Movies like Ice 2012
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Ice (2012)
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Original name: Лед
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An apotheosis of loyalty and love. A tale of lost happiness and dreams, fears and transience, supremacy of fate and laws of nature, gratitude and cruelty of nature, inability of man to change that and influence the course of his own life.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, poignant, philosophical, meditative, contemplative, intense, existential, art house, period piece ...
Plot:
love, nature, loyalty, loss, fate, destiny, grief, fatalism, bittersweet, tragic romance, dream, existential crisis, nostalgia, regret, retiring, intimate, isolation, literary, life story, winter, cold
Time:
70s
Place:
serbia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, art house and existential films with plots about intimate, loss, grief, bittersweet, love, memory and regret mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Ice: Four Letters of Love (2024), Courage (2022), Dream State (2018), Griffin and Phoenix (1976), The Other (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.
Style:
heartfelt, poignant, emotional, sweet, sentimental ...
Plot:
ghost, love, fate, supernatural, magic realism, bittersweet, second chance, afterlife, tragic romance, loss, soul mate, destiny ...
Time:
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Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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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:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn't know that, and she ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, poignant, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, bittersweet, dying, mortality, love story, tragic romance, campus, relationships, intimate, introspection, mature ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman, and her last memories of the five people who loved her most, recalled while experiencing a catastrophic event.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
memories, female protagonist, death, memory, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love affair, lifestyle, trauma, loss, grief ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Being Dead The film adaptation of Jim Crace's award-winning novel that follows a mid-life couple's effort to rekindle their marriage by traveling back to the place where they fell in love -- only to arrive at the point of their sudden ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, tragic ending, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mortality, death, marital crisis, troubled marriage, marital problem, marriage, married couple, unhappy marriage, literary, fatal accident, sudden death, loss ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Style:
emotional, poignant, romantic drama, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, illness, hopes, love story, relationships, mortality, young couple, youth, loss, desperation, resilience ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot:
memory, memories, relationships, flashback sequence, introspection, lifestyle, past, self discovery, bittersweet, longing, loss, love story ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Eighty-year-old Tadeusz lives a quiet life as a pensioner with his wife Helena. After years of working in a hospital, he wants to enjoy old age and his charming house with a garden, where they soon plan to hold their beloved granddaughter’s ...
Style:
emotional, existential, melancholic, tragic
Plot:
old age, mortality, family drama, dignity, elderly man, father son relationship, trauma, grief, mourning, accident, retirement, intimate ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Netherlands, USA, Colombia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
You know the moment when your sorrow is so profound that you can't help but imagine yourself somewhere far away... this is the story of someone who did more than just imagine.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, life affirming, melancholic, psychological ...
Plot:
grief, heartbreak, mourning, loss, love, travel, female protagonist, healing, soul searching, loss of partner, memory, recovery ...
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56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A couple of elderlies try to survive in Los Andes of Peru while they wait for their son.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, melancholic, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
waiting, silence, nature, isolation, loneliness, minimal dialogue, intimate, minimalism, realism, survival, loss, livestock ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Azerbaijan, Mexico, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, thrilling, psychological, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
love, relationship problems, family problems, love story, family relations, relationships, homecoming, getting home, soul searching, loneliness, regret, mortality ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Polish Psychological Drama
Style:
reflective, existential, philosophical, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, mortality, character study, memory, mountain, friendship, fear of death, male friendship, crisis of faith, nostalgia, isolation ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Cem finds himself at the brink of losing the love of his life, Alara, he embarks on an expedition to the Blue Cave, Alara's most beloved archeological site, to feel close to her again.
Style:
romantic drama, poignant, emotional, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
cave, love, longing, relationships, journey, grief, promise, loss, bittersweet, intimate, faithfulness, introspection ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
meditative, contemplative, slow cinema, melancholic, poignant ...
Plot:
death, minimalism, dying, solitude, mourning, grief, couples, character study, isolation, loss, companionship, intimate ...
Place:
paraguay
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An old man lives alone in a shabby cabin in a remote mountainous area of Mexico. His house is set to be demolished in order to facilitate the redevelopment of the area. He doesn't know how to protect his house. Time goes by and one day a young ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, contemplative, poignant, slow cinema ...
Plot:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
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poland
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman in love, a weak man, a father stumbling with his emotions, an uncle dependent on the past and a teenager meet at Zagor’s boarding house. Despite the serenity of the house, they all struggle to find the peace that they each need.
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
boarding house, character study, teenager, father son relationship, love, household, slice of life, domestic drama, intimate, memory, isolation, loss ...
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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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Place:
iceland
Similarity:
49%
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Story:
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Style:
emotional, anthology, realistic, reflective, poignant ...
Plot:
slice of life, relationships, loneliness, love, empathy, bittersweet, intimate, everyday life, companionship, guilt, mature, regret ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man and a kid are discovering beauty in life.
Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic, existential, period piece
Plot:
father daughter relationship, children, loneliness, loss, getting home, relationships, bonding, alienation, intimate, nostalgia, humanism, mourning ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died of tuberculosis, Ilya, after robbing a merchant, committed suicide. And Pavel, who let the woman ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, emotional, dramatic, art house ...
Plot:
friendship, death, loss, tragedy, fate, suicide, regret, pain, desperation, brothel, guilt, fatalism ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.
Style:
romantic drama, poignant, emotional, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
female protagonist, monologue, heartbreak, love, regret, loss, loneliness, intimate, bittersweet, minimalism, abandoned, desperation ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
46%
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:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five childhood friends from a small Montenegrin town have gradually moved away to different corners of the former Yugoslavia, yet they remain in contact, aware that their long-time friendship continues to play a fundamental role in their lives.
Style:
melancholic, emotional
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, nostalgia, small town, introspection, diaspora, migration, slice of life, bittersweet, intimate, social change, memory ...
Place:
montenegro
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tobias Jacobsen is 42. When the doctors tell him he is fatally ill, the earth opens up beneath him and he finds himself plunging into the abyss. It makes him think of the time he was 13 and his girlfriend got him to jump off the balcony of her ...
Style:
reflective, emotional, existential, poignant, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
illness, dark humor, life & death, terminal illness, coming of age, midlife crisis, memory, bittersweet, flashback, intimate, tragedy, nostalgia ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The appetizer is an introduction, the dessert is a farewell in this story of an indelible bond forged between a promising young filmmaker and an iconic actress.
Style:
reflective, emotional, contemplative, art house, life affirming ...
Plot:
friendship, chemistry, intimate, healing, grief, personal growth, film industry, bittersweet, mature, loss, aging, creativity ...
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