Movies like The Town 1997

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The Town (1997)
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The Town (1997)
Original name: Kasaba
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of a family living in a small godforsaken town in Turkey seen through the eyes of children and dealing with the growing complexity when one becomes an adult.
Style: aesthetic, art house, black and white, slow cinema, independent film
Plot: art, minimalism, muslim, alienation, small town, school, children, winter, teacher, student, snow, death, summer, sleeping, cemetery, job, boy, hunger, dream, family relations, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, girl, spring, brother sister relationship ...
Place: turkey, middle east

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Most similar movies to The Town

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, art house and contemplative films with plots about family relations, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, parents and children, village, mother daughter relationship and death mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Town: Distant (2002), Three Monkeys (2008), Times and Winds (2006), Climates (2006), Clouds of May (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Distant (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Uzak/Distant chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf, but the mingling of their lives does little ...
Style: sincere, bleak, art house, lyrical, stylized ...
Plot: loneliness, unemployment, midlife crisis, isolation, art, complex characters, family relations, culture clash, photography, love and romance, introspection, existentialism ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, turkey, maghreb, balkan, istanbul turkey
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Three Monkeys (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A family battles against the odds to stay together when small lies grow into an extravagant cover-up. In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, art house, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, political corruption, family secret, injustice, family life, workplace, innocence lost, life is a bitch, boss and employee, hidden identity, hidden truth, politics ...
Place: turkey, middle east, maghreb, balkan, istanbul turkey
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Times and Winds (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their ...
Style: psychological, touching, serious, rough, art house ...
Plot: coming of age, solar eclipse, youth, islam, friendship, dream, teenage life, society, introspection, generation gap, family life, children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poetic realism, turkey
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56%
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Climates (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, aesthetic ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, crumbling marriage, unsupportive spouse, dishonesty, sexual relations, rape, winter, realism, lonely ...
Time: 2000s
Place: middle east, turkey, sarajevo, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Clouds of May (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 130 min.
Story: This is a movie within a movie, about a director, Muzaffer, who goes back to his hometown to make a film using a cast of local people (based on the director Ceylan's first feature, Kasaba). While Muzaffer is around, his mother complains about ...
Style: contemplative, aesthetic, slow cinema, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: filmmaking, alienation, art, lonely, family relations, innocence lost, artists and showbiz, human nature, parents and children, rural setting, urban setting, turtle ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
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50%
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Honey (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life.His father is a beekeeper whose bees have disappeared unexpectedly, ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, sentimental, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot: woods, parents and children, family relations, introspection, hopes, father son relationship, youth, everyday life, only child, betrayal, nature, honey ...
Time: year 2009
Place: turkey, middle east
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49%
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Dry Summer (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.
Style: art house, educational, black and white, tense, realistic ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, summer, social commentary, muslim, animal abuse, water, prison, drought, rural setting, farmer, village, siblings relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: middle east, turkey
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45%
The Waiting Room (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Zeki Demirkubuz plays the lead character Ahmet who wants to make a film about Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'. He falls into a deep depression, loses interest in the film and life, pushes those who love him away and cannot ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot: depressed man, betrayal, crime and punishment, director, family in crisis, family relations, life is a bitch, male female relationship, creative block, relationships, crisis of conscience, depression ...
Place: turkey
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42%
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Egg (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the ...
Style: realistic, serious, art house, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: village life, poet, love and romance, homecoming, parents and children, family relations, dealing with death, village, curses spells and rituals, small town life, small town, loss of mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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41%
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Winter Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Aydin, a retired actor, owns a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla, who is coping with her recent divorce. During the winter, snow covers the ground and boredom brings the return of old memories, pushing ...
Style: philosophical, art house, meditative, independent film, lyrical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, divorce, family problems, winter, art, storytelling, snow, social differences, haunted by the past, couple relations, dull life, estrangement ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: middle east, maghreb, cappadocia turkey, turkey
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39%
The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Sweden, Qatar
Duration: 188 min.
Story: An aspiring writer returns to his native village in rural Turkey, where he becomes overwhelmed by his father's debts.
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, contemplative, erotic ...
Plot: writers, society, childhood, debt, family conflict, family relations, homecoming, father son relationship, family crisis, countryside, gambler, slow burn ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, maghreb, turkey
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39%
About Dry Grasses (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 197 min.
Story: A young art teacher hopes to be transfered to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of innapropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further ...
Style: dramatic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, interesting
Plot: love letter, female teacher, school teacher, winter, village life, teacher, countryside, rural setting, colleague, coworker, breaking the fourth wall, humiliation ...
Time: 2020s
Place: turkey
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37%
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Milk (2008)
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, teenage life, introspection, teenage love, leaving home, unfulfillment, family relations, hopes, small town, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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34%
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Suzaku (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the ...
