| Flight (2010) | 8.1 | |
| Mystery Road (2013) | 6.6 | |
| This Is Us (2016) | 8.7 | |
| Phoebe in Wonderland (2008) | 7.0 | |
| The Pier (2011) | 6.5 |
Estrangement movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant estrangement movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere and psychological films and TV shows about / with estrangement, family relations, family problems, death, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, friendship, parents and children, brutality and mentor plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as estrangement: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Submarino (2010), Ken Park (2002), Rabbit Hole (2010), The Keys to the House (2004), What a Girl Wants (2003), Instinct (1999), The Outcast (2015), Warrior (2011), The Forgotten (2004).
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List of estrangement movies
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot:
psychopath, evil child, school shooting, high school, childhood, guilt, prison visit, depression, teenager, sociopath, antisocial behavior, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 2011, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, america, connecticut, usa, new york ...
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. ...
Style:
gloomy, thought provoking, disturbing, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, childhood trauma, drug abuse, estrangement, drug addiction, haunted by the past, heroin, redemption, insomnia, brother brother relationship, drug addict, adaptation ...
Time:
year 2010, 90s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, europe, berlin germany
Is relevant?
32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his ...
Style:
disturbing, sexual, sexy, art house, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, sex, strong sexual content, explicit sex, underage sex, older woman younger man relationship, youth, incest, teenage sex, nudity, suicide, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Style:
touching, sexy, sad, independent film, surreal ...
Plot:
loss of child, grief, death in the family, estrangement, tragedy, death of child, support group, memory, death of son, marriage, relationships, redemption ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style:
psychological, touching, emotional, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
estrangement, parents and children, single parent, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, redemption, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, germany, italy, berlin germany, milan italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is ...
Style:
feel good, cute, teen, romantic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
teenage girl, teen romance, father daughter relationship, cinderella story, daughter, fish out of water, social differences, teenager, love and romance, american abroad, estrangement, father daughter reunion ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe, united kingdom, new york ...
Is relevant?
35K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his ...
Style:
philosophical, emotional, psychological, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
prison, estrangement, violence, murder, redemption, jungle, greed, survival, human animal relationship, corruption, psychologist, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, africa, florida, rwanda, cuba
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis ...
Style:
touching, captivating, atmospheric, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, family problems, teenage life, youth, estrangement, death of mother, parent child relationship, love, father son relationship, friends, dealing with death, death in the family ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place:
england
Is relevant?
526K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine ...
Style:
emotional, tense, inspirational, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
martial arts, courage, mixed martial arts, fight scenes, boxing, fistfight, estrangement, muscleman, happy ending, father son relationship, athlete and trainer, fight ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, iraq, atlantic city new jersey, el paso texas ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
memory loss, conspiracy, twists and turns, missing child, mind game, delusion, alien abduction, memory, grief, paranoia, husband wife relationship, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
terminal illness, dysfunctional family, estrangement, leukemia, family drama, father daughter relationship, family problems, single parent, siblings relations, sibling relationship, unfulfillment, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
florida, usa, ohio, orlando florida
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, intense, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, estrangement, playwright, relationships, women, friendship, corporal punishment, reconciliation, childhood memory, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, american south ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
southern usa, louisiana, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story of Diego, a young and successful photographer that lives in the glamorous world of fashion, shallowness and excess. A tragic accident turns his world around; his partner is now in a coma. Unexpectedly, and right at this terrible time, ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
gender, gay parent, gay love, gay, gay couple, gay slur, estrangement, life turned upside down, photograph, gay father, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
venezuela, iberian peninsula
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.
Style:
atmospheric, detective, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
police, desert, estrangement, small town, murder, australian aboriginal, outback, murder investigation, police protagonist, father daughter relationship, tough heroes, who done it ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sad, thought provoking, depressing ...
Plot:
teacher, mental illness, estrangement, friendship, children, inspiration, introspection, school, imaginary, alice in wonderland, imaginary friend, imagination ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, ireland
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.
