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Another Place (2009)
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Original name: Någon Annanstans
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Said, the main character in the film Another Place, lives in Sweden but longs to be somewhere else. His integrity is suddenly and brutally violated when the police ransack his apartment and brand him as a terrorist.
Style:
tense, bleak, melancholic, intense, political drama, dystopian
Plot:
human rights, false accusation, social injustice, police raid, isolation, alienation, bureaucracy, psychological trauma, paranoid, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, urban, father son relationship, dystopia, terrorism, police, friendship
Time:
contemporary
Place:
eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, bleak, melancholic and intense films with plots about moral ambiguity, alienation, isolation, urban, character study, identity crisis and psychological drama mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Another Place: The Excluded (1982), Sodara Sodarimanulara (2023), Orca (2020), Hawayein (2003), Zebra Crossing (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Style:
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Style:
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Style:
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Story:
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