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The Ordinary People (2009)
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Original name: Rien de personnel
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Muller company organizes a reception to mark the launch of a new product. During the evening, we discover that this is actually a coaching exercise for company executives. Gradually, rumours about the upcoming acquisition of the company start to emerge and everyone finds themselves trying to save their place.
Style:
realistic, cynical, psychological, captivating, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
labor union, power relations, role playing, corporate world, pharmaceutical company, workplace intrigue, party, gossip, skyscraper, economist, workplace, workplace situations, businessman, job, businesswoman, corporation, male female relationship, new job, management, mistaken identity, employer employee relationship, injection, business ethics, business manager, work ethic ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe
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Most similar movies to The Ordinary People
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about workplace, workplace situations, power relations, rivalry, society, family relations and couples mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Ordinary People: Blood from a Stone (2011), Early One Morning (2011), Belleville-Tokyo (2010), The Three-Way Wedding (2010), She's One of Us (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, cynical, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
bankruptcy, save the day, rivalry, workplace, labor union, factory, working class, boss and employee, society, workplace situations, employer, strike ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot:
bank, introspection, losing-it hero, unlikely criminals, rivalry, workplace, road not taken, workplace situations, boss and employee, murder, suicide, business ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couple relations, friendship, breakup, workplace, couples, theater, boss and employee, love and romance, family problems, male female relationship, pregnant woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love triangle, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, playwright, society, friendship, rivalry, older man younger woman sex, female nudity, nude women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
workplace, murder, friendship, investigation, police detective, love and romance, social misfits, workplace romance, couples, misfit, businesswoman, alone ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, humorous, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
love and romance, youth, love affair, fall in love, adolescence vs adulthood, college graduate, couples, rebelliousness, twentysomething life, clubbing, nudity, coitus ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, workplace, society, politics, ambition, corporate world, business ethics, corporate executive, erotica, entrepreneurship, business ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
french politics, politics, workplace, workplace situations, state affairs, boss and employee, disagreement, politician, prime minister, business, female nudity, fatal accident ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mathieu, a piano virtuoso, goes home to help his brother Paul to take care of their sick mother. Paul is into reenacting old battles, dressing up and getting into character, even dueling if necessary. Mathieu gets involved in this world and play ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
Plot:
obsession, family relations, role playing, revenge, brother brother relationship, duel, honor, pianist, friendship, stage play, rivalry, lgbt ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to enforce the ban on smoking in their offices. From now on, those who want to smoke during working hours must do so in the street. Ramirez, one of the employees of this small office composed ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
boss and employee, politics, office, workplace, gender, power relations, state affairs, workplace situations, campaign, introspection, obnoxious boss, health ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Style:
talky, realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
friendship, college, youth, friends, power relations, college life, betrayal, teachers and students, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, student, mishap ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
48%
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, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, memory loss, investigation, haunted by the past, flashback, family relations, society, family life, amateur detective, friendship, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mitri is 15 years old and lives in a village in Senegal. Like all the youngsters of his age, he plays football, dreaming of the Barcelona and Chelsea Football Clubs. When an agent sees him, Mitri believes in his luck. But, in order to go chasing ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
football, follow your dream, immigrant, hopes, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, life is a bitch, youth, ambition, soccer, desire for fame, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, africa, europe, paris france
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, social, political ...
Plot:
top executive, critique of capitalism, stock broker, greed, rivalry, boss and employee, workplace, office, trading, wealth, banking, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, europe, france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, rough
Plot:
factory, vengeance, workplace intrigue, misled, parents and children, rivalry, righting the wronged, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations, family relations, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, normandy, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
40%
537
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Vincent Lindon and Alain Cavalier drink together in bars while coming up with tall tales.
Style:
serious, realistic, experimental, contemplative, fake documentary
Plot:
artists and showbiz, buddies, friends, filmmaking, money, business ethics, ethics, bakery, politics, prime minister, law, french politics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, paris france, france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a factory decide to suddenly close up shop. Laurent takes the lead in a fight against this decision.
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, political
Plot:
strike, labor union, working class, capitalism, class struggle, business manager, worker, mayor, factory, hard labor, struggle, protest ...
Time:
2010s, labor day
Place:
france
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take over his struggling factory. Gradually she becomes the decider of her own life.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family business, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, homecoming, workplace, fish out of water, society, rivalry, strong female presence, unfulfillment, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
One New Year's Eve with a bottle of champagne, Emilie, 35, signs up for Meet Me, a popular internet dating site, with a great New Year's resolution: to find love. There are a lot of men on Meet Me: cynics, comedians, a few goofs and even ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental
Audience:
date night
Plot:
single woman, looking for love, hopes, love and romance, thirtysomething life, computers and web, male female relationship, relationships, celibacy, fishing, ice cream, seduction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, marseille, provence
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.
Style:
realistic, thrilling, psychological, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
relationships, family relations, couple relations, couples, male female relationship, love interest, love affair, relationship problems, lifestyle, love story, multiple storylines, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, paris france, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a ...
Style:
tense, serious, disturbing, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
murder, manipulation, destructive relationship, femme fatale, lifestyle, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, female psychopath, strong female presence, power relations, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
34%
532
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, tense ...
Plot:
couples, society, working class, fall in love, immigrant, life is a bitch, misfit, security guard, gang, pursuit, danger, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Herve, the head of a press agency, is traveling fast down a road headed in only one direction: self-destruction. He is an alcoholic, and his drinking is wrecking his marriage, family and career. In desperation and still in denial, he checks into a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, cynical, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
addiction, rehabilitation, introspection, going straight, unfulfillment, social misfits, hopes, clinic, life is a bitch, passion, stephen king, life lesson ...
Place:
switzerland, europe
Similarity:
33%
434
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
François Durrieux, a man in his forties, married to Clémence and father of Benjamin, has been employed for years by the firm DSBO. In order not to lose his job, he always submits to his boss's demands whether it means working after office ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
workplace, revolt, friendship, parents and children, fighting the system, boss and employee, workplace situations, power relations, suffering, employee, middle aged man, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The Deep End is an American television series created by David Hemingson and produced by 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC television network. Starring Mehcad Brooks, Matt Long, Tina Majorino, Clancy Brown, and Billy Zane, the show follows ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
lawyer, law firm, corporate world, lawsuit, rivalry, workplace, lifestyle, lawyers and clients, ambition, boss and employee, legal, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style:
contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, unemployment, working class, family relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch, assassination, couple relations, parents and children, immigrant, society, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
marseille, provence, france, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
rebellion, high school life, political unrest, youth, society, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious
Plot:
injustice, legal, society, legal investigation, courtroom drama, legal action, hopes, life is a bitch, dishonesty, fighting the system, workplace, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, lyon, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Au milieu de nulle part, une cité ouvrière vidée de sa population depuis quelques années déjà. Pourtant, certains habitants ont décidé d'y rester, plus par choix que par nécessité, parce que c'est là qu'ils sont nés et ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot:
factory, single parent, unemployment, workplace, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, isolation, parents and children, working class, society, hopes ...
Place:
france, europe, maghreb, south of france
Similarity:
31%
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