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Be Still (2021)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Already a successful portrait photographer, Hannah sets to reinvent this art form. Abandoning herself to a creative process that might easily be mistaken for madness, she's soon visited by mirror images of herself, as well as her daughter's ghost. Inspired by the life of photographer Hannah Maynard (1834-1918).
Style:
atmospheric, avant garde, independent film, dark fantasy, psychological horror, moody
Plot:
surrealism, motherhood, grief, loss, mourning, ghost, obsession, memory, female protagonist, creative process, family tragedy, haunting, isolation, hallucination, identity crisis, mental breakdown, experimental narrative, slow burn, spirituality, photographer, art history, psychological drama, studio
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to Be Still
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, atmospheric and existential films with plots about grief, memory, isolation, psychological drama, loss, female protagonist and haunting mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Be Still: Above All Things (2018), Anne Trister (1986), Woman of the Ganges (1974), A Woman (2010), 13 Summers Underwater (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
grief, ghost, loss, isolation, lake, mourning, haunting, supernatural, bereavement, cottage, afterlife, memory ...
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After the death of her father, Anne - a brilliant but emotionally unstable painter/ sculptor - returns from Switzerland to her home town in Quebec. Setting up a studio, she becomes obsessed with her work, to the extent that she grows farther and ...
Style:
independent film, art house, melancholic, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
artist, first lesbian experience, lgbt, female protagonist, creative process, bereavement, mourning, grief, obsession, painting, identity crisis, loneliness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
quebec, montreal, canada, switzerland
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, atmospheric, art house, poetic ...
Plot:
loneliness, obsession, grief, mourning, passion, loss, memory, delusion, male protagonist, symbolism, haunting, flashback ...
Place:
india, france, normandy
Similarity:
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231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
81%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
Style:
surreal, emotional, melancholic, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, memories, intimate, afterlife, a vision, mourning, supernatural, ghost, haunting, existentialism, spirituality ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.
Style:
experimental, melancholic, existential, thought provoking, art film ...
Plot:
drug addiction, character study, heroin, mental illness, identity crisis, isolation, loneliness, alienation, imagination, hallucination, surrealism, multiple perspectives ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ivan Semciuc (a journalist), is a charismatic man nonetheless guilty of cynicism and lack of compassion. A seemingly meaningless sexual encounter with a translator in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan’s unshakeable ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, surreal, moody
Plot:
death, guilt, loneliness, grief, regret, loss, memory, mourning, hotel, obsession, suicide, mature ...
Place:
bucharest, afghanistan
Similarity:
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54
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It follows Marina, a young girl that has been trying to escape the ghosts that follow her after a tragic event. She goes to Edén, a clandestine company located in the middle of nature to put an end to her suffering.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, nature, trauma, mental health, grief, tragic past, traumatic past, introspection, troubled past, confronting the past, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an ...
Style:
psychological, mindfuck, atmospheric, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
trauma, grief, female protagonist, manipulation, memory, alienation, identity crisis, mental illness, haunting, violent death, rehearsal, coming of age ...
Similarity:
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195
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, ...
Style:
poignant, art house, melancholic, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, female protagonist, memory, family drama, loss, reflection, regret, ghost, family secret, grief, aging, introspection ...
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The seemingly separate lives of an anxious, disillusioned teen girl and a troubled, alienated man converge fatefully.
Style:
independent film, dark drama, period piece, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, female protagonist, isolation, adolescence, toxic masculinity, character study, small town, identity, loneliness, haunting, violence ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
newfoundland, canada
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A perfect summer day ends in tragedy, weaving a cosmic connection between three suburban teenagers.
Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, disappearance, coming of age, friendship, missing person, loss of innocence, summer, youth, loss, guilt, small town, trauma ...
Similarity:
67%
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 ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
quebec
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A quasi-ghost story about a young urban Chinese couple returning to their dusty rural roots interrogates one child policy and authoritarianism.
Style:
atmospheric, tension, independent film, psychological horror, art house ...
Plot:
pregnancy, haunting, ethical dilemma, ghost, supernatural, getting home, secrets, isolation, identity crisis, memory, couple relations, guilt ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. Eventually, she loses her mental balance.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, intense, family saga ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
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Plot:
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162
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, emotional, serious, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, humanity, grief, mourning, loss, self discovery, woman, japanese man, small village, village, brother, death of brother ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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261
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, intense
Plot:
motherhood, stillbirth, grief, loss, donation, female protagonist, family drama, loneliness, obsession, isolation, healing, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Finland, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark, intense ...
Plot:
trauma, opera, theater, female protagonist, theatre director, repression, theatre group, theatrical producer, problem, stage actress, theatre play, character study ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, dark, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
memory, guilt, mountain cabin, psychological torment, grief, isolation, loss, haunting, obsession, moral ambiguity, redemption, slow burn ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
45%
321
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Months after disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter begins her own increasingly irrational investigation.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A young woman's birthright hides a dark secret.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, independent film, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, secret, dark secret, secrets, seduction, seductress, lifestyle, life philosophy, identity, family secret, revelation, identity crisis ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
suicide, memory, existential crisis, symbolism, loss, midlife crisis, self discovery, guilt, flashback, mature, regret, isolation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
45%
172
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to ...
Style:
independent film, disturbing, psychological, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
filmmaking, self discovery, director, actor, surrealism, creative process, lifestyle, social problems, life philosophy, filmmaker, existentialism, character study ...
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
aging, elderly, drug abuse, introspection, disease, dealing with death, terminal illness, female protagonist, subconscious, character study, youth, hallucination ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Life is a one take proposition. In ONE TAKE, Kevin never stopped loving Jessie even though she left him years ago and is reported to be dead. When Kevin, out-of-the-blue, receives a card in the mail - an old photo of the two of them with a ...
Style:
romantic drama, independent film, melancholic, existential, twist ending ...
Plot:
loss, grief, character study, loneliness, obsession, sacrifice, imagination, relationships, family secret, memory, revelation, haunting ...
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