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A Brief Excursion (2017)
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Original name: Kratki izlet
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Stola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. But one day, he runs into Roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a nearby monastery. Roko convinces Stola and a random group of partygoers to join him in his search. However, when their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, their brief excursion turns into an allegorical journey into the unknown.
Style:
allegory, mysterious, contemplative, art house, existential, surreal, independent film, absurd, moody
Plot:
self discovery, road trip, symbolism, isolation, existential crisis, coming of age, friendship, youth culture, haunting, intimate, slow burn, festival, dark humor, small town, summer vacation, female nudity, hiking, skinny dipping, male objectification, drinking, voice over narration, woods, trip, travel, forest ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, existential and contemplative films with plots about intimate, coming of age, self discovery, isolation, minimalism, small town and slow burn mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Brief Excursion: Unconformity (2022), Animalium (2017), Trip (2009), How Far, How Near (1972), The Afterlight (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A rock-climbing geologist who finds an unexpected friendship in the high desert.
Style:
contemplative, independent film, art house
Plot:
friendship, rock climbing, isolation, geology, solitude, self discovery, character study, loneliness, tenderness, intimate, slow burn, male friendship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
Two brothers on a road trip through Texas discuss the morality of killing and ponder our place in the natural world.
Style:
art house, existential, philosophical, reflective, contemplative ...
Plot:
road trip, moral dilemma, character study, killing, brothers, moral ambiguity, existential crisis, slow burn, minimalism, small town, coming of age, philosophy ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
88%
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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:
71%
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:
66%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and nature itself, trigger a surprising chain of events
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, momentous news from home compels an exiled young man to embark upon an intense and surreal journey through the broken and beautiful margins of contemporary Britain.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, contemplative, visually appealing, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, journey, on the road, family relations, society, haunted by the past, family problems, self discovery, nature, trauma, isolation, memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When her brother dies, singer Lilah Belle sets out to escape her grief and embarks on a road trip, but not before coaxing the new-to-town, most scandalous woman in Artesia, Rose Johnson, to go with her. These two broken souls steal a vintage truck ...
Style:
emotional, mysterious, independent film, spiritual, southern gothic ...
Plot:
road trip, magic realism, female friendship, self discovery, grief, transformation, bittersweet, bonding, redemption, metamorphosis, intimate, symbolism ...
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The unlikely friendship of two twenty-somethings in Seattle blossoms, complicates, and ultimately redefines their understanding of sexuality and modern relationships.
Style:
romantic drama, ambiguous ending, art house
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, sexual identity, personal growth, lgbtq, coming of age, empathy, intimate, bittersweet, urban, slice of life, youth culture ...
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
53%
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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:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When two outsiders arrive on an isolated intentional community, seventeen-year old Anahita begins to question her role at home, and what a future out in the world-at-large could be.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, independent film, atmospheric, melancholic
Plot:
self discovery, coming of age, female protagonist, young woman, character study, identity crisis, 17 year old, teenage angst, isolation, farm, friendship, escape ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
52%
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:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, romantic drama, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, dream, secret, memory, journey, longing, grief, haunting, male protagonist, intimate, road trip, friend ...
Place:
france, london, belgium
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
This darkly grotesque drama unfolds on multiple paths. The tangible one, now cruel, now crazy, along which the nomadic actor "Dad Mour", his wife "Mum" and two sons try to return home, but also the imaginary one, even more, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
adaptation, father son relationship, relationships, family relations, lifestyle, family life, mortality, aging, dark humor, loneliness, character study, love ...
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
45%
773
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, neighborhood, loss of innocence, isolation, minimal dialogue, childhood memory, social commentary, alienation, minimalism, intimate, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A reclusive Albertan DJ runs his popular pirate radio station in a remote farmhouse but begins to feel pressure from his romantic relationship with a fan and his producer who wants more mainstream content.
Style:
independent film, tension, melancholic, indie film, period piece ...
Plot:
dj, radio, rock, rebellion, isolation, counterculture, youth culture, identity crisis, anti establishment, small town, intimate, slow burn ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Drama - An unexpected encounter with a mysterious stranger forever changes the life of four travelers visiting the hometown of a James Dean-like celebrity actor. - Colin Alexander, Jeff Angel, David Grant Briggs
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, road movie ...
Plot:
self discovery, road trip, hotshot hero, inventions and discoveries, secret, spirituality, movie star, character study, small town, mysterious stranger, bittersweet, personal growth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
Nana is 4 years old and lives in a stone house beyond the forest. Back from school, a late afternoon, all she finds is silence in the house. A journey into the darkness of her childhood. The world from her height.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, sincere, realistic, fairy tale ...
Plot:
solitude, child, countryside, coming of age, babies and infants, youth, loneliness, child protagonist, childhood memory, isolation, woods, haunting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, philosophical, reflective, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
personal growth, young woman, coming of age, female protagonist, self discovery, character study, young adult, solitude, odyssey, minimalism, spiritual journey, intimate ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, independent film, melancholic, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, isolation, self discovery, heartbreak, intimate, sisterhood, hippie, river, young love, waking up, outsider ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, contemplative, realistic, heartfelt, art house ...
Plot:
life lesson, empathy, personal growth, aspiring actor, self discovery, transformation, character study, rejection, village life, slice of life, intimate, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ever since I started making films it has bothered me in a certain sense that film images are far too concrete, because technically they try to imitate the sense of space characteristic of everyday life. So the story ignites the imagination only to ...
Style:
experimental, existential, philosophical, slow cinema, avant garde ...
Plot:
death, plague, cemetery, mourning, symbolism, isolation, alienation, minimalism, haunting, adaptation, literary, obsession ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Follows the journey of one man on the path of his self-discovery that would traverse landscapes outside and layers deep within.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, road movie, independent film ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, life, personal growth, coming of age, travelogue, wanderlust, intimate, minimalism, escape, road trip, journey ...
Place:
india
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, poetic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, inventor, friendship, character study, intimate, bittersweet, small town, humanism, loneliness, loss of innocence, nostalgia, mysticism ...
Time:
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Place:
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37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, road movie
Plot:
friendship, youth, female friendship, coming of age, adolescence, self discovery, identity, slice of life, photography, summer vacation, curiosity, road trip ...
Time:
2000s, turn of the century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
37%
133
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four people, isolated in their different ways are trapped in the desert and changed forever. Against impossible odds, can they find meaning - life, laughter and love before it is too late?
Style:
psychological, existential, emotional, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
isolation, desert, thirst, survival, loneliness, transformation, australian outback, character study, heat wave, friendship, introspection, intimate ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
australia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A Mexican teen Lucas in a gray industrial town befriends co-worker Oscar. Oscar leaves, entrusting Lucas with treasures. Through photography, Lucas captures observed light, finding connection and solace.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, art house, independent film, slow cinema
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, self discovery, working class, loneliness, photography, realism, introspection, intimate, memory, solitude, slow burn ...
Place:
mexico, poetic realism
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, realistic, contemplative, existential, road movie ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
reno nevada
Similarity:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
existential, melancholic, postmodern, moody
Plot:
identity, relationships, young adult, self discovery, coming of age, youth culture, modern life, slice of life, intimacy, alienation, bittersweet, city life ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, independent film, contemplative, existential, art house ...
Plot:
loneliness, empathy, breakdown, character study, rain, trauma, single, transformation, isolation, slow burn, intimate, minimalism ...
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336
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, psychological, existential, art house, meditative ...
Plot:
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