Movies like Island City 2015

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Island City (2015)
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Island City (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Winner of FEDORA award for the Best Debut Director, Venice Film Festival 2015, Island City is a collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai, India. The first is about a diligent office worker who wins the office ‘Fun Committee Award’, which entitles him to a whole day full of fun, the second about a domineering head-of-the-family, Anil, who is on life support and the third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. More info: http://www.indiememe.org/island-city-dallas.html
Plot: family relations, barefoot male, tv set, female director

Most similar movies to Island City

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, captivating, psychological and realistic films with plots about family relations, love, coming of age, father daughter relationship, life is a bitch, society and family problems mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Island City: Dreamer: The Movie (2004), Nautilus (1990), Let the Wind Blow (2004), Siddharth (2013), Apple Garden (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dreamer: The Movie (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Armed with a shoestring budget and a dream, independent filmmaker George A. Johnson set out to write, shoot, direct, produce and edit a full-length feature film using simple home video equipment and his imagination. The result is an inspirational ...
Style: independent film
Plot: family relations, daydreamer
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95%
 6.0
 19
Nautilus (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This life period of the main character Felix (L. Lutvinsky) coincides with rather complicated period of country history Chernenko dies, Gorbachev succeeds him, then Ligachev criticizes Eltsin, county is reined by deficit, backstairs influence, ...
Plot: war in afghanistan, family relations, death of brother, friend, brother sister relationship, engineer, father, afghanistan veteran, janitor, militia
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Let the Wind Blow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, rich and poor, follow your dream, social differences, political unrest, parents and children, society, youth, state affairs, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, bombay india
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62%
 7.4
 761
Siddharth (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, sincere, disturbing, spiritual ...
Plot: missing child, missing son, social decay, society, family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, dehumanization, parents and children, factory worker, against humanity, on the road ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, mumbai india, delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Movie in collections
 6.4
 39
Apple Garden (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
Plot: family relations, garden, old man, father daughter relationship, apple
Place: armenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.8
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Loyalties (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England ...
Style: independent film
Plot: family relations, doctor, secret
Place: england, canada
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48%
 7.1
 181
Dockers (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jimmy McGovern's depiction of the mid 90s Liverpool dockers strike. Featuring script contributions from Irvine Welsh and the real dockers themselves
Plot: suffering, family relations, violence, strike, dispute, job
Place: liverpool
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41%
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Coming Home (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jochen's life is going well. He has just moved into a new house with his wife and child when suddenly his widowed father accidentally runs into a car and begins to lose his mind. The family take the old man in but tensions arise when the family ...
Plot: mental illness, new house, family relations, alzheimer's disease, father son relationship, fire, senior citizen
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38%
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Brick Lane (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: immigrant, love triangle, society, family relations, love affair, fall in love, racism, village, sister sister relationship, loss of mother, self discovery, migration ...
Time: year 2007, september 11 2001, 80s
Place: london, bangladesh, europe, england, india ...
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37%
 7.5
 397
Monologue (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. ...
Plot: family relations, teenager, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, scientist, loneliness, soviet
Time: 70s
Place: soviet union
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36%
The Branches (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story: A melodic, emotional exploration of one family falling apart in a sleepy Midwestern city, The Branches follows Claire (Kelly Brumbach) as she attempts to reconnect with the hometown life she left behind.
Plot: family relations, coming of age, hometown, family drama, american midwest
Place: ohio, midwest
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35%
 5.4
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Diorama (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: As miscommunication and temptations abound, a couple's once-passionate marriage slowly unravels, narrated through humorous dioramas.
Plot: love, family relations
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32%
 7.1
 143
Gregorio (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gregorio, a boy from the impoverished countryside of Peru emigrates to Lima, the capital city. Experiencing a cultural shock due to the chaotic nature of the city, he must challenge himself to learn Spanish, since his native tongue is Quechua, and ...
Plot: countryside, family relations, child labor, children, death of father, boy
Place: peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 336
Dummy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A coming of age drama about two young brothers whose lives are thrown into turmoil when their mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves. While Danny loses himself in music, sex and drugs, his younger brother Jack transforms a life ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, humorous, gloomy
