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13 Summers Underwater (2017)
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Original name: 13 Powrotów
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
Style:
surreal, emotional, melancholic, existential, meditative, contemplative, poetic, mystical, art house, non-linear ...
Plot:
grief, loss, supernatural, afterlife, memories, a vision, mourning, intimate, ghost, existentialism, haunting, family relations, spirituality, slow burn, death, healing, surrealism, minimalism, urban, psychological drama, ghosts
Time:
2010s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, existential and psychological films with plots about grief, intimate, memory, loss, mourning, minimalism and haunting mostly in Drama and Short genres. Some movies like 13 Summers Underwater: Resisting Life (2006), Violent (2014), Moon Hotel Kabul (2018), I Was a Simple Man (2021), The Joy (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, captivating, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
alienation, surrealism, family drama, grief, family problems, family relations, estrangement, family life, kids and family, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman, and her last memories of the five people who loved her most, recalled while experiencing a catastrophic event.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
memories, female protagonist, death, memory, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love affair, lifestyle, trauma, loss, grief ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ivan Semciuc (a journalist), is a charismatic man nonetheless guilty of cynicism and lack of compassion. A seemingly meaningless sexual encounter with a translator in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan’s unshakeable ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, surreal, moody
Plot:
death, guilt, loneliness, grief, regret, loss, memory, mourning, hotel, obsession, suicide, mature ...
Place:
bucharest, afghanistan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A ghost story set in the pastoral countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu telling the story of an elderly man facing the end of his life, visited by the ghosts of his past.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, meditative, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, dying man, memory, haunting, ghost story, family life, near death experience, life & death, family problems, troubled past, mourning, elderly man ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
100%
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118
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world… On a Christmas night, his cousin John is mysteriously shot in a street in the Lowlands and disappears into ...
Style:
atmospheric, sincere, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
youth, ghost, supernatural, miraculous event, coming of age, hopes, teenage life, death in the family, family problems, dealing with death, christmas, mourning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, grief, suicide, seaside, empathy, loneliness, trumpet player, salvation, healing, intimate, mourning, redemption ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lebanon, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep disorders and is obsessed with thoughts of his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, his overprotective mother struggles with the disappearance of her husband, who was kidnapped more than 15 years ...
Style:
art house, psychological, melancholic, emotional, existential ...
Plot:
insomnia, family drama, character study, longing, slice of life, loss, grief, mother son relationship, memories, intimate, loneliness, regret ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
lebanon, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this evocative story told ingeniously with minimal dialogue, men and women from various backgrounds and places each deal with the loss of a loved one.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, loneliness, solitude, mourning, minimal dialogue, empathy, bereavement, memory, healing, intimate, soul searching ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After being heralded by Jean-Luc Godard as the great hope of the New American Cinema, Peter Emanuel Goldman relocated to Paris just in time for 1968. Social dissolution permeates WHEEL OF ASHES, a stripped-down account of a young man's ...
Style:
existential, avant garde, art film, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
existential crisis, alienation, introspection, religion, hallucination, surrealism, symbolism, isolation, a vision, psychological torment, male protagonist, urban ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise.
Style:
road movie, meditative, poetic, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
gay, loss, mourning, grief, love, journey, solitude, self discovery, memory, landscape, pilgrimage, character study ...
Place:
chile, patagonia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
grief, ghost, loss, isolation, lake, mourning, haunting, supernatural, bereavement, cottage, afterlife, memory ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Netherlands, USA, Colombia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
You know the moment when your sorrow is so profound that you can't help but imagine yourself somewhere far away... this is the story of someone who did more than just imagine.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, life affirming, melancholic, psychological ...
Plot:
grief, heartbreak, mourning, loss, love, travel, female protagonist, healing, soul searching, loss of partner, memory, recovery ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot:
memory, memories, relationships, flashback sequence, introspection, lifestyle, past, self discovery, bittersweet, longing, loss, love story ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the hills of Paraguay. All the stages of mourning are passed through in a single day in this wordless account ...
Style:
meditative, contemplative, slow cinema, melancholic, poignant ...
Plot:
death, minimalism, dying, solitude, mourning, grief, couples, character study, isolation, loss, companionship, intimate ...
Place:
paraguay
Similarity:
100%
195
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, ...
Style:
poignant, art house, melancholic, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, female protagonist, memory, family drama, loss, reflection, regret, ghost, family secret, grief, aging, introspection ...
Place:
brittany
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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:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Netherlands, Chile
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When the elderly caretaker of a remote morgue discovers the body of a young woman killed during a protest, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns.
Style:
sincere, suspenseful, exciting, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
magic realism, caretaker, protest, cemetery, morgue, military, moral dilemma, old man, murder, dead woman, funeral, loss ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
aging, elderly, drug abuse, introspection, disease, dealing with death, terminal illness, female protagonist, subconscious, character study, youth, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
"The Day Of The Purple Sun´´: The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe.
Her journey through the mysteries of the Egypt underworld.
Will she be coming forth by day? film in two parts by Carsten Frank
"DER TAG DER VIOLETTEN SONNE´´
...
Style:
experimental, mystical, surreal, psychedelic, meditative ...
Plot:
journey, female protagonist, ancient egypt, afterlife, transformation, rebirth, mythology, metaphysics, haunting, ritual, macabre, intimate ...
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A rhythmically captivating exploration of love and loss at the fin-de-siècle. An amorous relationship between two women abruptly cut short. Dissolving under the impact of the loss of her soul mate, the surviving lover is drawn into the depths of ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, poetic ...
Plot:
lesbian, poetry, tragic love, dealing with death, gender, gays and lesbians, lesbian romance, stream of consciousness, melancholy, loss, grief, woman woman relationship ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The action of the film takes place in two periods of time. An old man leads his son through a forest, and is simultaneously under his care confined to bed with a deadly illness.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father son relationship, illness, forest, dying father, old man, life & death, parents and children, nursing, multiple storylines, fighting illness, family relations, care ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an ...
Style:
psychological, mindfuck, atmospheric, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
trauma, grief, female protagonist, manipulation, memory, alienation, identity crisis, mental illness, haunting, violent death, rehearsal, coming of age ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Portrays the universe of an eternal being that exists within a lifecycle filled with disappointments and hopelessness. It's the chronicle about the search for love and the fight against oblivion.
Style:
existential, reflective, melancholic, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, loss, hopelessness, memory, frustration, identity crisis, alienation, intimate, lgbt, gay, redemption ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Style:
slow cinema, contemplative, art film, art house, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mourning, loss, grief, intimate, character study, secret, immigrant, immigration, haunting, identity, memory ...
Place:
lisbon portugal, africa, west africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A strange life together of a man and a woman united by paintings. A film starring Yuya Ozeki, shot in honor of his 20th birthday!
Style:
art house, independent film, aesthetic, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
painting, artist, creative process, character study, connection, intimate, friendship, memory, art gallery, slice of life, minimalism, loneliness ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, grief, hopes, death of daughter, country house, family relations, teenage life, family problems, mother daughter relationship, mourning, loss, bereavement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 21 min.
Story:
Having recently lost a close friend, a young woman explores her sexuality as a way of processing trauma, as well as joy. However, disrupting this life is a ghost haunting her home. In an obsessive pursuit to uncover the truth, Becca discovers ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, sensual, erotic, psychological horror ...
Plot:
sexual exploration, female sexuality, grief, intimacy, self discovery, desire, obsession, character study, supernatural, ghost story, macabre, taboo ...
Similarity:
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