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The Town Is Quiet (2000)
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Original name: La ville est tranquille
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:
serious, contemplative, touching, bleak, captivating, realistic, disturbing, neo noir, anthology, psychological ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, unemployment, working class, family relations, drug abuse, parents and children, life is a bitch, assassination, couple relations, addiction, love and romance, society, factory, down on your luck, immigrant, drug addiction, sex, female nudity, male nudity, husband wife relationship, refugee, racism, couples, seaport, rapper ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
marseille, provence, france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and gloomy films with plots about family relations, couples, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, working class and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Town Is Quiet: Balancing Act (2012), Look Back in Anger (1989), Lorna's Silence (2008), Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, breakup, couples, life is a bitch, downfall, unfulfillment, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
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Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio.
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serious, atmospheric, harsh, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
immigrant, loneliness, marriage, divorce, manipulation, attempted murder, danger, life is a bitch, wedding planning, couples, regret, overdose ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
cheating wife, fall in love, skinny dipping, family relations, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, polyamory ...
Time:
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Place:
marseille, europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.
Style:
realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, social ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
tanzania, marseille, france, europe
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67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned about one inmate, Kate, regarded as difficult and withdrawn, but whom the other inmates credit with mysterious healing powers.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
women's prison, husband wife relationship, prison life, prison, nervous breakdown, forbidden love, dogme 95, dogma, clergy, confined, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe, provence, marseille
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Daniel leaves prison. He returns to Marseilles where Mathilda, his daughter, has just given birth. Nicolas, his spouse, a self-employed driver, is exhausted while Mathilda is a sales assistant on a trial basis. But, one night, Nicolas is assaulted ...
Style:
psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, talky ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
marseille, france, europe
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45%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
From the director of Marius et Jeannette, this story of two working-class families is a fable with an optimist streak. A young black man, Francois, is wrongly accused of rape by a racist policeman. The story is told in voiceover by his childhood ...
Plot:
children, skinny dipping, working class, racism, love, pregnant teenager, social injustice, social realism, interracial relations, poverty, adopted son, teenage pregnancy ...
Place:
marseille, france, sarajevo
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
seaport, lovers apart, marriage proposal, obsession, couples, follow your dream, hopes, unfulfillment, couple relations, unfulfilled love, working class, sailor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
france, marseille, south of france
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, marseille, south of france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, lifestyle, love and romance, society, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, social differences, infidelity, youth, male female relationship ...
Place:
middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community ...
Style:
psychological, touching, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, nostalgia, family relations, soldier, frustration, dealing with the past, military, death, suicide, dead brother, inheritance, working class ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south of france, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, France, Panama
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere
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392
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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realistic, tense, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
israel, middle east
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30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, teenager, redemption, parents and children, addiction, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
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29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
beach, dreaming, self discovery, midlife crisis, escapades, hopes, unfulfillment, journey, loneliness, birthday, big city, fishing ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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193
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
29%
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Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
pension, colonel, hopes, small town, parents and children, family relations, downfall, couple relations, haunted by the past, small town life, family life, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot:
factory, single parent, unemployment, workplace, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, isolation, parents and children, working class, society, hopes ...
Place:
france, europe, maghreb, south of france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style:
erotic, sexual, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, interracial relations, addiction, drug abuse, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, hopes, couple relations, life is a bitch, rehabilitation ...
Time:
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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 ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
26%
532
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, tense ...
Plot:
couples, society, working class, fall in love, immigrant, life is a bitch, misfit, security guard, gang, pursuit, danger, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
poverty, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, introspection, society, couples, suburban life, suburbs, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
24%
314
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 1990s New York City, teen runaway Froggy is caught in the throes of heroin addiction as she falls in love with a fellow junky, war veteran Baylis. The couple finds comfort in each other, yet they are already far too deep in a wild downward spiral.
Style:
captivating, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, love affair, misfit, love and romance, couples, society, life is a bitch, surrender, against the odds, looking for love, social misfits ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, rough
Plot:
necrophilia, dominatrix, overdose, sex, male nudity, female nudity, necrophiliac, nudity, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, mentally unstable ...
Time:
turn of the century, 90s
Place:
europe, france
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24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
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