Movies like Bardo Blues

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Bardo Blues (2017)
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Bardo Blues (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Bardo Blues is the story of a man coming to grips with tragedy by escaping to paradise. Set in Thailand, Bardo Blues follows Jack as he struggles to learn the truth about the mother that abandoned him and his own reason for existing. Weaving spiritual awakenings and soulful struggle, Bardo Blues will leave you questioning everything you think you know about who you are, where you came from and where you're going.
Style: independent film
Plot: travel, spirituality
Place: thailand

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and psychological films with plots about travel, spirituality, husband wife relationship, death, coming of age, self discovery and female nudity mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Bardo Blues: Praying the Hours (2021), The Nothing (2011), Dante (2014), Where The Miracle Happens (2008), At the Gate of the Ghost (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Praying the Hours (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story: The Traveling Man is hit by a car. Over the 24 hours that it takes to cross over from this life into the next, he visits with each of eight friends. By seeing ordinary life from this view, he realizes that eternity is not something that happens to ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: eternity, afterlife, time, death, magic realism, travel, transcendence, ensemble, prayer
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95%
 6.9
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The Nothing (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The faith of five strangers is put to the test when they awake to find themselves in a mysterious place, with no idea of how they got there... and no way out.
Style: underground film, sincere, psychological, touching, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: faith, cancer, christianity, spirituality, religion, christian, church, dying, death, infidelity, stranger, afterlife ...
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73%
Dante (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: "Leave out any hope of salvation, now you're getting in, to never leave again" (Hell - Canto III) It's been years since Beatrice died. Dante, now lonely, has lost control of his life and nothing on Earth is able to help him. Is a ...
Style: educational
Plot: hell, literature, travel, purgatory, paradise
Place: italy
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70%
Where The Miracle Happens (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Pimdao, a successful real estate developer and businesswoman, is injured in an accident that kills her beloved daughter at a time when the two are estranged. After the accident, Pimdao decides to take her daughter's place as a volunteer at an ...
Style: tear jerker
Plot: volunteer, rural area, rural setting
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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At the Gate of the Ghost (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Adapted from Japanese film called Rashomon, U Mong Pa Meung (The Outrage) takes place in a wood during Thai’s Lanna period where a mysterious murder happens. The story is told through three witnesses: a young monk, woodcutter and undertaker.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, who done it, investigation, life is a bitch, society, injustice, dishonesty, medieval, under the surface, tunnel, murder mystery ...
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
All I See Is You (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A blind woman's relationship with her husband changes when she regains her sight and discovers disturbing details about themselves.
Style: disturbing, captivating, enigmatic, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, blonde, blind woman, married couple, medication, promise, lie, fear, doctor, loss of eyesight, car accident, twists and turns ...
Place: bangkok thailand, barcelona, spain, thailand
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Siddhartha (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: India, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin and his search for a meaningful way of life. His journey takes him through periods of harsh asceticism, sensual pleasures, material wealth, self-revulsion and eventually to the oneness and harmony that he ...
Style: spiritual, philosophical, road movie, surreal, dramatic ...
Plot: buddhism, zen, buddhist, religion, buddha, self awareness, coming of age, conspiracy, saint, spirituality, blaster, antiquity ...
Time: year 1972, 6th century
Place: tibet, india, asia
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48%
The Customer of the Off Season (1970)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Directed by Moshé Mizrahi
Style: suspense
Plot: israeli, loneliness, nazi germany, memory, shooting, thirty something, refugee, manhunt, traveler, extramarital affair, guilt, paranoia ...
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Children of the Mist (1993)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A father experiences strange apparitions after his daughter is killed in a car accident.
Style: dark
Plot: ghost, haunted house, imaginary friend, haunted, spirituality, death of daughter, car accident, architect, forest, death of child, children, blindness ...
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41%
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Room (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Julia Barker, an over-worked, middle-aged Texas woman is haunted by psychic visions which drive her to New York in search of the Room.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, serious, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: room, hotel, midlife crisis, housewife, loneliness, journey, family relations, city, self discovery, uncertainty, wandering, anxiety ...
Place: new york, usa, texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Come Together (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An American stuntman working on spaghetti westerns in Europe picks up two pretty American tourists and they decide to take a road trip around Europe together. However, things don't turn out exactly as each of them expected.
Style: independent film
Plot: scenery, love triangle, death, travel, hitchhiker, stuntman, tourist
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37%
 5.7
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Changeland (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Follow two estranged best friends on an epic, life-changing adventure in Thailand as they're reminded that there's no problem that friendship and a few rounds in a Muay Thai boxing ring can't fix.
Style: semi serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, clever ...
Plot: friendship, relationship problems, meaning of life, travel, cause and meaning, family problems, introspection, friends, relationships, self discovery, magic, beach ...
Place: thailand
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35%
 5.9
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Vera (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico, USA, France, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story of an android that raises alive in the deepest caves of the mayan zone in México and meets and old dying man. They will stablish a spiritual bond than enlightens the old mayan and helps him to release himself out of his withered body.
Style: psychedelic, suspense, captivating, scary, dark ...
Plot: surrealism, marriage, dying, transformation, death, village, cave, girl, mysticism, cocoon, fire, running ...
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The Art of Travel (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: travel, self discovery, adventurer, escapades, canceled wedding, friends, prank, youth, wanderlust, survival, disaster, nature ...
Time: 21st century
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33%
 7.1
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Equus (1977)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: horse, psychiatrist, religion, mental illness, obsession, therapy, psychology, male nudity, introspection, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, coming of age ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe, greece, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.6
 398
Dear Galileo (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Dear Galileo is created by the director who was behind the runaway success of “Seasons Change”. It’s the story of two friends, Tai and Toey. One wants to runs away from school and the other is running away from love. They decide to travel and ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Plot: model, small town, teenage girl, beauty pageant, hollywood, naivete, taunting, travel, ethics
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Lost Expedition (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 133 min.
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Knockdown (2011)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Butterfly Rising (2011)
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Story: When her brother dies, singer Lilah Belle sets out to escape her grief and embarks on a road trip, but not before coaxing the new-to-town, most scandalous woman in Artesia, Rose Johnson, to go with her. These two broken souls steal a vintage truck ...
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Style: suspense, bleak, enigmatic, detective, surprise ending ...
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27%
Brokedown Palace (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 78 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
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Voice from the Grave (1996)
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Plot: serial killer, possession, nurse, spirituality, female singer, unrequited love, strangulation, coworker, murder investigation, cafeteria, cousin cousin relationship, murder suspect ...
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Arcadia Lost (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Two teenagers wander rural Greece after being stranded by a car crash. They encounter an itinerant vagabond on their travels.
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, touching
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating
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Lace II (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
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Plot: ransom, identity, father, train conductor, kidnapping, seduction, astronaut, jungle, rebel, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship
Place: asia, thailand
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