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Ghost River (2002)
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Original name: La Vie promise
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive and bond with each other.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, rough, bleak, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, family relations, starting over, on the run, death in the family, parents and children, life is a bitch, teenage life, family problems, crime gone awry, estrangement, erotic scene, female nudity, stripper, strip club, countryside, bittersweet, teenager, mother, daughter, hitchhiker, nude, empire, breasts ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and emotional films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, female nudity, youth and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama, Thriller and Music genres. Some movies like Ghost River: The Page Turner (2006), Private Property (2006), Rebounce (2011), Chromophobia (2005), Hidden Love (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Mélanie Prouvost, a ten-year-old butcher's daughter, is a gifted pianist. That is why she and her parents decide that she sit for the Conservatory entrance exam. Although Mélanie is very likely to be admitted, she unfortunately gets ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
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revenge, older woman younger woman relationship, music, lesbian, suspense, family relations, audition, vengeance, friendship, parents and children, obsession, mentally unstable ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Since Luc granted a divorce to Pascale ten years ago, he paid generous alimony and left a fine country house as long as their twin sons remain at home. Pascale always acted as if she was the provider and head of the household, even now the ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
single parent, fondling, love triangle, couples, impossible love, family life, breakup, starting over, love and romance, family relations, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role. She plays opposite Anne Sofie Espersen and Dar Salim, and despite being only 16 years old she portrays toughness, charm, and vulnerability ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, rough, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, family relations, drug abuse, adolescence vs adulthood, dysfunctional family, youth, mother, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, scandinavia, europe
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57%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.
Style:
touching, emotional, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, celebrity culture, family problems, social worker, family relations, obsession, prostitute, family in crisis, female nudity, society, journalism, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.
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psychological, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, parent child relationship, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, power relations, family relations, doctors and patients, clinic, mental institution, parents and children, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
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psychological, touching, sincere, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
destiny, parents and children, family problems, love and romance, dull life, life is a bitch, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, chance, sexual content, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
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49%
548
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
On a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships, in the middle of a drought and while the land is parching, a drama will disrupt the life of the Santerre family. Confronted to each other they will have to learn to forgive.
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realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
death in the family, family problems, parents and children, family business, estrangement, family relations, life is a bitch, down on your luck, voyeurism, forgiveness, gay, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt and uncle. The film shows the demimonde of Vienna in the early 1990ies and deals with Ozren's finding out that his mother is not a waitress (as he was ...
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serious, atmospheric, emotional, stylized, erotic ...
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mother son relationship, coming of age, prostitute, life is a bitch, uncover truth, lifestyle, self discovery, youth, family relations, family problems, parents and children, call girl ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, austria, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan, who is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts. Meanwhile, the rest of her family is falling apart, and her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, rescue, life is a bitch, youth, drug abuse, parents and children, life turned upside down, society, teenage prostitution, first sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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 ...
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realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
drug addiction, redemption, teenager, crumbling marriage, family relations, family problems, addiction, parents and children, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, estrangement ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
"We're gonna play a game of Snap! Pick a bracelet. Pull it hard!" But it's a game of desperate consequences in YOU ARE ALONE, a dark exploration of just how far a man and a woman will go to escape loneliness, if only for an hour. ...
Style:
psychological, sexy, realistic, serious, sexual ...
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prostitute, loneliness, lifestyle, love and romance, estrangement, riddles and clues, teenage life, older man younger woman relationship, age-gap relationship, schoolgirl, escort, fetish ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
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Plot:
poverty, mother daughter relationship, little girl, human spirit, hopes, social misfits, youth, society, family problems, social relations, family relations, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In 1923, the young Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island (South Korea), to Osaka (Japan). Through the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko (processed seafood products) in his poor Korean-Japanese ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, rough, bleak
Plot:
family relations, ambition, dysfunctional family, family problems, obsession, life is a bitch, gang, loan, alcohol abuse, family in crisis, violence, abusive relationship ...
Time:
80s, 50s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, blackmail, haunted by the past, young lovers, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, teenager, love, kidnapping, coming of age, mad love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
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serious, psychological, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
mental disorder, isolation, parents and children, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, family problems, family relations, estrangement, misfit, single parent, youth ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, friends, society, lifestyle, prostitution, friendship, rivalry, troubled youth, teenage pregnancy, teenage sex, urban ghetto, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he harasses his neighbors by sending unsigned notes and making their private affairs public. When they ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot:
voyeurism, adolescence vs adulthood, destructive relationship, dangerous attraction, coming of age, mysterious character, teenage life, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, loneliness, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france
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33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Violette, an expectant wife, who opens a nasty barrel of worms by filming a documentary about her dysfunctional family, to be shown to her (as yet) unborn son.Through her ever-present lens, Violette begins to unearth one nasty family secret after ...
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serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, pregnancy, uncover truth, infidelity, parents and children, family problems, couples, adultery, disturbed childhood, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking period she divorced and lost custody of her two boys. Now she wants them to be a part of her life ...
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, serious, tense
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. Camille voit sa vie brisée par la disparition de son fils dans un accident de la route. Incapable de faire le deuil, elle ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn ...
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Time:
21st century
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31%
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Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
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serious, tense, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
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21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, psychological, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also have killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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