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Forced Orphans (2018)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
Parents Divorced. Children suffer.
Style:
heartbreaking, tense, bleak, disturbing, intense, grim, independent film, tragic
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, family drama, abusive relationship, house, domestic violence, psychological trauma, emotional abuse, loss of innocence, family secret, resentment, social issues, moral ambiguity, intimate, coming of age, guilt, slow burn, survival, psychological drama, family secrets
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, intense, bleak and emotional films with plots about psychological drama, family drama, isolation, moral ambiguity, slow burn, guilt and small town mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Forced Orphans: Bad Hurt (2015), The night of the brother (2005), Sleeping Beauty (2008), Shadow Kids (2007), The Three Ages of Sasha (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Georgia Benfield's, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child. As family and friends slowly begin to learn of the abuse, and long buried family ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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462
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic health problems. When ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her infant daughter.
Style:
sad, tense, suspenseful, grindhouse, period piece ...
Plot:
child abuse, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, family drama, trauma, emotional abuse, child neglect, female protagonist, social issues, character study, domestic violence, social realism ...
Time:
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of an addicted woman Mahsa who thinks that her girl is dead but when finds out that she is alive and lives by her father (Mahsa's ex-husband) decides to take her back. This put her to face her ex-husband and his new wife.
Style:
emotional, tense, intense
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
persia, iran
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min.
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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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
guilt, character study, trauma, mother son relationship, slow burn, mental health, intimate, isolation, socially awkward, fear, family drama, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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588
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 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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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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706
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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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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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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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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Plot:
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Story:
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