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The White Sound (2001)
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The White Sound (2001)
Original name: Das weisse Rauschen
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, mindfuck, transgressive
Plot: schizophrenia, going straight, mental illness, sibling relationship, friendship, haunted by the past, insanity, brother sister relationship, hippie, addiction, mental disorder, doll, misfit, destruction, psychosis, mind control, puppet, indifference, suicide attempt, psychological disorder, mental institution, paranoid schizophrenia, university, roommate, celebration ...
Time: contemporary
Place: germany, spain, europe
Keyword: german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and gloomy films with plots about mental illness, misfit, mental disorder, family relations, schizophrenia, friendship and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like The White Sound: Hut in the Woods (2011), The Night Buffalo (2007), Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013), Helen (2009), Of Two Minds (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hut in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The ...
Style: rough, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
Plot: woods, misfit, mentally unstable, young heroes, friendship, leaving home, life is a bitch, mental illness, mental institution, loneliness, psychology, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Night Buffalo (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a twenty-two year old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life. Gregorio has been in and out of mental hospitals for ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: betrayal, infidelity, vengeance, haunted by the past, love triangle, couples, rivalry, youth, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, dishonesty, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental health, mental disorder, ptsd, suicidal, illness, psychology, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Helen (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a ...
Style: psychological, emotional, realistic, depressing, sentimental ...
Plot: mental illness, family relations, suicide, love affair, parents and children, couples, friendship, unfulfillment, mental disorder, self mutilation, psychological disorder, mental health ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Of Two Minds (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Follows the story of the challenging relationship between Billie and her younger schizophrenic sister, Elizabeth Baby. After their mother dies, Billie takes responsibility by moving Baby in with her family, including her husband, their teenage son ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: mental illness, family life, single parent, babies and infants, couples, estrangement, adoption, moral dilemma, mental health, child care, autism, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
David and Lisa (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.
Style: psychological, social, retro, intense, spiritual ...
Plot: mental illness, multiple personality disorder, angst, mental disorder, schizophrenia, insanity, teenage love, mental institution, coming of age, psychiatric hospital, relationships, psychopath ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, art house, black and white, serious ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, religion, insanity, psychology, existentialism, dysfunctional family, nordic, mental disorder, illness, spirituality, island ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Small World (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, investigation, memory loss, haunted by the past, society, family relations, family life, flashback, power relations, amateur detective, social differences, dishonesty ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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On the Edge (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On the Edge is about suicidal patients discovering their true selves while going through therapy in a treatment center.
Style: psychological, touching, talky, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: mental institution, mentally unstable, human nature, friendship, love and romance, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, alcohol abuse, psychiatric ward, psychiatrist, youth, suicide attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Lost Transmissions (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital, revealing the troubling inadequacies of the mental health care system.
Style: suspense, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: schizophrenia, medication, record producer, songwriter, music industry, mental illness, friendship, help, social realism, mental patient, music, treatment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Waking Madison (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, psychiatrist, dishonesty, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Angels of the Universe (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Iceland, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf ...
Style: psychological, touching, captivating, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, suicide, losing-it hero, mental disorder, wrongfully committed, youth, mentally unstable, dark humor, mental institution, painting, psychiatry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
And Along Come Tourists (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: friendship, holocaust, concentration camp, haunted by the past, obsession, elderly, war crime, memory, civil servant, holocaust survivor, translator, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Ward No. 6 (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, smart ...
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, isolation, confined, human nature, doctors and patients, society, misfit, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.8
 3K
Lilith (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure past is seemingly drawn into her web. As time passes, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspense, retro ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, hospital, couples, sex addict, mentally unstable, fall in love, incest, doctors and patients, femme fatale, love and romance, obsession ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 4.7
 25
G.H.B. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, strong female presence, friends, love
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Krisha (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Krisha returns for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from her family, but past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot: thanksgiving, haunted by the past, family problems, addiction, friendship, girl, mental disorder, mind control, alienation, parents, mental health, alcoholic ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa, turkey, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of ...
Style: bleak, independent film, political, inspirational, psychological ...
Plot: friendship, mental illness, homelessness, schizophrenia, homeless shelter, homeless, death, murder, photography, loss of friend, photograph, death of friend ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 6.5
 1K
Canvas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, coming of age, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, couple relations, working class, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hospital, teenage life ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Angel Baby (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
Style: psychological, touching, neurotic, independent film, serious ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, insanity, mental disorder, mental health, psychosis, therapy, psychopath, destruction, illness, love story, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Orphans and Angels (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The needy and traumatized Theresa, who was raped when she was fourteen year-old, meets the handsome John on the street after an accident during a performance on the stage of her friend Kim asking for a low-budget hotel. She offers a ride to a nearby ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, sexual
Plot: drug abuse, obsession, haunted by the past, friendship, love affair, couples, mentally unstable, drug dealing, life is a bitch, youth, fall in love, addiction ...
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.5
 323
Elephant Heart (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole family, so Marko's only joy in life is boxing. As he is the most promising talent in his club, Gerd ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: boxer, boxing, ambition, against the odds, athlete's life, life is a bitch, youth, teenage boy, prizefighter, professional athlete, boxing match, sports man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Particles of Truth (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, mental illness, human nature, introspection, haunted by the past, family life, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Glass Lips (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This dialog-free film, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesque.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, estrangement, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, dull life, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, wrongfully committed, dysfunctional family, homecoming, oedipus complex ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Family Life (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A 19 years old London girl received agressive psychiatric treatments for her schizophrenic behaviour by a doctor who still wants her family to insure the guard of the child without any regards to the facts that it is this family who's ...
Style: disturbing, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: psychology, family relations, mental illness, bullying, mental disorder, sexual repression, schizophrenia, adolescence, psychotherapy, mental health, capitalism, troubled ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.2
 984
The Mark (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Style: noir, offbeat, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: flashback, dream, mental disorder, sex maniac, child molester, starting over, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, society, social misfits, going straight, hopes ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
My Sister's Keeper (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two sisters take a journey of discovery and reconciliation based on the memoirs of Margaret Moorman. Christine has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and must rely on others for support even though she longs for and independent and ordinary life. ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: sibling relationship, sister, family problems, disability, split personality, siblings relations, mental illness, family relations, family life, sister sister relationship, schizophrenia, schizophrenic ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.3
 936
Phantom Pain (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: cyclist, hopes, couple relations, life is a bitch, disability, parents and children, human nature, human spirit, redemption, misfit, family relations, new love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Memory Thief (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Los Angeles tollbooth clerk becomes obsessed with the Holocaust after meeting a survivor.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: holocaust, mental illness, losing-it hero, obsession, haunted by the past, dull life, society, life is a bitch, elderly, anti semitism, friendship, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.2
 10K
Manic (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight, Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital, Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a ...
Style: psychological, independent film, disturbing, compassionate, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, coming of age, depression, addiction, juvenile delinquency, psychiatry, psychology, therapy, dysfunctional family, youth, mental health ...
Time: year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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