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, brother brother relationship, teenage life, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, death in the family, death of mother, coming of age, mental illness, sibling relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Plouffe Family (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min.
Story: The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Plot: world war two, family relations, great depression, conscription, religion, catholic, french canadian
Place: quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.1
 154
Little Darling (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?
Plot: con man, nudity, family relations, marriage, love, train, female nudity, shopping mall
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Where I Begin (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A decade after a tragic event, Jacob decides to return home to his small southern roots, only to find that the past is not really the past and that people may change but they never forget. Can you ever really go home?
Style: independent film
Plot: old friend, honesty, coming of age, past, domestic violence, small town, family relations, south
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
A Family On Edge (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: "A Family On Edge" is about two brothers, Michael and Gabriel Bonds, who were thick as thieves growing up in Atlanta who protected each other by any means necessary.When a fatal mistake separates the siblings, their rock-solid relationship ...
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Hebriana (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 152 min.
Story: During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate ...
Plot: family gatherings, family relations, weekend, archipelago, midsummer, summer house
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 22
Night Call (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 60 min.
Story: At the heart of the plot - the erroneous message about the death of Varvara Antonovna gathers around her son, daughter-in-law and grandson. They feel a sense of deep guilt, so carelessly treating a loved one for a number of years
Plot: guilt, son, grandson, daughter in law, family relations, telephone, text messaging
Place: soviet union
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30%
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Palunku (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story: Monichan shifts to the city from his village to provide better education to his children. But will things go as planned?
Style: sad
Plot: children, town, urbanization, child abuse, school, lottery, money lender, village, literacy, family relations, malayalam
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29%
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Thanmathra (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: A man leading a happy life with his loving wife and two children suddenly starts getting forgetful and lost. Then, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease leaving his family devastated.
Style: captivating, psychological, sad, touching
Plot: father son relationship, student, changing lives, lifestyle, family problems, kids and family, family relations, lifestyle change, alzheimer's disease, dream, son, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Karz Chukana Hai (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story: Alcoholic, arrogant, and a slacker, Atmaram, though coming from a poor family, has visions of grandeur, and believes that everyone else is subordinate to his wishes and instructions. This lands him in hot water with his employer, Seth Usman, and as ...
Plot: family relations, hypocrisy, tragic event, loss of job, death of son, remorse, hypocrite, dark hero, redemption, illness, hospital, employer employee relationship ...
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29%
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Raman Thediya Seethai (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The path of true love does not run smooth in this movie about love, expectations, and the range of abilities and access that different people have in this world.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: male female relationship, relationships, love story, family relations, couple relations, life is a bitch, love affair, family problems, relationship problems, love interest, fight, love ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Evidam Swargamanu (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: 'Ividam Swargamanu' concerns the story of a hard-working farmer known as Mathews and his fight against a land mafia which tries to take over his farmland
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: farmer, farm, showdown, land grab, landowner, fight, family relations, fighting crime, mafia, life is a bitch, lawyer, court ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Thursday's Child (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked ...
Plot: teenager, heart transplant, illness, father son relationship, doctor, family relations, heart disease
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Putham Pudhu Kaalai (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
Style: anthology, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: relationships, relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, lifestyle, family life, family relations, multiple storylines, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, tamil
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.2
 548
Vanaja (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Set in rural South India, a place where social barriers are built stronger than fort walls, VANAJA explores the chasm that divides classes as a young girl struggles to come of age.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: pregnancy, coming of age, couples, village, injustice, family relations, youth, society, teenage life, rape, dancing, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The night of the brother (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of ...
Plot: family relations, airplane, brother, love, lesbian, grandfather, murder, brotherhood, land
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Different Eye (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Julia and her fiancé Mark's world is shattered when they find themselves with conservator-ship of Maria, a young woman with Downs Syndrome. Can Maria teach Julia to find the beauty in life's ups and downs, or will Julia and Mark's ...
Plot: family relations, heartbreak, down syndrome, promise, lawyer, father, mother, love, marriage
⇓ similarity ⇓
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