20 movies like American Pastoral, ordered by similarity : Selma(2014), After the Storm(2016), Wildlife(2018), Dolores Claiborne(1995), They Were Sisters(1945), Graduation(2016), The Water Diviner(2014), Christine(2016), Fatima(2015), Lion(2016), Broken English(1996), Soundtrack for a Revolution(2009) ...
6.1/10
Drama
Hong Kong|USA
2016
108 Minutes
Ewan McGregor Jennifer Connelly Dakota Fanning Valorie Curry Uzo Aduba Rupert Evans Hannah Nordberg Peter Riegert Molly Parker David Strathairn
father businessman wife daughter radical detective brooding emotional intense town house bedroom hotel crime scene protest middle class rebellion explosion search doubt
An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.
7.5/10
Drama, History
UK|USA|France
2014
128 Minutes
David Oyelowo Tom Wilkinson Carmen Ejogo Giovanni Ribisi Alessandro Nivola Cuba Gooding Jr. Tim Roth Oprah Winfrey Common Lorraine Toussaint Andre Holland
martin luther king jr. lyndon baines johnson protester police officer southerner racist brooding dark emotional alabama washington, d.c. white house street jail bedroom civil disobedience civil rights violence racism courage
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
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.
6.8/10
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.
7.4/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1995
131 Minutes
Kathy Bates Jennifer Jason Leigh Judy Parfitt Christopher Plummer David Strathairn Eric Bogosian John C. Reilly Ellen Muth Bob Gunton Roy Cooper Wayne Robson
journalist housekeeper elderly woman detective father daughter disturbing brooding melodramatic maine small town family home police station ferry mansion murder dark secrets domestic violence mysterious past mother/daughter relationship
A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid.
6.8/10
Drama
UK
1945
110 Minutes
sibling abused wife abusive husband husband wife sith lord disturbing melodramatic emotional small town house hotel unhappy marriage relationships love infidelity father/daughter relationship adultery fall discovery
The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. One sister (Phyllis Calvert) is happily married but ... See full summary »
7.3/10
Drama
Romania|France|Belgium
2016
128 Minutes
Adrian Titieni Maria-Victoria Dragus Rares Andrici Lia Bugnar Malina Manovici Vlad Ivanov Petre Ciubotaru David Hodorog Gheorghe Ifrim Lucian Ifrim
father daughter attacker police officer brutal disheartening disturbing emotional gripping uneasy transylvania small town rape rape aftermath revenge moral dilemma father/daughter relationship fatherhood love revenge
A film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.
7.0/10
War, Drama, History
Australia|USA
2014
112 Minutes
Russell Crowe Olga Kurylenko Yilmaz Erdogan Cem Yilmaz Jai Courtney Dylan Georgiades Steve Bastoni Isabel Lucas Salih Kalyon Megan Gale Ryan Corr
farmer son soldier hotel owner friend wife brooding chilling intense australia turkey hotel street restaurant cemetery war loss father/son relationship search water
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.
Biography, Drama
2016
119 Minutes
Rebecca Hall Michael C. Hall Tracy Letts Maria Dizzia J. Smith-Cameron John Cullum David Alexander Kim Shaw Timothy Simons Morgan Spector
reporter anchorman station manager mother co-worker friend brooding emotional intense florida newsroom television studio stage house crime scene journalism ethics emotional involvement desperation defiance
In 1974, a female TV news reporter aims for high standards in life and love in Sarasota, Fla, and missing her mark is not an option. Based on true events.
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.
