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Stand-by (2000)
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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:
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, husband ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
argentina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about friendship, couples, friends, society, unfulfillment, family relations and strong female presence mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Stand-by: Tokyo Noir (2004), Under the Starry Sky (2013), Spiral (2008), Night and Day (2008), Guernsey (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, erotic drama ...
Plot:
couples, city life, lifestyle, singleness, strong female presence, prostitute, female sexuality, prostitution, sex work, loneliness, isolation, sexually liberated ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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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:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
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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, serious, touching, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
immigrant, social relations, bittersweet, gender, village life, family problems, strong female presence, family in crisis, homecoming, society, isolation, intimate ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
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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:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching
Plot:
lovers reunited, starting over, fish out of water, interracial relations, culture clash, social relations, unfulfillment, foreigner, expatriate, painting, wife, escape ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, seoul, north korea, south korea
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, breakup, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, sister, death in the family, sister sister relationship, female nudity, alienation, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
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:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
suburbs, murder, relationship vs career, family life, couples, family relations, friends, social relations, couple relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
22%
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:
alzheimer's disease, wandering, disability, memory loss, relationship vs career, mental illness, terminal illness, friendship, college, couples, legal action, aging ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
22%
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, couples, life is a bitch, downfall, unfulfillment, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
22%
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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, friendship, breakup, workplace, couples, theater, boss and employee, love and romance, family problems, male female relationship, pregnant woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
22%
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, self discovery, looking for love, dull life, gender, working class, road not taken, destiny, lifestyle, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
Similarity:
21%
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, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, society, youth, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
21%
622
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:
realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, bittersweet, deadend life, social relations, friends, fish out of water, human nature, society, life is a bitch, misfit, gender ...
Time:
90s
Place:
austria, europe
Similarity:
21%
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, atmospheric, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
border, desert, culture clash, immigrant, parents and children, single parent, friendship, village life, isolation, social relations, misfit, horse riding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mongolia, china, korea, asia
Similarity:
21%
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, emotional, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, hopes, single parent, social relations, life is a bitch, society, workplace, misfit, fish out of water, workplace situations, poet, sailing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, venice, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
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, self discovery, starting over, hopes, unfulfillment, society, on the road, secret, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
21%
262
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:
auschwitz, starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, hopes, human spirit, girlfriend, reunited friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
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, tense, talky ...
Plot:
feminism, women's rights, friendship, friends, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse, couple relations, hopes, gender, society, introspection ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
20%
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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, human nature, unfulfillment, fatherhood, ex girlfriend, boy, love, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
20%
864
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:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, social ...
Plot:
independence, seduction, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage, family relations, family problems, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, love and romance, breakup, infidelity, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
20%
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, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
marriage, dating, divorce, husband, wife, feminist, cheating, friendship, starting over, support group, sexual content, manipulation ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Similarity:
20%
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:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot:
love affair, impossible love, immigrant, couples, fall in love, couple relations, hopes, introspection, love and romance, society, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america
Similarity:
19%
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, political unrest, leaving home, friends, fugitives, migration ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
iraq, iran, turkey
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patty, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
couples, family relations, couple relations, disorder, misfit, society, youth, social misfits, child abandonment, poverty, friendship, adolescence ...
Place:
europe, italy, rome italy
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
clergy, friendship, religions or cults, parents and children, family relations, family life, society, village, fish out of water, disorder, village life, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads out for London and a marriage to an older man where her ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
on the road, fish out of water, follow your dream, youth, fall in love, misfit, hopes, love and romance, innocence lost, optimism, factory worker, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, asia, china, london
Similarity:
19%
269
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in a small Swedish town, the story is centered around three best friends aged 20. Michelle, a photo model, has a drinking problem which leads to a string of one-night-stands, including sex with the hot tempered boyfriend of Anna. She has just ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, twentysomething life, couple relations, friendship, friends, couples, female friendship, strong female presence, best friend, adolescence vs adulthood, dishonesty, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
disorder, redemption, friendship, friends, introspection, family life, life turned upside down, family relations, immigrant, adoption, misfit, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
19%
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:
captivating, serious, tense, psychological, stylized ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, couples, escapades, danger, friendship, women, biopic, woman, friends, visceral, struggle for survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 90s
Place:
greenland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Style:
cynical, realistic, talky, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
starting over, hopes, estate, rich and poor, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, couples, down on your luck, social differences, marriage, joan of arc ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
19%
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