Movies like Sunset in My Hometown

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Sunset in My Hometown (2018)
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Sunset in My Hometown (2018)
Original name: 변산
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: On the day that underground rapper Hak-soo fails his 7th audition, he receives a call from his hometown that his father is in the hospital. But he finds out that it was his father's plot to bring him to Byeon-san. To top it all, he is suspected as a phishing scam criminal and locked up in this small, boring suburb.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
Plot: getting home, family relations, father son relationship, musician, rapper, parents and children, family problems, lifestyle, musician's life, confronting the past, fraud, asian, hip hop, cheating, return home

Most similar movies to Sunset in My Hometown

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and semi serious films with plots about family relations, father son relationship, family problems, lifestyle, satire, parents and children and relationships mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like Sunset in My Hometown: Comment c'est Loin (2015), Len and Company (2015), Summertime (2020), A Cowgirl's Song (2022), See You in Valhalla (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Comment c'est Loin (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After ten years of doing nothing, Orel and Gringe are in their mid 30s and they struggle to finish their first rap album. Their texts are mostly sex jokes and booze stories and reflect the everyday life they have in a small town from France. The ...
Style: satirical, disturbing, captivating, semi serious
Plot: musician, record producer, satire, music business, musician's life, music, rap, friendship, singer, problem, rapper
Time: year 2015
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Len and Company (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A successful music producer quits the industry and exiles himself in upstate New York, but the solitude he seeks is shattered when his estranged son and the pop star he's created come looking for answers.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
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Summertime (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelinos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a limo driver—they all weave in and out of each other's ...
Style: satirical, captivating, semi serious, psychological, disturbing
Plot: poetry, summer, musician's life, ambition, lifestyle, musician, bonding, satire, music, lgbtq, heat wave, young
Place: los angeles, california, southern california
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A Cowgirl's Song (2022)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An aspiring but adrift teen singer goes to live with her grandmother, once a country music legend, but has fallen on hard times after the death of her husband five years earlier. Together, they overcome adversity and find redemption through their ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: musician, country music, teenager, family relations, family problems, kids and family, teenage girl, teenage life, grandmother, lifestyle, female singer, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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
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Maestro(s) (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The Dunars are conductors from father to son. François' long and brilliant international career come to an end, whereas Denis has just won an umpteenth classical music award. When François is chosen to be the head of the Scala, his ultimate ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, thrilling
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36%
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Loveling (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
Style: satirical, entertaining, psychological, semi serious, captivating ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
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Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, satirical
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 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 ⇓
34%
A Boy Called Sailboat (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Hispanic family find hope in their extraordinary son named Sailboat when a personal gesture awakens a global desire. Armed with a "little guitar", Sailboat leads an offbeat cast into the miraculous story of the greatest secret never told.
Style: sincere, entertaining, psychological, semi serious, captivating
Audience: family outing
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Tulsa (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 120 min.
Story: A desperate marine biker’s life is turned upside-down when he is united with the sassy 9-year-old daughter he never knew existed.
Style: semi serious, captivating, thrilling, psychological, satirical
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Kiseki: Sobito of That Day (2017)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Based on the true story of 4 member Japanese pop group "GreeeeN.” Jin is the producer of “GreeeeN” and his younger brother Hide is the lead member for the group. Their song "Kiseki" is released as their 7th single and becomes a ...
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
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29%
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Cavedweller (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, sexy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.4
 467
Breakable You (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, satirical, semi serious
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28%
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 1K
Bed Bugs (2017)
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Duration: 101 min.
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28%
 6.8
 978
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27%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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27%
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27%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A cynical and clever coming of age film about first time novelist Fenton Dillane, who, unannounced returns to New York City to confront his family, his ex- girlfriend and a few lingering childhood fears.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, feel good
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
3 Days with Dad (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Second Wedding Night (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, semi serious, satirical
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Father's Legacy (2020)
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, captivating, disturbing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Couch Potatoes (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: father son relationship, teenager, parents and children, friends, teenage life, family relations, friendship, youth, unlikely friendships, society, disorder, happy ending ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 8.0
 570
Zaguri (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A soldier named Aviel returns to his family because of his grandfather's death, after ten years of not speaking to them.
Style: captivating, semi serious, disturbing, psychological
Plot: soldier, family reunited, family relations, family problems, father son estrangement, estrangement, parents and children, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, satire, israeli
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Cracked Eggs and Noodles (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An advocate of sex, but not of marriage, bachelor Daegyu (played by singer-turned-actor Im Changjeon), 26, produces bootleg music albums for a living. One day, he comes across a plucky, nine-year-old boy named Jeon Ingwon (played by Lee Inseong) who ...
Style: captivating, satirical, psychological, semi serious, thrilling
Plot: boy, parent child relationship, father son relationship, changing lives, record producer, satire, lifestyle change, lifestyle, fatherhood, relationships, family relations, paternity revealed ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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