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In Vanda's Room (2000)
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In Vanda's Room (2000)
Original name: No Quarto da Vanda
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 171 min.
Story: With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, semi documentary, contemplative, bleak, art house, slow cinema, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, life is a bitch, misfit, social misfits, heroin addict, society, down on your luck, city life, urban ghetto life, poverty, painter, drug addiction, underground, courage, melancholy, anthropology, decolonization, urban, urban ghetto, ghetto, junkie, drug addict, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal
Keyword: avant-garde, portuguese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and bleak films with plots about society, life is a bitch, drug abuse, addiction, drug addiction, family relations and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like In Vanda's Room: Colossal Youth (2006), Ossos (1997), Horse Money (2014), Dealer (2004), Sweet Nothing (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Colossal Youth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story: After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style: contemplative, serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, starting over, hopes, misfit, addiction, urban ghetto life, husband wife relationship, anthropology, decolonization, poetry ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
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95%
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Ossos (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, philosophical, art house ...
Plot: mental disorder, courage, alienation, anthropology, underground, minimalism, immigrant, deadend life, vengeance, urban ghetto life, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Horse Money (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Style: psychological, touching, atmospheric, emotional, postmodern ...
Plot: immigrant, introspection, social decay, haunted by the past, mental institution, revolution, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, misfit, existentialism, anthropology ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: portugal, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Dealer (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In an impressive follow up to his debut film Forest, Benedek Fliegauf tells the uncompromising story of a day in the life of a drug dealer. His clients include the leader of a religious sect, a friend who needs a final fix, a former lover who has ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, stylized, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: drug abuse, addiction, life is a bitch, misfit, estrangement, social misfits, drug dealing, society, overdose, nihilism, underground, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Sweet Nothing (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot: drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
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38%
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On the Outs (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
Style: serious, emotional, rough, touching, anthology ...
Plot: asthma, teenage pregnancy, drug dealer, single mother, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, lifestyle, teenage life, kids in trouble, social misfits, drug dealing, gang ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: emotional, serious, touching, rough, bleak ...
Plot: downfall, haunted by the past, society, life is a bitch, going straight, family problems, down on your luck, addiction, dysfunctional family, hopes, re-education, drug abuse ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Love in the Time of Civil War (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Style: realistic, touching, disturbing, bleak, serious
Plot: gay, prostitute, male prostitute, male nudity, gay interest, gay sex, life is a bitch, misfit, drug abuse, male pubic hair, drug addict, urban ghetto ...
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Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Zooey (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Angel and Zooey are not your typical newlyweds. Zooey is a professional prostitute and Angel is a drug dealer. Yet they are not without hopes and dreams, of escaping their life in the streets and starting a new in a fresh painted cottage with picked ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Town Is Quiet (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
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Time: 90s
Place: marseille, provence, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Jumpin' at the Boneyard (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Manny tries to get his crack addict brother, Danny, to clean up.
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
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Time: year 1991, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Street Days (2010)
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Duration: 89 min.
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Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, bleak ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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26%
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Tales (2014)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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24%
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23%
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Better Things (2008)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Time: 90s
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22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: independent film, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 312
Macondo (2014)
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Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.9
 599
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Genre: Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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