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What Doesn't Float (2023)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
An anthology of New Yorkers at their wit's end.
Style:
anthology, dark comedy, psychological, captivating, satirical, thrilling, emotional, independent film, melancholic, cynical
Audience:
adult
Plot:
life is a bitch, satire, city life, loneliness, existential crisis, desperation, slice of life, intimate, survival, working class, resilience, social realism, bittersweet, wit, identity, motorcycle, water
Time:
contemporary
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, satirical and thrilling films with plots about satire, slice of life, intimate, bittersweet, friendship, relationships and character study mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like What Doesn't Float: Manoharam (2019), A Home with a View (2019), Taxi Drivers (2023), I Never Cry (2020), Mediterranean Fever (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A night. Dozens of stories. A city. Lică, a taxi driver, is an all knowing guy, while Liviu, his friend, also a taxi driver keeps a lot to himself. They are completely different and their ideas about life and people only meet when they are eating ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ola sets off to Ireland to bring her father's body back to Poland after he dies in a building site accident. But never mind her dad, Ola wants to know if he had saved money for the car he had promised her. Dealing with foreign bureaucracy in ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Cyprus, Qatar
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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285
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A man embarks on a trip with his estranged cousin Hudson to spread his late mother's ashes. They meet an unusual woman along the way and their simple road trip turns into a dysfunctional adventure.
Style:
road movie, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
grief, road trip, changing lives, lifestyle change, journey, satire, second chance, recluse, friendship, empathy, bittersweet, intimate ...
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, semi serious, thrilling, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
aspiring actress, female protagonist, aspiration, direction and purpose, changing lives, ambitious woman, actress, ambition, satire, self discovery, coming of age, struggling artist ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, satirical, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, alcoholic, suicidal, suicidal tendency, alcoholism, loneliness, drunkenness, suicide, character study, substance abuse, self destructing, friends ...
Similarity:
24%
99
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Living in matchbox apartments and working mundane jobs in New York City, three sets of urbanites struggle to connect with each other and find love in the digital age.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
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Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
problem, dream, filmmaker, satire, character study, midlife crisis, personal growth, struggling artist, alcoholism, divorce, friendship, mature ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, USA, Monaco
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional, intercultural ...
Plot:
father son relationship, gambling debt, immigrant, family drama, life is a bitch, gambler, financial problem, debt, needing money, father and son, money problems, family problems ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family's past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, thrilling, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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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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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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Story:
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Style:
satirical, thrilling, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
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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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 105 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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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Style:
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