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White Lies (2013)
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
Plot:
woman, society, power relations, pregnancy, interracial relations, strong female presence, culture clash, hopes, master and servant, world war one, jazz, pacific islander, redemption, abortion, maori, indigenous
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 20s
Place:
new zealand
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and touching films with plots about society, hopes, strong female presence, family relations, life is a bitch, culture clash and parents and children mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like White Lies: Chocolate (1988), The End of Innocence (1990), Under the Starry Sky (2013), The Door (2012), Letter to the King (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany, Cameroon
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty ...
Style:
touching, contemplative, realistic, semi autobiographical, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, colonialism, interracial relations, youth, coming of age, culture clash, imperialism, farm, woman, master servant relationship, hyena, priest ...
Time:
1950s, year 1988, 80s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
africa, france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, hopes, couple relations, misfit, starting over, culture clash, family life, immigrant, society, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
china, washington d.c., usa, asia, persia
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation center, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, addiction, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
maid, friendship, rich and poor, society, writer's life, master and servant, power relations, strong female presence, world war two, political intrigue, totalitarian state, european ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
hungary, budapest
Similarity:
71%
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:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, anthology ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, love, revenge, social misfits, dishonesty, society, hopes, life is a bitch, misfit, redemption, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A female talk show host in Cairo, Egypt, stirs up a political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, tense, islamic ...
Plot:
journalism, politics, hopes, introspection, injustice, rebelliousness, idealism, state affairs, media, dentist, political corruption, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, middle east, egypt
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
20 short films about human rights.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, gloomy, contemplative ...
Plot:
human spirit, introspection, redemption, youth, life is a bitch, social differences, discrimination, idealism, injustice, hopes, society, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, asia, usa, europe
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
rebellion, high school life, political unrest, youth, society, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
60%
314
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, optimism, society, hopes, family problems, unemployment, parents and children, husband wife relationship, loss of job, blaxploitation, strong female presence, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, latin america, colombia
Similarity:
56%
825
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, society, photojournalist, life is a bitch, immigrant, female protagonist, post traumatic stress, post traumatic stress disorder, captive, captivity, hostage, war correspondent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sicily, italy
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-black kids of the pauper fishery community on Yamacraw Island. Staffless 'head' ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, contemplative
Plot:
teachers and students, society, misfit, power relations, hopes, rebellion, dedicated educator, hardcase students, youth, interracial relations, school, idealism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, emotional, erotic
Plot:
idealism, life turned upside down, lifestyle, couples, life is a bitch, social differences, hopes, couple relations, family problems, culture clash, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Plot:
bedouin, escapades, uninhibited rivalry, society, rivalry, hopes, starting over, survival, danger, religions or cults, against the odds, culture clash ...
Time:
1920s, year 1919
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
50%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Slovenia, Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A psychological portrait of a woman traveling home in a war-torn world.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
on the road, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, getting home, survival, danger, society, wartime life, introspection, dystopia, runaway child ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, THE LITTLE DEATH offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel, where a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) and a corrupter of innocence battle over the fate ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
culture clash, society, prostitute, rivalry, nihilism, sexuality, seduction, brothel, repression, forbidden love, fall in love, masochism ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Emprisoned by an illness, a young country girl decides to leave for Quebec City in order to study piano and discover an animated and enthralling lifestyle.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
flapper, pregnant woman, hopes, life turned upside down, terminal illness, city life, children, jazz club, jazz, urban, strong female presence, girl ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
lgbt, female bonding, housekeeper, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, hopes, human nature, couple relations, society, master and servant, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
46%
385
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot:
sea, lizard, disorder, danger, survival, fish out of water, communication problem, hunger, escapades, culture clash, post soviet, underground ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, morocco
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, morphine, urban decay, doctor, mental disorder, drug addiction, civil war, hopelessness, world war one, loneliness, hardship ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1917
Place:
russia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three lives in search of redemption intersect in the streets of Lima: undercover cop Gamarra’s desperate attempts to save his wife from a terminal illness gets him into trouble; bus driver Felix wants to be accepted into a religious sect after his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
redemption, undercover, hopes, life is a bitch, family relations, law enforcement, society, terminal illness, multiple storylines, confession, soccer, religions or cults ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, latin america
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, family relations, protecting from truth, parents and children, uncover truth, adoption, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, hopes, society, monkey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
42%
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659
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, power relations, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, hopes, society, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Asia is a young Iranian woman whose brother has been tortured in prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the recent controversial presidential elections in Iran. She goes to Berlin to find the grave of Hitler fulfilling a promise made to her ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, tense, serious, poignant ...
Plot:
society, strong female presence, rabbi, religions or cults, political unrest, iranian, promise, human rights, political repression, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, exile ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
berlin germany, iran, germany, europe, middle east
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been ...
Style:
sad, independent film, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
wife beater, world war one, trade, 007, world history, colonialism, blaxploitation, worker, human spirit, boss and employee, society, misfit ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
africa, nigeria
Similarity:
40%
641
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
society, chaos and mayhem, city life, interracial relations, blackout, lie, danger, violence, nypd, urban, stash, woman
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
40%
246
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Paris, today. Dorcy, a young black Christian, wants to marry Sabrina, a young North African. It what would be a simple matter if it weren't for the fact that Sabrina has 40 brothers and that this easygoing wedding has crystallized a taboo ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
interracial relations, family relations, forbidden love, love and romance, society, family in crisis, impossible love, family problems, immigrant, unfulfillment, misfit, religions or cults ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, africa, france
Similarity:
39%
655
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, with unexpected obstacles on the way.
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, slow cinema, aesthetic ...
Plot:
hopes, journey, religions or cults, family relations, uninvited guest, society, pregnancy, life turned upside down, ancient history, angel, jesus christ, jesus ...
Place:
catalonia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Style:
political, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot:
australian aboriginal, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native, native american, family relations, segregation, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, coming of age, misfit ...
Time:
70s
Place:
africa, australia
Similarity:
38%
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