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Broken Keys (2021)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilliant musician, struggles to rebuild his destroyed piano while trying to escape to Europe.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, bleak, poignant, suspense
Plot:
syrian refugee, musician, piano, musician's life, music, islam, life is a bitch, social problems, survival, fear, loss, determination, extremism, oppression, resilience, religious fundamentalism, hopes, quest, exile, desperation, resistance, grief, perseverance, identity, silence ...
Place:
middle east
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, emotional and thrilling films with plots about loss, life is a bitch, resilience, survival, hopes, grief and social problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Broken Keys: I Was a Stranger (2024), Bones of Crows (2022), Homeless Ashes (2019), The Gravedigger's Wife (2021), Rondo (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Jordan, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A doctor, a soldier, a smuggler, a father, and a captain. In a world divided by borders and war, five lives intersect in the pursuit of safety and belonging. Their journeys reveal the heartbreak and fragile beauty of those who dare to start over.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, political, emotional ...
Plot:
refugee, survival, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, kids and family, problem, dysfunctional family, hopes, sacrifice, migration, humanity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, family saga ...
Plot:
indigenous people, world war two, matriarchy, survival, trauma, resilience, colonialism, oppression, social problems, confronting the past, violence, social issues ...
Time:
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64%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
street life, social issues, homeless, homelessness, social problems, lifestyle, city life, urban setting, realism, resilience, poverty, survival ...
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60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already ...
Style:
emotional, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
illness, family problems, social problems, money problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, fighting illness, needing money, life is a bitch, realism, resilience, sacrifice ...
Place:
africa, somalia
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Description : Belgium, 1943. The situation is becoming unbearable for the Field family : antisemitic persecutions become common and violent. Joseph Field, the father, rebels against the occupying army. He is arrested and deported. Esther, his wife, ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
anti semitism, world war two, wartime life, youth, elderly, holocaust, teenage life, against humanity, life is a bitch, family relations, cause and meaning, resistance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, england, europe
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is 1915 in an Armenian village in Anatolia. Bedo and Maryam return from their secret dovecote only to find an empty house and a ghost village. The children embark on a journey to search for their mother, along with their bird 'Bacik.'
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, psychological, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
children, deportation, brother sister relationship, search for mother, loss, social issues, family relations, search for father, social misfits, social problems, life is a bitch, travel ...
Time:
year 1915
Place:
armenia, ottoman empire
Similarity:
52%
95
Genre: Drama
Country: Bahamas
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Bahamian Fisherman with a gambling addiction in Nassau takes a job smuggling Haitians to Florida in a desperate ploy to support his family.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, crime drama, tension ...
Plot:
smuggling, social problems, smuggler, life is a bitch, gambler, family problems, money problems, human trafficking, desperation, illegal immigration, gambling addiction, social commentary ...
Place:
bahamas, caribbean, florida
Similarity:
52%
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:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The story of Masoud, who is trying to emigrate to Europe to make a better life for himself, his mother and his fiancé. After embarking on a difficult and dangerous immigration journey with his best friend, Masoud meets a pregnant doctor and an old ...
Style:
dramatic, harsh, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
migration, refugee, hopes, truth, justice, power, mercy, social justice, fight, fight for justice, human spirit, strength ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nicaragua, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France, Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Nicaragua, today. Eleven-year-old María lives with her mother Lilibeth on the edge of an immense rubbish dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local gang member. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth has to move to ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, poignant ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, 11 year old girl, junkyard, search for mother, female protagonist, coming of age, child protagonist, poverty, social realism, mother child separation, forceful separation, separation ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
nicaragua, latin america
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, single parent, promise, grief, poverty, loss, mourning, family relations, relationships, relationship problems, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
48%
123
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For Marisol Rivera, a first generation Mexican-American, college is everything she's worked toward. She spent mornings cleaning horse stalls and evenings studying. Now, with a scholarship in hand, she's ready to leave Southwest Texas and ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, on the run, immigration, social problems, grownups, social issues, life is a bitch, racism, illegal alien, adolescence vs adulthood, racial injustice, identity crisis ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Solange is a typical 13 year old, curious and full of life, with perhaps the peculiarity of being overly sentimental and adoring her parents. But when her parents begin to argue, fight and slowly drift apart, the threat of divorce looms near and ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, heartfelt, emotional ...
