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Living (2022)
39K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, Sweden, Belgium, Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A veteran civil servant and bureaucratic cog in the rebuilding of Britain post-WWII, Williams expertly pushes paperwork around a government office only to reckon with his existence when he’s diagnosed with a fatal illness.
Style:
period piece, thrilling, existential, visually stunning, independent film, period drama
Plot:
terminal illness, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, changing lives, death, cancer, repression, rain, father son relationship, widower, older man younger woman relationship, office politics, petition, first day on the job, prostitute, train, food, life, snow, swing, stripper, doctor, restaurant, church, singing ...
Time:
1950s, future, post world war two, 20th century, year 1953, 50s
Place:
london
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Most similar movies to Living
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, emotional and touching films with plots about death, family relations, husband wife relationship, friendship, memory, mother daughter relationship and father son relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Living: The Great Beauty (2013), Innocence (2000), The Thing with Feathers (2025), Vanity Fair (2004), Train Dreams (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, visually stunning, breathtaking, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
stripper, writer's life, party, high society, passion, female nudity, friendship, artist, aging, surrealism, skinny dipping, male nudity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, touching, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, aging, loneliness, male female relationship, desire, love triangle, crumbling marriage, family problems, memory, husband wife relationship, love, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, 90s, 1950s, 70s, 50s
Place:
adelaide south australia, belgium, melbourne, australia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a tragic loss, a grieving father tries to raise his young sons whilst dealing with an unlikely, unpredictable, and uninvited houseguest.
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
father son relationship, coping, bereavement, loss, family drama, mourning, brotherhood, healing, magic realism, symbolism, trauma, intimate ...
Place:
united kingdom
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, emotional, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
high society, social climbing, lovers, aristocrat, destiny, monarchy, female protagonist, rise to the top, couple relations, rich and poor, society, life turned upside down ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, middle ages, 1820s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, germany ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, contemplative, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, loss, memory, loneliness, love, working class, nostalgia, grief, character study, village life, tragedy, isolation ...
Time:
1920s, year 1917, 60s
Place:
poetic realism, idaho
Similarity:
39%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Style:
rough, melancholic, thought provoking, captivating, existential ...
Plot:
homeless shelter, drug addiction, old woman, friendship, memory, family relations, religion, depression, death, husband wife relationship, nurse, church ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set in an small English town in 1959, the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, captivating, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
small town, bookstore, literature, narrow mindedness, widow, independent woman, platonic relationship, death, storekeeper, society, writers, women ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1959
Place:
germany
Similarity:
38%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rehabilitation, addiction, drug abuse, youth, parents and children, prostitute, dysfunctional family, teenage life, going straight, friendship, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
38%
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13K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time ...
Style:
sad, touching, heartbreaking, melancholic, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, death, afterlife, expectant father, family drama, reconciliation, childbirth, pregnancy, husband wife relationship, honest, self discovery ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and ...
Style:
talky, melancholic, realistic, sentimental, family saga ...
Plot:
lawyer, culture clash, cancan dance, family problems, human nature, society, introspection, parents and children, sorority, family relations, dysfunctional family, bittersweet ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
usa, kansas city, missouri, kansas, cleveland ohio ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
The changes in Chinese society from the 1950s to the '80s, as experienced by two families.
Style:
sexy, independent film, social, non-linear
Plot:
loss of son, infidelity, birth control, family relations, telephone call, airplane, hospital, flashback, dancing, father son relationship, factory worker, suicide attempt ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 2000s, 80s
Place:
china
Similarity:
38%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Style:
factual, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, political ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
writers, politics, world war two, fascism, friendship, culture clash, childhood, nazi, playwright, adaptation, character study, political unrest ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1977, pre world war two, year 1934 ...
Place:
germany, europe, moscow russia, warsaw poland, paris france ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, grief, road trip, memory, life, family relations, male friendship, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, london, australia, california
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After ...
