Movies like Jack 1977

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Jack (1977)
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Jack (1977)
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: nudity, friends, urban, writer's life, buddies, artists and showbiz, twentysomething life, erotica, village, ship, fight, junkie, painter, drug addict, cat, violence, writers, truck, striptease, party, marijuana, death, morgue, alcoholic, beach ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and psychological films with plots about family relations, male nudity, bare chested male, nudity, male objectification, barefoot male and friend mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Jack: The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982), Ostia (1970), The Chef (2005), We (2018), La Casa que Arde de Noche (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an ...
Style: non-linear, period piece, disturbing, bleak, emotional ...
Plot: mental disorder, disability, nordic, summer, illness, farm, murder, death of mother, revenge, speech impediment, nazi, farmer ...
Time: future, 1930s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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95%
 6.5
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Ostia (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two anarchistic brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their Catholic upbringing. Bandiera (Laurent Terzieff) and Rabbino (Franco Citti) were children when they pushed their drunk of a father out of a window for killing their pet ...
Style: crying, black comedy, independent film, dark comedy
Plot: brothers, street dance, striptease, drinking wine from a bottle, nudity, horniness, dead body, rural setting, bare butt, bare chested male, bad father, trauma ...
Place: rome italy, italy
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88%
 5.7
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The Chef (2005)
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, cooking, restaurant, friends ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 5.6
 3K
We (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between ...
Style: erotic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex scene, sensuality, open relationship, nudism, female exhibitionist, nudity, orgy, nudist, sex orgy, exhibitionist, group sex, mother daughter conflict ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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La Casa que Arde de Noche (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
Style: erotic
Plot: erotica, male nudity, woman, stripper, manipulative behavior, striptease, port, tractor, boy, donkey, multiple deaths, dog ...
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57%
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Almost 18 (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Almost 18 is a charming and unaffected film about five 17-year-old guys from Helsinki in 2010. Karri, Peter, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, touching, homoerotic, non-linear
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, teenager, coming of age, family relations, adulthood, father son relationship, father son estrangement, parenthood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of father, mother son relationship, friendship between men ...
Place: eastern europe, helsinki finland
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55%
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Consequences (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
Style: lgbt cinema, realistic, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: male nudity, closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, troubled youth, bare chested male, gay interest, lgbtq, homophobic slur, bisexual, bisexual man, teenage boy ...
Time: 2000s
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55%
Joe Gould's Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 ...
Style: melancholic, sentimental, independent film, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: friendship, writers, eccentricity, character study, buddies, writer's life, human nature, secret, reporter, philosophy, drinking, death ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 20th century
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north carolina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Accident (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These ...
Style: slasher, deep, contemplative, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: professor, flashback, college, obsession, car accident, torment, seduction, college life, swing, family relations, love triangle, teacher student relationship ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: oxford university, england, europe, london
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52%
 5.2
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Open Future (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A 16 year old boy growing up in the 60's, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
Style: freeze frame
Plot: lgbt, woods, bare butt, bare chested male, nudity, male pubic hair, photography, drug, cycling, striptease, anti conformist, passive aggressive woman ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.0
 610
Head Burst (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Markus is a handsome and respectable architect who has a secret: he is a pedophile. Despite feeling disgust of himself, Markus can't help but feel attracted to young boys. When he thinks he won't be able to suppress his deepest feelings, ...
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, psychological, tense, crying ...
Plot: pedophile, pedophilia, little boy, gay lead character, depression, psychotherapy, identity crisis, co worker co worker relationship, family relations, architect, suicidal tendency, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.3
 10K
Nil by Mouth (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, heroin, drug addict, drug addiction, drug abuse, working class, addiction, drug, profanity, brutality, violence, alcoholism ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Moritz, Dear Moritz (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teenager suffers from ridicule of his classmates and finds refuge in his dreams and playing the saxophone. Only when he joins a band and began performing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, aunt, peeping, gay interest, gay subtext, dreaming, teenage protagonist, shooting, teacher, secretly observing, photograph, musician ...
Place: hamburg germany, germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.5
 4K
The Bench (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, inspirational, gloomy ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, working class, father daughter relationship, social realism, starting over, parents and children, life is a bitch, elderly, family problems, family reunited, alcoholic, class differences ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: denmark, scandinavia, europe, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Cake General (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, captivating, crying
Plot: party, husband wife relationship, wedding, rivalry, father son relationship, bare chested male, nudity, photography, male pubic hair, voice over narration, young boy, female pubic hair ...
