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Left Out (2008)
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Left Out (2008)
Original name: Stare fuori
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Giulio, a young man from Sicily, arrives in Rome to trace back Aurora, his ex-girlfriend whom he cannot forget. He stays with a couple of family friends, Rosalia and Eugenio, who have lost their only son, Nello, of the same age as Giulio. The presence of Giulio in their house forces Rosalia and Eugenio to come out of their long period of mourning, but at the same time Giulio, realizing that he will probably never find Aurora, starts sinking into a depressive state fueled by drinks and drugs. Rosalia and Eugenio's efforts to get Giulio out of it are in vain and when Giulio finally meets Aurora by accident, things can only get worse.
Plot: depression, suicide, family relations, mental illness, drug use, father son relationship, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, ex girlfriend, friend, loss of son, gay interest, death of son, mourning, repressed homosexual, surrogate son, drinking, mother son relationship, drinking alcohol, drink, search
Place: rome italy, sicily

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, serious and realistic films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, male female relationship, drinking, love and friendship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Left Out: The Last Passport (2009), Nel giardino delle rose (1990), Nie mehr wie es war (2016), Shooting the Moon (1998), Mallboy (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Last Passport (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: THE LAST PASSPORT takes place in a passport office...or so you think. George Miller is a 70 year old man who through a variety of encounters, takes us on a journey through his mysterious past to show us we are not all that different.
Style: independent film
Plot: alcoholics anonymous meeting, male female relationship, gay interest, family relations, military, husband wife relationship, police, love, marriage, father son relationship, friendship, post office ...
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Nel giardino delle rose (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A successful businessman is haunted by the memories of his mother.
Style: suspense, soap opera
Plot: mother, loneliness, mother son reunion, husband wife relationship, friend, boy, yuppie, letter, father son relationship, dog, tragic event, teacher ...
Place: milan italy, naples italy
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Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's ...
Style: captivating
Plot: fatherhood, adultery, family relations, father son relationship, family problems, search for father, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, relationships, dysfunctional family, female nudity ...
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Shooting the Moon (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Francesca Archibugi directed this Italian drama set in Rome where 14-year-old Siddhartha (Niccolo Senni) is forced to deal with his heroin-addicted mother Silvia (Valeria Golina). He occasionally gets a visit from his filmmaker father Massimo ...
Plot: girl, teenage boy, christmas, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, heroin addict, internet, brother sister relationship, urban setting, male female relationship, family relations ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Mallboy (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A boy climbs an unsteady path to adulthood under difficult circumstances in this drama from Australia. Shaun (Kane McNay) is a teenager growing up in a run-down suburb of Melbourne. His father Sam (Brett Swain) is in prison, while his mother Jenny ...
Plot: bad father, sister sister relationship, drug use, drinking, dancer, father son relationship, teenage boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, suburbs, family relations, male female relationship ...
Place: melbourne
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The Whores (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The prostitutes of Palermo are pictured in this episodic Italian drama. The film lacks a real unifying thread as it presents scenes from the lives of 7 hookers. Five are women. One is a man, and one is a transvestite. In one episode, an aging ...
Style: erotic, gay cinema
Plot: making love, sex scene, prostitute, male prostitution, prostitution, lgbt, transgender woman, transgender, pimp, sex worker, gay interest, sex work
Place: italy, palermo italy, sicily
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60%
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Sunday Lunch (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A surgeon torn between his family and mistress sees his upcoming promotion as a salvation from midlife crisis.
Plot: mistress, surgeon, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, drunkenness, family relations, divorce, rain, jealousy, father, singing ...
Place: former yugoslavia
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59%
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Werther (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. ...
Plot: boy, teacher, husband wife relationship, suicide, father son relationship, love, male female relationship, surgeon, tutor, tragic event, house, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Coming Home (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jochen's life is going well. He has just moved into a new house with his wife and child when suddenly his widowed father accidentally runs into a car and begins to lose his mind. The family take the old man in but tensions arise when the family ...
Plot: mental illness, new house, family relations, alzheimer's disease, father son relationship, fire, senior citizen
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56%
Martha... Martha (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious
Plot: family reunited, family relations, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, depression, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, mother child relationship, children, female pubic hair, female nudity, suicide ...
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56%
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Cake (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style: heartbreaking, depressing, psychological, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drug addiction, loneliness, depression, obsession, suicide, friendship, suicide attempt, support group, character study, tragedy, mental illness, honest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, tijuana mexico, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Son (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: mental health, divorced parents, family conflict, father, teen angst, depression, suicide, couple relations, father and son, love story, ex couple relations, family relations ...
