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Pioneer Heroes (2015)
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Pioneer Heroes (2015)
Original name: Пионеры-герои
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Olga, Katya, and Andrey have known each other since childhood. They moved to Moscow many years ago and have become successful. Olga is an actress, Katya works for a large-scale PR agency, and Andrey is a political analyst. They buy cars, take mortgages, build country houses. Just like everybody else. But their lives bring them neither happiness nor content. The feeling of "something's not right but I can't put my finger on it" underpins the lives of today's thirty-year-olds. Their childhood took place during the Soviet era, when kids dreamed of becoming heroes, believed in spy stories and a bright future. Yet nobody expected that the dream of becoming a hero would be replaced by the dream of stable and predictable existence. People have stopped dreaming of truly grand things. They just play their roles.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: childhood, friends, best friend, thirtysomething life, unhappiness, society, idealism, bittersweet, unfulfillment, grudge, thirty something, boredom, everyday life, daily life, road not taken, best friends, female director
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: russia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, gloomy and touching films with plots about friends, friendship, unfulfillment, best friend, society, bittersweet and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Pioneer Heroes: Frailer (2014), Vanished Empire (2008), Lotus Eaters (2011), The High Pressures (2014), Fraulein (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Frailer (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: best friend, friends, friendship, strong female presence, terminal illness, siblings relations, unfulfillment, family relations, resistance
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
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95%
Vanished Empire (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with ...
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: love triangle, friendship, youth, politics, society, lifestyle, university, young lovers, hopes, idealism, revolution, political unrest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
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84%
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Lotus Eaters (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Story follows a group of young Londoners as they struggle to find meaning in their lives while masking their discontent with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll.
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
Plot: love and romance, best friend, thirtysomething life, sexual relations, friends, unfulfillment, city life, couples, twentysomething life, artists and showbiz, group, drugs/alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, british columbia, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The High Pressures (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Miguel travels to Pontevedra, his hometown, with the request of serching for some locations for a movie. His trip takes him back to the place where he grew up, meeting up with some old friends, but also leads him to the possibility of a new ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: friendship, love and romance, fall in love, workplace, workplace situations, introspection, hopes, artists and showbiz, self discovery, homecoming, unfulfillment, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Fraulein (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops ...
Style: emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, self discovery, longing, friends, immigrant, society, job seeking, secret, female nudity, sex scene, cafeteria, integration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, serbia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Labour of Love (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, introspection, working class, society, couples, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, kolkata
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54%
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To Dream (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 67 min.
Story: If your dreams could come true, what would you dream? If you could escape, where would you go? TO DREAM is a story about friendship, full of hope and intimacy, set against a harsh inner city backdrop. Best friends, LUKE and TOMMY, live in an ...
Style: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, dark drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Our Grand Despair (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The peaceful cohabitation of two 30-something bachelors is disrupted when they both fall in love with the charming young woman who moves in with them.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, love triangle, partner, fall in love, bittersweet, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, gay, lgbt, loner, advice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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A Butterfly Kiss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, society, couples, introspection, suburbs, suburban life, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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51%
A Long and Happy Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and also tolerate his more or less clandestine love-affair with ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, tense, stylized ...
Plot: farm, society, injustice, rebelliousness, social relations, fighting the system, rebellion, rivalry, hopes, village life, social problems, showdown ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Off Hours (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, mumblecore ...
Plot: diner, small town, hopes, unfulfillment, bittersweet, dull life, love and romance, introspection, society, fall in love, love affair, working class ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Bigga Than Ben (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Spiker & Cobakka are two self-confessed 'pieces of Moscow scum' who come to London to rip it off. This is their guide.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, buddies, partner, immigrant, misfit, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, junkie, mental illness, violent content, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
3 Nights in the Desert (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three former band mates enter a cave after hearing it has the power to give them what they need. As unsettling desires rise to the surface, they all wonder if the cave has real power.
Style: talky, sincere, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: desert, friendship, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, twentysomething life, love and romance, bittersweet, art, coming of age, best friend, road not taken ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Heaven's Heart (2008)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, estrangement, best friend, anniversary, family problems, introspection, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, marriage, dinner ...
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44%
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Nagima (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 120 min.
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43%
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1001 Grams (2014)
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Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
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42%
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Hated (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll are what a young underground punk band are striving for, but once they get a taste of it, they are forced to decide how far they're willing to go for fame and fortune and who they're willing to leave ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, independent film
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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In Between Days (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
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Style: emotional, realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, youth, unfulfillment, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
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40%
Speak Like a Child (1998)
Genre: Drama
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40%
Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
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39%
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Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Plans for Tomorrow (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Three stories intertwined which occur in a single day. The day Ines discovers she is pregnant, Antonia decides to abandon her family and Marian realizes she is going to die.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: pregnancy, friendship, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, introspection, singleness, woman in danger, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Sea Is Behind (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: social misfits, performer's life, transvestism, gays and lesbians, family relations, misfit, family in crisis, society, bittersweet, gender, lgbt
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: serious, touching, realistic, gloomy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: family problems, life is a bitch, youth, social relations, teenage life, high school life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy girl relationship, family relations, friends ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Ten Benny (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of a young shoe salesman whose overestimation of his own sharpness leads to gambling debts, pissed-off loan sharks, and overall misery.
Style: independent film, contemplative, gloomy, realistic, serious ...
Plot: profanity, violent content, gangster, best friend, sexual content, friendship, dangerous animal, twentysomething life, down on your luck, gambling, working class, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Erratum (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, homecoming, haunted by the past, buddies, parents and children, family relations, hopes, redemption, profanity, friends, estrangement, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.7
 1K
Furious (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sven (15) will be director and has been busy filming. He films his friends, especially those to do free running and put the videos on YouTube. He asks Roosmarijn to work on his first feature film. They may not know that he gets a thrashing at home ...
Style: touching, serious, tense, suspense, gloomy ...
Plot: best friend, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, filmmaking, father son relationship, teenage love, skateboard, forgiveness, coming of age, age difference, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Spiral (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, touching, student film
Plot: social relations, immigrant, family in crisis, bittersweet, gender, family problems, homecoming, society, village life, strong female presence, unfulfillment, feminism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
My Friend & His Wife (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two young men, Ye-joon and Jae-moon, have been close friends since doing military service together. Ye-joon has lately worked his way up to becoming a successful financier, while the unambitious Jae-moon has opted for a much less conspicuous route. ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family in crisis, family relations, unfulfillment, family problems, parents and children, couples, crumbling marriage, best friend, love triangle, tragedy, betrayal, car accident ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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