Movies like Barbie 2011

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Barbie (2011)
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Barbie (2011)
Original name: 바비
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Steve, an American physician, arrives at Pohang airport with his 13-year-old daughter Barbie. Mangtak welcomes and takes them in his old car to his brother Mangwoo’s house. In Mangwoo’s house, Steve watches Soonyoung, a 13-year-old girl, Soonyoung is the practical supporter of the family as she takes care of Soonja, her younger sister and Mangwoo, her mentally disabled father. Steve has come to Pohang to adopt Soonyoung into his family. Soonyoung can’t accept the fact that a stranger is now going to be her father. All this is Mangtak’s scheme to make a huge sum of money by sending Soonyoung to the U.S.
Style: rough, serious, captivating, realistic, tragic ending, sad
Audience: kids
Plot: victim, betrayal, family relations, life is a bitch, brutality, adoption, ambition, family problems, sister sister relationship, jealousy, sisters, american dream, follow your dream, dysfunctional family, manipulation, relationship problems, family drama, moral dilemma, sibling relationship, sibling rivalry, dishonesty, depression, child, abuse, injury ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and psychological films with plots about family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children, youth and relationship problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Barbie: A Brand New Life (2009), Three Sisters (2020), Sins of the Mother (2010), The Sisters (2005), Glassland (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Brand New Life (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: children, orphan, youth, adoption, dysfunctional family, family relations, hopes, parents and children, girl, child abandonment, abandoned by father, family problems ...
Time: year 2009, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: korea, south korea, seoul, asia
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95%
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Three Sisters (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The awkward, distant, and wounded three sisters gather at their hometown for their father’s birthday. However, on the day of the party, there is a big mess because of their little brother Jinseob’s abnormal behavior, and the past of the three ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: sister sister relationship, family problems, sisters, relationships, family relations, life is a bitch, women, brother sister relationship, confronting the past, dysfunctional family, troubled past, tragic past ...
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Sins of the Mother (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shay is a young African-American college student whom is forced to take a year off from school to return to her hometown where she struggles with her anger and insecurity when she's forced to confront her alcoholic mother, Nona, whom is ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching
Plot: college, homecoming, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, family problems, parents and children, single parent, life is a bitch, alcohol abuse, mother daughter relationship, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.0
 1K
The Sisters (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
Style: serious, rough, emotional, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, unfaithful wife, sisters, sister sister relationship, family relations, family problems, estrangement, unhappy marriage, unrequited love, life is a bitch, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: greece, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Movie in collections
 6.0
 2K
Glassland (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, a young taxi driver becomes entangled in the criminal underworld.
Style: realistic, rough, disturbing, serious, emotional ...
Plot: addiction, dysfunctional family, unlikely criminals, moral dilemma, youth, life is a bitch, family in crisis, family problems, family relations, society, oedipus complex, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 5.0
 435
He Loves Me (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Laura begins to suspect her husband is cheating on her, she is devastated by his infidelity, despite having a torrid affair of her own. While she desperately tries to save her marriage, Laura's mysterious past begins to emerge, making her ...
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, sex scene, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, stalking, dishonesty, memory loss, suburban life, midlife crisis, manipulation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Tropical Manila (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Philippines
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Kim-Dusik, who committed a murder in Korea, fled to Manila and has lived there nearly 15 years. He lives with his Filipino wife, Medusa, and their 15-year old son, Philip. Dusik, his irresistible yearning for his mother, turns into violence ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: father son relationship, marital abuse, murder, rape, male female relationship, domestic violence, violence, dysfunctional family, father and son, murderer, violent, life is a bitch ...
Place: manila philippines, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Suspect (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Teacher Rob Dekoster is a good man, albeit a bit too frivolous and liberal with funds the local arts center's interim director. His wife Nelle, who sometimes abuses drugs, spoils his ingrate teenage stepdaughter Sandy, who is kind only to her ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, thought provoking
Plot: false accusation, family relations, manipulation, life is a bitch, rivalry, youth, vengeance, legal, couple relations, dishonesty, family problems, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Movie in collections
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 1K
Wolfy (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: There are two of them: a mother and a girl. They have no names. And they are in a constant run. The mother runs away from the daughter in an attempt to start new life, and the girl runs after her mother as she has no idea how to live without her. ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, tense, neorealism ...
Plot: life is a bitch, family problems, alcohol abuse, dysfunctional family, little girl, parents and children, negligence, werewolf, loneliness, family relations, ex convict, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.5
 1K
Canola (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, sad
Plot: grandmother granddaughter relationship, elderly, criminal, juvenile delinquency, lost, family problems, dysfunctional family, troubled youth, gang member, gang, life is a bitch, granddaughter ...
Place: jeju island
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.0
 225
Mentor (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, university, friendship, college, unfulfillment, ambition, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 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 ⇓
46%
 7.2
 499
Aviva, My Love (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, writer's life, family problems, working class, dysfunctional family, creative block, small town, unemployment, social decay, small town life, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east, tel aviv israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
For the Love of a Child (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary ...
Style: touching, disturbing, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot: child abuse, orphan, rescue, danger, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children, selflessness, family relations, family problems, adoption, abuse ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 8.2
 90
Mina Walking (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Afghanistan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Saddled by a senile grandfather and a neglectful father, Mina, an impulsive twelve-year-old Afghan street seller sees her future slipping away when she is forced to neglect her education and walk the streets of Kabul to support her fragmented ...
Style: sincere, realistic, rough, social, bleak ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, rebelliousness, family relations, drug abuse, realism, child as adult, rebellion, life is a bitch, family problems, youth, parents and children, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
39%
 5.2
 781
Video Girl (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lorie Walker ( Meagan Good), attends a ritzy private school in a small southern town. Raised by her grandmother Valerie ( Ruby Dee), she often daydreams of becoming a professional dancer. After a chance meeting with a renowned music video director, ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot: desire for fame, dancer's life, ambition, small town, life is a bitch, celebrity culture, rise and fall, follow your dream, society, rivalry, sex scene, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.1
 117
Little Foxes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alzbeta and Tina are sisters bound by jealousy and love, an unspoken history hovering over them like a dark cloud. It is this history that compels Alzbeta to refuse Tina's help in finding a better life, until the day arrives that forces them to ...
Style: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, touching, emotional ...
Plot: jealousy, sibling relationship, haunted by the past, family relations, envy, betrayal, couples, sister sister relationship, rivalry, au pair, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, slovakia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 597
Refuge (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After their parents abandon the family, a young woman works to take care of her younger siblings.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film
Plot: teenage life, dysfunctional family, youth, family in crisis, family problems, family relations, siblings relations, life is a bitch, college dropout, mentally challenged, party, amphetamine ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Father's Choice (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere
Plot: horse, youth, parents and children, family life, teenage life, family relations, family problems, love and romance, single parent, dysfunctional family, estrangement, farm ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.0
 302
Belonging (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.8
 1K
The Kid (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Based on the real life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and the way he put his life together again afterwards.
Style: uplifting, realistic, touching, serious, period piece ...
Plot: abusive parent, hopes, human spirit, rise to the top, dysfunctional family, family problems, ambition, life is a bitch, going straight, down on your luck, survival, boyhood ...
Place: london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Brotherly Love (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, hood ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: cheerleader, basketball, family problems, follow your dream, ambition, family relations, prodigy, athlete's life, desire for fame, hopes, youth, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, indiana, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Movie in collections
 6.5
 162
Cairo Exit (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A powerful account of life in contemporary Cairo, this raw drama about a pair of star-crossed lovers shines a powerful spotlight upon the social and cultural taboos that riddle the city's diverse population. Heralding a bold new shift for ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, rough, bleak
Plot: social decay, unfulfilled love, social differences, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, realism, society, life is a bitch, single parent, love and romance, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, middle east, africa, cairo egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
I'll steal your family (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
TV show
Style: captivating, suspenseful, bleak, serious, psychological ...
Plot: female protagonist, woman, sisters, family relations, relatives, family drama, family problems, two sisters, kids and family, sister, sibling relationship, family conflict ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.8
 444
Bad Hurt (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Elaine and Ed Kendall have more than their share of grief and suffering. Once a young couple in love they now struggle for a sense of stability in their Staten Island home. Their eldest son is suffering from the physical and psychological effects of ...
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: secret, family problems, family conflict, husband wife conflict, family relations, marital crisis, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, family secret, relationship problems, marital problem, conflict
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.7
 1K
Street Days (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son’s school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband’s lack of ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: addiction, drug, moral dilemma, street life, betrayal, friendship, society, down on your luck, drug abuse, realism, dishonesty, blackmail ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, tbilisi
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Blood and Bones (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1923, the young Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island (South Korea), to Osaka (Japan). Through the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko (processed seafood products) in his poor Korean-Japanese ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, obsession, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, loan, violence, abusive relationship, badass, asian ...
Time: 1950s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The City of No Limits (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Victor is a man who gets to Paris to join his family around their seriously ill father, Max. As the chance of selling the family business begins to disrupt the family relationships, Victor is desperately asked for help by Max. What seems in the ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, enigmatic, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, family relations, haunted by the past, family problems, dysfunctional family, family business, parents and children, sin, terminal illness, secret past, betrayal, spanish civil war ...
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
His Three Daughters (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When their father's health worsens, three estranged sisters come together to try to plan for the inevitable.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, sister, illness, family relations, family problems, parents and children, family life, kids and family, relationships, relationship problems, sisters ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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