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The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982)
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The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982)
Original name: Den enfaldige mördaren
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Style: non-linear, period piece, touching, offbeat, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, gloomy ...
Plot: mental disorder, disability, summer, illness, nordic, farm, revenge, angel, nazi, motorcycle, murder, male nudity, bible, farmer, brother sister relationship, greed, arrogance, working class, vandalism, capitalist, death of mother, simpleton, speech impediment, man child, xenophobia ...
Time: future, 1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place: europe, eastern europe
Keyword: bruise, visit, sweden

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, serious, realistic and psychological films with plots about family relations, boy, barefoot male, nudity, bare chested male, male nudity and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like The Simple-Minded Murderer: Ostia (1970), Jack (1977), Breaking the Waves (1996), The Cleaner (2015), The Slingshot (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ostia (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two anarchistic brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their Catholic upbringing. Bandiera (Laurent Terzieff) and Rabbino (Franco Citti) were children when they pushed their drunk of a father out of a window for killing their pet ...
Style: crying, black comedy, independent film, dark comedy
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Jack (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jack spends his days smoking pot, drinking and hitting on girls together with his friends. As opposed to his friends, Jack actually knows what he wants to do with his life, he wants be an author. After a long summer together with his friends Jack ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic
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Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 min.
Story: In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style: disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, psychological ...
Plot: sex, husband wife relationship, love, tragic love, marriage, disability, love story, self sacrifice, small town, psychology, sex with a stranger, paralysis ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
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The Cleaner (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, disturbing, crying ...
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The Slingshot (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Stocholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special ...
Style: bleak, serious, harsh, enigmatic, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, anti semitism, bullying, working class, politics, bigotry, reform school, corporal punishment, society, life is a bitch, rebelliousness ...
Time: 1930s, year 1993, 1920s, 20th century
Place: europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
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Style: erotic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, light ...
Audience: adult
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Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
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Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, psychological, tense, crying ...
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: independent film, freeze frame, crying
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Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 111 min.
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Style: suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, touching, suspense ...
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