Movies like Big Big World
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Big Big World (2016)
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Original name: Koca Dünya
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes a desert island for them. A boy and a girl that were thrown out of the civilized world would live the entire human story from scratch.
Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic, independent film, bleak, existential, crying, grim, slow cinema, surreal
Plot:
forest, orphan, motorcycle, hospital, taxi, survival, escape, isolation, coming of age, innocence lost, friendship, humanity, outsider, alienation, childhood trauma, realism, identity, intimate, minimalism, guilt, moral ambiguity, goat, hugging, lonely, youth ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
turkey
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Most similar movies to Big Big World
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, bleak and existential films with plots about isolation, coming of age, intimate, identity, alienation, friendship and minimalism mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Big Big World: A Sand Castle (1962), Manta Ray (2018), Oh, Moon! (1988), DeAD (2013), Charlie (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini under her coat. She says her cloths were stolen while she was bathing. She joins their company. They steel cloths for her. There is a little kissing with ...
Style:
melancholic, art house
Plot:
trauma, escape, suicide, mental illness, coming of age, innocence lost, youth, post traumatic stress, adolescence, road trip, friendship, alienation ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand, France, China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Near a coastal village of Thailand, a local fisherman rescues a stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. When the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his ...
Style:
art house, slow cinema, atmospheric, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
sea, identity, loss, migration, moral ambiguity, impersonation, village life, haunting, isolation, friendship, grief, minimalism ...
Place:
thailand, poetic realism
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
Style:
surreal, poetic, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, mother daughter relationship, longing, child protagonist, grief, loss, imagination, family drama, family secret, haunted house, mysterious disappearance, secrets ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
84%
79
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
existential, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
grief, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, character study, search for father, alienation, minimalism, intimate, regret, male protagonist, urban ...
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a traumatic event, a socially-awkward teen, Charlie, grapples with the guilt and judgement that ensues. He must confront the prison-like bondage of his fear when the perpetrator comes after him. In this tribute to contemporary ...
Style:
slow cinema, bleak, melancholic, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, trauma, mother son relationship, slow burn, mental health, intimate, isolation, socially awkward, fear, family drama, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
17-year-old Rebekka is feeling hollow and empty after her brother Dennis died by suicide two years ago. Dennis' friend Vincent is the only one who can help her through this difficult time. But Vincent is an outsider, accepted by nobody, ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, tense, atmospheric
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mental health, grief, self discovery, isolation, character study, youth, guilt, mourning, coming of age, teenage angst, intimate, dysfunctional family ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, USA, Austria
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young pregnant woman arrives in New York City from Russia, and her mind drifts to the past when she was coming of age in a coal mining town in Russia.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, intercultural, realistic, grim ...
Plot:
immigrant, pregnancy, coming of age, flashback, outsider, trauma, loneliness, search for father, character study, dark past, isolation, identity ...
Place:
new york, russia
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Planning to take any job she can get in order to save enough money and leave Turkey for the U.S., Mina is hired at an Istanbul café as a fortune teller who reads the dregs in coffee cups. She discovers she has the ability to offer comfort and ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic, reflective, art house, atmospheric
Plot:
fortune telling, unemployment, migration, lonely, isolation, escape, slice of life, social realism, urban, intimate, bittersweet, minimalism ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young man who feels he doesn't fit in, decides to embark on an intimate journey. Three weeks for three impediments: deafness, mutism and blindness. Three weeks not to escape, but to find reality.
Style:
existential, meditative, psychological, experimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
intimate, blindness, deafness, self discovery, personal growth, existential crisis, identity crisis, loneliness, minimal dialogue, alienation, isolation, identity ...
Similarity:
61%
169
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young quebecer descends into alienation and depression.
Style:
existential, melancholic, psychological, art house, slow cinema ...
Plot:
strong sexual content, unsimulated sex, alienation, loneliness, identity, depression, identity crisis, isolation, introspection, coming of age, male protagonist, realism ...
Place:
quebec, montreal
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany ...
Style:
captivating, touching, sentimental, sincere, art house ...
Plot:
youth, single parent, parents and children, poverty, family relations, society, teenage life, elderly, social misfits, grandfather granddaughter relationship, father daughter relationship, very little dialogue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, greece, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize ...
Style:
serious, touching, captivating, intense, bleak ...
Plot:
boy, neglected child, friendship, children, orphanage, forest, bullying, wolf, feral child, coming of age, child soldier, bosnian war ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
serbia, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia, croatia
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"I am" tells the story of Kundel, a boy searching for his place in life, his identity. After running away from an orphanage where he is treated as an outcast among outcasts by both his peers and the adults in charge, and being rejected a ...
