Movies like The Christening
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The Christening (2010)
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Original name: Chrzest
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Michal has what he always dreamed of: a beautiful wife named Magda, a newborn son, his own firm. He chooses an old friend, Janek, to be the godfather of his child. This is just the beginning of Michal's plan, who asks his friend to take an interest in his wife... At the beginning the plan works out, but it becomes increasingly difficult for Michal to come to terms with it. Michal knows his deeply hidden past will inevitably come back to him, and Janek will have to make a decision, of which he will never forget the consequences.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
haunted by the past, going straight, friends, life is a bitch, one more chance, godparent, husband wife relationship, reform, criminal heroes, dog, gangsters, prostitute, train, fishing, snow, female nudity, sex scene, torture, church, baptism, passionate sex, best friend, father son relationship, breast feeding, train station ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
poland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and gloomy films with plots about life is a bitch, haunted by the past, female nudity, family relations, danger, society and nude mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Christening: Loverboy (2011), Nor'easter (2012), Between Us (2013), Erratum (2010), The Fold (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, Sweden, Serbia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of Constanta. Luca falls in love with Veli, one of his potential victims. It's summer down the Danube river, in Harsova. The music is loud, the cars are ...
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prostitute, small town, lifestyle, introspection, womanizer, sexual abuse, love and romance, fall in love, life is a bitch, bittersweet, gay, artist ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
Style:
psychological, realistic, tense, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, missing child, religions or cults, clergy, church, social relations, small town, brainwashing, priest, winter, gay, snow ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of literature-loving friends bury letters to be opened 10 years later when they will confront the dreams of their youth with what the future has held in store for them.
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serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, friendship, haunted by the past, friends, life is a bitch, under the surface, writer's life, countryside, brazilian, writers, innocence lost, reunion
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
556
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
self discovery, haunted by the past, homecoming, parents and children, family relations, buddies, redemption, estrangement, hopes, friends, bittersweet, car accident ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Struggling with her grief, Anglican priest Rebecca Ashton tries to replace her deceased daughter with another girl.
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, obsession, society, life is a bitch, clergy, immigrants, under the surface, female protagonist, dangerous attraction, folk, dealing with death, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, cornwall
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587
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry femme fatale.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, realistic, neo noir
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
femme fatale, master criminal, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, confined, drug dealing, dishonesty, unlikely partners, friendship, couples, gold mine, voyeur ...
Place:
usa, nevada
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Janne, a 60 year old party promoter is arranging a nightclub at the annual tennis week in the small coastal town of Båstad, where he also teams up with his older sister Jackie. But an accident turns his life upside down and forced by the people ...
Style:
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Plot:
nightclub, siblings relations, life turned upside down, unlikely criminals, nightlife, disorder, society, down on your luck, nothing goes right, family business, partners, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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504
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.
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psychological, realistic, atmospheric, touching, serious ...
Plot:
female nudity, couples, couple relations, dealing with death, choir, husband wife relationship, letter, loss of son, sex scene, funeral, police, airplane ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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779
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
court, uncover truth, haunted by the past, solidarity, working class, family relations, life is a bitch, society, labor union, father son relationship, mole, airplane ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. ...
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psychological, serious, captivating, tense, sexy ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, aging, sexual tension, secret, obsession, brothel, uncover truth, older man younger woman relationship, fetish, infidelity, erotica, age difference ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Slovenia, Germany
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A police inspector investigates an unusual suicide case. The investigation develops into an obsession, inspector starts living in the apartment of the deceased, digging through his life and gradually taking over his identity.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot:
obsession, mysterious character, police investigation, haunted by the past, police detective, life is a bitch, destiny, father daughter relationship, guilt, death of child, ex husband ex wife relationship, car accident ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, slovenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Basia and Marek have been on the run their whole lives. Along with their nine-year-old daughter Ula, they experience what it’s like to be an immigrant in Sweden. When a Swedish social worker visits their home, she witnesses Ula’s everyday ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, rough
Plot:
children, emigration, social worker, soccer, kidnapping, foster home, parents and children, family problems, new life, family in crisis, husband wife relationship, against the odds ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
restaurant, family relations, couple relations, family problems, under the surface, couples, human nature, life is a bitch, parents and children, haunted by the past, juvenile delinquency, family in crisis ...
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Place:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Philippines
Duration: 450 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, psychological, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as ...
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Plot:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, France, USA, South Korea, Turkey
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, tense, rough, serious, art house ...
Plot:
filmmaking, gangsters, estrangement, life is a bitch, obsession, violence spree, strong violent content
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iraq, Turkey, Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
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psychological, realistic, serious, stylized, tense ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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serious, disturbing, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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serious, realistic, tense, atmospheric, bleak ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
Plot:
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