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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
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Original name: Nu Aștepta Prea Mult de la Sfârșitul Lumii
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Luxembourg, France, Croatia, Switzerland, UK, Canada
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious, independent film, mockumentary, melancholic
Plot:
satire, filmmaking, social commentary, problem, workplace, workplace situations, dark humor, interview, realism, exploitation, social realism, alienation, bureaucracy, city life, deadpan, slice of life, empathy, bittersweet, behind the scenes, intimate, isolation, office politics, misogyny, internet culture, sex scene ...
Time:
2020s, contemporary
Place:
bucharest, romania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, satirical, captivating and feel good films with plots about satire, slice of life, intimate, bittersweet, social commentary, character study and realism mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World: Fictitious OL Diary (2020), The Lord of Losers (2022), Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013), I Belong (2012), Bucharest Non-Stop (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, intense, melancholic, suspense
Plot:
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Place:
bucharest, eastern europe
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Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 90 min.
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Style:
thrilling, satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, semi serious, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
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Country: China
Duration: 112 min.
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Style:
captivating, semi serious, tense, suspenseful, existential ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 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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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, psychological, thrilling, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
renovation, satire, money problems, young couple, love affair, male female relationship, relationship problems, family relations, lifestyle, marital problem, married couple, relationships ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Five independent stories centering on a theme of isolation.
Style:
anthology, feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
sao paulo brazil, brazil
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52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
finland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 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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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 80 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 45 min.
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Duration: 87 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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Country: France
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 100 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Duration: 97 min.
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Style:
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