20 movies like The Burning Plain, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Fatima(2015), Okaasan(1952), Brokeback Mountain(2005), A Thousand Times Goodnight(2013), Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), The Second Mother(2015), Another Year(2010), Round Trip(2003), The Kids Are All Right(2010), Five Days Without Nora(2008), Stella Dallas(1937) ...
Drama
USA|Mexico|Argentina
2008
106 Minutes
Charlize Theron Kim Basinger Jennifer Lawrence Joaquim de Almeida John Corbett Robin Tunney Brett Cullen Danny Pino José María Yazpik J.D. Pardo Tessa Ia
wife teen boy daughter husband lover gripping solemn family home new mexico mexico trailer affair mother/daughter relationship immigration marriage mystery forbidden love quest 2000s
A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood.
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.
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
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.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
USA|Canada
2005
134 Minutes
Heath Ledger Jake Gyllenhaal Linda Cardellini Anna Faris Anne Hathaway Michelle Williams Randy Quaid Graham Beckel Scott Michael Campbell David Harbour Kate Mara
cowboy rodeo rider rancher wife husband emotional moving wyoming family home ranch mountain mexico homosexuality cowboys love marriage frustrated desire relationships forbidden love love
Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.
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).
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
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.
Drama, Comedy
UK|USA
2010
129 Minutes
Jim Broadbent Ruth Sheen Lesley Manville Oliver Maltman Peter Wight David Bradley Martin Savage Karina Fernandez Michele Austin Philip Davis Imelda Staunton
husband friend wife psychiatrist son lawyer amusing moving charming england house family marriage relationships heartbreak matchmaking husband/wife relationship quest love forbidden love
A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.
Drama
Israel
2003
95 Minutes
Anat Waxman Eyal Rozales Nthati Moshesh Ido Port Reut Kahlon
wife mother husband nanny lover friend emotional tender moving tel aviv, israel family home homosexuality family racism new life homophobia love discovery transformation love
A divorced Israeli woman hires a single African woman as a nanny, and soon the two women form a passionate friendship that leads to a romantic relationship.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA|France
2010
104 Minutes
Julianne Moore Annette Bening Mark Ruffalo Mia Wasikowska Josh Hutcherson Kunal Sharma Eddie Hassell Zosia Mamet Yaya DaCosta Joaquín Garrido
lesbian father mother teenager daughter son charming emotional witty california household family lesbianism love affair marriage parenthood discovery love 2010s
Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.
Comedy, Drama
2008
92 Minutes
Fernando Ciangherotti Silvia Mariscal Enrique Arreola Ari Brickman Juan Carlos Colombo Marina de Tavira Juan Pablo Medina Max Kerlow Verónica Langer Angelina Peláez Martin LaSalle
widower ex-wife rabbi old man doctor son dark amusing offbeat mexico city family home apartment kitchen suicide funeral judaism will and testament family love fall
A woman's suicide just before Passover creates many complications for her ex-husband (Fernando Luján) and their family.
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.
Romance, Drama
USA
2010
120 Minutes
Ryan Gosling Michelle Williams Faith Wladyka John Doman Mike Vogel Ben Shenkman Maryann Plunkett Samii Ryan Eileen Rosen Tamara Torres
husband wife nurse painter student daughter bleak tense engaging house new york city pennsylvania love pregnancy high school relationships marriage broken home transformation discovery
The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
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
UK|USA
1997
103 Minutes
Sophie Marceau Stephen Dillane Kevin Anderson Joss Ackland Lia Williams Dominique Belcourt
governess aristocrat daughter wife bleak passionate england sussex, england estate love marriage mother/daughter relationship father/daughter relationship affair secret forbidden love temptation transformation 1830s
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven ... See full summary »
Romance, Drama
France
2017
114 Minutes
Mathieu Amalric Marion Cotillard Charlotte Gainsbourg Louis Garrel Alba Rohrwacher Laszlo Szabo Hippolyte Girardot Jacques Nolot Catherine Mouchet Samir Guesmi
filmmaker girlfriend former lover wife missing wife husband emotional tense intricate sultry passionate france beach house beach office filmmaker going home love relationships marriage
The story follows a filmmaker whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
Drama
USA
2018
100 Minutes
Hilary Swank Michael Shannon Robert Forster Blythe Danner Taissa Farmiga Josh Lucas Sarah Sutherland Marilyn Dodds Frank Aimee Garcia William Smillie Isabeau Dornevil
mother father brother husband alzheimer's patient daughter touching tense emotional moving amusing house chicago bar hospital dining room marriage love alzheimer's disease family
Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.
Drama
USA
2006
130 Minutes
Kate Winslet Jennifer Connelly Patrick Wilson Jackie Earle Haley Noah Emmerich Gregg Edelman Phyllis Somerville Raymond J. Barry Jane Adams Ty Simpkins Sadie Goldstein
housewife stay-at-home dad sex offender ex-cop mother filmmaker dark gripping boston suburbia household playground hospital affair love marriage obsession sex death fall
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.
Drama
USA|Spain
2009
126 Minutes
Naomi Watts Annette Bening Kerry Washington Jimmy Smits Samuel L. Jackson S. Epatha Merkerson Cherry Jones Elpidia Carrillo Shareeka Epps David Morse Eileen Ryan
mother daughter physical therapist lawyer husband emotional powerful profound law office hospital restaurant household orphanage adoption parenthood marriage pregnancy family regret discovery
A drama centered around three women: A fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-five years ago, and a woman looking to adopt a child of her own.
Drama
Soviet Union
1971
110 Minutes
Innokenty Smoktunovsky Sergei Bondarchuk Vladimir Zeldin Irina Miroshnichenko Irina Anisimova-Wulf Nikolay Pastukhov
wife mother professor daughter doctor brother-in-law intense gripping dark farm russia garden dining room family adultery sexual tension love triangle obsession marriage love
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ... See full summary »