Movies Like

Cast

Craig Sheffer

Sheryl Lee

Terence Stamp

Casey Siemaszko

Bliss (1997)

6.4 93 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: On his wedding day, Joseph nervously admits that his wife is not quite like other women. But his beautiful bride is more than just the "impulsive, compulsive, obsessive" woman he thinks he knows. And when Joseph discovers she is hiding troubling secrets, it sends them both on a sexual odyssey that will either destroy or redeem their relationship.

Plot: depression, dancing, child abuse, bondage, abusive father, frigidity, psychology, marriage, ...

Cast

Tyler Perry

Rochelle Aytes

Lisa Arrindell

Lynn Whitfield

Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

6.4 220 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her 2 young children and Lisa is engaged to a controlling man that her mother set her up with. In addition, Madea has just been court-ordered to become the guardian of Nikki, a rebellious runaway teenager. Madea must keep the peace and her family together while simultaneously planning her clan's reunion.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), arranged marriage, aunt niece relationship, bus driver, based on play or musical, family secrets, sequel, spanking, ...

Cast

Carla Gugino

Bruce Greenwood

Carel Struycken

Chiara Aurelia

Gerald's Game (2017)

6.4 4.0K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.

Plot: child abuse, based on novel or book, childhood trauma, sorrow, car accident, eclipse, dog, ghost, ...

Cast

Deirdre O'Kane

Sarah Greene

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Gloria Cramer Curtis

Liam Cunningham

Noble (2014)

6.4 42 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Ireland, United Kingdom

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

Plot: child abuse, rape, strong woman, empowerment, saigon, female protagonist, poverty, social injustice, ...

Cast

Akshay Kumar

Sidharth Malhotra

Jackie Shroff

Jacqueline Fernandez

Brothers (2015)

6.4 94 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: India, United States of America

Duration: 155 min.

Story: David and Monty, estranged half-brothers, train in mixed martial arts to earn a livelihood. However, things change when the two are forced to compete against each other in the final tournament.

Plot: fighter, alcoholism, mixed martial arts (mma), domestic violence, father son relationship

Cast

Paolo Bonacelli

Giorgio Cataldi

Uberto Paolo Quintavalle

Aldo Valletti

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)

6.3 2.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: Italy, France

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: 18

Story: Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

Style: taboo

Plot: sexual abuse, rage and hate, based on novel or book, nazi, italian, sadism, philosophy, fascism, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Renu00e9e Zellweger

Jodelle Ferland

Ian McShane

Bradley Cooper

Case 39 (2009)

6.3 2.4K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.

Plot: child abuse, social worker, detective, office, supernatural, murder, mental institution, cityscape, ...

Cast

Linus Roache

Tom Wilkinson

Robert Carlyle

Cathy Tyson

Priest (1995)

6.3 149 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.

Plot: child abuse, sexual abuse, faith, confession, communion, celibacy, forbidden love, sin, ...

Place: united kingdom

Annie (2014)

6.2 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks—advised by his brilliant VP and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor—makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.

Plot: new york city, child abuse, helicopter, musical, based on play or musical, based on comic, billionaire, orphan, ...

Time: 2010s

Cast

Atli u00d3skar Fjalarsson

Hera Hilmar

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Sigurdur Jakob Helgason

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Thorunn Jakobsdu00f3ttir

Two Birds (2008)

6.2 33 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Iceland

Duration: 15 min.

Story: The story takes place during one bright summer night and follows a group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to adulthood. The main character is a timid boy who has a typical schoolboy crush on a girl his age, who happens to be a friend of his mate.

Plot: rape, witness, rape victim, teenage life, shy teen, drug, boy girl relationship, short film, ...

Cast

Chatchai Plengpanich

Arak Amornsupasiri

Jessica Pasaphan

Sonthaya Chitmanee

Slice (2009)

6.2 33 votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Country: Thailand

Duration: 99 min.

Story: A serial killer is on the loose. There have been gruesome murders, with victims being ghastly dismembered and their severed body parts dumped in various locations. As the bodies keep piling up, the police remain in the dark without a single clue.

