Movies like The Grandfather

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The Grandfather (1998)
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The Grandfather (1998)
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
Keyword: russian, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about couples, family relations, love and romance, parents and children, couple relations, society and small town mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Grandfather: Candles on Bay Street (2006), Hard Times (2005), The Nephew (1998), The Stone Angel (2007), Plans for Tomorrow (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Candles on Bay Street (2006)
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, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot: veterinarian, adoption, single parent, homecoming, life is a bitch, parents and children, terminal illness, couples, couple relations, social relations, unfulfillment, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
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95%
 6.3
 335
Hard Times (2005)
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, realistic, psychological, touching, sentimental
Plot: infidelity, disability, love and romance, couples, unfulfillment, society, youth, dull life, parents and children, down on your luck, ex convict, chess ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.5
 1K
The Nephew (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth. Only days later, her only son Chad arrives, too. Obviously, his mother took a black husband. ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, 007, fishing village, village, interracial relations, social relations, estrangement, family relations, couples, parents and children, island, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland, europe, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Stone Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 115 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, sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: aging, family relations, on the run, elderly, couple relations, nursing, haunted by the past, youth, love and romance, introspection, parents and children, couples ...
Time: year 2007
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Plans for Tomorrow (2010)
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, family problems, couples, family relations, introspection, singleness, woman in danger, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.8
 336
When the Night (2011)
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, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, parents and children, mountain, cheating wife, brother brother conflict, unfaithful husband, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.2
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Ismael (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, family life, father and son, introspection, coming of age, haunted by the past, boyhood, family drama, family relations, bittersweet, father
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.6
 227
Istanbul (2011)
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, sentimental, touching
Plot: self discovery, love affair, life turned upside down, family problems, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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 4.6
 825
Guilty Hearts (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.2
 474
Amy & Isabelle (2001)
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, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: teenage life, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, love and romance, disgraced, single parent, youth, family life, friendship, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.4
 399
Jewel (2001)
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: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, family problems, family life, couples, social relations, couple relations, society, babies and infants, youth, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: mississippi, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
We All Want What's Best for Her (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching
Plot: rehabilitation, starting over, estrangement, introspection, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, accident, escape, society, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Waiting for the Tenor (1998)
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, friendship between men, filmmaking, alcohol abuse, terminal illness, couples, artists and showbiz, writer's life, couple relations, introspection, bittersweet, alcoholism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1950s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
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, parents and children, small town, family relations, couple relations, downfall, haunted by the past, family life, small town life, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.5
 562
Paju (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style: touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted by the past, true love, introspection, forbidden love, leaving home, couples, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, starting over, small town, small town life ...
Place: south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Room with a View (2007)
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: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, couples, lovers apart, wooing, world war one, holiday, flashback, nudity ...
Time: victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: britain, europe, florence
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Scarlet Letter (1973)
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, psychological, serious, tense, emotional ...
Plot: colonial america, infidelity, betrayal, life is a bitch, dishonesty, clergy, society, couple relations, love and romance, couples, missing person, wartime life ...
Time: 17th century
Place: massachusetts, spain, europe, salem massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Amazing Women by the Sea (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the early 1960s, Bella, her husband Kajus and their young son, Thomas, spend seemingly endless holidays together. Next year the arrival of new neighbors, Rosa and Gabe and their two daughters, start changing their lives.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching, sentimental
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, friends, family relations, friendship, parents and children, feminism, gender, couple relations, strong female presence, husband, yacht, jazz ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 298
Due East (2002)
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: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: single parent, teenage pregnancy, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, couples, family relations, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Common Ground (2002)
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, touching, clever, realistic ...
Plot: couples, family relations, family life, destiny, love and romance, human nature, college, family in crisis, social worker, student life, society, parents and children ...
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
 241
Sofie (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 151 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: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, religions or cults, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, fall in love, society, love and romance, introspection ...
Time: year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.3
 150
Byways (2004)
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, love and romance, single parent, hopes, son, father son relationship, teenager, single father, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: europe, france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 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 ⇓
47%
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Charms for the Easy Life (2002)
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, sentimental, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, interracial relations, small town life, family relations, fall in love, family life, homecoming, estrangement, couples, family problems, social relations, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1910s, 1900s, 1920s
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The God of Wood (2010)
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, society, lifestyle, parents and children, gays and lesbians, sexuality, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Dodson's Journey (2001)
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: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: youth, single parent, bittersweet, family relations, couples, family problems, parents and children, breakup, unfulfillment, human nature, hopes, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.1
 559
Charlie Says (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 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: sincere, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: lifestyle, love affair, cons and scams, teachers and students, couples, infidelity, celebrity culture, betrayal, social relations, dishonesty, love and romance, small town ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
A Cool, Dry Place (1998)
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
Plot: small town, love triangle, coming of age, basketball, single father, divorce, friendship, bittersweet, love, youth, suburbs, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: kansas, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.1
 133
Calm at Sunset (1996)
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, touching, emotional
Plot: family relations, ship, youth, hopes, danger, coming of age, escapades, follow your dream, small town, college dropout, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
41%
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