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The Minister (2011)
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Original name: L'Exercice de l'État
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.
Style:
psychological, tense, sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, contemplative, stylized, political, clever ...
Plot:
french politics, politics, workplace, workplace situations, disagreement, state affairs, boss and employee, politician, prime minister, business, female nudity, fatal accident, french president, big business, profanity, rivalry, chief of staff, power relations, nudity, driver, accident, bare breasts, car accident, funeral, unemployment ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about workplace situations, workplace, society, power relations, rivalry, politics and female nudity mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres. Some movies like The Minister: Maison close (2010), Bodybuilder (2014), Early One Morning (2011), Blood from a Stone (2011), Capital (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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Plot:
brothel, lesbian interest, lesbianism, female nudity, sexual relations, workplace, prostitute, lifestyle, power relations, society, strong sexual content, lesbian ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
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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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, serious, psychological, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot:
bank, introspection, losing-it hero, unlikely criminals, rivalry, workplace, road not taken, workplace situations, boss and employee, murder, suicide, business ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, cynical, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
bankruptcy, save the day, rivalry, workplace, labor union, factory, working class, boss and employee, society, workplace situations, employer, strike ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, social, political ...
Plot:
top executive, critique of capitalism, stock broker, greed, rivalry, boss and employee, workplace, office, trading, wealth, banking, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, europe, france
Similarity:
29%
298
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of ...
Style:
captivating, serious, atmospheric, psychological, political ...
Plot:
campaign, politics, election, political intrigue, state affairs, rivalry, ambition, rise to the top, parliament, politician, society, british history ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Philippe Seigner starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is delicate: An audit at a factory, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, couple relations, society, life is a bitch, workplace, boss and employee, couples, workplace situations, factory, unemployment, power relations, friendship between men ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
26%
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434
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
François Durrieux, a man in his forties, married to Clémence and father of Benjamin, has been employed for years by the firm DSBO. In order not to lose his job, he always submits to his boss's demands whether it means working after office ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
workplace, revolt, friendship, parents and children, fighting the system, boss and employee, workplace situations, power relations, suffering, employee, middle aged man, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
26%
165
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a small French town is rocked by a bizarre incident.
Style:
contemplative, serious, sincere, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, workplace, youth, teenage life, workplace situations, realism, small town, social relations, restaurant, male nudity, small town life, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
politics, parliament, political party, ambition, rise to the top, state affairs, society, private vs public, media sensation, social differences, presidential election, french politics ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a ...
Style:
sexy, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
self discovery, unfulfillment, dull life, scientist, frustration, estrangement, love, women, father daughter relationship, bittersweet, love affair, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, scandinavia, france, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Style:
talky, realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
friendship, college, youth, friends, power relations, college life, betrayal, teachers and students, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, student, mishap ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
rebellion, high school life, political unrest, youth, society, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.
Style:
psychological, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
clinic, parent child relationship, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, power relations, family relations, doctors and patients, parents and children, therapy, mother daughter relationship, mother ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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510
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In poverty, she found strength. In oppression, she found courage. In solidarity, she found a reason to believe again. Acclaimed German actress Katharina Thalbach (THE TIN DRUM, SOPHIES CHOICE) stars in this hard-hitting historical drama set during ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, working class, labor union, rebellion, fighting the system, human spirit, ambition, injustice, life is a bitch, legal, rebelliousness, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to enforce the ban on smoking in their offices. From now on, those who want to smoke during working hours must do so in the street. Ramirez, one of the employees of this small office composed ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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822
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
The President of the French Republic, visiting Saint-Etienne in the Loire, in a striking plant dies, victim of a bomb attack. The political world is agitated: early presidential elections to be held within the next thirty-five days. There is no ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot:
french president, politics, rivalry, head of state, campaign, rise to the top, media, ambition, workplace situations, french politics, white house, president ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
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537
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Vincent Lindon and Alain Cavalier drink together in bars while coming up with tall tales.
Style:
serious, realistic, experimental, contemplative, fake documentary
Plot:
artists and showbiz, buddies, friends, filmmaking, money, business ethics, ethics, bakery, politics, prime minister, law, french politics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, paris france, france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to be interrelated but there is more than meets the eye and we might be more connected than we ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
politics, international crisis, society, materialism, state affairs, life is a bitch, family relations, adaptation, rivalry, globalization, financial crisis, unemployment ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, workplace, society, politics, ambition, corporate world, business ethics, corporate executive, erotica, entrepreneurship, business ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, tense, political, edutainment ...
Plot:
evil corporation, greed, corporate crime, rise and fall, fighting the system, ambition, rise to the top, uncover truth, power relations, whistleblower, love and romance, couple relations ...
Place:
austin texas
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, car accident, family secret, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’ daughter, along with succeeding him as the head of a car dealership. One night, while coming back from his bachelor party, he is guilty of a hit-and-run accident, urged by his ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, witnessing a crime, society, righting the wronged, life is a bitch, illegal immigrant, manslaughter, woman, hit and run, immigrant, disorder, dishonesty ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style:
contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
marseille, provence, france, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the ...
Style:
clever, serious, realistic, cynical, political ...
Plot:
politics, political corruption, campaign, cover up, manipulation, fighting the system, state affairs, society, journalism, legal, dishonesty, ambition ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, seattle, new york, washington d.c.
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Underneath Times Square, there's a strip club filled with beautiful women. Behind the club's bathroom door is Shoes, a bathroom attendant. For three years, Shoes gives advice, compliments or a sympathetic ear to his visitors, getting ...
Style:
realistic, talky, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
stripper, sex show, loneliness, strip club, obsession, workplace, wisdom of life, nightclub, workplace situations, misandry, female nudity, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
It is a story of a depressed, isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job.
Style:
explicit, disturbing, erotic, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
social criticism, female pubic hair, software, beach, christmas, female nudity, sex, car accident, masturbation, office, dance lesson, male masturbation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. During a vacation they suffer a car accident that will change their lives.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, slow cinema ...
Plot:
family in crisis, parents and children, introspection, family problems, family relations, life turned upside down, accident, architect, school teacher, death, funeral, loss of daughter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, catalonia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
Style:
political, talky, intense, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
politics, friendship, political corruption, betrayal, manipulation, legal action, college, corruption, society, rivalry, dishonesty, campaign ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
usa, washington d.c., virginia, florida, connecticut ...
Similarity:
19%
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