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The Dunce (2016)
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Original name: Le Cancre
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging around him , Rodolphe has but one obsession: meeting Marguerite again, the first love of his life.
Style:
emotional, poignant, reflective, sensitive, melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, character study, relationships, male protagonist, family drama, introspection, coming of age, regret, bittersweet, intimate, obsession, first love, memory, personal growth, nostalgia, identity, confrontation, slice of life, midlife crisis, healing, small town, romantic reunion, lgbt, nun, old man ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, contemporary
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and romantic drama films with plots about bittersweet, intimate, slice of life, nostalgia, small town, coming of age and memory mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Dunce: Dream State (2018), Bareback ou La guerre des sens (2006), True Love (2004), White Nights on the Pier (2014), Closure (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A cinephile meets on a beach in Ramatuelle his favorite filmmaker. He proposes to film the painful adventure that is just live. The two men will knit the scenes, each in its own way. The filmmaker keeps pushing the project, arguing that the chuting ...
Style:
art house, independent film, experimental, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
ambiguity, behind the scenes, introspection, character study, beach, collaboration, intimate, identity, obsession, regret, memory, nostalgia ...
Similarity:
89%
472
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Seven short stories about growing up gay in America and searching for true love.
Style:
anthology, romantic drama, heartfelt, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, coming of age, identity, sexuality, lgbtq, male protagonist, self discovery, relationships, acceptance, community, slice of life ...
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82%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, talky, serious ...
Plot:
seaport, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, unfulfillment, love, women, orphan, unrequited love, love letter, port, school teacher ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
All paths inevitably end, whether we want them to or not. This is a tale about one particular path, followed by two particular people, but this is not a tale about romance, this is simply a film about beginnings and endings. Daniel and Eve are a ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, independent film, mumblecore
Audience:
adult
Plot:
young adult, personal growth, introspection, female protagonist, bittersweet, memory, coming of age, regret, male protagonist, slice of life, identity crisis, self discovery ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
72%
500
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Costi (30) suddenly comes up with the idea of visiting his father, Sandu, and arrange a surprise reunion with the rest of the family that Sandu has neglected all his life. It's Costi's way of running away from his own couple issues for a ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, family drama, father son relationship, road trip, father, family relations, relationships, family problems, kids and family, father and son, estranged father, regret ...
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67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Imagine the heartbreak when someone you loved from childhood turns out to be a crook. Will Divya be old-fashioned and be with Ram or will she leave him?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, suspense
Plot:
childhood love, relationships, revelation, heartbreak, betrayal, female protagonist, trust, secret past, regret, deception, male protagonist, introspection ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a timid teacher meets a charismatic restaurateur, opposites hardly attract until their painful pasts transform their connection into love.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, realistic, sensitive ...
Plot:
second chance, healing, love, chemistry, regret, redemption, attraction, forgiveness, intimate, bittersweet, personal growth, motherhood ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The moving relationship of a man in crisis who would like to be a father, and a fatherless, mentally orphaned young rebel.
Style:
emotional, realistic, psychological, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
on the road, sexuality, rebel, globalization, family drama, relationships, fatherhood, male bonding, character study, crisis, orphan, coming of age ...
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61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's a simple love story. Antonio likes Claudie. But Claudie is not so simple ... Claudie is a young woman who stumbles into reality. Little by little, we discover the life of her and those around her. Her friends, her family, her past ... And ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, contemplative, realistic, poignant ...
Plot:
love story, self discovery, intimate, everyday life, coming of age, slice of life, intimacy, personal growth, friendship, male protagonist, bittersweet, identity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
60%
2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The story of the journey of an adult hero to his Bata, a stern Russian peasant who became a father at the dawn of the nineties and raised his son the way all Soviet people did.
Style:
humorous, light, entertaining, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
parenting, father son relationship, kids and family, son, fatherhood, family drama, family relations, father and son, parents and children, father, gross out humor, humour ...
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59%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Little Seung-jae stays up all night and writes letters to So-hee, pretending to be her father in Mars. Leaving Seung-jae's innocent heart behind, So-hee leaves for a big city. Both grown up to be adults, Seung-jae is a postman who writes ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, romantic drama, sentimental
Plot:
unrequited love, longing, postman, memory, coming of age, heartbreak, lost love, bittersweet, nostalgia, innocence, regret, small town ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Roy, a village boy who's a failure at studies, joins Christy's tuition. They become good friends, but later when Christy gets a job abroad, Roy's life changes
Style:
emotional, realistic, reflective, melancholic, intercultural
Plot:
friendship, slice of life, village life, coming of age, nostalgia, relationships, personal growth, longing, aspiration, bittersweet, education, separation ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young and successful copywriter Alan Despot, after trying in vain to renew a broken relationship with his girlfriend, goes to the island of Vis and finds himself torn between his eccentric father, another ex-girlfriend and her fiancé. New ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, comedy drama, melancholic, ironic
Plot:
love, self discovery, father son relationship, introspection, personal growth, island, second chance, identity, breakup, reconciliation, infidelity, healing ...
