Movies like Melody

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Melody (2014)
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Melody (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Melody, 28 years old, a confused child born under the name X, decides to rent out her body in order to get the money she needs to realize her dream: opening a hair-dressing salon. To do so, she accepts to carry the child of Emily, a rich English woman 48 years old who can no longer have children. To make sure everything goes well and keep an eye on her future child, Emily decides to welcome Melody into her home and stay by her side throughout the pregnancy. Although they first appear to come from completely different worlds, the two women end up adopting each other: Melody finds in Emily the mother she never had, and Emily sees in Melody the daughter she always wanted to have. Evidently, the bonds that emerge during this double maternity create all sorts of doubts and questions.
Style: touching, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, non-linear
Plot: surrogate mother, homeless, hairdresser, pregnancy, follow your dream, money, baby, social differences, social relations, hopes, women, death, cancer, beach, hospital, swimming pool, locked in, grandmother, needing money, strong female presence, unfulfillment, female nudity, doll, bare breasts, pregnant woman ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, europe, belgium

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and gloomy films with plots about hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, female nudity, family relations, hospital and strong female presence mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Melody: Those Who Remain (2007), Oxygen (2010), Summer (2008), A Single Girl (1995), Bad Girl (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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Oxygen (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two young man share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying?
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: transplant, human spirit, friendship, terminal illness, hopes, optimism, life is a bitch, coming of age, buddies, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Summer (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, friends, disability, adolescence vs adulthood, haunted by the past, misfit, introspection, hopes, self discovery, father son relationship, coming of age, friendship between men ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Single Girl (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style: sexual, erotic, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, hotel, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age, minimalism, lgbt, lust, making love, sex scene, single parent, strong female character, single mother ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Bad Girl (2012)
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: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: parents and children, family problems, couples, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female nudity, bullfighting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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The Bird (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman, withdrawn from life, rescues a live bird that had been trapped in the wall of her apartment.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
Plot: estrangement, strong female presence, restaurant, women, bird, food, cigarette smoking, beach, kiss
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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Sworn Virgin (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
Style: touching, atmospheric, contemplative, serious, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, hidden identity, disorder, introspection, hopes, sexuality, gender, transsexual, woman, feminism, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: albania, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Shun Li and the Poet (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, hopes, single parent, social relations, misfit, life is a bitch, society, workplace, fish out of water, workplace situations, village, poet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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She Is Not Crying, She Is Singing (2011)
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, family secret, car accident, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Lea (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Léa lives in Le Havre, where she attends college whilst taking care of her elderly grandmother. To make ends meet, she works as a waitress in a night club. Her admittance to the Institute of Political Studies in Paris offers her new ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot: strong sexual content, real sex, nightlife, introspection, hopes, youth, lifestyle, human nature, strong female presence, student life, student, needing money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
You Can't Write a Letter (2013)
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, life is a bitch, hopes, couple relations, couples, sister sister relationship, love, death, unfulfillment, flashback, train ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Edi (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, family relations, homeless, youth, life is a bitch, society, pregnancy, parents and children, destiny, false accusation, magic realism ...
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Stopped on Track (2011)
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: family relations, hospital, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, children, wife, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Mouth Agape (1974)
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: realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional, touching ...
Plot: terminal illness, love letter, family relations, death of mother, death, mother son relationship, family problems, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Frailer (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: best friend, friends, friendship, strong female presence, terminal illness, siblings relations, unfulfillment, family relations, resistance
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Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Louise Wimmer (2011)
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 ...
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Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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The Big Dream (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Italian Revolution, 1968. Police officer, Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among students against the government, Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense, touching ...
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Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, gloomy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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56%
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Henri (2013)
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
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
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Style: melancholic, stylized, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: adoption, children, politics, women, parenthood, loneliness, follow your dream, social differences, orphan, society, hopes, culture clash ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Girl at the Window (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Emprisoned by an illness, a young country girl decides to leave for Quebec City in order to study piano and discover an animated and enthralling lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating
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Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Paju (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style: touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted by the past, true love, introspection, forbidden love, leaving home, couples, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, starting over, small town, small town life ...
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45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, unfulfillment, dull life, frustration, scientist, estrangement, love, women, father daughter relationship, love and romance, love affair, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, scandinavia, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.6
 110
Never Die (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chayo returns to her hometown to care for her elderly mother and cope with her death. Surrounded by love and sublime beauty, Chayo has to give up something that as a woman and mother is inalienable. That will be the price of her freedom.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young artist in Manhattan falls in love with a Mexican.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nightclub, social differences, missing person, love affair, social relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, couple relations, conspiracy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, middle east
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Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)
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: friendship, hospital, nurse, coming of age, terminal illness, child illness, boy, wrestling, youth, life is a bitch, human spirit, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Pope Dreams (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: terminal illness, follow your dream, hopes, parents and children, family relations, coming of age, young lovers, teenage life, unfulfillment, human nature, mother son relationship, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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A Family (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ditte owns a gallery, has a loving boyfriend and her dream job in New York is within reach. But Ditte is also the youngest generation of the famous bakery dynasty, Rheinwald, and when her beloved, but dominating father comes down with a serious ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: family business, workplace, follow your dream, parents and children, couples, hopes, family problems, couple relations, cooking and food, father daughter relationship, death, food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, new york, europe, usa, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Cold Water of the Sea (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica, France, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On New Year's holidays, Mariana (21) and Rodrigo (30) drive to the coast where he has to sell a property. There, they find Karina (7), late at night and in the middle of nowhere. She tells then she ran away from home.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: mysterious character, society, obsession, couple relations, lifestyle, introspection, social differences, little girl, beach, twentysomething life, ocean, swimming pool ...
Time: 21st century
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