Movies like Giant 2009

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Giant (2009)
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Giant (2009)
Original name: Gigante
Genre: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.
Style: sincere, clever, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic
Plot: security guard, janitor, supermarket, nightshift, video surveillance, obsession, stalking, suburbs, voyeurism, dishonesty, internet dating, boss, brother sister relationship, worker, first date, blind date, uncle nephew relationship, warning, surveillance camera, destruction of property, protestor, working class, blue collar, job, theft ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: uruguay, latin america
Keyword: movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about society, family relations, love and romance, parents and children, couples, family problems and bittersweet mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Giant: The Delay (2012), Las Acacias (2011), The Salesman (2011), Liverpool (2008), Stopped on Track (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Delay (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Agustín forgets things; he is aging and he knows it. María is never alone: she watches over everyone, sleeps very little, and works too much. She’s increasingly overwhelmed. One day, on impulse, María decides to abandon Agustín. The tightening ...
Style: touching, atmospheric, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, society, working class, family life, mental illness, single parent, urban ghetto life, poverty, old man, nursing, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay, latin america
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Las Acacias (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Rubén is a middle-aged Argentinian truck driver transporting timber between Paraguay and Buenos Aires. One day, at a truck stop, he picks up a young Paraguayan woman, Jacinta, whom his employer had told to take to Buenos Aires. To Rubén's ...
Style: road movie, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: delivery, on the road, hitchhiker, unlikely couple, introspection, human nature, hopes, truck, mother daughter relationship, baby, brother sister relationship, border crossing ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: argentina, paraguay, latin america, buenos aires argentina, south america
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The Salesman (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: With an enthralling central performance by Gilbert Sicotte, this masterful debut feature examines the life of the top car salesman in a fading Quebec town as events challenge the 67-year-old’s sense of identity and the meaning of life at the most ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: obsession, aging, working class, bittersweet, retiring, workplace situations, small town, society, elderly, social relations, countryside, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Liverpool (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: sailor, homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A director with two weeks left on his latest production fakes an ulcer to pursue a romance with his lead actress.
Style: contemplative, postmodern, clever, sincere, serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, dishonesty, sexual relations, screenwriter, female nudity, theater, nudity, manipulation, under the surface, artists and showbiz, director, storytelling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bucharest, romania
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Stopped on Track (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style: realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, children, wife, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
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44%
The Measure of a Man (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, social ...
Plot: unemployment, economic crisis, working class, society, layoff, job interview, supermarket, coworker relationship, petty theft, social realism, economics, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015
Place: france
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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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39%
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A Useful Life (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Spain
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.
Style: realistic, contemplative, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: self discovery, theater, introspection, cinema, society, fired from the job, social problems, quitting job, social relations, loss of job, dialogue, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, uruguay
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38%
Common Ground (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, clever, realistic ...
Plot: couples, family relations, family life, destiny, love and romance, human nature, college, family in crisis, social worker, student life, society, parents and children ...
Place: latin america, argentina
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36%
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Amexicano (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, friendship, social differences, human nature, society, deportation, culture clash, working class, unemployment, interracial friendship, unrequited love, unlikely hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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36%
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The Spectator (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Valeria is a passive onlooker to her own life in Turin, and she grows so obsessed with the activities of her neighbor Massimo that when he moves to Rome she decides to follow him. There she meets and unexpectedly befriends Massimo's companion ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot: voyeurism, obsession, fall in love, destructive relationship, love triangle, redemption, dishonesty, stalking, forbidden love, estrangement, couples, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe, italy, turin italy
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35%
The Magnetic Tree (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local ...
Style: surreal, sentimental, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: family relations, family life, homecoming, parents and children, road not taken, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, unfulfilled love, family gatherings
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
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35%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Secret of the Grain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 151 min.
Story: At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, culinary ...
Plot: working class, immigrant, father in law daughter in law relationship, cooking, food, ex husband ex wife relationship, restaurant, business venture, family problems, follow your dream, hopes, family life ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, africa, middle east, europe
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Children of Invention (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, sad ...
