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Blood from a Stone (2011)
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Blood from a Stone (2011)
Original name: La Mer à boire
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, cynical, captivating, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: bankruptcy, save the day, rivalry, factory, working class, labor union, workplace, society, boss and employee, workplace situations, employer, strike, rich and poor, workplace intrigue, power relations, dancing, ship, money, police, female nudity, death, murder, male nudity, suicide, bank ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe, provence, mediterranean sea

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about workplace, society, workplace situations, working class, power relations, boss and employee and rivalry mostly in Drama, Thriller and Biography genres. Some movies like Blood from a Stone: Burnt Out (2005), Early One Morning (2011), To Mathieu (2000), The Minister (2011), Work Hard, Play Hard (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Burnt Out (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: François Durrieux, a man in his forties, married to Clémence and father of Benjamin, has been employed for years by the firm DSBO. In order not to lose his job, he always submits to his boss's demands whether it means working after office ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: workplace, fighting the system, parents and children, workplace situations, boss and employee, power relations, suffering, friendship, revolt, employee, middle aged man, rebellion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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95%
Early One Morning (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot: losing-it hero, introspection, unlikely criminals, workplace, rivalry, road not taken, workplace situations, boss and employee, murder, suicide, business, violence spree ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, france
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90%
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To Mathieu (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, rough
Plot: factory, vengeance, workplace, workplace situations, misled, workplace intrigue, rivalry, family relations, dishonesty, righting the wronged, parents and children, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, normandy, atlantic ocean
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83%
 6.7
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The Minister (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world ...
Style: tense, psychological, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: politics, workplace, workplace situations, state affairs, boss and employee, political intrigue, disagreement, politician, prime minister, business, big business, fatal accident ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Work Hard, Play Hard (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Philippe Seigner starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is delicate: An audit at a factory, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees. ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: moral dilemma, couples, workplace, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, boss and employee, workplace situations, factory, unemployment, power relations, friendship between men ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Goodbye Gary Cooper (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Au milieu de nulle part, une cité ouvrière vidée de sa population depuis quelques années déjà. Pourtant, certains habitants ont décidé d'y rester, plus par choix que par nécessité, parce que c'est là qu'ils sont nés et ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, captivating, emotional
Plot: factory, single parent, unemployment, life is a bitch, workplace, family relations, family problems, isolation, working class, parents and children, hopes, society ...
Place: france, europe, maghreb, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Capital (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, social, political ...
Plot: top executive, critique of capitalism, stock broker, greed, rivalry, workplace, boss and employee, office, trading, wealth, banking, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, europe, france
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73%
The Ordinary People (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Muller company organizes a reception to mark the launch of a new product. During the evening, we discover that this is actually a coaching exercise for company executives. Gradually, rumours about the upcoming acquisition of the company start to ...
Style: cynical, realistic, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: labor union, power relations, corporate world, pharmaceutical company, role playing, workplace intrigue, party, gossip, skyscraper, economist, workplace situations, workplace ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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The Town Is Quiet (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style: contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: family relations, drug abuse, assassination, life is a bitch, couple relations, unemployment, working class, parents and children, immigrant, society, love and romance, factory ...
Time: 90s
Place: marseille, provence, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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At War (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, political
Plot: strike, labor union, working class, capitalism, business manager, class struggle, hard labor, mayor, factory, worker, anger, struggle ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Strike (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In poverty, she found strength. In oppression, she found courage. In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again. Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIE’S CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: politics, working class, labor union, rebellion, human spirit, ambition, fighting the system, injustice, rivalry, life is a bitch, legal, society ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: poland, europe
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66%
 4.8
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In Turmoil (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: working class, crime gone awry, society, social decay, workplace, injustice, factory, factory worker, rivalry, danger, friendship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, south of france
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61%
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Moonlighting (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and ...
Style: political, tense, realistic, bleak, dark comedy ...
Plot: culture clash, worker, renaissance, polish, construction worker, boss and employee, misfit, workplace, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, disorder ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: poland, london, eastern europe, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.8
 188
Last Winter (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, gloomy
Plot: farm, estrangement, countryside, workplace situations, society, workplace, nothing goes right, down on your luck, life is a bitch, social relations, village life, village ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Marius (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: "Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, ...
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: seaport, obsession, couples, hopes, follow your dream, unfulfillment, couple relations, unfulfilled love, lovers apart, self sacrifice, working class, sailor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, marseille, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Small World (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, investigation, memory loss, haunted by the past, society, family relations, family life, flashback, power relations, amateur detective, social differences, dishonesty ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Manon of the Spring (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his ...
Style: surprise ending, touching, atmospheric, thought provoking, anthology ...
Plot: revenge, female nudity, haunted by the past, provincial life, unrequited love, spring, cave, rural setting, water, suicide, obsession, mayor ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 1920s
Place: france, provence, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.5
 4K
Just Great (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
Style: surreal, political, contemplative, clever, witty ...
Plot: reporter, strike, dialectical materialism, female journalist, love, chaos, anarchism, anarchy, communism, revolution, factory, politics ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place: france, paris france, asia, vietnam, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Measure of a Man (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, social ...
Plot: unemployment, economic crisis, working class, society, layoff, job interview, supermarket, coworker relationship, petty theft, social realism, economics, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Lulu the Tool (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, political ...
Plot: working class, factory, factory worker, rebellion, fighting the system, rebelliousness, boss and employee, power relations, social differences, workplace situations, anarchist, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe
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50%
Sauna on Moon (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Guangdong, the forefront of China's reform and opening-up, the business of a sauna is fairly flat. The boss, Wu, together with his team, pursuits his dream and constructs a entertainment kingdom persistently with their wisdom, effort and ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
Plot: workplace, follow your dream, workplace situations, hopes, life is a bitch, bittersweet, boss and employee, power relations, nudity, prostitute, beach, rocket ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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49%
Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, boss and employee, love and romance, pregnant woman, family crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Elegant Criminal (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, stylized, bleak, serious ...
Plot: murder, gay subtext, biopic, criminal heroes, rise and fall, legal, confined, society, death row, gay interest, breaking the fourth wall, guillotine ...
Time: 19th century, 1830s
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Before the Winter Chill (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story: They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his life, Paul can’t resist the lure of an ambiguous and dangerous relationship with a mysterious ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: therapist, dangerous attraction, intrigue, couples, femme fatale, hospital, danger, sister sister relationship, illness, dishonesty, infidelity, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
All Our Desires (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: injustice, society, legal investigation, legal, courtroom drama, hopes, legal action, life is a bitch, fighting the system, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, lyon, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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11.6 (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin (François Cluzet) makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week later.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: workplace situations, society, workplace, bank, police, working class, robbery, secret, employer employee relationship, money, revenge, bank robber ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, monaco, monte carlo, lyon
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Eat Sleep Die (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."
Style: realistic, thought provoking, serious, psychological, crying ...
Plot: working class, immigrant, unemployment, society, workplace, unfulfillment, parents and children, fired from the job, coming of age, lady, supportive coworker, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.4
 100
Hip Moves (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: obsession, pregnancy, prostitute, unfulfillment, hospital, nightshift, love, couples, society, lonely, gays and lesbians, dull life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.8
 1K
Fanny (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: "Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: wedding, parents and children, pregnancy, broken heart, love and romance, society, social differences, older man younger woman marriage, couples, unfulfillment, couple relations, rich man ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: france, marseille, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the ...
Style: serious, bleak, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: environmentalism, chaos, life is a bitch, dishonesty, workplace, human nature, society, state affairs, danger, workplace situations, political corruption, disaster ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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