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Submarino (2010)
 7.5
 12K
Submarino (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. He drinks, lives in a shelter and tries to help an old friend. When their mother dies, Nick meets his brother at the funeral. The brother, who remains nameless, is a single father to a young boy, but also supports a drug habit that is spiraling out of control. When an opportunity presents itself, he becomes a drug dealer to secure his son's future. Eventually, the two brothers meet again.
Style: bleak, gloomy, thought provoking, disturbing, melancholic, rough, sincere, realistic, non-linear, surreal ...
Plot: heroin, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, childhood trauma, drug addiction, haunted by the past, redemption, estrangement, loneliness, adaptation, drug addict, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, brother brother relationship, loner, confession, family reunited, addiction, nordic, hard life, love, life philosophy, violence, suicide ...
Time: year 2010, 90s, 70s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: denmark, europe, copenhagen, berlin germany, copenhagen denmark
Keyword: rose, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, gloomy and sincere films with plots about life is a bitch, family relations, addiction, family problems, drug addict, parents and children and drug addiction mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Submarino: Oslo, August 31st (2011), Nil by Mouth (1997), The Panic in Needle Park (1971), The Hunt (2012), The Celebration (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a day’s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
Style: depressing, touching, gloomy, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: suicide attempt, drug addict, suicide, addiction, loneliness, depression, drug addiction, complex characters, old friend, job interview, unlikely friendships, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.3
 10K
Nil by Mouth (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, heroin, drug addict, drug addiction, drug abuse, working class, addiction, drug, profanity, brutality, violence, alcoholism ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug abuse, drug use, drug addict, heroin, drug, heroin addict, life philosophy, death of pet, redemption, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 8.3
 361K
The Hunt (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Style: bleak, thought provoking, psychological, depressing, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: injustice, life turned upside down, child abuse, false accusation, divorce, social injustice, social relations, pedophile, parents and children, teacher, church, punched in the face ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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The Celebration (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: dogme 95, suicide, incest, family secret, child abuse, hotel, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, birthday, depression, party, birthday party ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 7.5
 4K
The Bench (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, inspirational, gloomy ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, working class, father daughter relationship, social realism, starting over, parents and children, life is a bitch, elderly, family problems, family reunited, alcoholic, class differences ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: denmark, scandinavia, europe, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 7.4
 6K
Frozen Land (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to ...
Style: bleak, realistic, intense, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: depression, butterfly effect, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, alcoholic, drug addiction, character study, family relations, multiple storylines, estrangement, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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We're All Christs (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intelectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
Style: serious, surreal, sincere, realistic, gloomy
Plot: dysfunctional family, self destructing, alcohol abuse, family relations, life is a bitch, alcoholic father, family problems, redemption, parents and children, addiction, father son relationship, alcoholic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.8
 3K
Pure (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rehabilitation, addiction, youth, drug abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children, teenage life, going straight, drug addiction, friendship ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.1
 586
Sweet Nothing (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot: drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.0
 4K
Beyond (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A poignant story, told with sincerity and humor, about a young woman´s dramatic childhood and about her grief and the struggle to move on. Noomi Rapace plays the main character in her first feature after the success with the Millennium trilogy and ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, family problems, haunted by the past, parents and children, nordic, child abuse, husband wife relationship, bad father, mental health, parents ...
Time: year 2010, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.7
 871
The Angel (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, solitude, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, human nature, destructive relationship, downfall, coping, addiction, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.5
 34K
Tyrannosaur (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship ...
Style: bleak, depressing, disturbing, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: abuse, rage, domestic violence, abusive husband, violence, society, frustration, brutality, social problems, cuckold, family drama, faith ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2010, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Brother's Kiss (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two brothers, Lex and younger Mick, are living in Harlem. Mick is a policeman, and Lex, who spent youth years in reformatory because of injustice after he confronted the cop who tried to sodomize Mick on the street, is living with his wife Debbie ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, rough, bleak ...
Plot: downfall, haunted by the past, society, life is a bitch, going straight, family problems, down on your luck, addiction, dysfunctional family, hopes, re-education, drug abuse ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 8.1
 722K
Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.7
 192K
Another Round (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style: dark comedy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, teacher, friendship, drunkenness, group of friends, alcohol abuse, midlife crisis, drinking, teacher student relationship, marriage, dancing, existential loneliness ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, year 2011, year 2013, 21st century
Place: copenhagen, denmark, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.4
 1K
Drunks (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, ...
Style: independent film, realistic, talky, spiritual, serious ...
Plot: alcoholic, drug addiction, drug, addiction, alcohol abuse, drinking, recovery, self discovery, redemption, drug abuse, drug addict, heroin ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 6.6
 12K
Sherrybaby (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a ...
Style: independent film, bleak, depressing, serious, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drug abuse, parole officer, prison, ex convict, fondling, addiction, drug addict, mother daughter relationship, support group, orgasm, bare breasts, starting over ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: new jersey, delaware, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style: tense, talky, depressing, realistic, serious ...
Plot: addiction, dysfunctional family, alcoholism, drug addiction, redemption, family life, actor, alcohol abuse, actor's life, lifestyle, human nature, morphine ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s, 1910s, year 1912
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Clean and Sober (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style: realistic, touching, compassionate, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, introspection, alcoholism, alcoholic, drug abuse, yuppie, alcoholics anonymous, drug, tragedy, character study, recovery ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.8
 980
Bluebird (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. What happens next shakes her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: isolation, winter, family problems, family in crisis, youth, single parent, teenage life, working class, dysfunctional family, parents and children, drug abuse, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
Style: depressing, touching, sincere, gloomy, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: addiction, heroin, grief, life is a bitch, love and romance, haunted by the past, loss of spouse, drug addiction, best friend, character study, childhood, starting over ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 6.5
 673
Little Soldier (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A soldier returning from war is hired by her own father to drive his prostitutes around town. She calls upon herself to help one of them.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: prostitute, haunted by the past, friendship, life is a bitch, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, injustice, family problems, human spirit, feminism, military ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.7
 564
Cook County (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, parents and children, homecoming, drug abuse, methamphetamine, adolescence vs adulthood, small town ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, sincere, christian film ...
Plot: homeless, bullying, homelessness, addiction, biopic, suicide, abuse, tragic hero, human nature, haunted by the past, suicide attempt, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.8
 97K
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 ⇓
32%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.5
 11K
All or Nothing (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, florida, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.0
 1K
Wolfy (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: There are two of them: a mother and a girl. They have no names. And they are in a constant run. The mother runs away from the daughter in an attempt to start new life, and the girl runs after her mother as she has no idea how to live without her. ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, tense, neorealism ...
Plot: life is a bitch, family problems, alcohol abuse, dysfunctional family, little girl, parents and children, negligence, werewolf, loneliness, family relations, ex convict, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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