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Blursday (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A unique and profound story about loss, love and pregnancy during confinement. A mirror on human behavior told by three real couples, shot in their own apartments around the world.
Style:
realistic, poignant, reflective, independent film, bleak, experimental, art house, anthology, intense, multicultural
Plot:
love, pandemic, quarantine, pregnancy, relationships, isolation, grief, loss, confined, intimate, introspection, social commentary, minimalism, parenthood, family drama, separation, marriage, bittersweet, miscarriage, found footage, domestic violence, ensemble, homebound
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Blursday
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and art house films with plots about intimate, grief, loss, relationships, bittersweet, minimalism and urban mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Blursday: Zagreb Stories Vol. 2 (2012), Nostalgia (2018), After Masks (2021), #Lifestories (2024), Abandonment (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A sequel to omnibus "Zagreb Stories" tells about love and families in present-day Zagreb.
Style:
anthology, realistic, emotional, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
family drama, relationships, everyday life, slice of life, urban, intimate, love story, city life, marriage, bittersweet, friendship, neighborhood ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
croatia
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot:
memory, memories, relationships, flashback sequence, introspection, lifestyle, past, self discovery, bittersweet, longing, loss, love story ...
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91%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Journey through the human experience as the pandemic tests what we are made of both as individuals and as a culture.
Style:
psychedelic, captivating, thrilling, emotional, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, introspection, self discovery, social isolation, social problems, culture, relationship problems, mental disorder, society, lifestyle, problem, loneliness ...
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77%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
LifeStories is a film about 6 short stories taking the audience through the lives of the protagonists. Oscillating between joy, companionship, loneliness, camaraderie, guilt and unadulterated love.
Style:
emotional, anthology, realistic, reflective, poignant ...
Plot:
slice of life, relationships, loneliness, love, empathy, bittersweet, intimate, everyday life, companionship, guilt, mature, regret ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and cares. Their relationship seems headed for the rocks, and the only one who seems to still be looking ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, slow cinema, art house
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family drama, relationships, marriage, parenthood, alienation, disappearance, intimate, dysfunctional family, slice of life, couples, estrangement, minimalism ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, dramatic, serious, harsh ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
71%
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:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, independent film, sincere, melancholic
Plot:
adoption, parenthood, intimate, character study, separation, loss, bonding, ethical dilemma, bittersweet, introspection, slice of life, grief ...
Similarity:
59%
943
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
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Story:
Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.
Style:
anthology, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, quarantine, relationships, locked in, intimate, social problems, society, social isolation, epidemic, family relations, pandemic, family problems ...
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57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Slovenia, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 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: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, intense, dramatic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
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Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
thailand
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric
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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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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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:
emotional, poignant, bleak, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
42%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, contemplative, meditative ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, poignant, sensitive, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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