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My Hindu Friend (2015)
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Original name: Meu Amigo Hindu
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Diego is a film director very close to death, surrounded by people who are having trouble dealing with his current tempestuous mood. Chances are he won't survive, but if he does, that means he needs to relearn how to live. live.
Style:
captivating, emotional, existential, thought provoking, bleak, melancholic, realistic, art house, entertaining
Plot:
cancer, illness, female masturbation, wedding ceremony, hospital, family problems, death, survival, cancer patient, fighting illness, friends, friendship, grief, treatment, loneliness, isolation, loss, family conflict, storytelling, bittersweet, artist, spirituality, acceptance, transformation, marriage ...
Place:
seattle
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Most similar movies to My Hindu Friend
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, realistic and captivating films with plots about grief, loss, intimate, bittersweet, cancer, slice of life and illness mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like My Hindu Friend: Crying for Love (2008), Peaceful (2021), 1778 Stories of Me and My Wife (2011), A Little Red Flower (2020), The Last Blossom (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a professional swimmer relentlessly urged on by her ambitious father, was deprived of her only real ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, heartbreaking, realistic ...
Plot:
illness, hospital, female friendship, cancer, friendship, young adult, relationships, acceptance, intimate, sisterhood, love, coming of age ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
acceptance, mother son relationship, terminal illness, medical examination, cancer, hospital, family conflict, life & death, family drama, fighting illness, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Sci-fi writer Sakutaro (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and bank employee Setsuko (Yuko Takeuchi) met at as high school freshmen during their summer vacation. Since that time, the couple has always been together and eventually married.One day, Setsuko complains ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, captivating, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
writers, illness, terminal illness, cancer, life & death, loss, marriage, storytelling, diary, life, husband wife relationship, family relations ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The film tells a warm and realistic story, thinking and facing the ultimate problem that every ordinary person will face-imagining that death may come at any time, the only thing we have to do is love and cherish.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, suspense, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
cancer, illness, friendship, terminal illness, hospital, empathy, mortality, family drama, fighting illness, cancer patient, life, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Middle aged housewife Kim In-Hee's mother-in-law has Alzheimer's disease, her physician husband is always tired and indifferent to her needs and her children has become wayward. For her family, Kim In-Hee has devoted her life as a ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
illness, family drama, terminal illness, male female relationship, family life, kids and family, relationships, family relations, living together, family problems, nursing, parents and children ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
baseball, terminal illness, cancer, japanese man, redemption, mortality, bittersweet, fighting illness, guilty conscience, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, problem ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The names of the characters are pronouns. She is a teacher, with his father dead just three days ago. Faced with this situation, He intends to take care of her while He is alive. This is the beginning of an odd relationship.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, melancholic, surreal ...
Plot:
muse, minimalism, loneliness, grief, mourning, intimate, couple relations, family problems, relationships, male female relationship, care, lifestyle ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those four walls to a timeless magic land where the sea speaks ...
Style:
slow cinema, touching, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
loneliness, dog, old age, loss, dream, isolation, death of husband, imagination, female protagonist, intimate, introspection, reflection ...
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ane and Thomas are in the middle of a divorce - when Ane suddenly suffers a stroke. They decide to stay together until Ane gets back on her feet, but as she struggles to return to life, love manifests where they least expected it.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, romantic drama, melancholic
Plot:
divorce, stroke, marriage, illness, mature, house, reconciliation, resilience, support, hospital, second chance, intimate ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Victor is a magnetic young boy that survive in London. A chance encounter leads him to Martin and Anna, two artists who share studio and a vital moment. Martin wants to relaunch his career and, while awaiting his brother lives, a former boxing star ...
Style:
dramatic, emotional, realistic, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, survival, intimate, resilience, everyday life, loneliness, loss, grief, transformation, hopes, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
london
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As her cancer spreads, Noelia's ultimate decision is to return to her native Vieques, Puerto Rico, and claim her freedom to decide her own fate. She reunites with her friends and family, who are still dealing with the contamination of the U.S. ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
cancer, female protagonist, getting home, mourning, homecoming, illness, colonization, friend, terminal illness, family relations, friends, back in hometown ...
Place:
puerto rico, caribbean
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Andrés, a music teacher diagnosed with cancer, seeks treatment at a hospital in the city. His travels there on a singular, dilapidated bus accompanied by other cancer patients. It soon becomes an extraordinary experience, giving him new friends and ...
Style:
life affirming, emotional, uplifting, inspirational, medical drama ...
Plot:
friendship, hopes, cancer, compassion, self discovery, healing, resilience, humanism, personal growth, hospital, intimate, second chance ...
