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The Exchange (2011)
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Original name: ההתחלפות
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A family man becomes obsessed with looking at his own life out of context.
Style:
psychological, sincere, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, realistic, weird
Plot:
family relations, obsession, family life, midlife crisis, couples, introspection, couple relations, hopes, lie, routine, surrealism, husband wife relationship, israeli, european, female nudity, house, male nudity, profession, bomb shelter, male objectification, female objectification, nudity, man with glasses, bare butt, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and sincere films with plots about couples, family relations, couple relations, hopes, female nudity, introspection and nude mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Exchange: The Puzzle (2010), Post Tenebras Lux (2012), All God's Children Can Dance (2008), Things Behind the Sun (2006), No One Writes to the Colonel (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Maria's family give her a puzzle for her 50th birthday, and she loves it. Not only does the patient housewife have fun solving the puzzle, she's also really good at them. Overflowing with enthusiasm for her new-found passion, she goes back ...
Style:
touching, serious, sentimental, gloomy, realistic
Plot:
puzzle, family relations, introspection, contests and competitions, rise to the top, hopes, ambition, family life, bittersweet, midlife crisis, obsession, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, argentina
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, cerebral, experimental ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
male nudity, female nudity, sex therapy, dream, countryside, family life, family relations, society, swinger couple, couples, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days working his dead-end job and figuring out his complex feelings for his girlfriend ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
sexual relations, couple relations, introspection, single parent, family relations, couples, parents and children, mother son relationship, existentialism, sexual content, nudity, cause and meaning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
pension, colonel, hopes, small town, parents and children, family relations, downfall, couple relations, haunted by the past, small town life, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
longing, couple relations, suicide, death, couples, hopes, betrayal, dishonesty, starting over, human nature, love, lie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
25%
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, psychological, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
mysterious character, introspection, couple relations, society, lifestyle, obsession, social differences, little girl, beach, twentysomething life, ocean, swimming pool ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
costa rica, latin america
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, rape, female nudity, introspection, family problems, couples, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, couple relations, haunted by the past, family in crisis, flashback ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Violeta is a married dentist on a normal working day. While listening to a message left on the cell she enters in despair. The message of her husband, Djalma, says he is leaving her and going to another city.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, psychological, erotic ...
Plot:
self discovery, starting over, breakup, family problems, couples, couple relations, introspection, hopes, unfulfillment, minimalism, suspicion, singleness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
couples, couple relations, realism, social relations, village, village life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, care, relationships, minimalism, dealing with death, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Switzerland, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, family life, teenage life, self discovery, introspection, hopes, parents and children, siblings relations, mother daughter relationship, arab, youth ...
Place:
tunisia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
couple relations, accident, family problems, couples, family relations, small town, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
disorder, redemption, friendship, friends, introspection, family life, life turned upside down, family relations, immigrant, adoption, misfit, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
21%
177
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
Eli is a 32 year old man who has problems with relationships with women. Hagar is a surrogate, an alternative partner for practical, sexual therapy. They meet once a week and practice a relationship and intimacy in laboratory conditions. The ...
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
israeli, therapy, male female relationship, childhood trauma, laboratory, sex crime, trauma, male nudity, female nudity, male pubic hair, nudity, female pubic hair ...
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
cyclist, life is a bitch, couple relations, hopes, disability, parents and children, human nature, misfit, human spirit, redemption, family relations, new love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
21%
175
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ilan Ben-Natan is a man on his sixties and a well-known professor of astrophysics at the University of Haifa. He is married with Naomi, a 28 years old, attractive book illustrator. Inclined to suspect, he finds out her wife's betrayal and then ...
Style:
realistic, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
affair, murder, obsession, couples, love triangle, redemption, crumbling marriage, husband and wife, investigation, disposing of a dead body, jealousy, lust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
21%
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of ...
Style:
realistic, art house, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, leaving home, teenage life, teenage love, introspection, farm, unfulfillment, small town, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
21%
533
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.
Style:
realistic, psychological, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
female nudity, couple relations, couples, dealing with death, choir, husband wife relationship, police, funeral, letter, male pubic hair, male nudity, pedophile ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go, everything is awry. Nothing is going well for Christine. Jean leaves her. Her oldest friends, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, introspection, breakup, couple relations, self discovery, countryside, family problems, disorder, rural setting, old woman, family crisis, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, normandy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
About the emotional upheaval of a Palestinian couple's last moments before leaving voluntarily Jerusalem, their native city, to forge a brighter future in France.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hopes, couples, self discovery, society, introspection, leaving home, interracial relations, couple relations, crumbling marriage, emigration, relocation, nostalgia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem, middle east, palestinian authority
Similarity:
20%
133
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the couple’s happiness seems within reach. Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
couple relations, pregnancy, family problems, couples, family relations, babies and infants, mentally unstable, losing-it hero, introspection, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Elisa, a thirty-eight-year old woman, leaves for a week with her husband and young daughter on a vacation to a house in the country. Everything is going for her: she has a successful professional career, loves her family, has enough money for a ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
couple relations, sex scene, countryside, family problems, estrangement, couples, family relations, husband wife relationship, relocation, domestic disturbance, crumbling marriage, old woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A drama about a family's effort to save their antique restoration business.
Style:
psychological, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, family business, family relations, parents and children, workplace, disagreement, aging, unfulfillment, loss of partner, store, estrangement, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
20%
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712
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, breakup, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, sister, death in the family, sister sister relationship, female nudity, alienation, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Jerusalem's orthodox neighborhoods, it's Succoth, seven days celebrating life's essentials in a sukkah, a temporary shack of both deprivation and hospitality. A devout couple, Moshe and Mali, married nearly five years and ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
rabbi, orthodox jew, charity, religious, childlessness, uninvited guest, redemption, religions or cults, couples, family relations, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
This off-beat drama about man's search for meaning amidst the ache of despair chronicles Finn, an introspective English teacher entering a mid-life crisis impelled by a recent tragedy, as he sets afoot selling encyclopedias to the town locals.
Style:
serious, contemplative, atmospheric, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, hopes, haunted by the past, estrangement, single parent, small town life, profanity, cause and meaning, family business, midlife crisis, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new hampshire
Similarity:
20%
129
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
couples, family problems, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, destiny, hopes, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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, couples, society, working class, introspection, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, kolkata
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, atmospheric, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, on the road, pregnancy, gypsy, family relations, travel, european, nudity, folklore ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
europe, romania
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is simultaneously his most personal and most provocative film. A film about growing older, about losing, ...
Style:
sexy, serious, sincere, erotic, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual relations, eroticism, human nature, introspection, love and romance, couples, physical appearance, female nudity, nudity, reminiscence, boat, river ...
Similarity:
20%
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