Movies like Mouchette

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Mouchette (1967)
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Mouchette (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style: art house, black and white, depressing, bleak, emotional, disturbing, contemplative, stylized, spiritual, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, suicide, betrayal, sexual abuse, adolescence, existentialism, solitude, minimalism, children, child abuse, youth, innocence lost, poacher, humiliation, drug addiction, loser, european, modernism, village, school, loneliness, teacher, death, teenage girl, brutality ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: france, europe, japan, paris france, tokyo
Keyword: avant-garde, french, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and gloomy films with plots about family relations, life is a bitch, society, youth, coming of age, family problems and parents and children mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Mouchette: Rosetta (1999), Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), Cold Water (1994), The War Zone (1999), Breaking the Waves (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Rosetta (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Style: serious, bleak, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: unemployment, fishing, poverty, alcoholic mother, snitch, realism, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, alcoholic, life is a bitch, coming of age, family problems ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: belgium, france, europe
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Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
Style: depressing, art house, cerebral, black and white, philosophical ...
Plot: farm, parable, existentialism, cruelty, minimalism, redemption, friendship, european, spirit, swing, spirituality, drinking ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, europe
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100%
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Cold Water (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, family relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, rebelliousness, parents and children, unfulfillment, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time: 70s, year 1994, year 1972
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The War Zone (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Style: disturbing, bleak, rough, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Plot: incest, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, dysfunctional family, incestuous relationship, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, incest rape, small town, innocence lost ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 min.
Story: In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style: disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, psychological ...
Plot: sex, husband wife relationship, love, tragic love, marriage, disability, love story, self sacrifice, small town, psychology, sex with a stranger, paralysis ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
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100%
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Delta (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new place by building a new home for himself on the delta. But ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: incest, forbidden love, brother sister incest, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, isolation, life is a bitch, obsession, sexual relations, village, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Devil, Probably (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In order to be technically free of the mortal sin of suicide, a young man who has given up on the world pays a drug-addict to shoot him. Charles (Antoine Monnier), who is a student, has tried political action and investigated the claims of religion ...
Style: spiritual, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, anthology ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide, loser, religion, female nudity, minimalism, existentialism, post war, spirituality, spirit, entertainment, betrayal, angry ...
Time: year 1977, 70s
Place: france, paris france, ussr, soviet union, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Fire Within (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alain Leroy is a recovering alcoholic who decides to end his life, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time, in an attempt at finding a reason to continue living.
Style: philosophical, art house, depressing, independent film, existential ...
Plot: suicide, depression, addiction, existentialism, melancholy, alcoholism, drinking, solitude, character study, european, loneliness, mental illness ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Ratcatcher (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, crying, depressing, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: children, poverty, boy, friendship, coming of age, neighbor, bully, strike, teenage boy, grief, rat, urban decay ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: glasgow scotland, britain, nebraska, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Winter Light (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Style: philosophical, psychological, depressing, art house, black and white ...
Plot: religion, existentialism, suicide, priest, winter, faith, midlife crisis, spirituality, great ending, philosophy, art, small town ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Vagabond (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style: road movie, art house, disturbing, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: homeless, loneliness, freeze to death, homelessness, feminist, death, wine, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, freedom ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
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20%
Times and Winds (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their ...
Style: psychological, touching, serious, rough, art house ...
Plot: coming of age, solar eclipse, youth, islam, friendship, dream, teenage life, society, introspection, generation gap, family life, children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poetic realism, turkey
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20%
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Thirteen (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style: tense, teen, realistic, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, drug addiction, teenager, peer pressure, friendship, addiction, dysfunctional family, teenage protagonist, underage drinking, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, self harm ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Fish Tank (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Style: bleak, emotional, gloomy, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: age difference, mother's boyfriend, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, rebelliousness, coming of age, dancing, youth, life is a bitch, sex with a minor, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2009, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Precious (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style: bleak, depressing, emotional, rough, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: rape, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, teacher, poverty, child abuse, aids, illiteracy, domestic violence, african american, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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20%
The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
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20%
 7.4
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Money (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to ...
Style: spiritual, slow cinema, cynical, neo noir, anthology ...
Plot: betrayal, prison, trial, existentialism, post war, modernism, labor, spirit, spirituality, entertainment, fugitive, dream ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: france, europe, paris france
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20%
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The Scrounger (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Style: neorealism, realistic, serious, disturbing, talky ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, poverty, unemployment, robbery, family relations, life is a bitch, italian neorealism, couple relations, dishonesty, downfall, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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20%
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Young Girls in Black (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Noémie and Priscilla, two teenage girls from working class backgrounds, cultivate the same violence, the same contempt of the world. They are a source of serious concern for family and friends, who sense them capable of going to extremes. Noémie ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, tense, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: human nature, teenage life, family problems, society, youth, dysfunctional family, death, suicidal thoughts, friendship, rebelliousness, coming of age, rebellion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Gentle Woman (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
Style: spiritual, art house, anthology, powerful, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide, female nudity, jealousy, minimalism, hamlet, social outcast, existentialism, post war, alienation, spirit, spirituality, loan shark ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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19%
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Mirage (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country:
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, art house ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, life is a bitch, friendship, teenage life, kids in trouble, society, betrayal, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family problems, poet ...
Place: macedonia, paris france, france, europe, former yugoslavia ...
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19%
Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Road movie about two children searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.
Style: road movie, serious, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot: on the road, youth, children, soldier, family relations, siblings relations, human nature, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, greek, father son relationship, fear ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: germany, greece, europe
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19%
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Il Posto (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: With his family mired in financial troubles, Domenico moves to Milan, Italy, from his small town to get a job in lieu of furthering his education. A lack of options forces him to take a position as a messenger at a big company, where he hopes to ...
Style: neorealism, sad, art house, spiritual, insightful ...
Plot: italian neorealism, coming of age, european, worker, boy, teenager, corporation, angry, realism, young adult, spirituality, time travel ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
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19%
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Time of the Wolf (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style: disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, intense, apocalyptic ...
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, society, end of the world, post apocalyptic, brutality, catastrophe, survival, chaos, danger, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, year 2003
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19%
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Ponette (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; ...
Style: touching, realistic, talky, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: children, bereavement, little girl, child, adolescence, coming of age, grief, youth, girl, death, friendship, school ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, provence
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19%
 6.4
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Fat Girl (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, ...
Style: bleak, erotic, psychological, sexy, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, innocence lost, rape, sexuality, virginity, first love, virgin, defloration, female nudity, sexual abuse, first time, rapist ...
Time: 90s, year 2001, 2000s
Place: france, south of france, rome italy, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence however, they are actually planning something sinister.
Style: disturbing, depressing, bleak, serious, controversial ...
Plot: alienation, midlife crisis, nihilism, society, dysfunctional family, macabre, philosophy, suicide, depression, death, mind control, religion ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, year 1988
Place: germany, europe, australia, austria
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19%
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Detachment (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, human relationship, teen angst, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, depressing ...
Plot: child abuse, pedophile, rape, sex, child molester, sexual abuse, child rape, coming of age, police, psychologist, child molestation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2004
Place: tennessee, indiana, asia
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18%
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White Oleander (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Style: intense, touching, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, bad mother, loneliness, dysfunctional family, women's prison, teenage life, murder, mother daughter estrangement, mental illness, teenager, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia, mexico
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18%
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