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My Joy (2010)
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Original name: Счастье моё
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A routine run for a truck driver turns into a nightmare he can’t escape in this psychological drama from filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. Georgy (Viktor Nemets) is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man (Vladimir Golovin) with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman (Olga Shuvalova) who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.
Style:
road movie, disturbing, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, atmospheric, biting, weird
Plot:
losing-it hero, murder, life is a bitch, on the road, countryside, nothing goes right, social relations, disorder, human nature, mental disorder, suicide, character study, child prostitute, village, suspense, village life, down on your luck, unfulfillment, thief, prostitution, corruption, insanity, backwoods, mute, truck driver ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
russia, ussr, soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, tense and bleak films with plots about life is a bitch, society, murder, social relations, deadly, family relations and countryside mostly in Drama, Thriller and Family genres. Some movies like My Joy: Wolfy (2009), One Night (2012), Manila (2009), Last Winter (2011), Early One Morning (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
There are two of them: a mother and a girl. They have no names. And they are in a constant run. The mother runs away from the daughter in an attempt to start new life, and the girl runs after her mother as she has no idea how to live without her. ...
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, tense, neorealism ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, family problems, alcohol abuse, little girl, parents and children, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, negligence, loneliness, family relations, ex convict, werewolf ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the harbor city of Le Havre, France, a woman is stabbed during the night, just below the windows of her neighborhood. Pierre (Yvan Attal) has witnessed the murder, and heard the wails of the women crying for help. So have the neighbors, ...
Style:
psychological, serious, thought provoking, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, murder witness, human nature, uncover truth, witnessing a crime, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, dishonesty, introspection, couples, police investigation, helplessness ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, normandy
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120
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tribute to filmmakers and National Artists Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal. In the "Day" segment, Piolo Pacual portrays the role of William, a drug addict who tries to rebuild his sense of self and reconnect with the people around him. ...
Style:
serious, tense, atmospheric, touching, neo noir ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, downfall, on the run, boss and employee, human nature, gang, nothing goes right, life is a bitch, drug abuse, addiction, disorder, city life ...
Time:
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Place:
the philippines, asia, manila philippines
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53%
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, gloomy
Plot:
countryside, farm, estrangement, workplace situations, nothing goes right, society, workplace, down on your luck, life is a bitch, social relations, village, village life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, introspection, unlikely criminals, workplace, rivalry, workplace situations, road not taken, boss and employee, murder, suicide, bus, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france
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44%
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:
youth, orphan, on the road, wartime life, life is a bitch, human nature, society, world war two, little boy, death of mother, traumatic childhood, boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
ukraine
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to ...
Style:
tense, serious, bleak, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
genocide, against humanity, dishonesty, native american, family relations, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, clergy, priest, strong female lead, winter, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
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42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
An apartment kitchen: a man and a woman discuss Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping next room. Waste land on the city outskirts: behind a line of abandoned trailers, the man silently watches what ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, midlife crisis, family relations, losing-it hero, parents and children, factory worker, unfulfillment, alienation, post apocalypse, railway, artist, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, europe, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Director Eva Sørhaug (Cold Lunch) reveals the rage and violence lurking beneath seemingly tranquil domesticity in her bold and uncompromising sophomore feature.
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, violence spree, domestic disturbance, divorce, domestic violence, graphic violence, breaking point, under the surface, murder, rape, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
norway, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, biting, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, countryside, suspense, life is a bitch, survival, society, injustice, social differences, village, anti semitism, life turned upside down ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
countryside, sexual abuse, nude, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, strong sexual content, down on your luck, dysfunctional family, woman in danger, parents and children, peeping tom ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
186
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An act of kindness leads to the destruction of two lives in just thirty miles, when a hitchiker and his ride let down their guards and reveal intimate, dark secrets about their pasts
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
interracial relations, desert, racism, mind game, on the road, murder, racial relations, driving, wedding, hollywood, down on your luck, deadly ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
Style:
art house, controversial, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
animals, persian culture, countryside, village, village life, down on your luck, life is a bitch, society, mentally unstable, losing-it hero, split personality, tribe ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
iran, asia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freddy Angi, separate and homeless, stumbles into strange love affairs, including one with his wife Anna. The two meet now and then as lovers in a hotel room.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, realistic, touching, bleak
Plot:
losing-it hero, couple relations, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, cause and meaning, alcohol abuse, dull life, writer's life, hotel, disintegration, drugs/alcohol
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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516
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A black teenager vandalizes a racist lawn ornament.
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, uncover truth, police investigation, interracial relations, vandalism, life is a bitch, law enforcement, society, murder, violence, blaxploitation, countryside ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and also tolerate his more or less clandestine love-affair with ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, tense, stylized ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 338 min.
Story:
The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation ...
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
village life, forces of nature, isolation, chaos, society, confined, clergy, village, very little dialogue, army, death, murder ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A film between fiction and reality, highlighting questions about group dynamics and established hierarchies. A group of people meet for their high school reunion 20 years later. One of them talks about her being bullied and outcast and soon the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
bullying, human nature, life is a bitch, adulthood, haunted by the past, social relations, realism, misfit, disorder, breaking point, party, childhood trauma ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, sweden, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Taxi driver Jose begins his night shift bent on revenge after his brother's murder at the hands pf a violent gang. But when an accident brings him unexpectedly closer to his party-girl fare Angela, the damaged pair must struggle against forces ...
Style:
neo noir, rough, bleak, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder, partners, gang, vengeance, life is a bitch, city life, revenge, reluctant partners, nightshift, masturbation, male nudity, danger ...
Place:
colombia
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36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, morphine, doctor, urban decay, doctors, drug addiction, hopelessness, civil war, world war one, loneliness, hardship ...
Time:
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Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, sincere, touching, biting ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
life is a bitch, bullying, mockery, teenager, school, brutality, outcast, deception, first love, betrayal by friend, grandfather granddaughter relationship, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
russia, ussr
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36%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Meticulous in every way: the non-professional actors with incredible skills, the beautiful camerawork, the timing and dosing of the tragic storyline about a fourteen-year-old Chinese girl from the countryside. A grown-up feature film debut by a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, no music
Plot:
kids in trouble, estrangement, youth, life is a bitch, pregnancy, adoption, village, abortion, down on your luck, countryside, very little dialogue, egg ...
Time:
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Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
conspiracy, interracial relations, murder, friendship, social relations, law enforcement, society, lifestyle, dishonesty, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
introspection, losing-it hero, human nature, moral dilemma, disorder, family relations, life turned upside down, heroes, parents and children, surrealism, hell, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a ...
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
murder, manipulation, femme fatale, destructive relationship, lifestyle, dishonesty, human nature, life is a bitch, family relations, couples, female psychopath, strong female presence ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her excommunicated son ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
false accusation, murder, righting the wronged, society, religions or cults, estrangement, church, uncover truth, religion, polygamy, dishonesty, on the run ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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serious, disturbing, realistic, bleak, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a small village near Erzincan (Turkey) young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
tradition, village, parents and children, family relations, religions or cults, village life, society, circumcision, distopia, countryside, social relations
Time:
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Place:
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35%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Abel lives with his mother in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. His life, grey and boring, is based on the small family business, his mother's house, his girlfriend's bed, and the town bars. However under an appearance of quiet ...
Style:
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Plot:
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35%
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Country: France
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Corsica in the 19th century. An isolated farm at the edge of some scrub. Left to alone by his parents, Fortunato must deal with a fugitive who asks the boy to hide him in exchange for a gold coin. From then on, the boy finds himself caught up in a ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, biting
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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