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Traffic Signal (2007)
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Silsila is the "manager" of one traffic signal, that is he collects the "hafta" (protection tax) from each signal squatter plying his trade. There's Tsunami, a little scavenger boy, there's Rani - a Gujrati girl selling ethnic clothes on the sidewalk, and there's Dominic - a drug addict and the prostitute who feels for him...
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
prostitute, life is a bitch, politics, misfit, society, social misfits, disability, drug abuse, gangsters, addiction, street kid, sex crime, gays and lesbians, drug addict, pedophile, murder, homosexual, beggar, satire, eunuch, traffic, bollywood, hindi, folk dance, traffic light ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
india, mumbai india
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and touching films with plots about society, life is a bitch, misfit, social misfits, prostitute, drug abuse and family relations mostly in Drama, Crime and Family genres. Some movies like Traffic Signal: Chandni Bar (2001), Corporate (2006), Dealer (2004), Page 3 (2005), Love in the Time of Civil War (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Chandni Bar, a film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar depicts the gritty life of the Mumbai underworld, including prostitution, dance bars and gun crime.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
female protagonist, rape, gangsters, rich and poor, political unrest, vengeance, dancer's life, tough heroes, prostitute, family relations, criminal heroes, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, workplace, society, ambition, politics, corporate world, business ethics, corporate executive, erotica, business, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In an impressive follow up to his debut film Forest, Benedek Fliegauf tells the uncompromising story of a day in the life of a drug dealer. His clients include the leader of a religious sect, a friend who needs a final fix, a former lover who has ...
Style:
psychological, stylized, serious, atmospheric, experimental ...
Plot:
drug abuse, life is a bitch, addiction, estrangement, misfit, social misfits, drug dealing, society, overdose, nihilism, criminal heroes, friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, hungary
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
'Page 3' takes a behind-the-scenes look at the lifestyles of the A-list celebrities in metro cities. It explores the networking and the power play between the air-kissing
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, social ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
journalism, love and romance, lifestyle, life is a bitch, social differences, pregnancy, extramarital affair, betrayal, female friendship, hypocrite, stewardess, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Style:
realistic, touching, disturbing, bleak, serious
Plot:
gay, prostitute, male prostitute, male nudity, gay interest, gay sex, life is a bitch, misfit, drug abuse, youth, social misfits, urban ghetto ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, montreal
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Lamington Road on Bombay's Western Railway is the nearest railway station that takes one to Kamathipura, notorious for it's red-light, in particular, and a crime-prone area in general.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, art film
Plot:
love and romance, opposites attract, couples, women, prostitute, hiding place, aids, eunuch, car, police, rain, night ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
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realistic, touching, emotional, semi documentary, art house ...
Plot:
addiction, life is a bitch, misfit, social misfits, heroin addict, society, drug abuse, down on your luck, urban ghetto life, city life, poverty, painter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fifteen year old Deborah meets Jennifer who steers her into a career as an escort. Under the alias Bo she begins a new life that she cannot handle and starts a downward spiral that only she can end.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, rough, sad ...
Plot:
prostitute, teenage prostitution, downfall, destructive relationship, lifestyle, teenage life, woman in danger, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, youth, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
antwerp, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, stylized, queer cinema ...
Plot:
lgbt, gender, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians, social misfits, society, discrimination, misfit, gay, black lgbt, blaxploitation, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kenya, africa
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the ...
Style:
art house, realistic, serious, tense, biting ...
Plot:
depression, unemployment, marketplace, injustice, youth, social misfits, downfall, betrayal, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, society, college graduate ...
Time:
70s
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young man stands in front of a mirror. The night belongs to him. Every evening, he appraises his appearance, attired in a new shirt, leaves his apartment and waits in a poorly lit alleyway for his johns. One night he meets a female prostitute of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
society, gays and lesbians, gender, love and romance, social misfits, prostitute, unlikely couple, fall in love, sexual relations, love triangle, one night stand, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, too little, stolen, earned, visible and even impalpable. The money flows from one story to the next, from one person to the other, becoming the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, rough
Plot:
embezzlement, investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, stock broker, couple relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, misfit, male female relationship, money, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Female prisoners train dogs to aid people with disabilities in a program started by a nun (Laura Dern).
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, dog, rehabilitation, starting over, drug abuse, prison life, addiction, disability, human nature, life is a bitch, hopes, society ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Drawing inspiration from the death-squad murders of several Gypsy families in Hungary in 2008, director Bence Fliegauf's chilling and unforgettable real-life horror story follows a family whose dreams of emigration and escape are suddenly, ...
