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To Olivia (2021)
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To Olivia (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1962, Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl retreat to the English countryside to bring up their young family. The seemingly unlikely pair find their relationship put to the test by a tragic loss.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, depressing
Plot: family tragedy, bereavement, biopic, marriage, parents and children, family problems, child illness, illness, family relations, life is a bitch, father daughter relationship, changing lives, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, terminal illness, fighting illness, art, drinking, depression, death of child, death of daughter, writers, family

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, disturbing and suspense films with plots about family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, parents and children, family and illness mostly in Drama, Biography and Thriller genres. Some movies like To Olivia: A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009), The End Is My Beginning (2010), The Artist's Wife (2019), Listen (2020), A Man Called Ahok (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Just after losing her husband to a similar condition, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition. So she plans to end her life herself. Based on a true story.
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, serious, emotional ...
Plot: euthanasia, death, wanting to die, suicide, doctor, female doctor, family relations, sick woman, family drama, ethical dilemma, dysfunctional family, illness ...
Time: 2000s
Place: switzerland
Similarity:
95%
The End Is My Beginning (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press ...
Style: touching, contemplative, talky, serious, emotional ...
Plot: introspection, elderly, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, parents and children, unfulfillment, dealing with death, biopic, writers, poet, son ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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80%
The Artist's Wife (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: painter, artist, marriage, dementia, marital problem, marriage crisis, illness, changing lives, family in crisis, family relations, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
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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: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating, social
Plot: deaf child, money problems, parents and children, father daughter relationship, life is a bitch, social issues, family problems, family relations, social problems, kids and family, society, teenager ...
Similarity:
63%
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A Man Called Ahok (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An indonesian biopic movie on the controversial former Jakarta governor Ahok.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, semi autobiographical, tragic
Plot: politics, corrupt, business, family problems, corrupt politician, estranged father, changing lives, political candidate, social problems, domineering father, political unrest, lifestyle change ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 2000s, 20th century, 80s
Similarity:
63%
The Unheard Woman (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Farmer’s wife and mother of three Hanni worries about her youngest, Magdalena, who’s smaller and more sensitive than her siblings. She gets stomach flu and can’t see well. The doctors prescribe nothing but panaceas, and don’t take her case ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: child illness, mother daughter relationship, motherhood, female protagonist, family problems, children, family relations, problem, doctors and patients, treatment, dysfunctional family, cure ...
Similarity:
62%
The Graveyard Keeper's Daughter (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: 8 years old Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: father daughter relationship, daughter, children, family problems, changing lives, kids and family, social problems, teenage life, family relations, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, teenager ...
Place: estonia
Similarity:
61%
The Levelling (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, life affirming
Plot: parent child relationship, grief, family relations, father daughter relationship, family farm, family problems, parents and children, family tragedy, flood, tragic event, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
60%
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The Choice (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: couples, sexual assault, husband wife relationship, relationships, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, marital reconciliation, pregnant wife, violence, marriage, pregnancy ...
Similarity:
58%
 7.8
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My Left Foot (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style: inspirational, unusual plot structure, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, paralysis, handicapped, medical, painter, poet, art ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1989, 1930s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe, canada
Similarity:
56%
The Best of All Worlds (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on true events, seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of Salzburg, usually famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love for her son. Despite of this Adrian ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: drug addiction, heroin addict, drug, drug addict, social issues, drug abuse, junkie, life is a bitch, parents and children, child custody, family relations, mother son relationship ...
Place: germany
Similarity:
56%
Little Secret (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil, New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Little Secret is a film with three interlocked stories all connected by a single secret that converge to reveal the tragic yet beautiful lives of three families and how hope, dreams and destiny can unite people from very different parts of the world.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, depressing
Plot: change of luck, relationships, adopted daughter, foster child, destiny, family secret, foster parent, family problems, teenager, couple relations, teenage life, multiple storylines ...
Place: new zealand, brazil
Similarity:
54%
 7.3
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Angela's Ashes (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style: sad, touching, depressing, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: toddlers, teen drama
Plot: poverty, ira, injustice, parents and children, youth, family relations, depression, life is a bitch, death, children, rich and poor, human nature ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 90s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
53%
Woman Under Influence (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: "L'emprise" is the story of a drama, adapted from the moving book-witness "Acquitted", by Alexandra Lange. The story of a mother of four children, which is found in March 2012 in the dock of the foundations of Douai for the ...
Style: thought provoking, psychological, suspense
Plot: man hits a woman, courtroom, social problems, murder, dysfunctional marriage, family relations, violence spree, social injustice, family problems, social relations, murderer, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
52%
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The Outrun (2024)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, independent film
Plot: addiction, young woman, troubled past, alcoholic, skinny dipping, female protagonist, island, confronting the past, tragic past, life is a bitch, homecoming, religion ...
