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Demented (2006)
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Original name: Le dernier des fous
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 himself in drink ; and his father, dominated by Martin’s grandmother, is a helpless onlooker to the family’s collapse. Although Mistigri, his cat, and Malika, the Moroccan maid, afford him some comfort, Martin is determined to put an end to this confusion.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, bleak, melancholic, intense
Plot:
coming of age, gay, family drama, kids and family, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, father son relationship, social problems, family problems, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional marriage, unhappy marriage, loneliness, loss of innocence, childhood trauma, alcoholism, village life, mental illness, isolation, desperation, minimalism, summer vacation, family secret, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2000s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and melancholic films with plots about coming of age, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, isolation and relationship problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Demented: Seeds (2017), Resisting Life (2006), Little Ones (2022), The Fire That Burns (1997), Lessons at the End of Spring (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, where he has to find his father while trying to adapt to life with his grandmother, who has problems of her own.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
grandmother grandson relationship, gay, coming of age, boy, father son relationship, family problems, dysfunctional family, boyhood, kids and family, family relations, grownups, lifestyle ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, captivating, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
alienation, surrealism, family drama, grief, family problems, family relations, estrangement, family life, kids and family, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Camille a 16 years old pregnant girl was placed in a maternal center by the Judge. She became friends with Alison, an immature young mother, and fought against the authority of Nadine, an educator as passionate as she was disillusioned.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, intense
Plot:
motherhood, young mother, teenage pregnancy, teenage protagonist, adolescence, family problems, life is a bitch, kids and family, mother love, female protagonist, pregnant teenager, young girl ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.
Plot:
coming of age, boys' school, altar boy, gay, lgbt, choir, school, friendship, teenage boy, homosexual, religion, boarding school ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime.
Style:
bleak, psychological, grim, historical drama, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, prison, stalinism, perestroika, brutality, gay, torture, sadism, trauma, survival, violence, authoritarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, quarantine, isolation, family drama, lifestyle, disagreement, mother and daughter, family conflict, living together, parents and children, family relations, family problems ...
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24%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On the Tibetan grasslands, Darje and Drolkar live a serene and ordinary life with their three sons and the grandfather. A condom sparks a series of embarrassment and dilemma, breaking the harmony of the family. What matters more in the circle of ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, thrilling, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
existentialism, family relations, moral dilemma, taboo subject, family drama, relationships, social problems, kids and family, society, religious, dysfunctional family, religious faith ...
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24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
BLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense
Plot:
childhood trauma, mental illness, depression, psychological trauma, mother daughter relationship, psychotic, psychology, mother and daughter, relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, social problems ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The seventeen year old 'Yeong-jae' was safely sent away to the group home 'Isaac's house'. He is old enough to leave now, but doesn't want to go back home to his irresponsible father.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, adolescence, coming of age, youth, orphanage, absent father, father and son, father, catholic orphanage, family problems, dysfunctional family ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
coming of age, paranoid schizophrenia, mental disorder, mother and daughter, mental illness, mental health, grownups, life is a bitch, family problems, moral dilemma, parents and children, paranoid ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
South of the Moon is the story of a young boy and his uncle, one dealing with the complexity and confusion of adolescence, the other with the pain and torment of regret.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological
Plot:
coming of age, uncle nephew relationship, teenager, relationship problems, life is a bitch, teenage life, social issues, relationships, uncle, social problems, family problems, little boy ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A sequel to one of Romanian cinema’s most lauded adaptations, The Moromete Family, film tells the tale of Ilie Moromete and his family and focuses on his youngest son, Niculae. The entire order of the world of the village, where the most important ...
Style:
family saga, psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house ...
