Is Anybody There?
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.…
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Series Like Quicksand
If you liked Quicksand, this Cinento mix gives you more titles with a similar feeling, rhythm, tension, comfort level, and after-watch taste. Start with 16 picks, then load more when you want a wider path.
Series Like Quicksand
Still Alice
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her f…
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Memory
Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reuni…
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The Father
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the…
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The Whales of August
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.…
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The Road Dance
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy b…
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to sta…
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Head Full of Honey
A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.…
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Elizabeth Is Missing
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.…
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What They Had
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.…
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Interiors
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by je…
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The Music Never Stopped
Henry struggles to bond with his estranged son, Gabriel, who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the beliefs and int…
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Last Summer
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborat…
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The Etruscan Smile
Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged s…
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Goodbye June
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.…
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Late Afternoon
Emily finds herself disconnected from the world around her. She goes on a journey through her memories and relives different moments from her life. Emily must look to her past so t…
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Tigertail
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.…
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Paradise
A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.…
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Dancing at Lughnasa
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.…
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The Lighthouse
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.…
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In the Bedroom
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to…
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Flashbacks of a Fool
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes…
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Fathers and Daughters
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.…
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The Tree
The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricke…
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Around the Bend
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years …
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Rememory
The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.…
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Off the Map
An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.…
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The Safety of Objects
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an…
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Train Dreams
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.…
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Wonder
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.…
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Here
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between cou…
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Of Mice and Men
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.…
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The Door in the Floor
A writer's young assistant becomes both pawn and catalyst in his boss's disintegrating household.…
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Effie Gray
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.…
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Sunshine State
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.…
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The Poseidon Adventure
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.…
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The Trip to Bountiful
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just onc…
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And When Did You Last See Your Father?
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.…
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Causeway
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home in New Orleans. When she meets local mechanic James, the pair …
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Sleep, My Love
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.…
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Why do these picks belong together?
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