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The Smell of Humans (2022)
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Original name: Emberszag
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The profound depths of Ernõ Szép's life and poetry are revived in a new film adaptation of the poet's novel, 'The Smell of Humans'. This stoic and lyrical narrative of twenty fateful days offers an authentic account of an inhuman era.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, lyrical, reflective, philosophical, emotional, dark, intense, art house, grim ...
Plot:
poet, memory, humanity, poetry, survival, loss, haunting, biopic, literary, world war two, isolation, anti semitism, oppression, resilience, identity, persecution, exile, compassion, realism, slow burn, friendship, faith, occupation, memory loss, ritual
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, eastern europe
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Most similar movies to The Smell of Humans
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, bleak and period drama films with plots about biopic, survival, isolation, world war two, loss, memory and identity mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Smell of Humans: Exile (2016), A Season in Hell (1971), The Last Letter (2002), Diary for My Loves (1987), Coming Out of the Ice (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Cambodia, France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Cannes Special Screening 2016
Style:
bleak, political, emotional, poignant, realistic ...
Plot:
exile, trauma, genocide, loss, political oppression, khmer rouge, haunting, mourning, memory, survival, totalitarianism, identity ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
cambodia
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Biopic about the life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
Style:
melancholic, art house, intense, bleak, period drama
Plot:
biopic, poet, death, flashback, literary, passion, moral ambiguity, exile, tragic love, self destructing, wandering, gay relationship ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
africa, paris france
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Style:
bleak, poignant, historical drama, reflective, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, persecution, world war two, jewish ghetto, anti semitism, mature, grief, loss, haunting, family tragedy, mother son relationship, witness ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, ukraine
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
Style:
art house, reflective, poignant, emotional, lyrical ...
Plot:
diary, female protagonist, autobiography, introspection, coming of age, intimate, post war, identity, memory, personal growth, political repression, literary ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
moscow russia, budapest
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Victor and his family moved to the USSR in the mid '30's. When he refused to sign his skydiving accomplishment as a citizen of the USSR, he was not tried but simply sent to prison. His horrific imprisonment, beating and torture culminated ...
Style:
historical drama, brutal, period piece, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
gulag, biopic, prisoner of war camp, torture, survival, totalitarianism, endurance, persecution, resilience, isolation, exile, adaptation ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
siberia, eastern europe, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
Style:
serious, period piece, bleak, historical drama, harsh ...
Plot:
crime and punishment, imprisonment, injustice, escape, escape attempt, biopic, wrongful conviction, forced labor, oppression, realism, survival, brutality ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were ...
Style:
contemplative, philosophical, melancholic, meditative, art house ...
Plot:
biopic, death, writer's life, character study, insomnia, introspection, isolation, spiritual journey, social injustice, memory, writers, flashback ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar trees of the boundless Po valley. A harsh life that is a fairy tale too, as a lonely and marginalized ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, semi autobiographical, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
poverty, painter, isolation, autobiography, world war two, biopic, hiding place, alienation, painting, loneliness, character study, identity ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
switzerland
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a ...
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
fascism, concentration camp, italian history, princess, world war two, nazism, courage, imprisonment, oppression, persecution, biopic, injustice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, italy, europe
Similarity:
66%
495
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
x
Style:
intense, art house, melancholic, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
poet, biopic, suicide, tragedy, scandal, literary, alcoholism, rebellion, character study, self destructing, tragic hero, bohemian ...
Time:
60s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
Style:
historical drama, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
nazi occupation, holocaust, survival, holocaust survivor, world war two, fear, hiding, persecution, anti semitism, problem, nazism, nazi ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
61%
1K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream), repeated in several techniques, became part of the 20th-century world subconsciousness – an image of fear and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
painter, artist, biopic, grief, mental illness, social problems, life is a bitch, problem, outcast, character study, loss, addiction ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 20th century
Place:
oslo norway, berlin germany, copenhagen
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Biography
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and ...
Style:
suspenseful, touching, sincere, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, coming of age, false identity, lie, deportation, boy, persecution, nazi germany, holocaust, anti semitism, oppression ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The journey of young Jeanne through mountains and faith, from the lonely forests to the plains of Rome.
Style:
historical drama, poetic, emotional, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
faith, female protagonist, journey, religious, pilgrimage, spiritual awakening, coming of age, mountain, mysticism, legend, sacrifice, identity ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst the striking scenery of the Essex salt marshes during the early years of WWII. A bearded ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, fairy tale, lyrical ...
Plot:
world war two, bird, coming of age, wildlife, wartime, literary, compassion, friendship, lighthouse, isolation, haunting, outcast ...
