Movies like Fists in the Pocket
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Fists in the Pocket (1965)
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Original name: I pugni in tasca
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ale, a deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures, benignly decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, art house, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
epilepsy, brother sister relationship, catholicism, death of mother, matricide, dysfunctional family, prostitute, death, blindness, reckless driving, suicidal tendency, murder of brother, family relations, epileptic, murder, siblings relations, serial killer, psychiatry, alienation, existentialism, transformation, mentally challenged person, suicidal thoughts, death of brother, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
italy, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and bleak films with plots about family relations, mother son relationship, drinking alcohol, crying, husband wife relationship, death and parents and children mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Fists in the Pocket: Three Brothers (1981), The Scrounger (1961), Dormant Beauty (2012), The Keys to the House (2004), The Seventh Continent (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 105 min.
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Plot:
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70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
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Duration: 122 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Italy, France, UK, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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