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A Shadow You Soon Will Be (1994)
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A Shadow You Soon Will Be (1994)
Original name: Una sombra ya pronto serás
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This film follows the exploits of middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early 80's following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a strange travelling millionaire, Barante, the hobo, and Coluccini, a bankrupt circus owner who involves "the engineer" in a rigged card game..
Style: road movie
Plot: sex, football, gambling, thief, money, train, programmer, cat, escape, food, female nudity, flood, death, murder, circus, penguins, priest, hotel, computer, theft, on the road, father daughter relationship, astrology, bartender, silence ...
Place: rome italy, alaska, brazil, argentina, cleveland ohio, bolivia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and touching films with plots about drinking, drink, kiss, sex, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship and food mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Shadow You Soon Will Be: Bolivia (1999), Three Brothers (1981), Around the Bend (2004), Strange Weather (2016), Jesus' Son (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bolivia (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
Style: depressing, tense, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: restaurant, food, racism, migration, refugee, worker, exile, gourmet, lgbt, cafe, unemployment, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina, bolivia, buenos aires argentina
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Three Brothers (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: chess, terrorism, funeral, death, mafia, family relations, hopes, peasant, farm, family problems, social worker, estrangement ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, 80s
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, naples italy, germany ...
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Around the Bend (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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 old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, road movie, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, death, road trip, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, aging, van ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
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Strange Weather (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Style: lyrical, suspenseful, serious, road movie, depressing ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: death of son, investigation, depression, grieving mother, death of child, violent death, grieving, dying young, justice, vengeance, death, life & death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, louisiana, mississippi, new orleans ...
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Jesus' Son (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
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Plot: addiction, drug, drug addiction, drug abuse, dialogue, existentialism, recovery, dark humor, heroin, redemption, apocalypse, drug addict ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new jersey, chicago, phoenix arizona, iowa, mexico
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Jerome (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: factory, on the road, desert, petty theft, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, self discovery, society, hopes, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: 90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer, who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, yet another of his ...
Style: cult classic, tense, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Plot: monopoly, storytelling, radio, death, depression, hotel, drinking, radio station, daydreamer, jail, sexuality, mental disorder ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
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Spare Parts (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Embittered widower, Ludvik, spends his nights transporting illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi acts as his helpmate. Together they become a well-trained duo who almost every ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: refugee, friendship, immigrant, widower, van, life is a bitch, working class, criminal, death of wife, border crossing, smuggling, chess ...
Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together—a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy—in a web of secrets.
Style: suspense, sad, psychological, enigmatic, disturbing ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
Style: neorealism, depressing, crying
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Last Orders (2001)
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Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style: touching, serious, erotic, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: pregnancy, hospital, mother daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, loneliness, parents and children, drinking alcohol, society, relationships, redemption, poverty, friendship ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: spain, europe, andalusia
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Duration: 98 min.
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Style: neo noir, serious, captivating, rough, sexy ...
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Duration: 95 min.
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So B. It (2016)
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Country: USA
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Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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