Similarity:
53%
196
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
playwright, poet, character study, biopic, life is a bitch, relationship problems, money problems, dream, poverty, creative process, ambition, literary ...
Time:
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Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Among the millions of victims of the Nazi madness during the Second World War, Pierre Seel was charged with homosexuality and imprisoned in the Schirmeck concentration camp. He survived this terrifying experience of torture and humiliation, and ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, emotional, period piece, political ...
Plot:
holocaust, gay slur, biopic, world war two, survival, trauma, persecution, concentration camp, lgbtq, torture, social commentary, repression ...
Time:
1940s, 80s
Place:
france
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The three stories within Genesis explore the notion of family: a woman in her late thirties rediscovers the faith she lost as a child; a mother goes to extreme lengths to ensure that her daughter is saved from the fate she was forced to endure; a ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
hungary
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The film is composed around a violent incident, happened in 1956. Upon hearing the news that the Russians were approaching, the dwellers of the Home for the Disabled armed themselves. Followed by stares by people living in the area they marched ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, political, bleak, tension ...
Plot:
violence, handicapped, social issues, assault, military, wartime, physical disability, society, social relations, protector, protection, resistance ...
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Romania
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit of a career in music, his struggle for survival in wartime Germany and his rise, fall and rise again, in an unimaginable life journey.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, dramatic, historical drama, intense ...
Plot:
biopic, world war two, classical music, orchestra, exile, train conductor, legacy, ambition, survival, resilience, rise and fall, perseverance ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, romania
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"Óscar. The Color of Destiny" is a revealing portrayal of a forgotten icon of French Surrealism: Spanish painter Óscar Domínguez, contemporary of Picasso. The film rediscovers the life of a talented artist who was ignored after he ...
Style:
avant garde, melancholic, tragic, period drama, grotesque
Plot:
artist, biopic, art, nazi occupation, painter, surrealism, loneliness, bohemian, lesbian sex, identity, alienation, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
'Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Cloud to the Resistance ) (1978), based on two works by Cesare Pavese, falls into the category of History Lessons and Too Early, Too Late as well. It, too, has two parts—a twentieth-century text and a ...
Style:
experimental, intellectual, art house, reflective, poetic ...
Plot:
mythology, post war, literary, loss, adaptation, memory, anti fascist, minimalism, alienation, symbolism, mourning, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ancient greece, italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Biopoic of actor Győző Szabó's younger years struggling with his drug addiction.
Style:
intense, tense, dark, therapeutic, heavy ...
Plot:
drug addiction, rehabilitation, biopic, psychiatrist, character study, male protagonist, conflict, substance abuse, actor's life, mental health, isolation, obsession ...
Place:
hungary, budapest
Similarity:
43%
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542
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Shaken by a divorce in the 1920s, Portuguese poetess Florbela Espanca uses her writing to deal with her tumultuous relationship with men, eroticism and love.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, sensual, art house, costume drama ...
Plot:
art, biopic, female protagonist, poet, eroticism, feminism, literary, relationships, creative process, heartbreak, divorce, solitude ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, tense, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, nazi germany, memories, prison escape, war crime, survival, resistance, biopic, sacrifice, forced labor ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Larry McAfee is paralyzed from the neck down following a motorcycle accident. He gradually loses the will to live, in the meantime befriending a talk radio DJ over the phone. The two meet each other and become friends, though Larry still wishes to ...
Style:
emotional, medical drama, thought provoking, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
disability, paralysis, euthanasia, suicide, compassion, friendship, hospital, connection, ethical dilemma, desperation, empathy, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
43%
1K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, art house, intellectual, bleak ...
Plot:
biopic, controversy, social criticism, loneliness, realism, moral ambiguity, courtroom drama, bittersweet, alcoholism, journalism, censorship
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Argentina. When his best friend who happens to be Airmail’s best pilot Henri Guillaumet disappears in the Andes, Saint-Ex decides to set out in ...
Style:
philosophical, poetic, melancholic, suspenseful, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
search and rescue, pilot, aviation, flying, man versus nature, biopic, survival, friendship, bravery, determination, heroism, perseverance ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother -- the boy's father is a famous actor who wants nothing to do with either Nina or her child. She joins an acting ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, family saga, historical drama, dramatic ...
Plot:
single mother, mother son relationship, struggle, biopic, ambition, migration, identity, coming of age, resilience, survival, immigration, illegitimate child ...
Place:
france, eastern europe, paris france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, family saga ...
Plot:
indigenous people, world war two, matriarchy, survival, trauma, resilience, colonialism, oppression, social problems, confronting the past, violence, social issues ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
41%
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