Movies like The Good Intentions 2019
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The Good Intentions (2019)
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Original name: Las buenas intenciones
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.
Style:
melancholic, sincere, romantic, poignant, realistic, art house, indie film, semi autobiographical, wistful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, father daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, children, divorced couple, love and romance, parent child relationship, fatherhood, family drama, couple relations, betrayal, fall in love, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, single father, divorced parents, economic crisis, working class, nostalgia, coming of age, slice of life, empathy, custody battle, bittersweet, intimate ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina, paraguay
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Most similar movies to The Good Intentions
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, emotional and captivating films with plots about bittersweet, intimate, slice of life, coming of age, family drama, empathy and family relations mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Good Intentions: Pinto (2021), An Unremarkable Life (1989), Old Fox (2023), Being a Father (2005), Sink (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a woman on the outskirts of the city who lives with her husband and child, but the story of their lives changes.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, affair, husband wife relationship, lifestyle change, problem, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, changing lives, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Élevé par des parents parfaits dans une banlieue proprette, frère cadet d'une fille à qui tout réussit et flanqué d'un ami tombeur, le pauvre Thomas se sent bien ordinaire. Alors qu'il tente désespérément de terminer ses ...
Style:
captivating, romantic drama, realistic, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
waitress, relationships, parent child relationship, father son relationship, male female relationship, family problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, changing lives, relationship problems, lifestyle change, family relations, couple relations ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
quebec, montreal
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The close bond between two elderly sisters is threatened when one of them begins to have romantic feelings for a local mechanic.
Style:
realistic, heartfelt, independent film, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
family drama, intimate, character study, empathy, small town, compassion, intolerance, female friendship, loneliness, resilience, personal growth, reconciliation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
grownups, family drama, life lesson, coming of age, child protagonist, family bonds, working class, resilience, character study, poverty, intergenerational friendship, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Elisabeth and Vincent separate upon the birth of their son, a child Vincent did not want. Malo, now nine years old, sees his father every second weekend. One evening, Vincent is late to bring the child back to the child's mother. In a hurry, he ...
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, reflective, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, fatherhood, family drama, bonding, family relations, reconciliation, second chance, responsibility, redemption, road trip, male protagonist, single father ...
Place:
corsica
Similarity:
66%
72
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Shot mainly in South East London, it’s about Micky Mason, a skilled manual worker who, since the Crash, can find nothing but menial zero hours jobs. He takes a course of action that is completely out of character, but it’s the only way he can ...
Style:
realistic
Plot:
character study, struggle, working class, resilience, blue collar, unemployment, survival, empathy, family drama, social realism, social commentary, economic crisis ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, poignant, independent film
Plot:
poverty, small town, unemployment, working class, struggle, social realism, everyday life, child protagonist, dream, empathy, aspiration, slice of life ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A gripping tale of an intense and pure bond between a father and son, woven with threads of joy, anguish, fear, and tranquility.
Style:
heartfelt, poignant, tear jerker, melancholic, meditative
Plot:
family drama, fatherhood, sacrifice, tenderness, parents, protective parent, bittersweet, empathy, heartwarming, resilience, redemption, slice of life ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Bong-yong Kim is one of a modest Korean dad who struggles to survive from the work place without any time to get along with his family. He has to work over than he had to, since the boss treat him like his servant – drink late every night, drive ...
Style:
captivating, heartfelt, sentimental, melancholic, entertaining
Plot:
father son relationship, father daughter relationship, family drama, husband wife relationship, family relations, job, relationship vs career, relationships, working class, family conflict, slice of life, parenting ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sathya, a self-centered aspiring actor who lacks talent, believes he is meant to be famous. After facing rejection, he sets off on a journey through Kerala to learn about emotions and life. Stranded in the village of Kadamakkudy, he meets a ...
Style:
reflective, contemplative, realistic, heartfelt, art house ...
Plot:
life lesson, empathy, personal growth, aspiring actor, self discovery, transformation, character study, rejection, village life, slice of life, intimate, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 90s, Isabella was eighteen and a star. 20 years later, she is still singing those same songs in small town bars with her son Bruno, playing guitar. It's because of him that her career stopped. At least it's what she tells herself.
Style:
dramatic, exciting, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
singing, family relations, female singer, pop star, relationships, guitarist, son, parent child relationship, single mother, mother and son, loneliness, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, 2010s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A cynical young boy gets to know the latest girlfriend of his ne'er-do-well father and begins to hope that this new relationship actually sticks.
