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Hideaway (2009)
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Original name: Le Refuge
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge.
Style:
sincere, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, hot, queer cinema
Plot:
drug overdose, hopes, child abandonment, starting over, life is a bitch, lgbt, friendship, recluse, self discovery, strong female character, grief, death of loved one, gay man straight woman relationship, gay brother, relationships, women, lgbtq, young parents, gay subtext, strong female presence, countryside, overdose, dealing with death, pregnancy, strong female lead ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe, paris france, basque country
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and gloomy films with plots about hopes, life is a bitch, friendship, family relations, lgbt, unfulfillment and gays and lesbians mostly in Drama, Mystery and Romance genres. Some movies like Hideaway: Time to Leave (2005), Family Tree (2010), Those Who Remain (2007), All Is Forgiven (2007), Louise Wimmer (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 2005
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, teenager, redemption, parents and children, addiction, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The middle-aged titular heroine (Masiero) of this bare-bones, Dardenne-esque debut has certainly fallen on hard times: Living between her car and a storage shed, working a part-time job as a hotel chambermaid, and trying against all odds to obtain ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, starting over, human spirit, hopes, optimism, working class, cleaning lady, female protagonist, poverty, homelessness, single woman, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, friends, power relations, child illness, terminal illness, hospital, teenage boy, man boy relationship, genetics, skin disease ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
38%
873
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, obsession, mental illness, doctors and patients, doctor, hate, hopes, women, femme fatale, couples, family relations, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, haunted by the past, on the road, life is a bitch, city life, self discovery, female friendship, sexuality, sensuality ...
Time:
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Place:
france, shanghai, new york, europe
Similarity:
37%
292
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An Israeli man searches for his father in France.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, estrangement, family problems, investigation, hopes, parents and children, midlife crisis, haunted by the past, gays and lesbians, redemption, aging ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style:
erotic, sexual, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hotel, sex scene, unwanted pregnancy, strong female character, single mother, coming of age, lgbt, lust, minimalism, single parent ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ane is in her mid-forties and delighted when a stunning bouquet of flowers is delivered to her home. But the site manager has no idea who to thank – one thing is for sure; her jealous husband, Ander, is not the unknown cavalier. As these ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, animal life, life turned upside down, hopes, female protagonist, strong female presence, dealing with death, ashes, sheep, car accident, flowers, relationships ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, basque country, europe
Similarity:
33%
262
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
auschwitz, starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, hopes, human spirit, girlfriend, reunited friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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193
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female pubic hair, bullfighting ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, talky, depressing ...
Plot:
children, little girl, child, bereavement, grief, adolescence, girl, death, friendship, school, child's point of view, loss ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
31%
841
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, homosexual ...
Time:
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Place:
arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
Similarity:
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211
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, life is a bitch, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
30%
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235
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
Style:
serious, touching, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, danger, unfulfilled love, dealing with death, artists and showbiz, hopes, unfulfillment, filmmaking, death ...
Time:
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Place:
lyon, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
28%
323
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, bleak, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
27%
164
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, psychological, tense, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, haunted by the past, death in the family, aids, lgbt, brother brother relationship, death of father ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
male male relationship, gay, gay relationship, homosexual, gay couple, memory loss, amnesia, lgbt, lgbtq, memory lapse, riddles and clues, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, tense, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, family relations, homecoming, missing person, hopes, haunted by the past, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, youth, life is a bitch, parents and children, creative block ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, brittany
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, sexy, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, love affair, fall in love, lifestyle, intrigue, bisexual, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, glbt, gay subtext, male homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, italy, france, rome italy
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay best friend, closeted homosexual, halloween, friendship, forest, self discovery, introspection, lifestyle, haunted by the past, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, deep ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, starting over, haunted by the past, gender, breakup, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, depression, lgbtq, gay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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