Style:
emotional, psychological, touching, realistic, romantic ...
Plot:
estrangement, sex, self discovery, unfulfillment, road not taken, nudity, nude girl, female nudity, cancer, terminal illness, life is a bitch, lesbian ...
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, UK, Israel, France, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi, estrangement, orthodox jew, youth, confined, shoah, survival, world war, self discovery ...
Time:
1940s, year 2005, post world war two
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, germany, europe, slovakia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Michael Wolffsen (Tyler Mane) receives an urgent phone call and takes his nephew and fiancee and makes the journey home to his only other living relative: his estranged, eccentric (and extremely paranoid) father, Gary (Muse Watson), who is obsessed ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
estrangement, supernatural, family in danger, ghost, mental illness, couple relations, danger, father son relationship, supernatural power, dementia, stalking, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young married couple has to deal with their emotional breakdowns after the death of their only daughter.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
Plot:
estrangement, breakdown, family problems, vengeance, couple relations, life is a bitch, death in the family, unemployment, grief, death of daughter, marriage, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two men, at opposite ends of the social spectrum, find themselves starting new lives in the same, small town and form an unlikely friendship.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
estrangement, rehabilitation, friendship, one more chance, starting over, redemption, haunted by the past, hopes, dishonesty, betrayal, society, gain trust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nevada, usa, reno nevada
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The film centres on a retired, widowed professor living in Paris who develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, heartbreaking, sad ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
estrangement, elderly, passion, loneliness, chance meeting, death of wife, character study, suicide attempt, friendship, odd couple, dancer, optimism ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, belgium, brussels
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Loneliness, saving face, and public mores. In 1983 in China, Yun is a bright schoolgirl who gets pregnant. She's expelled, her boyfriend leaves town, and her mother arranges the baby's adoption, telling Yun the child died at birth. Ten ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
estrangement, small town, haunted by the past, unlikely couple, family relations, couples, parents and children, life is a bitch, social misfits, society, pregnancy, secret ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
asia, china
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
AN ORDINARY FAMILY is a humorous drama about one family, two brothers and a really big problem. Thomas Biederman is blindsided when his estranged brother, Seth, shows up unannounced to the annual family vacation… with his boyfriend.
Style:
humorous, emotional, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, estrangement, family relations, family problems, family gatherings, gender, society, family vacation, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, friendship, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. The film explores the way in which the family ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, interracial relations, estrangement, interracial rape, death in the family, haunted by the past, family problems, society, hopes, unfulfillment, dysfunctional family, family gatherings ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
usa, alabama
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Rajasthan-based Satyaveer Singh Randhawa works as a Junior Engineer with Lahkot Municipality's Public Works Department and lives a middle-class lifestyle with his wife, Nimmi, and son, Raju. Satyeveer also authored a fictional novel ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense thriller ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, estrangement, mistress, conspiracy, small town, blackmail, corrupt cop, scapegoat, bribery, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Is relevant?
841
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, homosexual ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
Is relevant?
664
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
estrangement, human nature, extramarital affair, adultery, family life, coming of age, farm, love and romance, unfulfillment, cheating wife, deaf, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
memory loss, life is a bitch, surgeon, losing-it hero, prodigy, daughter, love and romance, witch doctor, healer, polish, village life, amnesia ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
poland
Is relevant?
315
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After 20 years of no contact with his father, Jack McCarthy (played by Hurley) travels from New York to his father Larry's death bed in Cork. Upon arrival he is furious to find his father alive and well and even more so when he then discovers ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
estrangement, father son relationship, homecoming, dying father, parents and children, aging, family relations, haunted by the past, fall in love, family drama, truth, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may ...
Style:
depressing, melancholic, psychological, sincere, dark comedy ...
Plot:
estrangement, adultery, gay, siblings, suicide attempt, depression, lgbtq, gay interest, lgbt, gay brother, mental illness, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain, usa, los angeles, new york, california
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