Style: slow cinema, independent film, aesthetic
Plot: village, family relations, coming of age, woman, underground, slice of life, tunnel, mountain, nature, incest overtones, minimalism, little girl ...
Time: year 1997, 70s
Place: japan
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32%
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Style: philosophical, melancholic, contemplative, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: kurd, countryside, small town, fish out of water, family relations, village, parents and children, coming of age, politics, village life, poetry, existentialism ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1999
Place: iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
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29%
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Mouchette (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style: art house, black and white, depressing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, suicide, adolescence, existentialism, solitude, betrayal, sexual abuse, minimalism, children, child abuse, youth, innocence lost ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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29%
Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Road movie about two children searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.
Style: road movie, serious, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot: on the road, youth, children, soldier, family relations, siblings relations, human nature, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, greek, father son relationship, fear ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: germany, greece, europe
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28%
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Shiba (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with ...
Plot: hooker, rural setting, cultural difference, village, seaside, dice, brother sister relationship, family relations, prostitute, hotel manager, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: taiwan
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27%
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Destiny (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bekir is in love with Ugur, who loves Zagor, who loves to commit crimes.
Style: serious, tense, art house, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: romancing a criminal, life is a bitch, on the run, fall in love, estrangement, hopes, crime gone awry, love and romance, murder, destiny, fighting illness, prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, balkan, asia, europe, istanbul turkey ...
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27%
A Family Upside Down (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Plot: mature, aging, retirement home, family relations, picnic, mother daughter relationship, death, doctor, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, dying, hospital ...
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Maborosi (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.
Style: art house, atmospheric, contemplative, slow cinema, retro ...
Plot: suicide, stepbrother stepsister relationship, death, self discovery, arranged marriage, train, memory, drinking, water, asian, meditation, mental disorder ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: japan, venice, asia, europe, italy ...
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27%
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Osama (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Teenage girl Osama cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widowed mother and grandmother. When Osama is called by the Taliban to join school and military training she embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, islam, taliban, survival, oppression, child abuse, injustice, life is a bitch, brutality, justice, religion, police investigation ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: middle east, afghanistan, iraq, persia, pakistan
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27%
Beyond the Hill (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the quiet foothills of Turkey, Faik lives an isolated existence. When his second son brings his boys for a visit, Faik takes the opportunity to pontificate about the law of the land, as he sees it. He shares one unsolicited thought after the ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, tense
Plot: farm, family relations, vengeance, mental illness, who done it, manhood, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, coming of age, boy, minimalism, visual hallucination ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Amreeka (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Kuwait, Jordan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), divorcée Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour) leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois -- just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, single parent, job seeking, starting over, culture clash, society, social relations, brother in law sister in law relationship, hopes, family in crisis, financial problem, youth ...
Time: year 2009, year 2003, 21st century
Place: palestine, illinois, middle east, usa, israel
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26%
Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An 11 year old girl accuses her father of incest.
Style: historical drama, independent film, crying
Plot: child abuse, boy, anal rape, father daughter incest, incest, father daughter relationship, repressed memory, accusation, trial, court, liar, father ...
Place: canada
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25%
My Only Sunshine (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany ...
Style: captivating, touching, sincere, sentimental, art house ...
Plot: single parent, youth, parents and children, family relations, poverty, society, teenage life, elderly, social misfits, grandfather granddaughter relationship, father daughter relationship, lonely ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, greece, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Go Toward the Light (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: aids, hiv, youth, hiv positive, family relations, terminal illness, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment, family in crisis, siblings relations ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
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24%
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Charter (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a recent and difficult divorce, Alice hasn't seen her children in two months as she awaits a custody verdict. When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the ...
Style: touching, sincere, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: custody battle, abduction, children, family relations, family conflict, on the run, husband wife conflict, father son relationship, resort, woman, european, mother daughter conflict ...
Place: canary islands, scandinavia, eastern europe
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24%
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Magnifico (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min.
Story: With a daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy and a son who's lost his much-needed scholarship, an impoverished married couple begins to abandon their faith and courage in the face of such misfortune. But when a gifted young boy called ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, prodigy, single parent, dealing with death, society, youth, disability, rich and poor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines, manila philippines
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23%
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The Intruder (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. He has heart problems, seeks a transplant, and then goes in search of a son sired years before in Tahiti. Told elliptically, with few words, we see ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, estrangement, family problems, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, going straight, redemption, angel of death, transplant, black market ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: tahiti, europe, france, geneva switzerland
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23%
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