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Dear Ones (2020)
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Original name: Bliscy
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland, Czech Republic
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Dear Ones is an allegorical story about people who need to make real contact with their family and friends. Piotr is looking for a purpose and order in his life. To find it, he turns to magic, religion, and psychology. Unexpectedly, his father calls him and asks Piotr to come to his family home immediately. Piotr arrives at the same time with his sister, Marta, whom he hardly remembers and does not recognize. The father called for Piotr and Marta because their Mother went missing. Family members who meet for the first time after many years begin to search together. The facts they discover about their mother make them re-define what kind of family they are.
Style:
emotional, allegory, reflective, tense, melancholic, art house, existential
Plot:
family drama, missing person, family secret, family reunited, sibling relationship, memory, father son relationship, family home, identity, intimate, psychology, religion, isolation, alienation, reconciliation, homecoming, magic, minimalism, small town, social commentary, slow burn, psychological drama, family secrets
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, art house and realistic films with plots about intimate, family drama, reconciliation, family secret, slow burn, grief and memory mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres. Some movies like Dear Ones: The Door (2019), Not a Word (2023), The House (2024), Dream State (2018), Fratelli (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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