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Red Gloves (2010)
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Original name: Mănuși roșii
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The personal story of the young student Felix Goldschmidt, who finds himself arrested for a crime he does not understand, like his fellow prisoners, he believes at first that he the victim of a mistake. But Red Gloves is also a political story, describing how a totalitarian state imposes itself by fear, rooting out individuals almost randomly and demanding their submission. By cutting back to scenes from the old life of Felix, the author manages to achieve balance and contrast with the suffocating atmosphere of the prison. We are shown our hero as an idealistic young man, searching for love and fulfillment.
Style:
captivating, psychological, grim, melancholic, dramatic, existential, art house, surreal, tragic, political drama
Plot:
false accusation, prison, wrongful imprisonment, prisoner, political intrigue, jail, confined, accusation, framed for a crime, injustice, totalitarianism, oppression, fear, isolation, interrogation, alienation, punishment, conformity, student, bureaucracy, moral ambiguity, minimalism, resistance, urban, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
eastern europe
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Most similar movies to Red Gloves
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, melancholic, existential and art house films with plots about isolation, minimalism, urban, moral ambiguity, intimate, coming of age and alienation mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Red Gloves: Zebras in Wyoming (2017), Manners of Dying (2004), Trip (2009), Pool (2020), The Ghost Sonata (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A prisoner soon has his guard questioning his own world-view.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, tension, intense, existential ...
Plot:
prisoner, security guard, prison, character study, power, confined, power struggle, claustrophobia, moral dilemma, isolation, identity, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
wyoming
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Kevin Barlow (Roy Dupuis) will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington (Serge Houde), director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting to the end, ...
Style:
psychological, intense, existential, tense, philosophical ...
Plot:
prison, death row, execution, death sentence, character study, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, humanity, claustrophobia, power struggle, mature, warden ...
Time:
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89%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dani, Yumi, Ovidiu, Ada and Cristi are youths addicted to one another, yet intent on escaping the pressure of their interconnectedness and frustrating realities by performing mind trips into different levels of existence and parallel worlds.
Style:
psychological, existential, surreal, psychedelic, melancholic ...
Plot:
trip, youth, friendship, escape, escapism, alternate reality, alienation, parallel world, self discovery, intimate, symbolism, identity crisis ...
Place:
eastern europe, romania
Similarity:
80%
118
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
24 year old Johan spends his days in Nice on the French Riviera, supported by an aging ex-actress. Days go by between her house, the beaches and the apartment of his friend Kurt. A life in leisure and luxury. But memories of his teenage years are ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, thought provoking, dramatic, art house ...
Plot:
older woman younger man sex, couple relations, lifestyle, beach, friend, actress, couples, male female relationship, relationships, friends, alienation, shallowness ...
Place:
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Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A sequel to one of Romanian cinema’s most lauded adaptations, The Moromete Family, film tells the tale of Ilie Moromete and his family and focuses on his youngest son, Niculae. The entire order of the world of the village, where the most important ...
Style:
family saga, psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house ...
Plot:
social commentary, village life, dysfunctional family, social problems, problem, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, communism, father son relationship, coming of age, education ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the ...
Style:
existential, bleak, art house, psychological, spiritual ...
Plot:
suffering, morality, haunting, apartment building, betrayal, isolation, student, obsession, social commentary, manipulation, visionary, salvation ...
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
prison guard, confined, prison, prison life, lgbt, white trash, jailed, social misfits, society, life is a bitch, jail, prison sentence ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
prison, security guard, prison warden, execution, coworker, prison life, workplace situations, death penalty, workplace, life is a bitch, problem, dehumanization ...
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime.
Style:
bleak, psychological, grim, historical drama, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, prison, stalinism, perestroika, brutality, gay, torture, sadism, trauma, survival, violence, authoritarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After 16 years of imprisonment, 40-years-old Gogliko is released from jail. He doesn't exactly know what he did that deserved 16 years of jail time. A free man, a changed country awaits him. His personal life has drastically altered. His ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
loss, ex convict, political intrigue, society, life is a bitch, criminal, changing lives, political unrest, lifestyle change, political corruption, post soviet, identity crisis ...
Place:
georgia, caucasus, tbilisi
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Muhammad, a rejected boy from the fringe of society, floats through the streets of a filthy city, exposed and desolated, until he meets Gurevich; a lone rover who rides his motorcycle into the bowels of the city, through the shadows of the back ...
Style:
dark, existential, bleak, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
urban decay, street life, urban, desolation, isolation, identity, alienation, loner, survival, anti hero, power struggle, coming of age ...
Place:
palestine, israel
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
inspiration, lecture, snow, student, beethoven, classical music, adventure hero, escapades, journey, mountaineer, solitude, transformation ...
Place:
alps
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, surreal, moody
Plot:
death, guilt, loneliness, grief, regret, loss, memory, mourning, hotel, obsession, suicide, mature ...
Place:
bucharest, afghanistan
Similarity:
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68
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle".
Style:
thrilling, captivating, philosophical, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
castle, village, remote village, countryside, village life, isolation, outsider, alienation, bureaucracy, stranger, existentialism, adaptation ...
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55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
turkey
Similarity:
54%
1K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The true story of a young man falsely accused of rape and sentenced to six years in a maximum security prison. He must rely on survival skills and an unlikely bond with an infamous inmate to prove his innocence and regain his freedom.
Style:
tense, captivating, crime drama, art house
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
existential, reflective, melancholic, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, loss, hopelessness, memory, frustration, identity crisis, alienation, intimate, lgbt, gay, redemption ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, historical drama, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
female protagonist, teenager, relationships, teenage life, social issues, social problems, sorority, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, confined, isolation ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
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327
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and ...
Style:
experimental, harsh, political, existential, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
discipline, prison, military, marines, violence, dehumanization, military prison, degradation, abuse, realism, power, psychological torment ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
existential, melancholic, surreal, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
narcolepsy, gay, illness, isolation, terminal illness, alienation, mortality, character study, relationships, minimalism, sexuality, identity ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, suspense, disturbing, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prisoner, friendship, jailed, urban, prison life, realism, convict, confined, social problems, maximum security prison, jail ...
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, social, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
drug abuse, cocaine, drug, junkie, loneliness, addiction, drug overdose, social issues, multiple storylines, envy, drug addict, drug addiction ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Canada, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
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Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia
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Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, political, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
biopic, prison life, prison, injustice, human rights, jailed, confined, military prison, jail cell, prison violence, prisoner, jail ...
Time:
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Place:
germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
mass murder, genocide, armenian genocide, society, identity, social commentary, magic realism, modern life, alienation, loneliness, isolation, urban ...
Place:
latin america, armenia, south america, portugal, brazil ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia, Luxembourg, Qatar
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Place:
belgrade
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Richio, a young DJ, is as emotionally non-existent as no other man on the planet. He uses his tough exterior to avoid attachments to people and society.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
love triangle, trauma, character study, relationships, romantic relationship, love affair, love story, physical appearance, male female relationship, relationship problems, social problems, love interest ...
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