Movies like Autumn Ball

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Autumn Ball (2007)
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Autumn Ball (2007)
Original name: Sügisball
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young writer called Mati is stalking his ex-wife, while also trying to make unsuccessful passes at other women. Augusti is a barber living a dreary bachelor life who forms a bond with little girl, but his approaches are misconstrued as pedophilia. Laura, a single mom, tears up over sappy soap operas, but refuses real-life advances from clueless men, because her ability to trust has been ruined by her violent drunk of an ex-husband. Maurer, the architect, worries about the wellbeing of humanity, but ignores his own wife Ulvi, who in turn looks for solace in the arms of a coatroom attendant named Theo. Women have always liked Theo, but due to his low social status, they don't take him seriously. All of these people might inhabit identical tower blocks, but they couldn't feel more alienated from each other if they tried.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, brutal, sad, art house, touching, humorous, anthology
Plot: melancholy, solitude, working class, social decay, hopes, family relations, society, suburbs, redemption, suffering, lifestyle, apartment building, loneliness, children, mental disorder, existentialism, sex crime, rich and poor, social misfits, down on your luck, suburban life, solace, power relations, cheating wife, womanizer ...
Time: 80s, 2000s
Place: estonia, europe, ussr, soviet union

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and touching films with plots about society, family relations, life is a bitch, hopes, parents and children, youth and nude mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Autumn Ball: Hour of the Star (1985), Aviva, My Love (2006), Post Tenebras Lux (2012), A Cooler Climate (1999), Volcano (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Hour of the Star (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: existentialism, food, rich and poor, city life, working class, countryside, social decay, urban ghetto life, down on your luck, social misfits, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: sao paulo brazil, brazil
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Aviva, My Love (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, writer's life, family problems, working class, dysfunctional family, creative block, small town life, small town, social decay, unemployment, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
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Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, experimental, psychological ...
Plot: cuckold, swinger couple, countryside, family life, family relations, society, couples, hopes, couple relations, dream, tragedy, women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america
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A Cooler Climate (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, follow your dream, hopes, couple relations, unfulfillment, society, human nature, boss and employee, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
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Volcano (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, family reunited, parents and children, aging, redemption, estrangement, family feud, unfulfillment, hopes, retirement, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, europe
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Lost Angels (1989)
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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, gang, redemption, coming of age, life is a bitch, youth, mentally unstable, society, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, nightlife, teenage life ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
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The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: La leggenda del santo bevitore (literally "The legend of the holy drinker") is a 1988 Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi. It tells the story of a drunken homeless man (played by Rutger Hauer) in Paris who is lent 200 francs by a ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot: dancing, night, homeless, time travel, society, lifestyle, redemption, social differences, alcohol abuse, change of luck, addiction, sexual content ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In this French tour-de-force a young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around ...
Style: art house, experimental, surreal, depressing, philosophical ...
Plot: existentialism, nihilism, depression, introspection, loneliness, psychology, mental disorder, intimacy, social outcast, melancholy, time travel, alienation ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: paris france, france
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The Playroom (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, tense, captivating
Plot: family relations, intrigue, parents and children, lifestyle, society, siblings relations, adultery, loveless marriage, infidelity, jealousy, cuckold, marital infidelity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: redemption, youth, juvenile delinquency, power relations, human spirit, society, hopes, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, meditative, compassionate, disturbing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: father son relationship, coming of age, boy, poverty, immigrants, working class, farm, children, corporal punishment, youth, family relations, bullying ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, 1890s
Place: denmark, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Island (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate ...
Style: serious, tense, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: island, undercover, hidden identity, family problems, incestuous relationship, life is a bitch, dishonesty, haunted by the past, loneliness, orphan, redemption, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Low Tide (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A 12 year old boy and his single mother live separate lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy’s solitude is both a source of freedom and a cause for grief. His explorations slowly bring to ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, small town, family problems, parents and children, mother son relationship, youth, single parent, society, dysfunctional family, realism, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Uncertainty Principle (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 133 min.
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Style: cynical, realistic, talky, serious, stylized ...
Plot: starting over, hopes, estate, destiny, rich and poor, infidelity, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, couples, social differences, down on your luck ...
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Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, rough ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, youth, teenage life, society, high school life, family problems, dysfunctional family, social relations, family relations, parents and children, friends ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia, ussr
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Hysterical Blindness (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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The God of Wood (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Yao (Madi Diocou) and Moroccan Rachid (Soufiane Ouaarab) arrive illegally in Valencia, Spain, and separate. Yao sells pirated DVDs in the street and wanders disconsolately around the barrio until he glimpses divorcee Maria Luisa (Marisa Paredes) ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Our Life (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, working class, family problems, society, lifestyle, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Autumn (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot: prostitute, starting over, love affair, homecoming, released from prison, family relations, reconciliation, life is a bitch, hopes, society, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: black sea, turkey
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Nobody Owns Me (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: working class, parents and children, disorder, youth, single parent, life turned upside down, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, addiction, children, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: sweden, eastern europe
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The Karamazov Brothers (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Dostoevsky’s latter-day opus about the siblings and their father is among the masterpieces of world literature. It asks profound questions about ethics and religion. Is there a God? Does the devil exist? Is everything allowed because we live in a ...
Style: captivating, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic ...
Plot: theater, parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, redemption, dealing with death, society, human nature, performer's life, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, czech republic, eastern europe, prague, poland ...
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Underdog (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 23-year-old "Dino" (Bianca Kronlöf) dreams of a different life. Like an abundance of Swedes her age, she has fled the mass unemployment of her home country in search of a more worthwhile existence in a nouveau-riche Oslo. But her new life ...
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: working class, love triangle, society, power relations, dishonesty, infidelity, life is a bitch, unemployment, intrigue, unfaithful husband, marriage crisis, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 21st century
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Sundays and Cybele (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
Style: intense, realistic, psychological, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: children, youth, mental disorder, orphan, veteran, isolation, time travel, loneliness, age-gap relationship, girl, nun, haunted by the past ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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Simon & the Oaks (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style: realistic, tense, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, wartime life, youth, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, boy, best friend, boyhood ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place: sweden, europe, eastern europe
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Traces of Sandalwood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, India, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Despite her fame and fortune, Mina, a successful Indian actress in Mumbai, can't forget her little sister Sita, from whom she was forced to separate after their mother's death in a village. Thirty years later she will finally find out that ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, sentimental, sincere ...
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I Am from Titov Veles (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: 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: 21st century
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Looks and Smiles (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two ...
Style: biting, realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy
Plot: unemployment, boy, motorcycle, job interview, friendship, social decay, down on your luck, injustice, friends, family relations, power relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: england, europe, ireland
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32%
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Sworn Virgin (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
Style: touching, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: hidden identity, starting over, disorder, hopes, introspection, sexuality, gender, transsexual, lgbt, woman, lgbtq, feminism ...
Time: 21st century
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Margaret's Museum (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what ...
Style: touching, emotional, sexy, talky, melancholic ...
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Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
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Mamma Roma (1962)
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: 20th century, 60s, post world war two
Place: rome italy, europe, italy, tokyo, mexico
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