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Prowl (2016)
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Original name: Vânătoare
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An ordinary day in Romania. Under a highway exit close to Bucharest, Lidia and Denisa are changing their clothes; warm pullovers and sneakers are exchanged for tight tops and heels. The two are then waiting for clients, an icy wind gusting around their ears.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, slow cinema
Plot:
prostitution, sex work, poverty, social realism, survival, working class, everyday life, character study, female friendship, desperation, humiliation, resilience, slice of life, gender roles, minimalism, isolation, intimate, highway, prostitute, winter, police, street prostitution, sex worker
Place:
romania, bucharest
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Most similar movies to Prowl
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, bleak, realistic and art house films with plots about poverty, social realism, character study, survival, isolation, working class and slice of life mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Prowl: Eden (2016), Netto (2005), Pearblossom Hwy (2012), The Particle (2012), Werewolf (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
EDEN deals with what could possible be a future for most people caught up in the current economic climate in Ireland and how we have taken a bite of the financial apple and borrowed beyond our means. We follow Adam who has been left unemployed and ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, bleak, existential, grim
Plot:
homelessness, street life, realism, social commentary, unemployment, poverty, empathy, character study, working class, survival, desperation, urban decay ...
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394
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, bleak
Plot:
unemployment, family drama, alcoholism, father son relationship, poverty, character study, intimate, social realism, parenting, working class, empathy, slice of life ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Friends Cory and Anna are drifting through life, struggling to find their place. Cory is sick of life in the desert and wants to be on a reality show so he can prove to his brother that he isn't a screw-up. Anna is in the country illegally, ...
Style:
art house, contemplative, melancholic, realistic, experimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
identity, illegal immigration, character study, desert, poverty, sex work, intimate, social realism, slice of life, family conflict, punk rock, coming of age ...
Place:
poetic realism
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71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
How much space does Zeynep take up in this vast universe? This is a city brimming with the struggling and the unemployed; aren’t their lives a bit like the infinite, tiny particles flying through the air? Zeynep is already trying hard to make ends ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, contemplative, melancholic, existential ...
Plot:
social realism, economic inequality, city life, working class, unemployment, poverty, slice of life, working woman, job seeking, single mother, female protagonist, motherhood ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
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776
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in a small town that doesn’t offer an easy way out. Each day starts in a long lineup at the tiny pharmacy, then it’s door-to- door begging to cut grass for people who just want them to not exist. At ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, dark, art house, moody
Plot:
drug use, addiction, small town, poverty, realism, intimate, escape, desperation, hopelessness, working class, claustrophobia, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nova scotia, canada
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
While he loses his clandestine work, and because he believes that Maroussia and him will no longer be able to love each other as well, Frank leaves to earn as much as she: twelve thousand, just what it takes to have a year before them. No more no ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
employment, working life, poverty, working class, realism, urban, slice of life, intimate, resilience, character study, social realism, sacrifice ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
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63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Feature film
Style:
bleak, melancholic, tragic ending, intense, art house ...
Plot:
poverty, hopelessness, drug addiction, pain, desperation, prostitution, illness, isolation, alienation, self destructing, character study, sacrifice ...
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61%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Eight women wake up every morning, get dressed, eat, put on make-up, do their hair, dress up and get ready for a grueling, demeaning night of work. They're the staff at a brothel outside a major American city, serving the spoiled, rich, ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, art house
Plot:
brothel, women, prostitution, exploitation, sex work, sexploitation, social realism, working conditions, class conflict, trauma, poverty, survival ...
Place:
philadelphia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
SILHOUETTE: Nigerian prostitutes dealing with miscellaneous customers EUGLEN & GERTIAN: Daily recruitment of Albanian immigrants seeking work but without working residency permit. SELF SERVICE: a night with Ahmed, egyptian illegal gas ...
Style:
realistic, neorealism, melancholic, intercultural, semi documentary ...
Plot:
immigrant, social commentary, immigration, social realism, survival, exploitation, prostitution, sex work, slice of life, street life, poverty, city life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck Rotterdam dock worker struggles to get his financials and family life back on track.
Style:
crime drama, bleak, emotional, intense, tragic
Plot:
working class, poverty, moral ambiguity, blue collar, character study, social realism, everyday life, desperation, survival, city life, intimate, slice of life ...
