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Pickpocket (1997)
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Pickpocket (1997)
Original name: 小武
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Little pocket thief Wu never got away from the streets like his friends did. He realises that he is alone, as his old buddy doesn't invite him for his wedding. When he falls in love with a hooker he is forced to think about his future. Can he break with his criminal past?
Style: contemplative, neo noir, independent film, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, biting, suspense
Plot: pickpocket, alienation, coming of age, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, low lives, estrangement, unfulfillment, criminal heroes, love, male nudity, friend, nudity, male pubic hair, town, unsupportive friend, nude, bathtub, pubic hair, nudity (full frontal - brief), cult, crimes
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: china, asia
Keyword: chinese, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and captivating films with plots about love and romance, unfulfillment, fall in love, couples, coming of age, introspection and family relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Pickpocket: Made in Hong Kong (1997), Isabella (2006), 1001 Grams (2014), Caught in the Web (2012), The World (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Made in Hong Kong (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The first independent film to emerge from the former British colony since the changeover to China in 1997, Made in Hong Kong is an intoxicating drama about teenage alienation.
Style: art house, neo noir, crime drama, cult classic, brutal ...
Plot: triad, criminal, architecture, love letter, organized crime, alienation, troubled, gangster, juvenile delinquency, estrangement, right hand man, city life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: china, hong kong, asia
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Isabella (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: On the eve of the transfer of power over Macao to the People’s Republic of China, a police officer finds himself in the throes of a dreadful crisis – both in his career and in his private life. Already thrown off course for having been suspended ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: adulthood, hidden identity, moral dilemma, introspection, dishonesty, police investigation, love and romance, love affair, terminal illness, unfulfillment, pregnancy, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, china, macau
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1001 Grams (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, unfulfillment, dull life, frustration, scientist, estrangement, love, women, father daughter relationship, love and romance, love affair, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, scandinavia, europe, france
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Caught in the Web (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of three women whose worlds collide - a social commentary about the 'sound bite' society we are becoming, where perception becomes reality and judgments based on limited facts quickly spread, without regard for the truth or the ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, fast ...
Plot: society, life turned upside down, media, intern, media satire, computers and web, human nature, workplace situations, lifestyle, urban
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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The World (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Japan, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: “The World” is a theme park on the outskirts of Beijing, sixteen kilometers from the Chinese capital, designed around scaled representations of the world’s famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa.The site is seen ...
Style: touching, psychological, sentimental, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot: self discovery, fall in love, social relations, society, amusement park, wedding, couples, bittersweet, immigrant, prostitute, artists and showbiz, misfit ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: china, tibet, new york, usa, asia ...
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When the Night (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After meeting during their vacation, two young people with solitary lives suddenly come into a relationship that could benefit both of them.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: family relations, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, parents and children, mountain, cheating wife, brother brother conflict, unfaithful husband, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Triumph in the Skies (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Young pilot Branson (Louis Koo) recently takes over Skylette, his father's aviation empire, only to realise his old flames Cassie (Charmaine Sheh) is a flight attendant there. Several years ago, he was forced to break up with her and move to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unfulfilled love, fall in love, lovers reunited, workplace romance, workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, unfulfillment, bittersweet, pilot, adaptation, opposites attract
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
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Milk (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of ...
Style: realistic, art house, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, introspection, teenage love, leaving home, unfulfillment, family relations, hopes, small town, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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24 City (2008)
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 CITY". Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, aesthetic ...
Plot: factory, working class, working conditions, introspection, workplace, society, revolution, politics, social differences, childhood memory, fired from the job, media ...
Time: 70s, 50s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s ...
Place: china, asia
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Hours of Light (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating
Plot: prison, rehabilitation, redemption, unlikely couple, prison life, hopes, murder, love affair, impossible love, nudity, health, male pubic hair ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain
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34%
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Still Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Style: touching, contemplative, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: homecoming, demolished city, haunted by the past, social decay, disaster, estrangement, family problems, injustice, society, life is a bitch, introspection, eviction ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: china, asia
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32%
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The Letter (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, moral dilemma, couples, love triangle, unfulfilled love, singer, car accident, concert, nun ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: portugal, france, paris france
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The Poll Diaries (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Estonia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In 1914 on a family estate, Oda helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in.
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: world war one, experimenting, obsession, estate, family relations, moral dilemma, parents and children, collector, coming of age, youth, german history, fall in love ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: estonia, europe
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The Spectator (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Valeria is a passive onlooker to her own life in Turin, and she grows so obsessed with the activities of her neighbor Massimo that when he moves to Rome she decides to follow him. There she meets and unexpectedly befriends Massimo's companion ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot: voyeurism, obsession, fall in love, destructive relationship, love triangle, redemption, dishonesty, stalking, forbidden love, estrangement, couples, friendship ...
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Place: rome italy, europe, italy, turin italy
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Back to Stay (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Switzerland, Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Marina, Sofia and Violeta deal differently with the death of their grandmother.
Style: contemplative, sincere, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, youth, estrangement, sister sister relationship, everyday life, friendship, society, strong female presence, family problems, family life, siblings relations ...
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Place: argentina, latin america
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Breath (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".
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Plot: confined, love affair, estrangement, unfulfillment, prison, suicide attempt, surveillance camera, prison guard, passion, mission, moving, prison life ...
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The High Pressures (2014)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 85 min.
Story: Miguel travels to Pontevedra, his hometown, with the request of serching for some locations for a movie. His trip takes him back to the place where he grew up, meeting up with some old friends, but also leads him to the possibility of a new ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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30%
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Alpha Male (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: friendship, age difference, senior citizen, couples, friends, human nature, introspection, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, unfulfillment, writer's life ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
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The Night (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young man stands in front of a mirror. The night belongs to him. Every evening, he appraises his appearance, attired in a new shirt, leaves his apartment and waits in a poorly lit alleyway for his johns. One night he meets a female prostitute of ...
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Cherry. (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When Brian Cherry, a sweet, sensitive young Los Angeleno, falls for the beautiful, electric, and damaged Jules, she turns his ideas about women and sex upside-down. Slowly, he is drawn into a twisted love-triangle that includes Jules and his best ...
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The Off Hours (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: You're awake when everyone else is asleep. You're standing still as traffic is whipping by at 70mph. You see dusk and dawn everyday because they happen on your way to a time clock and then to a bed. Your off hours are spent trying to ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, serious, mumblecore ...
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Place: usa
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Ploy (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: eroticism, jealousy, love triangle, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, melancholy, dream, depression, hotel room, existential crisis, women ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand
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30%
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Burning Secret (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: contemplative, tense, captivating, realistic, serious ...
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Sauna on Moon (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Guangdong, the forefront of China's reform and opening-up, the business of a sauna is fairly flat. The boss, Wu, together with his team, pursuits his dream and constructs a entertainment kingdom persistently with their wisdom, effort and ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Japan, South Korea, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: youth, unemployment, life is a bitch, society, family relations, teenage life, unemployed, buddies, music band, lifestyle, friends, love triangle ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Buddha Mountain (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, sexy ...
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Place: asia, china
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We All Want What's Best for Her (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A middle-age woman recovers from a serious car accident.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching
Plot: rehabilitation, starting over, estrangement, introspection, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, hopes, accident, escape, society, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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Exhibition (2013)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 104 min.
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Style: psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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28%
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Automatic (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style: contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: family problems, couples, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, destiny, sexual relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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