Building a house movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant building a house movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, realistic, thought provoking, suspenseful and sincere films and TV shows about / with building a house, family relations, husband wife relationship, death, father son relationship, love, house, friendship, construction and chase plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as building a house: The Eight Mountains (2022), Life as a House (2001), Home Sweet Home (2020), Herself (2020), Corn Island (2014), The House That Jack Built (2018), The Architect (2023), All About Our House (2001), Rubble & Crew (2023), Scrapwood War (2014).

List of building a house movies

The Eight Mountains (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story: An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: friendship, building a house, friendship between men, mountain, male bonding, father son relationship, bromance, friendship between boys, male male relationship, snow, friend, cow ...
Time: year 1984
Place: alps, nepal, himalaya
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Life as a House (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: terminal illness, dying, father son relationship, relationships, cancer, dysfunctional family, reconciliation, illness, divorce, hopes, fighting illness, destiny ...
Time: year 2001
Place: california, usa
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Home Sweet Home (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Bored with her social butterfly lifestyle, Victoria Tremont longs to find that special someone. Naturally, when a handsome stranger walks into the coffee shop where she works, she turns on the charm. But when he fails to respond to her flirting the ...
Style: captivating, light, sincere, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: building a house, christian, fall in love, family relations, secret revealed, love, society, lie, pretending to be someone else, couples, male female relationship, friendship ...
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 7.0
 5K
Herself (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ...
Style: depressing, anamorphic, interesting, f word
Plot: building a house, mother daughter relationship, little girl, child custody, arson, flashback, friendship, man hits a woman, new house, hardship, feminism, woman ...
Time: 2020s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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 7.4
 5K
Corn Island (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. One of the spring floods has created a little island in the middle of the river, as if made for the cultivation of corn. At least, this is the belief of an old peasant, whose ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: island, teenage girl, military, skinny dipping, fishing, building a house, flood, stranger, harvest, hiding, wounded soldier, boat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, soviet union
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The House That Jack Built (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, sadism, cruelty, psychopath as protagonist, sadistic psychopath, maniac, disturbed individual, murder, extreme violence, photograph, hunting ...
Time: 2010s, 70s, 80s
Place: berlin germany, washington d.c.
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The Architect (2023)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story: When a project to build a thousand flats in Oslo is put out to tender, architect Julie has an idea: why not convert empty underground car parks into residential buildings? A pitch-black, keenly observed satire about an all-too-near future.
Style: satirical, captivating, semi serious, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: satire, ambition, architecture, architect, construction, civil engineer, building a house, urban planning, social satire, social commentary, city life, political satire ...
Time: future, near future
Place: oslo norway
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All About Our House (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa isn’t licensed to build homes, so they call in the wife’s father, a retired carpenter, to help out. When ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, captivating, satirical
Plot: new house, newlywed, father in law son in law relationship, architect, construction, contractor, tradition, traditional versus modern, tradition versus modernity, relationships, problem, male female relationship ...
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 4.8
 301
Rubble & Crew (2023)
Genre: Animation
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Follow Rubble and his pup family as they use their awesome construction vehicles to build and repair whatever the town of Builder Cove needs in high-stakes adventures.
Style: educational, cute, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, puppy, construction, teamwork, friendship, construction worker, children, urban planning, civil engineer, pet dog, building a house, lifestyle ...
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 6.1
 152
Scrapwood War (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min.
Story: At their annual summer building club ‘Camp Scrapwood’, best friends Ziggy (12) and Bas (12) find themselves on opposing sides for the first time in their lives. At summer club, best friends Ziggy and Bas (12) are on opposing sides for the first ...
Style: captivating
Audience: kids
Plot: bully, school, friendship, boy, chores, rivalry, sibling rivalry, summer camp, friendship between men, friends, construction worker, building a house ...
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 7.4
 306K
Weapons (2025)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Style: psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: evil witch, witchcraft, female teacher, teacher, witch, multiple perspectives, little boy, small town, supernatural horror, mysterious disappearance, missing child, disappearance ...
Time: 2020s
Place: pennsylvania, north america
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Remember My Name (1978)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: stalking, released from prison, female stalker, being followed, manipulative woman, ex husband ex wife relationship, arrest, female masturbation, love triangle, bare breasts, jealous wife, manipulative behavior ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
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 5K
Still Mine (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: elderly, aging, elderly couple, love and romance, couple relations, couples, bureaucracy, making love, life story, senior citizen, libertarian, old age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 7.0
 49K
Brimstone (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, UK, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: In the menacing inferno of the old American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.
Style: suspense, epic, brutal, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot: female protagonist, mute, church, obsession, sign language, violence, rape, father daughter incest, preacher, plot twist, religious, pedophile ...
Time: 19th century, year 2016, victorian era
Place: netherlands
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 7.1
 70K
Leave No Trace (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, forest, nature, veteran, trust, teenage girl, survivalist, trauma, wilderness, hitchhiking, woods, freezing ...
Time: 2010s, future, 90s, near future
Place: oregon, washington state, xian, portland oregon, utah ...
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 6.6
 51K
The Roses (2025)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions ...