Place: scotland
Similarity:
51%
Above Suspicion (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Daphne seems to have the perfect marriage. Her loving husband Maxime seems to have it all: a brilliant education, an illustrious career. Above all, he is an attentive father to their two young girls; a man above suspicion. So much so that when his ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: forced incest, unhappy marriage, child abuse, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence, husband wife relationship, abusive father, mother and daughter, marriage, troubled marriage, female protagonist, father and daughter ...
Similarity:
50%
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Curtiz (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate the film's propaganda message in order to sway public opinion in favor of the country's ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, father daughter relationship, director, life is a bitch, political unrest, family problems, relationship problems, father and daughter, family relations, hollywood, propaganda, movie business ...
Time: 1940s
Place: hungary
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47%
Before the Rooster Crows (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot: coming of age, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family problems, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, living with parents, relationship problems, divorced parents, family relations, tragic love, parenthood ...
Place: puerto rico
Similarity:
47%
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Paper Spiders (2020)
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:
46%
Mrs. Lowry and Son (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhappy and controlling mother, Elizabeth, whom he lived with all his life.
Style: psychological, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot: painter, artist, art, mother, biopic, family relations, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, relationship problems, follow your dream, artists' life ...
Time: 1930s, year 1934
Place: manchester
Similarity:
45%
The Man Who Surprised Everyone (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France, Estonia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Egor Korshunov (40) is a Siberian forest guard who works in a local environmental company, fighting fearlessly against poachers in taiga. Egor is a great family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second ...
Style: sad, lyrical, melancholic, rough, suspense ...
Plot: cancer, male to female cross dressing, disguise, changing lives, lifestyle change, illness, terminal illness, rape, lgbt, gay, gender disguise, fighting illness ...
Place: siberia
Similarity:
44%
Kim Ji-young: Born 1982 (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Kim Ji-young, an ordinary woman in her 30s, suddenly shows signs of being inhabited by others such as her late mother and older sister, and the stories of the people connected to her.
Style: psychological, touching, heartbreaking, compassionate
Plot: psychiatry, family relations, supportive spouse, husband wife relationship, feminist, unfulfillment, life philosophy, life is a bitch, female protagonist, family problems, bittersweet, family drama ...
Place: south korea, korea
Similarity:
44%
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Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare ...
Style: touching, sincere, inspirational, sad, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: terminal illness, against the odds, family relations, human spirit, hopes, child illness, death, medical, life is a bitch, cure, disability, family drama ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1984, year 1983, year 1986 ...
Place: washington d.c., pittsburgh, edinburgh scotland, london, england ...
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43%
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When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot: teenager, father son relationship, memory, death, coming of age, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, writers ...
Time: year 1989, year 2007, 80s, 60s, year 1962 ...
Place: brighton, london, england
Similarity:
43%
 6.8
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Peaceful (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to ...
Style: poignant, emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: acceptance, mother son relationship, terminal illness, medical examination, cancer, hospital, family conflict, life & death, family drama, fighting illness, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
42%
 7.5
 681
After Thomas (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with his dog, Thomas.
Style: captivating, motivational, entertaining
Plot: autism, parenthood, disability, dog, fighting illness, coping, relationships, problem solving, problem, family problems, family relations, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
42%
 5.7
 456
The Ever After (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot: marriage, couples, family relations, family problems, male female relationship, marital crisis, relationship problems, marriage crisis, marital problem, husband wife relationship, relationships, life is a bitch ...
Place: los angeles
Similarity:
41%
 6.5
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Last Call (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant, and protégé who later wrote a memoir of their time together.
Style: serious, clever, realistic, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: prodigy, life is a bitch, showbiz, crumbling marriage, split personality, mental illness, family problems, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, writers ...
Place: california
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41%
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Tom & Viv (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of the marriage of the poet TS Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaeological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Style: romantic, psychological, costume drama, romantic drama, contemplative ...
Plot: writers, women, art, poet, biopic, world war one, marriage, mental illness, artist, insanity, love, tragic romance ...
Time: 1930s, year 1994, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, oxford university, london, california
Similarity:
40%
 5.5
 58
She Walks (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An illegal Chinese immigrant and her teenage daughter are held captive in their home after a stranger breaks in.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: prostitution, mother daughter relationship, changing lives, illegal prostitution, family relations, lifestyle change, prostitute, family problems, mysterious stranger, mother and daughter, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Place: paris france
Similarity:
40%