Plot: youth, single parent, working class, family problems, suburbs, family relations, society, siblings relations, eviction, parents and children, child, poverty ...
Place: boston, usa
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Ten Tiny Love Stories (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ten women give monologues to camera, each remembering a man who was important in their lives.
Style: realistic, talky, sincere, clever, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loss of virginity, gender, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love affair, looking for love, dangerous attraction, couple relations, unfulfilled love, sexual relations, male female relationship, monologue ...
Time: 21st century
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The Holy Girl (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the ...
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot: teenage girl, virginity, perversion, doctor, youth, love and romance, society, couple relations, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, sin ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: argentina, usa, los angeles
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29%
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Colossal Youth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story: After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style: contemplative, serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, starting over, hopes, misfit, addiction, urban ghetto life, husband wife relationship, anthropology, decolonization, poetry ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
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Las cosas como son (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jerónimo is an antisocial person who rents rooms to foreign people, and then registers their belongings. Sanna, a beautiful and funny Nordic girl arrives at Jerónimo's house, bringing a breath of fresh air to his life. He becomes obsessed ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, serious, psychological ...
Plot: under the surface, obsession, foreigner, wooing, stalking, cooking, laptop, hiding, mural, photograph, dancing, spying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, chile, santiago chile
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Charlie Says (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: lifestyle, love affair, cons and scams, teachers and students, couples, infidelity, celebrity culture, betrayal, social relations, dishonesty, love and romance, small town ...
Time: 21st century
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Cold Water of the Sea (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica, France, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On New Year's holidays, Mariana (21) and Rodrigo (30) drive to the coast where he has to sell a property. There, they find Karina (7), late at night and in the middle of nowhere. She tells then she ran away from home.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: mysterious character, society, obsession, couple relations, lifestyle, introspection, social differences, little girl, beach, twentysomething life, ocean, swimming pool ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, costa rica
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All Hell Let Loose (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Minoo returns to her family in Sweden to attend her sister Gita's wedding. Her mother and father believe that she has disgraced the family having worked as a stripper.
Style: touching, serious, sincere, realistic, bilingual
Plot: family relations, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, overprotective parent, dysfunctional family, stripper, wedding party, argument, bad father, father, hair salon, mother ...
Place: eastern europe
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Solitary Fragments (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, sincere, aesthetic ...
Plot: loneliness, self discovery, family relations, hopes, human nature, parents and children, terminal illness, loss of mother, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, loss of child, nudity ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: spain, europe, madrid
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27%
Little Jerusalem (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, culture clash, society, lifestyle, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, infidelity, social differences, youth, male female relationship ...
Place: middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
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27%
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Hanezu (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on a Japanese novel written by Masako Bando, the story revolves around Kayoko who lives with one man (Tetsuya) but is in love with another (Takumi).
Style: serious, sincere, contemplative, realistic, slow cinema ...
Plot: village, social differences, village life, human nature, society, social relations, love, male female relationship, pregnant woman, sculptor, pregnancy, mountain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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The World (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Japan, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: “The World” is a theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, sixteen kilometers from the Chinese capital, designed around scaled representations of the world’s famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.The site is seen ...
Style: touching, psychological, sentimental, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot: self discovery, fall in love, social relations, society, amusement park, wedding, couples, bittersweet, immigrant, prostitute, artists and showbiz, misfit ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: china, tibet, new york, usa, asia ...
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26%
7 Days in Havana (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cuba, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A young American boy is trying to break into the acting business, and goes to Cuba during a film festival.
Style: anthology, contemplative, realistic, captivating, intellectual ...
Plot: self discovery, city life, introspection, society, lifestyle, culture clash, tour guide, musician, actor, visceral, lgbt, latin dancing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, cuba, havana cuba
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26%
Fly with the Crane (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijin. (TIFF)
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot: family relations, parents and children, family problems, death in the family, elderly, little girl, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, cousin cousin relationship, little boy, youth, cousin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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Silence in Dreamland (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those four walls to a timeless magic land where the sea speaks ...
Style: captivating, touching, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: loneliness, widow, old lady, dog, death of husband, isolation, imagination, female nudity, death, bird, old woman, sea ...
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