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Bonsai (2011)
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Original name: Bonsái
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina, Portugal, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young writer recounts an earlier romance in hopes of attracting his new love interest.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
writers, couples, couple relations, writer's life, bittersweet, unfulfillment, student, love, neighbor, poem, love story, unemployment, artists and showbiz, nudity, female nudity, male nudity, suicide, bicycle, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, language learning, nude, novel, toilet, pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
chile, latin america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and gloomy films with plots about couples, unfulfillment, couple relations, family relations, female nudity, love and romance and female full frontal nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Bonsai: This Is My Body (2001), You Can't Write a Letter (2013), Labour of Love (2014), Bad Girl (2012), Waiting for the Tenor (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, couples, society, working class, introspection, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time:
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Place:
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193
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female pubic hair, bullfighting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The author Thomas meets his childhood friend Hoffman on an autumn night in 1997. They decide to let a dream come true: to make a film of a play by Thomas, Veranda for a Tenor, with Hoffman in the lead role. The story takes us back to the summer of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, meta
Plot:
friendship, male friendship, couples, alcohol abuse, filmmaking, terminal illness, writer's life, introspection, couple relations, artists and showbiz, bittersweet, alcoholism ...
Time:
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Place:
europe
Similarity:
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533
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A separated couple meet again after 10 years when the body of their missing son is found. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they hesitantly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death, and even the possibility of reconciliation.
Style:
realistic, psychological, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
female nudity, couple relations, couples, dealing with death, choir, husband wife relationship, police, funeral, letter, male pubic hair, male nudity, pedophile ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young Doctor Ana lives alone because she couldn't bear to leave Cuba when her family sailed away on a raft to the US. Ernesto lives in his car with his belongings in a small case, traveling from embassy to embassy trying to fulfill his dream of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot:
love affair, impossible love, immigrant, couples, fall in love, couple relations, hopes, introspection, love and romance, society, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
DeeDee returns to her hometown with her 11 year old son, Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend, Sam, is now married and he and his wife, Lydia, are the town's veterinarians. Lydia is a little wary ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
veterinarian, single parent, life is a bitch, couple relations, terminal illness, parents and children, homecoming, couples, social relations, small town, unfulfillment, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sexy, contemplative, talky ...
Plot:
redemption, couples, terminal illness, human spirit, destructive relationship, vengeance, art history, artist, painter, underground, inventions and discoveries, wish come true ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, london, england, venice
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couples, couple relations, pregnant woman, addiction, supportive spouse, husband wife relationship, relationships, male female relationship, physician, relationship vs career, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, france, paris france
Similarity:
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153
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Martín Santomé has been woking in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.
Style:
stylized, emotional, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, family relations, elderly, love affair, midlife crisis, aging, gender, couples, dealing with death, fall in love, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.
Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, disorder, dull life, breakup, introspection, couples, nothing goes right, strong female presence, parents and children, homecoming, unfulfillment, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When love has to compete with artistic inspiration and memories from a sheltering past come to take the artist to imaginary worlds that exist deep in his mind. This is the story of young Adrian, pianist and composer, in love with his sister and ...
Style:
contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
incest, forbidden love, love affair, musician's life, family relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, lifestyle, cause and meaning, loneliness, sexual content, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
couple relations, accident, family problems, couples, family relations, small town, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
68%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sincere, atmospheric, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painting, painter, artist, art, eroticism, husband wife relationship, couples, couple relations, creative process, taxidermy, drawing, female nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
68%
239
Genre: Drama
Country: Albania, Greece, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Amnesty is a 2011 Albanian movie directed by Buyar Alimani. It’s a story about two people who meet up in jail when they come for monthly visits of their spouses. They fall in love after becoming witnesses to a wedding in jail but relationship has ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
albania, europe
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
addiction, rehabilitation, alcohol abuse, haunted by the past, writer's life, clinic, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, hopes, alcoholism, depression, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
couples, couple relations, realism, social relations, village, village life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, care, relationships, minimalism, dealing with death, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot:
terminal illness, couples, love and romance, family relations, unfulfillment, suicide, cancer, elderly, elderly couple, love story, aging, companionship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freddy Angi, separate and homeless, stumbles into strange love affairs, including one with his wife Anna. The two meet now and then as lovers in a hotel room.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
hotel, couple relations, losing-it hero, alcohol abuse, unfulfillment, writer's life, dull life, life is a bitch, cause and meaning, disintegration, black ops, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three sisters, all adrift and in crisis, reunite at their childhood home as their domineering mother arranges a big birthday. But as the festivities come to an end, repressed conflicts rise to the surface. Old wounds are opened and a new family is ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, family gatherings, under the surface, parents and children, estrangement, strong female presence, family problems, siblings relations, male nudity, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
65%
193
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
hollywood, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, love and romance, unfulfillment, hopes, writers, aspiring actress, rivalry, society, down on your luck, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
longing, couple relations, suicide, death, couples, hopes, betrayal, dishonesty, starting over, human nature, love, lie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and befriends a Czech mechanic, bringing the man into their dysfunctional home.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
downfall, dysfunctional family, family problems, working class, life is a bitch, society, destructive relationship, couple relations, custody, crumbling marriage, couples, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
65%
260
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
arranged marriage, girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, nudity, religions or cults, family problems, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Present day. Chile. Legendary bank robber Vergara Grey is getting out of prison after 5 long years and is looking forward to a quiet, uneventful life together with his wife and son whom oddly he hasn't heard from in years. But soon his resolve ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
fall in love, vengeance, life is a bitch, couples, going straight, human nature, unlikely couple, criminal heroes, love and romance, heist, thief, rivalry ...
Place:
chile, latin america, andes mountains, santiago chile
Similarity:
64%
144
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, France, Panama
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
With the closure of the sugar mill, the little town of Molasses is devastated, lifeless. Aldo and Monica form a young married couple that do not find a way to survive. By supporting each other, they try to save their world without loosing their ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
unemployment, working class, family life, social relations, parents and children, couple relations, family relations, couples, society, small town, poverty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america
Similarity:
64%
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