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Plaza Catedral (2021)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Panama, Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Alicia is a 42-year-old-woman whose grief has caused her estrangement from society. Her world is turned upside down when 14-year-old Chief, a young boy who looks after people’s cars, stumbles into her house, bleeding.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, poignant
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, empowerment, street kid, unlikely friendships, salvation, loss, family relations, older woman younger man relationship, woman, loneliness, isolation, compassion, mourning, character study, trauma, intimate, healing, social realism, mental illness, redemption, city life, moral ambiguity, survival, violence ...
Place:
panama, peru
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Most similar movies to Plaza Catedral
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, psychological and realistic films with plots about intimate, isolation, character study, grief, female protagonist, redemption and trauma mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Plaza Catedral: Two Embraces (2007), Lioness (2024), An Appointment with Mr. Vield (2017), The Boatman (2015), Coming to Terms with the Dead (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares. ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, poignant, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
urban, connection, loneliness, anger, humanism, social realism, intimate, slice of life, city life, isolation, working class, companionship ...
Place:
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305
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When 15-year-old rebellious Stefi goes missing, her mother Helena has nothing left to lose. Why cling to sanity when madness offers a chance for reconciliation and love?
Style:
emotional, tense, intense, dark, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
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79%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Samantha Anthony is a teenage girl who has been forced to deal with situations, which have made her wise far beyond her years. She's had to watch her mother spiral out-of-control while addicted to the drug meth. Lost a baby brother to CPS as a ...
Style:
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Plot:
coming of age, family drama, mother and daughter, revenge, trauma, guilt, grief, moral ambiguity, teenage protagonist, ethical dilemma, loss, loss of innocence ...
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70%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Miguel is the perfect coyote: dedicated, single-minded, his record unblemished. His home is the winding path of the migrant: the back alley gravel, the crumbled pavement, and last - the river. Despite this perfect record, Miguel is no stranger to ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, poignant, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
migrant, coyote, death, survival, border, smuggling, isolation, illegal immigration, haunted, character study, loner, grief ...
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An American Drifter discovers a New Zealand Singer and develops and obsession for him.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, emotional, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
obsession, obsessive love, singer, loneliness, drifter, character study, infatuation, unrequited love, female protagonist, isolation, stalking, relationships ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house, independent film ...
Plot:
grief, child abandonment, loss, family tragedy, single father, rescue, redemption, compassion, loneliness, character study, bittersweet, social realism ...
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54%
63
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Suzie, a 58 year old depressed taxi driver on the night shift. On Halloween, she finds a 10 year old autistic boy in the back seat of her taxi with 50$ and an address. As Suzie arrived at the father's address, she realizes the mess this family ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, independent film, road movie ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A woman finds herself isolated in her remote home with her brother who is seeking forgiveness for the darkest moment in their family history.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, dark past, isolation, psychopath, forgiveness, trauma, family secret, family history, guilt, life is a bitch, relationship problems, family problems ...
Similarity:
50%
151
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A man and his son move from the Pacific coast of Colombia to Cali, but have a difficult time adapting to the city. When his son is killed, the father must go through the hard process of grief while trying to find roots in a place that does not ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, bleak, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
family tragedy, loss, mourning, father son relationship, grief, character study, family drama, migration, social realism, adaptation, intimate, urbanization ...
Place:
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Similarity:
48%
364
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tim has no job, but Tim ‘works’, selling stolen goods...In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head above water and protect those he loves?
Style:
suspenseful, serious, touching, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
youth, juvenile delinquency, society, parents and children, family relations, urban, working class, coming of age, moral ambiguity, survival, desperation, poverty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
46%
971
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tom Carver is a man stumbling blindly towards a crossroad in his life, thrown out of focus by the death of his teenage son a year earlier. He becomes involved in a feud with a teenage gang after a seemingly harmless collision with a young kid. As ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, dark, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
gang, grief, father son relationship, mourning, teenage gang, trauma, revenge, urban, violence, loss, isolation, character study ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
43%
205
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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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:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
female protagonist, character study, introspection, solitude, everyday life, grief, realism, intimate, routine, aging, memory, loss of child ...
Place:
peru, mexico
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lara Winslet is an expert geologist in volcanology. She is together with her team of work on a volcano to conduct surveys. One day Lara decides to stay a little longer to finish an exam and she remains alone. Returning, she has an accident, falling ...
Style:
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Plot:
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394
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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407
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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147
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray ...
Style:
emotional, art house, melancholic, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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emotional, independent film, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
38%
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Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former music industry mogul grieving the death of his wife at an isolated lake-side home finds subtle redemption in the youthful spirit of friendship cultivated with two young boys.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, reflective, psychological, ambiguous ending
Plot:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A former prostitute and her reformed convict boyfriend try to make a new start in life. They begin to refurbish a derelict building close to the sea, but people from their past come back to haunt them.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, suspense
Plot:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
quebec
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Herbert is a German embassy official in Georgia. He lives an inane life until he meets twelve-year-old girl Sashka who makes him laugh and feel responsibility. Soon he is in trouble because he is suspected of pedophilia, meets corrupt policemen, ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, tense, psychological, suspense
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, unlikely friendships, character study, police corruption, corruption, social commentary, bittersweet, social realism, intimate, violence, male protagonist ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, contemplative, poignant, slow cinema ...
Plot:
character study, loneliness, isolation, loss, aging, memory, poverty, intimate, beach, journey, grief, slice of life ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman sabotages her own wedding in order to reclaim her identity and obliterates her life in the process.
Style:
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Plot:
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