Movies like Past Life 2016

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Past Life (2016)
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Past Life (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In the fascinating new film from director Avi Nesher (The Wonders), two Israeli sisters delve into the dark mystery of their father’s former life in Poland during World War II.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, touching, captivating, disturbing
Plot: classical music, father daughter relationship, scandal, sibling rivalry, sister sister relationship, nazi, hospital, singer, composer, diary, magazine, fighting the system, family problems, fight, society, direction and purpose, family secret, relationship problems, social relations, dark past, tragic past, mysterious past, israeli, holocaust, cancer ...
Time: 70s, year 1977
Place: germany, palestine, berlin germany, poland
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, tense and psychological films with plots about family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, relationship problems, society, husband wife relationship and father daughter relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Past Life: Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009), Miriam (2006), Pearl (2020), Virgins (2018), This Town (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Story: A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, teenage girl, teenage life, money problems, violence, family problems, teenage protagonist, society, teenager, juvenile delinquency, social problems
Place: indonesia
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Miriam (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: survival, world war two, survivor, holocaust, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, new identity, female protagonist, fight, prison, soldier, suffering ...
Time: 1940s
Place: lithuania
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Pearl (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.
Style: thrilling, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot: father daughter relationship, paternity revealed, family relations, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, family problems, relationship problems, female protagonist, murder mystery, family secret, family drama, student ...
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88%
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Virgins (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenage Lana is languishing in her run-down hometown on Israel’s sun-soaked north coast—until an older, attractive writer arrives with tales of a mermaid sighting off the shore of the declining resort town.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, sincere, suspense
Plot: teenage girl, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, sea, beach, teenage life, life is a bitch, israeli, woman, women, bare chested male, photography ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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This Town (2007)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 113 min.
Story: This Town is in part a social commentary, giving us some scary insight into todays youth but also reflecting the points of view of different generations. At heart, the movie asks the viewer to decide if these characters are right or wrong in their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
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On the Farm (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
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Greshnik (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Vlad was five his mother was killed. And the only person whom Vlad blames for her death is his father . On the 20th anniversary of the tragedy the young man decides to gather all his relatives together to dot all the i's and cross all the ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing
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Switched Before Birth (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Switched Before Birth follows Olivia Crawford and her husband Brian, who after multiple miscarriages, numerous failed IVF trials and stretching themselves to the limit financially, finally receive the joyous news that she’s pregnant with twins. ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Our Story (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A son tries to restore the honour of his father, who was imprisoned during the 1980 military coup.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: lifestyle change, family relations, coup d'etat, changing lives, parents and children, social relations, social problems, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, coup, family problems, family life ...
Place: middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Vows of Deceit (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When blushing bride Sara Ross ties the knot with her seemingly perfect, handsome newlywed husband Leo, she soon starts to suspect that not only is Leo a thief and a conman but also quite possibly a killer, and that she just might be the next bride ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Nocturnal Agony (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A highly successful upper middle class woman with a loving family has her seemingly “perfect” world turned upside down when the hidden secrets from her past suddenly resurface, forcing her and her beloved mother into a painful examination of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 5.2
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Among Us (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a mysterious stranger with ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: couple relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, thoughtful, life turned upside down, family in crisis, down on your luck, family relations, cigarette smoking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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85%
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Bokser (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The films was inspired by true events. Przemyslaw Saleta, World's Kickboxing Champion and European Champion in professional boxing gave a kidney to his seriously ill daughter. There were unexpected complications during the surgery and Saleta ...
Style: touching, suspense, tense, psychological
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85%
Perfect Revolution (2017)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 117 min.
Story: Kuma is an author, a sex obsessive and a wheelchair user. Beautiful and volatile Ryoko is unlike anybody he’s ever met before. She barrages into one of his lectures, demanding to know why he only talks of sex, not love, before declaring her own ...
Style: suspense, captivating, touching, exciting, suspenseful ...
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Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, social ...
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Euphoria (2013)
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Style: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
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Country: Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Palestine, 1948. After the withdrawal of the British occupiers, tensions rise between Arabs and Jews. Meanwhile, Farha, the smart daughter of the mayor of a small village, unaware of the coming tragedy, dreams of going to study in the big city.
Style: suspense, thrilling, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
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Country: USA
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Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, entertaining, tense ...
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The Russell Girl (2008)
Genre: Drama
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Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Compulsion (2008)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 93 min.
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Lost Girl (2019)
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Genre: Drama
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The Daughter (2015)
Genre: Drama
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Style: touching, disturbing, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Sand Storm (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, social
Plot: second marriage, second wife, bedouin, family problems, mother daughter conflict, women in society, marriage, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, relationship problems, female protagonist ...
Time: 2010s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, indiana
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