Style:
sincere, dramatic, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
stepmother, single father, terminal illness, poverty, boy, child protagonist, family drama, diabetic, family relations, family problems, diabetes, father ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story:
Based on a true story, Backpackers follows the lives of a couple with terminal cancer as they spend the last few months of their lives fulfilling their adventurous dreams.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, thrilling, romantic, psychological ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, couples, love, mortality, love interest, in love, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, life is a bitch, fall in love ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Muriel and her mother leave their home for good and a freak occurrence leaves them stranded in the country. They beg a woman to let them stay and a shaky friendship develops between the two families.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
youth, bittersweet, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, love and romance, on the run, parents and children, down on your luck, family in danger, family in crisis, family gatherings ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Story:
If you are a provincial who wants to conquer a big city, then you should not look for easy ways to the heights of well-being - the bitter experience of the girl Lera is proof of this.
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
betrayal, revenge, love triangle, bittersweet, unrequited love, friendship, couple relations, romantic rivalry, love interest, sibling relationship, conflict, relationships ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A taxi driver, already struggling to support his wife and children, finds an abandoned baby in the back of his cab.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, heartfelt, realistic ...
Plot:
abandoned baby, secrets, resilience, fatherhood, family drama, marital problem, taxi, relationship problems, family problems, husband wife relationship, couple relations, relationships ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Story:
Drama about a mother and her 4 children.
Style:
mystical, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
mother, children, parent child relationship, motherhood, house, mysticism, supernatural, salvation, supernatural power, orphan, supernatural horror, mother and daughter ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film take place in Tehran 1990s and is the story of a 6 years old boy Shahab who still can not talk and because of that is being teased by every one. Even in his family they care for his bigger brother more than him and only his mother is ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
family relations, family drama, child protagonist, social issues, care, relationship problems, family problems, society, humiliation, iranian, child custody, social relations ...
Time:
90s, year 1990
Place:
tehran iran, tehran
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, parents and children, family gatherings, unfulfilled love, road not taken, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, family reunited, nostalgia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
50%
671
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young man named Teru, mentally altered by a childhood injury, runs a laundry and falls for Mizue, a lonely young woman with internal scars.
Style:
disturbing, sincere, captivating, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
laundry, love affair, love interest, love and romance, couple relations, male female relationship, relationships, fall in love, love story, romantic relationship, in love, teenage crush ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Rikutaro and Mariko are in the same grade at an elementary school. They become brother and sister after Rikutaro's mother and Mariko’s father marry. After their marriage, the children become upset because they are teased by their classmates, ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, heartfelt, melancholic
Plot:
step siblings, family conflict, family drama, elementary school, innocence, divorce, bullying, parent child relationship, childhood, slice of life, social realism, parenting ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A love story between a Polish guestworker and a farmer's daughter in the strawberry fields of Sweden.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tension ...
Plot:
love story, love, male female relationship, problem, relationships, couple relations, love interest, workplace, family relations, fall in love, love affair, love and romance ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The paths of two girls cross one evening in Ljubljana. Tina, a Slovene, and Iben, a Danish girl of similar age, both experiencing some kind of turning point in their lives, open up to one another and soon develop a close bond...
Style:
emotional, sincere, witty, clever, serious ...
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, direction and purpose, gender, gays and lesbians, love and romance, fall in love, language barrier, female friendship, chance meeting, connection, intimate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovenia
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Milutin’s harmony of life collapses when his wife Magdalena experiences a car accident, defending her body of a one-year-old son who was entrusted with the care of Milutin. Magdalena remains immobile. Love between Milutin and Magdalena has always ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
love, parenthood, family bonds, family drama, disability, marriage, sacrifice, accident, motherhood, trauma, loyalty, intimate ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
376
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, art house
Plot:
domestic drama, family drama, relationships, character study, children, isolation, alienation, summer vacation, family secret, intimate, repression, bittersweet ...
Place:
east germany
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The touching story of a teenager who cannot feel and has nothing to live for until he learns to find meaning through love and loss.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, melancholic, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, alienation, love, relationships, coming of age, love and romance, couple relations, social problems, life is a bitch, love story, teenage life, love affair ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of literature-loving friends bury letters to be opened 10 years later when they will confront the dreams of their youth with what the future has held in store for them.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, life turned upside down, haunted by the past, under the surface, life is a bitch, friends, countryside, writer's life, coming of age, literature, nostalgia, introspection ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
43%
449
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A panoramic view over society across ten unfortunate characters whose stories sometimes intertwine.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, sociological
Plot:
character study, slice of life, social commentary, empathy, urban, city life, working class, loneliness, bittersweet, intimate, alienation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
43%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, under his ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
wasteland, father daughter relationship, fatherhood, truck, father and daughter, father, daughter, family drama, road trip, relationships, family relations, parent child relationship ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A moment of impulsiveness turns Gao Zhilei into a "stay-at-home" individual, but he never expected his life to take a turn in the opposite direction. A series of changes compel him to take on his responsibilities as the head of the family. ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, motivational
Plot:
responsibility, self discovery, family drama, personal growth, sacrifice, redemption, male protagonist, midlife crisis, second chance, parenting, resilience, intimate ...
Similarity:
41%
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