8.0/10
Biography, Drama
UK|Australia|USA
2016
121 Minutes
Dev Patel Rooney Mara David Wenham Nicole Kidman Abhishek Bharate Divian Ladwa Priyanka Bose Deepti Naval Tannishtha Chatterjee Nawazuddin Siddiqui Sunny Pawar
indian adopted son australian husband wife girlfriend emotional gripping intense calcutta, india train australia airplane house bedroom loss isolation search family reunion
A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
6.3/10
Drama
New Zealand
1996
92 Minutes
Aleksandra Vujcic Julian Arahanga Rade Serbedzija Marton Csokas Jing Zhao Yang Li Madeline McNamara Elizabeth Mavric Temuera Morrison Michael Langley Morena Tutuguro
father daughter lover cook sister maori intense powerful emotional restaurant house auckland, new zealand bedroom immigrants marrying for money father/daughter relationship jealousy rebellion rivalry love
Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her ... See full summary »
7.6/10
Drama, Music, Documentary, History
USA|France|UK
2009
82 Minutes
John Legend Dan Sturman Wyclef Jean Joss Stone Richie Havens Anthony Hamilton Angie Stone
martin luther king jr. rosa parks john legend the roots wyclef jean engaging emotional inspiring rousing montgomery, ala. washington, d.c. protest sit-in civil rights movement music protest music social change protest racism discovery
Tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music - the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and in jail cells as they fought for ... See full summary »
7.4/10
Drama
Canada
1987
100 Minutes
Gordon Pinsent Jackie Burroughs Randy Follett Jessica Steen Timothy Webber Roland Hewgill Neil Munro
miner husband wife son townsperson government official bleak emotional powerful newfoundland small town household canada small-town life mining displacement family government marriage quest
A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of ... See full summary »
6.4/10
Biography, Drama, History
USA|Canada
2016
114 Minutes
Nate Parker Armie Hammer Mark Boone Junior Colman Domingo Aunjanue Ellis Dwight Henry Aja Naomi King Esther Scott Roger Guenveur Smith Gabrielle Union Penelope Ann Miller
slave preacher owner rebel parishioner wife brooding emotional intense virginia plantation church house street field slavery rebellion truth anger justice
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
Drama
1968
124 Minutes
Alan Arkin Sondra Locke Stacy Keach Laurinda Barrett Chuck McCann Biff McGuire Percy Rodrigues Cicely Tyson Jackie Marlowe Johnny Popwell Wayne Smith
disabled person friend alcoholic doctor daughter drunk brooding engaging somber small town house doctor's office bedroom american south small-town life illness alcoholism friendship relationships growing up
John, a deaf and mute man, rents a bedroom in a small town to be closer to his friend, Spiros, who is also deaf. John attempts to strike up a friendship with Mick, the teenage daughter of his disabled landlord, and meets the town drunk.
7.9/10
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.
5.8/10
Sci-Fi, Drama
UK|Germany|Sweden|Hungary
2016
89 Minutes
Jörg Tittel
young boy father guard mother colonel general tense chilling engaging intense gripping emotional fictional city dystopia dictatorship dystopia saving the day father/son relationship missing father search
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are ... See full summary »
7.9/10
Romance, Drama
USA|Greece
2013
109 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Julie Delpy Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick Jennifer Prior Charlotte Prior Walter Lassally Xenia Kalogeropoulou Ariane Labed
lover greek person daughter friend family member grandmother brooding emotional intense greece car train house beach hotel reminiscence love argument questioning travel
We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Drama
2008
96 Minutes
Reza Naji Hamid Aghazi Maryam Akbari Kamran Dehghan Schabnam Akhlaghi Neshat Nazari Hassan Rezaee Ponya Salehi
laborer wife deaf child father taxi driver businessman emotional amusing powerful tehran, iran countryside ostrich farm road construction site journey poverty unemployment city vs. country mistaken identity father/daughter relationship
The kind and generous nature of a former ostrich farmer (Reza Naji) starts to erode after he takes a job in the city driving a motorcycle taxi.
7.5/10
Drama
Canada
1997
110 Minutes
Ian Holm Sarah Polley Bruce Greenwood Tom McCamus Arsinée Khanjian Alberta Watson Gabrielle Rose Maury Chaykin Brooke Johnson Earl Pastko David Hemblen
paraplegic attorney bus driver father survivors daughter somber sad emotional touching small town canada grief accident father/daughter relationship incest lawsuit trauma quest sacrifice
A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.
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