Movies like The Frost 2009
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The Frost (2009)
176
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A couple's marriage falls apart after the death of their son. Based on Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf"
Style:
bleak, sincere, serious, realistic, melancholic, intense, psychological
Plot:
couple relations, guilt, life is a bitch, couples, crumbling marriage, death in the family, dealing with death, grief, regret, mourning, mature, isolation, symbolism, literary, betrayal, minimalism, family secret, haunting, morality, coastal town, female nudity, death, male nudity, psychological drama, shower ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Frost
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and bleak films with plots about couple relations, couples, family problems, family relations, grief, life is a bitch and female nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Frost: Brides (2014), The Mouth Agape (1974), In Your Hands (2004), Wounded (2013), Shadow Kids (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
169
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nutsa, a young mother, lives with her two children in a suburbs of Tblissi in Georgia. Her partner Goga is in prison. They get married, so she gains the right to talk to him once a month in the visiting room on the other side of the glass. The ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, couple relations, family relations, prison life, crumbling marriage, parents and children, couples, life is a bitch, family problems, motherhood, female protagonist, social realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, tbilisi, caucasus, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, death of mother, love letter, family relations, mother son relationship, death, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, elderly, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned about one inmate, Kate, regarded as difficult and withdrawn, but whom the other inmates credit with mysterious healing powers.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
women's prison, husband wife relationship, prison life, prison, nervous breakdown, forbidden love, dogme 95, dogma, clergy, confined, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The first work from Fernando Franco revolves around Ana, a 30 year old ambulance driver. Though good at her job, Ana has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, misfit, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, social misfits, borderline personality disorder, nervous breakdown, mental illness, self harm, character study, woman in danger, isolation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, basque country
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic health problems. When ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
manipulation, mother daughter relationship, family drama, investigation, grief, tragedy, family secret, suspicion, obsession, guilt, moral dilemma, intimate ...
Similarity:
25%
712
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, breakup, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, sister, death in the family, sister sister relationship, female nudity, alienation, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A few years ago, when Tomomi (Hiroko Akune) was on the way home from school, she saw her friend Keiko (Misaki Mori) about to be raped by a man. Tomomi hit the man in the head with a stone and saved Keiko. In the present, Keiko, has buried her ...
Style:
bleak, captivating, thrilling, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
female nudity, sexual abuse, prostitution, trauma, sex work, character study, survival, female friendship, guilt, mature, alienation, street life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
aging, elderly, drug abuse, introspection, disease, dealing with death, terminal illness, female protagonist, subconscious, character study, youth, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
24%
873
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young married couple has to deal with their emotional breakdowns after the death of their only daughter.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
Plot:
estrangement, breakdown, family problems, vengeance, couple relations, life is a bitch, death in the family, unemployment, grief, death of daughter, marriage, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and nature itself, trigger a surprising chain of events
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
grief, guilt, mother-in-law, family problems, loss, mourning, character study, bereavement, loss of daughter, mother in law, countryside, loss of wife ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
22%
482
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, a chilling psychological drama. A couple's secret pact takes an unexpected, sinister turn.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot:
betrayal, couple relations, art, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, dishonesty, vengeance, love and romance, crumbling marriage, infidelity, unfulfillment ...
Place:
ireland, europe, netherlands, spain
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and befriends a Czech mechanic, bringing the man into their dysfunctional home.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
downfall, dysfunctional family, family problems, working class, life is a bitch, society, destructive relationship, couple relations, custody, crumbling marriage, couples, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chaurahen (Crossroads), a film directed by Rajshree Ojha, who previously directed Aisha, in addition to two other popular specialty projects, boasts an impressive ensemble cast that includes Soha Ali Khan, Victor Banerjee, veteran Bollywood actress ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, couple relations, haunted by the past, dealing with death, family problems, love and romance, death in the family, life, loss, relationships, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, mumbai india, kolkata, india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, bleak, reflective ...
Plot:
lie, life is a bitch, relationship problems, conflict, couple relations, relationships, social problems, wartime, social realism, armed conflict, survival, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1993
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot:
small town, forgiveness, murder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, friendship, loss of daughter, widower, loss, mourning, loneliness, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, hokkaido, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
suicide, memory, existential crisis, symbolism, loss, midlife crisis, self discovery, guilt, flashback, mature, regret, isolation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy ...
Plot:
dance, life is a bitch, social misfits, working class, family in crisis, social differences, down on your luck, society, couple relations, betrayal, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
50s, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freddy Angi, separate and homeless, stumbles into strange love affairs, including one with his wife Anna. The two meet now and then as lovers in a hotel room.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
hotel, couple relations, losing-it hero, alcohol abuse, unfulfillment, writer's life, dull life, life is a bitch, cause and meaning, disintegration, black ops, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
21%
533
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.
Style:
realistic, psychological, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
female nudity, couple relations, couples, dealing with death, choir, husband wife relationship, police, funeral, letter, male pubic hair, male nudity, pedophile ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
couple relations, accident, family problems, couples, family relations, small town, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
21%
593
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style:
touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, small town, introspection, true love, haunted by the past, starting over, couples, couple relations, love and romance, leaving home, hopes, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
south korea, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ivan Semciuc (a journalist), is a charismatic man nonetheless guilty of cynicism and lack of compassion. A seemingly meaningless sexual encounter with a translator in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan’s unshakeable ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, surreal, moody
Plot:
death, guilt, loneliness, grief, regret, loss, memory, mourning, hotel, obsession, suicide, mature ...
Place:
bucharest, afghanistan
Similarity:
20%
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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, psychological, realistic, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, pregnancy, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, marriage, love, rivalry, realism, compromise ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, couple relations, parents and children, death in the family, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family crisis, mourning, stillborn child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
74
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral.
Style:
sincere, serious, psychological, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, clergy, introspection, moral dilemma, church, society, elderly, religions or cults, religion, catholic church, moral ambiguity, guilt ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
William, Jack and Chris have been friends for as long as they can remember - until that day in April when Jack ends up under the wheels of a tractor, his body crushed, William at the wheel. Suddenly nothing is left of the boys' friendship. ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, tension, atmospheric, dramatic ...
Plot:
friendship, guilt, trauma, accident, grief, regret, loss, coming of age, adolescence, loss of innocence, male friendship, secrets ...
Place:
netherlands
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Elena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three years later they have both somehow managed to start a new life. Until destiny forces them to reconnect and understand, they never really stopped ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, disturbing, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
loss of child, couples, love story, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, husband wife reunion, ex couple relations, family reunited, family relations, marital problem ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After the death of her husband Bernarda Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house.
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
couples, family relations, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, family in crisis, unfulfillment, love and romance, dealing with death, obsession, reputation, oppression ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Dorina is a transsexual woman. She’s got herself a flourishing career, albeit in an illegal cosmetic surgery business. She is a mother figure to Hero, her eight year old nephew, and a devoted wife to Uno. Between her job and her family, Dorina ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
lgbt, against the rules, moral dilemma, couples, transvestism, life is a bitch, rebellion, couple relations, physical appearance, gays and lesbians, male nudity, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia
Similarity:
18%
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