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After Him (2007)
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Original name: Après lui
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. Camille voit sa vie brisée par la disparition de son fils dans un accident de la route. Incapable de faire le deuil, elle s'attache à Franck, le meilleur ami de celui-ci, qui est aussi le responsable du drame. Les proches de Camille ne comprennent pas son attitude. Le vide se fait autour d'elle. Qu'importe le scandale, Franck devient l'objet consentant de son affection. Mais il va prendre peu à peu conscience que l'obsession de Camille le met en danger.
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, tense, sexual, gloomy, queer cinema
Plot:
death of son, obsession, family relations, couples, family problems, death in the family, love and romance, dealing with death, mother, best friend, car accident, grief, guilt, college, stalking, funeral, gift, arson, lgbt, book, job, woman, desperation, car, grandson ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to After Him
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and emotional films with plots about family problems, family relations, couples, parents and children, dealing with death, love and romance and death in the family mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like After Him: Normal (2007), Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard (2002), The Son's Room (2001), Family Tree (2010), My Friend & His Wife (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Style:
erotic, psychological, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
stepmother stepson relationship, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, sex with stepmother, illicit affair, incest overtones, stepmother, sex with stepson, car accident, mother son incest, marijuana, obsession ...
Place:
canada
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A portrait of a woman, composed of 17 moments from her life.
Style:
serious, touching, erotic, realistic, queer cinema
Plot:
male pubic hair, love and romance, starting over, family problems, couples, sexy woman, gay, gay interest, male nudity, gay subtext, lgbt, hotel ...
Time:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Style:
touching, sad, sincere, depressing, meditative ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychoanalysis, loss of son, regret, family problems, hopes, family in crisis, grief, psychology, parents and children, overcoming, redemption, death in the family ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, family problems, hopes, aging, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two young men, Ye-joon and Jae-moon, have been close friends since doing military service together. Ye-joon has lately worked his way up to becoming a successful financier, while the unambitious Jae-moon has opted for a much less conspicuous route. ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, unfulfillment, businessman, family problems, couples, parents and children, crumbling marriage, best friend, tragedy, love triangle, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any ...
Style:
emotional, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, divorce, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, love and romance, human nature, couples, family relations, siblings relations, countryside, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, rome italy, europe, brittany
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, family relations, on the run, starting over, death in the family, estrangement, family problems, crime gone awry, life is a bitch, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, couple relations, parents and children, death in the family, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family crisis, mourning, stillborn child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elsa, a woman with a long history of depression in the midst of a divorce from her husband of 12 years develops an obsession with a seven year old girl she sees at a birthday party when she comes to pick up her son Thomas. Determined to find out ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, emotional, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
obsession, family relations, haunted by the past, depression, stalking, mentally unstable, danger, crumbling marriage, parents and children, family problems, little girl, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
35%
193
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female pubic hair, bullfighting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
celebrity culture, friendship, family problems, social worker, family relations, obsession, family in crisis, gays and lesbians, society, journalism, godparent, prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
35%
712
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, breakup, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, sister, death in the family, sister sister relationship, female nudity, alienation, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alex, 25 years old, lives a life divided between his custom car that he pampers to the point of insanity, his friends, his girlfriend, whose baby girl he had under duress, and his job as a forklift operator. An exclusive passion, with its rituals ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
life turned upside down, couples, couple relations, moral dilemma, male female relationship, friendship, family crisis, disorder, family problems, family in crisis, police officer, car tuning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
35%
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:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
estrangement, human nature, extramarital affair, adultery, family life, coming of age, farm, love and romance, unfulfillment, cheating wife, deaf, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe
Similarity:
35%
139
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sixteen year-old girl living with her widowed father in the Ardennes forest befriends a twenty-two year old orphan whose manipulative aunt contrives to keep him immature in the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Stéphan Carpiaux. A tragic ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
fall in love, teenage life, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, family problems, single parent, unfulfillment, confined, youth, woods, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, estrangement, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, elderly lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
235
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
Style:
serious, touching, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, danger, unfulfilled love, dealing with death, artists and showbiz, hopes, unfulfillment, filmmaking, death ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1972
Place:
lyon, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, touching, depressing, meditative ...
Plot:
coma, coming of age, friendship, working class, love and romance, hopes, depression, couple relations, society, youth, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
france, flanders
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, culture clash, haunted by the past, forbidden love, estrangement, couples, family problems, missing child, parents and children, on the run, danger, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chaurahen (Crossroads), a film directed by Rajshree Ojha, who previously directed Aisha, in addition to two other popular specialty projects, boasts an impressive ensemble cast that includes Soha Ali Khan, Victor Banerjee, veteran Bollywood actress ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, couple relations, haunted by the past, dealing with death, family problems, love and romance, death in the family, life, loss, relationships, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, mumbai india, kolkata, india
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, unbeknownst to them, a non-authorized biography. Meanwhile, in Brittany, twenty-year-old Bruno, who ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, family in crisis, lovers reunited, dysfunctional family, writer's life, haunted by the past, lifestyle, brother brother relationship, relationships, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, homecoming, dysfunctional family, tragic love, best friend, couples, single parent, orphan, hopes, life is a bitch, starting over, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's her weekend, but her agent has booked her to MC a Rotary club dinner in Vichy. She takes ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, couples, artists and showbiz, obsession, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, self discovery, kidnapping, family life, parents and children, custody ...
Time:
80s
Place:
vichy, spain, europe, south of france
Similarity:
33%
420
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style:
touching, serious, psychological, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, friendship, parents and children, solace, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, family life, family problems, estrangement, impossible love, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vermont
Similarity:
33%
866
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
forbidden love, physical appearance, losing-it hero, family relations, mysterious character, love and romance, couple relations, family problems, wilderness, human nature, isolation, obsession ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
family in crisis, life is a bitch, working class, lifestyle, society, parents and children, family problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Liliane, a provincial nurse in her peaceful fifties, must cope with the accidental death of her son in China. She decides to fly there in order to repatriate the body. This mourning journey will soon turn out to be a trip of discovery of her son ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, intercultural
Plot:
self discovery, uncover truth, hopes, estrangement, bittersweet, dealing with death, death in the family, journey, estranged son, language barrier, death of son, mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
33%
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