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Poor Cow (1967)
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Poor Cow (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The first of several social realism films by Ken Loach, this had less impact than those made as TV plays. Poor Cow follows the tangled life of Joy, who turns to Dave after her lover is jailed for theft. When Dave in turn is jailed, she is left with a son to keep. When he goes missing, she sees what's important.
Style: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy
Audience: toddlers
Plot: kitchen sink realism, female protagonist, sexual favor, working class, female nudity, swinger, women, swing, post war, social realism, prison, sex scene, model, prostitution, domestic violence, single mother, baby, casual sex, sexual promiscuity, outdoor sex, pub, dysfunctional marriage, attempted robbery, homeless, love triangle ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: london, england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and gloomy films with plots about couples, society, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage and love and romance mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Poor Cow: X, Y and Zee (1972), Belonging (2004), The Pumpkin Eater (1964), Look Back in Anger (1989), Second Coming (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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X, Y and Zee (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, interesting ...
Plot: adultery, love triangle, infidelity, architect, dysfunctional marriage, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, haunted by the past, couples, other woman, lesbian teen, drug addiction ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: england, london, europe, scotland
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Belonging (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
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95%
The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes off. A few years and at least one child later, Jo is deeply depressed, breaking ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: writers, children, depression, family relations, trauma, kitchen sink realism, angry, existentialism, blues, mental disorder, dialogue, marriage ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london
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90%
Look Back in Anger (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, tense, gloomy ...
Plot: social misfits, dance, working class, social differences, family in crisis, down on your luck, betrayal, couple relations, society, unsupportive spouse, life is a bitch, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s, 50s
Place: europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Second Coming (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A married, middle-class London couple are shocked when they seem to have been blessed — or cursed — with an immaculate conception.
Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: family relations, pregnancy, family life, family problems, realism, husband wife relationship, marriage, psychiatrist, baby, working class, women of color, black history ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
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79%
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Plenty (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Style: independent film, contemplative, tense, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, french resistance, memory, mental illness, world war, rock, women, parachute, one night stand, love and romance, hopes, introspection ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 1985, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: england, france, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
A Taste of Honey (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Focuses on a working class girl who is struggling to create a life for herself with her gay co-worker after becoming pregnant from a one-night stand with a black sailor.
Style: independent film, black and white, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot: kitchen sink realism, coming of age, working class, social realism, interracial relations, friendship, single parent, family relations, single mother, dysfunctional family, mother, social injustice ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: england, britain, europe
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72%
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Brick Lane (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: immigrant, love triangle, society, family relations, love affair, fall in love, racism, village, sister sister relationship, loss of mother, self discovery, migration ...
Time: year 2007, september 11 2001, 80s
Place: london, bangladesh, europe, england, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Something Like Happiness (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: mental illness, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, eccentric family, love and romance, single parent, working class, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Up the Junction (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A girl from a rich family in Chelsea is bored and decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea.
Style: independent film
Plot: kitchen sink realism, swing, working class, british pub, post war, swinger, railway, abortion, bare chested male, wealth, class differences
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
A Doll's House (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his ...
Style: talky, serious, psychological, realistic, clever ...
Plot: couples, working class, social differences, introspection, family problems, gender, society, human nature, unfulfillment, loneliness, stage play, women ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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You (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, gloomy
Plot: love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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57%
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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 ⇓
55%
Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still ...
Style: disturbing, sad, realistic, biting, independent film ...
Plot: immigrant, violence, fighting the system, working class, dysfunctional family, love, social commentary, hospital, drinking, mission, chaos, women ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: england, paraguay, liverpool, london
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52%
The Whisperers (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Whisperers tells the story of an impoverished old woman living alone in a seedy apartment who enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. When she discovers stolen money hidden by her son, she believes her fantasy has come true.
Style: depressing, realistic, psychological, serious, bleak ...
Plot: kitchen sink realism, old lady, radio, elderly, social realism, loneliness, theft, stolen money, poverty, mental illness, society, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: england, europe, manchester, northern england
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52%
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Pleasure Party (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Phillipe and Esther live an apparently idyllic life with their daughter, Elise. In an attempt to preserve this bliss, Phillipe decides that he and Esther should each have affairs, being sure to tell each other openly about them. The plan backfires ...
Style: sensual, sincere, bleak, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: swinger couple, swinger, sexual relations, family life, family problems, female pubic hair, open marriage, husband wife relationship, couples, dishonesty, swingers, bare breasts ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france
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51%
For Colored Girls (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in ...
Style: thought provoking, sincere, contemplative, serious, emotional ...
Plot: feminism, female protagonist, black, family problems, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, hopes, rape, woman, black history, women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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48%
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A Kind of Loving (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.
Style: experimental, social, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: kitchen sink realism, working class, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, angry, post war, factory, love and romance, couple relations, workplace, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, manchester, northern england, europe
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47%
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, family problems ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Hussy (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Beaty, a prostitute, and Emory, a lighting/sound technician, fall in love while working at the same London cabaret, but their relationship isn't easy.
Style: anime, independent film, realistic, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, stripper, murder, female pubic hair, eroticism, gangster, immigrant, nudity, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: london, europe, england
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45%
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Wonderland (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, talky, erotic ...
Plot: working class, loneliness, life, multiple storylines, existentialism, parents and children, couple relations, society, relationships, sister sister relationship, missing person, melancholy ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: london, los angeles, england, europe
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45%
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Cairo Exit (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A powerful account of life in contemporary Cairo, this raw drama about a pair of star-crossed lovers shines a powerful spotlight upon the social and cultural taboos that riddle the city's diverse population. Heralding a bold new shift for ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, rough, bleak
Plot: social decay, unfulfilled love, social differences, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, realism, society, life is a bitch, single parent, love and romance, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, middle east, africa, cairo egypt
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44%
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About Sunny (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
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43%
A Map of the World (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting ...
Style: black comedy, realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: sex crime, jazz, women, family relations, testimony, friendship, drowning, false accusation, sexual abuse, small town, dairy farm, female protagonist ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota, wisconsin
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43%
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Mamma Roma (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who ...
Style: neorealism, serious, realistic, art house, sad ...
Plot: prostitute, youth, prostitution, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, parents and children, thief, friendship, human nature, hopes, parent child relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s, post world war two
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
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41%
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Freefall (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freefall is the first drama to tackle the extraordinary financial crisis Britons are living through. Helmed by multiple BAFTA-winning director Dominic Savage, the film takes a startling and provocative look at the events that caused people's ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: debt, stock broker, society, social decay, downfall, life is a bitch, working class, unfulfillment, blind ambition, dishonesty, banker, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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41%
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Everyday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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39%
Dancing in the Dark (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: feminist, hospital, infidelity, murder, mental illness, violent content, unfulfillment, feminism, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada
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39%
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7 Years (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a ...
Style: sincere, tense, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: sex scene, moral dilemma, confined, cheating wife, prison life, love triangle, couples, sexual content, love and romance, crumbling marriage, infidelity, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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39%
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