Style:
realistic, poignant, emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, children, childhood, child protagonist, youth, friendship, self discovery, orphanage, adolescence, boy, survival, intimate ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a doctor, and their attempts to escape from their dead-end situations.
Style:
existential, melancholic, surreal, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
narcolepsy, gay, illness, isolation, terminal illness, alienation, mortality, character study, relationships, minimalism, sexuality, identity ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
secret, art student, grief, coming of age, loss, summer, female protagonist, relationships, life is a bitch, self discovery, beauty, intimate ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
53%
51
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dani, Yumi, Ovidiu, Ada and Cristi are youths addicted to one another, yet intent on escaping the pressure of their interconnectedness and frustrating realities by performing mind trips into different levels of existence and parallel worlds.
Style:
psychological, existential, surreal, psychedelic, melancholic ...
Plot:
trip, youth, friendship, escape, escapism, alternate reality, alienation, parallel world, self discovery, intimate, symbolism, identity crisis ...
Place:
eastern europe, romania
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Muhammad, a rejected boy from the fringe of society, floats through the streets of a filthy city, exposed and desolated, until he meets Gurevich; a lone rover who rides his motorcycle into the bowels of the city, through the shadows of the back ...
Style:
dark, existential, bleak, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
urban decay, street life, urban, desolation, isolation, identity, alienation, loner, survival, anti hero, power struggle, coming of age ...
Place:
palestine, israel
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their ...
Style:
psychological, touching, serious, rough, art house ...
Plot:
coming of age, solar eclipse, youth, islam, friendship, teenage life, society, introspection, generation gap, family life, boy, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poetic realism, turkey
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Style:
contemplative, bleak, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
isolation, wasteland, loneliness, alienation, minimalism, metaphysics, character study, anonymity, identity, minimal dialogue, moral ambiguity, pilgrimage ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Broke and homeless Australian teenagers in love.
Style:
independent film, emotional, romantic drama, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
teenager, street life, homelessness, youth, coming of age, friendship, urban, poverty, realism, social realism, survival, working class ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
australia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The ponytail is a dumpster version of the Oedipus myth. Diana, a prostitute from Vienna, returns to the city. She has a trace, memory gaps, and milk started flowing from her breasts. Twenty-year-old orphan-outcast May suspects that she may be its ...
Style:
sinister, art house, tense, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
female nudity, motherhood, female protagonist, trauma, alienation, moral ambiguity, memory loss, female bonding, prostitution, identity, symbolism, outsider ...
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
Style:
dark, emotional, bleak, intense, grim ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, runaway, loss of innocence, coming of age, youth, female protagonist, sexploitation, manipulation, street life, abuse, danger, urban ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Father got leukaemia. Mother was laid off long ago. She had to borrow money for her husband everywhere. Sister went to a night club to be a waitress secretly and soon became a “call girl”. Lin was cold-shouldered at school because of father’s ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house, tragic
Plot:
leukemia, family drama, illness, mother son relationship, poverty, financial difficulty, coming of age, teenage protagonist, desperation, empathy, loss, social realism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Style:
existential, melancholic, bleak, art house, period piece
Plot:
lumberjack, outsider, alienation, loneliness, isolation, introspection, backwoods, small town, poet, frustration, self discovery, intimate ...
Place:
poetic realism, poland
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
It tells the story of Adam who lives in isolation due to his stuttering, and hip-hop is the only way he can get rid of his speech impediment.
Style:
emotional, independent film, realistic, lyrical, psychological ...
Plot:
speech impediment, stuttering, hip hop, personal growth, isolation, intimate, outsider, identity, self discovery, subculture, redemption, coming of age ...
Similarity:
45%
666
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.
Style:
melancholic, grim, dark, period drama
Plot:
survival, forest, wilderness, isolation, brothers, family drama, resilience, family tragedy, man versus nature, traumatic childhood, abandonment, childhood memory ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
43%
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:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
The dramatic story of a group of young people’s response to a desperate teen’s cry for help.
Style:
independent film, emotional, psychological, bleak, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
depression, teen suicide, mental health, teenage angst, isolation, coming of age, alienation, intimate, introspection, self harm, friendship, social realism ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A couple of elderlies try to survive in Los Andes of Peru while they wait for their son.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, melancholic, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
waiting, silence, nature, isolation, loneliness, minimal dialogue, intimate, minimalism, realism, survival, loss, livestock ...
Place:
peru
Similarity:
41%
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