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Up to Date (1989)
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Original name: On a Moonlit Night
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An American journalist works for a French newspaper. He is writing an article about the reaction against people with AIDS, without knowing he is infected too. Once he finds out, he decides to cut off himself leaving his wife and daughter.
Style:
emotional, medical drama, art house, intercultural, cult film
Plot:
aids, journalist, hiv, discrimination, branding iron, social commentary, media, illness, investigative journalism, isolation, disease, family drama, prejudice, investigative reporter, mortality, ethical dilemma, loneliness, tragedy, father daughter relationship, sacrifice, newspaper, terminal illness, realism, identity crisis, public health ...
Time:
80s, contemporary
Place:
france, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, realistic and art house films with plots about intimate, urban, grief, family drama, social commentary, realism and illness mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Up to Date: HIV: Si Heidi, Si Ivy at Si V (2010), Climbers High (2008), Mía (2011), She Lives! (1973), Spadijer: One Life (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Story:
A story about a documentarist who interviews a number of individuals who acquired the HIV virus.
Style:
realistic, educational, compassionate, sad, ethical
Plot:
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Place:
the philippines
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Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
tokyo
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84%
228
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, art house, independent film, tear jerker
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.
Style:
emotional, poignant, tense, psychological, realistic
Plot:
tragedy, tragic romance, loss, family drama, extramarital affair, betrayal, guilt, infidelity, domestic drama, bittersweet, moral dilemma, regret ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, tear jerker, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
aids, hiv, single mother, mother son relationship, family drama, terminal illness, female protagonist, mortality, grief, branding iron, social issues, loss of spouse ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Seven people from different walks of life give their blood sample for ELISA Test - AIDS Screening. To avoid the tension of waiting, they decide to bribe the technician and know the results earlier. They come to know only one among them has AIDS. ...
Style:
tension, tense, emotional, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
aids, hiv, uncertainty, anxiety, problem, analysis, social problems, illness, secret, realism, ethics, humanity ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. ...
Style:
reflective, contemplative, emotional, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, loneliness, scientist, family drama, professor, estrangement, introspection, reconciliation, family relations, parenting, empathy, aging ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
58%
770
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
Style:
emotional, reflective
Plot:
gay father, father daughter relationship, gay parent, gay interest, gay, coming of age, female protagonist, aids, grief, family drama, family history, biopic ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
san francisco, paris france, california
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A man of words is forced to become a man of action as John discovers the secret bucket list of his ill son Robin. The two abscond from the hospital to fulfill the boy's greatest wishes - as the police pursue John for kidnapping.
Style:
emotional, tear jerker, life affirming, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
father son relationship, bucket list, family drama, illness, road trip, bittersweet, hopes, heartwarming, mortality, grief, hospital, terminal illness ...
Place:
cape town south africa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tim Matheson play a doctor that treats children with AIDS. He tries to convince his colleagues that the children got the disease from their parents. Based on a true story.
Style:
compassionate, medical drama, emotional, bleak, inspirational ...
Plot:
biopic, hospital, public health, aids, social commentary, activism, mortality, diagnosis, investigation, medical, children, nurse ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, religious drama, bleak ...
Plot:
faith, intolerance, hiv, illness, family problems, aids, social problems, life is a bitch, sick, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, drug addict ...
Place:
warsaw poland
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
poignant, melancholic, reflective, existential, compassionate ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, tension, art house, melancholic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
terminal illness, family drama, compassion, sacrifice, hopes, celebration, religion, grief, bereavement, intimate, resilience, ethical dilemma ...
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 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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297
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 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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Country: Germany, Turkey, France
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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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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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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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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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
aids, terminal illness, reconciliation, family drama, illness, gay, mother daughter relationship, grandmother, family conflict, lgbtq, gay lead character, grief ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot:
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