Movies like The Apple 1998
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The Apple (1998)
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Original name: سیب
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Style:
compassionate, sincere, thought provoking, serious, sexy, light, atmospheric, rough, enigmatic, bleak ...
Plot:
isolation, father daughter relationship, confined, family relations, life is a bitch, society, human nature, religions or cults, children, childhood, blindness, twins, social worker, feral child, child abuse, marriage, catastrophe, artist, relationships, women, religion, obsession, art, suspense, weapons ...
Time:
90s, contemporary
Place:
iran, middle east, tokyo, japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out reflective, melancholic, serious and harsh films with plots about catastrophe, suprisingly clever, culture clash, childhood, runaway, loneliness and mentor mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Apple: The Wild Child (1970), The Quiet Room (1996), The Day I Became a Woman (2000), The Circle (2000), Ponette (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Director François Truffaut makes a rare on-screen appearance in one of his most unusual films. Based on a true story, the film follows the discovery of a feral child (Jean-Pierre Cargol) who's grown up wild in the forest in late-18th-century ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, sexy, breathtaking, harsh ...
Plot:
education, coming of age, children, youth, doctor, feral child, psychology, deaf, boy, teacher, nude, transformation ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s, 70s, 19th century
Place:
paris france, france, tokyo, new jersey, south of france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, rough, visually appealing, allegory ...
Plot:
divorce, manipulation, hospital, idealism, prejudice, guilt, relationships, identity, runaway, fantasy world, fighting the system, finnish ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, japan, california
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76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A girl reaches the age of nine and is supposed to act as a grown woman according to her family. A girl participates in a bike race against the will of her husband. An elderly woman decides she wants to buy all the things she always wanted but could ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, stylized, talky, serious ...
Plot:
feminism, culture clash, against the odds, injustice, life is a bitch, society, rebelliousness, women, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, feminist, bicycle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, middle east, japan, paris france
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76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric ...
Plot:
pregnancy, politics, on the run, rebellion, prostitute, life is a bitch, friendship, injustice, society, women, women's rights, discrimination ...
Time:
70s
Place:
iran, middle east, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; ...
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touching, realistic, talky, emotional, spiritual ...
Plot:
children, child, coming of age, grief, youth, innocence lost, bereavement, friendship, death, school, life, self discovery ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, tokyo, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, allegory, gloomy, affectionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
immigrants, coming of age, father son relationship, youth, melancholy, existentialism, dysfunctional family, empathy, boy, traumatic childhood, racism, social injustice ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, france, belgium, europe, usa ...
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70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
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disturbing, sincere, surreal, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
islam, politics, desert, survival, suicide, brutality, women, culture clash, refugee, on the road, rescue, self discovery ...
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, canada, california ...
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69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, ...
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melancholic, sincere, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, adultery, pregnancy, family relations, couples, family life, love and romance, siblings relations, family problems, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s
Place:
vietnam, tokyo, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, melancholic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
small town, countryside, kurd, fish out of water, childhood, family relations, village, parents and children, coming of age, village life, politics, existentialism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, kurdistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Morocco, Tunisia, Cameroon, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, touching, political ...
Plot:
rebellion, sexism, childhood, torture, child abuse, culture clash, women, tradition, fighting the system, human spirit, injustice, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, japan, tokyo, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger ...
Style:
psychological, art house, melancholic, sexy, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
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dysfunctional family, obsession, sexuality, teenage life, siblings relations, love and romance, human nature, single parent, coming of age, incest, character study, hospital ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, london, vietnam, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Style:
depressing, touching, serious, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
childhood, poverty, dysfunctional family, innocence lost, young kid, children, child abandonment, boy, tragedy, coming of age, family relations, greed ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, india, asia, california
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer ...
Style:
lyrical, psychological, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, adulthood, loneliness, self discovery, life is a bitch, couples, parents and children, love and romance, lifestyle, youth, family problems, cat ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo, japan, rio de janeiro, new jersey, korea ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style:
erotic, sexual, sexy, ironic, clever ...
Plot:
pregnancy, hotel, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, making love, sex scene, glbt, tragedy, weapons, nude, lust, lgbt, melancholy ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
paris france, france, tokyo, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who ...
Style:
neorealism, serious, realistic, art house, sexy ...
Plot:
prostitute, youth, prostitution, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, parents and children, thief, friendship, hopes, human nature, parent child relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, tokyo, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Movies similar to Nobody Knows
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Georgia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The one joy in the lives of a mother and daughter comes from the regular letters sent to them from Paris from the family's adored son, Otar. When the daughter finds out that Otar has died suddenly, she tries to conceal the truth from her ...
Style:
touching, harsh, sentimental, sincere, emotional ...
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mother daughter relationship, poverty, protecting from truth, human nature, life is a bitch, elderly, generation gap, loss of child, family problems, society, parents and children, dealing with death ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Style:
serious, bleak, art house, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
realism, mother daughter relationship, unemployment, fishing, alcoholic mother, snitch, loneliness, alcoholic, poverty, life is a bitch, coming of age, family problems ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, france, california, europe
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61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take ...
Style:
art house, road movie, psychological, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
suicide, existentialism, death, car, muslim, desert, depression, art, brutality, life, life & death, life philosophy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, tokyo, tehran iran, middle east, tehran
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61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style:
art house, bleak, stylized, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, existentialism, solitude, sexual abuse, betrayal, children, child abuse, youth, innocence lost, humiliation, poacher ...
Time:
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Place:
france, tokyo, paris france, europe, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Style:
emotional, touching, lyrical, depressing, stylized ...
Plot:
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Time:
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israel, middle east, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, lyrical, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, hawaii, tokyo, asia, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
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Plot:
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greece, tokyo, australia, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so ...
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Plot:
countryside, art, painter, artist, father daughter relationship, aging, elderly man, family relations, french countryside, dancing, eccentricity, catastrophe ...
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Place:
france, tokyo, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As Sally's condition worsens, Ruth takes her to see Jake, an expert in childhood autism. ...
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psychological, emotional, touching, unusual plot structure, educational ...
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Time:
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Place:
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60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
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Audience:
teens
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, meditative, harsh, emotional ...
Plot:
kurd, children, orphan, coming of age, youth, siblings relations, family relations, village life, village, family in crisis, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The story begins on a fine summers morning, when San-woo and his mother board a bus to the country. It is soon clear that the unsophisticated rural passengers annoy the seven-year-old urban boy. His mother is taking him to live with his 78-year-old ...
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touching, sentimental, stylized, sexy, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids
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Place:
korea, new jersey, tokyo, asia, south korea ...
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59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 217 min.
Story:
In Kyushu, southwest Japan, one hot summer morning, a municipal bus is hijacked. In the carnage only three people survive: the driver, a school girl, and her older brother.
Style:
bleak, psychological, enigmatic, lyrical, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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58%
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 188 min.
Story:
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Style:
intellectual, philosophical, disturbing, art house, thought provoking ...
Plot:
childhood, ghost, christmas, children, emotional abuse, brother sister relationship, grief, coming of age, abusive stepfather, child abuse, domestic violence, christmas eve ...
Time:
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Place:
sweden, tokyo, eastern europe, scandinavia
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58%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A bored, sexually frustrated woman's life improves when she begins hypnotherapy and tries feng shui, but her husband's life unravels.
Style:
sexy, sexual, allegory, gloomy, poignant ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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