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How I Ended This Summer (2010)
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Original name: Как я провёл этим летом
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Two men at a remote Arctic base begin mistrusting each other after an important radio message.
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, suspense, slow cinema, aesthetic, relaxing, serious ...
Plot:
wilderness, radio, solitude, isolation, survival, arctic, human nature, danger, confined, dishonesty, snow, winter, intern, family tragedy, disaster, wilderness survival, skinny dipping, cold weather, psychology, nature, mental disorder, landscape, trapped, desolation, blaster ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, antarctica, russian
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Most similar movies to How I Ended This Summer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, realistic and atmospheric films with plots about survival, isolation, nature, danger, wilderness, human nature and snow mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like How I Ended This Summer: Zero Kelvin (1995), The Turin Horse (2011), Siberia, Monamour (2011), The Return (2003), Endless Night (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, serious ...
Plot:
survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, wilderness, disaster, snow, male nudity, poet, frozen, schizophrenia, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
greenland, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Style:
slow cinema, thought provoking, bleak, black and white, serious ...
Plot:
horse, poverty, survival, destiny, nihilism, desperation, philosopher, everyday life, family relations, human nature, isolation, dying ...
Time:
19th century, distant future, turn of the century, year 2011, 90s ...
Place:
turin italy, europe, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
wilderness, elderly, isolation, orphan, life is a bitch, danger, woods, nature, wilderness survival, survival, post soviet, old man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
frostbite, survival, hypothermia, snowstorm, rescue, wilderness, heroes, danger, babies and infants, family life, forces of nature, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Style:
bleak, road movie, cerebral, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, brother, childhood, journey, father son relationship, children, survival, parents and children, existentialism, wilderness, road trip, abusive father ...
Time:
year 2003, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and ...
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, talky, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, solitude, frustration, loneliness, depression, family problems, survival, moral dilemma, violence, justice, chase, isolation ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A routine run for a truck driver turns into a nightmare he can’t escape in this psychological drama from filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. Georgy (Viktor Nemets) is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police ...
Style:
road movie, disturbing, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, murder, life is a bitch, social relations, disorder, on the road, countryside, human nature, nothing goes right, underground, suicide, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Fed up with the hectic, senseless world he lives in, Teddy decides to settle down alone in Siberia, in the midst of winter, in a hut by the shore of Lake Baikal. After an initial period of elation in front of the splendor and magic of unspoiled ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
nature, solitude, loneliness, lake, friendship, saving a life, food, poacher, survival, rescue, isolation, disaster ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
siberia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the second feature film by Russian director Vasily Sigarev, fate brings ordeals to characters that find themselves immersed in deep crisis; they must seek the strength to cope with adversity. In a remote and cold region of Russia, Galya, a ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, destiny, tragic love, family problems, life is a bitch, father son relationship, hopes, love, children, dialogue, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, mumblecore ...
Plot:
female nudity, survival, isolation, social relations, confined, wilderness, snow, party, lesbian sex, male nudity, yoga, female pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern ...
Style:
neorealism, serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
isolated place, village life, social relations, isolation, social decay, loneliness, landscape, boat, yacht, survival, nature, summer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
wilderness survival, wilderness, hunger, human nature, cannibalism, moral dilemma, danger, isolation, hopes, snow, mountain, winter ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
wilderness, danger, farm, family relations, nature, wilderness survival, isolation, winter, mountain, arctic, landscape, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual images of the countryside and cottage.
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, depressing, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
art, biopic, countryside, childhood, youth, mother and son, landscape, mental disorder, artist, minimal dialogue, spirituality, underground ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
24%
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 ...
Plot:
sex show, friendship, friends, haunted by the past, wilderness, danger, survival, life is a bitch, pimp, therapy, prostitute, underground ...
Time:
2000s, future
Place:
asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, isolation, human nature, confined, misfit, doctors and patients, society, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
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%
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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:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, nature, arctic, isolation, rescue, human spirit, stranded, hopes, airplane, winter, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, post world war two, 1950s, year 1953
Place:
canada, antarctic, persia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
It happened in the sixties, during the political thaw in the Soviet Union... but our story unfolds in the coldest terrain of the country. It was an unexplored and unbeaten terrain of boundless ice-field and forbidding rocks. This was the proper ...
Style:
tense, harsh, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
gold rush, gold, survival, disaster, friendship between men, society, danger, cold, research, love and romance, lifestyle, landscape ...
Time:
60s
Place:
siberia, ussr, soviet union, russia
Similarity:
22%
473
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, emotional, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
mental illness, doctors and patients, rebelliousness, mentally unstable, mental institution, introspection, political unrest, human nature, hopes, state affairs, misfit, psychology ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch ...
Style:
tense, bleak, harsh, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, male nudity, native american, revenge, escape, wilderness, temptation, native, legend, jealousy, love triangle, tragic love ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, middle ages, 18th century
Place:
canada, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
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924
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After wrecking their car in the middle of the desert, two couples find themselves stranded with few supplies. When the heat intensifies and their precious water supply dwindles, the frantic friends begin betraying each other in the hopes of ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
desert, wilderness, stranded in the desert, survival, isolation, dehydration, danger, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, thirst, wilderness survival, pregnancy, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Five juvenile delinquents break out of jail and attempt to make their way to a house in the Mendoza foothills of Argentina.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, survival, hopes, wilderness, getting home, escape, youth, escapades, human nature, society, social decay, disintegration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poetic realism, argentina
Similarity:
21%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, island, isolation, storm, wilderness, escapades, danger, forces of nature, parent child relationship, reconciliation, courage, family drama ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Switzerland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. A deep mystery surrounds him.
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, serious, contemplative ...
Plot:
prison, starting over, parents and children, on the road, self discovery, confined, isolation, family relations, jungle, murder, curses spells and rituals, minimal dialogue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, road movie ...
Plot:
boy, on the road, father son relationship, parents and children, family relations, human nature, hopes, family life, alcohol abuse, coming of age, journey, death of mother ...
Place:
russia, black sea, moscow russia, ukraine, crimea
Similarity:
21%
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