Movies like The Student 2011
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The Student (2011)
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Original name: El estudiante
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Roque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates his time to one of the many groups vying for control of the university, motivated less by grand political ideals than by a wish to get close to Paula, an attractive young teacher heavily involved in internal university politics.
Style:
realistic, independent film, art house, melancholic, political drama
Plot:
teacher student romance, betrayal, university, manipulation, student, male female relationship, student life, campus, sex, power struggle, character study, social commentary, mature, urban, activism, moral ambiguity, social realism, youth culture, obsession, unrequited love, seduction, slow burn, female nudity, politics, religion ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Most similar movies to The Student
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, art house and romantic drama films with plots about character study, intimate, urban, moral ambiguity, betrayal, bittersweet and female nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Student: All About Love (2001), College Sex Project (2008), The Reject (2007), China Is Near (1967), The Traitors (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a ...
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, reflective, melancholic, thought provoking
Plot:
female protagonist, young woman, friendship, shoplifting, coming of age, character study, impulsiveness, imprisonment, working class, everyday life, intimate, personal growth ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Three college students who are working on a thesis together debate whether physical attraction or emotional connection is more important for the success of a long-term relationship.
Style:
erotic, captivating, psychological, realistic, independent film
Plot:
college student, sex scene, nudity, young adult, college, eroticism, sex, seductive woman, sexual relations, sexual content, seductress, seduction ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A man whose life is on the verge of collapse looks for new inspiration in this drama from Serbian filmmaker Milos Radivojevic. On was once a reporter, but now makes his living working as a public relations man for a banking firm. On is in his ...
Style:
realistic, reflective, melancholic, existential, art house ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, character study, alienation, identity crisis, alcoholism, male protagonist, social realism, domestic drama, slow burn, boredom, intimate, mature ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.
Style:
satirical, ironic, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
socialism, hypocrisy, class struggle, social satire, social commentary, political satire, social climbing, dark humor, sibling rivalry, manipulation, moral ambiguity, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Raymundo Gleyzer s only fictional film, THE TRAITORS is a compelling political thriller about a trade unionist corrupted by his rise to power. Skillfully weaving documentary and fictional sequences, THE TRAITORS covers the Peronistas movement ...
Style:
serious, historical drama, period piece, bleak, political thriller ...
Plot:
labor movement, corruption, betrayal, activism, bureaucracy, rise and fall, class struggle, social realism, character study, working class, worker, urban ...
Time:
60s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Franck, a former young hopeful at the Nantes soccer club, has stayed on to help the team for ten years after an injury,but becomes especially frustrated when he meets a seductive young woman.
Style:
melancholic, art house
Plot:
soccer, infidelity, love triangle, character study, jealousy, small town, seduction, midlife crisis, sexual tension, slice of life, bittersweet, unrequited love ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
tango, musician, pianist, prostitution, dancing, passion, character study, club, intimate, male protagonist, desire, seduction ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, psychological, dark, tension ...
Plot:
suburban life, insecurity, shyness, virginity, loneliness, female protagonist, character study, love story, manipulation, seduction, cohabitation, intimate ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, single mother, lesbian, existential loneliness, intimacy, secrets, caretaker, young woman, moral ambiguity, trauma, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Repeat student Hyung-joon heads to a boarding school where he is immediately enamored of his beautiful math teacher.
Style:
erotic, dramatic, sexy, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
school, sex scene, teacher student relationship, fall in love, apprentice, male female relationship, relationships, love affair, couples, sex, love, forbidden romance ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
21%
208
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A struggling filmmaker, unlucky in love, enlists the aid of a womanizing friend to create an exploitative documentary about online dating.
Style:
mockumentary, dramatic, witty, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
found footage, female nudity, online dating, filmmaking, dating, relationships, nudity, first date, couples, couple relations, sex, sexual relations ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.
Style:
melancholic, sincere, romantic, poignant, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, father daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorced couple, children, love and romance, couple relations, parent child relationship, family drama, fatherhood, husband wife relationship, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina, paraguay
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of Mostaganem, Algeria. He is addicted to a famous psychotropic, nicknamed “Madame Courage”: Artane tablets, very popular among young Algerians, for their euphoric effect of ...
Style:
intense, bleak, realistic, crime drama
Plot:
drug addiction, street crime, unrequited love, poverty, coming of age, moral ambiguity, urban decay, social realism, alienation, desperation, male protagonist, character study ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
algeria
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism.
Style:
controversial, realistic, tense, grim, period piece ...
Plot:
abortion, social work, social commentary, female protagonist, illegal abortion, arrest, poverty, working mom, social justice, activism, social realism, character study ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Julie is a young tennis star who falls in love with his trainer - because she yearns for love and because she wants to liberate themselves from the ambitions which the father has on her behalf. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen has a conflict and fragile ...
Style:
dramatic, tense, tragic ending, dark, art house ...
Plot:
power struggle, forbidden romance, class conflict, father daughter conflict, character study, sexual tension, female protagonist, manipulation, tragic romance, emotional breakdown, adaptation, intimate ...
