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Brothers (2024)
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Original name: Frères
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.
Style:
melancholic, dark, grim, period drama
Plot:
survival, forest, brothers, isolation, wilderness, traumatic childhood, family drama, abandonment, resilience, man versus nature, family tragedy, loneliness, psychological trauma, coming of age, childhood memory, identity, village life, children, friendship, suicide, orphan, outsider, angry, reunion, family
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
canada, quebec
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, period drama and bleak films with plots about coming of age, isolation, survival, identity, resilience, loneliness and friendship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Brothers: Beyond the Ocean (2000), I Am (2005), A Whole Life (2023), Hobal (2024), I Am Maria (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young pregnant woman arrives in New York City from Russia, and her mind drifts to the past when she was coming of age in a coal mining town in Russia.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, intercultural, realistic, grim ...
Plot:
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Place:
new york, russia
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
coming of age, children, childhood, child protagonist, youth, friendship, self discovery, orphanage, adolescence, boy, survival, intimate ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The Saudi family is following strict instructions from their grandfather to remain confined in the desert during the early 1990s. A series of events shakes the family's foundation and they find them in a struggle between life and death.
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
desert, isolation, family conflict, survival, family drama, tradition, confined, loneliness, moral dilemma, resilience, family secret, claustrophobia ...
Time:
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Place:
saudi arabia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, small town, childhood, children, young girl, intergenerational friendship, coming of age, self discovery, female protagonist, slice of life, family drama ...
Time:
70s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes a desert island for them. A boy and a girl that ...
Style:
art house, independent film, melancholic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
forest, orphan, hospital, taxi, motorcycle, innocence lost, escape, coming of age, isolation, survival, outsider, realism ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize ...
Style:
serious, touching, captivating, intense, bleak ...
Plot:
boy, neglected child, friendship, children, orphanage, forest, bullying, wolf, feral child, coming of age, child soldier, bosnian war ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
serbia, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia, croatia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two kids about ten years old meet within a very peculiar framework: both come from broken families and are in care of foster homes...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, orphan, children, childhood trauma, bonding, healing, foster home, lie, empathy, secrets, identity ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Dominican Republic, USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The coming of age journey of Samuel, a young Haitian boy whose life takes a tragic turn when his father is kidnapped, and he then decides to travel to the United States and Canada to find his mother.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, melancholic, intercultural, road movie ...
Plot:
journey, coming of age, immigration, exile, family drama, social issues, survival, child protagonist, identity, grief, resilience, childhood trauma ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
haiti, north america, canada, usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Desiré is a Neapolitan girl of Senegalese origins, she is sixteen years old and lives day by day. She has no friends, no interests, no great passions, her world appears as empty as the gaze of her mother, a drug addict who can't stand upright. ...
Style:
grim, intense, art house, noir
Plot:
juvenile detention, character study, coming of age, female protagonist, loneliness, isolation, resilience, drug traffic, survival, toxic relationship, slice of life, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds ...
Style:
melancholic, heartfelt, period drama
Plot:
parent child relationship, family drama, guilt, great depression, female protagonist, sacrifice, family conflict, responsibility, empathy, deaf, moral dilemma, personal growth ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
When a hitman is murdered, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence stalks Sujo at every stage of his life. As he grows into a man, Sujo will discover that fulfilling his father's destiny seems inevitable.
Style:
intense, suspenseful, crime drama, dark, grim ...
Plot:
father son relationship, hitman, assassin, coming of age, legacy, trauma, moral ambiguity, identity, underworld, revenge, survival, orphan ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, grim
Plot:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.
Style:
romantic drama, poignant, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, Turkey, Taiwan, USA, Qatar
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
In a Himalayan polyandrous village in Nepal, newly married and pregnant Pema tries to make the best of her new life. But soon, her first husband Tashi vanishes on the trade route to Lhasa. Accompanied by her monk de facto husband, Karma, she ...
Style:
meditative, poignant, emotional, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, spiritual journey, self discovery, marriage, liberation, resilience, identity, village life, buddhism, missing husband, pregnancy, female empowerment ...
Place:
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
armenia
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44%
192
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese ...
Style:
emotional, intercultural, art house, melancholic, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
river, male protagonist, orphan, adoption, identity, coming of age, abandonment, loss of innocence, street life, moral ambiguity, gangster, survival ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A death in the family brings a man back to his family and his hometown in this drama. After his brother Alex goes missing under hazy circumstances, Pau gets the bad news that Alex has died after a successful suicide attempt. Pau travels to the ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
suicide, siblings, family drama, brothers, mother son relationship, grief, loss, mourning, family tragedy, tragic event, family problems, family relations ...
Place:
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Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, neorealism, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, naples italy, italy
Similarity:
39%
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Duration: 45 min.
Story:
In and around America and the autumn of 1963. A man and his tools. A boy and his shoes.
Style:
independent film, reflective, art house, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
compassion, empathy, intimate, character study, isolation, small town life, minimalism, solitude, abandonment, trauma, autumn, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
america, massachusetts
Similarity:
39%
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:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Gregorio, a boy from the impoverished countryside of Peru emigrates to Lima, the capital city. Experiencing a cultural shock due to the chaotic nature of the city, he must challenge himself to learn Spanish, since his native tongue is Quechua, and ...
Style:
melancholic, neorealism
Plot:
social realism, language barrier, class conflict, immigration, social commentary, survival, resilience, city life, realism, child protagonist, street life, adaptation ...
Place:
peru, latin america
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life ...
Style:
atmospheric, poignant, melancholic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
cornwall
Similarity:
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Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A middle-aged bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland has to deal with isolation and loneliness.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, contemplative, existential ...
Plot:
loneliness, isolation, village life, hardship, realism, social isolation, loss, minimalism, slice of life, intimate, slow burn, small town ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The men of a small town on the edge of nowhere mysteriously disappear, one by one, leaving women and children behind to fend for themselves in a desolate and dreamlike world.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal, poetic
Plot:
small town, abandonment, coming of age, family drama, adolescence, loss, isolation, desolation, mysterious disappearance, grief, motherhood, slow burn ...
Time:
future
Place:
california
Similarity:
35%
180
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Une petite ville de province, au milieu des années 80. La vie d'Éric, collégien rêveur et solitaire, est chamboulée par l'arrivée d'un nouveau dans la classe : Romain, adolescent dissipé au style new wave très affirmé, qui va ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, school, friendship between boys, rain, male nudity, teenage boy, personal growth, youth, self discovery, nostalgia, aspiring musician ...
Time:
80s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Mishima Kiko was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko was abused mentally and physically by her mother, stepfather, and younger stepbrother. She didn't belong to this ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
domestic abuse, abuse, trauma, domestic violence, neglect, bullying, dysfunctional family, social problems, life is a bitch, traumatic past, violence, family problems ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After being constantly bullied at school by her classmate Kevin, 8-year-old Claire discovers that the boy who is giving her hard time is also suffering and might need her help…
Style:
heartfelt, sensitive, poignant, sincere, melancholic
Plot:
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