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Hysterical Blindness (2002)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style:
psychological, stylized, touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic, talky, scary, dark ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
friendship, working class, loneliness, oral sex, character study, family relations, love and romance, looking for love, single parent, couple relations, parents and children, best friend, getting home, family problems, lifestyle, hopes, unfulfillment, illness, mental illness, gender, wedding, friends, singleness, couples, society ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new jersey, tokyo
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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 family relations, family problems, couples, love and romance, parents and children, unfulfillment and single parent mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Hysterical Blindness: Wild Iris (2001), Love Streams (1984), Silence Like Glass (1989), Our Sons (1991), The Exploding Girl (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
On a summer break from college, Ivy, a young epileptic woman, struggles to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al crashes with her for the season.
Style:
mumblecore, touching, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, lovers apart, young lovers, looking for love, disability, youth, introspection, husband wife relationship, coming of age, male female relationship, friends, party ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
239
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
Style:
serious, talky, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
sauna, making love, widow, introspection, female friendship, elderly, hopes, human spirit, self discovery, love and romance, life is a bitch, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
poverty, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time:
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Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teenage girl, single mother, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, love and romance, human nature, youth, family problems, couples, estrangement, terminal illness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
georgia, new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jess Gradwell and her teenage daughter boast a superclose relationship. When it comes to sex, however, Mom won't stand for anything less than premarital celibacy. So she gets a pretty healthy dose of her own medicine when she winds up getting ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
22%
420
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, psychological, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, friendship, parents and children, solace, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, family life, family problems, estrangement, impossible love, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vermont
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
lyrical, psychological, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, adulthood, cat, loneliness, self discovery, life is a bitch, couples, parents and children, love and romance, lifestyle, youth, family problems ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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21%
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Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Way We Are is a respectful, unglamorous, and serenely charming portrait of regular people and a Hong Kong town that normally gets a bad rap. It may put you to sleep, but the visit and Ann Hui's quiet touch are exceptionally worthwhile.
Style:
touching, emotional, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, working class, single parent, society, family problems, unfulfillment, poverty, supermarket, little boy, boy, loss of daughter, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
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19%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, talky, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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