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Dissolve (2019)
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Original name: Растворяться
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In Almaty, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
lifestyle change, switching roles, women, changing lives, escapades, female protagonist, relationship problems, lifestyle, fish out of water, fake identity, new identity, clone, prostitute, sex scene, prostitution, virgin, family relations, mother daughter relationship, double life, brother sister relationship, loss of virginity, patriarchy, abuse, abused woman, psychological drama ...
Place:
kazakhstan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, psychological and suspense films with plots about female protagonist, lifestyle change, relationship problems, changing lives, family relations, family problems and relationships mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Dissolve: She Walks (2015), My Happy Family (2017), Camila Comes Out Tonight (2021), Little Girl Blue (2007), Samaritan Girl (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An illegal Chinese immigrant and her teenage daughter are held captive in their home after a stranger breaks in.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
prostitution, mother daughter relationship, changing lives, illegal prostitution, family relations, lifestyle change, prostitute, family problems, mysterious stranger, mother and daughter, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tbilisi, Georgia, 2016: In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family problems, family life, lifestyle change, lifestyle, changing lives, patriarchy, relationship problems, parents and children, husband wife relationship, post soviet, problem, woman ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
middle east, indiana, tbilisi, georgia
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When her grandmother becomes seriously ill, Camila is forced to move to Buenos Aires, leaving behind a liberal public high school for a scholastic, traditional private institution. Suddenly a senior without any friends, and with her single mother ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, relationships, life is a bitch, grownups, lifestyle change, changing lives, latinx lgbt, tattoo ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a new dream house ... But she also has a secret that is slowly changing her idyllic life...
Style:
captivating, sincere
Plot:
family relations, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, lifestyle change, changing lives, relationships, family life, new life, confronting the past, kids and family, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. ...
Style:
erotic, captivating, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitute, coming of age, murder, couples, vengeance, parents and children, female friendship, revenge, illegal prostitution, family relations, redemption, love and romance ...
Place:
east asia, germany, europe, south korea, korea ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art house
Plot:
loss, loneliness, family problems, adultery, adulterous husband, loss of wife, loss of child, lifestyle change, changing lives, lifestyle, lonely, lovers ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, satirical
Plot:
unhappy marriage, pregnant woman, marital problem, pregnancy, relationship problems, money problems, changing lives, lifestyle change, family problems, fired from the job, loss of job, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jina is the top employee at a credit card company call center. She avoids building close relationships, choosing instead to live and work alone. One day, her irritating next-door neighbor who would attempt to talk with her is discovered dead, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
lonely, loner, alone, call center, loneliness, changing lives, social problems, lifestyle change, living alone, social isolation, social issues, life is a bitch ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Interwoven emotions and struggles of three women of different generations aiming to build the lives they desire, their own future, love and dreams. All of them lose the love of their lives and they will have to pursue their happiness and fight for ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, visually appealing
Plot:
loss of lover, female protagonist, love, multiple storylines, lifestyle change, lifestyle, changing lives, life is a bitch, relationship problems, women, three generations, rape ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
52%
722
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Muriel moves from a small village to the big city of Brussels, hoping to start an independent life working as a museum guide. She rents a room from Laura, who has a room to spare now that her mother is in hospital. Laura is a vital and candid woman ...
Style:
erotic, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, mother and daughter, children, lifestyle change, changing lives, family problems, generation gap, family relations, relationship problems, parents and children, lifestyle, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Monika, a middle-aged wealthy woman, goes through a marriage crisis with her younger husband Linas. A car accident leads Monika to meeting three young girls, Kristina, Egle and Gitana, who happen to be ex-prostitutes extradited from Germany. The ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
middle aged woman, car accident, friendship, female protagonist, marriage crisis, society, family crisis, midlife crisis, women, relationship problems, unlikely friendships, suicide ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot:
lifestyle change, female protagonist, female writer, ghost writer, changing lives, writer's life, mysterious character, secret, screenwriter, assassination, murder, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
rome italy, italy, palermo italy
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sarah Russell, a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student, visits her loving family to share some important news, but instead finds herself attempting to finally confront a difficult period from her past.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, getting home, ex boyfriend, confronting the past, family relations, relationship problems, relationships, family problems, christmas, guilt ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Teresa’s life is turned upside down when she is forced to accept a job far away. On her way, she loses her bag, causing her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, reflective ...
Plot:
traveling salesman, female protagonist, road trip, journey, self discovery, character study, relationships, changing lives, travel, lifestyle change, male female relationship, family relations ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Suzanne McBride is excited to spend her birthday with her family. It will be the first time that her three adopted daughters will be together in years. This seems like a great time for a family reunion, but the sisters are each wrestling with unique ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
family reunited, confrontation, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, mother daughter reunion, sisters, family problems, family relations, family secret, dysfunctional family, relationship problems, female protagonist ...
