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Around the Bend (2004)
5K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, road movie, semi serious, humorous, family saga, realistic, crying, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
redemption, family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, parents and children, human nature, estrangement, death, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, road trip, aging, van, on the road, bus, father, grandfather, dealing with death, love, sex, dog, prison, dancing, prison escape, thief ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004, contemporary
Place:
new mexico, usa, los angeles, albuquerque new mexico, mexico, arizona
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about family relations, father son relationship, drinking, drinking alcohol, death, husband wife relationship and mother son relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Around the Bend: The Keys to the House (2004), Alone (1999), Calendar Girls (2003), T2 Trainspotting (2017), Last Orders (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style:
psychological, touching, emotional, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
estrangement, parents and children, single parent, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, redemption, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, germany, italy, berlin germany, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style:
touching, serious, erotic, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot:
hospital, mother in law son in law relationship, pregnancy, loneliness, drinking, parents and children, society, relationships, sex scene, making love, redemption, friendship ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
spain, europe, andalusia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
charity, small town, women, leukemia, female nudity, female empowerment, elderly, life philosophy, model, human spirit, friendship, food ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, northern england, europe, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Style:
exciting, intense, stylized, black comedy, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
drug addiction, theft, junkie, addiction, heroin, sex scene, blackmail, old friends reunited, friendship, revenge, violence, redemption ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s, 70s, year 1979 ...
Place:
edinburgh scotland, slovenia, scotland, scottish highlands, china ...
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100%
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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:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Style:
independent film, grim, cult classic, dark comedy, psychedelic ...
Plot:
addiction, drug, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, dialogue, recovery, dark humor, heroin, redemption, drug addict, apocalypse ...
Time:
70s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, chicago, phoenix arizona, iowa, mexico
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his ...
Style:
sweet, sentimental, melancholic, road movie, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, love story, suicide attempt, love, bittersweet, stewardess, road trip, destiny, hometown, life philosophy, self discovery, on the road ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
kentucky, oklahoma city, usa, memphis, mississippi ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of... something else. Encouraged by her best friend, Carol, Beth reluctantly accepts the romantic ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, clever, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, friends, drinking, small town, deaf man, desire, stoner, highway, salesman, road trip, self discovery, friendship ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
arizona, usa, las vegas, tucson arizona, los angeles ...
Similarity:
23%
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128K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Style:
road movie, black and white, depressing, humorous, meditative ...
Plot:
road trip, small town, dysfunctional family, aging, elderly, confronting the past, on the road, relationships, old age, obsessive quest, character study, honest ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
montana, nebraska, usa, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, gay, culture clash, religion, teenage pregnancy, gay latino, character study, life turned upside down, starting over, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, glendale california, spain
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style:
emotional, talky, intense, serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, making love, lovers reunited, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, family problems, couples, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought ...
Style:
touching, emotional, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, tour guide, father son relationship, redemption, family relations, parents and children, aging, estranged father, unfulfillment, estrangement, understanding, asian history ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
china, east asia, tokyo, japan
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, sincere, realistic
Plot:
aids, family relations, photographer, secret, self discovery, love and romance, estrangement, family life, terminal illness, haunted by the past, siblings relations, parents and children ...
Place:
newfoundland, boston, america, canada, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, friendship, on the road, father, prison, friends, youth, social misfits, hopes, self discovery, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
indiana, oklahoma, usa, salt lake city utah, philadelphia ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, estrangement, family problems, gender, love and romance, elderly, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california, los angeles, miami
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film, road movie ...
Plot:
escape, senior citizen, aging, journey, on the road, dysfunctional family, small town, redemption, old age, homecoming, bus, cat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, houston texas, austin texas
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style:
offbeat, touching, emotional, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot:
best friend, college, friendship, friends, hopes, coming of age, youth, buddies, redemption, showbiz, partner, food ...
Time:
90s, year 1983, year 1996, 21st century
Place:
new york, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
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148
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
petty theft, desert, on the road, factory, unemployment, workplace romance, small town life, small town, family in crisis, fish out of water, couples, estrangement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style:
christian film, emotional, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, friendship, food, self discovery, bittersweet, restaurant, solitude, hospital, storytelling, death, businessman, hound dog ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.
Style:
touching, psychological, harsh, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, road trip, dysfunctional family, male nudity, addiction, loneliness, family drama, complex characters, family life, love and romance, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, london, england, europe, eastern europe ...
Similarity:
20%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, young lovers, coming of age, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, womanizer, youth, society, couples, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2000
Place:
nebraska, europe, usa, england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer, who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, yet another of his ...
Style:
cult classic, sexual, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
monopoly, depression, storytelling, hotel, drinking, radio, death, radio station, daydreamer, jail, woman with a gun, mental disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
philadelphia, hawaii, new jersey, usa, honolulu hawaii ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
chess, peasant, terrorism, mafia, death, funeral, family relations, hopes, farm, social worker, estrangement, family problems ...
Time:
year 1981, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy, germany, southern italy ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, starting over, love and romance, couple relations, small town life, brother brother relationship, suburbs, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, american football ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
florida, new jersey, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A down-and-out writer, Nick Sennet, runs into Harry, a man that, legend has it, died long ago. Together they attempt to revitalize a defunct factory as well as their lives.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
redemption, friendship, small town, factory, human spirit, starting over, family relations, society, human nature, hopes, lifestyle, alcohol abuse ...
Place:
washington state
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A mom and her 10 year son motor around the country as she makes ends meet by turning tricks until her car breaks down. She then temporarily takes up with a hardware store owner until she gets her own place. Then the kid's father shows up to try ...
Style:
independent film, serious, psychological, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
coming of age, killer child, road trip, bad father, family relations, on the road, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent, alcohol abuse, store, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, beirut lebanon
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the ...
Style:
melancholic, talky, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
writer's life, single father, family bonds, writers, book, family problems, introspection, love and romance, dealing with death, parents and children, family life, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, london
Similarity:
19%
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