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Darling (2007)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Darling is a woman of today. It seems to always choose the wrong path. Suffers but does not look like a victim. Do not feel sorry for herself. On the contrary, shows a passion for life against all odds. She is struggling to exist. If you fall, get up. Because Darling is naive and fearless, brave and instinctive. Has the life force of a tragic heroine.
Style:
serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, road movie, bleak, melancholic, intense, art house, independent film ...
Plot:
farm, love and romance, hopes, young woman, loss of innocence, female protagonist, resilience, survival, mature, dysfunctional family, small town, coming of age, longing, social isolation, naivete, domestic abuse, toxic relationship, violence, sexual abuse, recklessness, abusive father, female empowerment, women, village, village life ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france
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Most similar movies to Darling
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, serious and captivating films with plots about biopic, hopes, love and romance, survival, resilience, coming of age and female protagonist mostly in Drama, Biography and Sport genres. Some movies like Darling: Cavalcade (2005), Victorio (2008), The Great Victory (2014), Margot (2009), Dilberay (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An accomplished playboy Leo neglects his girlfriend and enjoys parties. His girlfriend parts from him and then, when he wants to see her once more, he has an accident. He survives, but his whole life is now to be changed. This film is about fetching ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
human spirit, redemption, life turned upside down, couples, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, rehabilitation, friendship, true love, disabled person, physical disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A story of redemption, drama and action, where only love can overcome all obstacles.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
redemption, hopes, gang, going straight, fall in love, gangster, love and romance, family relations, chance, forbidden love, urban, mature ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Independent feature film based on the biography of a Brazilian judo with a great victory that went beyond the mats and medals.
Style:
emotional, touching, captivating, dramatic, intense ...
Plot:
judo, ambition, love affair, rise to the top, couples, hopes, athlete's life, couple relations, dysfunctional family, love and romance, parents and children, biopic ...
Time:
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Place:
brazil
Similarity:
93%
301
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disability, ballet, biopic, dancer's life, love and romance, couples, ambition, artists and showbiz, dance, female protagonist, choreography, classical music ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london
Similarity:
87%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Turkey
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Born into a poor family with eight children in Kahramanmaraş, Dilber Ay endured many sorrows and hardships in the life she began in a tent. At the age of 13, she was sold to an older man for money, they married, and had children. She was beaten and ...
Style:
inspirational, disturbing, captivating, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
female protagonist, biopic, singer, violence, perseverance, domestic abuse, child marriage, musician's life, resilience, survival, musician, poverty ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
76%
34
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:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, love, loneliness, character study, psychological trauma, relationships, love story, love affair, love interest, mature, city life, alienation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
farm, estrangement, countryside, workplace situations, workplace, society, nothing goes right, down on your luck, life is a bitch, tradition, chore, solitude ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The journey of young Jeanne through mountains and faith, from the lonely forests to the plains of Rome.
Style:
historical drama, poetic, emotional, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
faith, female protagonist, journey, religious, pilgrimage, spiritual awakening, coming of age, mountain, mysticism, legend, sacrifice, identity ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
68%
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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:
66%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
Style:
serious, period piece, bleak, historical drama, harsh ...
Plot:
crime and punishment, imprisonment, injustice, escape, escape attempt, biopic, wrongful conviction, forced labor, oppression, realism, survival, brutality ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
An alcoholic is left stranded by society, friends and family until he successfully completes his de-addiction. Will they accept him when he is clean and sober?
Style:
dramatic, serious, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
drug, addiction, alcoholism, medical examination, mental health, recovering alcoholic, alcoholic, social relations, family relations, family problems, relationships, rehabilitation ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, crime drama, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brothers, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, father son relationship, scapegoat, abandoned baby, reform school, abusive father, brotherhood, domestic abuse, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
Similarity:
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187
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story about a young German woman prepares to leave her war-ravaged city to begin a new life in America with her G.I. fiance. But standing between her and a hopeful future is a relentless police inspector, determined to prevent her ...
