Movies like Australia 1989
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Australia (1989)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Widower Edouard Pierson (Jeremy Irons) fought for Australia in World War Two, but he was born (and married) in Belgium. For the past twelve years, he has been living in Australia with his daughter. His occupation as a wool merchant is in keeping with his family's tradition. He is determined to remain in Australia, and is equally determined to keep his daughter (Danielle Lyttleton) from learning much about her mother, whom she never knew. Nonetheless, when his brother (Tcheky Karyo) calls urgently from Belgium, requesting his help in saving the family's business there, he returns to his hometown of Verviers. In addition to saving the family business, he comes to have second thoughts about returning to Australia after he has a brief affair with a Belgian woman (Fanny Ardant). Meanwhile, his daughter has made contact with her grandmother (Helene Surgere), and is beginning to learn about her mother.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, period piece, nostalgic
Plot:
father daughter relationship, family secret, post war, getting home, immigration, single parent, loneliness, emigration, family business, grief, loss, reconciliation, cross cultural relations, identity, longing, illicit affair, intimate, betrayal, infidelity, legacy, moral dilemma, betrayal of trust, inheritance, exile, world war two ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
belgium, australia, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, art house and realistic films with plots about identity, grief, intimate, loss, family secret, reconciliation and memory mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Australia: My Motherland (2023), Now (2006), Just Like at Home (1978), Makal (2022), La Grazia (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
France has been living alone in her apartment since the death of her husband. When she hears on the radio that the Singa association puts homeless migrants in contact with people who can take them in, she decides, against the advice of her family, ...
Style:
melancholic, art house
Plot:
compassion, immigration, war trauma, empathy, humanity, loneliness, grief, social issues, exile, human rights, solidarity, integration ...
Place:
france, afghanistan
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, emotional, romantic drama, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, dream, secret, memory, journey, longing, grief, haunting, male protagonist, intimate, road trip, friend ...
Place:
france, london, belgium
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic, existential, period piece
Plot:
father daughter relationship, children, loneliness, loss, getting home, relationships, bonding, alienation, intimate, nostalgia, humanism, mourning ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Juliet and her daughter Aparna live in Kerala, while Juliet’s husband Nandan works abroad. Nandan decides to move back to Kerala, and it changes the lives of the mom-daughter duo.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, melancholic, contemplative
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family drama, female protagonist, parenting, getting home, healing, estrangement, emigration, homecoming, reconciliation, forgiveness, intimate ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
As his tenure as President of Italy nears its end, Mariano De Santis faces wrenching decisions-both political and deeply personal. Amid these moral quandaries, he must confront his own conscience and seek guidance from those closest to him, ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, serious, political drama
Plot:
moral dilemma, character study, grief, italian politics, loneliness, legacy, redemption, family secret, midlife crisis, slow burn, widower, bureaucracy ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, art house ...
Plot:
homecoming, haunted by the past, childhood memory, heiress, house, landscape, love, grief, female protagonist, mourning, memory, inheritance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brittany, france, europe, cornwall, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lebanon, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep disorders and is obsessed with thoughts of his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, his overprotective mother struggles with the disappearance of her husband, who was kidnapped more than 15 years ...
Style:
art house, psychological, melancholic, emotional, existential ...
Plot:
insomnia, family drama, character study, longing, slice of life, loss, grief, mother son relationship, memories, intimate, loneliness, regret ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
lebanon, middle east
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, sentimental, poignant, art house ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, hmong, family secret, search for mother, female protagonist, family drama, stepmother, grief, identity, self discovery, village life, inheritance ...
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
60%
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377
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep ...
Style:
art house, thought provoking, enigmatic, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
mother daughter reunion, mother daughter relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, runaway, escapades, female protagonist, character study, introspection, regret, trauma, alienation, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Korea
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a Korean-American adoptee discovers his birthmother is terminally ill, he must decide whether to preserve his American identity or uncover his vague past.
Style:
melancholic, multicultural, reflective
Audience:
adult
Plot:
adoption, identity, korean american, homecoming, identity crisis, self discovery, cultural conflict, mother son relationship, diaspora, family secret, reconciliation, terminal illness ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, existential ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, psychological, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
absent mother, orphan, family secret, mother daughter relationship, character study, love affair, love story, romantic relationship, love and romance, forbidden love, love interest, unrequited love ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, tense, art house, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
secrets, family drama, character study, lie, betrayal, literary, moral dilemma, illegitimacy, adaptation, trust, guilt, loss ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trying to get his dying father out of prison with a compassionate release, Max Dagan needs the help of the daughter of the man his father killed.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, bleak, melancholic, tension
Plot:
redemption, forgiveness, father son relationship, family drama, prison, guilt, moral dilemma, second chance, dying man, reconciliation, grief, family secret ...
Similarity:
47%
203
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
sisters, sister sister relationship, father daughter conflict, traumatic childhood, sisterhood, family drama, family history, trauma, family secret, family relations, family conflict, father and daughter ...
Place:
algeria, france
Similarity:
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135
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, tense, gloomy, suspense, period piece
Plot:
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Time:
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799
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, atmospheric, dramatic, emotional, intercultural ...
Plot:
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Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
dramatic, emotional, realistic, melancholic, suspense
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Spain, Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, emotional, reflective, period piece
Plot:
exile, longing, nostalgia, coming of age, bittersweet, flashback, political repression, immigration, intimate, reminiscence, loss of innocence, father son relationship ...
Time:
70s
Place:
uruguay, spain
Similarity:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Directed by Robert Kramer
Style:
experimental, touching, serious, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
working class, family relations, immigrant, husband wife relationship, mysterious man, dysfunctional family, blindness, immigration, exile, intimate, social realism, getting home ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, poignant, sincere ...
Plot:
identity, brotherhood, family drama, father son relationship, aborigine, intimate, forgiveness, moral dilemma, estranged father, half brother, reconciliation, confrontation ...
Place:
canada, usa
Similarity:
41%
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Country: Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, art house, melancholic, intercultural ...
Plot:
boy, secrets, tragedy, loss, immigration, adoption, migration, humanist, custody battle, grief, identity, loneliness ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
41%
171
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 51 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, suspense, melancholic, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, suspicion, corruption, female protagonist, family secret, investigation, betrayal, moral ambiguity, grief, identity, memory, diary ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south australia, australia, adelaide south australia
Similarity:
41%
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Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic drama, emotional ...
Plot:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
family saga, melancholic, contemplative, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
memory, family drama, inheritance, family secret, grief, mourning, nostalgia, flashback, house, homecoming, literary, adaptation ...
Time:
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Place:
northern germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A businessman returns his family home after eight years in exile avoiding the terrorism of the ETA.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, tension, melancholic ...
Plot:
terrorism, exile, family home, family drama, homecoming, danger, fear, trauma, identity, reconciliation, paranoia, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
spain, basque country
Similarity:
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Country: Serbia, France, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, uncover truth, self discovery, haunted by the past, identity, hidden truth, escapades, elderly, family relations, obsessive quest, lifesaver ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia, belgrade, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother (Lou Castel), mother (Emmanuelle Riva) and pregnant lover (Angela Molina).
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, semi autobiographical
Plot:
suicide, twins, character study, grief, mourning, loneliness, existential crisis, midlife crisis, family secret, infidelity, small town, provincial life ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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