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Drift Away (2021)
488
Original name: Albatros
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The life of a young police officer in a small town in Normandy is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a farmer threatening to commit suicide.
Plot:
police officer, cat, police, storm, death, photographer, birthday, beach, job, male nudity, suicide, family relations, singing, farmer, gendarme, sailboat, father daughter relationship, boat, moving, peasant, photograph, cow, hallucination, choir, daughter ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s
Place:
france
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Most similar movies to Drift Away
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and psychological films with plots about family relations, beach, telephone call, father daughter relationship, cigarette smoking, police and singing mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Drift Away: Beasts (2020), Sailing Home (2024), In His Own Image (2024), The Dazzled (2019), Everything Went Fine (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
267
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Constance and her fiancé hope to one day take over, modernize and expand her father’s farm, on the verge of bankruptcy, to the large-scale farms that share the land and power. She gains the support of the influential and charismatic Sylvain, ...
Plot:
young couple, farmer, lgbt, farm, naked breasts, money problems, groom, police, cheating fiancee, peasant, party, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Passionate about sailing, Jean-Paul is going through a rough patch. Up to his ears in debts, he pulls away from his family. Determined to take his life back in hand, he signs up for Virtual Regatta, the online version of Vendée Globe boat race. To ...
Plot:
grandfather, telephone call, sailboat, rainstorm, advertising, night, restaurant, father son relationship, race, journalist, alcoholic, seaside ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer for a local newspaper in Corsica. Her commitment, her friends, and her loves intertwine with the major political events of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the ...
Plot:
photographer, female protagonist, photograph, prison, photography, photojournalism, heroin, murder, hotel, newspaper, voice over narration, war photographer ...
Time:
90s, year 1980, year 1999, 80s, year 1993
Place:
corsica
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Camille, is the eldest of a large family. One day, her parents enter a religious community which gradually, regimentation becomes sectarian and Camille will have to fight to assert her freedom and save her brothers and sisters.
Style:
semi autobiographical
Plot:
skinny dipping, pedophilia, female nudity, stealing, shoplifting, religious community, brother sister relationship, brotherhood, stealing money, arrest, police arrest, sect ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father’s bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it’s your own father?
Plot:
lgbt, elderly, old age, father daughter relationship, sea, birthday present, doctor, nightmare, suicide, hospital, telephone call, train ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of the women and relationships that define a family across a century.
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, melancholic, family saga
Plot:
eternity, birth, love, family relations, family history, family values, loss of spouse, storytelling, loss of child, death, funeral, death of daughter ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A social drama about a woman who is obligated to return to her parents’ home and agrees to work for her uncle in a doghouse.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
bare breasts, female nudity, female pubic hair, police, job interview, male nudity, singing, birthday, hospital, beach, female protagonist, dog attack ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, cross paths when misfortune turns their lives upside down.
Style:
crying
Plot:
supermarket, father daughter relationship, woman, heist gone wrong, treatment, rain, leukemia, blood, violence, pub, death of boyfriend, punched in the face ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
germany
Similarity:
20%
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185
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
Plot:
mother son incest, mother child relationship, overprotective mother, male female relationship, oedipus complex, husband wife relationship, skipping school, fisherman, drunk, pharmacist, dysfunctional family, sea ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Samson Cazalet, Taxi driver in his thirties, picks up a client at the airport. The same evening, the daughter of the woman disappears and the overwhelming evidence points to Samson. How can he prove his innocence when he is the ideal suspect?
Plot:
lawyer, taxi, gas station, airport, false accusation, police, prison, innocence, beach, police station, neighbor, courtroom ...
Place:
south of france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
In eastern France, two teenage cousins have the summer of their lives when they paddle a purloined canoe to the far shore of a lake.
Plot:
theft, funeral, female nudity, teenage boy, telephone call, motorcycle, death, mirror, unemployment, coming of age, nudity, fire ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, year 1996, 20th century, year 1998 ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth generation. He dreams of having a child. After years of failed fertility assistance, they ...
