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The Waves (2011)
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Original name: Las olas
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After the death of his wife, Miguel decides to take a trip, postponed for many years, Argeles-sur-Mer, a small town in southern France, where thousands of refugees are concentrated for some time.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, thought provoking, contemplative, road movie, melancholic, art house, slow cinema, gloomy
Plot:
memories, on the road, introspection, haunted by the past, life, memory, loneliness, exile, refugee, road trip, grief, nostalgia, loss of spouse, solitude, family history, identity, longing, isolation, healing, small town, realism, town, refugees, road
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
spain, south of france, southern france
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Most similar movies to The Waves
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out contemplative, melancholic, realistic and serious films with plots about memory, introspection, isolation, intimate, loss, nostalgia and small town mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Waves: Watchtower (2012), The Long Way Home (2014), The High Pressures (2014), Silence in Dreamland (2013), The Magnetic Tree (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own. (TIFF)
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, rape, haunted by the past, social misfits, disorder, confined, introspection, misfit, isolation, women, abandoned baby, resistance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One morning Joel finds his wife's dog Elvis half dead. This forces him out of home, something he has avoided for a long time. After forgetting his keys inside, he'll spend the day desperately trying to get back into his flat, his shelter.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, sincere, realistic, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mourning, realism, dog, nothing goes right, human nature, society, social misfits, disorder, misfit, pets, dealing with death, loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Miguel travels to Pontevedra, his hometown, with the request of serching for some locations for a movie. His trip takes him back to the place where he grew up, meeting up with some old friends, but also leads him to the possibility of a new ...
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, workplace, self discovery, workplace situations, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those four walls to a timeless magic land where the sea speaks ...
Style:
slow cinema, touching, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
loneliness, dog, old age, loss, dream, isolation, death of husband, imagination, female protagonist, intimate, introspection, reflection ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, parents and children, family gatherings, unfulfilled love, road not taken, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, family reunited, nostalgia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, father and son, family life, parents and children, family drama, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, estranged parent, child protagonist, search for father, fatherhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
aging, elderly, drug abuse, introspection, disease, dealing with death, terminal illness, female protagonist, subconscious, character study, youth, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A Mexican teen Lucas in a gray industrial town befriends co-worker Oscar. Oscar leaves, entrusting Lucas with treasures. Through photography, Lucas captures observed light, finding connection and solace.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, art house, independent film, slow cinema
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, self discovery, working class, loneliness, photography, realism, introspection, intimate, memory, solitude, slow burn ...
Place:
mexico, poetic realism
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman in love, a weak man, a father stumbling with his emotions, an uncle dependent on the past and a teenager meet at Zagor’s boarding house. Despite the serenity of the house, they all struggle to find the peace that they each need.
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
boarding house, character study, teenager, father son relationship, love, household, slice of life, domestic drama, intimate, memory, isolation, loss ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, art house ...
Plot:
homecoming, haunted by the past, childhood memory, heiress, house, landscape, love, grief, female protagonist, mourning, memory, inheritance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brittany, france, europe, cornwall, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland, Mauritania, Latvia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A man sent to Afghanistan years earlier converts to Islam, then returns home to fight a different kind of war.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, contemplative, existential ...
Plot:
small town, family relations, social relations, parents and children, homecoming, small town life, society, religions or cults, identity, trauma, ptsd, missing daughter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
estonia, europe
Similarity:
30%
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:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her fight against adversity and against herself, she will ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, haunted by the past, starting over, life is a bitch, family problems, family relations, parents and children, abuse, rape, girl, roulette, compulsive gambler ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, momentous news from home compels an exiled young man to embark upon an intense and surreal journey through the broken and beautiful margins of contemporary Britain.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, contemplative, visually appealing, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, journey, on the road, family relations, society, haunted by the past, family problems, self discovery, nature, trauma, isolation, memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Driven by childhood memories and the hope of a reencounter, Sarah visits her paternal grandmother in her village in Uruguay. She takes long to understand the prevailing unease… But she is soon faced with the gap between her fantasy regarding the ...
Style:
road movie, melancholic, reflective, slow cinema, art house ...
Plot:
family reunited, grandmother granddaughter relationship, sadness, bittersweet, nostalgia, female protagonist, tenderness, memory, slice of life, provincial, getting home, small town ...
Place:
uruguay
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Rubén is a middle-aged Argentinian truck driver transporting timber between Paraguay and Buenos Aires. One day, at a truck stop, he picks up a young Paraguayan woman, Jacinta, whom his employer had told to take to Buenos Aires. To Rubén's ...
Style:
road movie, sincere, realistic, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
delivery, on the road, hitchhiker, unlikely couple, hopes, human nature, introspection, truck, border crossing, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, baby ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
argentina, paraguay, latin america, buenos aires argentina, south america
Similarity:
27%
74
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral.
Style:
sincere, serious, psychological, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, clergy, introspection, moral dilemma, church, society, elderly, religions or cults, religion, catholic church, moral ambiguity, guilt ...
Similarity:
27%
59
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, romantic drama, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, dream, secret, memory, journey, longing, grief, haunting, male protagonist, intimate, road trip, friend ...
Place:
france, london, belgium
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, homecoming, friends, introspection, novelist, exile, nostalgia, society, character study, realism, slice of life, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Drama - An unexpected encounter with a mysterious stranger forever changes the life of four travelers visiting the hometown of a James Dean-like celebrity actor. - Colin Alexander, Jeff Angel, David Grant Briggs
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, road movie ...
Plot:
self discovery, road trip, hotshot hero, inventions and discoveries, secret, spirituality, movie star, character study, small town, mysterious stranger, bittersweet, personal growth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
At his mother's request, a university student returns to his home on the island of Sumba, where questions about his late father come to light.
Style:
contemplative, poetic, emotional, art house, atmospheric ...
Plot:
coming of age, father son relationship, family drama, identity, island, self discovery, character study, getting home, mother son relationship, tradition, memory, loss ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, haunted by the past, on the road, life is a bitch, city life, self discovery, female friendship, sexuality, sensuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, shanghai, new york, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise.
Style:
road movie, meditative, poetic, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
gay, loss, mourning, grief, love, journey, solitude, self discovery, memory, landscape, pilgrimage, character study ...
Place:
chile, patagonia
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Making his living from gardening and farming in the land he inherited from his father, Hasan tries to get rid of the power pole that is going to be installed in the midst of his land. His impending voyage to Mecca for pilgrimage leads to soul ...
Style:
captivating, reflective, contemplative, dramatic, sincere ...
Plot:
pilgrimage, muslim, agriculture, gardening, spiritual journey, introspection, religious faith, father son relationship, family relations, belief in god, fight for justice, fight the power ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the energy is spent on not wanting to see them. An intimate drama where, through fiction, the director ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
aging, motherhood, family drama, autobiography, loss, blindness, elderly man, grief, trauma, reflection, regret, realism ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot:
small town, forgiveness, murder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, friendship, loss of daughter, widower, loss, mourning, loneliness, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, hokkaido, asia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Janala tells the story about a man, Bimal, who decides to give a little back to his old school despite the fact he has very little money himself. As a child Bimal had a favourite corner classroom where he used to sit and daydream out of a broken ...
Style:
contemplative, sincere, serious, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
school, pregnancy, hopes, breakup, family problems, introspection, on the road, nostalgia, finance, guilt, memory, betrayal of trust ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
25%
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:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and nature itself, trigger a surprising chain of events
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
462
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Caio is 40 years old and lives in the Rio de Janeiro's countryside, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On Christmas' Eve, he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, family problems, hopes, estrangement, christmas, intimate, soul searching, identity crisis, male protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
24%
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