Movies like Melancholia 2008
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Melancholia (2008)
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Original name: Mapanglaw
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 450 min.
Story:
A story about victims of summary executions. Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies.
Style:
bleak, psychological, serious, stylized, atmospheric, slow cinema, psychedelic, aesthetic, experimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
sex show, friendship, survival, friends, life is a bitch, danger, wilderness, haunted by the past, prostitute, pimp, therapy, underground, slow burn, apocalypse, escapades, society, chaos, social relations, political unrest, obsessive quest, state affairs, dealing with death, dystopian future, jungle, military ...
Time:
2000s, future
Place:
asia
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Most similar movies to Melancholia
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and atmospheric films with plots about life is a bitch, society, danger, survival, friendship, underground and haunted by the past mostly in Drama, Crime and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Melancholia: Norte, the End of History (2013), From What Is Before (2014), One Hundred Mornings (2009), Dealer (2004), Freedom (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 250 min.
Story:
A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when ...
Style:
philosophical, realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
double murder, social problems, punishment, government corruption, revenge, immigrant, social relations, society, working class, village life, prison, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia, india
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 338 min.
Story:
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation ...
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, realistic, serious, intense ...
Plot:
village life, forces of nature, isolation, chaos, danger, confined, clergy, society, fired from the job, army, death, very little dialogue ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971, year 1972, year 1970
Place:
the philippines
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81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive this crisis.
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
survival, infidelity, couple relations, post apocalypse, human nature, danger, dishonesty, betrayal, life is a bitch, vestiges of humanity, chaos, couples ...
Time:
future
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In an impressive follow up to his debut film Forest, Benedek Fliegauf tells the uncompromising story of a day in the life of a drug dealer. His clients include the leader of a religious sect, a friend who needs a final fix, a former lover who has ...
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, stylized, contemplative ...
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, estrangement, misfit, social misfits, drug dealing, overdose, society, nihilism, underground, criminal heroes, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, psychological, surreal, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
depression, wedding, end of the world, apocalypse, sister sister relationship, nihilism, collision, mental health, disaster, female nudity, mental disorder, human nature ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Similarity:
83%
385
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot:
sea, lizard, disorder, danger, survival, fish out of water, communication problem, hunger, escapades, culture clash, post soviet, underground ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, morocco
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Day One, is an NBC made for tv sci-fi movie. It was originally written as a tv series pilot about apartment residents that survive an unknown worldwide cataclysm that destroys modern infrastructure. The series was slated to fill the Heroes time slot ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
survival, group of strangers, vestiges of humanity, apocalypse, worldwide chaos, chosen one, dystopian future, society, life is a bitch, danger, chaos, escapades ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, psychological, emotional, postmodern ...
Plot:
immigrant, social decay, haunted by the past, introspection, state affairs, revolution, mental institution, society, misfit, anthropology, existentialism, underground ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
portugal, africa
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings ...
Style:
captivating, serious, tense, psychological, stylized ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, couples, escapades, danger, friendship, women, biopic, woman, friends, visceral, struggle for survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 90s
Place:
greenland
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of friends travels to the beach to encourage Jason, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. The journey is rooted in nostalgia and desire for a meaningful farewell, although the friends avoid the subject of Jason's illness. Some time ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, buddies, terminal illness, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, friends, dealing with death, fighting illness, illness, relationship problems, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Philippe lives in a world controlled by a caste system. Those who play the "game" correctly become higher and more powerful. Phillipe plays the game well but his wife wants him to return to reality. Its a love story after marriage.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, stylized, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
couple relations, introspection, fighting the system, crumbling marriage, human nature, social decay, society, estrangement, life is a bitch, couples, dark humor, emotionless ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
TV Movie Drama - Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
survival, friendship, hopes, fighting crime, danger, right hand man, haunted by the past, negligence, rescue, family life, curses spells and rituals, death in the family ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
27%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Chinese peasant is given the responsibility of protecting his village's special dairy cow during a particularly harsh winter in 1940.
Style:
touching, semi serious, atmospheric, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
world war two, friendship, wartime life, escapades, life is a bitch, danger, survival, dark humor, war, chinese history, refugee, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 2006, a journalist in financial problems, a woman who dresses as a man and a troubled taxi driver become friends, and gradually, an awkward, strong emotional bond emerges among them, especially when they decide to play a confidence game.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, injustice, life is a bitch, danger, drug abuse, social decay, prostitute, society, drug dealing, unemployment, youth, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
25%
606
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, France, Belgium, South Korea, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, rough, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot:
politics, cannibalism, desert, captivity, prison life, life is a bitch, confined, against humanity, starvation, re-education, state affairs, society ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century, year 1960
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
25%
825
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, society, photojournalist, life is a bitch, immigrant, female protagonist, post traumatic stress, post traumatic stress disorder, captive, captivity, hostage, war correspondent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sicily, italy
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Slovenia, Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A psychological portrait of a woman traveling home in a war-torn world.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
on the road, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, getting home, survival, danger, society, wartime life, introspection, dystopia, runaway child ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
child prostitute, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social decay, youth, danger, society, prostitution, social worker, police, children, call girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
manila philippines, the philippines, asia
Similarity:
24%
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248
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Hong Sang-Soo’s Lost in the Mountains (South Korea, 32min) the visitor is the supremely self-centred Mi-Sook, who drives to Jeonju on impulse to see her classmate Jin-Young – only to discover that her friend is having an affair with their ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, stylized
Plot:
social relations, couple relations, haunted by the past, unlikely couple, down on your luck, professor, abduction, realism, island, illicit affair, writers, power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, japan, korea, the philippines
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A drama centered on the friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, realistic, lgbt cinema, bleak ...
Plot:
convent, nun, lesbian interest, culture clash, friendship, traditional versus modern, society, danger, clergy, lgbtq, lgbt, lesbian nun ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
romania, transylvania, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
destiny, supernatural, terrorism, danger, estrangement, haunted by the past, teenage life, death in the family, dealing with death, religions or cults, afterlife, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdistan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, touching, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, human spirit, wartime life, life is a bitch, hopes, elderly, family problems, haunted by the past, kurd, dealing with death, mountain, lost
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, powerful, neo noir, avant garde ...
Plot:
redemption, mind game, friendship, melancholy, family relations, intimacy, revenge, sexual abuse, poverty, underground, european, sex crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hungary, europe, budapest
Similarity:
22%
866
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
forbidden love, physical appearance, losing-it hero, family relations, mysterious character, love and romance, couple relations, family problems, wilderness, human nature, isolation, obsession ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, South Africa, Norway, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear ...
Style:
bleak, stylized, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
desert, dogme 95, stranded, shakespeare, dogma, isolation, culture clash, rescue, life is a bitch, danger, tragedy, bus ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, namibia, new jersey, australia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Revengers Tragedy is a film adaptation of the 1606 play The Revenger's Tragedy It was directed by Alex Cox and adapted for the screen by Cox's fellow Liverpudlian, Frank Cottrell Boyce. The film stars Christopher Eccleston as the ...
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, serious, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
wedding, rape, revenge, murder, dystopia, vengeance, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, dystopian future, dark humor, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
future
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On the one hand, there's the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there's the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the ...
Style:
serious, sincere, atmospheric, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
militant, survival, life is a bitch, family in danger, on the road, starvation, parents and children, desert, escapades, social relations, emigrant, survivor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, haunted by the past, on the road, life is a bitch, city life, self discovery, female friendship, sexuality, sensuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, shanghai, new york, europe
Similarity:
21%
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