20 movies like The Best of Youth, ordered by similarity : Khudgarz(1987), Stella Dallas(1937), My Brother Is an Only Child(2007), The Leopard(1963), Little Sister(2015), Loveling(2018), Momma's Man(2008), Shotgun Stories(2007), The Family Way(1967), Unhook the Stars(1996), Staying Together(1989), Okaasan(1952) ...
Drama
Italy
2002
358 Minutes
Luigi Lo Cascio Alessio Boni Adriana Asti Sonia Bergamasco Fabrizio Gifuni Maya Sansa Valentina Carnelutti Jasmine Trinca Andrea Tidona Lidia Vitale Camilla Filippi
doctor brother mental patient photographer wife mother mellow italy family home mental institution street library family politics class distinctions marriage social change activism growing up transformation
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Drama
India
1987
180 Minutes
Jeetendra Shatrughan Sinha Bhanupriya Amrita Singh Govinda Neelam
friend adoptive brother mother sister father emotional moving heartwarming tense india family home family brotherhood class distinctions coming of age father/son relationship betrayal underdog growing up sacrifice
Sita Sinha watches as her young son, Bihari fights another young, wealthy lad, Amar for spattering dirt on his body using his car. Sita then intervene, separates both, take them to her ... See full summary »
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.
Crime, Drama, Comedy
2007
99 Minutes
Elio Germano Riccardo Scamarcio Diane Fleri Alba Rohrwacher Angela Finocchiaro Vittorio Emanuele Propizio Luca Zingaretti Massimo Popolizio
communist brother fascist activist mother father melodramatic powerful amusing latina, italy seminary family home coast protest brother relationship family politics love triangle loyalty growing up
An aimless young man (Elio Germano) falls in with fascists but has second thoughts when the party leader casts his eye on the youth's communist brother (Riccardo Scamarcio).
Drama, History
Italy|France
1963
165 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Claudia Cardinale Alain Delon Paolo Stoppa Rina Morelli Romolo Valli Terence Hill Pierre Clémenti Lucilla Morlacchi Giuliano Gemma Evelyn Stewart
prince nephew beautiful woman mayor soldier wife spectacular confident sicily mansion ballroom family home class distinctions civil war politics family wealth marriage transformation love
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.
Drama
2015
126 Minutes
Haruka Ayase Masami Nagasawa Kaho Suzu Hirose Kirin Kiki Shinobu Ohtake Ryô Kase Jun Fubuki
sister mother figure estranged father sibling half sister friend caregiver grandmother love interest romantic interest mother lighthearted emotional engaging endearing positive japan home family home family
After the death of their estranged father, three siblings (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho) invite their half sister (Suzu Hirose) to live with them.
Drama
2018
95 Minutes
Karine Teles Otávio Muller Adriana Esteves Konstantinos Sarris César Troncoso Mateus Solano Camilo Pellegrini Ariclenes Barroso Pablo Riera Lucas Gouvêa
mother father child brother sister teen boy touching emotional amusing charming cheeky moving rio de janeiro house school beach car auditorium leaving home mother/son relationship
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety about sending her eldest son out into the world on his own.
Drama
USA
2008
99 Minutes
Matt Boren Ken Jacobs Flo Jacobs Dana Varon Richard Edson Piero Arcilesi Eleanor Hutchins
businessman son father mother wife brother charming sad profound new york city office family home bedroom kitchen los angeles aging nostalgia childhood responsibility family
A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents' loft.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
92 Minutes
Michael Shannon Douglas Ligon Barlow Jacobs Natalie Canerday Glenda Pannell
son brother half brother girlfriend wife older brother brooding brutal arkansas cemetery family home farm family dysfunction feud family death violence crime rivalry revenge
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK
1967
115 Minutes
Hayley Mills Hywel Bennett John Mills Marjorie Rhodes Avril Angers John Comer Wilfred Pickles Barry Foster Liz Fraser Andy Bradford Thorley Walters
newlywed husband wife mother-in-law father-in-law best friend witty charming engaging manchester, england neighborhood pub family home marriage honeymoon in-laws coming of age relationships family love
Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated.
