20 movies like A Bill of Divorcement, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Another Year(2010), Cloud 9(2008), Stella Dallas(1937), A Summer Place(1959), Okaasan(1952), Wajma: An Afghan Love Story(2013), Snapshots(2018), Gone to Earth(1950), Blackbird(2019), Stage Mother(1933), Devi(1960) ...
Drama
USA
1932
70 Minutes
John Barrymore Katharine Hepburn Billie Burke David Manners Henry Stephenson Paul Cavanagh Elizabeth Patterson Gayle Evers Julie Haydon
husband wife daughter fiancée moving melodramatic touching mansion england mental illness family marriage transformation love sacrifice 1920s
A man, Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum. However, he finds things are not the way they were when he left.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Drama, Comedy
UK|USA
2010
129 Minutes
Jim Broadbent Ruth Sheen Lesley Manville Oliver Maltman Peter Wight David Bradley Martin Savage Karina Fernandez Michele Austin Philip Davis Imelda Staunton
husband friend wife psychiatrist son lawyer amusing moving charming england house family marriage relationships heartbreak matchmaking husband/wife relationship quest love forbidden love
A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Drama
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck John Boles Dawn O'Day Barbara O'Neil Alan Hale Marjorie Main Edmund Elton George Walcott Gertrude Short Tim Holt Nella Walker
mother wife daughter husband father wealthy man melodramatic uneasy engaging camp massachusetts small town mill family home mother/daughter relationship divorce class distinctions marriage family relationships
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Drama
USA
1959
130 Minutes
Richard Egan Dorothy McGuire Sandra Dee Arthur Kennedy Troy Donahue Constance Ford Beulah Bondi Jack Richardson Martin Eric Peter Constanti Junius Matthews
wealthy man wife daughter old flame alcoholic son melodramatic passionate engaging maine hotel seaside family home pine island loveless marriage affair family secrets young love summer vacation unplanned pregnancy
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Drama
Japan
1952
100 Minutes
Kinuyo Tanaka Masao Mishima Akihiko Katayama Kyoko Kagawa Eiji Okada
mother husband daughter sister son japanese man melodramatic tender moving japan family home street factory mother/daughter relationship family postwar japan poverty marriage hard times sacrifice
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Drama
Afghanistan|France
2013
85 Minutes
Haji Gul Aser Wajma Bahar Mustafa Abdulsatar Brehna Bahar Assib Ibrahim Saleha Ibrahim Tahera Hashemi
afghan woman man love interest student pregnant woman disheartening thrilling tense intense moving melodramatic afghanistan kabul, afghanistan love sex unwanted pregnancy secret love family honor family relationships
It's snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begins a clandestine relationship - they're playful and passionate but ever mindful of the... See full summary »
Drama
USA
2018
95 Minutes
Brett Dier Brooke Adams Piper Laurie Max Adler Emily Baldoni Shannon Collis Cathy DeBuono Emily Goss Christopher McVay Shana Sarin
matriarch daughter granddaughter husband grandmother love interest sultry emotional endearing moving touching house kitchen lake living room family love relationships friendship secret love
When a grandmother's secret past collides with her granddaughter's secret future and her daughter's angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit. With a simple roll of film it begins.
Drama
UK|USA
1950
110 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Emeric Pressburger David Farrar Cyril Cusack Sybil Thorndike Edward Chapman Esmond Knight Hugh Griffith George Cole Beatrice Varley Frances Clare
gypsy squire minister love interest husband wife brooding emotional heartwarming passionate spirited wild countryside woods england love desire magic loveless marriage curse
A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
Drama
USA|UK
2019
97 Minutes
Susan Sarandon Kate Winslet Mia Wasikowska Sam Neill Rainn Wilson Lindsay Duncan Bex Taylor-Klaus Anson Boon
husband sick wife loved one daughter emotional engaging melodramatic tense touching beach house lou gehrig's disease weekend holidays family gathering family dysfunction mother/daughter relationship discovery love fall 2020s
A terminally ill mother arranges to bring her family together one last time before she dies. A remake of the 2014 Danish film 'Silent Heart'.
