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The Five of Us (2004)
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Original name: Elles étaient cinq
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In Montreal, the teenagers Manon, Anne, Isa, Claudie and Sophie are friends since their childhood. While spending a couple of days in the cottage of Sophie's parents nearby a lake, the girls decide to give a party, and Manon and Sophie hitch for a ride to the town in a jeep to buy some beers and supplies and they invite the driver to the party. On the return, the same driver stops the car and later Sophie is found stabbed, raped and covered of blood. Fifteen years later, Manon sees the guy in a car-wash and she invites her former friends to return to the house nearby the lake, where wounds of their traumatic loss are disclosed.
Style:
serious, emotional, psychological, touching, realistic, disturbing, sincere, gloomy, contemplative
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
rape victim, friendship, murder, friends, introspection, haunted by the past, unfulfillment, rape, psychopath, fear, little girl, post traumatic stress, paranoia, loss of daughter, river, strong female presence, children, swimming, singer, guitarist, pianist, father daughter relationship, boat, mother daughter relationship, tattoo ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada, montreal, montreal quebec
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and disturbing films with plots about murder, deadly, friendship, friends, flashback, introspection and haunted by the past mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Five of Us: The Hour of the Lynx (2013), The Rebirth (2007), Steel Toes (2007), Three Walls (2003), Born Killers (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
racism, skinhead, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, confined, legal, misfit, introspection, prison, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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introspection, confined, prison life, prison, hopes, redemption, criminal heroes, death row, twists and turns, murder, family problems, prisoner ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
rape victim, rape, courtroom drama, redemption, injustice, justice, lawyer, abuse of power, court, death
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, introspection, couples, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, midlife crisis, singleness, pregnancy, woman in danger ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, depressing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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