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South (2004)
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Original name: Het Zuiden
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.
Plot:
love, kidnapping, illness, laundry, madness, insanity, female protagonist
Keyword:
dutch
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, serious and realistic films with plots about love, female protagonist, insanity, madness, illness, couples and female nudity mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like South: Brotherly Love (1970), Elizabeth Blue (2017), Bayo (1985), The Other Woman (1995), Still Love, Still Hope (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 112 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
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Duration: 89 min.
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Time:
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Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Duration: 110 min.
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