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The Midnight Orchestra (2015)
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Original name: L'orchestre de minuit
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Music
Country: Morocco
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After leaving Morocco amidst racial tensions spurred by the Yom Kippur war, the son of a once famous Jewish musician travels to his home country to bury his father. As he meets the members of the band, his life unexpectedly transforms.
Style:
melancholic, reflective, art house, intercultural, period drama
Plot:
grief, orchestra, loss, family drama, identity, mourning, jewish culture, friendship, memory, getting home, healing, community, nostalgia, reconciliation, diaspora, burial, bittersweet, intimate, post war, interracial relations, immigration, redemption, conflict, small town, biopic ...
Place:
morocco, africa
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Most similar movies to The Midnight Orchestra
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, reflective, emotional and art house films with plots about intimate, grief, bittersweet, loss, memory, small town and nostalgia mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like The Midnight Orchestra: Days and Hours (2004), Dream State (2018), Chasing the Wind (2013), The Good Half (2023), Piano Girl (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, art house, tear jerker
Plot:
balkan war, family drama, grief, loss, mourning, intimate, nostalgia, slice of life, memory, healing, reconciliation, getting home ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, bosnia, balkan, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Following the death of his estranged father, Louis is left feeling he hasn't achieved as much as he had hoped for. A chance encounter with figures from his past triggers a set of events that shakes his perception of life.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
grief, coming of age, self discovery, mourning, loss, family drama, realism, male protagonist, bittersweet, chance meeting, intimate, memory ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Anna hasn’t seen her family for a decade. When her grandmother dies, she returns home to take care of her grandfather. In the week leading up to the funeral, nothing goes as expected, and Anna is forced to reconsider how she lives her life.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, realistic
Plot:
grief, grandfather, funeral, getting home, family conflict, family drama, loss, intimate, character study, small town, mourning, confrontation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American family unit, it's a deeply personal film about the human connections that bond us all together.
Style:
mumblecore, captivating, entertaining, light, emotional ...
Plot:
sisters, family relations, sister sister relationship, family drama, sister, grief, family reunited, interracial relations, identity, family secret, intimate, domestic drama ...
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, independent film, dark comedy
Plot:
grief, family drama, family relations, healing, reconciliation, mourning, mother son relationship, bereavement, memory, funeral, personal growth, bittersweet ...
Place:
cleveland ohio
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of an exile man who came from Russia. He is the last descended of his family.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, poignant ...
Plot:
exile, social problems, social outcast, social misfits, life is a bitch, identity crisis, alienation, identity, loneliness, immigration, introspection, nostalgia ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
eastern europe, turkey
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The death of Christine and the choice to bury her in Acanda lead to the unraveling of unexpected family secrets on the journey to her final resting place.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, suspense, tension, realistic ...
Plot:
mourning, family secret, grief, family drama, funeral, mature, flashback, road trip, intimate, regret, siblings, small town ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young woman returns home to Wisconsin for her best friend's wedding and the one year anniversary of her father's death.
Style:
reflective, emotional, melancholic, realistic, independent film
Plot:
female protagonist, bereavement, grief, loss, small town, friendship, slice of life, family drama, homecoming, memory, bittersweet, personal growth ...
Place:
midwest, wisconsin
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A decade after the disappearance of his best friend and musical partner, Guille receives the offer from a label to finally release an album that never saw the light of day. His friend Pablo tries to help him overcome loss and grief, and release the ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, melancholic, emotional, romantic
Plot:
friendship, relationships, musician, missing person, disappearance, loss of friend, musician's life, music band, grief, loss, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – ...
Style:
psychological, independent film, unusual plot structure, humorous, melancholic ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, real estate agent, father son relationship, grief, family relations, loss, loneliness, character study, mother son relationship, death of mother, reincarnation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Returning home to working class Warwick, Rhode Island, Peter Latang encounters childhood friend Donald Treebeck for what starts as a simple favor and turns into a long van ride into two friends past.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, cult classic, independent film
Plot:
friendship, small town, nostalgia, character study, memory, loss, grief, bittersweet, intimate, slice of life, road trip, coming of age ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, rhode island
Similarity:
53%
163
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
One year after the death of her mother, Elena, a young French woman of Greek origin, returns to her holiday home on the island of Lesbos. She is accompanied by her friends Nassim and Sekou, two young suburbanites more used to the benches of the city ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
island, greek, mourning, grief, greek island, woman, seaside, women, coastal town, sun, female protagonist, beach ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain village.
Style:
melancholic, reflective, contemplative
Plot:
siblings, family drama, family reunited, small town, getting home, nostalgia, mountain village, intimate, community, childhood memory, memory, bittersweet ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Portugal
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
In a rural landscape, that resembles an old Portugal, an elderly man find out that his wife, whom he believed to be dead, was seen shopping in town. Spiteful and sad, he wants to hide from everyone, but his friends insist that he uses this situation ...
Style:
melancholic, slow cinema, reflective, art house
Plot:
elderly man, grief, aging, bittersweet, small town life, mourning, loss, nostalgia, loneliness, friendship, rumor, isolation ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
At the airport, Slavi tells his life's story to a young customs officer. As children, Nelly promises Slavi to marry him. The two teenagers are passionately in love with each other but after some time Nelly falls in love with another guy. Slavi ...