Drama
USA
1933
85 Minutes
Alice Brady Maureen O'Sullivan Franchot Tone Phillips Holmes Ted Healy Russell Hardie C. Henry Gordon Alan Edwards Ben Alexander
stage mother stage manager lover daughter actress artist melodramatic touching family home broadway theater boston new york city hospital boat mother/daughter relationship family dysfunction ambition deception show business blackmail
A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. But when the daughter shows some talent, the mother become a stage mother... See full summary »
Drama
India
1960
98 Minutes
Sharmila Tagore Soumitra Chatterjee Chhabi Biswas Purnendu Mukherjee Karuna Bannerjee Arpan Chowdhury Anil Chatterjee Kali Sarkar Mohammed Israil Khagesh Chakravarti Santa Devi
husband wife father brother nephew sick person solemn touching sad tender rural community family home front porch india healing reincarnation mental illness father/son relationship crisis of faith family
A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell Porter Hall Barbara Read Maurice Moscovich Elisabeth Risdon Minna Gombell Ray Mayer
husband wife son daughter daughter-in-law young boy bleak emotional somber family home aging poverty family marriage grief love sacrifice 1930s
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
Drama
India
2002
180 Minutes
Madhavan Jimmy Sheirgill Sanjay Suri Namrata Shirodkar Sonali Kulkarni Hrishita Bhatt Raqesh Vashisth
friend handicapped person sister wife husband singer emotional endearing moving touching heartwarming india dubai house bungalow love jealousy love-hate relationship sacrifice changed priorities
Tells the story of three friends Krish Kumar, Hrithik Mittal and Devdarshan Suri alias Dev, who all are from different walks of life as they strive to win the battle of life consisting of ... See full summary »
Drama
UK|USA
1997
103 Minutes
Sophie Marceau Stephen Dillane Kevin Anderson Joss Ackland Lia Williams Dominique Belcourt
governess aristocrat daughter wife bleak passionate england sussex, england estate love marriage mother/daughter relationship father/daughter relationship affair secret forbidden love temptation transformation 1830s
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven ... See full summary »
Drama
2016
100 Minutes
Bérénice Bejo Cédric Kahn Marthe Keller Jade Soentjens Margaux Soentjens Catherine Salée Philippe Jeusette Pascal Rogard
wife husband child ex-partner mother father amusing emotional melodramatic heartwarming intense engaging france house relationships love family unhappy marriage money discovery
Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
Comedy, Drama
France
2004
150 Minutes
Emmanuelle Devos Mathieu Amalric Catherine Deneuve Maurice Garrel Nathalie Boutefeu Jean-Paul Roussillon Magalie Woch Hippolyte Girardot Noémie Lvovsky Elsa Wolliaston Geoffrey Carey
father daughter grandchild ex-lover fiancé emotional grenoble, france mental institution family home paris family terminal illness love marriage mental illness transformation quest 2000s
Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.
Drama
USA
2018
100 Minutes
Hilary Swank Michael Shannon Robert Forster Blythe Danner Taissa Farmiga Josh Lucas Sarah Sutherland Marilyn Dodds Frank Aimee Garcia William Smillie Isabeau Dornevil
mother father brother husband alzheimer's patient daughter touching tense emotional moving amusing house chicago bar hospital dining room marriage love alzheimer's disease family
Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.
Drama
USA
1995
85 Minutes
Jerry Barone Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Al Pacino Joe Grifasi Joanna Merlin Andy Romano Ron McLarty Patrick Borriello Donna Mitchell Mary Lou Rosato Rosemary DeAngelis
boy child grandfather family family member charming emotional heartwarming melodramatic moving sad united states city suburb slum movie theater economic crisis family life family tragedy family secrets
Gennaro lives with his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter. But grandpa's not ready to die, he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
Drama
USA|Mexico
2005
112 Minutes
Kathy Baker Amy Brenneman Elpidia Carrillo Glenn Close Stephen Dillane Dakota Fanning William Fichtner LisaGay Hamilton Holly Hunter Jason Isaacs Joe Mantegna
divorcée sick person prisoner old flame teen girl woman tender moving intricate melodramatic jail hospital family home supermarket graveyard mother/daughter relationship family dysfunction estrangement reunion illness
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.