Movies like The Sting of Death 1990
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The Sting of Death (1990)
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Original name: 死の棘
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
Style:
serious, intense, bleak, melancholic, art house, grim, suspenseful, tragic, period drama, serenity
Plot:
alienation, infidelity, power struggle, control, character study, domestic drama, obsession, claustrophobia, isolation, manipulation, family conflict, revenge, japanese culture, guilt, gender roles, mental disorder, adultery, sexuality, couples, insanity, husband, marital crisis, marriage, suicide attempt, madness ...
Time:
1950s
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Most similar movies to The Sting of Death
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, intense and tense films with plots about psychological drama, obsession, character study, isolation, manipulation, alienation and betrayal mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Sting of Death: Almost a Man (1966), The Drinker (1995), South (2004), Soul Kicking (2006), Act of the Heart (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and ...
Style:
art film, art house, melancholic, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
alienation, psychoanalysis, neurosis, mental illness, existentialism, guilt, family conflict, mental breakdown, identity crisis, isolation, domineering mother, electroshock therapy ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military ...
Style:
dark, grim, intense, art house, period piece ...
Plot:
mental illness, manipulation, power struggle, character study, psychological torment, betrayal, revenge, claustrophobia, military, love triangle, intimate, symbolism ...
Time:
turn of the century, 60s
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Hans Fallada.
Style:
psychological, bleak, melancholic, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
alcoholism, addiction, character study, literary, isolation, adaptation, desperation, alienation, financial ruin, post war, family conflict, guilt ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
73%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, trauma, amputation, laundry, kidnapping, illness, madness, insanity, character study, shame, identity crisis, delusion ...
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Story:
This film is about domestic violence.
Style:
serious, intense, realistic, tragic
Plot:
domestic violence, women's rights, domestic drama, abusive husband, marital abuse, psychological abuse, toxic relationship, control, fear, female protagonist, trauma, marriage ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money. He's got a family, a baby, a home... Takis is being cheated. He loves her and he suffers... Takis can't take it at work. He's besieged by savages. But his boss tops them ...
Style:
melancholic, intense, dark, psychological, tragic
Plot:
working class, desperation, family crisis, betrayal, male protagonist, anger, oppression, isolation, alienation, revenge, realism, slow burn ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
Style:
religious drama, melancholic, bleak, poignant, independent film ...
Plot:
self destructing, faith, obsession, crisis of faith, female protagonist, clergy, character study, guilt, choir, unrequited love, isolation, catholicism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
montreal, canada
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Drama 101 Synopsis The young prince decides to take revenge:putting himself insane, he wants to enlighten the murder of his father. Hamlet travels to England for a year and returns to killing the 11 uncles and saving the mother.
Style:
grim, psychological, bleak, intense, serious ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, prince, madness, betrayal, family drama, palace, royalty, murder mystery, castle, palace intrigue, adaptation ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.
Style:
art house, thought provoking, serious, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
character study, obsession, creative process, isolation, alienation, realism, intimate, family conflict, identity crisis, mental health, slow burn, slice of life ...
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Makoto Toda was an earnest man who had lived an ordinary life, working as an ordinary company employee. He had built himself an average, but happy home along with his wife and his daughter. Things change however, when a new female recruit named Saya ...
Style:
tense, realistic, melancholic, dark, psychological thriller
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, jealousy, seduction, sexual obsession, office romance, sexual tension, domestic drama, secret relationship, loss of control ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, art house
Plot:
compassion, empathy, marital crisis, character study, personal growth, poverty, humanism, alienation, domestic drama, gender roles, loneliness, altruism ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
52%
143
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after ...
Style:
erotic drama, erotic
Plot:
midlife crisis, love triangle, sexual jealousy, adultery, infidelity, jealous husband, sexual awakening, domestic drama, character study, seduction, psychological manipulation, manipulation ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.
Style:
tension, art house, atmospheric, melancholic, grim ...
Plot:
adoption, pregnancy, motherhood, moral ambiguity, poverty, class conflict, intimate, character study, secrets, ethical dilemma, social inequality, domestic drama ...
Place:
south korea, korea, asia, canada
Similarity:
45%
75
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
About an existentialist alienation drama between a bourgeois couple caught in a stationary environment. Between a man and a woman lost in themselves.
Style:
existential, art house, melancholic, intellectual
Plot:
marriage crisis, alienation, infidelity, domestic drama, midlife crisis, identity crisis, routine, renaissance, married couple, minimalism, claustrophobia, intimate ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, intense, dark, art house ...
