Movies like Sound 2012

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Sound (2012)
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Sound (2012)
Original name: শব্দ
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.
Style: thought provoking, art house, serious, melancholic, dramatic, experimental
Plot: obsession, character study, isolation, creative process, alienation, family conflict, realism, identity crisis, mental health, intimate, minimalism, slice of life, slow burn, urban, bengali, psychological drama
Place: kolkata

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, independent film and psychological films with plots about character study, urban, intimate, minimalism, isolation, slice of life and slow burn mostly in Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Sound: DeAD (2013), Jai Ganesh (2024), Bilu Rakkhosh (2017), Mike (2022), Drawing Days (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 104 min.
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Duration: 128 min.
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Duration: 86 min.
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