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The Towrope (2012)
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Original name: La Sirga
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France, Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this poetic, richly allegorical debut by Colombian director William Vega, a teenage girl flees to a rundown inn after being driven from her home in the Andean highlands by civil war, as the violence engulfing the country creeps ever closer to her remote refuge. (TIFF)
Style:
atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
cousin cousin relationship, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, society, wartime life, village, against humanity, refugee, uncle niece relationship, peeping, survival, nature, conflict, colombian drug cartel, mountain, village life, down on your luck, unfulfillment, musician, female nudity, water, house, teenage girl, fisherman ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
colombia
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Most similar movies to The Towrope
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and bleak films with plots about life is a bitch, society, village life, village, survival, hopes and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Towrope: Future Lasts Forever (2011), Atlantic. (2014), Mad Ship (2013), Last Winter (2011), The Postman's White Nights (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes ...
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
journey, on the road, unfulfillment, haunted by the past, tragic love, life is a bitch, missing person, ethnic conflict, self discovery, society, wartime life, black market ...
Time:
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Place:
middle east, kurdistan, turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious
Plot:
human spirit, starting over, hopes, family life, danger, escapades, ocean, survival, sea, climbing, rock climbing, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, morocco
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253
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style:
realistic, serious, period piece, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, working class, unemployment, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, prairie, great depression, drought, family drama ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
canada
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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, melancholic ...
Plot:
farm, estrangement, countryside, workplace situations, workplace, society, nothing goes right, down on your luck, life is a bitch, tradition, chore, solitude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
61%
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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:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
During the final winter of WWII, as displaced persons return to their former homes in the Soviet Union, an 8-year-old boy is left alone when his mother dies en route.
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot:
orphan, youth, little boy, on the road, wartime life, life is a bitch, human nature, society, world war two, death of mother, social injustice, boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This powerful, hard-edged crime drama explores the dark side of the American immigrant experience and dares to ask, "How far would you go to survive?" Lana’s only chance to escape the war-torn Balkans is her long-lost brother, Darko, a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
starting over, survival, immigrant, gangster, criminal heroes, prostitute, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, betrayal, revenge, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
57%
315
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Nigeria, USA, UK, Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ezra, jeune ex-soldat Sierra-Léonais, essaie tant bien que mal de retrouver des repères pour revenir à une vie normale après la guerre civile qui a ravagé son pays. Son quotidien est partagé entre un centre de réhabilitation psychologique et ...
Style:
captivating, rough, disturbing, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
kidnapping, military, haunted by the past, legal, youth, starting over, life turned upside down, kids in trouble, against humanity, danger, wartime life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, sierra leone
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, bleak, disturbing
Plot:
kurd, politics, racism, immigrant, orphan, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, social decay, friendship, injustice, society, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe, kurdistan
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, rough, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
coming of age, kids in trouble, sexual abuse, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, society, life is a bitch, youth, haunted by the past, drug abuse, addiction, urban ghetto life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
Style:
realistic, emotional, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
refugee, survival, life is a bitch, political unrest, immigrant, danger, escapades, illegal immigration, post war, rescue from drowning, illegal immigrant, river ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia, croatia
Similarity:
50%
117
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, disturbing, rough, mystic ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, love affair, family life, family problems, love and romance, survival, isolation, dysfunctional family, parents and children, pregnancy, prohibition era, wilderness ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
895
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, family relations, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, hopes, job seeking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Norway, UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
small town, haunted by the past, childhood trauma, life is a bitch, unlikely couple, midlife crisis, life turned upside down, unfulfillment, young love, childhood memory, village life, village ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
racism, obsession, parents and children, family relations, tragic hero, society, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, ambition, hopes, rivalry, gambling ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
asia, cambodia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find her biological mother, whom she has never met. The perilous journey immerses her in a world ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, homecoming, culture clash, family relations, parents and children, society, adoption, village, on the road, arab, village life, desert ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
algeria, north africa, maghreb, switzerland
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, danger, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, weapons, coming of age, life turned upside down, on the road, down on your luck, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, biting, bleak, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, society, survival, life is a bitch, injustice, village life, social differences, isolation, wartime life, village, countryside ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
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314
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, optimism, society, hopes, family problems, unemployment, parents and children, husband wife relationship, loss of job, blaxploitation, strong female presence, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, latin america, colombia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, contemplative, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
swimming pool, exploring sexuality, starting over, hidden identity, disorder, hopes, introspection, sexuality, gender, synchronized swimming, sexual attraction, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, albania, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
43%
420
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of Hollywood and Venice beach.
Style:
realistic, serious
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
homeless, juvenile delinquency, society, youth, haunted by the past, orphan, street life, survival, life is a bitch, trouble, poverty, criminality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, italy, texas, venice
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
39%
72
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Angel and Zooey are not your typical newlyweds. Zooey is a professional prostitute and Angel is a drug dealer. Yet they are not without hopes and dreams, of escaping their life in the streets and starting a new in a fresh painted cottage with picked ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, gloomy, bleak
Plot:
love affair, lifestyle, going straight, drug abuse, addiction, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, survival, downfall, society, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
released from prison, starting over, love affair, homecoming, mother son relationship, society, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, reconciliation, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, black sea
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, hopes, single parent, social relations, life is a bitch, society, workplace, misfit, fish out of water, workplace situations, poet, sailing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, venice, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On the one hand, there's the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there's the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the ...
Style:
serious, sincere, atmospheric, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
militant, survival, life is a bitch, family in danger, on the road, starvation, parents and children, desert, escapades, social relations, emigrant, survivor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
38%
553
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a visionary girl who is to become an Anchoress (walled-in recluse) so that she can "live in the Virgin's house forever." Based on actual letters that were written about such an ...
Style:
black and white, psychological, realistic, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
medieval, folk horror, rock, ancient, pagan, a vision, virgin mary, society, redemption, mysterious character, life is a bitch, clergy ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
winter, society, unemployment, working class, love affair, social issues, marriage crisis, realism, life is a bitch, human nature, survival, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, emotional, breathtaking ...
Plot:
holocaust, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, breakup, life is a bitch, fugitives, wartime life, coming of age, survival, war, boy, little boy ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
canada, europe, greece, poland
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
music, haunted by the past, deportation, musician's life, introspection, life is a bitch, estrangement, society, drug, young love, musician, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
35%
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