Plot:
kidnapping, sexual tension, manipulation, obsession, moral ambiguity, psychological abuse, abuse, mind game, claustrophobia, violent, confrontation, coercion ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, sinister, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, domestic drama, betrayal, infidelity, moral ambiguity, character study, symbolism, jealousy, guilt, midlife crisis, mature ...
Similarity:
43%
607
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The enigmatic Isabel decides to rent her belly to give birth to the baby of Sara and Joaquin, a possessive couple obsessed with the idea of starting a family.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, motherhood, pregnancy, parenthood, single parent, pregnant woman, unsettling, family problems, parents and children, social problems, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic health problems. When ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
manipulation, mother daughter relationship, family drama, investigation, grief, tragedy, family secret, suspicion, obsession, guilt, moral dilemma, intimate ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Switzerland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she adored. Aïcha longs for him to come back and take her away. When she meets Baz, a man twice her age, it’s love at first sight for her; the real ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, teenager, adolescence, romantic obsession, teenage girl, family conflict, infatuation, obsession, relationships, love, teenage life, teenage love ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that ...
Style:
erotic, bleak, intense, psychological, period piece ...
Plot:
pink film, widow, exploitation, mistress, debt, forced prostitution, sexploitation, rape, forbidden love, domestic drama, manipulation, love triangle ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A civil servant (Michele Lastella) uses shady methods to become a powerful businessman.
Style:
crime drama, tense, crime thriller, cynical
Plot:
corruption, deception, greed, manipulation, anti hero, scam, ambition, seduction, power struggle, betrayal, social climbing, character study ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A train driver has a rival in his godson for his wife. During a crisis on the train, he refuses to kill him or let him die in a crash.
Style:
intense, tension, serious, suspense, grim ...
Plot:
train, love affair, jealousy, love triangle, moral dilemma, railway, infidelity, train crash, crisis, guilt, betrayal, sacrifice ...
Place:
croatia, balkan
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A widower sends daily reminders to the petty criminal who killed his wife in a traffic accident that on the anniversary of her death, he will kill him.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, intense, bleak ...
Plot:
revenge, hit and run, showdown, car accident, grief, threat to kill, family tragedy, confrontation, moral ambiguity, loss, vengeance, obsession ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, single mother, lesbian, existential loneliness, intimacy, secrets, caretaker, young woman, moral ambiguity, trauma, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This Story is about the unpredictable journey of Goutham, who takes on to experience the best weed in the world not knowing that his life is going to end soon due to drug addiction.
Style:
dark, intense, melancholic, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
weed, substance abuse, addiction, mother son relationship, drug addiction, self destructing, family conflict, mental health, marijuana, desperation, tragedy, obsession ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Miss Julie has power over Jean because she's an aristocrat but he has power over her because he's a man. On Midsummer Eve this power battle turns to love which is consummated. But as each one battles for power, Jean convinces Miss Julie ...
Style:
tense, tragic ending, art house, period drama
Plot:
class conflict, sexual tension, forbidden romance, gender roles, tragedy, manipulation, character study, suicide, claustrophobia, literary, moral ambiguity, obsession ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization. Her three children are forced to live in poverty, and her eldest son, who is blind in one eye due ...
Style:
political thriller, intense, grim, controversial, bleak ...
Plot:
assassination, religious cult, true crime, family tragedy, biopic, revenge, political corruption, anguish, conspiracy, vigilante, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
34%
79
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
existential, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
grief, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, character study, search for father, alienation, minimalism, intimate, regret, male protagonist, urban ...
Similarity:
34%
293
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
One night, Matiss Zelcs, an employee of the Latvian national archive in Riga, notices a woman on a bridge. After passing by her without preventing her suicidal fall into the depths, a sensation of failure and guilt changes his life. He cannot forget ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, contemplative, intense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
suicide, loneliness, guilt, redemption, obsession, existential crisis, desperation, missing person, soul searching, memory, regret, isolation ...
Place:
latvia
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The main character Alexander, the large businessman and the influential person in the city, after the intense working day is lucky the friend and the assistant Dmitry in restaurant. But to Dmitry's surprise, there they are waited by neither ...
Style:
tense, entertaining, captivating, cynical, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alcoholism, power struggle, conflict, betrayal by friend, adultery, psychological manipulation, infidelity, love triangle, life philosophy, drinking, contests and competitions, friendship ...
Place:
soviet union
Similarity:
33%
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