Movies like Jack 1977
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Jack (1977)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Jack spends his days smoking pot, drinking and hitting on girls together with his friends. As opposed to his friends, Jack actually knows what he wants to do with his life, he wants be an author. After a long summer together with his friends Jack finally has an idea for his first book...
Style:
serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
friends, writer's life, buddies, artists and showbiz, twentysomething life, nude, drugs, writers, male nudity, bohemian, urban, drinking alcohol, nudity (full frontal - brief), drinking, drug
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about male nudity, friends, friendship, nude, family relations, female nudity and couples mostly in Drama, Thriller and Family genres. Some movies like Jack: Waiting for the Tenor (1998), Bonsai (2011), The Door (2012), Inside (2012), Who Saw Him Die? (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The author Thomas meets his childhood friend Hoffman on an autumn night in 1997. They decide to let a dream come true: to make a film of a play by Thomas, Veranda for a Tenor, with Hoffman in the lead role. The story takes us back to the summer of ...
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realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Plot:
alcohol abuse, friendship, friendship between men, bittersweet, couples, introspection, artists and showbiz, writer's life, couple relations, terminal illness, filmmaking, writers ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 50s
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europe, sweden
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868
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina, Portugal, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young writer recounts an earlier romance in hopes of attracting his new love interest.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy
Plot:
writers, couples, couple relations, bittersweet, unfulfillment, writer's life, student, love, neighbor, poem, love story, nude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.
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realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
friendship, writer's life, master and servant, society, rich and poor, power relations, strong female presence, maid, world war two, intrigue, artists and showbiz, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
hungary
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88%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, art house, captivating ...
Plot:
human nature, introspection, cause and meaning, artists and showbiz, writer's life, hopes, humiliation, loneliness, existentialism, party, dull life, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, mind bending ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teacher, school, mental disorder, bullying, children, youth, mischievous children, mentally unstable, dedicated educator, disorder, power relations ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
Style:
realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
human nature, social relations, male nudity, existentialism
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
486
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Vincent Lindon and Alain Cavalier drink together in bars while coming up with tall tales.
Style:
realistic, serious, experimental, contemplative
Plot:
artists and showbiz, buddies, friends, filmmaking, prime minister, politics, money, business ethics, bakery, ethics, french politics, retiring ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, paris france, france
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76%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their ...
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental
Plot:
forest, summer, friends, holiday, countryside, friendship between men, buddies, self discovery, love and romance, wooing, social differences, night watchman ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
india
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
civil war, love triangle, friends, confined, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, love and romance, state affairs, haunted by the past, transvestite ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
paris france, barcelona, spain, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Camila is in her mid-twenties and her life has been thrown into chaos ever since her boyfriend threw her out of their apartment during a bitter argument. Camila's ambition is to become a writer, and she posts regularly on her blog, entitled ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, erotic, gloomy
Plot:
nude, ambition, looking for love, lifestyle, love and romance, writer's life, introspection, couple relations, twentysomething life, computers and web, direction and purpose, drugs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Follows the life of Stephen Dobyns as he deals with life, women, and his move from journalism to poetry.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, contemplative, offbeat
Audience:
teens
Plot:
writer's life, couple relations, couples, journalism, artists and showbiz
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa ...
Style:
touching, bleak, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
working class, parents and children, disorder, youth, single parent, life turned upside down, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, addiction, children, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Året är 1969. Artonårige Martin mönstrar på som andrekock på lastfartyget "Snow Drift", med destination Kapstaden. Det är Martins tredje resa. I fartygets kök härskar förstekocken Peter Stein, här är allting underkastat hans ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Plot:
youth, ship, follow your dream, nothing goes right, hopes, friendship, food, revenge, murder, restaurant, power relations, friends ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
countryside, sexual abuse, nude, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, strong sexual content, down on your luck, dysfunctional family, woman in danger, parents and children, peeping tom ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the middle of this film, about the working class in pre-world war II Sweden, is Anders who wishes to become an author. His father who is a notorious dreamer and liar, and his mother, who struggles to keep their family alive.