Plot: rape, hitman, ultimatum, serial killer, killer, policeman, abuse

Place: thailand

Cast

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Kevin Fabian

Malcolm McRae

Mathis Fender

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Jonathan Robert Kaplan

Brotherly (2008)

6.2 20 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 11 min.

Story: Based on a true story of two brothers in 1970's Ohio. It tells of their abandonment by their alcoholic parents and how the brothers turned to each other for support.

Plot: child abuse, interview, alcoholism, incest, orphan siblings, brother brother relationship, short film

Time: 1970s

Cast

Hal Hopper

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Antoinette Cristiani

John Furlong

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Rena Horten

Mudhoney! (1965)

6.2 48 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: In this Depression-era tale, Calef McKinney, traveling from Michigan to California, stops in Spooner, Missouri, where Lute hires him for odd jobs. Calef gets involved with Lute's niece, Hannah. But she's married to Sidney, a wife-beating drunk who hopes to inherit his uncle-in-law's money. Sidney and an eccentric preacher plot against Calef, who finds it difficult to conceal his mysterious past and his growing affection for Sidney's wife.

Plot: based on novel or book, missouri, murder, sexploitation, domestic abuse, lynch mob, sexual assault, low budget

Time: prohibition era, great depression, 1930s

Cast

Nick Jonas

Isabel Lucas

Dermot Mulroney

Kandyse McClure

Careful What You Wish For (2015)

6.1 437 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

Plot: infidelity, killing, deception, murder, neighbor, domestic violence, love affair, peeping tom, ...

Cast

Jeffrey Combs

Barbara Crampton

Jonathan Fuller

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Jessica Dollarhide

Castle Freak (1996)

6.1 242 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.

Plot: child abuse, monster, haunted house, castle, sexual violence, inheritance, car accident, cannibal, ...

Cast

Richard Pryor

Lonette McKee

Margaret Avery

Morgan Woodward

Which Way Is Up? (1977)

6.1 36 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving behind his sex-obsessed father, Rufus, and timid spouse, Annie Mae. He heads for Los Angeles, where he falls for union organizer Vanetta. Annie Mae seeks solace from local preacher Lenox Thomas, who eventually impregnates her. When Leroy catches wind, he heads home for a showdown with Lenox.

Plot: adultery, domestic abuse, labor union, triple role, union struggle

Cast

Mammootty

Arya

Anikha Surendran

Sneha

The Great Father (2017)

6.1 31 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery

Country: India

Duration: 147 min.

Story: A businessman who is trying hard to be a good father to his daughter has a run-in with malevolent policeman.

Style: stylish

Plot: child abuse, police, parent child relationship, gun, investigation, victim, serial killer, misogyny, ...

Cast

Masaki Suda

Misaki Kinoshita

Yukiko Shinohara

Ken Mitsuishi

Backwater (2013)

6.1 27 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 102 min.

Story: Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.

Plot: small town, abusive father, redemption, dysfunctional family, sexual violence, domestic violence, self-loathing, abuse, ...

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan

Sridevi

Shilpa Shirodkar

Kiran Kumar

Khuda Gawah (1992)

6.1 24 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance

Country: Afghanistan, India

Duration: 193 min.

Story: Baadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi. Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's killer, Habibullah, from India. He is successful, but he must return to India. He is then tragically separated from Benazir through a series of incidents that are only resolved years later with the arrival of his daughter, Menhdi, and his release from prison.

Plot: kidnapping, marriage, love, domestic violence

Cast

Minako Naka

Norihiko Morishita

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Keinosuke Okamoto

Kazuyoshi Hayashi

Midori (1992)

6.1 170 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 55 min.

Story: After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. She is abused and forced to slavery, until the arrival of an enigmatic magician of short stature, who gives her hope for a better future.

Style: shocking

Plot: pedophilia, child abuse, rape, illusion, romance, female protagonist, little girl, based on manga, ...

Time: 1920s

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