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Cold November (2017)
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Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On the cusp of womanhood, 12-year-old Florence goes on her first deer hunt, a traditional rite-of- passage in her matriarchal family.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, atmospheric, emotional, realistic, contemplative, tense
Plot:
rite of passage, deer hunting, female protagonist, coming of age, grownups, instinct, loss of innocence, adolescence, hunting, hunter, life is a bitch, nature, matriarchy, ritual, tradition, independence, wilderness, identity, maturation, survival, isolation, responsibility, mother and daughter, introspection, female empowerment ...
Place:
midwest
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Most similar movies to Cold November
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, emotional and thrilling films with plots about coming of age, isolation, female protagonist, identity, intimate, slow burn and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Thriller and Family genres. Some movies like Cold November: City of Dreams (2023), We Burn Like This (2021), Eden (2022), Disfluency (2021), Aberdeen (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely death when Rosa was a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present life.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family secret, secret, life is a bitch, undercover, coming of age, silence, grownups, rebellion, family drama, secrets ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A Mexican teenager whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are disrupted when his mother dies. He's smuggled across the border with the promise of a better life but is instead sold to a sweatshop in downtown LA.
Style:
realistic, tense, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
soccer, human trafficking, coming of age, illegal immigration, border crossing, social injustice, child labor, slave trade, life is a bitch, child, resilience, trauma ...
Place:
los angeles, mexico
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Amidst rising anti-Semitism in Billings, Montana, Rae, a 22 year-old descendant of Holocaust survivors uncovers the truth about a childhood accident.
Style:
realistic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
anti semitism, coming of age, problem, holocaust, neo nazi, nazism, nationalism, life is a bitch, female protagonist, nazi, racial discrimination, tragic past ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
52%
54
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It follows Marina, a young girl that has been trying to escape the ghosts that follow her after a tragic event. She goes to Edén, a clandestine company located in the middle of nature to put an end to her suffering.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, nature, trauma, mental health, grief, tragic past, traumatic past, introspection, troubled past, confronting the past, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Jane fails her final college class, she returns home to her parent's lake house where she comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, lake, trauma, getting home, life is a bitch, character study, coming of age, self discovery, healing, mental health, intimate, acceptance ...
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mia, in attempts to make it in a male-dominated sports journalism industry, begins to expose the dark underbelly of high school sports in her small hometown. Now, she must choose between her loyalties to her town and her career aspirations.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, small town, corruption, moral dilemma, journalism, high school sports, choice, intrigue, professional sports, secret, investigative reporter, female reporter ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
47%
199
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A true story of a teenage love triangle leading to one of the two boys' tragic death - told through the lens of elite youth baseball.
Style:
heartbreaking, captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
family outing, teen drama
Plot:
baseball, high school, bullying, loss of innocence, love triangle, coming of age, teenage angst, first love, grief, baseball player, athlete and trainer, teenage life ...
Place:
columbus ohio
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a mysterious young man arrives on a remote Sub-Antarctic research station, secrets threaten the relationship of a married couple working on the island.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
remote island, relationships, couples, isolation, secret, relationship problems, island, job, male female relationship, problem, loneliness, secrets ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lara Winslet is an expert geologist in volcanology. She is together with her team of work on a volcano to conduct surveys. One day Lara decides to stay a little longer to finish an exam and she remains alone. Returning, she has an accident, falling ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, existential, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
volcano, trapped, accident, isolation, loneliness, reflection, female protagonist, survival, geologist, claustrophobia, character study, desperation ...
Similarity:
46%
98
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bori, an 11-year-old girl in a seaside village, is the only family member who can hear. As an elementary school student, Bori becomes more and more accustomed to talking with her friends while finding it hard to communicate with her family in sign ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
sign language, deafness, deaf, family relations, family problems, deaf girl, mute or deaf, teenager, relationship problems, pretense, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Samantha Anthony is a teenage girl who has been forced to deal with situations, which have made her wise far beyond her years. She's had to watch her mother spiral out-of-control while addicted to the drug meth. Lost a baby brother to CPS as a ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, independent film, intense, dark ...
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, mother and daughter, revenge, trauma, guilt, grief, moral ambiguity, teenage protagonist, ethical dilemma, loss, loss of innocence ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young and promising Russian figure skater is found beaten and frostbitten in a lay-by of a motorway in Finland. In the hospital, the officials find a letter from her belongings and are able to reconnect her with her Finnish grandmother, whom she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
figure skating, female protagonist, skating, athlete's life, ice skater, determination, resilience, woman, problem, life is a bitch, troubled past, social problems ...
Place:
finland, russia
Similarity:
46%
305
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When 15-year-old rebellious Stefi goes missing, her mother Helena has nothing left to lose. Why cling to sanity when madness offers a chance for reconciliation and love?
Style:
emotional, tense, intense, dark, realistic ...
