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The Pearl (2004)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A poor Mexican diver finds a priceless pearl that will change his impoverished family's future -- if he can fend off his own greed and the people trying to take advantage of him.
Style:
tragic ending, psychological, captivating, thrilling, bleak, melancholic, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, period piece
Plot:
poverty, greed, diver, tragedy, diving, changing lives, lifestyle change, jealousy, fatherhood, temptation, moral dilemma, adaptation, symbolism, human nature, corruption, class struggle, exploitation, fate, literary, survival, slow burn
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, tense, captivating and psychological films with plots about poverty, survival, slow burn, moral dilemma, tragedy, isolation and moral ambiguity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Pearl: The Paper Man (1963), Erfolg (1991), Design (2002), The Winter of Our Discontent (1983), Villon's Wife (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at ...
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, bleak, neorealism ...
Plot:
poverty, greed, homelessness, tragedy, survival, compassion, drifter, loneliness, class conflict, empathy, desperation, character study ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 265 min.
Story:
For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is ...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, period piece, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
injustice, false accusation, art gallery, tragedy, moral dilemma, political unrest, scandal, imprisonment, corruption, class conflict, bureaucracy, underdog ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
munich germany
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86%
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:
2000s
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
morality, character study, small town, conscience, literary, ethical dilemma, thoughtful, ambition, corruption, greed, midlife crisis, redemption ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, male female relationship, writers, female protagonist, alcoholism, marital strife, character study, man-woman relation, family problems, social problems, family life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rouh is living in Boulak Al Dakrour, a poor neighborhood , when she bankrupt and broke she try to make a living by singing in a nightclubs , she starting to suffer from the people around her that are attracted by her beauty
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, foot fetish, singing, beauty, slum, poverty, love interest, money problems, love, female singer, male female relationship, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cairo egypt
Similarity:
67%
248
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller! Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, shakespeare, tragedy, problem, life is a bitch, madness, theater, betrayal, character study, literary, family conflict, obsession ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the ...
Style:
historical drama, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
northern lights, poverty, survival, hunger, man versus nature, snowstorm, winter, isolation, tragedy, rescue, blizzard, infant ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
poverty, moral dilemma, escape, social realism, social problems, money problems, women, female protagonist, poor, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, choice ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, tense, crime drama, bleak ...
Plot:
human trafficking, secrets, moral ambiguity, exploitation, desperation, smuggling, poverty, betrayal, social realism, survival, isolation, character study ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, black sea
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The bestseller based on Kotaro Isaka, starring Kenji Sakaguchi, directed by Takashi Hara! Muto, who works for a family court, is involved in a bank robbery case with his senior at work, Jinnai. It is released safely, but Muto falls in love at first ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
kidnapping, secret, mysterious disappearance, investigation, disappearance, uncover truth, crime solving, family problems, cold case, hostage situation, moral ambiguity, trauma ...
Similarity:
52%
299
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dives into the often ignored seedy underbelly of Maine and it follows Emma Maddox as she returns to her hometown years following the mysterious death of her brother, Mikey. As she reconnects with his best friend Tommy, the two rekindle their flame ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
redemption, revenge, small town, problem, bereavement, life is a bitch, lie, getting home, investigation, betrayal, friendship, coastal town ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In an impoverished neighborhood, the son of a swordsman falls in love with the daughter of a wedding singer — a taboo match in a traditional society.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, independent film, tense ...
Plot:
death sentence, social realism, family problems, relationships, problem, couple relations, male female relationship, love story, life is a bitch, family relations, love affair, money problems ...
Similarity:
51%
205
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
sex trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, female protagonist, illegal immigrant, african, exploitation, resilience, street life, illegal immigration, trauma, poverty ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
51%
268
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A troubled woman returns to her estranged family in coastal Maine. With her lobsterman father caught up in a turf war at sea, she and an ex-boyfriend make plans to hijack local drug runners. As their desperation mounts, each character makes ...
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, heist gone wrong, robbery, family drama, moral ambiguity, theft, relationship problems, heist, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, female protagonist, ex couple relations, relationships ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
48%
18K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A son tries to restore the honour of his father, who was imprisoned during the 1980 military coup.
