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The Optimists (2006)
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Original name: Optimisti
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
Style:
thought provoking, anthology, philosophical, tragicomedy, surreal, reflective, dark comedy, psychological, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
satire, irony, frustration, deception, paradox, existential crisis, absurdism, moral ambiguity, bittersweet, social commentary, mental disorder, dark humor, society, down on your luck, optimism, innocence lost, truth, mental instability
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
serbia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, art house, melancholic and existential films with plots about social commentary, moral ambiguity, satire, character study, urban, dark humor and minimalism mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Optimists: Invisible World (2012), 8 (2008), Die Tomorrow (2017), Odds and Ends (1986), Something to Do with Death (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Die Tomorrow entails six short segments about the impermanence of life, all inspired by deaths reported in Thai daily newspapers.
Style:
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Plot:
death, newspaper, mortality, social problems, near death experience, life, ordinary people, slice of life, realism, intimate, social realism, urban ...
Time:
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Place:
thailand
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Essay film by Alexander Kluge.
Style:
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Plot:
social commentary, college, humanist, everyday life, social realism, cold war, moral ambiguity, identity, realism, immigration, marriage of convenience, satire ...
Time:
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Place:
east germany, west germany
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Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One bullet can do a lot of damage.
Style:
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Plot:
dark humor, irony, satire, deadpan, minimalism, absurdism, social commentary, intimate, confrontation, character study, mortality, monologue ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another ...
Style:
art house, tragicomedy, black comedy, existential, surreal ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychiatric hospital, satire, absurdism, dark humor, madness, character study, filmmaking, clown, obsession, delusion, performance art ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Little Fish Eat Big Fish is a Kolkata based group of no-budget film makers. The latest venture of the group is the 5 no-budget short films produced in 2009-10. They opted for a direct to DVD release in the last Kolkata Book Fair. Details for the ...
Style:
independent film, experimental, anthology, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
underground, minimalism, adaptation, experimental narrative, paranoia, social commentary, absurdism, urban, ideology, literary, improv, intimate ...
Place:
kolkata
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, UK, Germany, Finland, China, USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
This darkly grotesque drama unfolds on multiple paths. The tangible one, now cruel, now crazy, along which the nomadic actor "Dad Mour", his wife "Mum" and two sons try to return home, but also the imaginary one, even more, ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
adaptation, father son relationship, relationships, family relations, lifestyle, family life, mortality, aging, dark humor, loneliness, character study, love ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
A variety of characters reflect on the same moments in time from very different perspectives. Some are tenuous, some are whimsical, some are deadly.
Style:
thought provoking, existential, psychological, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
memory, multiple perspectives, character study, moral ambiguity, everyday life, intimate, slice of life, urban, minimalism, murder, wine, perception
Place:
cannes, iceland
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153
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The sad and sometimes darkly funny lives of various denizens of Chicago's social and economic underside provide the focus of this adventurous independent comedy-drama.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, comedy drama ...
Plot:
night, fate, problem, destiny, social commentary, character study, working class, loneliness, nightlife, hopelessness, moral ambiguity, poverty ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sarajevo on 28 of June, 2014. At the Hotel Europa, the best hotel in town, the manager Omer prepares to welcome a delegation of diplomatic VIPs. On the centenary of the assassination that is considered to have led to World War I, an appeal for peace ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
hotel, social problems, political unrest, murder, workplace, assassination, politics, class conflict, social realism, strike, national identity, urban ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It ...
Style:
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Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, uncover truth, self discovery, haunted by the past, identity, hidden truth, escapades, elderly, family relations, obsessive quest, lifesaver ...
Time:
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Place:
serbia, belgrade, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Qiuming is a trainee at a digital mapping company. His job is to survey the streets of the ever-changing city and keep the mapping system up to date. Typical of his generation, Qiuming is upbeat, energetic, and totally immersed in the world of ...
Style:
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Plot:
investigation, privacy invasion, family relations, dishonesty, parents and children, mystery woman, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity, obsession, isolation, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
lebanon, south africa
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Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
Two brothers on a road trip through Texas discuss the morality of killing and ponder our place in the natural world.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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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
Country: USA
Duration: 82 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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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
dark humor, self discovery, character study, midlife crisis, social commentary, loneliness, bittersweet, social satire, awkwardness, identity crisis, absurdism, amateur sleuth ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
anthology, thought provoking, tense, melancholic
Plot:
human rights, discrimination, social commentary, racial prejudice, exploitation, immigration, activism, sexism, disability, protest, childhood, gender roles ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
korea, nepal
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, art house, contemplative, tense, intercultural ...
Plot:
prejudice, xenophobia, social commentary, alienation, immigration, empathy, identity, moral ambiguity, slow burn, urban, psychological drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.
Style:
existential, captivating, disturbing, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
meteorite, dog, owner dog relationship, society, life is a bitch, psychology, social problems, alienation, existential crisis, social commentary, male protagonist, absurd humor ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
absurd, thrilling, psychological, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
life, satire, life is a bitch, problem, social commentary, irony, political satire, national identity, political corruption, confined, existential crisis, jail cell ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The story takes place at the beginning of the bombing, both in Belgrade and in one small town in Serbia, at the end of March 1999. Forty-year-old Mickey, an unaccomplished writer, a disillusioned assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, a ...
Style:
melancholic, tense, reflective, poignant, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bombing, resurrection, social commentary, frustration, crisis of conscience, existential crisis, political unrest, small town, midlife crisis, urban, humanism, post war ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lawrence is an optimistic suit salesman for whom everything always goes right-until he takes the suicidal credit collector Holloman under his wing, and everything starts to go wrong. Very wrong.
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, suicidal thoughts, odd couple, dark humor, misfit, male female relationship, mishap, relationships, problem, accountant, opposites attract, bittersweet ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, philosophical, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
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Place:
ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Serbia, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three stories about the impact of three God's miracles in the medieval sense that happen to the film's heroes living in a post-communist society that, after half a century of atheism, re-learns about Christianity.
Style:
thought provoking, tragicomedy, dark comedy, satirical
Plot:
satire, social commentary, absurdism, irony, absurd humor, folklore, superstition, moral ambiguity, bittersweet, small town, provincial life, humanism
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