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Narcissus (from Greek Narkissos) shares the root nark-, with narcosis and narcotic. All these words have the same origin in the verb narkaō – to intoxicate through a strong smell. I was particularly interested to find out why a handsome and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, melancholic, art house, stylized ...
Plot:
cellist, introspection, greek mythology, vanity, self discovery, lifestyle, social problems, relationship vs career, obsession, self destructing, myth, character study ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Anamarija starts her job as a counsellor at a new school. Together with her, the viewers begin to appreciate what kind of people the staffroom teachers are, they witness the petty conflicts and also uncover the power games that go on behind the ...
Style:
realistic
Plot:
school, counselor, character study, social commentary, bureaucracy, social realism, slow burn, intimate, teacher student relationship, slice of life, bittersweet, isolation ...
Similarity:
20%
105
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A tragic tale of an individual teen prostitute as seen from the lens of her Buddhist neighbor.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
compassion, prostitution, character study, poverty, loss, empathy, social realism, loneliness, urban, slice of life, street life, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A story of love and heartbreak. Of hope and despair. Of passion and abandonment. After two years together, John has left Marita, a mature woman that has kept him until he has found Adela, another woman from whom get her money.
Style:
romantic drama, art house, period piece
Plot:
love triangle, heartbreak, betrayal, seduction, female protagonist, bittersweet, prostitution, abandonment, passion, manipulation, loss, desperation ...
Similarity:
19%
134
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Struggling to navigate a promising career, a new romance, and her family life, a photography student confronts notions of love and loss during her senior year of college.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, reflective, romantic drama ...
Plot:
photography, coming of age, relationships, student life, self discovery, college life, female protagonist, personal growth, young adult, realism, campus, slice of life ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
173
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
motherhood, domestic drama, character study, identity, female protagonist, gender roles, intimate, realism, family secret, trauma, friendship, intimacy ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two brothers, two different lifestyles collide. Eero is a young married man who opens up a print shop and struggles to get it going. Eki is a student with Marxist ideas, although he dates the daughter of a wealthy shipowner.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, political drama
Plot:
brothers, marxism, character study, sibling rivalry, class conflict, family drama, everyday life, working class, social realism, coming of age, moral dilemma, urban ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
18%
187
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Idol is a 1966 British drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Jennifer Jones, Michael Parks, Jennifer Hilary and Guy Doleman. A rebellious student embarks on an affair with the mother of his best friend, leading to disastrous ...
Style:
intense, independent film, period drama
Plot:
oedipus complex, domineering mother, affair, infidelity, seduction, mother son relationship, romantic rivalry, sexual jealousy, betrayal, manipulation, moral ambiguity, scandal ...
Time:
60s, year 1966
Place:
london
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
Style:
independent film, captivating, psychological, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
love affair, director, longing, male female relationship, couple relations, love interest, romantic relationship, couples, love and romance, relationships, infatuation, love story ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Innocent young Marianne works in a ski resort high in the French Alps. One night she agrees to go on a date with Bob, a young guy on vacation. Bob excites her in ways that her oafish boyfriend never could.
Style:
erotic, romantic drama, sensual, sex comedy, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dog sex, bestiality, female protagonist, seduction, mature, manipulation, deception, moral ambiguity, character study, sexual awakening, naivete, blackmail ...
Place:
paris france, alps
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An abused, former orphan living in San Francisco returns to New York to reconnect with the love of his life and understand how his past has shaped his future. It's a semi-autobiographical work based on the book of the same name originally ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, independent film, semi autobiographical ...
Plot:
character study, trauma, foster home, male protagonist, lost love, introspection, identity, literary, memory, urban, intimate, self discovery ...
Place:
new york, san francisco
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, touching, romantic drama, captivating ...
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, self discovery, opposites attract, bittersweet, fall in love, photography, couples, photographer, friendship, pianist, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
brussels, belgium
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Campus couple Tae-ho and Eun-seo join the same graudate school to sit in lectures for the most powerful person in Korean journalism, Lee Hee-hyun. On the first day of school, Lee Hee-hyun takes a liking to pretty and smart Eun-seo and uses his ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
asian, sexual harassment, male female relationship, relationships, couples, asian man, female protagonist, couple relations, sex, married couple, partner, asian woman ...
Similarity:
18%
143
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Serbia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Divorced father Marko is hardly ever alone: he is surrounded on all sides by family, friends, co-workers and neighborhood fixers. Yet he is driven to the brink by limited contact with the one person he loves more than anyone – his daughter, who ...
Style:
realistic, heartbreaking, intense, melancholic, tense
Plot:
custody battle, family conflict, divorced father, bureaucracy, child custody, domestic drama, social services, character study, single parent, loneliness, bittersweet, intimate ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to ...
Style:
melancholic, retro, period piece
Plot:
doctor, marriage, infidelity, love triangle, betrayal, wealth, character study, family drama, social class, seduction, professor, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
60s
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
18%
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