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The Whisperers (1967)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Whisperers tells the story of an impoverished old woman living alone in a seedy apartment who enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. When she discovers stolen money hidden by her son, she believes her fantasy has come true.
Style:
depressing, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
radio, old lady, elderly, loneliness, theft, social realism, poverty, stolen money, mental illness, society, dishonesty, golden years, driver, old age, bus, husband wife relationship, hearing voices, marriage, crimes
Time:
60s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
england, europe, manchester, northern england, manchester england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and disturbing films with plots about society, dishonesty, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, family problems, family relations and couples mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Whisperers: Bigga Than Ben (2008), Island (2011), David Copperfield (1970), The Mark (1961), Small World (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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europe, england, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
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noir, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
flashback, dream, mental disorder, sex maniac, child molester, social misfits, starting over, life is a bitch, misfit, mentally unstable, going straight, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his ...
Style:
talky, psychological, realistic, serious, clever ...
Plot:
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Time:
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57%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man ushers an older woman into a dark exploration of her past - back to the time when, as a young girl, she met a stranger who affected her life forever.
Style:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
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realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the second feature film by Russian director Vasily Sigarev, fate brings ordeals to characters that find themselves immersed in deep crisis; they must seek the strength to cope with adversity. In a remote and cold region of Russia, Galya, a ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion ...
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Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Duration: 97 min.
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
A young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
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Plot:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
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Duration: 102 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Sweden
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Story:
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