Movies like Threshold 1981
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Threshold (1981)
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The celebrated heart surgeon Dr. Thomas Vrain supports the research of the offbeat scientist Aldo Gehring, who is inventing an artificial heart. Dr. Vrain performs the first artificial human heart transplant against the advice of the Ethics Committee.
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
medicine, heart, nude, society, introspection, moral dilemma, transplant, doctors and patients, idealism, against the rules, power relations, scientist, female nudity, experiment, science, inventor, miraculous event, doctor, hospital, surgeon, celebrity, family relations, father daughter relationship, medical experiment, surgery ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and captivating films with plots about society, family relations, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, power relations, hospital and family problems mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Biography genres. Some movies like Threshold: Gods (2014), Flowers for Algernon (2000), Fair Sex (2012), The Necessities of Life (2008), Target (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, tense, sexy
Plot:
politics, operation, doctors and patients, ambition, rise to the top, power relations, state affairs, surgeon, heart, hospital, doctor, patient ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1987, year 1985
Place:
poland
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95%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, thought provoking, touching, contemplative
Plot:
mentally challenged, prodigy, laboratory, experiment, genius, social misfits, blind ambition, misfit, hopes, human spirit, disorder, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
104
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past.
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captivating, serious, sincere, emotional, thought provoking ...
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, filmmaking, gender, art, slut, women's issues, strong female presence, nude, amusement park, unsimulated sex ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, inter cultural ...
Plot:
tuberculosis, isolation, hospital, illness, friends, human spirit, hopes, friendship, family relations, against the rules, family life, doctors and patients ...
Time:
50s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, hopes, family relations, estrangement, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, family secret, car accident, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
In the year 2020, a group of wealthy Moscovites travel to an abandoned astrophysics complex, rumoured to have enough power to halt the process of aging.
Style:
atmospheric, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, aging, obsession, human nature, youth, escapades, society, social differences, couples, fountain of youth, underground, immortality ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
russia, kazakhstan
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a ...
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Plot:
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Place:
usa, michigan, detroit, toronto ontario canada
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62%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case ...
Style:
surreal, thought provoking, serious, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
distant planet, human nature, murder, moral dilemma, society, humanity, alien planet, fate of humanity, flash forward, planet, save the planet, space ...
Time:
middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
hospital, cancer, medical, redemption, coldhearted, doctors and patients, nurse, surgery, existentialism, psychiatrist, fantasy world, secrets ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
high school life, political unrest, society, rebellion, youth, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in the small town where the factory is ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, sincere, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
small town, factory, social relations, small town life, working class, politics, innocence lost, state affairs, society, moral dilemma, human nature, introspection ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young girl, Ruth (Lynn Taylor), is injured in a boating accident and taken to hospital for what is regarded as a routine emergency. Her parents are informed that only a blood transfusion will save her life, but her religious fundamentalist father, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?
Style:
realistic, psychological, touching, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
blindness, hospital, introspection, couple relations, injustice, disability, life is a bitch, second chance, self discovery, recovery, temptation, starting over ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter ...
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serious, realistic, bleak, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
terrorism, introspection, future dystopia, political unrest, social decay, dysfunctional family, chaos and mayhem, family problems, life is a bitch, human nature, society, distopia ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain.
Style:
serious, psychological, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
remote control, experiment, mad scientist, life is a bitch, soldier, mind game, doctors and patients, experiment gone awry, terminal illness, inventions and discoveries, child illness, hospital ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hospital, medical, doctor, human nature, moral dilemma, doctors and patients, workplace situations, power relations, surgery, dealing with death, race against time, change of heart ...
Time:
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Place:
pittsburgh, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr. Bob Shushan is an overworked and absent father who runs a centre for the mentally and physically challenged. When Shushan suffers a heart attack, his life is saved by James Jones, a young patient at the center. The two men forge a friendship and ...
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serious, realistic, psychological, touching, sincere
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
354
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, boarding school, housewife, teacher, infatuation, family relations, couples, power relations, love and romance, misfit, crumbling marriage, idealism ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, adoption, fighting the system, society, life is a bitch, child abuse, foster home, female doctor, doctor, custody battle, eyeglasses, telephone ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A poor and lonely English professor, Juri(37), decides to become a porn actor using a mask to hide behind, after she watches an unusual porn, featuring an old and fat woman. And she visits Myungsook, a porn producer, despite their separation of 10 ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
nude, loss of virginity, porn actor, introspection, life is a bitch, couples, sexual content, filmmaking, sexual relations, adult filmmaking, porn actress, university ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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touching, sincere, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
adult virgin, introspection, social decay, daydreamer, society, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, life is a bitch, small town, contamination, sexual content ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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44%
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Rich L.A. party brat Tim (Adam Horovitz) spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a ticket to an asylum. But with the help of a psychiatrist (Donald Sutherland) who has ...
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juvenile delinquency, gang, redemption, coming of age, life is a bitch, youth, mentally unstable, society, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, nightlife, teenage life ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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41%
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