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Vermilion (2018)
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Darcy, a composer, sees colors when she plays musical notes. When she notices her usually subtle colors changing, she realizes a profound change is upon her. Over a summer month, Darcy creates a time of music and reflection that help her make a final choice.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, contemplative, reflective, art house, independent film, poetic, melancholic
Plot:
female protagonist, composer, musician, music, life, changing lives, lifestyle change, self discovery, character study, relationships, midlife crisis, motherhood, intimate, friendship, memory, healing, acceptance, slow burn, domestic drama, summer, loss, small town
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, melancholic, captivating and thrilling films with plots about intimate, character study, friendship, female protagonist, relationships, grief and memory mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Vermilion: When the Light Breaks (2024), Disfluency (2021), In Front of Your Face (2021), Gyeongju (2014), The Days of Morisaki Bookstore (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
iceland
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
michigan
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87%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
korea, seoul
Similarity:
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534
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend's funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of love in a time of pain.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Unable to accept being dumped by her colleague, Takako quits her job and moves into the used bookstore owned by her uncle, Satoru, in Jinbocho. Despite her initial lack of interest in novels, Takako is slowly drawn into the world of books as she ...
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
bookstore, workplace, dumped, personal growth, slice of life, changing lives, relationships, lifestyle change, library, relationship problems, life, librarian ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
74%
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:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns ...
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
elderly man, pilgrimage, character study, self discovery, walking, journey, grief, changing lives, lifestyle, lifestyle change, life, bittersweet ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
memories, female protagonist, death, memory, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love affair, lifestyle, trauma, loss, grief ...
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A Female DJ finds love in a new city, and shares her music in honor of her late mother.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dj, female protagonist, love story, relationships, musician's life, love affair, family problems, social problems, music, musician, family relations, changing lives ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
For Ella, the death of her alcoholic father leaves her with nothing but debt and the bitter memory of a complicated past. Abandoned by her mother at a young age, she has sacrificed her life, opportunities, and love to care for a man she resents, but ...
Style:
road movie, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
road trip, death of father, family drama, grief, loss, self discovery, coming of age, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, grownups, couple relations ...
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, loneliness, character study, personal growth, relationships, haunted by the past, changing lives, relationship problems, lifestyle, male female relationship, lifestyle change, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
florida
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, reflective ...
Plot:
classical music, love story, changing lives, male female relationship, problem, relationships, couple relations, love and romance, love interest, love, relationship problems, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When her teenagers head off to camp and her husband abruptly leaves her to begin a new family, Lila is left to her own curious and chaotic devices for a summer in her rural home in the Catskill mountains.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, sentimental, light, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
68%
887
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A woman dealing with the loss of her husband, the struggle of parenthood and finding work in a new state finds solace in her relationship with an 8 year old physically disabled girl named Justine who she takes care of.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
single mother, disability, friendship, lifestyle change, changing lives, friends, physical disability, self discovery, single parent, unlikely couple, female protagonist, woman in a wheelchair ...
Similarity:
67%
173
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
california
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Country: France
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Story:
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Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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58%
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Duration: 112 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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Audience:
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Plot:
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151
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Duration: 77 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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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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297
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, poetic, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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460
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, southern italy, naples italy
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
self discovery, transgender, lgbtq, desire for fame, relationship problems, male female relationship, life is a bitch, relationships, coming of age, identity crisis, character study, acceptance ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Sabina and Esther's relationship is pushed to breaking point when international exchange student Annie comes to stay.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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262
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
problem, female protagonist, relationship problems, grief, loss, war crime, european, mature, bosnian war, female friendship, memory, friendship ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Isabelle Brodeur embarks on a journey to Vietnam, her adopted daughter’s birthplace. Throughout this stunningly beautiful journey, Isabelle discovers her daughter’s country through the eyes of the woman who brought her into this word.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, intercultural, melancholic ...
Plot:
grief, loss of child, mixed race child, adoption, mother daughter relationship, healing, cross cultural relations, culture, father daughter relationship, changing lives, family relations, culture shock ...
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468
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Tai-hung, in his 50s, lives happily with his wife. Informed of the death of his high school friend, Tai-hung’s secret past resurfaces. The feature debut from promising new Hong Kong talent Jun Li.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
transgender, grief, lgbt, transgender woman, character study, identity, gender issues, problem, changing lives, family relations, lifestyle change, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jo Beckett leads a comfortable life with a successful veterinary practice, a devoted husband, and a beautiful home in a lovely small town outside of Boston. Still, she is strangely dissatisfied with her life. One afternoon, a man brings his dog into ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, relationships, veterinarian, midlife crisis, character study, secrets, husband wife relationship, animal, dog, problem, family relations, pets ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, existential ...
Plot:
grief, loss, character study, loneliness, identity, intimate, country house, memory, minimalism, friendship, impostor, gardener ...
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