Movies like The Night Watchmen 2015
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The Night Watchmen (2015)
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Original name: Jamais de la vie
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Times have changed a lot for Franck who is a night watchman. About a decade ago he was a specialized worker. Today he feels bored but would jump at any chance to prove his bravery and courage.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
life turned upside down, starting over, dull life, disorder, hopes, unfulfillment, police, security guard, loneliness, car accident, monster, money, motorcycle, hospital, robbery, blood, colleague, shopping mall, night watchman, wound, coworker relationship, garbage collector, cigarette smoking, gun, necktie ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france
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Most similar movies to The Night Watchmen
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and psychological films with plots about hopes, hospital, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, disorder, unfulfillment and couples mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Night Watchmen: Loves Her Gun (2013), Insecure (2014), Comedy of Power (2006), Dreamland (2006), Hip Moves (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, danger, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, weapons, coming of age, life turned upside down, on the road, down on your luck, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
95%
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
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
Plot:
embezzlement, dishonesty, political corruption, legal action, legal investigation, couple relations, law enforcement, couples, disorder, husband wife relationship, investigation, bodyguard ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy
Audience:
teens
Plot:
destiny, love triangle, self discovery, starting over, life is a bitch, love and romance, youth, hopes, introspection, coming of age, basketball, erotica ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
las vegas, usa, new mexico
Similarity:
79%
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105
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
obsession, pregnancy, unfulfillment, prostitute, nightshift, hospital, love, couples, society, lonely, gays and lesbians, dull life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
77%
425
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the City of Angels, despair and heartache are the daily mail -- delivered with painful regularity whether we want them or not. Through I AM, we join an eclectic cast as they try to untangle themselves from the web of sin. All along the way, they ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, society, religions or cults, unfulfillment, inheritance, journalist, police, frozen alive, faith, hopes, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alex, 25 years old, lives a life divided between his custom car that he pampers to the point of insanity, his friends, his girlfriend, whose baby girl he had under duress, and his job as a forklift operator. An exclusive passion, with its rituals ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
life turned upside down, couples, couple relations, moral dilemma, male female relationship, friendship, family crisis, disorder, family problems, family in crisis, police officer, car tuning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The middle-aged titular heroine (Masiero) of this bare-bones, Dardenne-esque debut has certainly fallen on hard times: Living between her car and a storage shed, working a part-time job as a hotel chambermaid, and trying against all odds to obtain ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, starting over, human spirit, hopes, optimism, working class, cleaning lady, female protagonist, poverty, homelessness, single woman, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
69%
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294
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a (slightly) retarded woman who dreams of love, sexuality, normality
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
mentally challenged, love and romance, dull life, unfulfillment, misfit, social misfits, looking for love, mental disorder, dancing, restaurant, pigeon, loss of wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office, and fearing a miscarriage of ...
Style:
serious, suspense, realistic, tense, atmospheric
Plot:
legal investigation, justice, lawyer, murder trial, trial, courtroom, car accident, doubt, missing person, fight for justice, suspicion of murder, perjury ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Herve, the head of a press agency, is traveling fast down a road headed in only one direction: self-destruction. He is an alcoholic, and his drinking is wrecking his marriage, family and career. In desperation and still in denial, he checks into a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, cynical, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
addiction, rehabilitation, introspection, going straight, unfulfillment, social misfits, hopes, clinic, life is a bitch, passion, stephen king, life lesson ...
Place:
switzerland, europe
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Daniel is a former police officer turned debt collector. Now in his late fifties, he goes about his "dirty job" without emotion or sympathy. One winter's day, he stops at a roadside parking lot and is approached by Laura, an ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, suspense, gloomy
Plot:
missing person, investigation, life turned upside down, missing girl, disappearance, police officer, debt collector, winter, debt, cemetery, teenage girl, police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, hopes, siblings relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Paul dies, he leaves his wife Eve with a mountain of debt. As the police begin their investigation into Paul’s death, Eve is supported by a lawyer named Chollet, a friend of her husband who generously helps her to clear the debts she has ...
Style:
realistic, neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
dishonesty, missing person, twists and turns, couples, friends, law enforcement, femme fatale, infidelity, friendship, manipulation, police, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
60%
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:
56%
536
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a mysterious stranger with ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
couple relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, thoughtful, life turned upside down, family in crisis, down on your luck, gift, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
55%
250
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Quiet 16-year-old Louis, the high school headmaster’s son, has never been in trouble. His best friend, 18-year-old Greg, however, is his polar opposite: provocative, angry, violent, he has been kicked out of school for physically threatening young ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
teenager, kidnapping, parent child relationship, youth, teachers and students, parents and children, single parent, hardcase students, confined, crime gone awry, disorder, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of ...
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, sincere, realistic
Plot:
family in crisis, restaurant, starting over, family relations, life turned upside down, food, disorder, family problems, single parent, couple relations, down on your luck, hopes ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, ontario canada, montreal
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching
Plot:
lovers reunited, starting over, fish out of water, interracial relations, culture clash, social relations, unfulfillment, foreigner, expatriate, painting, wife, escape ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, seoul, north korea, south korea
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
civil war, starting over, haunted by the past, social relations, life is a bitch, friendship, danger, family relations, mountain, coming of age, youth, hopes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, usa, appalachia
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tony Luke, Jr. stars as Joey Nardone, an out-of-shape boxer, who after 8 years in prison for an unfortunate accident leaves prison and gets a shot at redemption by fighting for one young boy's future - 14 year old Jesus.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
teenage life, redemption, friendship, youth, rivalry, starting over, hopes, coming of age, profanity, boxing, violent content, sexual content ...
Place:
usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
51%
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:
51%
201
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets Marie, who takes her in, on her way to the ...
Style:
touching, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
prostitute, jazz, unfulfillment, hopes, couples, one day, christmas eve, society, christmas, taxi, looking for love, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
51%
Movie in collections
873
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Anna, a somewhat introverted woman, becomes obsessed with the orthopedic surgeon who helped with her recuperation following a car accident. Incorrectly believing the love to be reciprocated, she embarks on several attempts to try and stay in touch ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, obsession, mental illness, doctors and patients, doctor, hate, hopes, women, femme fatale, couples, family relations, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Returning to his community after defeat in the Sri Lankan civil war, a former Tamil rebel known only as "Him" faces hostility, suspicion and bitter recriminations in Asoka Handagama's beautifully elegiac meditation on the aftermath of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, sinhala ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, hopes, starting over, politics, rebellion, state affairs, village, post war, poverty, loss of job, island, dead body ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, sri lanka
Similarity:
48%
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:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
disorder, redemption, friendship, friends, introspection, family life, life turned upside down, family relations, immigrant, adoption, misfit, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mitri is 15 years old and lives in a village in Senegal. Like all the youngsters of his age, he plays football, dreaming of the Barcelona and Chelsea Football Clubs. When an agent sees him, Mitri believes in his luck. But, in order to go chasing ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
football, follow your dream, immigrant, hopes, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, life is a bitch, youth, ambition, soccer, desire for fame, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, africa, europe, paris france
Similarity:
46%
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:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ane is in her mid-forties and delighted when a stunning bouquet of flowers is delivered to her home. But the site manager has no idea who to thank – one thing is for sure; her jealous husband, Ander, is not the unknown cavalier. As these ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, animal life, life turned upside down, hopes, female protagonist, strong female presence, dealing with death, ashes, sheep, car accident, flowers, relationships ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, basque country, europe
Similarity:
46%
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