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It's Winter (2006)
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Original name: زمستان
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, bleak, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
winter, society, unemployment, love affair, working class, social issues, marriage crisis, survival, family life, life is a bitch, leaving home, realism, human nature, career, down on your luck, vandalism, wooing, money, teacher, wedding, job, homeless, drifter, emigrant, emigration ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
iran, middle east
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and touching films with plots about society, life is a bitch, family relations, down on your luck, working class, parents and children and human nature mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like It's Winter: Iron Island (2005), The Delay (2012), If Nothing Else Works Out (2008), Tales (2014), Manpower (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a ...
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iran, middle east, persia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Agustín forgets things; he is aging and he knows it. María is never alone: she watches over everyone, sleeps very little, and works too much. She’s increasingly overwhelmed. One day, on impulse, María decides to abandon Agustín. The tightening ...
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family relations, mental illness, working class, family life, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, single parent, old man, poverty, nursing, urban ghetto ...
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Place:
latin america, uruguay
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 2006, a journalist in financial problems, a woman who dresses as a man and a troubled taxi driver become friends, and gradually, an awkward, strong emotional bond emerges among them, especially when they decide to play a confidence game.
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serious, touching, sincere, rough, realistic ...
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friendship, injustice, life is a bitch, human nature, drug abuse, social decay, drug dealing, prostitute, society, unemployment, youth, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
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86%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
society, love, family relations, everyday life, multiple storylines, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, social misfits, down on your luck, prostitute, taxi driver ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, introspection, social decay, human nature, realism, interracial relations, society, life is a bitch, immigrants, discrimination, hopes, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, bleak, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
survival, injustice, political unrest, hidden identity, religions or cults, family relations, state affairs, dishonesty, human nature, feminism, war, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot:
immigrants, family relations, life is a bitch, society, working class, unemployment, couple relations, unfulfillment, prairie, down on your luck, ship
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1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
canada
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71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
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lifestyle, friendship, bittersweet, life is a bitch, love and romance, downfall, couples, down on your luck, singleness, city life, friends, twentysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
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serious, captivating, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
family relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch, assassination, couple relations, working class, parents and children, unemployment, love and romance, immigrants, society, addiction ...
Time:
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Place:
marseille, provence, france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still ...
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serious, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
pension, colonel, hopes, small town, parents and children, couple relations, downfall, family relations, family life, haunted by the past, small town life, death of son ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A man trying to keep himself afloat and marry the woman he loves sees all that's dear to him threatened in this drama. Marcus (Sam Louwyck) works as a maintenance man for a Belgian power company, keeping lines and electrical towers in repair ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, touching, serious ...
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estrangement, family relations, workplace, parents and children, family life, unfulfillment, human nature, love, father daughter relationship, accident, working class, youth ...
Place:
belgium, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
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serious, thought provoking, touching, sincere, realistic ...
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family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, hopes, starting over, misfit, urban ghetto life, addiction, husband wife relationship, settler, courage, melancholy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
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60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her.
Style:
disturbing, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, life is a bitch, sexual initiation, teenage life, misfit, youth, society, down on your luck, working class, dull life, unemployment, loneliness ...
Time:
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Place:
poland
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, humorous
Plot:
friendship, social differences, society, human nature, immigrants, working class, culture clash, unemployment, deportation, interracial friendship, unrequited love, unlikely hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
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touching, serious, sincere, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
starting over, redemption, haunted by the past, family relations, society, parents and children, human nature, family problems, dysfunctional family, hopes, life is a bitch, estrangement ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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love and romance, society, couple relations, introspection, working class, couples, solitude, bittersweet, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, love, no dialogue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of a man Bill Januson whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will ...
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serious, realistic, emotional, disturbing, gloomy ...
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starvation, youth, starving child, doctor, single parent, unemployment, family relations, family problems, society, human spirit, human nature, life is a bitch ...
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Frank, Angela, and their two children are evicted from their New York City apartment, they have no choice but to move into a homeless shelter. After a few difficult months, good news comes their way on Christmas Eve: a nearby housing project ...
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serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
christmas, realism, family problems, survival, life is a bitch, coping, eviction, race against time, down on your luck, ex athlete, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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virginia, mississippi, usa
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50%
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Place:
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
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Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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iran, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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sexy, realistic, serious, touching, captivating ...
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Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
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Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
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