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The Joy (2010)
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Original name: A Alegria
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world… On a Christmas night, his cousin John is mysteriously shot in a street in the Lowlands and disappears into the night. Weeks later, while Luiza spends days alone in the apartment where he lives with his mother in Rio de Janeiro, a mysterious visitor comes knocking on your door: John, as a ghost, asking to hide there.
Style:
atmospheric, sincere, serious, emotional, touching, psychological, melancholic, poetic, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
youth, ghost, supernatural, miraculous event, teenage life, family problems, coming of age, death in the family, hopes, dealing with death, christmas, courage, grief, loss, mourning, magic realism, night, urban, bittersweet, intimate, teenager, loneliness, memory, disappearance, isolation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, serious, realistic and melancholic films with plots about grief, intimate, loss, youth, isolation, family relations and memory mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Joy: 13 Summers Underwater (2017), Mourning for Anna (2010), The Quiet Roar (2014), December (2008), Glowing Stars (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, emotional, melancholic, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
quebec
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe
Similarity:
31%
462
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Caio is 40 years old and lives in the Rio de Janeiro's countryside, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On Christmas' Eve, he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, family problems, hopes, estrangement, christmas, intimate, soul searching, identity crisis, male protagonist ...
Time:
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Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Young adolescent girl Jenna's mother is dying, while at the same time Jenna is turning from a young girl into a young woman. So it is difficult for her to admit that she is afraid to lose her mother; instead she behaves contrary to how one ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, coping, terminal illness, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, youth, loss, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
grief, ghost, loss, isolation, lake, mourning, haunting, supernatural, bereavement, cottage, afterlife, memory ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
bittersweet, coming of age, dysfunctional family, single parent, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, family drama, child protagonist, childhood, stepfather, estranged father ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sixteen year-old girl living with her widowed father in the Ardennes forest befriends a twenty-two year old orphan whose manipulative aunt contrives to keep him immature in the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Stéphan Carpiaux. A tragic ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
fall in love, teenage life, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, family problems, single parent, unfulfillment, confined, youth, woods, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Place:
iceland
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, touching, serious, tense, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
burma
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Style:
contemplative, surreal, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, parents and children, family gatherings, unfulfilled love, road not taken, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, family reunited, nostalgia ...
Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
21%
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Story:
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Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, couple relations, haunted by the past, dealing with death, family problems, love and romance, death in the family, life, loss, relationships, love ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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Country: Brazil
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Story:
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Style:
serious, atmospheric, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Brazil
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
latin america, armenia, south america, portugal, brazil ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family problems, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, death in the family, social relations, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, family in crisis, father daughter relationship, overdose ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, maryland, baltimore
Similarity:
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465
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, character study, motherhood, family drama, poverty, family problems, family relations, social problems, relationship problems, kids and family, problem ...
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia, Germany, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Until one day, a charming magician arrives and Lana finds her love, for she is ready to leave the zoo. Lana ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
zoo, love and romance, magic, fall in love, amusement park, youth, animal training, wizards and magicians, bittersweet, coming of age, loneliness, abandonment ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
20%
162
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs. Her brother Nathan said to her before he died that he finally founded peace there thanks to a certain Daïsuké. Following his ...
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, serious, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, humanity, grief, mourning, loss, self discovery, woman, japanese man, small village, village, brother, death of brother ...
Place:
japan, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
slow cinema, touching, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
loneliness, dog, old age, loss, dream, isolation, death of husband, imagination, female protagonist, intimate, introspection, reflection ...
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20%
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