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Cry Macho (2021)
36K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie, inspirational, suspense, anamorphic, neo western
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bad mother, parents and children, father son relationship, redemption, travel, family relations, old man, kidnapping, competition, conservatism, mexican american border, manhood, job, boy, journey, interracial relations, wife, car theft, telephone call, widower, bravery, abusive mother, goat, running away from home, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2020s, 70s, 80s, year 1980, year 1979, year 1978
Place:
mexico, mexico city
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Most similar movies to Cry Macho
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, disturbing and sincere films with plots about family relations, coming of age, father son relationship, parents and children, redemption, family problems and youth mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Cry Macho: Gran Torino (2008), Tyson's Run (2022), We Only Know So Much (2018), Just Henry (2011), You (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
857K
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, suspense, harsh ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, friendship, veteran, revenge, racism, old man, elderly, prejudice, car, war veteran, gangster, gunfight ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa, michigan, italy, north america
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When fifteen-year-old Tyson attends public school for the first time, his life is changed forever. While helping his father clean up after the football team, Tyson befriends champion marathon runner Aklilu. Never letting his autism hold him back, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere
Plot:
boy, marathon, father son relationship, running, runner, family relations, ambition, coping, kids and family, fighting illness, aspiration, slice of life ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
unhappy marriage, middle aged, family problems, marital problem, family relations, parents and children, family life, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, middle aged man, father son relationship, kids and family ...
Time:
2010s
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68%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Prompted by horrific nightmares, Henry delves into the mystery of his past and begins to uncover the truth about his father's death, triggering a series of revelations that will change his family forever.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, murder, teenage life, coming of age, parents and children, teenage love, family life, youth, bittersweet, death, father son relationship, world war two
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
63%
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152
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, redemption, hopes, single parent, haunted by the past, love, teenager, loss of mother, friendship, grieving widower ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, hostage, father, family secret, estranged father, family relations, change of luck, family problems, parents and children, search for father, fatherhood, character study ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friendship. Marvin wants to adopt Tige but knows that he is too poor to give him a good home. Then he ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
adoption, coming of age, racism, homelessness, alcoholism, racial discrimination, african, blaxploitation, family relations, suicide, couples, friends ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
atlanta georgia, africa
Similarity:
56%
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, independent film ...
Plot:
methamphetamine, meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, drug abuse, homecoming, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, small town ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An abused wife leaves her alcoholic husband and moves with her children to another town. There their lives become entwined with another family in trouble.
Style:
disturbing, sincere, captivating, psychological, inspirational
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas, bullying, single mother, christian, family problems, family life, family relations, social problems, relationship problems, parents and children, xmas, christmas romance ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michelle Pfeiffer is ferocious in the role of a desperate mother whose 3-year-old son disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated. Based on Jacquelyn ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, melancholic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, missing person, family drama, children, family relations, kidnapped, family life, parents and children, family problems, police detective, hostage ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In his quest to become successful, Aditya Parikh puts life on the back burner, including his Father Bipin Chandra Parikh. Infuriated and heartbroken, the father persuades his monotonous son to take an unplanned journey of a lifetime for a much ...
Style:
gujarati, inspirational, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
father son relationship, self discovery, travel, road trip, family values, life lesson, family drama, relationship problems, changing lives, lifestyle change, life, introspection ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
51%
351
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
It’s summer and the beginning of the long vacation period for eleven-year-old Martin, who lives on a farm, and, at a loss, observes his family’s disintegration : his mother lives locked-up in her room ; his older brother, who he adores, drowns ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, gay, kids and family, unhappy marriage, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, social problems, parents and children, father son relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, youth, car accident, grief, accidental death, society, love, dealing with death, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
43%
104K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside ...
Style:
independent film, neo noir, sincere, serious, sad ...
Audience:
manly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
friendship, small town, dysfunctional family, closeted homosexual, murder, mental illness, homosexual, psychiatric hospital, mental retardation, death threat, domestic violence, father figure ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
arkansas, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
43%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional triangle.
Style:
stylized, realistic, semi serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, circus, small town, freakshow, carnival, romantic triangle, freak, travel, waitress, hustler, game, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
canada, new jersey, california, texas
Similarity:
43%
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:
touching, disturbing, sincere, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dysfunctional family, runaway, family drama, drug addiction, responsibility, brother brother relationship, parents and children, family relations, transformation, lifestyle, child care, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mixing fiction and reality, filmmaker Mark Webber tells the story of a man who returns home from prison and attempts to rebuild his life in his impoverished Philadelphia neighborhood.
Style:
semi autobiographical, disturbing, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
father son relationship, addiction, character study, substance abuse, realism, family drama, family problems, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, parents and children, politician, political activism ...
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sebastian is unemployed, finding pleasure only in his old Peugeot. He got married to his girlfriend Jazmin and having no income, he starts a job of a private ride service. One day, a regular customer, Jalil, an old Arab man suggests a long distance ...
Style:
road movie, intercultural, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
car, dog, journey, road trip, cultural difference, cross cultural relations, travel, spiritual journey, culture, survival, coaching, coach ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
friendship, childhood, redemption, islam, muslim, coming of age, mission, guilt, courage, bully, rape, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
afghanistan, china, middle east, california, iraq ...
Similarity:
40%
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:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
child abuse, man boy relationship, coming of age, courtroom, sexual abuse, pedophilia, life is a bitch, redemption, parents and children, dysfunctional family, teenage life, custody ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
amish, adoption, family relations, identity crisis, family problems, religions or cults, hopes, youth, self discovery, dishonesty, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, sincere, suspense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, dysfunctional family, relationships, death of son, husband wife relationship, death, prediction, life is a bitch, death of child, life & death, family problems, social problems ...
Place:
north africa, africa, sudan
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Style:
suspense, road movie, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, prison, fugitives, life philosophy, moral ambiguity, on the run, boy, child abuse, road trip, small town, prison escape, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1963, year 1993
Place:
texas, austin texas, birmingham alabama, alaska, usa ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Style:
captivating, psychological, touching, sentimental, indie film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, lgbt, family relations, gay, father son relationship, teenage boy, theft, husband wife relationship, marriage, birthday, fired from the job, domestic violence ...
Place:
new york state, brooklyn new york city, spain, philadelphia, new york
Similarity:
37%
428
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, where he has to find his father while trying to adapt to life with his grandmother, who has problems of her own.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
grandmother grandson relationship, gay, coming of age, boy, father son relationship, family problems, dysfunctional family, boyhood, kids and family, family relations, grownups, lifestyle ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
redemption, family relations, aging, father son relationship, self discovery, con artists, bittersweet, friends, elderly, single parent, pneumonia, domestic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois, chicago
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
coming of age, paranoid schizophrenia, mental disorder, mother and daughter, mental illness, mental health, grownups, life is a bitch, family problems, moral dilemma, parents and children, paranoid ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
Style:
avant garde, experimental, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
abstract art, surrealism, minimalism, entrapment, absurdism, weirdo, eccentric, hypnotic, cult
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, uncover truth, family relations, danger, parents and children, under the surface, disorder, life turned upside down, secret, women of color, african american, black girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
35%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
Style:
psychological, touching, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anorexia, eating disorder, youth, love, hospital, hospitalization, life is a bitch, adaptation, illness, mental illness, redemption, society ...
Similarity:
35%
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