Movies like The Beehive
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The Beehive (1982)
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Original name: La colmena
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
post war, female nudity, lgbt, brothel, spanish civil war, spanish history, francisco franco, misfit, rich and poor, life is a bitch, injustice, social differences, society, ambition, social misfits, cafe, city life, human nature, against the odds, social decay, artists and showbiz, performer's life, power relations, nude, sex ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
madrid, spain, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and gloomy films with plots about society, life is a bitch, family relations, misfit, human nature, female nudity and youth mostly in Drama, History and Crime genres. Some movies like The Beehive: The Holy Innocents (1984), The Pianist (1998), The Wild Dogs (2002), Phoenix 11·23 (2012), Iron Island (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master ...
Style:
captivating, realistic
Plot:
rich and poor, countryside, servant, francisco franco, spanish civil war, spanish history, provincial life, human rights, landowner, peasant, obedience, sacrifice ...
Time:
60s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, milan italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
civil war, love triangle, friends, confined, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, love and romance, state affairs, haunted by the past, transvestite ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
paris france, barcelona, spain, france, europe
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87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set during the cull of the stray dogs in the city of Bucharest, The Wild Dogs weaves together a week in the lives of several citizens of and visitors to the hauntingly beautiful city. Geordie, a visiting Canadian pornographer, Bogdan, a reluctant ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
culture clash, social decay, rich and poor, family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, society, redemption, friendship, city life, homelessness, deformity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the fall of 2004, Eric Bertrand, a 14 years , created a website inspired by "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" to defend the Catalan language. One night, thirty civil guards of anti-terrorist squad Madrid, burst into his home ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
false accusation, fighting the system, rebellion, against the odds, society, dishonesty, youth, teenage life, life turned upside down, injustice, computers and web, intrigue ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, madrid, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
ship, forbidden love, human nature, injustice, power relations, hopes, young lovers, human spirit, misfit, anarchist, love and romance, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
performer's life, transvestism, social misfits, family relations, family in crisis, misfit, gays and lesbians, society, bittersweet, gender, lgbt
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot:
starting over, social differences, injustice, couples, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, state affairs, dishonesty, human nature, forceful separation, political corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, north korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
adoption, human trafficking, injustice, unwanted pregnancy, moral dilemma, family relations, obsessive quest, society, life is a bitch, self discovery, social differences, babies and infants ...
Time:
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Place:
argentina, france, buenos aires argentina
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59%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, coming of age, post war, revenge, hate, human nature, society, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, uncover truth, injustice, social relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
spain, catalonia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Getting of Wisdom is based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson (born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson). Her novel is thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. The film is about a ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
boarding school, lgbt, family relations, power relations, friends, injustice, couples, coming of age, social misfits, human nature, lifestyle, prodigy ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
australia, melbourne australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Ukraine, Morocco, Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, stylized, art house ...
Plot:
women, life is a bitch, society, social differences, state affairs, rich and poor, coping, feminist, woman, sex crime, chaos, feminism ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
iran, tehran iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A story of love and obsession during the Spanish Civil War
Style:
captivating, emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious
Plot:
spanish civil war, prison, hopes, political unrest, idealism, confined, society, doctor, artist, love story, couples, love ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
spain, galicia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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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:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In an impressive follow up to his debut film Forest, Benedek Fliegauf tells the uncompromising story of a day in the life of a drug dealer. His clients include the leader of a religious sect, a friend who needs a final fix, a former lover who has ...
Style:
psychological, stylized, serious, atmospheric, experimental ...
Plot:
drug abuse, life is a bitch, addiction, estrangement, misfit, social misfits, drug dealing, society, overdose, nihilism, criminal heroes, friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
friendship, writer's life, master and servant, society, rich and poor, power relations, strong female presence, maid, world war two, intrigue, artists and showbiz, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Professor Lola Sánchez investigates the truth behind the events experienced by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, one of the founders of the Falange Española party, during the Spanish Civil War.
Style:
suspenseful, sincere, captivating, serious, art film ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, writer's life, uncover truth, change of heart, lifesaver, political unrest, soldier, society, against humanity, civil war, spanish history, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, stylized, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, self discovery, family relations, human nature, hopes, terminal illness, parents and children, loss of mother, loss of child, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, loss of daughter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
madrid, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A tragical-comedy film story that follows a young non-combatant platoon with defective fitness. Set in "Bahad 4" in the 50's, the movie focuses mainly on two characters: Alon (Oz Zehavi), who believes he was accidentally sent to Bahad ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
military life, military base, boot camp, basic training, power relations, military, society, social differences, immigrants, humiliation, jewish, lgbt ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, blackmail, haunted by the past, young lovers, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, teenager, love, kidnapping, coming of age, mad love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
city life, immigrants, restaurant, friendship, americana, self discovery, diner, workplace romance, workplace, family relations, social misfits, lonely ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's ...
Style:
political, sad, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, civil war, rebellion, feminism, female warrior, sex, gender, spanish history, working class, utopia ...
Time:
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Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
It is a story of a depressed, isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Jorge and Enrique are two artist in the post Spanish Civil War times that adopt an orphan child called Miguel. With a varieté company that travel around the country, Jorge and Enrique see the horrors left by the war meanwhile the Republic Army ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, performer's life, artists and showbiz, family relations, life is a bitch, society, orphan, rivalry, friendship, world war two, spanish history, franco regime (francoism) ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, racism, migration, lgbt, unemployment, cafe, immigrants, social relations, friends, realism, working class ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, argentina, bolivia, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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) ...
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realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
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immigrants, love and romance, culture clash, gender, fall in love, family relations, lifestyle, society, parents and children, gays and lesbians, sexuality, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
mental disorder, isolation, parents and children, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, family problems, family relations, estrangement, misfit, single parent, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man returns to a city to try to track down a lovely woman he met six years earlier.
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realistic, captivating, art house, emotional, sentimental ...
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obsession, city life, chase, looking for love, couples, society, crazy love, melancholy, performer's life, love and romance, obsessive quest, following someone ...
Time:
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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