Style:
tense, emotional, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coup d'etat, coup, family relations, lifestyle change, struggle, wrongful imprisonment, family problems, parents and children, family life, social relations, changing lives, social problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Raama Raavanan is a 2010 film based on the novel Manomi by Madhavikutty. It is directed by Biju Vattappara and produced by Rafi Mathira under the banner Ifar International. It stars Suresh Gopi, Mithra Kurian, Nedumudi Venu, Biju Menon, Sudheesh, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, poignant, intercultural ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
orphan, love, relationships, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, problem, love story, male female relationship, relationship problems, love interest, forbidden love ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Mani, a master’s student, returns to the reserve in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
american indian, getting home, independence, women, smuggler, bootlegging, ethnic conflict, problem, conflict, female protagonist, life is a bitch, class conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst ...
Style:
medical drama, thrilling, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
moral dilemma, surgeon, medical, physician, medicine, organ transplant, male doctor, saving a life, transplant, doctor, doctors and patients, determination ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Andreas arrives in the remote valley in the Austrian Alps, he is only about four years old - nobody knows for sure. He grows up to become a skilled farmhand and, as a young man, joins a work crew that builds one of the first mountain railroads, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
mountain, lifestyle, orphan, hardship, village life, poverty, bittersweet, tragic romance, resilience, isolation, coming of age, loneliness ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This is the story of Mityo and his son Vasko, who live in a poor area, near to the Bulgarian-Turkish-Greek Border. Mityo had lost everything that has mattered to him – his wife, his work, the confidence of his son, Vasko. In order to get him back, ...
Style:
melancholic, crime drama, grim, intense, tense ...
Plot:
poverty, fatherhood, moral dilemma, forgiveness, family drama, redemption, father son relationship, guilt, secrets, smuggling, grief, loss ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, art house, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, migration, anti fascism, social realism, survival, class struggle, oppression, moral dilemma, working conditions, poverty, getting home, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, northern germany
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old ...
Style:
serious, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, immigration, poverty, survival, thirtysomething life, life is a bitch, woman, illegal immigrant, 30 year old, life, immigrant ...
Place:
naples italy
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Romania, France, Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a worker is severely injured in their family business, Kadir is forced into making a moral decision, which will have an impact on his dreams, his family, and the life of injured worker’s wife
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, family relations, family drama, family business, family problems, male female relationship, eccentric family, life is a bitch, relationships, job, love affair, social problems ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year ...
Style:
bleak, tense, atmospheric, road movie, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
desert, escape, criminal, tragedy, realism, outsider, isolation, moral ambiguity, small town, betrayal, survival, mistrust ...
Time:
70s, 1940s
Place:
chile, bolivia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The latest discovery by a blind shell collector puts the relationship between man and nature on edge: a rare mollusc that is extremely poisonous, but has a healing and hallucinogenic effect on some people. Can people resist the creature’s ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
remote island, blind man, island, nature, beach, problem, fighting illness, lifestyle, illness, man versus nature, isolation, obsession ...
Place:
okinawa japan
Similarity:
39%
839
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece, France, UK, China, Singapore
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jacqueline, a young refugee, lands alone and penniless on a Greek island where she tries to survive, then to cope with her past. While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour guide and together they find the resilience ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
hopes, friendship, refugee, connection, character study, love story, male female relationship, lifestyle change, changing lives, relationships, love interest, couples ...
Place:
greece, liberia
Similarity:
38%
465
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, character study, motherhood, family drama, poverty, family problems, family relations, social problems, relationship problems, kids and family, problem ...
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dom came to Jakarta with a hope of becoming an actor. His encounter with Pingkan and Radit brings him deep into the labyrinth of drug trafficking. Will he abandon his dream?
Style:
dramatic, tense, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
city life, big city, city, business, love, drug, life, realism, drug traffic, dream, drug dealing, dreaming ...
Place:
indonesia, southeast asia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, grim, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, greek island, guilt, moral ambiguity, redemption, literary, remote island, moral dilemma, religion, survival, isolation, widow ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
36%
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