20 movies like To Joy, ordered by similarity : Woodpeckers(2017), Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), They Were Sisters(1945), The Mouth Agape(1974), Carol(2015), Cloud 9(2008), I Saw the Light(2015), Gone to Earth(1950), After the Storm(2016), Having You(2013), Housewife(1934), Fatima(2015) ...
Drama
Sweden
1949
88 Minutes
Stig Olin Maj-Britt Nilsson John Ekman Victor Sjöström Birger Malmsten Margit Carlquist
husband wife violinist conductor son daughter disheartening raw uneasy emotional sweden concert hall family home marriage infidelity pregnancy ambition classical music spousal abuse love
Two violinists playing in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
prison guard prisoner prisoners messenger gangsters love interest romantic interest romantic rival rival dark disturbing emotional engaging gripping intense moving passionate powerful raw tense
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
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
UK
1945
110 Minutes
sibling abused wife abusive husband husband wife sith lord disturbing melodramatic emotional small town house hotel unhappy marriage relationships love infidelity father/daughter relationship adultery fall discovery
The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. One sister (Phyllis Calvert) is happily married but ... See full summary »
Drama
Italy|France
1974
82 Minutes
Monique Melinand Hubert Deschamps Philippe Léotard Nathalie Baye
mother wife husband son daughter-in-law father dark disheartening raw emotional france store hospital bedroom cancer family dysfunction infidelity terminal illness marriage rivalry
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, ... See full summary »
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.
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.
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2015
123 Minutes
Tom Hiddleston Elizabeth Olsen Bradley Whitford David Krumholtz Cherry Jones Maddie Hasson Wes Langlois Wrenn Schmidt
singer country singer singer-songwriter womanizer american musician guitarist love interest wife child boy george girl hank williams jr. disheartening emotional engaging gripping sad united states alabama
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.
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
Japan
2016
117 Minutes
Hiroshi Abe Yôko Maki Kirin Kiki Taiyô Yoshizawa
private detective family estranged father son mother mourner brooding charming emotional inspiring moving rousing japan town detective agency home family relationships second chance determination
After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2013
97 Minutes
Anna Friel Romola Garai Andrew Buchan Philip Davis Isaac Andrews Steven Cree Harry Hadden-Paton Hattie Morahan
love child fiancé fiancée former lover son father emotional engaging gripping heartwarming intense tender united kingdom coast town home hospital family relationships father/son relationship
Jack has finally managed to propose to his girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.
Drama
USA
1934
70 Minutes
Bette Davis George Brent Ann Dvorak John Halliday Ruth Donnelly Robert Barrat Hobart Cavanaugh Joseph Cawthorn Harry Tyler Leila Bennett Ronnie Cosby
housewife ad copywriter lover husband son old friend witty melodramatic uneasy advertising office house courtroom divorce advertising ambition infidelity poverty marriage love rise
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful ... See full summary »
Drama
2015
79 Minutes
Soria Zeroual Zita Hanrot Kenza Noah Aïche Franck Andrieux Chawki Amari Yolanda Mpele Edith Saulnier Dalila Bencherif
daughter mother family teenager single mother cleaning lady brooding emotional endearing heartwarming intense home town relationships love family money emotion mother/daughter relationship discovery
After she is injured in a fall, Fatima writes her two daughters letters in Arabic to express things she has never been able to express in French.
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.
Crime, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Spain
2008
96 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Diane Kruger Lancelot Roch Olivier Marchal Hammou Graïa Liliane Rovère Olivier Perrier Moussa Maaskri Rémi Martin Thierry Godard Slimane Hadjar
wife husband son police officer judge counterfeiter brash suspenseful emotional france prison house courtroom suburbia family wrongful conviction desperation jailbreak husband/wife relationship murder case
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Comedy, Drama
1970
97 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Léaud Claude Jade Mademoiselle Hiroko Barbara Laage Danièle Girard Daniel Ceccaldi Claire Duhamel Daniel Boulanger
husband wife lover son brooding uneasy quirky apartment paris street marriage infidelity family love forbidden love 1970s
Francois Truffaut's tales of Antoine Doinel continue, as now-married Antoine has an affair with a Japanese woman.
Drama, Romance
India
2001
190 Minutes
young man young woman driver muslim music teacher bleak brutal disheartening emotional heartwarming patriotic india pakistan bungalow house college love family patriotism riots
Set during the Partition of India in 1947, a Sikh truck driver falls in love with a Muslim girl belonging to an aristocratic family.
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
China|Japan
1990
98 Minutes
Gong Li Baotian Li Wei Li Zhang Yi Zhen Ji-an
husband wife nephew illegitimate son lover dark tense moving china household funeral infidelity family dysfunction abusive marriage deception pregnancy forbidden love temptation revenge 1920s
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Israel|Germany
2017
105 Minutes
Sarah Adler Zohar Strauss Tim Kalkhof Sandra Sade Roy Miller Stephanie Stremler Tagel Eliyahu Tamir Ben Yehuda Eliezer Shimon
baker married man widow lover son family member solemn emotional creative moving passionate bakery jerusalem berlin house kitchen love infidelity homosexuality loss
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
Drama, Romance
2017
104 Minutes
Cillian Murphy Andrew Scott Eva Birthistle Catherine Walker Lara McDonnell Joanne Crawford Lydia McGuinness Ingrid Craigie Eva-Jane Gaffney Donal O'Farrell Joni Morris
husband wife couple friend lover confident emotional heartwarming passionate ireland house hotel restaurant marriage separation couples infidelity family love forbidden love
Two couples in suburban Dublin appear to live in marital bliss until an altercation between one of the couples occurs, which leads to cracks appearing in both marriages.