drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Shooting the Moon (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Francesca Archibugi directed this Italian drama set in Rome where 14-year-old Siddhartha (Niccolo Senni) is forced to deal with his heroin-addicted mother Silvia (Valeria Golina). He occasionally gets a visit from his filmmaker father Massimo ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Night Comes On (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: realistic, psychological, tense, rough, independent film ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, foster home, released from prison, estranged father, coming of age, juvenile delinquent, black, haunted by the past, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, birthday, memory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia
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42%
 6.4
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What If? (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Visa papers have arrived for stock broker, Salim Rajabali, and he is scheduled to leave in less than a week. Then everything goes wrong when he and his brother, Javed, inadvertently implicate themselves in the murder of Deputy Commissioner of ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot: family relations, down on your luck, hopes, love and romance, human nature, couples, destiny, coincidence, multiple storylines, flying, death of father, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Into Dad's Woods (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gina, 15, lives in a city on the edge of the forest. She admires her father, unpredictable and whimsical, able to take his children at night in the woods, even to forget them. Jimmy's more and more frequent skids end up alarming his wife ...
Style: captivating
Plot: mental illness, family relations, mental institution, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, relationships, family problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, love affair, parents and children, couple relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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