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Night Shapes (1999)
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Night Shapes (1999)
Original name: Nachtgestalten
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Pope is in town and the night of his stay is anything but heavenly for some of Berlin′s inhabitants. Rich and poor, down-and-outs and policemen, street kids and taxi drivers - in their search for a little bit of happiness, they all end up on an amusing and at times harrowing odyssey through the labyrinth of the big city.
Style: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot: homeless, refugee, migration, hobo, tramp, lovers, village life, illegal prostitution, prostitute, misfit, life is a bitch, society, social misfits, down on your luck, urban, clergy, city life, hopes, chaos and mayhem, religions or cults, immigrant, sex, dog, female nudity, prostitution ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and gloomy films with plots about society, life is a bitch, misfit, immigrant, hopes, social misfits and down on your luck mostly in Drama, Comedy and Action genres. Some movies like Night Shapes: Everything's Jake (2000), Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1996), Little Saints (1999), Something in the Way (2013), In Vanda's Room (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Everything's Jake (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, independent film
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, survival, life is a bitch, teaching the ways of the world, society, social misfits, injustice, homelessness, street life, homeless, black ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: job seeking, life is a bitch, state affairs, society, city life, urban, fascist, porter, operation condor, parallel story, female nudity, attempted rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Little Saints (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved ...
Style: cult classic, soap opera, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Plot: magic realism, bittersweet, immigrant, wrestling, strong female presence, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, society, obsessive quest, self discovery, prostitute ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Something in the Way (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ahmad, a porn obsessed taxi driver from Jakarta, falls for the beautiful young prostitute Kinar and struggles with sexual frustration and misguided piety.
Style: serious, atmospheric, touching, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: obsession, misfit, dull life, social misfits, society, prostitution, prostitute, religions or cults, taxi, unfulfillment, urban, strong sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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In Vanda's Room (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 171 min.
Story: With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, semi documentary, contemplative ...
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, life is a bitch, misfit, social misfits, heroin addict, society, down on your luck, city life, urban ghetto life, poverty, painter ...
Time: 90s
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal
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Letter to the King (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, anthology ...
Plot: refugee, immigrant, love, revenge, social misfits, society, redemption, misfit, hopes, life is a bitch, dishonesty, culture clash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kurdistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sexy
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Alila (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. The character's lives overlap and collide. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: couple relations, family relations, family problems, immigrant, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, social relations, culture clash, social differences, infidelity, working class, strong female lead ...
Place: palestine, middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Nordrand (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental
Audience: girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: No overview found.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Macondo (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Riff-Raff (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an unemployed pop singer, serves to show the living conditions of the British poor class.
Style: political, social, independent film, humorous, gloomy ...
Plot: working class, worker, unhappiness, resistance, social realism, refugee, chaos, kitchen sink realism, labor, immigrant, poverty, pop singer ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 80s
Place: scotland, london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Between Us (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, serious
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: captivating, serious, psychological, realistic, contemplative ...
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Duration: 85 min.
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Made in Ash (2012)
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Duration: 84 min.
Story: A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexy, sexual ...
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Place: slovakia, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, emotional ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Import Export (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
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Style: serious, thought provoking, bleak, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: illegal prostitution, nurse, immigrant, life is a bitch, starting over, self discovery, job seeking, female nudity, sex, au pair, emigrant, misfit ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: ukraine, europe, austria, central europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Bliss (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: prostitute, female nudity, couples, love and romance, fall in love, lgbt, prostitution, refugee, homeless, punk rock, bare breasts, flashback ...
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Place: berlin germany, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Duration: 86 min.
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Style: black and white, melancholic, realistic, humorous, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia
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Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: starting over, life turned upside down, haunted by the past, society, redemption, hopes, friendship, life is a bitch, social relations, memory loss, social differences, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Am I Beautiful? (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, emotional
Plot: love of one's life, nudity, family relations, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, couple relations, human nature, dishonesty, society, love and romance, infidelity ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, emotional ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Hour of the Star (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the ...
Style: existential, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: working class, blue collar, food, existentialism, woman peeing, urban ghetto, social decay, rich and poor, down on your luck, countryside, city life, longing ...
Time: year 1985, 80s, 20th century
Place: sao paulo brazil, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Rose Seller (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.
Style: social, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: gang, children, homeless, tramp, hobo, feminist, juvenile delinquent, teenage girl, intimacy, homelessness, street kid, poverty ...
Time: 90s
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Five (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot: terminal illness, coping, life is a bitch, women, destiny, human spirit, doctor, unfulfillment, newlyweds, strong female presence, death of mother, breast cancer
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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