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Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
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Original name: Życie jako śmiertelna choroba przenoszona drogą płciową
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of a doctor named Tomasz who questions his beliefs, faith and morality as his end is near, so he makes all efforts to find dignity in his imminent death.
Style:
existential, serious, captivating, tricky, clever, intellectual
Plot:
doctor, cynicism, meaning of life, suffering, cancer, renaissance, terminal illness, ex husband ex wife relationship, death, illness, life & death, fighting illness, life is a bitch, life philosophy, cause and meaning, monk, existentialism, identity, horse, divorce, hospital, monastery, couples, telephone call, makeup artist ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
eastern europe, poland
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Most similar movies to Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and captivating films with plots about terminal illness, life is a bitch, hospital, death, unfulfillment, illness and cancer mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease: The Constant Factor (1980), The Illumination (1973), Spiral (1978), The Structure of Crystal (1969), Peaceful (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the "emotional quotient" or the ability to bounce back from adverse, tragic circumstances. Witold has been ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, bleak, intellectual, tragic
Plot:
corruption, grief, character study, moral dilemma, family drama, existential crisis, bureaucracy, frustration, social realism, betrayal, class struggle, anti hero ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
eastern europe, poland, himalaya
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.
Style:
philosophical, poetic, existential
Plot:
psychological manipulation, mental disorder, identity, unrequited love, love letter, disorder, renaissance, meaning of life, psychology, monkey, mountain climbing, physicist ...
Time:
year 1973, 60s
Place:
eastern europe, poland
Similarity:
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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 ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, suspense, sinister, tense ...
Plot:
renaissance, snow, winter, mountain, alienation, isolation, obsession, symbolism, character study, slow burn, tourist, suspicion ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Physicist John worked as a meteorologist. He lives in a small village with his wife, a teacher. Meanwhile, his friend from university, Mark, is doing a research career. Trying to get John to return to academic work in the capital. Mark is not ...
Style:
poetic, intellectual, masterpiece
Plot:
renaissance, old friend, identity, moral dilemma, provincial life, university, university student, physics, meaning of life, weatherman, school teacher, married ...
Time:
year 1969
Place:
poland, eastern europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
acceptance, mother son relationship, terminal illness, medical examination, cancer, hospital, family conflict, life & death, family drama, fighting illness, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee. Follow up to "Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease" (2000)
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, emotional, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
medical student, fiancee, indecision, intimate, anxiety, engagement, slice of life, young adult, domestic drama, personal growth, coming of age, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his ...
Plot:
renaissance, midlife crisis, professor, writers, suicide attempt, workaholic, chemistry, male female relationship, compassion, scientist, neighbor, studying ...
Place:
eastern europe, poland
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Style:
sincere, depressing, touching, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
hospital, cancer, medical, doctor, poetry, chemotherapy, hopes, dying, nurse, terminal illness, philosophy, regret ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young couple finds out what love truly means when one of them has a brush with death. When Anne and Marc met, it was love at first sight, and the longer they were together, the more they realized they never wanted to be apart. But not long after ...
Style:
emotional, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
sister in law, optimism, radiation, couples, terminal illness, wedding planning, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, couple relations, male female relationship, family relations, family reunited ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Nikki is a precocious child suffering from Rett Syndrome. Unwilling to help her the doctors, instead, want to write her off as a mentally handicapped person.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, medical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fighting illness, precocious child, doctor, disability, lifestyle, social problems, life is a bitch, social misfits, terminal illness, illness, life philosophy, child ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, hopes, cancer, chemotherapy, child illness, life is a bitch, babies and infants, optimism, couples, family problems, overcoming, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2011, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, marseille
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
mature woman, dying, small town, love and romance, love affair, tragic love, couple relations, dishonesty, dealing with death, couples, infidelity, older younger relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
22%
254
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:
family saga, tense, melancholic
Plot:
wedding, corruption, hypocrisy, character study, emotional breakdown, suicide attempt, arranged marriage, satire, ballerina, villa, bureaucracy, intimate ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems and also becomes the lover ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, countryside, piano, magic realism, renaissance, woods, terminal illness, sibling relationship, comeback, life & death, village life, dealing with death ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, switzerland, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
hospital, family relations, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, male nudity, suffering, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, redemption, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, dealing with death, cancer, illness, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Dedicated to his profession, he develops strong relationships people he cares for. But outside of work, it's a different story altogether.
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
terminal illness, architect, complaint, patient, character study, fired from the job, illness, introvert, friendship, love and romance, chemotherapy, funeral ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of friends travels to the beach to encourage Jason, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. The journey is rooted in nostalgia and desire for a meaningful farewell, although the friends avoid the subject of Jason's illness. Some time ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, buddies, terminal illness, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, friends, dealing with death, fighting illness, illness, relationship problems, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, death of mother, love letter, family relations, mother son relationship, death, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, elderly, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Diego is a film director very close to death, surrounded by people who are having trouble dealing with his current tempestuous mood. Chances are he won't survive, but if he does, that means he needs to relearn how to live. live.
Style:
captivating, emotional, existential, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
cancer, illness, female masturbation, wedding ceremony, hospital, family problems, death, survival, cancer patient, fighting illness, friends, treatment ...
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, biting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
renaissance, campus, father son relationship, male nudity, sex, skinny dipping, nude girl, summer, satire, intrigue, manipulation, summer camp ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and ...
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
parents separation, family life, mother and son, aging, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, single parent, fighting illness, nursing, overprotective mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, asia, japan
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Man of Marble is a Polish film about a student making a film about a bricklayer who was once idolized. She interviews people who knew him and finds old footage that lead to an unfolding mystery that causes her producer to cancel the project.
Style:
emotional, meditative, compassionate, talky, disturbing ...
Plot:
politics, terrorist, visceral, communism, friendship, working class, honest, eviction, renaissance, heroes, journalism, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
70s, 1950s, year 1976, year 1977, 20th century ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, canada, japan ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Netherlands
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
This first feature film from Indian playwright Anand Gandhi, tells three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances: a visually impaired Egyptian photographer, who after a cornea transplant has ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, philosophical, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
photograph, society, injustice, cause and meaning, introspection, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, idealism, death, photography, male full rear nudity, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation. Since that time, the couple has always been together and eventually married.One day, Setsuko complains ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, captivating, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
writers, illness, terminal illness, cancer, life & death, loss, marriage, storytelling, diary, life, husband wife relationship, family relations ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
terminal illness, dying, father son relationship, relationships, cancer, dysfunctional family, reconciliation, illness, divorce, hopes, fighting illness, destiny ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, serious, realistic
Plot:
sick child, hospital, friendship, nurse, boy, coming of age, child illness, terminal illness, wrestling, youth, human spirit, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julien and Nina sign a pact with the universe: they must enjoy life, whatever the cost. Will that decision lead them to happiness, or to their disappearance?
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, offbeat
Plot:
terminal illness, optimism, hopes, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, sister sister relationship, love, death, unfulfillment, aids, supermarket ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, anthology, contemplative ...
Plot:
doctor, paralysis, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family relations, parents and children, suffering, father daughter estrangement, loss of daughter, father daughter relationship, murder, death ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
19%
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