20 movies like Private, ordered by similarity : Sweet Sixteen(2002), Witnesses(2003), Drishyam(2015), Tokyo Sonata(2008), Beautiful City(2004), Never Steady, Never Still(2017), The Captain(2017), Cocote(2017), Thank You for Your Service(2017), Desperado Square(2002), American Sniper(2014), Mother's Day(2018) ...
War, Drama
Italy
2004
93 Minutes
Lior Miller Mohammad Bakri Tomer Russo Areen Omari Hend Ayoub Karem Emad Hassan Aly Marco Alsaying Sarah Hamzeh Amir Hasayen Niv Shafir Sahar Lachmy
father mother son daughter israeli soldier tense powerful west bank house greenhouse occupation israeli-palestinian conflict family spying pacifism resistance revenge underdog 2000s
A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
Drama
UK|Germany|Spain
2002
106 Minutes
Martin Compston William Ruane Annmarie Fulton Michelle Abercromby Michelle Coulter Gary McCormack Tommy McKee
teen boy stepfather mother grandfather prisoner drug dealer tense gutsy emotional greenock, scotland port city prison street house apartment imprisonment drugs ambition theft teenage rebellion
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Drama, War
2003
88 Minutes
Mirjana Karanovic Leon Lucev Alma Prica Kresimir Mikic Drazen Kuhn Predrag Vusovic
gunman soldier daughter police detective widow brother bleak powerful intense croatia tavern hospital house field war kidnapping investigation guilt family murder
A detective and a journalist (Alma Prica) investigate the murder of a Serb living in a Croatian town.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
India
2015
163 Minutes
father mother daughter police officer son thrilling gripping intense powerful house bungalow police station ashram forest protection father/daughter relationship family relationships love quest pursuit
Desperate measures are taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.
Drama
Japan|Netherlands|Hong Kong
2008
119 Minutes
Teruyuki Kagawa Kyôko Koizumi Kai Inowaki Haruka Igawa Yû Koyanagi Jason Gray Kanji Tsuda Kazuya Kojima
father mother son friend boss unemployed person bleak tense powerful tokyo house employment office cafeteria loss of job marital problems family guilt deception outsourcing discovery
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
Drama
Iran
2004
101 Minutes
Faramarz Gharibian Taraneh Alidoosti Babak Ansari Hossein Farzi-Zadeh
daughter sister father mother friend prisoner intense moving tense iran prison family dysfunction money forgiveness race against time death sentence law and order quest revenge 2000s
In Islamic Iran, how much is a woman worth in comparison with a man, and who pays the difference? This film is tale of vengeance, labyrinthine judicial procedure & the concept of "blood money."
Drama
Canada
2017
111 Minutes
Shirley Henderson Théodore Pellerin Mary Galloway Nicholas Campbell Jared Abrahamson Jonathan Whitesell Beverley Elliott Lorne Cardinal Eric Keenleyside Chilton Crane Sean Owen Roberts
mother son teenager father oil worker disabled person emotional heartwarming inspiring moving sad alberta, canada oil field house support group small town parkinson's disease mother/son relationship alienation struggle
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
War, Drama, History
USA
2017
118 Minutes
Max Hubacher Milan Peschel Frederick Lau Waldemar Kobus Alexander Fehling Samuel Finzi Wolfram Koch Britta Hammelstein Bernd Hölscher Sascha Alexander Gersak Blerim Destani
soldier nazi nazi commandant prison guard prisoner deserter uneasy intense tense unrestrained brutal bleak concentration camp truck woods base camp office fraud nazi collaboration power
After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience ... See full summary »
Drama
Argentina|Germany|Qatar|Dominican Republic
2017
106 Minutes
Vicente Santos Yuberbi de la Rosa Enerolisa Núñez Judith Rodriguez Perez Pepe Sierra Ricardo Ariel Toribio
gardener father murder victim murderer wealthy man family member tense emotional uneasy brooding brutal dominican republic house countryside funeral road murder revenge father/son relationship family
An Evangelical Christian man attends the funeral services of his father in his hometown, where he has to participate in religious rites that clash with his beliefs and finds himself pressured to take revenge on the murderer.
