Movies like Zero Kelvin

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Zero Kelvin (1995)
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Zero Kelvin (1995)
Original name: Kjærlighetens kjøtere
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 Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.
Style: psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, disaster, wilderness, snow, male nudity, poet, nature, schizophrenia, jazz, landscape, frozen, couples, isolation, infidelity, danger, obsessive quest, arctic, freezing, wilderness survival, survivor, love, catastrophe ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 20s
Place: greenland, tokyo

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Most similar movies to Zero Kelvin

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and psychological films with plots about survival, isolation, danger, wilderness, escapades, snow and winter mostly in Drama, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like Zero Kelvin: How I Ended This Summer (2010), The Skin of the Wolf (2017), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), First Winter (2012), The Donner Party (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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The Skin of the Wolf (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Martinón is the last inhabitant of Auzal, a village in the mountains where he lives in communion with nature. He only goes down to the valleys twice a year to trade and to buy provisions. But one day he’s convinced to take a wife, a decision ...
Style: bleak, touching, realistic, suspense, serious ...
Plot: recluse, one night stand, survival, minimal dialogue, lone hero, husband wife relationship, loneliness, danger, destiny, escapades, winter, death ...
Time: 19th century
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Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
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Time: 21st century
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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 ...
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Plot: family relations, countryside, nudity, family problems, life is a bitch, down on your luck, parents and children, dysfunctional family, woman in danger, castration, women, son ...
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Style: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, philosophical ...
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Havlandet (1985)
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the ...
Style: historical drama, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot: northern lights, poverty, survival, hunger, man versus nature, snowstorm, winter, isolation, tragedy, rescue, blizzard, infant ...
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Audience: date night
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Style: touching, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic ...
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