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Digger (2020)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When Jonny visits his father Nikitas in his cabin in the woods after 20 years, the hermit ignores him. But to prevent the muddy ground from being pulled out from under their feet for reasons of profit, father and son must dig deep into it...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, art house, neo western, slow cinema, bleak
Plot:
father son relationship, family conflict, father son conflict, mountain, forest, family relations, dysfunctional family, relationship problems, family problems, countryside, estrangement, father son estrangement, excavation, isolation, environmentalism, revenge, minimalism, redemption, solitude, moral ambiguity, survival, reconciliation, dream, horse, motorcycle ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
Place:
greece
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Most similar movies to Digger
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and disturbing films with plots about family relations, family problems, isolation, father son relationship, moral ambiguity, family drama and relationship problems mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Digger: Bright Nights (2017), Father's Acre (2009), Bunny (2005), Greshnik (2015), Strange Colours (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, estrangement, coming of age, reconciliation, family drama, father son estrangement, estranged father, family problems, absent father, estranged son, journey ...
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Love makes a bad relationship between father and son all the more rancorous in this drama from Hungarian director Viktor Oszkar Nagy. A convict (Janos Derzsi) returns home after a long stretch in prison to a less than enthusiastic welcome; his son ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
parent child relationship, aunt nephew relationship, father son relationship, father son reunion, father son estrangement, family life, dysfunctional family, father and son, male female relationship, family problems, family relations, relationships ...
Similarity:
86%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A millionaire's daughter is all set to marry her boyfriend against her father's wish. When her father finally approves the marriage, her boyfriend believes that her father should sign over his wealth to him.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, dysfunctional family, parents and children, inheritance, relationship problems, tragic love, family problems, love affair, showdown, reconciliation, family ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Vlad was five his mother was killed. And the only person whom Vlad blames for her death is his father . On the 20th anniversary of the tragedy the young man decides to gather all his relatives together to dot all the i's and cross all the ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
family secret, father son relationship, guilt, family drama, uncover truth, murder mystery, changing lives, family relations, character change, family problems, family tragedy, murder ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe, russia
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men escape society and share ideals of freedom. Soon, he doesn’t want her to leave. Stuck in time, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, estranged father, father and daughter, relationship problems, father, family problems, parent child relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, relationships ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
rape, forced marriage, domestic abuse, family relations, relationships, violence, relationship problems, male female relationship, violent, life is a bitch, forbidden love, family problems ...
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Suffering through a mid-life crisis, Omer has to face the angry villagers in order to realize his estranged father's dying wish to be buried under the enshrined Noah Tree which his father claims to have planted half a century ago.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
father son relationship, midlife crisis, family conflict, family problems, conflict, parents and children, social problems, village life, crisis, society, villager, social relations ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, reflective, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, estrangement, father, family relations, search for father, family drama, father son reunion, absent father, relationships, estranged father, relationship problems, family reunited ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Salvo was five when his father Vincenzo was arrested, practically before his eyes. Seven years later Salvo lives with his uncles and his cousin a controlled and peaceful existence in the Turin area, but his father returns and claims his son for four ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, road movie
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, family relations, relationships, dysfunctional family, father son estrangement, estrangement, father, ex convict, father and son, relationship problems, family problems ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An absentee father and his bipolar son are forced to live together as they struggle with a recent family tragedy. The tension and anxiety boil as they live and try to cope in a tiny apartment. As time passes, they realize their shared pain is not ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
mental disorder, father son relationship, mentally unstable, mental illness, mental patient, family problems, father son estrangement, estrangement, mental health, trauma, depression, repeated scene ...
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
56%
171
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An ancient dying land is brought back to life by the primal force of a young mute girl, who witnesses the fatal clash between two fathers.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, death of mother, rural setting, farmer, family drama, mountain, countryside, able to see the dead, seeing dead people, supernatural ability, murder, supernatural power ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, crime drama, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brothers, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, father son relationship, scapegoat, abandoned baby, reform school, abusive father, brotherhood, domestic abuse, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The action of the film takes place in two periods of time. An old man leads his son through a forest, and is simultaneously under his care confined to bed with a deadly illness.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father son relationship, illness, forest, dying father, old man, life & death, parents and children, nursing, multiple storylines, fighting illness, family relations, care ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
On their way home through an unknown city, Alexander and his father are attacked and seriously injured by some drunken juvenile delinquents. The father dies, and Alexander becomes a dangerous witness, which must be eliminated.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
murder, revenge, witness, crime victim, murder witness, witnessing a crime, criminal's revenge, loss of father, victim, hunted, manhunt, murderer ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, hostage, father, family secret, estranged father, family relations, change of luck, family problems, parents and children, search for father, fatherhood, character study ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
drug dealer, friendship, small town, family relations, addiction, character study, drug dealing, drug trade, city life, penance, illegal drugs, drug use ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
west virginia, appalachia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Caught in the tensions of the returning Pierrot, an ex-con, and the neighboring outlaws, Coralie attempts to distance herself from an ambiguous if not tormented past. Set against a busy highway, the butting houses dominated by a boss loosing sight ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tension, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, life is a bitch, family problems, family relations, father daughter relationship, mafia, family conflict, family drama, female protagonist, isolation, small town, ex convict ...