Style:
melancholic, road movie, reflective, art house, extraordinary
Plot:
immigration, lost love, exile, nostalgia, getting home, unrequited love, desperation, refugee camp, alcoholism, alienation, cold war, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
bulgaria, eastern europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A boy feels neglected by his parents because they grieve for his older brother, who went missing in the aftermath of the second world war.
Style:
emotional, tense, unusual plot structure, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
loss of son, family relations, traumatic experience, family business, guilty conscience, mourning, grief, family drama, post war, trauma, coming of age, isolation ...
Time:
50s, post world war two, 1940s, 1950s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.
Style:
intercultural, reflective, melancholic, atmospheric, tension ...
Plot:
friendship, character study, grief, empathy, memory, healing, gardening, loneliness, mourning, social class, isolation, reconciliation ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A successful music producer quits the industry and exiles himself in upstate New York, but the solitude he seeks is shattered when his estranged son and the pop star he's created come looking for answers.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, melancholic, indie film
Plot:
record producer, music, musician, father son relationship, social problems, music band, musician's life, father and son, family relations, father son estrangement, parents and children, estranged father ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A single mother receives a phone call saying her son had died from a shark attack in Hanalei Bay, Hawaii, where she now visits annually on her son’s death anniversary. One day, she meets two young Japanese surfers who tell her about a young ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
surfing, shark attack, single mother, grief, loss, social problems, animal attack, dangerous animal, shark, secret, mother and son, family problems ...
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Victoria is a Christian advice columnist about to make her big break, but her personal life is in shambles and her faith has faded. She returns home to help her father after her mother's death and is put on a journey to rediscover God’s ...
Style:
uplifting, heartfelt, emotional, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
redemption, faith, father daughter relationship, christianity, hopes, healing, inspiration, spirituality, religion, homecoming, grief, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, UK, Poland, Singapore
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.
Style:
period piece, reflective, melancholic, atmospheric, historical drama ...
Plot:
widow, female protagonist, trauma, grief, memory, secrets, post war, mother and daughter, loss, regret, family secret, identity ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 80s, 20th century, year 1982 ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
On the eve of Eid, a grumpy, miserly loner Jahangir is visited by three mysterious guests, claiming to be ghosts. As they make him revisit his past, Jahangir is forced to confront the life he has built in bitterness and solitude. A heartwarming tale ...
Style:
poignant, uplifting, melancholic, reflective, spiritual ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
redemption, forgiveness, generosity, heartwarming, regret, second chance, memory, community, family drama, nostalgia, bittersweet, solitude ...
Similarity:
39%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this evocative story told ingeniously with minimal dialogue, men and women from various backgrounds and places each deal with the loss of a loved one.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, loneliness, solitude, mourning, minimal dialogue, empathy, bereavement, memory, healing, intimate, soul searching ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jaap and Maartje have been together almost 50 years. Grumpy old Jaap is no longer terribly interested in doing much, but Maartje, despite her occasional confusion, is still keen to embrace everything life has to offer. When the couple receive a ...
Style:
heartfelt, romantic drama, emotional, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
journey, road trip, dementia, aging, elderly couple, marriage, memory, tenderness, bittersweet, nostalgia, long term relationship, companionship ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
38%
741
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Morocco, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and ...
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, reflective ...
Plot:
self discovery, fish out of water, immigrant, win over, society, disorder, personal growth, homeland, identity, culture clash, diaspora, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
france, africa, algeria
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she wanders from room to room, she gropes her way through memories and ...
Style:
family saga, melancholic, contemplative, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
memory, family drama, inheritance, family secret, grief, mourning, nostalgia, flashback, house, homecoming, literary, adaptation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
northern germany
Similarity:
37%
284
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, poignant, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, family drama, boyhood, bittersweet, empathy, life & death, grief, loss, small town, macabre, outsider ...
Time:
year 1993
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
"Grief Share" centers around a diverse group of individuals who are brought together by their mutual desire to heal. Each member of the class has experienced a profound loss and each individual's story parallels the parables of Jesus.
Style:
emotional, inspirational, sincere, reflective, spiritual ...
Plot:
grief, faith healing, loss, healing, bereavement, support group, hopes, empathy, mourning, faith based, religious, community ...
Similarity:
36%
297
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Danny movie is all about Daniel Thompson (Mammootty) who looses his parents at a very young age and he strives hard to make a living. Danny
Style:
emotional, poignant, reflective, melancholic, contemplative ...
Plot:
death, loneliness, grief, loss, isolation, compassion, friendship, social conflict, bittersweet, saxophonist, small town, mourning ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, 70s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
On the day that underground rapper Hak-soo fails his 7th audition, he receives a call from his hometown that his father is in the hospital. But he finds out that it was his father's plot to bring him to Byeon-san. To top it all, he is ...
Style:
disturbing, semi serious, psychological, captivating, heartfelt ...
Plot:
father son relationship, musician, getting home, small town, homecoming, family relations, fraud, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, rapper, musician's life ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
35%
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