Movies like Stand-by

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Stand-by (2000)
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Stand-by (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatized she makes the airport her home, making money by working as a prostitute. She strikes up a friendship with a café worker Marco.....
Style: touching, serious, realistic, offbeat, independent film
Plot: prostitute, airport, friendship, feminism, couples, breakup, starting over, fish out of water, self esteem, husband wife relationship, sex, relationships, stewardess, misfit, isolation, strong female presence, social relations, unfulfillment, immigrant, airplane, money, doctor, power, woman, cafe ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: argentina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about friendship, couples, friends, unfulfillment, strong female presence, society and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Stand-by: Under the Starry Sky (2013), Spiral (2008), Not Waving But Drowning (2012), Piedras (2002), Tokyo Noir (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
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95%
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Spiral (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, touching, student film
Plot: social relations, immigrant, family in crisis, bittersweet, gender, family problems, homecoming, society, village life, strong female presence, unfulfillment, feminism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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75%
Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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51%
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Piedras (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The stones of the title are the dreams and burdens carried by these five women with interlinked lives. This story of decision and transformation was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Style: touching, realistic, clever, serious, offbeat ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family life, friendship, hopes, working class, looking for love, lifestyle, road not taken, destiny, dull life, self discovery, gender, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Tokyo Noir (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: city life, prostitute, singleness, couples, lifestyle, strong female presence, urban
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Night and Day (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching
Plot: lovers reunited, social relations, interracial relations, fish out of water, culture clash, starting over, unfulfillment, foreigner, painting, expatriate, wife, escape ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, seoul, france, south korea, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Amazing Women by the Sea (1998)
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, touching, sentimental
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, friends, family relations, friendship, parents and children, feminism, gender, couple relations, strong female presence, husband, yacht, jazz ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, boss and employee, love and romance, pregnant woman, family crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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43%
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The Fire (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A couple must hold on to $100,000 for 24 hours as they wait to buy a house. As the time ticks by, the true nature of their love unravels.
Style: touching, talky, realistic, serious, tense
Plot: breakup, couple relations, family problems, couples, sexual content, human nature, graphic violence, violent content, under the surface, indoor
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Balancing Act (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, tense ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, breakup, life is a bitch, couples, unfulfillment, downfall, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Forget Me Never (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching
Plot: wandering, disability, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, politics, aging, life is a bitch, legal action, unfulfillment, couple relations, couples, relationship vs career ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Shun Li and the Poet (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, hopes, single parent, social relations, misfit, life is a bitch, society, workplace, fish out of water, workplace situations, village, poet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Limbo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Sonia arrives in Trinidad with her two children to join her husband Jo who is working as an oil engineer. On the surface she lives a life of luxury in a large houses with servants. The days are uneventful and blend together into an everlasting ...
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: infidelity, couples, family problems, introspection, social relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, unfulfillment, children, love affair, monastery, strong female presence ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
In Between Days (2006)
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: emotional, realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, youth, unfulfillment, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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To Life (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, auschwitz, human spirit, hopes, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, reunited friends, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place: europe, france
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38%
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Nordrand (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental
Audience: girls' night
Plot: immigrant, friendship, bittersweet, deadend life, friends, social relations, fish out of water, gender, society, misfit, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time: 90s
Place: austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Just Like a Woman (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, disturbing, sex comedy ...
Plot: belly dancing, dancing, friendship, lifestyle, starting over, self discovery, hopes, on the road, society, unfulfillment, secret, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Desert Dream (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France, Mongolia
Duration: 123 min.
Story: This film takes place in a remote area, a desert region situated somewhere between the Mongolia and Chinese border. The town has become nearly void of all inhabitants except for Hangai, who works obsessively to plant trees in the desert area. ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: culture clash, immigrant, border, parents and children, friendship, single parent, isolation, village life, desert, misfit, social relations, horse riding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mongolia, china, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Down to the Dirt (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Thirty-year-old Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) ekes his way through life in a small town. A hard-drinking hooligan, he keeps his ragged collection of poetry a closely guarded secret... as secret as his regret for the shattered relationship with ...
Style: serious, touching, psychological, realistic
Plot: starting over, redemption, couple relations, introspection, misfit, alcohol abuse, follow your dream, aspiring actress, breakup, journey, pedophile, mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: newfoundland, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Frailer (2014)
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, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: best friend, friends, friendship, strong female presence, terminal illness, siblings relations, unfulfillment, family relations, resistance
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
We All Want What's Best for Her (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching
Plot: rehabilitation, starting over, estrangement, introspection, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, accident, escape, society, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
For a Moment, Freedom (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: refugee, immigrant, hopes, friendship, injustice, starting over, society, leaving home, political unrest, friends, fugitives, migration ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: iraq, iran, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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A Doll's House (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. A modern version of Ibsen's play.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, talky, tense ...
Plot: women's rights, friendship, friends, couple relations, crumbling marriage, introspection, unfulfillment, hopes, feminism, society, unsupportive spouse, gender ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Cross to Bear (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mother of a 15-month old daughter and would-be dancer, fighting alcoholism and the hardships of living on the streets gets help from a home for women and tries to find the will to live and get her life back on track
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, humorous
Plot: starting over, friendship, adoption, life is a bitch, pregnancy, couples, family relations, addiction, optimism, hopes, alcohol abuse, babies and infants ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A portrait of a woman, composed of 17 moments from her life.
Style: serious, touching, erotic, realistic, queer cinema
Plot: starting over, love and romance, family problems, couples, sexy woman, gay, male pubic hair, male nudity, gay interest, discrimination, breakup, hotel ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Made in Ash (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: prostitute, roommate, life is a bitch, down on your luck, sex, seamstress, nudity, innocence lost, romani people, female protagonist, exploitation, sexual content
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Two Is a Happy Number (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her. After uncovering disturbing new ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: marriage, dating, divorce, husband, wife, feminist, cheating, friendship, starting over, support group, looking for love, infidelity ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Women or Children First (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France). Trouble comes when Tom ex girlfriend reappears, asking for help, announcing him that she had a girl from him 9 years ago.
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, midlife crisis, hopes, friends, couples, unfulfillment, human nature, fatherhood, ex girlfriend, boy, love, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Existence (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Astitva is a bold film with adultery. An ambitious male chauvinist and his loving wife are happily married but the guy is not able to give time to the family as he want to make it big in life. His work is of paramount importance to him. His work ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, social ...
Plot: seduction, independence, husband wife relationship, family relations, dysfunctional marriage, family problems, crumbling marriage, love and romance, dishonesty, breakup, infidelity, unsupportive spouse ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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