Style: dark comedy, intense, romantic comedy, modern day adaptation
Plot: architect, cooking, building collapse, drunkenness, twins, waiter, lawyer, flirting, storm, divorce lawyer, marriage, rottweiler ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: california, london, big ben london, new york
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Couples Therapy (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Anders and Puk move into their dream house which is still in a state of refurbishment. To be able to afford the expense, they decide to rent the basement out to family therapist Ulrik. Very soon, Ulrik has put their marriage to a severe test.
Style: low brow humor, freeze frame, neurotic, f word
Plot: bare chested male, lack of privacy, singer, unfaithful husband, fat man, unfaithfulness, best friend, old woman, woman dressed as man, hysterical outburst, buying a house, construction worker ...
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Build a House, Plant a Tree (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juvaj Jakubiskoʼs first feature film after a forced nine-year-long break is a story about an unconventional man, Jozef Matúš. He arrives to a small village in eastern Slovakia to settle down and start a family. He is ready to subordinate ...
Plot: renaissance, house, tree, rural setting, hypocrisy, family relations, nudity, con man, promise, thirty something, building a house, anti hero ...
Place: eastern europe, slovakia, europe, central europe
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A Home of Our Own (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: single parent, christmas, family relations, corporal punishment, heartwarming, widow, biopic, youth, coming of age, family problems, children, parenthood ...
Time: year 1993, 1900s, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, idaho, usa, salt lake city utah
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 7.0
 845
Workforce (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Francisco was building a luxurious house in Mexico where a fatal accident caused the death of his brother. When Francisco learns that his widowed sister-in-law will not receive a compensation from the opulent owner of the house, he will seek ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking
Plot: worker, construction worker, workplace situations, coworker, social problems, construction company, society, money problems, co worker co worker relationship, revenge, fight for justice, job ...
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Mail Order Bride (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.
Style: funny, retro
Plot: mail order bride, son, marriage, kidnapped, fire, old friend, single mother, shootout, cattle, fall in love, wedding, gambling ...
Time: 1890s
Place: montana
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My Stepson, My Lover (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A kind nurse finds herself embroiled in a tense and potentially deadly family affair when she falls for the son of her ruthless new husband.
Style: erotic, surprise ending, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: older man younger woman marriage, older woman younger man relationship, murder trial, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, father son conflict, woman in jeopardy, extramarital affair, murder, sex scene, stepmother stepson relationship, bare chested male ...
Time: 90s
Place: north carolina
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Indecent Proposal (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).
Style: sexy, sexual, emotional, erotic, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: adultery, sexual relations, gambling, sex, husband wife relationship, love triangle, infidelity, love story, money problems, casino, moral dilemma, cuckold ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, los angeles, california
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 7.2
 8K
Capital (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Iran
TV show
Story: The cute family travel to turkey for fun but when they were using balloon. Accidentally they went to the syria and they fight with isis to rescue theire life .
Plot: isis, inn, family relations, dead body, drug, police, ranger, election, fight, swimming pool, poacher, hairdresser ...
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Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
Style: anime, political, disturbing, adult animation
Plot: radiation sickness, starvation, virus outbreak, bombing, post apocalyptic, nuclear disaster, nuclear holocaust, post war, nuclear fallout, group, radiation, child abuse ...
Place: hiroshima japan, japan
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 6.7
 154K
Monster House (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.
Style: scary, computer animated, 3d animation, teen, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot: halloween, haunted house, suburbs, children, ghost, neighbor, supernatural, monster, human versus monster, old dark house, babysitter, three friends ...
Time: 1930s, year 1983, year 1938, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: north america
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 7.2
 293K
Encanto (2021)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family ...
Style: inspirational, emotional, light, 3d animation, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, date night, teens ...
Plot: magic, strong female lead, female protagonist, magical power, sister sister relationship, happy ending, girl, magical, friendship, small town, supernatural, friend ...
Time: 20th century, future, 1950s, 60s, 50s
Place: colombia, latin america, south america
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The Little Man (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The Little Man lives happily in his little house in the Hollow Mountain. His peaceful life ends once he begins to have dreams about a mysterious house where he is to find what he desires. Even though he does not feel like having any desires, he ...
Style: fairy tale, psychotronic, stylized, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: puppet, children, puppeteer, party, metamorphosis, reception, blindness, quest, fisherman, nightmare, painting, scientist ...
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Nowhere in Moravia (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When not serving regulars at a pub in the middle of a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with hesitant Jura and naïve outsider Olin – or fighting with her imperious mother. Lightened with a touch of black humor, ...
Style: humorous, unusual plot structure, feel good, light, dark comedy
Plot: small village, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, brother brother relationship, czech german relations, czech village, dark humor, loss of family member, sister sister relationship, alcoholism ...
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 6.2
 1K
Mac (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Niccolo (Mac) Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers and leads their family after their beloved father dies. Their father was a builder and his sons continue in this family trade. At first, they work for Polowski, who does shoddy work and cheats on ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience: manly
Plot: working class, family business, ambition, workplace, society, boss and employee, family in crisis, family life, construction, brother brother relationship, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1992
Place: new york, usa
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