20 movies like A Christmas Tale, ordered by similarity : Fatima(2015), Dean(2016), Unhook the Stars(1996), A Merry Friggin' Christmas(2014), Terms of Endearment(1983), Home for the Holidays(1995), City Island(2009), Woodpeckers(2017), Lady Bird(2017), Okaasan(1952), Nine Lives(2005), The Confirmation(2016) ...
7.0/10
Comedy, Other, Drama
France
2008
150 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve Jean-Paul Roussillon Mathieu Amalric Françoise Bertin Laurent Capelluto Anne Consigny Emmanuelle Devos Hippolyte Girardot Chiara Mastroianni Emile Berling
mother daughter son tense emotional moving touching family home roubaix, france illness family death growing up sacrifice rivalry 2000s
The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
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.
Comedy, Drama
2016
94 Minutes
Demetri Martin Kevin Kline Gillian Jacobs Rory Scovel Christine Woods Ginger Gonzaga Briga Heelan Reid Scott Mary Steenburgen Asif Ali Kate Berlant
illustrator new yorker mother son father lover young man young woman moving emotional amusing charming los angeles family home new york city brooklyn love grief new experiences family
An illustrator falls in love with a woman while trying to keep his father from burning down the family home after his wife dies.
6.5/10
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.
5.1/10
Other, Comedy
USA
2014
88 Minutes
Joel McHale Robin Williams Lauren Graham Clark Duke Oliver Platt Wendi McLendon-Covey Tim Heidecker Candice Bergen
robin williams father son santa claus family patriarch wife amusing charming lighthearted melodramatic emotional playful church family dinner family home christmas family family gathering family relationships fighting
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
7.4/10
Drama, Comedy
USA
1983
132 Minutes
Shirley MacLaine Debra Winger Jack Nicholson Jeff Daniels Danny DeVito John Lithgow Betty King Lisa Hart Carroll Huckleberry Fox Troy Bishop
mother daughter professor astronaut touching emotional sad small town midwest family home family romance cancer mother/daughter relationship love growing up 1980s
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.
6.6/10
Comedy, Other
USA
1995
103 Minutes
Holly Hunter Robert Downey Jr. Anne Bancroft Charles Durning Dylan McDermott Geraldine Chaplin Cynthia Stevenson Steve Guttenberg Claire Danes Austin Pendleton David Strathairn
single mother daughter parent sister brother love interest amusing frenetic emotional family home dinner party airplane mother/daughter relationship thanksgiving family dysfunction class conflict holidays single mothers rivalry growing up
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her family.
7.4/10
Comedy
USA
2009
103 Minutes
Andy Garcia Julianna Margulies Steven Strait Emily Mortimer Ezra Miller Dominik García-Lorido Carrie Baker Reynolds Hope Glendon-Ross Alan Arkin Louis Mustillo Jee Young Han
prison guard ex-convict wife daughter father son hilarious touching bronx, n.y. prison audition school family home island family forgiveness father/son relationship responsibility love new life
Prison guard Vince tells Molly from acting class, that one inmate is his 24 y.o. love child. Vince takes him home to stay with his family - straight A son with fat girl fetish, college dropout/stripper daughter and cute wife.
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.
7.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
94 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Laurie Metcalf Timothée Chalamet Lucas Hedges Tracy Letts Odeya Rush Jake McDorman Beanie Feldstein Lois Smith Stephen McKinley Henderson Jordan Rodrigues
mother daughter teenager high-school student best friend teacher father moving uplifting playful california high school catholic school sacramento, calif. family home university united states prom mother/daughter relationship coming of age
In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
7.6/10
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.
6.7/10
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.
6.4/10
Comedy, Drama
Canada
2016
101 Minutes
Clive Owen Jaeden Martell Maria Bello Robert Forster Tim Blake Nelson Patton Oswalt Matthew Modine Stephen Tobolowsky
carpenter thief son father family mother charming endearing heartwarming lighthearted moving playful canada small town home father/son relationship fatherhood bonding life lessons growing up
A divorced father and his eight-year-old son are about to spend a somewhat predictable weekend together, nevertheless, when a valuable toolbox gets stolen, the search for the thieves will soon turn into a true family bonding.
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1972
97 Minutes
Brock Peters Leslie Uggams Peggy Pettit Claudia McNeil Louise Stubbs Gloria Edwards Loretta Greene Kent Martin Ruby Dee
daughter sister single mother adopted daughter grandmother tender emotional moving family home mother/child relationship dreams siblings family dysfunction jealousy poverty growing up rivalry 1970s
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
2008
98 Minutes
Julia Roberts Ryan Reynolds Willem Dafoe Emily Watson Carrie-Anne Moss Ioan Gruffudd Hayden Panettiere Cayden Boyd Shannon Lucio George Newbern Chase Ellison
professor novelist husband wife son daughter emotional disheartening moving midwest college town family home mourning loss family death of mother emotional abuse secrets love growing up
The Taylor family is devastated by an accident that takes place on the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college -- decades after leaving to raise her children.
6.8/10
Drama
South Africa|USA|Germany
2016
106 Minutes
Andrea Riseborough Steve Coogan Deon Lotz Robert Hobbs Garion Dowds Marcel van Heerden Nicola Hanekom Eduan van Jaarsveldt Carel Nel
lawyer prison guard judge wife murderer prisoner prisoners death row inmate brutal chilling emotional gripping intense moving powerful raw sad shocking south africa cape town
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
7.4/10
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.
6.0/10
Drama
USA|Mexico
2013
96 Minutes
Kaya Scodelario Jessica Biel Frances O'Connor Jimmi Simpson Aneurin Barnard Alfred Molina Sam Jaeger Spencer Garrett Anne Ramsay
young woman young man family neighbor emotional intense moving profound suspenseful uneasy united states suburb house psychiatric ward train mother's death father/daughter relationship death family relationships growing up
A troubled girl becomes preoccupied with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to her dead mother.
7.2/10
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
2003
107 Minutes
Ulrich Thomsen Lisa Werlinder Ghita Nørby Lars Brygmann Karina Skands Peter Steen Ulf Pilgaard Diana Axelsen Jesper Christensen Dick Kaysø Thomas Rode Andersen
heir wife actress brother-in-law mother gripping emotional intense funeral factory family home denmark stockholm responsibility inheritance family money family business suicide love
A man (Ulrich Thomsen) grudgingly returns to Denmark with his Swedish wife (Lisa Werlinder) to run his father's steel mill at the request of his mother (Ghita Nørby).
5.2/10
Comedy, Drama
Canada|USA
2018
104 Minutes
Vera Farmiga Christopher Plummer Lewis MacDougall Bobby Cannavale Kristen Schaal Peter Fonda Christopher Lloyd Dolly Wells Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Ryan Robbins BJ Harrison
single mother estranged father son drug dealer ex-husband grandson amusing emotional tense touching car texas california hotel mother/son relationship father/daughter relationship estrangement road trip ex-husbands drugs
Laura and her son Henry are forced to drive her estranged, pot-dealing, carefree father Jack cross country after being kicked out of a nursing home.
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