Drama
France|USA
1996
103 Minutes
Gena Rowlands Marisa Tomei Gérard Depardieu Jake Lloyd Moira Kelly David Thornton David Sherrill
widow elderly woman daughter neighbor single mother young boy tender melodramatic moving apartment family home family mother/daughter relationship mother/son relationship aging self-discovery transformation growing up sacrifice 1990s
After her abusive husband leaves, Monica asks her neighbor to look after her son while she's at work. Mildred's angry daughter's just moved out, so she's happy to have JJ.
Drama
USA
1989
91 Minutes
Sean Astin Stockard Channing Melinda Dillon Jim Haynie Levon Helm Dinah Manoff Dermot Mulroney Tim Quill Keith Szarabajka Daphne Zuniga
father mother brother son older brother younger brother emotional heartwarming amusing small town restaurant family business life lessons coming of age father/son relationship mother/son relationship brotherhood growing up 1980s
The complacent life of three small town brothers is shattered when their father sells the family business from under them.
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
1951
124 Minutes
Setsuko Hara Chishu Ryu Kuniko Miyake Chikage Awashima Chieko Higashiyama Kuniko Igawa Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
career woman daughter brother mother father businessman emotional moving tokyo family home office city japan marriage tradition independence family working woman love triangle love
Drama
West Germany
1976
105 Minutes
Margit Carstensen Brigitte Mira Ingrid Caven Armin Meier Irm Hermann Gottfried John
husband wife daughter son photographer communist disturbing melodramatic profound factory family home dining room street frankfurt, germany workplace violence media circus family grief hostage situation mother/daughter relationship
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her ... See full summary »
Drama
Italy|France
1981
113 Minutes
Philippe Noiret Michele Placido Vittorio Mezzogiorno Charles Vanel Andréa Ferréol Maddelena Crippa Sara Tafuri Pietro Biondi Maddalena Crippa
son brother matriarch judge factory worker counselor dreamy offbeat melodramatic tender italy rural community family home grief reunion death family relationships idealism transformation
Three men face their mother's death.
Drama
Italy|France
1988
94 Minutes
Stefania Sandrelli Jean-Pierre Duriez Céline Beauvallet Micheline Presle Leonardo Ruta Francesca Antonelli Lorenzo De Pasqua Eleonora Sambiagio Daniele Zaccaria
teen girl teen boy cousin mother baker daughter charming tender emotional italy family home paris bookstore teen angst family infidelity young love fitting in friendship growing up
A French teenage girl is forced to move in with her less well off Italian relatives.
Drama
Israel
1972
77 Minutes
Michal Bat-Adam Gabi Oterman Joseph Shiloach Levana Finkelstein Avner Hizkiyahu Moshe Tal Zivi Avramson Naomi Bachar Yehuda Efroni Esther Grotes Elisheva Michaeli
young boy brother sister-in-law grandmother rabbi love interest mellow charming powerful emotional jerusalem family home temple israel love triangle religious beliefs marriage innocence may-december romance family
The love of Nissim for his widowed sister-in-law, Rosa, in the Old City of Jerusalem at the turn of the century. Under a (very old) Jewish religious law, Nissim has the duty to marry his childless sister-in-law on the death of his brother.
Drama
USA
1958
108 Minutes
Elizabeth Taylor Paul Newman Burl Ives Jack Carson Judith Anderson Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood Larry Gates Vaughn Taylor Patty Ann Gerrity Robert "Rusty" Stevens Brian Corcoran
alcoholic wife father brother mother sister-in-law sultry melodramatic mississippi family home marriage family love money rivalry quest 1950s
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Comedy, Drama
France|USA
2002
88 Minutes
Victor Rasuk Judy Marte Melonie Diaz Altagracia Guzman Silvestre Rasuk Krystal Rodriguez Kevin Rivera Wilfree Vasquez Donna Maldonado
teen boy brother grandmother teen girl love interest overweight person amusing brash moving lower east side pool family home bedroom street new york city family teen angst immigrants sexual awakening religion
A Lower East Side teen-ager struggles to find some sanity while surrounded by an eccentric grandmother, a crazy new girlfriend, and a longing younger brother.
Drama
USA
1928
104 Minutes
Eleanor Boardman James Murray Bert Roach Estelle Clark Daniel G. Tomlinson Dell Henderson Lucy Beaumont Freddie Burke Frederick Alice Mildred Puter
employee wife mother-in-law father-in-law son daughter endearing touching new york city family home office meaning of life family love growing up transformation 1920s
The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles and downfalls.