Movies like Francine
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Francine (2012)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Francine is released from prison and settles down in a small town. She is unable to regain a foothold in society and turns to animals for comfort.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, independent film
Plot:
starting over, pets, society, working class, workplace, hopes, workplace situations, small town, antisocial behavior, ex convict, animal lover, misfit, store, strong female presence, nudity, female nudity, town, female star appears nude, shower, female full frontal nudity
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Francine
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about hopes, society, small town, starting over, family relations, life is a bitch and friendship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Francine: Out of My Hand (2015), The Off Hours (2011), Loves Her Gun (2013), Deep in the Heart (2012), Hide Away (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Liberia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
‘What do you want?’ asks the trade union leader, to which the men respond as if with one voice: change! Life is hard work on Liberia’s rubber plantations and wages are meagre. Nothing has changed for generations, but now the workers are ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot:
workplace, immigrant, realism, society, starting over, hopes, workplace situations, poverty, haunted by the past, new life, strike, plantation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
liberia, new york, africa, usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, mumblecore ...
Plot:
fall in love, diner, small town, hopes, unfulfillment, bittersweet, society, introspection, love and romance, love affair, working class, waitress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, danger, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, weapons, coming of age, life turned upside down, on the road, down on your luck, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
starting over, support group, hopes, alcohol abuse, mysterious stranger, college, friendship, society, rise to the top, lifestyle change, changing lives, alcoholic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, redemption, father daughter relationship, death of wife, society, bittersweet, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
impossible love, single parent, life is a bitch, love and romance, friendship, hopes, society, social relations, human spirit, misfit, mother son relationship, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When high-powered sports agent Rob Decker arrives looking for his next major league prospect, he finds more than he bargained for at the Cooke Boys Ranch. As he works to secure Shawn Hart, the top high school baseball prospect in the country, he ...
Style:
realistic, serious, christian film, inspirational
Plot:
small town, social relations, disorder, introspection, society, redemption, scout, misfit, hopes, small town life, fish out of water, christian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
restaurant, workplace romance, interracial relations, fighting the system, workplace, social differences, hopes, love and romance, society, boss and employee, power relations, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
HOW I GOT LOST is the heartbreaking yet hopeful story of Andrew and Jake, two friends dealing with loss amidst events bigger than them. Andrew is the friend we all have, the one who convinces you to come along despite your better judgment. Talented ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, parents and children, hopes, best friend, on the road, buddies, starting over, introspection, estrangement, nothing to lose, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, new york, pennsylvania, usa, ohio
Similarity:
47%
378
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
immigrant, u.s. mexico border, follow your dream, human spirit, friendship, social decay, hopes, society, bittersweet, migration, mexican american border, border ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Guangdong, the forefront of China's reform and opening-up, the business of a sauna is fairly flat. The boss, Wu, together with his team, pursuits his dream and constructs a entertainment kingdom persistently with their wisdom, effort and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
workplace, life is a bitch, hopes, follow your dream, workplace situations, boss and employee, bittersweet, power relations, nudity, male nudity, rabbit, sea ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, china
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, crying ...
Plot:
unemployment, immigrant, working class, society, unfulfillment, workplace, parents and children, fired from the job, coming of age, lady, supportive coworker, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
44%
165
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a small French town is rocked by a bizarre incident.
Style:
contemplative, serious, sincere, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, workplace, youth, teenage life, workplace situations, realism, small town, social relations, restaurant, male nudity, small town life, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and befriends a Czech mechanic, bringing the man into their dysfunctional home.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
downfall, dysfunctional family, family problems, working class, life is a bitch, society, destructive relationship, couple relations, custody, crumbling marriage, couples, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Female prisoners train dogs to aid people with disabilities in a program started by a nun (Laura Dern).
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
prison, dog, starting over, rehabilitation, drug abuse, addiction, prison life, society, hopes, human nature, disability, pets ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, culture clash, love and romance, society, pregnancy, youth, hopes, coming of age, road not taken, small town, wooing, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
deportation, culture clash, homecoming, immigrant, life is a bitch, hopes, society, starting over, injustice, rivalry, self discovery, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jamaica, africa, england, canada, usa
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, thought provoking
Plot:
cancer, heroic mission, human spirit, fighting the system, environmentalism, terminal illness, obsessive quest, hopes, society, social relations, small town, church ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
659
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, power relations, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, hopes, society, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot:
love affair, impossible love, immigrant, couples, fall in love, couple relations, hopes, introspection, love and romance, society, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The middle-aged titular heroine (Masiero) of this bare-bones, Dardenne-esque debut has certainly fallen on hard times: Living between her car and a storage shed, working a part-time job as a hotel chambermaid, and trying against all odds to obtain ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, starting over, human spirit, hopes, optimism, working class, cleaning lady, female protagonist, poverty, homelessness, single woman, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
37%
306
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast but determined to win back the way of life he fought so hard to protect. Set against the stunning ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, independent film
Plot:
hopes, redemption, island, starting over, social misfits, couple relations, human nature, estrangement, family problems, friendship, ocean, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Au milieu de nulle part, une cité ouvrière vidée de sa population depuis quelques années déjà. Pourtant, certains habitants ont décidé d'y rester, plus par choix que par nécessité, parce que c'est là qu'ils sont nés et ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot:
factory, single parent, unemployment, workplace, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, isolation, parents and children, working class, society, hopes ...
Place:
france, europe, maghreb, south of france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
couples, social differences, starting over, injustice, forceful separation, political corruption, couple relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, state affairs, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, north korea, south korea
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After being cuckolded, Morgan Midwood's life explodes. Turning to his ne'er-do-well best friend Nick, the two embark on an epic journey, tackling issues with women, family, a rogue drug dealer, and one revolutionary piece of furnishing.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, workplace, once promising, family business, nothing goes right, parents and children, love and romance, self discovery, buddies, workplace situations, bittersweet, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Algeria, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
sheriff, starting over, haunted by the past, going straight, society, small town, friendship, redemption, parole, arrest, mexican american border, convict ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
doctors and patients, culture clash, surgeon, workplace, discrimination, immigrant, ambition, society, hopes, hospital, parents and children, family relations ...
Place:
usa, michigan, detroit, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
mental illness, schizophrenia, mental health, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental disorder, ptsd, illness, suicidal, psychology, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
34%
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