Movies like With the Girl of Black Soil

If you like "With the Girl of Black Soil" you are looking for depressing movies about / with mental disorder, alienation, disabled, school, illness, hospital and miner themes of Drama genre shot in France or South Korea.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
With the Girl of Black Soil (2007)
 7.0
 230
With the Girl of Black Soil (2007)
Original name: 검은 땅의 소녀와
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A small village in the Kanwondo region, a 9 year old girl, her brother Tong-gu - who is mentally handicapped - and their father Hyegon. Hyegon has an accident in the mines, loses his job and receives no compensation. It becomes increasingly difficult to hold onto hope, to find another job and to cope with his children. Nine-year-old Yeong-lim (Yu) has a slightly older brother, Dong-gu (Park Hyeon-woo), who's mentally handicapped, and a father, Hye-geon (Jo Yung-jin), who's lost his job in the mines and received no compensation. Add to that the family's simple home is skedded for demolition and neighbors are moving away. While dad sits around drinking and looking depressed, Yeong-lim tries to keep the family going by stealing food and arranging for Dong-gu to attend a specialist school. But her solution for her father's health problems has deadly consequences.
Style: depressing
Plot: mental disorder, alienation, disabled, school, illness, hospital, miner, single father, mine, father daughter relationship, bus, car accident, brother sister relationship, loss of job, mentally challenged, chicken, child as adult, pneumonia, poison, handicapped, karaoke
Place: south korea

Movie in categories

depressing movies
1828
disabled movies
223
school movies
5855
illness movies
2316
hospital movies
7275
miner movies
185