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
infidelity, pregnant woman, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, couples, society, dishonesty, family relations, love, love and romance, escapades, wife pregnant by another man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
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:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Violette, an expectant wife, who opens a nasty barrel of worms by filming a documentary about her dysfunctional family, to be shown to her (as yet) unborn son.Through her ever-present lens, Violette begins to unearth one nasty family secret after ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, pregnancy, couples, family problems, parents and children, infidelity, uncover truth, disturbed childhood, adolescence, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, Sweden, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Unable to ...
Plot:
church choir, choir, life, politics, police station, police corruption, husband, school, motorcycle, riot, husband wife relationship, female singer ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s
Place:
sudan
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he ...
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, captivating, dramatic, non-linear ...
Plot:
writers, travel and leisure, changing lives, lifestyle change, cross country trip, life, travel, coma, biopic, rehabilitation, accident, solitude ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
142
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his ...
Style:
psychological, touching, captivating, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot:
fisherman, children, teenager, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, divorced man, moral dilemma, family relations, storytelling, parents and children, boat, tattoo ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
292
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An Israeli man searches for his father in France.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, estrangement, family problems, investigation, hopes, parents and children, midlife crisis, haunted by the past, gays and lesbians, redemption, aging ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, rough
Plot:
factory, vengeance, workplace intrigue, misled, parents and children, rivalry, righting the wronged, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations, family relations, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, normandy, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
Plot:
priest, journey, male nudity, missionary, photographer, death, nordic, bare chested male, volcanic eruption, guide, photography, cultural conflict ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
18%
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:
18%
276
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gabriel and Iris head back to their family holiday home in Portugal with their daughters Emma and Zoé, a couple of adorable six-year-old twins, for a vacation. In the heart of the sun-drenched countryside, as the little ones swim and laugh, the ...
Plot:
secret, death, vacation, identical twins, grief, revelation, nudity, swinger, twin sister, dancing, surgery, river ...
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a communications officer in the Naval Fusiliers. She will quickly have to adapt to and assimilate the ...
Style:
inspirational, light, sincere, semi serious
Plot:
male objectification, seaside, military, sea, mother daughter relationship, mentor, female nudity, female soldier, women in the military, translator, sex scene, beach ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job - he is a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, free and true to life, ...
Style:
captivating, touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
family in crisis, filmmaking, family relations, family problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, showbiz, family life, mental disorder, husband wife relationship, children, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
paris france, europe, france, italy
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Style:
costume drama, captivating, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
farmer, sex scene, marriage proposal, father daughter relationship, love, female nudity, female protagonist, father son relationship, shepherd, world war one, execution, death of father ...
Time:
edwardian era, 2010s, 1910s
Place:
britain, scotland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A magistrate investigating a fraud case discovers the woman is the biological mother of her adopted child. Instead of recusing herself, the magistrate pursues the case further.
Style:
captivating, no music
Plot:
birth mother, accidental incest, lawyer, adoptive mother, mother son incest, adultery, incest, older woman younger man, uncover truth, foster parent, marital problem, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship to rise to the surface. Alain then discovers that his mother has a fatal illness. In the last ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot:
ex convict, mother son reunion, suicide, family relations, last wish, disease, life is a bitch, elderly, estrangement, parents and children, deadend life, mother ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, france, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Centres around a Paris fire-fighter, an everyday hero, who, after being involved in a serious accident during a major fire, must rebuild his life with the love of his wife — and accept that, sometimes, even saviours need saving.
Plot:
fireman, fire, firefight, killed in a car crash, pregnancy, nudity, homelessness, suicidal thoughts, arson, pregnant woman, balloon, photograph ...
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Frank, a man of action who worked his way up all by himself, dedicates his life to work. No matter the place or the circumstances, be it day or night, he’s on the phone, handling the cargo ships he charters for major companies. But when he has to ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
loss of job, father daughter relationship, family relations, manager, waking up, greed, workaholic, self discovery, frustration, depression, immigrant, bare chested male ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mathieu, a piano virtuoso, goes home to help his brother Paul to take care of their sick mother. Paul is into reenacting old battles, dressing up and getting into character, even dueling if necessary. Mathieu gets involved in this world and play ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
Plot:
obsession, family relations, role playing, revenge, brother brother relationship, duel, honor, pianist, friendship, stage play, rivalry, lgbt ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
18%
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