Place:
spain, basque country, madrid
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes ...
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot:
tuberculosis, disease, wilderness, husky dog, isolation, hospital, illness, friends, hopes, human spirit, friendship, family relations ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, grief, hopes, death of daughter, country house, family relations, teenage life, family problems, mother daughter relationship, mourning, loss, bereavement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
51%
45
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a man who was born in 1959 and died in 2070, told by people who knew him and somehow contributed to his trajectory.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, reflective, thought provoking ...
Plot:
relationships, life story, mortality, memory, multiple perspectives, lifestyle, character study, family problems, mysterious character, family relations, truth, interview ...
Time:
1950s, 2000s, 60s, 90s, 80s ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable illness and are nearing death. When one reveals that they have never been to the ocean, they embark on a comical adventure to see the sea.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense, road movie ...
Plot:
friendship, unlikely friendships, mortality, cancer, terminal illness, adult child friendship, fighting illness, stolen money, friends, escapades, child illness, money ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
On-yoo is an adult childhood cancer survivor. When he's not practicing with his boy band, Oh-yoo often volunteers at the hospital's pediatric cancer ward. One day, he recognizes the familiar face of an overdose patient.
Style:
captivating, sincere, disturbing, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
hospital, overdose, cancer, patient, boy band, volunteer, couple relations, romantic relationship, illness, love interest, love story, love affair ...
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alexander Way, a secondary school teacher with a fractured personal life, finds himself attempting to rescue a woman from a violent sexual attack. Alexander finds himself overpowered, beaten & taken to hospital. Jesiah Jarvus, a famous British ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
marriage, school, family relations, doctor, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, teacher, father daughter relationship, violence, cancer, trauma, hospital ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hello Beautiful is a powerful and emotionally charged film that delves into the harrowing yet transformative journey of Willow, a successful model whose life is shattered by a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. Based on Christine Handy's ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, heartfelt, medical drama, tear jerker ...
Plot:
transformation, cancer, female protagonist, resilience, breast cancer, biopic, empowerment, identity, self discovery, survival, women, personal growth ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a self-help group of 4 people with a terminal illness, led by a therapist without experience.
Style:
emotional, sincere, poignant, touching, existential ...
Plot:
mortality, support group, terminal illness, acceptance, personal growth, humanism, bittersweet, intimate, therapy, friendship, therapist, loss ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already ...
Style:
emotional, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
illness, family problems, social problems, money problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, fighting illness, needing money, life is a bitch, realism, resilience, sacrifice ...
Place:
africa, somalia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house, independent film ...
Plot:
grief, child abandonment, loss, family tragedy, single father, rescue, redemption, compassion, loneliness, character study, bittersweet, social realism ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece, France, UK, China, Singapore
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jacqueline, a young refugee, lands alone and penniless on a Greek island where she tries to survive, then to cope with her past. While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour guide and together they find the resilience ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
hopes, friendship, refugee, connection, character study, love story, male female relationship, lifestyle change, changing lives, relationships, love interest, couples ...
Place:
greece, liberia
Similarity:
43%
162
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs. Her brother Nathan said to her before he died that he finally founded peace there thanks to a certain Daïsuké. Following his ...
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, serious, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, humanity, grief, mourning, loss, self discovery, woman, japanese man, small village, village, brother, death of brother ...
Place:
japan, france
Similarity:
43%
215
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A heartwarming urban adventure following straight-laced Leah as she meets an unpredictable stranger and falls back in love … with life.
Style:
independent film, life affirming, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
terminal illness, female friendship, lesbian, lesbian love, friendship, lgbt, self discovery, mortality, heartwarming, personal growth, city, girlfriend ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Style:
emotional, poignant, romantic drama, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, illness, hopes, love story, relationships, mortality, young couple, youth, loss, desperation, resilience ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
41%
298
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fate has taken its toll on the aging cabaret singer Ruth and the young but terminally ill Jonas. Yet despite their great age difference and their entirely opposite experiences in life, they form an intense bond and give each other a reason and ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, uplifting, sincere, life affirming ...
Plot:
friendship, age difference, cabaret singer, older woman younger man relationship, musician, terminal illness, mortality, empathy, bittersweet, life & death, bonding, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, dealing with death, life is a bitch, car accident, loneliness, melancholy, introspection, destruction, accident, trauma, identity, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, patagonia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's ...
Style:
christian film, sincere, sentimental, sad, spiritual ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
god, faith, letter, hopes, cancer, pastor, brain tumor, terminal illness, child illness, christian, sick child, salvation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
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