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Illiterate (2018)
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Original name: Illettré
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Leo Cramps, 30, is illiterate. One day, having failed to read instructions, he is the victim of an accident at the factory where he is a worker. Immobilized, he meets his neighbor, a nurse and a single mother passionate about reading.
Style:
emotional, motivational, serious, disturbing, independent film, life affirming, melancholic, learning
Plot:
nurse, illiteracy, lifestyle change, literacy, uneducated, love, jealousy, young man, traumatic childhood, fired from the job, quitting a job, personal growth, male protagonist, working class, empathy, character study, friendship, single mother, healing, redemption, disability, social realism, slice of life, bittersweet, isolation ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, realistic and psychological films with plots about slice of life, intimate, bittersweet, social realism, redemption, character study and small town mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Illiterate: 0.5 mm (2014), Insight (2015), Blind Massage (2014), Tjommies (2023), Twelve Thousand (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Thailand
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Ximena is illiterate; Jacqueline reads to her. Everything except a letter hidden under a wooden Buddha that Ximena won’t let her read. To know what it says, Ximena must learn to read. As Ximena learns, their relationship, thorny at first, becomes ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, sincere, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
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Place:
chile
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Story:
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