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Lingui (2021)
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Original name: Lingui : les liens sacrés
Genre: Drama
Country: Chad, France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina discovers Maria is pregnant and does not want a child, the two women begin to seek out an abortion, condemned by both religion and law. In the process, mother and daughter forge a connection stronger than any they’ve ever known.
Style:
political, thought provoking, emotional, realistic, tense, controversial, social, independent film, crying
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, abortion, single mother, moral dilemma, family bonds, religious conflict, empathy, female empowerment, islam, poverty, human rights, resilience, minimalism, courage, coming of age, women, feminism, muslim, abortion rights, illegal abortion, dog, dancing, school, revenge, cat ...
Time:
2020s, contemporary
Place:
africa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and crying films with plots about coming of age, family relations, mother daughter relationship, youth, friendship, cigarette smoking and pregnancy mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Lingui: A Screaming Man (2010), Dry Season (2006), Young Mothers (2025), A Season in France (2017), Our Father (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Chad
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Present-day Chad. Adam, sixty something, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N'Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
hotel, life is a bitch, political unrest, moral dilemma, military, parents and children, ex athlete, anti war, introspection, soldier, dishonesty, african ...
Time:
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Place:
africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chad, France, Belgium, Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a sixteen-year-old youth, to trace the man who killed his father and to ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
africa
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71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.
Style:
crying
Plot:
young mother, poverty, parenting, resilience, working class, social realism, slice of life, social services, hopes, solidarity, female friendship, urban ...
Time:
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Place:
belgium
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, political, tense ...
Plot:
illegal immigrant, illegal alien, refugee, immigration, war trauma, immigrant family, survival, bureaucracy, alienation, exile, integration, resilience ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france, africa
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Chad, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
against the odds, coming of age, family relations, kids in trouble, obsessive quest, young heroes, missing person, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, tangier morocco, morocco
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chad, France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A 25 year old young man with dreams of becoming a dancer despite the fact that he's paralyzed from the waist down. His dreams are shattered when his uncle falls seriously ill. To save him, he decides to go work for petrol traffickers.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
life is a bitch, disability, society, family relations, haunted by the past, unlikely criminals, job seeking, dancer, prostitute, death threat, african, black ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
Style:
sad, independent film, crying, period drama
Plot:
abortion, unwanted pregnancy, illegal abortion, pregnancy, female protagonist, post war, unplanned pregnancy, dormitory, final exam, college student, injection, female college student ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
france
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Zimbabwe
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, ...
Style:
independent film, political, retro, cult classic, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
racism, mother daughter relationship, politics, prison, police raid, dancing, 13 year old, suicide attempt, child's point of view, twist the dance, coming of age, friendship between girls ...
Time:
60s, year 1963
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Gabriella, a courageous and tough New York teenager. She witnesses the killing of her father, a beloved teacher at her high school, who tries to help a student being bullied. Trying to recover from their grief, Gabriella and her mother move to ...
Style:
realistic, intense, emotional, suspense
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
bullying, high school, courage, coming of age, young adult, grief, survival, new school, peer pressure, resilience, justice, teen angst ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
Style:
costume drama, crying
Plot:
pregnant from rape, mother daughter relationship, rape, conscription, constable, doctor, world war one, women, love, morning sickness, nightmare, photograph ...
Time:
year 1916, 1910s
Place:
new york, scotland
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Style:
meditative, sad, rough, serious, crying ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
abortion, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, teenage girl, female protagonist, teenage pregnancy, abortion clinic, 17 year old, teenager, sexual abuse, adolescence, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time:
year 2019, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, sexy, tense, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
abortion, friendship, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, rape, communism, communist, realism, doctor, brutality, female pubic hair, female nudity ...
Time:
80s, year 2007, 2000s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
romania, eastern europe, transylvania, europe, california
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
arranged marriage, poverty, teenage life, unfulfilled love, youth, love and romance, wedding planning, coming of age, volcano, mother daughter relationship, feminist, native ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
africa, latin america, guatemala
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
child prostitution, little girl, poverty, family relations, family problems, social relations, estrangement, social misfits, youth, hopes, parents and children, leaving home ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy of the harem is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.
Style:
islamic, contemplative, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, tunisia, middle east, persia
Similarity:
34%
591
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Life on the Rock never seemed easy, but for Mitsy it is especially rough. The teenager has been abandoned by her mother, a particularly unfit parent prone to both the bottle and the sex trade. She is left to be brought up by her mercurial ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, crying
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
separated parents, half sister half sister relationship, father daughter relationship, school, family problems, parents and children, youth, family life, suicide attempt, arrest, girl, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Fixated on romantic fantasies, a kindly and strong-willed young woman with a mild mental disability embarks on a relationship — much to the concern of her protective mother.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, intellectual disability, character study, independent woman, protective mother, empathy, resilience, slice of life, secret relationship, love story, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anna, 12, lives with her deaf mother in a loving bond, yet under humble conditions, that are a source of social shame when she begins high school. Staying close to its heroines, this refreshing debut blends solidarity, feminism and tons of melodies.
Style:
compassionate, emotional
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, coming of age, female protagonist, heartwarming, motherhood, empathy, adolescence, family drama, friendship, identity, slice of life, self discovery ...
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, touching, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
adult child friendship, mother daughter relationship, little girl, relationship problems, mother child relationship, parents and children, family problems, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, dysfunctional family, mother and daughter ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
teenage girl, violence against women, muslim girl, hijab, female protagonist, sea, arranged marriage, attempted rape, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, arab, university ...
Time:
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Place:
algeria, maghreb, africa, middle east, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, inspirational, tense
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Burkina Faso, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four women become friends and face challenges while traveling through West Africa.
Style:
road movie, intercultural, realistic, multicultural, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, female friendship, independence, road trip, female empowerment, travel, social realism, courage, solidarity, resilience, gender roles, everyday life ...
Place:
africa, west africa
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A single mother gets entangled in a web of lies to protect her sons.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, crime drama ...
Plot:
single mother, parent child relationship, protective mother, deception, family relations, family problems, social problems, single parent, life is a bitch, female protagonist, financial problem, children ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, emotional, hispanic ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, single parent, obsession, family relations, society, urban ghetto, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
venezuela, south america, africa
Similarity:
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211
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, life is a bitch, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shows us a weekend in the life of a family torn by disputes and disappointments.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
youth, child custody, family relations, custody, starting over, dysfunctional family, family life, couples, family problems, love and romance, single parent, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, brussels, europe, brussels belgium
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, captivating, hood ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenager, youth, society, poverty, peer pressure, street gang, against the rules, dull life, teenage life, black ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, africa, france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, melancholic, art house, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, obsession, sexuality, siblings relations, teenage life, love and romance, single parent, runaway, teenage pregnancy, coming of age, siblings, incest ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
vietnam, france, tokyo, london
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, sparked a firestorm of controversy with her determination to obtain an abortion.
Style:
controversial, serious, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
abortion, courtroom drama, scandal, husband wife relationship, abortion rights, family relations, pregnancy, injustice, politics, life is a bitch, fighting the system, human spirit ...
Time:
60s, year 1962
Place:
arizona, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
24%
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