Movies Like Plurielles
If you liked Plurielles (1979), a movie directed by Jean-Patrick Lebel, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Wildflower (2023)
★ 7.4/10The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
★ 7.3/10Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…
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The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)
★ 6.3/10A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family…
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It Runs in the Family (2003)
★ 6/10This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
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Falling for Christmas (2022)
★ 6.2/10An engaged, spoiled hotel heiress finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter after getting amnesia in a skiing accident.
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The Glass Castle (2017)
★ 7.1/10A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind…
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Life with Father (1947)
★ 6.7/10A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
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The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
★ 6.1/10The original '70s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.
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The Thing with Feathers (2025)
★ 6.5/10Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
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35 Up (1991)
★ 7.6/10Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
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This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
★ 6.7/10When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a…
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The Dead (1987)
★ 6.9/10After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
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Hard Truths (2024)
★ 6.4/10Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her…
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Secret Name (2021)
★ 6/10Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at…
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Haul Out the Holly (2022)
★ 6.1/10Emily arrives home, hoping to visit her parents, only to discover that they are leaving on a trip of their own. As she stays at their house for the holidays, their HOA is determined to get Emily to participate in the…
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
★ 6.3/10Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she's pursued by a younger man and maybe – just maybe – her son's…
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Woman (2020)
★ 7.7/10The film is based on interviews with 2,000 women from 50 countries, and covers the status of women all over the world. The topics covered include forced marriages, sexual assault, female genital mutilation, acid…
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Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
★ 6.2/10Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and…
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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
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Everything Went Fine (2021)
★ 6.6/10When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life.