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Madame Ida (2024)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in the early 1950s, the narrative follows 15-year-old Cecilia, an orphan who becomes pregnant due to an assault by the orphanage warden. To conceal the pregnancy, she is sent to live with Ida, a woman desperate to adopt, residing in an isolated mansion with her lifelong maid, Alma. During her stay, a unique bond forms among the three women, offering solace from their individual loneliness and desires. However, the arrival of the baby disrupts their harmonious existence, leading to unforeseen challenges.
Style:
melancholic, poignant, tense, art house, nostalgic
Plot:
orphan, motherhood, pregnant teenager, loneliness, childbirth, sexual assault, intimate, domestic drama, coming of age, claustrophobia, isolated community, haunting, adoption, housekeeper, orphanage, nanny, teenage pregnancy, spinster, crab, female protagonist, canary, dinner party, psychological drama, cigarette smoking, mystery
Time:
1950s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, emotional and tense films with plots about female protagonist, intimate, psychological drama, character study, coming of age, isolation and loneliness mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Madame Ida: In Her Place (2014), Dark Fortune (2016), Bright Women (2022), The Useless Girl (1982), Charlie (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.
Style:
tension, art house, atmospheric, melancholic, grim ...
Plot:
adoption, pregnancy, motherhood, moral ambiguity, poverty, class conflict, intimate, character study, secrets, ethical dilemma, social inequality, domestic drama ...
Place:
south korea, korea, asia, canada
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, tense
Plot:
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75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather.
Style:
heartfelt, poignant, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
character study, family drama, personal growth, stuttering, female protagonist, coming of age, alienation, empathy, village life, isolation, bittersweet, rebirth ...
Time:
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Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a traumatic event, a socially-awkward teen, Charlie, grapples with the guilt and judgement that ensues. He must confront the prison-like bondage of his fear when the perpetrator comes after him. In this tribute to contemporary ...
Style:
slow cinema, bleak, melancholic, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, trauma, mother son relationship, slow burn, mental health, intimate, isolation, socially awkward, fear, family drama, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
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147
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray ...
Style:
emotional, art house, melancholic, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, character study, identity, missing person, grief, loss, motherhood, intimate, obsession ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
64%
173
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
motherhood, domestic drama, character study, identity, female protagonist, gender roles, intimate, realism, family secret, trauma, friendship, intimacy ...
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63%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Angela's deafness raises concerns during her pregnancy regarding connecting with her daughter. Post-delivery, partner Héctor supports her as she learns to mother in a society lacking adequate accommodations for the hearing-impaired.
Style:
heartfelt, melancholic, tense
Plot:
motherhood, deafness, parenting, female protagonist, sign language, domestic drama, pregnancy, family relations, resilience, intimate, social realism, adaptation ...
Similarity:
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407
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:
faith, roma, murder of a family, woman, female protagonist, child, murder, gypsy, religious faith, belief in god, mother, murder of family ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Eini grows up isolated from society with her father who does everything he can to make Eini believe that the world outside and the people out there are evil, and that all that has to do with sexuality and adulthood is dangerous.
Style:
dark fairy tale, tense, melancholic, art house, intense
Plot:
trauma, abusive father, loss of innocence, imagination, coming of age, female protagonist, claustrophobia, sexual repression, haunting, escape, survival, magic realism ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determined to recover at any cost something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma must spend her nights taking care of Clemente, ...
Style:
emotional, psychological thriller, melancholic, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, independent film, contemplative, existential, art house ...
Plot:
loneliness, empathy, breakdown, character study, rain, trauma, single, transformation, isolation, slow burn, intimate, minimalism ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman, scared by motherhood and her new born baby, runs away from her home and family to find a shelter at her upstairs neighbour's place.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The National Film Board of Canada was one of the guiding forces behind Sitting in Limbo. Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant. Gibbs resents this interruption in ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, poverty, social commentary, working class, social realism, young parents, coming of age, character study, welfare, domestic drama, teenage angst, intimate ...
Time:
80s
Place:
montreal, canada
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, bleak, melancholic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Rose hardly ever tells lies. She has a natural elegance and sincerity that few 20-year-old girls possess. However, neither her friends nor her boyfriend know about her difficult past. She’s managed to hide it well, even though she is still haunted ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, psychological, captivating, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
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Place:
armenia
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Country: Vietnam
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 49 min.
Story:
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Style:
experimental, avant garde, independent film, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
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Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
sinister, art house, tense, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
female nudity, motherhood, female protagonist, trauma, alienation, moral ambiguity, memory loss, female bonding, prostitution, identity, symbolism, outsider ...
Place:
vienna
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113
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
poignant, melancholic, art house, contemplative
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, longing, introspection, city life, urban, bittersweet, loneliness, desire, self discovery, confrontation, realism ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, philosophical, reflective, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
personal growth, young woman, coming of age, female protagonist, self discovery, character study, young adult, solitude, odyssey, minimalism, spiritual journey, intimate ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, independent film, poignant, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
urban, connection, loneliness, anger, humanism, social realism, intimate, slice of life, city life, isolation, working class, companionship ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 90s, Isabella was eighteen and a star. 20 years later, she is still singing those same songs in small town bars with her son Bruno, playing guitar. It's because of him that her career stopped. At least it's what she tells herself.
Style:
dramatic, exciting, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, psychological, period piece
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, poignant, art house, serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Uruguay
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
poignant, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, black and white ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, independent film, bleak ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, character study, intimate, isolation, social realism, alienation, male protagonist, moral dilemma, secrets, financial ruin, mistrust ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
38%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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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:
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