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Pebbles (2021)
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Original name: கூழாங்கல்
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young boy follows his violent and alcoholic father on a quest to find his mother, who has run away from his abuse.
Style:
road movie, bleak, melancholic, intense, art house, indie film
Plot:
father son relationship, village, journey, village life, family drama, realism, social realism, alcoholism, domestic abuse, minimalism, poverty, child protagonist, survival, isolation, symbolism, fight, water, rat, bus, countryside, bus trip, tamil, screaming
Place:
india
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Most similar movies to Pebbles
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, bleak, art house and emotional films with plots about poverty, survival, social realism, isolation, minimalism, intimate and coming of age mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Pebbles: Netto (2005), Pilgrim Hill (2013), Nola and the Clones (2016), Gregorio (1985), The Mourner (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
394
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, bleak
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A homeless Irish girl encounters a series of men who appear strikingly similar to each other
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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181
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In a small village in Rajasthan, India, a woman named Shanichari was born - so named, as shortly after her birth her father died; & her mother, Peewli, ran away with a rich lover, the owner of a drama company, abandoning her. When Shanichari ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, poignant, bleak, offbeat ...
Plot:
female protagonist, grief, mourning, social realism, village life, poverty, class struggle, motherhood, oppression, resilience, patriarchy, loss ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Feature film
Style:
bleak, melancholic, tragic ending, intense, art house ...
Plot:
poverty, hopelessness, drug addiction, pain, desperation, prostitution, illness, isolation, alienation, self destructing, character study, sacrifice ...
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34
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Dominican Republic, USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The coming of age journey of Samuel, a young Haitian boy whose life takes a tragic turn when his father is kidnapped, and he then decides to travel to the United States and Canada to find his mother.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, melancholic, intercultural, road movie ...
Plot:
journey, coming of age, immigration, exile, family drama, social issues, survival, child protagonist, identity, grief, resilience, childhood trauma ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
haiti, north america, canada, usa
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86%
776
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in a small town that doesn’t offer an easy way out. Each day starts in a long lineup at the tiny pharmacy, then it’s door-to- door begging to cut grass for people who just want them to not exist. At ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, dark, art house, moody
Plot:
drug use, addiction, small town, poverty, realism, intimate, escape, desperation, hopelessness, working class, claustrophobia, slice of life ...
Time:
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Place:
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86%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Amanpreet, a young man from a village in Punjab, is forced to migrate to India’s capital city, New Delhi, for his livelihood. But he is not wired for city life. He yearns for everything he has left behind – his carefree days, his bride-to-be ...
Style:
melancholic, compassionate
Plot:
desperation, migrant worker, culture shock, poverty, humiliation, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, working class, village life, class conflict, mental breakdown ...
Place:
new delhi
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, art house
Plot:
pregnancy, isolation, loneliness, claustrophobia, character study, abandonment, survival, moral ambiguity, hopelessness, existentialism, minimalism, symbolism ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Shashi, an urbane doctor, returns to his native village, a place seemingly mired in a backward way of life, for a short visit. As he becomes closely involved with the villagers, Shashi’s short stay threatens to become permanent.
Style:
art house, melancholic
Plot:
village, social realism, identity crisis, humanism, alienation, homecoming, nostalgia, moral ambiguity, symbolism, ethical dilemma, class conflict, literary ...
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216
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
Style:
compassionate, emotional, melancholic, road movie
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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351
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
It’s summer and the beginning of the long vacation period for eleven-year-old Martin, who lives on a farm, and, at a loss, observes his family’s disintegration : his mother lives locked-up in her room ; his older brother, who he adores, drowns ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
coming of age, poverty, childhood, social realism, village life, friendship, resilience, sibling relationship, mother son relationship, determination, labor, slice of life ...
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33
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
EDEN deals with what could possible be a future for most people caught up in the current economic climate in Ireland and how we have taken a bite of the financial apple and borrowed beyond our means. We follow Adam who has been left unemployed and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, melancholic
Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
intense, art house, melancholic, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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151
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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