Movies like The Flight of the Swan

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The Flight of the Swan (2010)
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The Flight of the Swan (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and everything he loves: even his children and his soul mate Maria. Alexis is jolted back to reality when the unbridled greed of the multinational conglomerate his company is involved in causes an unprecedented ecological catastrophe costing many human lives. The multinational's Golden Boy suddenly realizes that he is nothing more than a cog in the machine he had fought so passionately against in his youth. He is determined to rediscover himself, to reclaim his soul, to rebuild the dream with Maria - but he is completely trapped. He is caught in a web of intrigue that tightens like a vice driving him to an inevitably lethal conflict with the conglomerate.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, bleak
Plot: friendship, rise to the top, ambition, obsession, rivalry, society, idealism, dishonesty, family relations, love, dangerous animal, disaster, doctors and patients, environmentalism, nature, surrealism, intrigue, catastrophe
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and psychological films with plots about society, rivalry, family relations, dishonesty, friendship, ambition and life is a bitch mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Flight of the Swan: Stretch (2011), Kicks (2009), The Domino Effect (2012), Mentor (2006), The Wee Man (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Stretch (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Thailand, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Christophe, a young horse racing jockey from Paris, is filled with hope and ambition. Yet after a race, he tests positive for illegal substances and is subsequently suspended from racing. He decides to move to Macau, in Asia. There his circumstances ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: rivalry, contests and competitions, gambling, rise to the top, power relations, dishonesty, lifestyle, ambition, society, gangster, athlete's life, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Naturally-gifted cheerleader Ava is an instant hit at her new school, but her quick rise in popularity is threatened by the rivalry of cheer captain and Homecoming Queen Katrina, who puts Ava and the other new recruits through a brutal initiation ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sincere
Audience: teens
Plot: cheerleader, fight, parents and children, society, friendship, teenager, ambition, rivalry, family relations, adaptation, dishonesty, youth ...
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Kicks (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Nicole is an introverted Liverpudlian teenager, all but deserted by her parents, with a mother distractedly working nights and a father who has settled with a new family elsewhere. She spends time hanging around the gates of Anfield and the Melwood ...
Style: serious, stylized, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: teenage girl, held captive, clubbing, underage drinking, nightclub, obsession, dangerous attraction, athlete's life, youth, desire for fame, danger, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, liverpool
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100%
The Domino Effect (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to be interrelated but there is more than meets the eye and we might be more connected than we ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: international crisis, society, politics, materialism, family relations, life is a bitch, state affairs, rivalry, adaptation, finance, world spanning, family life
Time: 21st century
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24%
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Mentor (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, university, friendship, college, unfulfillment, ambition, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Wee Man (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rise and fall, rise to the top, dishonesty, vengeance, ambition, rivalry, criminal's revenge, society, life is a bitch, frame up, lighthouse ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s, 90s
Place: scotland
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22%
Almayer's Folly (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: obsession, parents and children, family relations, society, tragic hero, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, ambition, hopes, racism, rivalry, gambling ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: asia
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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
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A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style: serious, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: investigation, courtroom drama, injustice, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, society, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, rivalry, bounty hunter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
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Older Than America (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to ...
Style: serious, bleak, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: genocide, native american, against humanity, dishonesty, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, clergy, family relations, priest, native, strong female lead, american indian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
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21%
A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Tales (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: society, love, family relations, everyday life, multiple storylines, friendship, couples, life is a bitch, social misfits, down on your luck, prostitute, taxi driver ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east
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Purpose (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A software developer becomes a billionaire and is distracted by fame, greed and power, then must save his invention and company from a hostile takeover.
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: relationship vs career, rivalry, redemption, rise to the top, infidelity, materialism, ambition, lifestyle, business, financier, company, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
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20%
Forbidden to Forbid (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three young Brazilian try to help a terminally ill woman who lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Their youthful idealism is shattered with the cruel reality of police brutality.