Time: 80s, year 2009, year 1985
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Polare (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kent, Lasse, Olle and Sven are in their mid-twenties and have been friends since childhood. At a restaurant they meet two young women and one of them, Lena, becomes pregnant. Now, who is the father? Well, it's definitely not Kent, but the ...
Plot: friendship, maternity ward, rape, birth, betrayal, modeling, drinking, male chauvinist, horse race, pregnancy, best friend, sexual abuse ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Our Lady of Lust (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When it looks like the plane that Cristina is travelling on is about to crash, she makes a pledge to become a nun if her life is spared. The plane lands safely & Cristina uphold her end of the bargain, but even as a nun she cannot leave her ...
Style: erotic, crying
Plot: nunsploitation, erotica, porn, female nudity, sex, exploitation, nun, airplane trip, thunderstorm, mother superior, nightclub, convent ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Lakki... The Boy Who Could Fly (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Surreal tale of a 14 year-old boy who dreams of escaping the loneliness from an unhappy home & sexual abuse (from his mother's boyfriend who is also his school swimming coach). One day his back mysteriously sprouts feathers and he can ...
Style: surreal, crying
Plot: coming of age, children, lgbtq, youth, lgbt, male nudity, sexual abuse, caught stealing, pub, drug, caught cheating, male masturbation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Petersen (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film, freeze frame
Plot: exploitation, exodus, university, womanizer, jealous husband, social relations, love triangle, teachers and students, workplace romance, ambition, forbidden love, love and romance ...
Time: 70s
Place: australia
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35%
 6.4
 18K
Being Flynn (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During his twenties, a young man works at various homeless shelters in Boston, where he often intersects with his brilliant but troubled father.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: homeless, father son relationship, absent father, homeless shelter, writer's life, poet, writers, estrangement, family relations, life is a bitch, social misfits, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts, new york
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34%
 5.4
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Places (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A coming of age story about love, loss and revenge centers around two teenage friends, Adam (Vladimír Polívka) and Marek (Jan Cina), whose aimless lives in a small town are suddenly disrupted by the appearance of Anna (Johana Matousková), the ...
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, sexy, tense, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, small town, love, love triangle, friendship between men, murder, teenage girl, father son relationship, prank, father daughter relationship, secret, best friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: central europe
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34%
 6.9
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Vibrator (2003)
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, serious, psychological, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: on the road, truck, self discovery, loneliness, destiny, friendship, alcohol abuse, misfit, female nudity, curses spells and rituals, self doubt, truck driver ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.4
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Love Battles (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A couple’s verbal sparring intensifies with shoving, punching and wrestling, escalating to the point where their frequent fighting sessions become real love battles…
Style: realistic, erotic, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, homecoming, couples, unlikely couple, haunted by the past, siblings relations, sexual relations, sex scene, fetish, relationships, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Raven's End (1963)
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: sincere, touching, gloomy, realistic, serious
Audience: teens
Plot: football, writers, social injustice, nordic, family relations, working class, dysfunctional family, young man, father son relationship, teenage protagonist, aspiring writer, family problems ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1936
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.1
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Bongwater (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: David (Luke Wilson) is an artist and a pothead. He's fallen in love with the beautiful and sexy Serena (Alicia Witt), and things are going simply splendidly until poor David's house burns down. Serena doesn't need the bad vibes, so ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, witty, touching ...
Plot: stoner, weed, slacker, marijuana, house fire, drug dealer, artist, brotherhood, stoned, joke, drug, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: oregon, new york, portland oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 2.7
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Three Suns (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The plague hits medieval Sweden.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: medieval, plague, on the road, danger, escapades, obsessive quest, woman in danger, strong female presence, painter, horse, opium, church ...
Time: 14th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.0
 2K
Birdcage Inn (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: With a red-light district in Seoul being demolished, the residents there find they have to relocate. Jin-a opts to leave Seoul and heads to the eastern city of Pohang. There she takes up residence in a boarding house run by a small family. Besides ...
Style: sad, avant garde
Plot: prostitution, lesbian, prostitute, female homosexuality, melancholy, sensuality, social injustice, gays and lesbians, unrequited love, attempted rape, eavesdropping, solitude ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.5
 11K
All or Nothing (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, florida, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.9
 7K
Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
A Million Little Pieces (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, social
Plot: rehabilitation, drug addiction, addiction, male pubic hair, male nudity, drug, alcohol abuse, fall in love, self destructing, clinic, introspection, society ...
Time: year 1993
Place: usa, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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