Place:
rotterdam netherlands
Similarity:
59%
326
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When sex worker Tess falls pregnant, she has to fight to keep her past from swallowing her whole.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
pregnancy, afrikaans, female protagonist, sex worker, prostitute, motherhood, sex work, unwanted pregnancy, troubled past, changing lives, prostitution, unplanned pregnancy ...
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The prostitutes of Palermo are pictured in this episodic Italian drama. The film lacks a real unifying thread as it presents scenes from the lives of 7 hookers. Five are women. One is a man, and one is a transvestite. In one episode, an aging ...
Style:
erotic, realistic, melancholic, controversial, period piece ...
Plot:
making love, pimp, sexuality, survival, mature, working class, character study, street life, city life, social realism, exploitation, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, palermo italy, sicily
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future. In the second ...
Style:
anthology, realistic, melancholic, bleak, poignant ...
Plot:
poverty, disability, desperation, social realism, economic inequality, old age, mental illness, survival, exploitation, slice of life, working class, character study ...
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
57%
180
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Greece nowadays. Seven different stories about seven persons who have already reached their limits and finally fall apart. Despite their seemingly obvious connection they are simultaneously connected through a common desperate action: the last phone ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, tragicomedy, avant garde ...
Plot:
social realism, multiple storylines, loneliness, isolation, mental health, hopelessness, alienation, desperation, resilience, slow burn, moral ambiguity, survival ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Brings viewers into a small Chinese city and inspires familiarity with the rhythms of everyday existence, with people's dreams, shortcomings and illusions in a way that is universal.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, serious, bleak, period piece ...
Plot:
everyday life, routine, brutality, character study, family drama, life philosophy, ordinary people, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, working class, coming of age, small town ...
Time:
70s
Place:
china
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56%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, compassionate
Plot:
desperation, migrant worker, culture shock, poverty, humiliation, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, working class, village life, class conflict, mental breakdown ...
Place:
new delhi
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, tense, melancholic, sexy, erotic
Plot:
single mother, trust, sex work, survival, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, character study, poverty, social commentary, sexuality, desperation, working class ...
Place:
new york
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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melancholic, bleak, existential
Plot:
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Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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atmospheric, melancholic, contemplative, poignant, slow cinema ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, psychological, existential
Plot:
character study, isolation, taxi driver, loneliness, slice of life, introspection, intimate, nightlife, existential crisis, minimalism, slow burn, everyday life ...
Place:
tehran, middle east, iran
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story:
Brazilian native Priscilla Paredes is intent on staying in Montreal, despite the expiration of her student visa. Out of desperation, she takes a job as an exotic dancer at the Elixir, a downtown strip club, where she meets Milagro, a headstrong ...
Style:
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Plot:
strip club, lesbian, survival, female protagonist, sex work, poverty, working class, immigration, friendship, desperation, realism, female empowerment ...
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montreal, quebec
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105
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A tragic tale of an individual teen prostitute as seen from the lens of her Buddhist neighbor.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
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45%
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, realistic, tragic, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.
Style:
melancholic, emotional
Plot:
urban decay, desperation, social commentary, working class, poverty, alienation, longing, character study, hopes, social realism, isolation, loneliness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
43%
53
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Grim tale of marginalized souls in an apocalyptic Dublin inner city. Jimmy takes up residence in a derelict and once elegant house in a no-go inner area. He is soon joined by other squatters, George a business man trying to retain some dignity, ...
Style:
bleak, grim, independent film, apocalyptic, melancholic ...
Plot:
social realism, poverty, urban decay, homelessness, unemployment, desperation, paranoia, survival, moral ambiguity, prostitution, violence, estrangement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
dublin ireland, ireland
Similarity:
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216
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
Style:
compassionate, emotional, melancholic, road movie
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
bolivia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A homeless Irish girl encounters a series of men who appear strikingly similar to each other
Style:
independent film, melancholic, art house, bleak, indie film
Plot:
homelessness, character study, identity, isolation, survival, poverty, loneliness, ambiguity, alienation, rehearsal, social commentary, minimalism ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.
Style:
melancholic, social
Plot:
unemployment, poverty, construction, entrepreneur, working class, social commentary, hardship, factory worker, emigration, blue collar, social realism, small business ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, period piece, psychological, intense, retro ...
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