Most similar movies to With the Girl of Black Soil

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and captivating films with plots about family relations, mental disorder, father daughter relationship, hospital, family problems, life is a bitch and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like With the Girl of Black Soil: I Am Sam (2001), Almost a Man (1966), Cassiopeia (2022), With a Girl of Himalaya (2008), Ponette (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 7.6
 155K
I Am Sam (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, tear jerker, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lawyer, father daughter relationship, mentally challenged, disability, single father, social services, custody, custody battle, child custody, parents and children, parenthood, mental illness ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.1
 230
Almost a Man (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and ...
Style: existential
Plot: psychoanalysis, mental disorder, alienation, world war two, brother brother relationship, flashback, neurosis, hunting, house
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.7
 208
Cassiopeia (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Su-jin who tries to pursue a perfect life as a successful lawyer, single mother and daughter, plans to send her daughter Gina to study abroad in the United States, where her ex-husband lives. When Su-jin gets busier with work, Su-jin's dad, ...
Style: dramatic, disturbing, serious, captivating
Plot: memory loss, car accident, father daughter relationship, daughter, alzheimer's disease, family problems, illness, mother and daughter, father, terminal illness, sick mother, father and daughter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
With a Girl of Himalaya (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Korean executive ventures into the Himalayas in order to deliver the remains of a Nepalese migrant worker to his family.
Style: realistic, emotional, surreal, serious, atmospheric
Plot: family relations, family problems, obsessive quest, fish out of water, dealing with death, misfit, hopes, human nature, escapades, introspection, village, death in the family ...
Place: nepal, korea, asia, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Movie in collections
 7.5
 5K
Ponette (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; ...
Style: touching, realistic, talky, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: children, bereavement, little girl, child, adolescence, coming of age, grief, youth, girl, death, friendship, school ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 7.7
 4K
Eureka (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 217 min.
Story: In Kyushu, southwest Japan, one hot summer morning, a municipal bus is hijacked. In the carnage only three people survive: the driver, a school girl, and her older brother.
Style: bleak, psychological, enigmatic, lyrical, sincere ...
Plot: road trip, on the road, bus driver, haunted by the past, family relations, serial killer, orphan, starting over, hijacking, bus, redemption, asian ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.4
 399
Jewel (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, family problems, family life, couples, social relations, couple relations, society, babies and infants, youth, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: mississippi, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Sting of Death (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
Plot: alienation, mental disorder, marital crisis, marriage, madness, husband, couples, insanity, infidelity, revenge, sexuality, adultery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Movie in collections
The Girl from the Chartreuse (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When the mother forgets to fetch Eva at school in her car, Eva does not know the way home. Panicking and ...
Style: realistic, serious, offbeat
Plot: mountain, mute or deaf, dealing with death, single parent, writer's life, family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, school, hospital, mountaineer, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 7.4
 572
Rosie (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a juvenile lockup, a new ward answers questions: she's Rosie, 13, no parents, a sister Irene, a brother Michel. In flashbacks we find out what happened. She lives with Irene, who's 27, whom Rosie knows is in fact her mother, but ...
Style: depressing, realistic, serious, sexual, crying
Plot: gambling, coming of age, addiction, sex crime, girl, single parent, bus, pretense, mentally challenged, love and romance, youth, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.4
 159
Nord (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of a dysfunctional family in Northern France. Dad is a mean abusive drunk pharmacist, mom is addicted to pills and has incestuous desire for her son, the son is skipping school to fish and daughter is mentally handicapped.
Plot: mother son incest, incest, oedipus complex, older woman younger man relationship, school, daughter, family relations, son, mental disorder, hand job, husband wife relationship, ordinary people ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Karz Chukana Hai (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story: Alcoholic, arrogant, and a slacker, Atmaram, though coming from a poor family, has visions of grandeur, and believes that everyone else is subordinate to his wishes and instructions. This lands him in hot water with his employer, Seth Usman, and as ...
Plot: family relations, hypocrisy, tragic event, loss of job, death of son, remorse, hypocrite, dark hero, redemption, illness, hospital, employer employee relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.6
 554
Three Wise Men (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three middle aged men, long time friends, get together in a normally closed Karaoke bar to drink their failed lives away. Secrets are revealed and sometimes discovered and they sing their miseries one by one during Karaoke sessions. The arrival of a ...
Plot: christmas, terminal illness, mental disorder, grief, improv, christmas present, storytelling, friend, drinking, photographer, friendship, adultery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 7.5
 11K
All or Nothing (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, florida, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 7.8
 13K
Poetry (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, lyrical ...
Plot: loneliness, bullying, self discovery, teenage rape, suicide, existentialism, teenager, introspection, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, grandparent and grandchild ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: korea, japan, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Poppy Shakespeare (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: mental disorder, hospital, mental illness, public health, life is a bitch, mental institution, social problems, patient, mentally unstable, female protagonist, social work, recovery
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Other Side of the Underneath (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A surreal look at the schizophrenia of a group of girls in a therapy session.
Style: surreal, experimental, weird
Plot: female psychopath, alienation, mental disorder, mental institution, mental patient, female protagonist, surrealism, female nudity, feminist, social commentary, mask
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.3
 35
Pink (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in a run-down bar named "Pink," movie follows the lives of people surrounding the bar including its owner Ok-Ryun.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: protest, social problems, loss of job, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, society, small town, workplace, small town life, social issues, urban setting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Movie in collections
Don't Make Me Go (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, teen, road movie
Audience: teen drama
Plot: road trip, terminal illness, father, teenager, life is a bitch, single father, family relations, illness, father and daughter, single parent, teenage girl, search for mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.2
 276
Henri (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a (slightly) retarded woman who dreams of love, sexuality, normality
Style: touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: mentally challenged, love and romance, dull life, unfulfillment, misfit, social misfits, looking for love, death of wife, mental disorder, handicapped, loss of wife, pigeon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.7
 13K
Mouchette (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style: art house, black and white, depressing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, suicide, adolescence, existentialism, solitude, betrayal, sexual abuse, minimalism, children, child abuse, youth, innocence lost ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.3
 121
Bokser (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The films was inspired by true events. Przemyslaw Saleta, World's Kickboxing Champion and European Champion in professional boxing gave a kidney to his seriously ill daughter. There were unexpected complications during the surgery and Saleta ...
Style: touching, suspense, tense, psychological
Plot: boxer, dysfunctional marriage, parent child relationship, kickboxing, world champion, fight, illness, male female relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, athlete, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
She Is Not Crying, She Is Singing (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, family secret, car accident, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Movie in collections
Evergreen Tree (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their birth. When they arrive, ...
Plot: school, poverty, teacher, suffering, school teacher, village, children, education, death of loved one, money problems, illiteracy, rural setting ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence however, they are actually planning something sinister.
Style: disturbing, depressing, bleak, serious, controversial ...
Plot: alienation, midlife crisis, nihilism, society, dysfunctional family, macabre, philosophy, suicide, depression, death, mind control, religion ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, year 1988
Place: germany, europe, australia, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Last Fine Day (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The phone call from Sybille was usual. Her family didn't even know that this call just started their last fine day...
Plot: depressed woman, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, loss of mother, loss of wife, brother sister relationship, suicide, funeral, philosophy, flashback
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.0
 3K
Feed (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
Style: touching, psychological, disturbing, suspense, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anorexia, eating disorder, love, youth, hospital, hospitalization, life is a bitch, adaptation, mental illness, illness, redemption, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Peppermint Candy (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho"s depression becomes ...
Style: bleak, psychological, serious, existential, realistic ...
Plot: suicide, loneliness, haunted by the past, politics, destiny, regret, mental disorder, society, boat, tragedy, murder mystery, alienation ...
Time: 90s, year 1980, year 1987, year 1984, year 1994 ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.5
 143K
Still Alice (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Style: sad, heartbreaking, touching, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: teens
Plot: memory loss, alzheimer's disease, illness, supportive spouse, mother daughter relationship, columbia university, family drama, terminal illness, family bonds, mental illness, psychology, relationships ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.0
 16
Umbrella (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alexander Way, a secondary school teacher with a fractured personal life, finds himself attempting to rescue a woman from a violent sexual attack. Alexander finds himself overpowered, beaten & taken to hospital. Jesiah Jarvus, a famous British ...
Style: captivating, touching, psychological, sentimental, independent film
Plot: family relations, school, marriage, doctor, teacher, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, violence, cancer, hospital, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie