20 movies like The Ballad of Jack and Rose, ordered by similarity : Kings and Queen(2004), Fatima(2015), The End of Summer(1962), After the Storm(2016), Funny Story(2018), Respiro(2002), Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), Carol(2015), Them That Follow(2019), Shotgun Stories(2007), The Here After(2015), Staying Together(1989) ...
Drama
USA
2005
111 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Catherine Keener Camilla Belle Beau Bridges Jason Lee Jena Malone Paul Dano Ryan McDonald Susanna Thompson Anna Mae Clinton
environmentalist daughter girlfriend son brother somber offbeat uneasy emotional island family home father/daughter relationship environmentalism family dysfunction illness incest outsider quest forbidden love 2000s
A father and daughter isolated on an island off the East Coast and living on a once-thriving commune grapple with the limits of family and sexuality.
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
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, Romance
Japan
1962
103 Minutes
Ganjirô Nakamura Setsuko Hara Yoko Tsukasa Keiju Kobayashi Michiyo Aratama Chieko Naniwa Daisuke Kato
father daughter mistress son-in-law grandson emotional melodramatic kyoto, japan household brewery aging father/daughter relationship family deception sister relationship romance love discovery 1960s
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
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, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2018
85 Minutes
Matthew Glave Emily Bett Rickards Jana Winternitz Nikki Limo Lily Holleman Jessica Diggins Aschleigh Jensen Pete Gardner Reginald VelJohnson Jacob Wysocki
older man daughter estranged father friend girlfriend tense amusing emotional shocking uneasy california wedding restaurant bar woods love triangle awkward situations love father/daughter relationship secret
A dramedy about a well-intentioned father who inadvertently wreaks havoc on the life of his estranged daughter when she invites him to her woodland wedding.
Drama
Italy|France
2002
95 Minutes
Valeria Golino Vincenzo Amato Francesco Casisa Veronica D'Agostino Filippo Pucillo Muzzi Loffredo Elio Germano Avy Marciano Giuseppe del Volgo Matteo Solina Vincenzo Barreca
daughter wife husband depressed person fisherman son amusing emotional offbeat cave beach island italy cliff boat small-town life mother/son relationship mental illness swimming running away
On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.
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.
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.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2019
98 Minutes
Daniel Savage Olivia Colman Kaitlyn Dever Alice Englert Jim Gaffigan Walton Goggins Thomas Mann Lewis Pullman Brooks Roseberry Katherine DeBoer
daughter boyfriend husband father family faith healer pastor brooding dark disturbing emotional fascinating gripping intense melancholy offbeat profound somber thrilling appalachia
Set deep in the wilds of Appalachia, where believers handle death-dealing snakes to prove themselves before God, a pastor's daughter holds a secret that threatens to tear her community apart.
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 »
Drama
UK
2015
102 Minutes
Sven Ahlström Mats Blomgren Stefan Cronwall Loa Ek Felix Göransson Oliver Heilmann Wieslaw Komasa Ellen Mattsson Ulrik Munther Inger Nilsson
father brother teenager prisoner family community member friend ex-girlfriend dead person emotional sad engaging sweden prison society rejection lynching abandonment outcasts rise
The classic radio show (which also inspired a novel, a TV special, and a film) is performed in front of a live audience.
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
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.
Romance, Drama
UK
2003
111 Minutes
Romola Garai Rose Byrne Henry Thomas Marc Blucas Bill Nighy Tara Fitzgerald Sinead Cusack Henry Cavill
father daughter sister american brother mother emotional charming england castle countryside poverty family father/daughter relationship writing marriage seduction love growing up 1930s
A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.
Romance, Drama
2008
105 Minutes
Nanni Moretti Valeria Golino Alessandro Gassman Isabella Ferrari Silvio Orlando Blu Di Martino Hippolyte Girardot Roberto Nobile Alba Rohrwacher Manuela Morabito Kasia Smutniak
executive daughter brother sister-in-law secretary offbeat touching emotional family home italy elementary school park office beach father/daughter relationship mental breakdown self-discovery parenthood grief modern life
Pietro (Nanni Moretti), an Italian executive, mourns his wife by sitting outside of his daughter's school all day.
War, Drama
2013
117 Minutes
Juliette Binoche Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Lauryn Canny Adrianna Cramer Curtis Maria Doyle Kennedy Larry Mullen Jr. Mads Ousdal Chloe Annett
family photojournalist young woman mother daughter husband emotional engaging fiery gripping intense powerful war zone home kabul, afghanistan africa refugee camp ireland career family
A war-zone photojournalist's (Juliette Binoche) dedication to her dangerous job places her at odds with her family (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny).
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1984
110 Minutes
Jodie Foster Beau Bridges Rob Lowe Paul McCrane Lisa Banes Jennifer Dundas Seth Green Nastassja Kinski
father mother son daughter brother sister offbeat quirky amusing emotional new hampshire hotel austria family dysfunction incest homosexuality extremism death coming of age discovery
A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire, her cellist companion, and a gerontologist.
Drama
USA
2001
132 Minutes
Sean Penn Michelle Pfeiffer Dakota Fanning Dianne Wiest Loretta Devine Richard Schiff Laura Dern Brad Allan Silverman Joseph Rosenberg Stanley DeSantis Doug Hutchinson
father daughter mentally disabled person lawyer foster mother friend disheartening profound emotional courtroom foster home apartment soccer game coffee shop school parenthood father/daughter relationship mental disability custody battle friendship
A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1972
107 Minutes
Alan Bates Janet Suzman Peter Bowles Sheila Gish Joan Hickson Elizabeth Robillard Murray Melvin Fanny Carby
mother father daughter friend bleak offbeat shocking family home england parenthood mother/daughter relationship cerebral palsy family transformation quest 1970s
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death ... See full summary »
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