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Bardo Blues (2017)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Bardo Blues is the story of a man coming to grips with tragedy by escaping to paradise. Set in Thailand, Bardo Blues follows Jack as he struggles to learn the truth about the mother that abandoned him and his own reason for existing. Weaving spiritual awakenings and soulful struggle, Bardo Blues will leave you questioning everything you think you know about who you are, where you came from and where you're going.
Style:
spiritual, existential, independent film, emotional, meditative, contemplative, mystical, melancholic, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
self discovery, existential crisis, identity crisis, identity, soul searching, spiritual awakening, journey, memory, mental illness, personal growth, grief, abandonment, trauma, loneliness, healing, revelation, haunting, exile, redemption, travel, spirituality, voyage
Place:
thailand, southeast asia
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Most similar movies to Bardo Blues
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, existential, melancholic and emotional films with plots about grief, intimate, memory, identity, loss, redemption and isolation mostly in Drama, Mystery and Adventure genres. Some movies like Bardo Blues: Praying the Hours (2021), Fire Lily (2018), Dante (2014), Chiquita (2025), Simple Being (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
The Traveling Man is hit by a car. Over the 24 hours that it takes to cross over from this life into the next, he visits with each of eight friends. By seeing ordinary life from this view, he realizes that eternity is not something that happens to ...
Style:
spiritual, meditative, existential, contemplative, poignant ...
Plot:
afterlife, death, transcendence, journey, loss, redemption, grief, memory, mourning, forgiveness, bittersweet, regret ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The mystical and thrilling drama asks what sort of reality can give our life meaning. The film tells the story of Pia (38), an ophthalmologist, whose marriage has recently ended because she was not able to have children. As she strives to move ...
Style:
mystical, existential, emotional, thought provoking, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, self discovery, motherhood, divorce, supernatural, loneliness, midlife crisis, infertility, character study, isolation, identity, haunting ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
spiritual, allegory, mystical, emotional, poetic ...
Plot:
hell, purgatory, paradise, afterlife, soul searching, grief, supernatural, soul, loneliness, loss, transformation, mourning ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
On a fateful night amidst the rugged Texan landscape, Charles(60s), a biker recovering from a painful divorce, crashes into a valley and there he encounters a mysterious little girl. What unfolds that night, sets Charles on an unexpected and ...
Style:
reflective, atmospheric, psychological, road movie, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
self discovery, loneliness, redemption, motorcycle, soul searching, character study, second chance, slow burn, intimate, aging, valley
Place:
texas
Similarity:
71%
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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:
68%
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 ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In today's world options are not running out, they are running away and we can't keep up. To be cutting edge today, one must hold their mind together when it simply feels as if it will explode. In the mind itself there are different parts ...
Style:
psychological, existential, philosophical, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
character study, modern life, isolation, self discovery, spiritual journey, loss, second chance, identity, redemption, mental illness, split personality, afterlife ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In search of a miracle, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon and finds hope in a community, through rituals involving an ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca. With her perception forever altered, she forges a bond ...
Style:
psychedelic, meditative, contemplative, art house, existential ...
Plot:
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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, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, memories, intimate, afterlife, a vision, mourning, supernatural, ghost, haunting, existentialism, spirituality ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
62%
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 ...
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60%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: India, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Maya, a film star, a diva, has reached a personal deadlock in life. She has seen it all done it all but a black hole of emptiness engulfs her entire being. She tries to commit suicide but ends up alive and caught in a strange but beautiful journey, ...
Style:
existential, surreal, philosophical, melancholic, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
self discovery, female protagonist, life & death, identity crisis, existential crisis, character study, mental illness, alienation, hallucination, surrealism, loneliness, suicide attempt ...
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59
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:
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Plot:
friendship, dream, secret, memory, journey, longing, grief, haunting, male protagonist, intimate, road trip, friend ...
Place:
france, london, belgium
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare's words. A driven neurologist, brought to the island to protect her, commits her to a psychiatric hospital. She becomes a ...
Style:
enigmatic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Place:
maine
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, dealing with death, life is a bitch, car accident, loneliness, melancholy, introspection, destruction, accident, trauma, identity, isolation ...
Time:
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Place:
argentina, patagonia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
This avant-garde film is a stained glass window of emotion. 28 different people's feelings are woven into an emotional time capsule that will never exist again. A multi-dimensional bottle of feelings and time and art captured in a film.
Style:
art film, experimental, avant garde, art house, emotional ...
Plot:
empathy, intimate, memory, humanism, visionary, bittersweet, character study, identity, artistic, cult
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
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Place:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A documentary from Nick Peterson.
Style:
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Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
california
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Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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40%
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Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
"The Day Of The Purple Sun´´: The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe.
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"DER TAG DER VIOLETTEN SONNE´´
...
Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Indonesia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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