War, Biography, Drama
USA|India
2017
108 Minutes
Miles Teller Haley Bennett Joe Cole Amy Schumer Beulah Koale Scott Haze Keisha Castle-Hughes Brad Beyer Omar J. Dorsey Jayson Warner Smith Sean Bridgers
soldier commander wife daughter son bomber emotional chilling moving solemn tense raw iraq truck united states house bar veteran's hospital iraq war post-traumatic stress disorder
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Comedy, Drama
Israel
2002
98 Minutes
Joseph Shiloach Yonatan Dani Y.R. Morad Nir Levy Ayelet Zurer Uri Klauzner Yona Elian
son brother mother uncle waitress singer heartwarming cheery offbeat amusing israel village cinema house café cinema family secrets father/son relationship love triangle community
In ha-Argazim, a neighborhood that time forgot, the one-year anniversary of Morris Mandabon's death is approaching, and his youngest son, Nissim has had a dream in which his father orders ... See full summary »
War, Biography, Drama
USA
2014
132 Minutes
Bradley Cooper Sienna Miller Jake McDorman Luke Grimes Navid Negahban Keir O'Donnell Max Charles Kyle Gallner Cory Hardrict Sam Jaeger Mido Hamada
navy seal sniper soldier insurgent husband father brooding dark intense iraq building war zone war hospital house wedding iraq war post-traumatic stress disorder sniper family courage
Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home with his family after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
Drama
2018
90 Minutes
Anna Maxwell Martin Vicky McClure Daniel Mays David Wilmot Simone Kirby
mother terrorist family victim son gritty powerful tense england city united kingdom terrorism political unrest mother/son relationship mother courage transformation revenge 1990s
Two women living on opposite sides of the Irish Sea are brought together by the Warrington bombing in 1993.
Drama
UK|USA
1994
105 Minutes
William Hurt Chris Cleary Miles Keith Allen Prunella Scales Jane Horrocks Alan Cumming John Hurt
single father child social worker neighbor uncle prisoner tense powerful emotional wales camp prison house adoption father/son relationship aids parenthood transformation love 1990s
Graham, a lonely Welsh postal worker, adopts James, a troubled ten-year-old boy. Graham always wanted a son, but James loves his biological father too much to give Graham a chance. Will the two be able to accept each other as family?
Drama
USA
2004
83 Minutes
Christopher Walken Josh Lucas Michael Caine Glenne Headly Jonah Bobo Kathryn Hahn Norbert Weisser Laurie O'Brien David Eigenberg Michael O'Neill Lily Knight
grandfather father son nurse young boy dying person emotional moving quirky american southwest house van los angeles albuquerque, n.m. father/son relationship road trip death male bonding dysfunctional family family history
A bitter, recently divorced man is goaded by his grandfather and son into going on a family road trip to reconcile with his estranged father.
Drama
Brazil
2015
112 Minutes
Regina Casé Michel Joelsas Lourenço Mutarelli Karine Teles Camila Márdila Helena Albergaria Luis Miranda Theo Werneck Luci Pereira
housekeeper maid family member mother daughter son charming disheartening heartwarming emotional melodramatic intense brazil são paulo apartment relationships single mothers mother/daughter relationship abandonment love
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
2017
94 Minutes
Denis Menochet Léa Drucker Thomas Gioria Mathilde Auneveux Mathieu Saïkaly Florence Janas Saadia Bentaïeb Sophie Pincemaille Émilie Incerti-Formentini Jérome Care-Aulanier Coralie Russier
divorce divorce lawyer son mother father family member emotional intense tense disheartening office party bus house car apartment custody battle divorce family feud growing up
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, War
USA|West Germany
1951
119 Minutes
Richard Basehart Gary Merrill Oskar Werner Hildegarde Neff Dominique Blanchar O.E. Hasse Hans Christian Blech Helene Thimig Robert Freitag George Tyne
lieutenant colonel prisoner of war spy soldier brash thrilling tense germany prison camp bavaria espionage gestapo world war ii military intelligence cooperation betrayal sacrifice adventure rise
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Drama
USA
2018
104 Minutes
Carey Mulligan Jake Gyllenhaal Ed Oxenbould Bill Camp Zoe Colletti Travis W. Bruyer Darryl Cox Mollie Milligan
teen boy golfer housewife firefighter mother friend bleak emotional tense intricate raw montana forest school house car small town mother/child relationship father/child relationship marriage
A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.
Drama
USA
2008
96 Minutes
Micheal J. Smith Sr. JimMyron Ross Tarra Riggs Johnny McPhail
father twin widow son uncle mother bleak emotional powerful calm mississippi delta convenience store backyard school radio station house suicide grief father figure family dysfunction
A drama set in the Mississippi delta, where one man's suicide affects three people's lives.