Most Similar Movies to Home Before Dark (1997)
If you are looking for movies like Home Before Dark (1997), you might like movies tagged with keyword : girl, mother, father, aunt, brooding, emotional, massachusetts, small town, household, childhood, coming of age, self-discovery, grief, loss, family dysfunction, discovery, growing up, 1960s .
The Burning Plain (2008), One True Thing (1998), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002), Winter Light (1963), Ladybird, Ladybird (1994), Mouchette (1967), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
The Burning Plain (2008)
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.
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One True Thing (1998)
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
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Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)
This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British woman's fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to another. She has four children, of four different fathers, who came to the attention of Social Services when they were injured in a fire. Subsequently, Maggie was found to be an "un...Read all
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Mouchette (1967)
Young teen Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) faces hardships everywhere in her difficult life. Her father (Paul Hébert) is a cruel drunk who neglects her. Meanwhile, her mother (Marie Cardinal) lies ill, slowly dying. One day, fleeing a rainstorm, Mouchette comes across Arsène (Jean-Claude Guilbert), a poacher with a violent streak. He lets her take shelter in his cabin but then assaults her. Arsène even blackmails Mouchette to involve her in a cover-up for a crime he's committed.
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
Herr R. (Kurt Raab), a quietly diligent technical draftsman, has been working at the same architectural firm for a year and a half. At home, Herr R. and his wife, Frau R. (Lilith Ungerer), are good parents to their son (Amadeus Fengler), carefully monitoring his progress at school. Herr R. throws a dinner party for his boss (Franz Maron) and colleagues, but is humiliated when a toast he proposes falls flat. As his days repeat the same boring routine, Herr R.'s unhappiness grows.
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Staying Together (1989)
The complacent life of three small town brothers is shattered when their father sells the family business from under them.
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Affliction (1997)
A small-town sheriff (Nick Nolte) becomes unhinged, thanks in part to his abusive, alcoholic father (James Coburn).
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (2003)
Zachary Beaver, a sideshow attraction known as the world's fattest boy, arrives in the sleepy town of Granger, Texas.
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Something to Talk About (1995)
A woman's world is rocked when she discovers her husband is cheating on her.
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Hud (1963)
Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.
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The Burning Bed (1984)
Francine Hughes (Farrah Fawcett) suffers the abuse of her husband, Mickey (Paul Le Mat), for almost a decade because she cannot find any help. When a drunken Mickey rapes her and then passes out, Francine pours gasoline over him and lights it on fire. In the ensuing blaze, Mickey dies and the house burns down. During Francine's trial, she testifies about her years of suffering, and her attorney, Aryon Greydanus (Richard Masur), tries to have her declared temporarily insane and acquitted.
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Shelter (2007)
When his college dreams are sidelined by family obligations, a young man finds comfort in surfing with his best friend's brother.
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Ju Dou (1990)
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy.
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The Naked Kiss (1964)
Kelly's path towards happiness is thrown amiss when she witnesses a shocking event, which threatens not just her happiness, but her mental health as well.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
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.
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