Style:
sincere, serious, bleak, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gypsy, racism, social decay, family in danger, realism, family life, murder, society, life is a bitch, social misfits, village, secret place ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Waris Hussein’s acclaimed drama is based on the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga, who stars in the lead role of Brit, a young man born with brittle bone disease, which causes him to have never grown beyond four feet tall. The film follows his sexual ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, sexual
Plot:
disability, fictional biography, handicapped, lgbt, family in crisis, gays and lesbians, life is a bitch, love and romance, gender, sexual abuse, society, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india, mumbai india, london, england, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
performer's life, transvestism, social misfits, family relations, family in crisis, misfit, gays and lesbians, society, bittersweet, gender, lgbt
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
From living a normal life to surviving homelessness in the city of Miami, Peter is a victim of the turbulent U.S. recession during late 2000's. A drama based on true events.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, serious, bleak
Plot:
life is a bitch, life turned upside down, unemployment, social misfits, society, misfit, family relations, family problems, homelessness, character change, unfulfillment, disorder ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this inspirational love story, a Delhi university student and aspiring writer afflicted with cerebral palsy leaves India for New York University, where she falls for a fiery young activist.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot:
sexual relations, lesbian, cerebral palsy, lesbian relationship, disability, lgbt, lesbian love, first lesbian experience, self discovery, starting over, fall in love, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, india, delhi, greenwich village manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ahmad, a porn obsessed taxi driver from Jakarta, falls for the beautiful young prostitute Kinar and struggles with sexual frustration and misguided piety.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
obsession, dull life, social misfits, misfit, strong sexual content, society, prostitution, prostitute, religions or cults, unfulfillment, taxi, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
indonesia, asia
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21%
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, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
philosophy, death, injustice, society, life is a bitch, introspection, idealism, moral dilemma, cause and meaning, monastery, women, art ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
On one evening in a decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the innocence of youth and family unravels. Five parallel coming-of-age stories dramatize the stages of grief. A youthful mother in a custody battle over her children, finds ...
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming out, teenage life, haunted by the past, misfit, social misfits, youth, life is a bitch, family problems, custody, addiction, society, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from ...
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thought provoking, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
deportation, culture clash, homecoming, immigrants, hopes, life is a bitch, starting over, society, injustice, rivalry, gangsters, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jamaica, africa, england, canada, usa
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Shortly after 1800 hours, 11 July 2006, Mumbai was shattered by seven bomb blasts on Western Railway stations: Matunga, Mahim, Khar, Bandra, Jogeshwari, Borivali, and Bhayandar. It took the Police and ambulance over an hour to attend at various ...
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disturbing, realistic, serious, gloomy, cult film ...
Plot:
terrorism, police investigation, introspection, coping, patriotism, social relations, self fulfillment, human nature, society, journalism, social differences, partners ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Angel and Zooey are not your typical newlyweds. Zooey is a professional prostitute and Angel is a drug dealer. Yet they are not without hopes and dreams, of escaping their life in the streets and starting a new in a fresh painted cottage with picked ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, gloomy, bleak
Plot:
love affair, going straight, lifestyle, addiction, drug abuse, drug dealing, survival, society, life is a bitch, hopes, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A week in the life of a young drug addict.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, witty ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, downfall, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, lifestyle, hopes, drug dealing, fired from the job, couples, going straight, prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ippe and Papu are two teenagers spending the summer, when they get into trouble with their drug-dealer. They are forced to act as drug-mules. Along the way they meet a new girl, Mia.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, drug dealer, drug dealing, addiction, hip hop, drug use, rehabilitation, social misfits, misfit, juvenile delinquency, society, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
finland, sweden, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
pregnancy, life is a bitch, looking for love, best friends, love and romance, society, social misfits, physical appearance, orphan, friendship, death in childbirth, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kazakhstan
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
refugee, love, revenge, life is a bitch, redemption, society, misfit, dishonesty, human nature, hopes, social misfits, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan, norway
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20%
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Mr. Gupta passes away after an accident while on duty, leaving behind his ailing wife and school-going son, Ramnath. Both await for some compensation, and when they are informed that the company does not accept liability for Gupta's death, his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
blind man, blindness, orphan, friendship, blind character, beggar, cripple, homelessness, compassion, friendship between men, family relations, disability ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
india, asia
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
Style:
serious, psychological, disturbing, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
dehumanization, street kid, youth, parents and children, realism, life is a bitch, cruelty, poverty, power relations, family relations, master and servant, disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, iran, asia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
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