Place: washington d.c., new york
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54%
Between Summers (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Torun and Mikael have been married for a few years. When vacationing on the Danish coast, their young son Melker accidentally drowns. Torun initially blames her sister, who was supposed to supervise her children. Later she turns her anger and grief ...
Plot: brother in law sister in law relationship, summer, aunt nephew relationship, grief, death of son, sea, tragedy, death of child, mourning, family relations, beach, husband wife relationship ...
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden, denmark
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53%
The Goddess of Fortune (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisis. When Alessandro’s best friend, out of the blue, asks them to take care of her two kids for a ...
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay couple, lgbt, gay relationship, gay wedding, family relations, love, husband wife relationship, disorder, parents and children, friendship ...
Place: rome italy
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51%
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Body Scent (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and ...
Plot: singing, murder, police, sex, truck, boxing, friendship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, cafe, death, friend ...
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia
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51%
Money Buys Happiness (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man and a woman, unpleasant bickering nitwits both, push a big stupid metaphor (in the shape of a piano) across Seattle.
Style: spiritual
Plot: flowers, family relations, husband wife relationship, friend, interview, marriage, hanging, piano, children, love, suicide, son ...
Place: seattle
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47%
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Cahoots (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two men who were "best friends" while growing up together and into their 20's, reconnect after years apart. On the surface, their lives have gone in opposite directions, one married, successful, respectful and settled; the other ...
Plot: mobster, family relations, suburbs, prostitute, sexual humiliation, buddy, husband wife relationship, blood, drinking, male bonding, ex husband ex wife relationship, homosexual subtext ...
Place: los angeles, alaska
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Reg (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have been murdered in Iraq, two men arrive bearing the terrible news that their son, Tom, was among them.
Style: political, suspense, suspenseful, rough, touching ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, prime minister, father son relationship, military police, election, political campaign, family relations, marital problem, mother son relationship, intrigue, alcoholism, depression ...
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45%
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The Thursday (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day ...
Plot: family relations, father son relationship, love, beach, divorce, priest, high society, soccer, seaside, diary, zoo, instructor ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.4
 45
Zinat (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The conflict felt by a modern Iranian woman as she is forced to choose between her career and the traditional obligations of a housewife are examined in this drama. Until she married Hamed, Zinat worked in a public health clinic in a small Iranian ...
Plot: father in law daughter in law relationship, rural setting, family relations, engagement, father son relationship, marriage, small town, tradition, women's rights, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, public health ...
Place: iran
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43%
Casey's Gift: For Love of a Child (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The friendships held between two families is threatened when one of their sons drowns in the other family's swimming pool.
Plot: babysitting, fishing, loss of son, death of child, death of son, accidental death, neighbor neighbor relationship, family relations, teenage girl, funeral, little boy, boy ...
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43%
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Toughlove (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
Plot: drug addiction, group therapy, marijuana, parenting, cocaine, drug abuse, troubled teen, drug use, teenage boy, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, teenage angst ...
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41%
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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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40%
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Diane (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Style: rough, melancholic, thought provoking, captivating, cult classic ...
Plot: old woman, homeless shelter, drug addiction, friendship, memory, family relations, depression, religion, church, dying, husband wife relationship, nurse ...
Place: usa
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37%
The Space Between (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Marco is a 35 year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father. Even when offered a job at a restaurant in Melbourne, he declines using his father as the excuse. When ...
Style: sincere, captivating
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37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Part funny part sad movie about a family Passover dinner.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: israeli, twins, family relations, single parent, dealing with death, nanny, eating disorder, family problems, couples, family gatherings, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
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36%
The Game of Love (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The family of a basketball club's president conspires to force him to sell it.
Style: captivating
Plot: father son relationship, basketball, competition, family relations, male female relationship, basketball coach, basketball team, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship vs career, relationships, love affair, husband wife relationship ...
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35%
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You Laugh (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative
Plot: kidnapping, aging, unfulfillment, introspection, love and romance, artists and showbiz, tragic hero, disability, family relations, retiring, abduction, couples ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: italy, sicily
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35%
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Together (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A family of a father, a mother and their son is looking forward to go on vacation. On the way they experience an accident, and their lives are suddenly and unexpectedly turned upside down.
Style: captivating
Plot: father son relationship, family relations, lifestyle change, drastic change of life, vacation, character change, changing lives, family vacation, relationships, lost love, loss of loved one, travel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by ...
Plot: female nudity, family relations, slaughterhouse, sex scene, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, drinking, smoking, violence
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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