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The God of Wood (2010)
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Original name: El dios de madera
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Yao (Madi Diocou) and Moroccan Rachid (Soufiane Ouaarab) arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa (Marisa Paredes) working in her boutique. High-strung and irritable, Maria lives with her gay son, Rober (Nao Albet), who, like many other things in life, is a disappointment to her. Rachid, meanwhile, is doing just fine working as a hairstylist in a beauty salon; Rober is hopelessly in love with him. When Yao starts sleeping in Rober's flat, a confrontation between him and Maria suddenly becomes inevitable, and when it comes, what could have been an embarrassment is actually handled with grace.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, psychological, captivating, sexy, touching, serious, sexual
Plot:
immigrants, love and romance, culture clash, fall in love, gender, family relations, parents and children, society, lifestyle, gays and lesbians, sexuality, lgbt, gay interest, gay crush, misfit, interracial relations, hopes, prostitute, male nudity, massage, pizza, nude, urban, pubic hair, male bare butt ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
spain, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, family relations, society, parents and children, couples, gender and fall in love mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The God of Wood: Solitary Fragments (2007), Love Belongs to Everyone (2006), The Ages of Lulu (1990), The Best Day of My Life (2002), Darker Than Midnight (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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.
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loneliness, self discovery, family relations, human nature, hopes, terminal illness, parents and children, loss of mother, loss of child, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, loss of daughter ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of good behavior after a rape sentence. His parents who run a modest barbershop, skeptic André and Rita, desperately try to keep him out of girl ...
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Time:
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Place:
europe, belgium
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sensual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the ...
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
spain, europe, madrid
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching, queer cinema
Plot:
social misfits, lgbt, youth, family relations, friendship, parents and children, society, gay, androgyny, leaving home, boyhood, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, opposites attract, family relations, friends, immigrants, love and romance, introspection, youth, single parent, coming of age, friendship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching
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lighthouse, disability, orphan, family relations, love and romance, dealing with death, gays and lesbians, youth, hopes, young lovers, gender, starting over ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After living on the tough streets of LA for a while, India hopes that every gay basher will meet his destiny. In this case Destiny is a black, 6 foot, high heel wearing, gun toting, drag queen with an attitude and a soft place in her heart for ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sexy, talky ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, social misfits, best friends, misfit, society, love and romance, social relations, lgbtq, gay bashing, gay erotica, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris (Andoy Ranay) is a documentary filmmaker with a well-regarded body of work and a large community of ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn ...
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, culture clash, haunted by the past, love affair, family problems, estrangement, couples, fall in love, parents and children, missing child, single parent, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
lifestyle, teenage life, fall in love, false accusation, family relations, love and romance, society, youth, destructive relationship, half brother, chess, high school ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 107 min.
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
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touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
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Plot:
fall in love, love affair, unlikely couple, social differences, society, hopes, culture clash, terminal illness, couples, love and romance, interracial relations, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
cambodia, germany, europe, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
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Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Martín Santomé has been woking in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.
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emotional, stylized, serious, touching, sentimental ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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