Similarity:
48%
675
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, Serbia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother ...
Style:
tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, bleak ...
Plot:
family conflict, fatherhood, mediterranean, husband wife relationship, family relations, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, death of mother, family drama, father son estrangement, mother son relationship, reconciliation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, serbia
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA, Romania
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A captive daughter endures around two decades of abuse at the hands of a sadistic father. One day, destiny presents her with an opportunity to break free.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
father, child abuse, female protagonist, trauma, psychological abuse, domestic abuse, locked in a basement, locked in, captive, despot, brother sister relationship, father and daughter ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A small family "a father and a son" lives on the top floor of an old house. The father retired from the military, when he was a student in flight school, he experienced the first and the only love of his life. This girl became his wife and ...
Style:
serious, psychological, atmospheric, touching, sensual ...
Plot:
gay subtext, father son relationship, homosexual subtext, gay, soldier, youth, bare chested male, dream, teenage boy, family relations, single parent, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Led to believe his abusive grandfather is responsible for his sister's recent death, Gabriel returns to his humble home in rural New Mexico. Yearning to protect his family, he swears to secretly kill his grandfather, yet at the critical moment, ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, vietnam veteran, uncover truth, grief, veteran, trauma, family drama, family conflict, family secret, getting home, death of sister, abuse ...
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Willy's quest to find Marlena, his lost love, takes him from Mexico to Canada, where he is hired as a seasonal worker at the Bécotte farm, near Montreal. Several destinies intersect, worlds collide, tensions rise and moments of magical realism ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama ...
Plot:
forbidden love, drug cartel, in love, love interest, star crossed lovers, gang, relationships, criminal, organized crime, criminal gang, relationship problems, family problems ...
Place:
canada, mexico, montreal
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, period piece ...
Plot:
redemption, faith, literary, life is a bitch, battles, fighting crime, gang, fight, criminal gang, character study, violence, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan, Kazakhstan, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A Kakakh kid (12) commits a robbery with a pistol he stole from a hunter. The hunter gives him a choice: either he goes to jail or they undertake a harsh journey through the mountains. Poetic Central Asian horse opera about the laws of nature.
Style:
art house, tense, slow cinema
Plot:
survival, hunter, coming of age, mountain, initiation, rite of passage, adolescence, wilderness, isolation, solitude, moral dilemma, man versus nature ...
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This is the story of Sylvia, who looses her stepchildren on a shopping trip in Poland. For fear of loosing her husband's love, too, she is unable to tell him what has happened and returns home, pretending anything is fine. When realising the ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, sincere, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
stepmother, parents and children, family problems, search and rescue, family drama, loss of son, loss, dysfunctional family, family relations, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, kids and family ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
poland
Similarity:
42%
351
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
It’s summer and the beginning of the long vacation period for eleven-year-old Martin, who lives on a farm, and, at a loss, observes his family’s disintegration : his mother lives locked-up in her room ; his older brother, who he adores, drowns ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, gay, kids and family, unhappy marriage, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, social problems, parents and children, father son relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad.
Style:
tense, intense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
search and rescue, father son relationship, missing person, lost, mountain, rescue mission, father, rescue, tragic event, squad, family relations, manhunt ...
Place:
romania
Similarity:
41%
342
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young married couple, not knowing how to deal with their new adopted son's behavior, decides to give him back.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
young couple, married couple, adopted son, foster parent, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, marital crisis, adoptive father adopted son relationship, young lovers, family problems ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle gang in the Kanto area. Now, Tetsu Hino is middle-aged man who is looked down upon by his ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, crime drama
Plot:
father son relationship, revenge, motorcycle gang, gang, gangster, biker gang, bandit, gang leader, gang member, criminal gang, relationship problems, gangster boss ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, dramatic, serious, harsh ...
Plot:
father son relationship, son, father, father and son, cemetery, character study, estrangement, family drama, family relations, alienation, parents and children, estranged son ...
Similarity:
38%
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