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The Grandfather (1998)
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Original name: El abuelo
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, dark comedy, feel good, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, breathtaking, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
bittersweet, infidelity, suicidal thoughts, grandson, literary, aging, grandfather, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, couples, small town, social relations, small town life, couple relations, aristocrat, inheritance, monastery, shakespeare, blackmail, class differences, son, daughter in law, grandfather granddaughter relationship, illegitimate child ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1900s, 18th century, 70s
Place:
spain, europe, paris france, latin america, tokyo, russian
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Most similar movies to The Grandfather
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about family relations, love and romance, couples, parents and children, society, youth and couple relations mostly in Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Grandfather: Candles on Bay Street (2006), Hard Times (2005), The Amati Girls (2000), The Stone Angel (2007), When the Night (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
DeeDee returns to her hometown with her 11 year old son, Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend, Sam, is now married and he and his wife, Lydia, are the town's veterinarians. Lydia is a little wary ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
veterinarian, single parent, life is a bitch, couple relations, terminal illness, parents and children, homecoming, couples, social relations, small town, unfulfillment, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When the troubled son of an NGO worker refuses to take a test and announces that he is not leaving his room, his concerned mother asks one of her clients, a Cuban exile, for help in setting the boy straight. Gonzalo has decided to drop out of ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, sentimental
Plot:
infidelity, disability, couples, love and romance, dull life, unfulfillment, society, youth, down on your luck, parents and children, ex convict, chess ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, madrid, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
family life, family problems, parents and children, single parent, family gatherings, society, hopes, small town, death in the family, bittersweet, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The feisty aging Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her rebellious heart has always ruled and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. Faced with her own mortality, and desperate to find solace, she goes on the run. In ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
aging, family relations, couple relations, on the run, elderly, haunted by the past, nursing, youth, introspection, love and romance, parents and children, couples ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
canada
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After meeting during their vacation, two young people with solitary lives suddenly come into a relationship that could benefit both of them.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, love and romance, fall in love, unfulfilled love, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment, mountain, holiday, snow, brother brother conflict, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Three stories intertwined which occur in a single day. The day Ines discovers she is pregnant, Antonia decides to abandon her family and Marian realizes she is going to die.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
pregnancy, friendship, friends, couples, family problems, family relations, introspection, woman in danger, singleness, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
70%
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:
67%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, resistance, undercover, teenage love, family relations, love and romance, youth, teenage life, parents and children, coming of age, bittersweet, infatuation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
catalonia, barcelona, spain, china
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
parents and children, teenage life, love and romance, family life, dysfunctional family, friendship, single parent, youth, family problems, disgraced, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
maine, new england
Similarity:
61%
144
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, France, Panama
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
With the closure of the sugar mill, the little town of Molasses is devastated, lifeless. Aldo and Monica form a young married couple that do not find a way to survive. By supporting each other, they try to save their world without loosing their ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
unemployment, working class, family life, social relations, parents and children, couple relations, family relations, couples, society, small town, poverty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
pension, colonel, hopes, small town, parents and children, family relations, downfall, couple relations, haunted by the past, small town life, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
55%
458
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, realistic
Plot:
disability, family relations, family problems, family life, social relations, couples, society, couple relations, youth, babies and infants, pregnancy, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
mississippi, california
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lucy Honeychurch (Elaine Cassidy, Ghost Squad) and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in ...
Style:
period piece, realistic, serious, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, lovers apart, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, couples, wooing, fall in love, world war one, male pubic hair, skinny dipping, holiday ...
Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
britain, europe, florence
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The author Thomas meets his childhood friend Hoffman on an autumn night in 1997. They decide to let a dream come true: to make a film of a play by Thomas, Veranda for a Tenor, with Hoffman in the lead role. The story takes us back to the summer of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, meta
Plot:
friendship, male friendship, couples, alcohol abuse, filmmaking, terminal illness, writer's life, introspection, couple relations, artists and showbiz, bittersweet, alcoholism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, against the rules, couples, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, society, infidelity, bittersweet, indian woman, wedding, best friend ...
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
53%
236
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental
Plot:
self discovery, life turned upside down, love affair, couples, family relations, family problems, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, parents and children, breakup, mental breakdown ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
colonial america, forbidden love, infidelity, immigrant, love and romance, couple relations, clergy, dishonesty, society, betrayal, life is a bitch, couples ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
massachusetts, europe, spain, salem massachusetts
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, realistic, clever, touching ...
Plot:
couples, family in crisis, destiny, family life, love and romance, family relations, social worker, unemployment, human nature, society, starting over, parents and children ...
Place:
latin america, argentina
Similarity:
48%
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260
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
arranged marriage, girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, nudity, religions or cults, family problems, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
47%
419
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, touching
Plot:
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Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, interracial relations, small town life, family relations, fall in love, family life, homecoming, family problems, social relations, couples, estrangement, love and romance ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1910s, 1900s, 1920s
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
45%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Victor, a father, travels the roads with his teenage son, Felix. For Felix, the trip is a school of life, as his first romantic encounter helps him better understand his father and get closer to him.
Style:
road movie, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, on the road, parent child relationship, parents and children, hopes, love and romance, single parent, son, father son relationship, teenager, single father, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, brittany
Similarity:
45%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, single parent, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, family relations, couples, parents and children, youth, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
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726
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a town near Salamanca, an eccentric widower, aged 60, is captivated by an imp, a precocious 13 year old. Alejandro is wealthy and alone, passing time with music, chess, and his shotgun. Gregoria (Goyita) the daughter of a weak-willed policeman ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot:
amor, children, teenage girl, older man younger woman relationship, small town, bittersweet, youth, odd couple, elderly, friends, platonic, village ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five year old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago. Just as he starts to develop a new ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
small town, love triangle, coming of age, divorce, single father, friendship, bittersweet, love, voyeurism, blonde, voyeur, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
kansas, usa, texas
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Yao (Madi Diocou) and Moroccan Rachid (Soufiane Ouaarab) arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa (Marisa Paredes) ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
immigrant, love and romance, culture clash, fall in love, gender, family relations, lifestyle, society, parents and children, gays and lesbians, sexuality, gay interest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his wife's decision to get a divorce.
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
youth, single parent, bittersweet, unfulfillment, hopes, human nature, love and romance, crumbling marriage, parents and children, breakup, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The struggle between a father and son at odds over the youths career choice. The 18 years old James Pfeiffer quits college and decides to become a fisherman like his father. Margaret and Russell are very upset with their son's decision. They ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot:
father son relationship, family relations, ship, follow your dream, coming of age, youth, danger, escapades, hopes, siblings relations, college dropout, small town ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot:
lifestyle, love affair, social relations, celebrity culture, betrayal, couples, cons and scams, love and romance, dishonesty, teachers and students, infidelity, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot:
friendship, friends, love affair, social relations, village, village life, fall in love, family relations, stranger, rivalry, love and romance, alcoholism ...
Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
39%
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