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Fists in the Pocket (1965)
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Original name: I pugni in tasca
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ale, a deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures, benignly decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
Style:
art house, black and white, psychological thriller, atmospheric, disturbing, neorealism, touching, bleak, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
epilepsy, brother sister relationship, catholicism, death of mother, matricide, blindness, prostitute, dysfunctional family, death, brother sister incest, reckless driving, suicidal tendency, alienation, family relations, psychiatry, epileptic, murder, siblings relations, serial killer, pills, mentally challenged person, surrealism, suicidal thoughts, death of brother, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 1960s
Place:
italy, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and bleak films with plots about family relations, mother son relationship, death, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, drinking alcohol and drinking mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Fists in the Pocket: Little Boy Blue (1997), The Scrounger (1961), Three Brothers (1981), Dormant Beauty (2012), The Keys to the House (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
texas, asia, usa, vietnam, san francisco
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
neorealism, realistic, serious, erotic, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, europe, naples italy, germany, southern italy ...
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 2004
Place:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red ...
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorism, hostage, terrorist, politics, revolution, murder, dictator, rebelliousness, political unrest, captivity, state affairs, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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33%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, surreal, spiritual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With a daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy and a son who's lost his much-needed scholarship, an impoverished married couple begins to abandon their faith and courage in the face of such misfortune. But when a gifted young boy called ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
the philippines, manila philippines
Similarity:
32%
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Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
spain, madrid, europe
Similarity:
32%
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, semi autobiographical
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sad, sincere, depressing, meditative ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
30%
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Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style:
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Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Italy, France, UK, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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28%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Japan, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
spain, europe, andalusia, tokyo
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
meditative, depressing, emotional, psychological, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
neorealism, sad, art house, insightful, social ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
23%
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, compassionate, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
idaho, utah
Similarity:
22%
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