Plot:
motherhood, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, family crisis, grief, loss, trauma, missing person, intimate, family drama, desperation, love ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
45%
210
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Faced with the trials and obstacles of life, the tight-knit community of Ste-Adeline has always remained united. But this time it's in shock and will have to face a situation that will confront the inhabitants with their contradictions. At the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, social, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, teenager, social commentary, small town, hypocrisy, community, secrets, family drama, life, adolescence, social issues ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After losing her father, a young women must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the race of her life or her family will lose everything.
Style:
inspirational, motivational, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
girl horse relationship, competition, determination, courage, redemption, overcoming fear, resilience, perseverance, horse trainer, racehorse, family problems, problem ...
Similarity:
44%
354
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young girl struggles to create a relationship with her father after the death of her aunt who raised her.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic, independent film
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
father daughter relationship, female protagonist, grief, family drama, parents and children, father and daughter, father daughter estrangement, father, family life, relationship problems, absent father, family problems ...
Similarity:
42%
4K
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The life story of a girl named June from 16 years of her age until she turned 26, thereby giving an insight into those ten years of her life.
Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
grownups, female protagonist, girl, adolescence, personal growth, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, self discovery, social problems, lifestyle, life, bittersweet ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
All her life, Aurora has been taught by her mother that the superhuman abilities they possess, the abilities that make them unique, also make them dangerous. Now, on one fateful and deadly night, Aurora will find out if her mother was telling the ...
Style:
psychological, supernatural thriller, tense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
female protagonist, supernatural, supernatural power, super powers, supernatural ability, problem, changing lives, family secret, mother daughter relationship, moral dilemma, secrets, survival ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Follows the life of Stephen Dobyns as he deals with life, women, and his move from journalism to poetry.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, independent film, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
journalism, writer's life, couple relations, couples, artists and showbiz, biopic, poetry, poet, creative process, memory, reflection, mortality ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
509
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a small village under the shadow of a nuclear power station, a toxic family with a past must face the ghosts that threaten their future.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
abuse, violence, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, child abuse, hidden truth, family relations, family problems, learning the truth, life is a bitch, mother and daughter, violent man ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
His mother has left and Gonzalo doesn't know why. How he is taking care of his little infant sister all alone, though he himself is barely ten years old. Neighbours help and try to figure out what should be done with the two children. Like old ...
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, life is a bitch, child as adult, dysfunctional family, family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, realism, youth, family problems, single parent, child protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A teenage girl is imprisoned by her former boyfriend in a motel room and forced to consume drugs and alcohol so she can be sold into human trafficking. Her only hope is her mother, who is determined to rescue her.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, dramatic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
human trafficking, mother and daughter, abusive boyfriend, abduction, drug addiction, sex trafficking, girl in peril, kidnapping, drug addict, motel, addiction, victimization ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Amy, a young woman is on the run with her young son Adrian from her abusive ex-girlfriend. When the past rises up to haunt them, they must confront the forces threatening them from both outside and in.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, psychological, gothic horror, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, problem, threat, confronting the past, troubled past, family problems, dark past, life is a bitch, mother and son, on the run, escape, paranoia ...
Similarity:
38%
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340
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Forced to go legal, an outlaw pot farmer fights to preserve her way of life.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, rural area, farming, farmer, lifestyle, countryside, farm, character study, small town, aging, resilience, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan, Kazakhstan, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A Kakakh kid (12) commits a robbery with a pistol he stole from a hunter. The hunter gives him a choice: either he goes to jail or they undertake a harsh journey through the mountains. Poetic Central Asian horse opera about the laws of nature.
Style:
art house, tense, slow cinema
Plot:
survival, hunter, coming of age, mountain, initiation, rite of passage, adolescence, wilderness, isolation, solitude, moral dilemma, man versus nature ...
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The year is 1933, and society has certain expectations of how young women should behave. 17-year-old Maren is wild and unruly and is in turn sent to the women's institution at Sprogø to become more compliant. The stay at Sprogø has the ...
Style:
psychological, historical drama, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
female protagonist, teenager, relationships, teenage life, social issues, social problems, sorority, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, confined, isolation ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
37%
148
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The daughter of a late comic is forced to confront her fears of performing.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, self discovery, comedian, problem, psychological trauma, uncertainty, self doubt, social problems, introspection, stand up comedian, coping, female comedian ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
High school senior Brandon is drowning in responsibilities when his world is turned upside down after being robbed at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenage boy, teenager, coming of age, teenage protagonist, responsibility, city life, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, love story, love affair, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Anikkuttan is an ill-tempered electronics technician who leads a quiet life with his mother. His daily routines are disrupted when his next door neighbour's new born baby stirs up undesirable memories from his past. What will happen next?
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, confronting the past, tragic past, troubled past, lifestyle change, life is a bitch, changing lives, memory, trauma, grief, character study, isolation ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Set in a rural fishing village in southern Japan, this is the story of Erika, a celebrated former anchorwoman now back in her hometown campaigning for a seat in the national party, and Yohei, an insecure fisherman-in-training. The two are worlds ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, survival, power, fishing village, isolation, stranded, problem, male female relationship, life is a bitch, relationships, relationship vs career, island ...
Similarity:
36%
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