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The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)
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The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)
Original name: La mort de Mario Ricci
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Gian-Maria Volonte stars as a TV newscaster who journeys to a remote alpine village to interview a famed malnutrition expert. Upon his arrival, Volonte learns that there's an ongoing investigation in the village concerning the mysterious death of an Italian immigrant. Inexorably, the journalist becomes involved in the investigation, and with equal inexorability the chain of evidence leads to the malnutritionist.
Plot: investigation, small town, motorcycle, accidental death, interview, hairdresser, sociology, witness, television crew, road accident, malnutrition, sociologist, motorcycle accident, italian immigrant, tv crew, small village, soccer match, limp, lame
Place: switzerland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and captivating films with plots about small town, investigation, female nudity, life is a bitch, uncover truth, nudity and murder mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Death of Mario Ricci: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987), Dadetown (1995), Shame (1992), Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979), Another Man (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Colombia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor ...
Style: contemplative, sincere, gloomy, realistic, serious ...
Plot: vengeance, investigation, erotica, village, wedding, canceled wedding, rain forest, social relations, family relations, couples, murder, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: latin america, colombia
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Dadetown (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Interviews in the Michael Moore/"Roger and Me" tradition examine life in small-town America, class conflicts and the collapse of an upstate New York community, Dadetown, when the town's once-prosperous factory, reduced to the ...
Style: independent film, fake documentary
Plot: small town, factory, company, american dream, layoff, anger, interview, satire, park
Time: 90s
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Shame (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A tough female lawyer on holiday ends up in a small Pacific Northwest town where she befriends a local teenage girl and tries to persuade her to to press charges against the young thugs who raped her.
Plot: gang rape, gang, motorcycle, chase, violence, rape, small town, bar
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Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: fascism, artist, world war two, painter, world war one, anarchist, biopic, world war, italian fascism, solar eclipse, revolt, strike ...
Time: year 1979, 1930s, year 1936, year 1935
Place: italy, naples italy, europe, turin italy, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Another Man (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at the essence of film critique as well as an erotic encounter between two unequals.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Plot: love affair, film critic, journalism, sexual relations, infidelity, media, small town, nudity, rivalry, society, plagiarism, dead animal ...
Time: 21st century
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Natural Enemy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father. Shattered by the suicide of the main witness, Nicolas lets himself get snared by the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: small town, police investigation, gay, homosexuality, gay interest, affair, lgbt, crime solving, sleuth, investigation, uncover truth, unsolved crime ...
Place: brittany
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The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, West Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Anna is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents ...
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Plot: lesbian, on the road, women, feminist, female nudity, underground, lgbtq, filmmaking, woman, modernism, woman peeing, nudity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
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Summer (2014)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sixteen-year-old Anne grows up in the isolated Biesbosch area, where spacious fields and power pylons define the landscape. With a group of friends, she spends a sultry summer holiday there trying to make the leap to maturity. But this shared ...
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R.P.M. (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Qatar, Germany
Duration: 72 min.
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The Right Distance (2007)
Genre: Drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Time: 60s
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39%
Bond of Silence (2010)
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33%
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