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Easy Ball (2015)
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Original name: Hijos nuestros
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sometimes the links can be built from the passions. Sometimes those links can become passions. For Hugo, a solitary taxi driver from Buenos Aires, the total, absolute and exclusive passion is San Lorenzo, which is not only an active part of his past, but a healthy obsession that bathes that gives color to his life. Until a single mother and her son cross their path. Now there will be someone to share the passion with. Maybe something more.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, nostalgic
Plot:
football, passion, taxi driver, fanaticism, loneliness, obsession, father and son, fatherhood, loyalty, second chance, solitude, soccer, character study, relationships, single father, single mother, parenting, redemption, working class, realism, city life, identity, slice of life, bittersweet, community ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and independent film films with plots about slice of life, bittersweet, intimate, character study, identity, working class and loneliness mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Easy Ball: A Stray Girlfriend (2007), Spirit of Dust (2014), Taxi Love (2025), Downhill City (1999), Twenty-Five Five (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
argentina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man lives alone in Istanbul. He makes a living doing odd jobs for several people, but dreams of being a singer.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, independent film
Plot:
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Place:
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100
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Joža was wounded in combat during the events of the Croatian War of Independance and now works as a taxi driver in Zagreb, encountering various clients, all of which help him to cope with his past, and reveal to him what it truly means to be human.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
croatia
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Finland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A handful of disparate people in Berlin are drawn to the same residential hotel in the drama Downhill City. Finnish musician Artsi heads to Berlin in hopes of hitting the big time; needing a place to stay, he takes a room at the Downhill City Hotel ...
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: 94 min.
Story:
Allison Morgan, a hairdresser in a small Washington town learns she's won millions playing the lottery. Distracted by her precocious three year old while buying her mother's weekly lottery tickets Allison buys an extra ticket for herself ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
small town, female protagonist, self discovery, character study, lottery, obsession, loss, domestic drama, personal growth, identity, single mother, working class ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A poignant drama set in 1970s Australia about a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in the world around him – while a new immigrant endeavours to find her place in a foreign land.
Style:
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Plot:
father, immigration, connection, immigrant, problem, relationships, life is a bitch, bereavement, social problems, single father, identity, humanism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Following his mother`s death, wise son Sebastian attempts to organise dad Nestor to cope with basic household chores. Sebastian shows Nestor how to light the oven. Later Nestor can't fix a broken lamp, but his son soon sorts it out. Nestor ...
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, uplifting
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Slovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An aged farmer moves to the urban city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery boy in the neighborhood and their connection changes the course of both their lives and the boy's family.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, heartfelt, emotional, reflective
Plot:
loneliness, empathy, intergenerational friendship, solitude, bonding, introspection, slice of life, urban, fish out of water, isolation, intimate, minimalism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, realistic, affectionate
Plot:
empathy, slice of life, everyday life, bittersweet, relationships, introspection, intimate, apartment building, community, solitude, loneliness, city life ...
Place:
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42%
747
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, reflective, art house, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
photography, city life, introspection, self discovery, realism, slice of life, character study, intimate, solitude, identity, loneliness, seaside ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric
Plot:
family drama, hometown, family conflict, intimate, estrangement, getting home, character study, relationships, small town, introspection, homecoming, grief ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
41%
449
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
poignant, melancholic, sociological
Plot:
character study, slice of life, social commentary, empathy, urban, city life, working class, loneliness, bittersweet, intimate, alienation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, motivational
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 118 min.
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Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Argentina
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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