Style:
postmodern
Plot:
war correspondent, cancer, mother daughter relationship, terminal illness, friendship, old friend, flashback, death, suicide, police interrogation, female friendship, writers ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, existential, bleak ...
Plot:
death, mourning, terminal illness, father son relationship, mortality, grief, family relations, illness, teacher, father and son, loss of father, school teacher ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
terminal illness, dying, father son relationship, relationships, cancer, dysfunctional family, reconciliation, illness, divorce, hopes, fighting illness, destiny ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, sentimental, sincere, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
dying man, terminal illness, family relations, family problems, life & death, meaning of life, health situation, dark secret, problem solving, death of mother, doubts and hesitations, cancer ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A dying mother's life lessons to the husband and sons she left behind. Based on the best-selling novel by St John (Singe) Greene, the film is the story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, thought provoking ...
Plot:
cancer, last wish, mother, children, death, family relations, death of wife, parents and children, breast cancer, list, illness, wife ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation. Since that time, the couple has always been together and eventually married.One day, Setsuko complains ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, captivating, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
writers, illness, terminal illness, cancer, life & death, loss, marriage, storytelling, diary, life, husband wife relationship, family relations ...
Similarity:
37%
141K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Style:
realistic, sexy, period piece, costume drama, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, lolita, teenage life, teenager, love, self discovery, direction and purpose, older man young girl relationship, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 1900s, 60s, year 1961
Place:
london, paris france, france, united kingdom, britain ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
While Olivier, a 39 year-old foreman gives his job everything he’s got, Laura, his wife and the mother of their two children, abandons the family home, leaving Olivier alone to face his responsibilities. Lost and completely thrown, Olivier is ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, single father, breakup, father, single parent, kids and family, family problems, parents and children, relationships, social problems ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style:
psychological, art house, cerebral, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, childhood, filmmaking, midlife crisis, loneliness, stream of consciousness, flashback, memory, satire, catholic, dream, actress ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s, 1930s
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, france, england ...
Similarity:
36%
124K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A Korean-American family moves to Arkansas in search of their own American Dream. With the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother, the stability of their relationships is challenged even more in this new life in the ...
Style:
sad, period piece, semi autobiographical, independent film, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
korean american, husband wife relationship, farmer, food, friendship, grandmother grandson relationship, farm, pain, heart condition, family relations, grandmother granddaughter relationship, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 2020s, future
Place:
arkansas, east asia, oklahoma city, nebraska
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's suicide, caused by his discovery of her ...
Style:
touching, depressing, cerebral, visually stunning, psychological ...
Plot:
cancer, maid, terminal illness, art, family relations, dying, nordic, women, existentialism, obsession, marriage, dialogue ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 1900s, 90s, year 1972 ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself ...
Style:
erotic, touching, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance, female masturbation, adolescence, dysfunctional family, coming of age, redemption, family relations, parents and children, introspection, fall in love ...
Time:
1930s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1971, 70s ...
Place:
georgia, southern usa, usa, california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she wanders from room to room, she gropes her way through memories and ...
Style:
family saga, melancholic, contemplative, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
memory, family drama, inheritance, family secret, grief, mourning, nostalgia, flashback, house, homecoming, literary, adaptation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
northern germany
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, adolescence, family bonds, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 2001, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
california, budapest, europe, usa, austria ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Plot:
on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, escapades, introspection, estrangement, haunted by the past, hopes, redemption, parents and children, strong female presence, journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, pacific ocean
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The military draft is back. Three best friends are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time they're forced to confront everything they believe about courage, duty, love, friendship and honor. If called to serve, what would you ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
erotic scene, coping, friendship, duty, introspection, military, destiny, protestor, freedom, friends, gay, violence ...
Time:
future, year 2007, september 11 2001
Place:
usa, iraq, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
36%
23K
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but ...
Style:
black and white, cerebral, period piece, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
samurai, doctor, poverty, intern, medical profession, medieval, medical, medicine, japanese history, asian, flashback, health ...
Time:
19th century, year 1965, 1800s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
36%
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