Style:
emotional, tense, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, hidden identity, uncover truth, love and romance, dishonesty, hopes, starting over, post war, escape, female protagonist, police inspector, guilt ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nina (Melina Mercouri) is a former silent-film star from Russia who abandons her career to care for her son. She is a single mother -- the boy's father is a famous actor who wants nothing to do with either Nina or her child. She joins an acting ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, family saga, historical drama, dramatic ...
Plot:
single mother, mother son relationship, struggle, biopic, ambition, migration, identity, coming of age, resilience, survival, immigration, illegitimate child ...
Place:
france, eastern europe, paris france
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, teenage love, teenage life, love and romance, coming of age, buddies, youth, family relations, violence, bullying, graphic violence, trauma ...
Time:
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Place:
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121
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Cambodia, France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Cannes Special Screening 2016
Style:
bleak, political, emotional, poignant, realistic ...
Plot:
exile, trauma, genocide, loss, political oppression, khmer rouge, haunting, mourning, memory, survival, totalitarianism, identity ...
Time:
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Place:
cambodia
Similarity:
52%
208
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
painter, biopic, family problems, under the surface, mentally unstable, crumbling marriage, self discovery, fall in love, art, nordic, artist, art history ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling ...
Style:
southern gothic, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, female protagonist, literary, illness, mother daughter relationship, writer's life, aspiration, direction and purpose, lifestyle, character study, ambition ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
social differences, friendship, family relations, hopes, family life, unfulfilled love, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women, lesbian ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, france, normandy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 1924, Simone de Beauvoir, a girl with polished appearance, prepares for her final examination in philosophy and meets Jean-Paul Sartre. He seems to know her true personality and considers her the only woman worthy of his intellect. Their chaotic ...
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, factual, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
feminism, open relationship, lesbian, love affair, writer's life, philosophy, couples, love triangle, gender, fall in love, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 1920s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, usa
Similarity:
48%
61
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, independent film, art house, southern gothic, period drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
1930s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The actress (Glenda Jackson) recovers from a 1966 stroke with help from friends and her husband, author Roald Dahl (Dirk Bogarde).
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, uplifting, intense, medical drama ...
Plot:
biopic, marriage, survival, resilience, family drama, disability, hollywood, inspiration, rehabilitation, writers, tragedy, intimate ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
42%
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634
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
slut, lifestyle, troubled youth, introspection, materialism, youth, love and romance, nightlife, fall in love, shopping, abortion, slutty attitude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The profound depths of Ernõ Szép's life and poetry are revived in a new film adaptation of the poet's novel, 'The Smell of Humans'. This stoic and lyrical narrative of twenty fateful days offers an authentic account of an ...
Style:
reflective, lyrical, melancholic, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
humanity, poetry, poet, memory, biopic, literary, haunting, survival, loss, resilience, oppression, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
887
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Zira was united with Amer for 172 very memorable days. Fate separated, Amer left too soon, leaving many sweet memories for Zira.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, romantic drama, reflective ...
Plot:
love, female protagonist, couples, muslim, spiritual journey, problem, self discovery, religious conversion, personal growth, separation, loyalty, soul searching ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
41%
593
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style:
touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, small town, introspection, true love, haunted by the past, starting over, couples, couple relations, love and romance, leaving home, hopes, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
south korea, asia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his ...
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, emotional, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
biopic, freedom, fugitive, prison escape, manhunt, resilience, determination, survival, family bonds, family drama, oppression, social injustice ...
Time:
60s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press ...
Style:
touching, contemplative, talky, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
introspection, elderly, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, parents and children, unfulfillment, dealing with death, biopic, writers, poet, son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, journalism, political unrest, life is a bitch, fascism, idealism, wartime life, rebelliousness, righting the wronged, hopes, media, against the odds ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
38%
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