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, touching, sincere
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
writers, social injustice, family relations, dysfunctional family, working class, teenage protagonist, aspiring writer, family problems, couples, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, writer's life ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1936
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This is a story of Ida and Krister. It's about a relationship that goes to hell. They are both crazy in love but manage to strangle the supply of oxygen and adapt to each other in a way that will lead to catastrophic consequences.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, sexy, bleak
Plot:
male nudity, losing-it hero, destructive relationship, woman in danger, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, sex scene, love, suspense, exploitation, seduction ...
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style:
realistic, tense, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, wartime life, youth, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, boy, best friend, boyhood ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During a weekend in a country house, young people eager for strong emotions end up switching partners and experimenting drugs.
Style:
sexy, realistic, bleak, sexual, gloomy ...
Plot:
drugs, nude, couples, drug abuse, couple relations, twentysomething life, sexual relations, strong sexual content, life is a bitch, cheating girlfriend, male full rear nudity, erotica ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The arrival of a new girl causes a stir in classroom social structure.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, disturbing, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
lifestyle, misfit, teenage life, social relations, friends, high school life, self discovery, school, teenager, youth, misled, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The plague hits medieval Sweden.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
medieval, plague, escapades, obsessive quest, on the road, woman in danger, strong female presence, opium, painter, horse, rat, female protagonist ...
Time:
14th century, middle ages
Place:
sweden, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A gardener decides to exact revenge on the men he believes to be responsible for the death of his mentally disturbed wife.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
law enforcement, police, obsessive quest, chase, vengeance, rivalry, mind game, mentally unstable, police detective, nude, male nudity, seamstress ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the early 1960s, Bella, her husband Kajus and their young son, Thomas, spend seemingly endless holidays together. Next year the arrival of new neighbors, Rosa and Gabe and their two daughters, start changing their lives.
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, sentimental, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
strong female presence, friends, family relations, couples, feminism, gender, parents and children, friendship, couple relations, summer vacation, beach, adultery ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
finland
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50%
757
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tess enlists her biological father - a lovable slacker from the wrong side of the tracks - and the charming juvenile delinquent next door to help her come to grips with the death of her little sister.
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, serious
Plot:
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50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense
Plot:
espionage, undercover, state affairs, political conspiracy, dishonesty, love and romance, friendship, aspiring writer, brothers, conspiracy, writer's life, male nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
europe, sweden, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, gloomy ...
Plot:
friends, unfulfillment, teenage boy, nightlife, lifestyle, freedom, youth, lgbt, boy, coming of age, buddies, dull life ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
germany, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
On November 30th (the date when King Karl XII died) there will usually be demonstrations by hyper-national and neo-Nazi groups, and also democratic counter demonstrations. The plot of "West Side Story" is transferred to the Stockholmian ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot:
neo nazi, skinhead, racism, racist, immigrants, gang, immigration, police, impossible love, nationalism, neo nazism, love affair ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, sweden, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagochi's, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come ...
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realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
norway, europe
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45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. We first meet her in a convenience store where she is buying too much alcohol and not enough food. At the magazine rack she pauses to contemplate the happiness of the glamour girls on the ...
Style:
road movie, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
on the road, truck, self discovery, loneliness, destiny, friendship, alcohol abuse, misfit, female nudity, curses spells and rituals, self doubt, melancholy ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But as the festivities come to an end, repressed conflicts rise to the surface. Old wounds are opened and a new family is ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
homecoming, family relations, family life, family gatherings, parents and children, estrangement, under the surface, siblings relations, family problems, strong female presence, dysfunctional family, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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:
serious, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
civil war, starting over, haunted by the past, social relations, life is a bitch, friendship, family relations, hopes, coming of age, youth, massacre, mountain ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, appalachia, usa
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