Place:
croatia
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
There is a woman who gets married, her husband buys a scooter on the same day, and later, he abandons both. The story is woven around the parallel lives of the scooter and the woman, who go through the same situation.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, independent film, art house
Plot:
woman, female protagonist, marriage, abandonment, character study, loss, loneliness, metaphor, domestic drama, symbolism, modern life, slice of life ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Lukas is Sugar, Clemens is Orange. Together, they are two ten-year-old boys who are inseparable. More than just playmates, they share a unique bond which seems predestined to last a lifetime. Until, that is, powerful emotions come to the fore and a ...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, heartfelt, psychological, tension ...
Plot:
childhood friend, coming of age, friendship, reconciliation, young love, gay, identity, misunderstanding, memory, nostalgia, longing, healing ...
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54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Everyday, Nelia waits outside a store in Timog hoping for Delfin--a man that she lost 40 years ago--to comeback. Unwilling to forget the romance that she spent with him, she recalls their tale set amid the timeless beauty of Quezon City in 1970s. ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, sentimental, melancholic, heartfelt ...
Plot:
memory, lost love, longing, waiting, unrequited love, female protagonist, reminiscence, bittersweet, character study, intimate, slice of life, small town ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
"Say Hello for Me" is a love story and talks about three people's childhood friendship and their reunion after 15 years of separation.
Style:
romantic, romantic drama, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, lovers apart, love triangle, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love story, couple relations, lovers reunited, male female relationship, romantic relationship, reunited friends, romantic friendship, couples ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
A melodic, emotional exploration of one family falling apart in a sleepy Midwestern city, The Branches follows Claire (Kelly Brumbach) as she attempts to reconnect with the hometown life she left behind.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric
Plot:
family drama, hometown, family conflict, intimate, estrangement, getting home, character study, relationships, small town, introspection, homecoming, grief ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
ohio, midwest
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two dancers, once lovers, now go about their separate lives. Giovanni can't help reliving his first love via a collection of home videos. Louise, now a director, is projecting her bad memories on her production of Romeo and Juliet.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, reflective, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
dance, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, nostalgia, memory, lost love, introspection, relationships, intimate, bittersweet, separation, regret, flashback ...
Similarity:
50%
9K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A pair of high school sweethearts face challenges in their relationship when they take different directions in life.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, young love, young adult, high school, first love, bittersweet, nostalgia, slice of life, teen angst, breakup, heartbreak, longing ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Xiao Yu (Zhou), a barista and cake maker in a teahouse-café by Westlake in Hangzhou. Since a car crash long ago, she had been leading a peaceful life with her kind-hearted best friend and fellow car crash survivor Tong (Yim) who is unabashed in ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, reflective, melancholic, art house
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love triangle, relationships, friendship, healing, unrequited love, bittersweet, slice of life, longing, intimate, regret, moral dilemma, personal growth ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
beijing china
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Atabai lives with his father and his niece in the village of Pirkandi (Khoi). He was an architecture student at Tehran University of Fine Arts many years ago and left school a year after graduating because of the emotional problems caused by his ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house, poignant ...
Plot:
regret, second chance, longing, village life, relationships, nostalgia, unrequited love, bittersweet, personal growth, memory, romantic triangle, loss ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A nostalgic, coming-of-age story of identical twin sisters who share every aspect of their lives with one another, until one day a boy walks into their lives and puts their strong bond to the test.
Style:
semi serious, thrilling, captivating, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
twin sister, twins, coming of age, love triangle, sisterhood, family relations, relationships, male female relationship, grownups, relationship problems, sister sister relationship, sister ...
Place:
southeast asia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
The story of Tanya, who is suddenly hit by a feeling that her existence is hopelessly devoid of meaning, is set in St. Petersburg. The city landscape provides the backdrop for Tanya's ups and downs as she takes drastic action, gets into scrapes ...
Style:
emotional, touching, poignant, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
solitude, personal growth, self discovery, diary, female protagonist, confession, bittersweet, coming of age, resilience, intimate, identity, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
This year, seventy year old grumpy Johan is married with his wife Dora for fifty years. But unfortunately, Johan finds there is nothing to celebrate. Something seems missing... Something that's been out of place for all those years. He spends ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, existential, reflective, art house
Plot:
lgbt, repression, mature, regret, identity crisis, identity, loneliness, lgbtq, sexuality, bittersweet, marriage crisis, gay love ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dylan Derringer, a lonely dentist in Florida, is confronted by a figure from the past bringing news that sends him on an eventful and ultimately life-altering journey of discovery.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, loneliness, character study, personal growth, relationships, haunted by the past, changing lives, relationship problems, lifestyle, male female relationship, lifestyle change, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
florida
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After the death of her mother Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress.
Style:
emotional, reflective, contemplative
Plot:
cellist, pianist, loss of mother, mourning, grief, mother daughter relationship, family drama, classical music, family secret, father daughter relationship, reconciliation, memory ...
Similarity:
42%
421
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Tan is expected to be like his dad but he would rather escape the narrow confines of his mother's world. His dreams look like they are coming true when he meets June, a free spirit who knows what she wants from life.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, heartfelt, reflective
Plot:
single mother, female protagonist, mother son relationship, coming of age, relationships, male female relationship, changing lives, life is a bitch, young widow, lifestyle change, widow, social problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Diego is hosting a farewell party in his house before he leaves on a trip that no one knows about.
Style:
reflective, emotional, melancholic, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
secrets, house party, introspection, intimate, relationships, bittersweet, friendship, regret, single, identity, character study, slice of life ...
Similarity:
41%
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