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161
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Argentina
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two woman, one a married middle-aged airline stewardess, and the other a free-wheeling factory worker open to experience and opportunity, meet and decide to change their lives. Moving to Patagonia and leaving their men behind they find that escape ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, queer cinema
Plot:
airport, relationship problems, lifestyle change, lifestyle, relationships, couple relations, women, changing lives, female protagonist, lesbian, gays and lesbians, latinx lgbt ...
Place:
patagonia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, poverty, human rights, breakdown, prostitute, torture, fisherman, husband wife relationship, corruption, spy, military, capitalism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
north korea, south korea, east asia, seoul, korea
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The ugly duckling of a fraught middle-class household has her life turned upside-down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student, in this caustic, absurdist satire of petit-bourgeois family life from Dutch director Michiel ten Horn. (TIFF)
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, taboo, loss of virginity, family problems, family relations, relationships, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, foreign exchange student, introspection, life philosophy ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, sexy
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, prostitute, dysfunctional family, family problems, mother daughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, single mother, family secret, family relations, single parent, social problems ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An isolated farm in a remote part of the Jura region: this is where Pauline and Alex are living in complete self-sufficient harmony with nature. Their life project is sealed by their love, their ideals and their work. The couple is now ready to take ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic drama
Plot:
couples, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, farm, lifestyle change, relationship problems, love interest, female protagonist, farmhouse, farmer, changing lives ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, art film
Plot:
female protagonist, relationship problems, life is a bitch, self discovery, lifestyle change, family problems, passionate kiss, mental health, anxiety, mental illness, bare chested male, childhood memory ...
Similarity:
45%
273
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An overeducated, disenchanted woman, Ja-young, loses her ambition after many gruelling years of studying for the public official exam. One lonely evening, a beautiful, fit runner, Hyun-joo, glides smoothly past her. Intrigued by this celestial ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
lifestyle change, changing lives, life is a bitch, self discovery, female protagonist, relationship problems, female homosexuality, gays and lesbians, woman, lgbtq, lesbian, internship ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The film tells a story of 2 girls who were born on the same day and unintentionally switched at birth. Their lives are completed changed due to the misplacement when they are returned to their respective families.
Style:
disturbing, romantic, psychological, captivating
Plot:
switched at birth, brother sister relationship, changing lives, lifestyle change, love and romance, male female relationship, couple relations, romantic relationship, love interest, relationships, love story, switching roles ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Müzeyyen is a 22-year-old high school senior living in Antalya who spends most of her time with a posse of misfits. She lives a drug-fuelled, highly troubled life outside the norms of society. When her long-lost brother Ali decides to visit her ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
drug, society, relationship problems, family problems, life is a bitch, drug addict, family relations, drug abuse, drug addiction, social relations, male female relationship, female protagonist ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
39%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lissa, a twenty-year-old girl trapped in rural Pennsylvania, grapples with sex, drugs, love and loss. When a possible pregnancy forces her to take a hard look at her life, both her and the structure of the film mature, illuminating a brighter path ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
sexual promiscuity, lifestyle change, pregnancy, promiscuity, mother daughter estrangement, promiscuous woman, loss of father, life is a bitch, drug abuse, drunkenness, drug use, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A simple family lives in the Kalmyk village - Baira and her husband Congress. They love each other, they cut and sell sheep together, they keep house, they never part and they don't know any other life. And suddenly the Congress brings a second ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, bleak, art house
Plot:
polygamy, husband and wife, lovers, second wife, relationships, male female relationship, female protagonist, family conflict, dysfunctional family, relationship problems, lifestyle, marital problem ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
17-year-old Joo-ri discovers her father is having an affair with the mother of her hard-headed classmate Yoon-ah.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
love affair, mother daughter relationship, high school student, parents and children, family problems, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, teenage life, dysfunctional family, teenager, love interest ...
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, powerful
Plot:
grandmother, teenager, eccentric family, teenage protagonist, troubled youth, changing lives, family relations, teenage life, lifestyle change, death of mother, alcoholic, broken leg ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
prostitution, female pubic hair, relationship problems, coitus, sexual desire, male female relationship, female protagonist, sexual relations, women, menage a trois, sex scene, sex in an elevator ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While her husband struggles to keep his restaurant in business, a mother of three lands a job as an assistant to a powerful, but sexually harrassive realtor and brings herself to fight back.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
sexual harassment, husband wife relationship, employer employee relationship, family problems, career change, relationship vs career, money problems, financial problem, relationship problems, forbidden love, female protagonist, moral dilemma ...
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
34%
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