Movies like Near Death Experience

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Near Death Experience (2014)
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Near Death Experience (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Follows a man wandering in the wilderness.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, stylized, offbeat
Plot: monologue, death, cyclist, self discovery, losing-it hero, moon, suicide, ant, swimming pool, drawing, shadow, thunderstorm, cafe, ruins, dead animal, game playing, suicidal thoughts, dam, mountain, unfulfillment, traffic jam, cycling, helicopter, cigarette smoking, human nature ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about self discovery, death, unfulfillment, family relations, friendship, couples and female nudity mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Near Death Experience: Mammuth (2010), Aaltra (2004), Louise hires a contract killer (2008), I Feel Good (2018), Tomorrow's Another Day (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mammuth (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Serge Pilardosse vient d'avoir 60 ans. Il travaille depuis l'âge de 16 ans, jamais au chômage, jamais malade. Mais l'heure de la retraite a sonné, et c'est la désillusion : il lui manque des points, certains employeurs ayant ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: on the road, introspection, elderly, aging, self discovery, escapades, family relations, workplace, boss and employee, obsessive quest, power relations, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Aaltra (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their ...
Style: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, black and white ...
Plot: on the road, disability, friendship, hospital, dark humor, misfit, physical disability, life is a bitch, escapades, money, loser, farmer ...
Time: year 2004
Place: finland, belgium, europe, helsinki finland
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Louise hires a contract killer (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, captivating, light ...
Plot: partner, hitman, factory worker, unemployment, disorder, assassination attempt, nothing goes right, obnoxious boss, rivalry, satire, workplace, danger ...
Time: year 2008, september 11 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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65%
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he’d been abducted by Al-Qaeda or aliens from outer space. Some Twitter users even expressed relief that ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, deep, contemplative ...
Plot: abduction, unlikely criminals, writer's life, danger, friendship, farce, dark humor, kidnapping, writers, psychology, friends, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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53%
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I Feel Good (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: He’s lived for too long off his parents. It’s time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. One-time gigolo and a borderline bum, he knows what he wants – to become rich and famous. He even has a business plan: tourism combined ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, black comedy
Plot: midlife crisis, unemployment, slacker, physical appearance, loser, capitalism, escapades, brother sister relationship, liberation theology, communism, ashes, ambitious man ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, couples, friends, unfulfillment, cellist, suicide, car accident ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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50%
Those Who Remain (2007)
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, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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50%
Special Treatment (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, Jeanne ...
Style: captivating, serious, psychological, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: hopes, life is a bitch, lifestyle, human nature, introspection, doctors and patients, estrangement, psychoanalyst, female nudity, sex scene, making love, psychology ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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42%
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Les Jours venus (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An ex soixante- huitard is forced to look back at his past .His kids look at him like an old soldier from a very distant war.His banker called him urgently.His last script idea is refused.He remembers meeting his wife in Sarajevo during the war.Most ...
Style: clever, realistic, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: midlife crisis, artists and showbiz, aging, dealing with death, unfulfillment, filmmaking, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Doors of Glory (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, talky ...
Plot: fish out of water, workplace, rise to the top, family relations, on the road, misfit, boss and employee, disorder, small town, salesman, artificial intelligence, adoption ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france
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Amour Fou (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
Style: atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Plot: poet, suicide, couples, love and romance, writer's life, tragic love, playwright, aristocracy, loneliness, writers, society, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, 18th century
Place: germany, europe, prussia
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37%
If You Don't, I Will (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A couple goes on a hike in the woods, and the woman refuses to return.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: woman, couples, couple relations, woods, forest ranger, sleeping, tumor, ant, rabbit, art gallery, picnic, forest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: lyon, france
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37%
Looking for Hortense (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, sincere, touching ...
Plot: gay, immigrant, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, family life, family relations, couples, disorder, couple relations, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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35%
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic
Plot: unrequited love, friendship, tragic love, friends, countryside, estate, artists and showbiz, actor's life, love, broken heart, theater, afterlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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35%
Season's Beatings (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, family relations, midlife crisis, new year, christmas spirit, holiday, restaurant, pregnancy, estrangement, couples, family problems, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, europe, russia, paris france
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35%
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Nationale 7 (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellious character. But not resist provocations candor and uprightness of Julie, a special educator ...