Style: realistic, serious, social, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: love triangle, friends, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, friendship, hopes, intern, family relations, rivalry, love, polyamory ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Mending Fences (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot: corporate crime, family relations, farm, homecoming, legal, dishonesty, small town, love affair, rivalry, social relations, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nevada
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Crossroads (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: introspection, clergy, religions or cults, idealism, hopes, society, fall in love, self discovery, priest, friendship, love, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
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The Green Chain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The battle between loggers and environmentalists is defining, dividing and destroying communities in Canada and around the world. The Green Chain is a powerful, funny and thought-provoking film about the people who love trees.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: environmentalism, woods, society, family relations, battles, family business, environmental activism, environmental issue, forest, deforestation, small town, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Tomorrow at Dawn (2009)
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: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: obsession, family relations, role playing, brother brother relationship, revenge, duel, honor, pianist, stage play, rivalry, friendship, lgbt ...
Place: france, europe
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19%
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Sacred Heart (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Irene discovers that she must eat hearts in order to survive the alien invasion in Sicily.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, touching, serious ...
Plot: family relations, society, businesswoman, love, introspection, gay, couple relations, workaholic, loss of friend, suicide, changing lives, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
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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
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18%
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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18%
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Family Sins (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the Burt family who seemed normal, upstanding members of the community but were actually deeply embedded in crime. The matriarch took in foster children who were subsequently molested and abused by her husband and children ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, thought provoking, bleak
Plot: courtroom drama, unlikely criminals, legal action, family problems, dishonesty, legal, under the surface, love, parents and children, eccentric family, kidnapping, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rhode island
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18%
The System Within (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tony "Wise" Good, is an internationally famous model. He fought his way out of the inner city and rocketed straight to the top. He had it all... The career, the trophy wife, fame, fortune and all the luxuries that come with success. But ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: ambition, rise and fall, rivalry, rise to the top, lifestyle, betrayal, dishonesty, fashion model, husband wife relationship, prison, fashion, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
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18%
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The Wild Dogs (2002)
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, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot: social decay, rich and poor, culture clash, family relations, society, life is a bitch, redemption, friendship, city life, homelessness, deformity, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, romania
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18%
Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Moyher's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun and sexy girls- and the proximity of gambling paradise Las Vegas. Benny aces his studies, being a mathematical genius, but the one ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, captivating
Plot: gambling, bookies, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, couples, culture clash, college life, youth, follow your dream, buddies, fall in love ...
Place: arizona, usa, new york, las vegas, nevada
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18%
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Chromophobia (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.
Style: touching, emotional, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, social worker, family problems, celebrity culture, friendship, family in crisis, prostitute, obsession, godparent, gays and lesbians, journalism, society ...
Time: 21st century
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18%
When Harvey Met Bob (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith set up one of the world's greatest ever concerts, Live Aid in 1984 to help ease the Ethiopian Famine.
Style: realistic, uplifting, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: music, musician's life, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, partner, idealism, media, hopes, ambition, charity, rock, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, europe
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18%
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Red Zone (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Mac and his high school gangster buddies try to take over the world of sports betting in a city filled with crime, prostitution and gambling. When the Mafia gets involved, they do whatever it takes to keep these tough young-bloods off their turf.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: gambling, high school, casino, gangster, ambition, sport team, buddies, football, rivalry, friendship, danger, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the ...
Style: serious, bleak, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: environmentalism, chaos, life is a bitch, dishonesty, workplace, human nature, society, state affairs, danger, workplace situations, political corruption, disaster ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: india
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17%
A Story of David: The Hunted (1960)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Israel
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Directed by Bob McNaught. King Saul of Israel is jealous of the fame and adoration of David, who long ago slew Goliath and brought victory to Saul's armies. Now Saul, egged on by his Edomite counselor Doeg, attempts to have David killed. ...
Style: independent film, bleak, epic, captivating, serious ...
Plot: bible, ancient history, old testament, myth, antiquity, conservative, mythology, peplum, society, state affairs, dishonesty, corrupted ruler ...
Place: holy land
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17%
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