Plot:
social commentary, village life, dysfunctional family, social problems, problem, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, communism, father son relationship, coming of age, education ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The memories of Guiga, from early childhood to young adulthood: his family, relatives, friends, fears, dreams and reality in a still provincial city of Salvador, Bahia, from the 50s to the 70s.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot:
coming of age, memories, puberty, boy, erotica, family problems, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, relationships, family relations, flashback sequence, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old girl deals with the issues brought about by her family's high-priced son.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, poignant, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, adolescence, family drama, tragic past, female protagonist, troubled past, traumatic past, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, loneliness ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
21%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An 18-year-old man, living on a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and sentenced to 3 months in prison.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
prison, young man, illegal drugs, drug, teenage life, life is a bitch, changing lives, teenager, drug dealer, teenage boy, lifestyle change, coming of age ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia, Luxembourg, Qatar
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Belgrade, 1996. During the student demonstrations against the Milosevic regime, 15-year-old Stefan leads his own revolution in the heat of events: accepting the unacceptable, seeing his mother as an accomplice in the crime and finding, despite the ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
boy, family secret, coming of age, moral dilemma, conscience, loss of innocence, family conflict, murder mystery, hidden truth, uncover truth, parent child relationship, secret ...
Place:
belgrade
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, sexy
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, prostitute, dysfunctional family, family problems, mother daughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, single mother, family secret, family relations, single parent, social problems ...
Similarity:
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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:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A poor family struggles to cope with tragedy and mental illness in a fractured society.
Style:
sentimental, captivating, realistic, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
mental illness, family drama, social realism, grief, family relations, poverty, family problems, social relations, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, mental patient, family tragedy ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
singapore
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Louis is a twelve year old boy who lives with his parents and older brother in southern Morocco. Louis is very happy until the day his father shares a secret with him.
Style:
sincere, psychological, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
mental illness, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, father son relationship, secret, youth, suicide, depression, hopes, danger, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, africa, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Kaan has difficulty getting a higher position in his work where he has built a good career. While he was occupied with his wife, children and his work, he has pretty much neglected his father. Until one day he is obliged to take care of him.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, relationship vs career, family problems, parents and children, family relations, kids and family, relationships, relationship problems, care, family life, father and son ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gina, 15, lives in a city on the edge of the forest. She admires her father, unpredictable and whimsical, able to take his children at night in the woods, even to forget them. Jimmy's more and more frequent skids end up alarming his wife ...
Style:
captivating, dramatic, teen, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
mental illness, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family relations, mental institution, coming of age, female protagonist, grownups, family drama, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When mom is terminally ill at the hospital, dad comes along after the long years of absence. Anxious and hesitant, he has got no way but taking his son and his daughter away. But to which destination when he has not managed to build the castle of ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
father son relationship, father daughter relationship, dead mother, mourning, grief, family drama, relationships, relationship problems, family relations, life is a bitch, family life, family problems ...
Place:
persia, iran
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man, Ben Freidman (Scott Wilson) raised by wealthy adoptive Jewish parents in Beverly Hills, decides that he is ready to finally meet his biological parents. He faces disappointment upon learning of the death of his biological mother. His ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, identity, relationships, family relations, foster home, foster child, family problems, life is a bitch, father son relationship, mother son relationship, family life, kids and family ...
Place:
beverly hills
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Hakim and Latifa fled the Algerian civil war in the early 90s. They live since in the Jura, with their two daughters: Nedjma 14 years, and Leila, the eldest, left to study hair in Paris. Three days before Christmas, Nedjma receives a terse SMS from ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, melancholic
Plot:
father daughter relationship, missing daughter, family drama, relationships, sister, family problems, family relations, relationship problems, life is a bitch, social problems, immigration, character study ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
19%
237
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Eleven-year-old Elisa (Claudia Pons) lives with her father (Hans Richter) in Spain following the breakup of her parents. Elisa goes to a fair with her father, and meets one of his friends (Jordi Gracia), a successful jeweler. Days later, a change ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
child rape, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, family relations, troubled past, confronting the past, tragic past, shame, haunting, coming of age ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In an idyllic wine region at the foot of the Swiss Alps lives Rico with his two daughters and his wife Anna. The charming daughter, Lili, brings turbulence into the so far harmonious family life because of the awakening of her sexuality. Her father ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
coming of age, sexuality, father daughter relationship, family relations, family problems, sexual tension, father and daughter, relationships, relationship problems, parents and children, family life, sexual relations ...
Place:
swiss alps
Similarity:
18%
204
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenage life, family problems, family relations, parents and children, child as adult, teachers and students, minimalism, lgbt, everyday life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, sincere, suspense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, dysfunctional family, relationships, death of son, husband wife relationship, death, prediction, life is a bitch, death of child, life & death, family problems, social problems ...
Place:
north africa, africa, sudan
Similarity:
18%
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