Style: psychological, semi serious, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Plot: prostitute, self discovery, paraplegic, couples, misfit, sexual relations, biker, handicapped, obstacle, male female relationship, disabled, caravan ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france
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Young Girls in Black (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Noémie and Priscilla, two teenage girls from working class backgrounds, cultivate the same violence, the same contempt of the world. They are a source of serious concern for family and friends, who sense them capable of going to extremes. Noémie ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, tense, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: human nature, teenage life, family problems, society, youth, dysfunctional family, death, suicidal thoughts, friendship, rebelliousness, coming of age, rebellion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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33%
The Clink of Ice (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, biting, offbeat ...
Plot: dark humor, terminal illness, self discovery, lifestyle, writer's life, artists and showbiz, alcohol abuse, cancer, life, loneliness, maid, absurd humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, south of france
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32%
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Find the Way (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Between fear of success and a tricky break-up, Ludovic is beyond all hope as he is getting close to the 30's stage. His unexpected meeting with a sick child, Raphael, shakes up his daily life and his future approach. Together, they go after ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: hopes, self discovery, introspection, cause and meaning, terminal illness, life turned upside down, child illness, disorder, friendship, family relations, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france, marseille, provence
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Queen of Montreuil (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It's early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. She has to get over her husband's death and return to her work as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house of a couple of Icelanders, a sea lion and a ...
Style: psychological, semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot: life turned upside down, homecoming, starting over, self discovery, disorder, uninvited guest, hopes, bittersweet, widow, death of husband, neighbor, seaport ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, iceland
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Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, muslim, adoption, religion, friendship, self discovery, youth, man boy relationship, childhood, koran, generation gap, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
Place: paris france, europe, middle east, switzerland, turkey ...
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Congorama (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, Belgium, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious
Plot: inventor, family relations, adoption, uncover truth, destiny, self discovery, hopes, twists and turns, dishonesty, human nature, changing lives, couple relations ...
Place: quebec, belgium, europe, canada
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Step by Step (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as ...
Style: touching, psychological, humorous, unusual plot structure, thought provoking
Plot: friendship, paraplegic, disabled person, autobiography, rehabilitation center, suicide attempt, doctor, re-education, disability, parents, brain injury, hospital ...
Time: 90s, year 2016
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Journey to the West (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 56 min.
Story: A Buddhist monk walks barefoot and incredibly slowly through Marseille – so slowly, that his progress is barely perceptible and he becomes a calming influence in the midst of the town’s goings-on.
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: clergy, solitude, monk, self discovery, introspection, journey, underground, spirit, art, buddhist monk, urban, no dialogue
Time: 21st century
Place: marseille, france, french riviera, europe
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29%
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, art house, philosophical, talky ...
Plot: surrealism, loneliness, multiple storylines, dark humor, existentialism, insanity, poetry, religions or cults, human nature, worldwide chaos, nordic, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: russia, eastern europe, scandinavia
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29%
Mister Lonely (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
Style: surreal, semi serious, humorous, atmospheric, avant garde ...
Plot: switching roles, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couple relations, friends, lovers reunited, celebrity culture, tragic love, suicide, husband wife relationship, love, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2007
Place: europe, paris france, france, scotland
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29%
Two Thousand and None (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A paleontologist is diagnosed with a fatal brain disease and, rather than falling into a depression, explodes into life.
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, psychological, sad ...
Plot: terminal illness, self discovery, tragic hero, couples, couple relations, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, best friend, singleness, unfulfillment, disease, paleontologist ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: canada
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28%
Delete History (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s family allowance, is afraid of losing her son’s respect because of a sex tape. Bertrand can’t say ...
Style: satirical, humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: sex tape, blackmail, addiction, social decay, social network, social problems, social media, silly humor, escapades, absurd humor, satire, fighting the system ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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28%
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Saint Amour (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French ...
Style: road movie
Plot: wine, on the road, father son relationship, taxi, drinking alcohol, twin sister, cattle, alcohol abuse, egg, drunkenness, realtor, cow ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: france, paris france
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28%
The Easy Way Out (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching
Plot: self discovery, gay interest, life turned upside down, couples, infidelity, couple relations, disorder, lgbt, gender, gays and lesbians, siblings relations, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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28%
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