Plot:
divorce, love, parent child relationship, family drama, family problems, love and romance, family relations, love interest, love affair, love story, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Leaving his family in Afghanistan to find work in Iran, Ali Bakhsh returns home to Afghanistan in search of his family in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the following U.S. invasion.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
refugee, self discovery, homecoming, job seeking, family man, introspection, life is a bitch, getting home, realism, loss, migration, social realism ...
Place:
iran, afghanistan, middle east
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Yong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, bleak, political drama
Plot:
boy, poverty, father son relationship, realism, escape, refugee, illness, desperation, border crossing, survival, separation, humanitarian ...
Place:
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The film is composed around a violent incident, happened in 1956. Upon hearing the news that the Russians were approaching, the dwellers of the Home for the Disabled armed themselves. Followed by stares by people living in the area they marched ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, political, bleak, tension ...
Plot:
violence, handicapped, social issues, assault, military, wartime, physical disability, society, social relations, protector, protection, resistance ...
Place:
hungary
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40%
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Through their shared grief and connection to music, an orphaned girl bonds with her emotionally aloof, successful violinist uncle.
Style:
sincere, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, border crossing, secret past, family problems, confronting the past, tragic past, new job, society, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, heartbreaking, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
typhoon, survivor, disaster, resilience, bereavement, natural disaster, aftermath, trauma, mourning, grief, loss, survival ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
38%
396
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
A glimpse into the lives of an ensemble of characters leading up to the moment the world changed forever - 8:46 a.m. Tuesday September 11, 2001.
Style:
emotional, poignant, bleak, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
terrorism, compassion, loss, humanity, 9/11, tribute, empathy, memories, terrorist attack, changing lives, terrorist bombing, social problems ...
Time:
september 11 2001
Place:
new york
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find hope and reconciliation in the midst of his grief.
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, thrilling, poignant ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
hopes, suicide, bereavement, father son relationship, faith, depression, grief, family relations, relationships, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, loss of father ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A homeless ex-boxer and an inner-city kid's unlikely bond, helps them face their future, while fighting the tragedy from their past!
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
ex boxer, tragedy, boxer, boxing, redemption, homeless man, confronting the past, life is a bitch, troubled past, homeless, social problems, tragic past ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to Naoki, ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
relationships, sacrifice, brotherhood, life is a bitch, family relations, love story, problem, male female relationship, brothers, love and romance, love interest, jail ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Amidst rising anti-Semitism in Billings, Montana, Rae, a 22 year-old descendant of Holocaust survivors uncovers the truth about a childhood accident.
Style:
realistic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
anti semitism, coming of age, problem, holocaust, neo nazi, nazism, nationalism, life is a bitch, female protagonist, nazi, racial discrimination, tragic past ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Clio befriends Fred, a homeless former jazz singer down on his luck. They form a special bond over music, and Clio, having just lost her own father, helps Fred reconnect with his own daughter, just in time for Christmas.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, uplifting, feel good ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, hopes, heartwarming, love story, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, love affair, relationship problems, musician ...
Similarity:
35%
208
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
On his clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who's following the same dream.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
hopes, danger, fall in love, desert, survival, on the road, rescue, starting over, love and romance, immigrant, follow your dream, immigration ...
Time:
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Place:
nigeria
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
boy, totalitarian regime, loss, tragedy, deportation, nuclear testing, oppression, social problems, foster child, reprisal, dysfunctional family, repression ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
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2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Simón, a Venezuelan freedom fighter exiled in Miami, copes not only with trauma, but also deep guilt over a choice he must make: stay in Miami and start a new life, or return home to the losing fight against a tyrannical regime.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
freedom fighter, moral dilemma, exodus, trauma, guilt, exile, relationship problems, problem, diaspora, social commentary, political repression, identity crisis ...
Place:
miami, venezuela
Similarity:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Mickey Ryan falls from grace due to a series of downward spiraling events beyond his control. With his life turned upside down, Mickey tries valiantly to resolve his issues but hooks up with the wrong people who blind him with anger and hate.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, crime drama ...
Plot:
family man, criminal, organized crime, changing lives, problem, life is a bitch, social problems, loss of control, desperation, redemption, moral ambiguity, character study ...
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33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young up and coming artist in New York city has his life and dreams forever altered when the tragic events of 9/11 take the lives of his two best friends and he accepts guardianship of the couple's two young daughters. Now eleven years later, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
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Place:
new york
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