Movies like Spiral 1978
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Spiral (1978)
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Original name: Spirala
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, suspense, tense, melancholic, sinister, existential, art house, intellectual, surreal
Plot:
renaissance, winter, snow, mountain, isolation, alienation, obsession, symbolism, character study, slow burn, tourist, silence, frostbite, sanitarium, suspicion, man versus nature, depression, morgue, rock climbing, lecture, hopelessness, investigation, moral ambiguity, resort hotel, search and rescue ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, existential, art house and atmospheric films with plots about isolation, character study, slow burn, psychological drama, moral ambiguity, obsession and alienation mostly in Drama, Music and Thriller genres. Some movies like Spiral: Kontrakt (1980), The Constant Factor (1980), Slave and courtesan (2016), Illusion (2022), Drowsiness (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 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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Similarity:
68%
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Country: Poland
Duration: 56 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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Similarity:
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Country: Côte d'Ivoire, Guadeloupe
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
52%
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321
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
investigation, missing daughter, mother love, female nudity, missing person, mother daughter relationship, reality versus fantasy, missing girl, private investigation, mysterious disappearance, missing child, obsession ...
Similarity:
51%
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Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
existential, melancholic, surreal, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
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Place:
poland
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, tense, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
investigation, privacy invasion, family relations, dishonesty, parents and children, mystery woman, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity, obsession, isolation, paranoia ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
suicide, memory, existential crisis, symbolism, loss, midlife crisis, self discovery, guilt, flashback, mature, regret, isolation ...
Place:
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Similarity:
50%
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Country: Poland, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
existential, captivating, serious, tricky, clever ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
eastern europe, poland
Similarity:
50%
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Country: Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Currently in post-production. Plot unknown. Unknown plot.
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 90 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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Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 87 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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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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330
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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80
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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109
Genre: Drama
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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:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Polish Psychological Drama
Style:
reflective, existential, philosophical, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense, existential ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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813
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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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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
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114
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Holy Week in Pelion. Two friendly Athenians couples find in their yard corpse of a stranger. They try to avoid the charge of murder by locals, while in the whole fuss becoming uncovered secrets that will change the lives of everyone.
Style:
tense, suspense, atmospheric, melancholic, twisted ...
Plot:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe, poland
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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Similarity:
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Duration: 78 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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293
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Germany
Duration: 90 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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