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Petroleum Spirit (2015)
31
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A surreal road movie about a partially deaf teenager hitting the road in a beat up Lada to find the father who abandoned him at birth. The stunning feature film debut of acclaimed commercials writer/director Rob Sanders.
Style:
road movie, surreal, atmospheric, dark, tense, bleak, independent film, dark comedy, tragic
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, identity, journey, isolation, surrealism, coming of age, teenage angst, loss of mother, moral ambiguity, sexual repression, violence, salvation, criminal underworld, odyssey, filling station, small town, sexual tension, rebellion, teenager, psychological drama
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Most similar movies to Petroleum Spirit
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, bleak and suspense films with plots about moral ambiguity, isolation, violence, coming of age, slow burn, small town and revenge mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Petroleum Spirit: Lioness (2024), Girls (2007), BAB (2020), Pig Pen (2015), The Way (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When 15-year-old rebellious Stefi goes missing, her mother Helena has nothing left to lose. Why cling to sanity when madness offers a chance for reconciliation and love?
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark, realistic, intense, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
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Place:
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145
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In a dying 1950s town, a mysterious traveler propositions a young farmhand, Donnie, to help take down the town's tyrannical leader in exchange for the release of Donnie's mother from a primitive mind-rehabilitation center.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, dark ...
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Time:
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85%
243
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A young man makes a deal with a man at a club to bring a bag to a mysterious stranger with the promise of getting a great sum of money. The mysterious stranger, though, commands him to bring the bag to another man, named Daniel, at a heathen place ...
Style:
tense, sinister, dark, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
occult, sacrifice, curse, moral ambiguity, journey, doom, supernatural, paranoia, guilt, isolation, quest, satanism ...
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559
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two young people go missing after a rave party in the woods. Meda and Rio, a man defeated by life and an uncompromising captain, are the two cops leading the investigation. It’s an old nightmare coming back to haunt the people from the small ...
Style:
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143
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A brother and a sister live on the borderline between awareness of their actions and total unconsciousness, until they commit a sin from which there is no return.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, dark, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, moral ambiguity, sin, siblings, loss of innocence, haunting, guilt, transgression, existential crisis, conscience, youth, isolation ...
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58%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Samantha Anthony is a teenage girl who has been forced to deal with situations, which have made her wise far beyond her years. She's had to watch her mother spiral out-of-control while addicted to the drug meth. Lost a baby brother to CPS as a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An ailing attorney, a relentless bail bondsman and a ruthless cowboy cross paths in the most dire of circumstances.
Style:
crime drama, tense, bleak, dark comedy, neo western ...
Plot:
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355
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, bleak, dark, independent film, mythical ...
Plot:
serial killer, isolation, brutal murder, small town, moral ambiguity, crime and punishment, anti hero, killing spree, domestic violence, class conflict, forgiveness, revenge ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Currently in post-production. Plot unknown. Unknown plot.
Style:
existential, emotional, independent film, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family drama, father son relationship, single father, intimacy, wildlife, isolation, slow burn, chaos, animal attack, identity, survival, haunting ...
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454
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Eliú, a country boy, is incarcerated́ in an experimental minors' centre in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers perform strenuous manual labour and intense ...
Style:
tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
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Place:
colombia
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison buddy, goes to take revenge on drug deal gone sour. A minimalist drama of dire simplicity, using ...
Style:
art house, bleak, grim, contemplative, slow cinema ...
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51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, crime drama, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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193
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In their final semester of school, a group of six college friends get together to pull the ultimate prank on a fellow classmate. The joke goes awry, resulting in a series of tragic events. Can they explain their way out of this one?
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tense, dark, suspense, black comedy, dark comedy ...
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3K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: UK
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Style:
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