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The Crossroads (2024)
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Original name: Skrzyżowanie
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Eighty-year-old Tadeusz lives a quiet life as a pensioner with his wife Helena. After years of working in a hospital, he wants to enjoy old age and his charming house with a garden, where they soon plan to hold their beloved granddaughter’s wedding. The idyll is shattered by a tragic car accident that casts a shadow over his marriage and reveals cracks in his relationship with his son.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, existential, tragic
Plot:
old age, accident, father son relationship, grief, dignity, family drama, retirement, mourning, mortality, elderly man, trauma, senior citizen, loss, loss of control, regret, car crash, intimate, family secret, reconciliation, bittersweet, small town, car accident, fate, family secrets
Time:
2020s, contemporary
Place:
poland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and existential films with plots about grief, small town, family drama, bittersweet, intimate, reconciliation and loss mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Crossroads: Courage (2022), All About the Levkoviches (2024), Dream State (2018), Broken Roads (2012), Pedar Goardiula (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A generous and stubborn elderly boxing coach gets along with everyone except his own son. They're reunited after the death of the old man's wife and forced to face old grievances.
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Following the death of his estranged father, Louis is left feeling he hasn't achieved as much as he had hoped for. A chance encounter with figures from his past triggers a set of events that shakes his perception of life.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
small town, estrangement, teenage life, small town life, youth, family tragedy, loss, coming of age, grandmother grandson relationship, grief, accident, car crash ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
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Story:
Women don't want owners; they want love...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A family of a father, a mother and their son is looking forward to go on vacation. On the way they experience an accident, and their lives are suddenly and unexpectedly turned upside down.
Style:
captivating, realistic, emotional, melancholic, heartfelt ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Anna hasn’t seen her family for a decade. When her grandmother dies, she returns home to take care of her grandfather. In the week leading up to the funeral, nothing goes as expected, and Anna is forced to reconsider how she lives her life.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, realistic
Plot:
grief, grandfather, funeral, getting home, family conflict, family drama, loss, intimate, character study, small town, mourning, confrontation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, atmospheric, existential ...
Plot:
car accident, family tragedy, brain injury, father son relationship, memory loss, regret, intimate, mourning, bittersweet, slow burn, investigation, car ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
poetic realism, thailand
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trying to get his dying father out of prison with a compassionate release, Max Dagan needs the help of the daughter of the man his father killed.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film describes the relationship between a father and his two motherless sons in Ireland, and how it changes when their aunt from London arrives.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, tension, melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
spain
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro
Duration: 84 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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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 110 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: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 106 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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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Duration: 118 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, contemplative, existential, realistic, independent film
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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