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Stand-by (2000)
314
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
Plot:
prostitute, airport, friendship, feminism, couples, breakup, starting over, fish out of water, self esteem, husband wife relationship, sex, relationships, stewardess, misfit, isolation, immigrants, strong female presence, social relations, unfulfillment, airplane, money, doctor, power, cafe, marriage
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, society, family relations and strong female presence mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Stand-by: Spiral (2008), Not Waving But Drowning (2012), Night and Day (2008), Piedras (2002), Tokyo Noir (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, student film
Plot:
immigrants, social relations, strong female presence, family problems, bittersweet, village life, homecoming, gender, village, family in crisis, society, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
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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 ...
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realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, starting over, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, society, relationships, friends, best friends
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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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, touching, captivating
Plot:
lovers reunited, culture clash, fish out of water, interracial relations, starting over, social relations, unfulfillment, expatriate, foreigner, painting, exile, artist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, seoul, france, south korea, north korea
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64%
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, clever, serious, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
hopes, family life, friendship, lifestyle, dull life, destiny, gender, road not taken, working class, self discovery, looking for love, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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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:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
strong female presence, prostitute, couples, city life, singleness, lifestyle, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
realistic, serious, gloomy, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
marriage, dating, divorce, feminist, cheating, friendship, starting over, support group, twentysomething life, midlife crisis, infidelity, college ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
515
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:
family problems, couples, couple relations, breakup, sexual content, graphic violence, human nature, under the surface, indoor
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
disability, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, couples, aging, unfulfillment, politics, life is a bitch, legal action, couple relations, terminal illness, relationship vs career ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, love and romance, boss and employee, male female relationship, pregnant woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, breakup, parents and children, life is a bitch, couples, downfall, unfulfillment, down on your luck, job seeking, adultery, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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:
realistic, serious, psychological, talky, tense ...
Plot:
women's rights, friendship, isolation, friends, society, crumbling marriage, gender, hopes, unfulfillment, feminism, unsupportive spouse, couple relations ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
norway, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ...
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realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
suburbs, murder, relationship vs career, family life, social relations, family relations, friends, couples, suburban life, couple relations, parents and children, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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52%
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:
coming of age, immigrants, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, youth, love, couples, women of color, korean american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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, atmospheric, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, hopes, single parent, social relations, workplace, misfit, society, life is a bitch, workplace situations, village, fish out of water, boat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
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, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
immigrants, culture clash, parents and children, friendship, single parent, isolation, village, village life, desert, border, social relations, misfit ...
Time:
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Place:
mongolia, china, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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580
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:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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:
psychological, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
introspection, couple relations, redemption, starting over, misfit, alcohol abuse, follow your dream, aspiring actress, breakup, journey, winston churchill, oral sex ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
101
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:
friendship, best friends, friends, strong female presence, unfulfillment, terminal illness, family relations, siblings relations
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
228
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, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, auschwitz, hopes, human spirit, reunited friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, girlfriend, lifestyle, post war, women ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When Yuki finds out that her parents are separating and she is moving to Japan with her mother, she and her best friend Nina devise ways to reunite the feuding adults.
Style:
serious, touching, stylized, sincere, realistic
Plot:
friendship, forceful separation, family relations, family problems, parents separation, best friends, hopes, on the run, starting over, youth, breakup, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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.
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realistic, serious, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
refugee, friendship, injustice, starting over, immigrants, society, hopes, leaving home, political unrest, friends, fugitives, freedom ...
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Place:
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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, love and romance, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, breakup, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, erotic, realistic, queer cinema
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental, touching
Plot:
love affair, impossible love, immigrants, love and romance, introspection, society, couple relations, hopes, couples, fall in love, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
estrangement, life is a bitch, writer's life, single parent, couple relations, family problems, family in crisis, relationship vs career, couples, alcohol abuse, crumbling marriage, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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