Movies like Freefall 2009
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Freefall (2009)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freefall is the first drama to tackle the extraordinary financial crisis Britons are living through. Helmed by multiple BAFTA-winning director Dominic Savage, the film takes a startling and provocative look at the events that caused people's lives to spiral out of control. With pace, edge and real emotional punch, it gives a unique insight into how the country came so perilously close to the edge.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sincere, thought provoking, touching, gloomy
Plot:
debt, society, stock broker, social decay, life is a bitch, working class, downfall, dishonesty, unfulfillment, blind ambition, suicide, banker, gay, money, evil, analysis, trading, rich and poor, manipulation, life turned upside down, top executive, finance, cocaine, high school friend, investment banker ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, europe, london
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Most similar movies to Freefall
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and gloomy films with plots about life is a bitch, society, unfulfillment, couples, family relations, working class and family problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Freefall: Come Rain Come Shine (2010), Belonging (2004), Manpower (2014), Days of Santiago (2004), Look Back in Anger (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
David Jason stars as cockney ex-docker Don Mitchell in this emotional drama. Don is incredibly proud of his son David’s affluent lifestyle. The cars, the detached house and private schooling for the children were things Don could only dream about ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
working class, family relations, parents and children, estrangement, relationship vs career, couples, emotionless, society, family in crisis, life turned upside down, husband wife relationship, heart attack ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
95%
419
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, touching
Plot:
love affair, family relations, family problems, society, family in crisis, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, couples, betrayal, love and romance, working class, crumbling marriage ...
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy, biting ...
Plot:
social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, immigrant, realism, life is a bitch, discrimination, society, interracial relations, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a decadent life of crime.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, homecoming, moral dilemma, society, life is a bitch, working class, family relations, family problems, post traumatic stress disorder, ex soldier, urban, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, latin america
Similarity:
83%
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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:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, breakup, couples, life is a bitch, downfall, unfulfillment, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man ushers an older woman into a dark exploration of her past - back to the time when, as a young girl, she met a stranger who affected her life forever.
Style:
psychological, sincere, stylized, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
estate, elderly, lifestyle, introspection, haunted by the past, social relations, love and romance, society, post war, youth, life is a bitch, unfulfillment ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 2000s, 60s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
65%
432
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place ...
Style:
serious, realistic, independent film
Plot:
finance, money, wall street, sex, female warrior, trading, hustler, bank, greed, contests and competitions, opposites attract, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
62%
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864
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, couples, family relations, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, everyday life, family drama, society, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
couples, social differences, starting over, injustice, forceful separation, political corruption, couple relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, state affairs, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, north korea, south korea
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Adaptation of award winning novel by Marlene van Niekerk. Triomf is about the ultimate dysfunctional family, the Benades, poor white working class Afrikaner trailer trash on the eve of the first democratic election in South Africa.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, racism, working class, life is a bitch, interracial relations, social differences, family relations, social decay, family problems, society, incest, apartheid ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
51%
448
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Eva meets Tudor on the day of her 16th birthday. It is Tudor who is to make her feel whole as a woman. He becomes for her a source of both love and suffering through his constant mysterious departures and reappearances.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
holocaust, lovers reunited, world war two, tragic hero, love triangle, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, couple relations, political unrest, couples, society, tragic love ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
romania, europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, crying ...
Plot:
unemployment, immigrant, working class, society, unfulfillment, workplace, parents and children, fired from the job, coming of age, lady, supportive coworker, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ane is in her mid-forties and delighted when a stunning bouquet of flowers is delivered to her home. But the site manager has no idea who to thank – one thing is for sure; her jealous husband, Ander, is not the unknown cavalier. As these ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, animal life, life turned upside down, hopes, female protagonist, strong female presence, dealing with death, ashes, sheep, car accident, flowers, relationships ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, basque country, europe
Similarity:
47%
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:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A British car racer meets a suicidal woman while in Istanbul for the Gumball Rally.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
destructive relationship, athlete's life, life is a bitch, dishonesty, lifestyle, contests and competitions, society, human nature, womanizer, infidelity, social decay, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, social, political ...
Plot:
top executive, critique of capitalism, stock broker, greed, rivalry, boss and employee, workplace, office, trading, wealth, banking, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, europe, france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
adult virgin, introspection, social decay, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, society, daydreamer, life is a bitch, small town, economist, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
poverty, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Conscription has been introduced in Britain. Across the country, young people are being called upon to serve the nation in another reactionary Middle-Eastern conflict. They face war on a scale not seen in any of their lifetimes. hearts & minds ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
introspection, life is a bitch, wartime life, soldier, military, conscription, war on terror, youth, protest, fictional war, british soldier, wartime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, bristol
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, talky, sincere ...
Plot:
couples, introspection, working class, social differences, family problems, human nature, society, gender, unfulfillment, loneliness, blackmail, marital problem ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, change of luck, society, alcohol abuse, youth, hopes, confronting the past, troubled past, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, friendship, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
42%
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404
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Henrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale - a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a society held together by kinship and class. If she had ...
Style:
independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
girl, manipulation, femme fatale, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, feminism, love and romance, introspection, dishonesty, human nature ...
Time:
19th century, year 1975
Place:
europe
Similarity:
40%
689
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
interracial relations, shakespeare, tragic love, power relations, vengeance, downfall, murder, betrayal, life is a bitch, couple relations, infidelity, dirty cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, london, england
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, introspection, society, couples, suburban life, suburbs, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
39%
576
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate ...
Style:
serious, tense, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
island, incestuous relationship, undercover, hidden identity, family problems, dishonesty, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, illicit affair, mother daughter relationship, storm, mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
music, haunted by the past, deportation, musician's life, introspection, life is a bitch, estrangement, society, drug, young love, musician, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's ...
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, gang, dishonesty, society, orphan, life is a bitch, danger, rich and poor, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cape town south africa, south africa, africa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
34%
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