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Flare (2014)
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Original name: FLARE
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A meeting in the middle of Tokyo between Jan, a middle age French photographer who is living his life carelessly, and Flare, a 17 years old runaway girl with a complicate family background. Charmed by Jan’s works, a budding of love soon developed in Flare. While attracted to the wild life of Jan, she holds onto a complicated feelings. With this swaying conflicts inside of her, it painted a vivid picture of growing up in this Japan – France collaboration work of a painful love story.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, sensual, intercultural, wistful, nostalgic
Plot:
coming of age, loneliness, self discovery, family conflict, bittersweet, forbidden love, mature, urban, identity crisis, sexual tension, intimate, nightlife, moral ambiguity, language barrier
Place:
tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, romantic drama and emotional films with plots about loneliness, intimate, urban, bittersweet, coming of age, identity crisis and self discovery mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Flare: Dreamland (2015), Winter in Sokcho (2024), Tenn (2017), Anywhere Else (2014), Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, atmospheric, art house, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, nightmare, photography, trauma, mental illness, haunting, isolation, ruins, obsession, memory, intimate ...
Place:
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Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the snowy seaside town of Sokcho, 25-year-old Soo-Ha works at a guesthouse. She drifts between her mother’s fish stall and her boyfriend until a French artist’s arrival stirs questions about her identity. As winter deepens, Soo-Ha and the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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61
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
self discovery, aspiring writer, coming of age, identity crisis, biopic, lgbtq, creative process, sexual identity, dysfunctional family, family conflict, character study, isolation ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.
Style:
melancholic, romantic drama, art house
Plot:
chance meeting, loneliness, language barrier, passion, amor, music and dance, moral ambiguity, hollywood, wife, telegram, young
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
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85
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The unlikely friendship of two twenty-somethings in Seattle blossoms, complicates, and ultimately redefines their understanding of sexuality and modern relationships.
Style:
romantic drama, ambiguous ending, art house
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, sexual identity, personal growth, lgbtq, coming of age, empathy, intimate, bittersweet, urban, slice of life, youth culture ...
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, romantic drama, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
unwanted pregnancy, female protagonist, relationships, second chance, mature, personal growth, self discovery, identity crisis, career woman, resilience, bittersweet, nostalgia ...
Place:
chile, santiago chile
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297
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
identity, mixed race, young woman, loneliness, self discovery, youth, coming of age, family relations, mother and daughter, family drama, friendship, language barrier ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
taiwan, taipei, france
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Leon, a young bootmaker tends not to have relation with others for some reason. But when he meets Sona, a drunken Korean lady at his favorite park, everything around him starts to change.
Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot:
loneliness, isolation, intimate, character study, unrequited love, slice of life, minimalism, obsession, love triangle, personal growth, apprentice, identity ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Azerbaijan, Mexico, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
love, relationship problems, family problems, love story, family relations, relationships, homecoming, getting home, soul searching, loneliness, regret, mortality ...
Place:
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Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, realistic, sensual, art house
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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348
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Story:
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Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, independent film, ambiguous ending, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
39%
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Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
L stopped enjoying life as a little girl. She flees abuse at the hands of her adoptive parents and heads for the big city. There, L's life is wrecked by a string of bad relationships, and she takes the fall for a friend who commits murder and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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449
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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