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Heat Wave (2011)
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Original name: Après le sud
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
One hot afternoon in the south of France, several paths are converging towards a tragic conclusion. Those involved are: Stéphane and Luigi, two cousins who have just emerged from adolescence; Georges, a retired old man; Amélie, Luigi’s girlfriend; and Amélie’s mother Anne. Little do they know how their lives, scarred by fear, humiliation and weariness, will become intertwined and propel them to a terrible outcome...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, crying
Plot:
boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unplanned pregnancy, introspection, youth, family relations, parents and children, human nature, adolescence vs adulthood, elderly, coming of age, naked man, hot guys, pregnancy, humiliation, overweight woman, overweight, boyfriend, immigrant, exploitation, nude women, murder, loneliness, female nudity, summer, mother ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
marseille, france, europe, marseille provence
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Most similar movies to Heat Wave
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, coming of age, female nudity, love and romance and nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Heat Wave: The Devils (2002), Pandora's Box (2008), Memory Lane (2010), Mothers (2010), Face (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Les Diables (The Devils) chronicles the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
coming of age, kids in trouble, autism, brother sister incest, orphan, trauma, pursuit, on the run, brother sister relationship, incest, mentally challenged, child abandonment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
marseille, france
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, self discovery, elderly, hopes, family problems, countryside, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, sentimental, serious, contemplative ...
Plot:
young lovers, love and romance, family relations, suburbs, friendship, parents and children, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, twentysomething life, friends, homecoming, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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28%
831
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
elderly, introspection, murder, parents and children, estrangement, gender, society, family relations, life, small town life, relationships, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, macedonia, former yugoslavia
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28%
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355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
28%
244
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
sisters, family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, self discovery, obsessive quest, single parent, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, lyon, europe, france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he harasses his neighbors by sending unsigned notes and making their private affairs public. When they ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, sexual ...
Plot:
voyeurism, destructive relationship, dangerous attraction, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, mysterious character, teenage life, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, menage a trois, loneliness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, disability, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, haunted by the past, self discovery, misfit, hopes, introspection, father son relationship, skinny dipping, friendship between men ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, family relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, rebelliousness, parents and children, unfulfillment, unrequited love, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time:
70s, year 1994, year 1972
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story of a destiny. Suzanne's and her family's. The ties that bind them, keep them together, and the love she pursues... to the point of leaving everything behind.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, bleak
Plot:
passionate love, love affair, family life, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, fall in love, coming of age, single parent, siblings relations, youth, working class ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe and uneventful to a fault, somewhat juiced by friendship with raucous fishing ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
looking for love, love and romance, aging, couples, village, friendship, nudism, introspection, family relations, skinny dipping, superhero, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
27%
738
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:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
Style:
serious, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, love and romance, youth, parents and children, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, secret, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
26%
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of ...
Style:
realistic, art house, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, leaving home, teenage life, teenage love, introspection, farm, unfulfillment, small town, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, death of mother, love letter, family relations, mother son relationship, death, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, elderly, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
26%
607
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, leaving home, older man younger woman sex, teenage love, parents and children, physical appearance, teenage life, youth, family relations, family problems, teenager, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe, rotterdam netherlands
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In an old house in Hanoi, Bi, a 6-year-old child lives with his parents, his aunt and their cook. His favorite playgrounds are an ice factory and the wild grass along the river. After being absent for years, his grandfather, seriously ill, reappears ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
childhood, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems, estrangement, youth, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, alcohol abuse, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Corsica in the 19th century. An isolated farm at the edge of some scrub. Left to alone by his parents, Fortunato must deal with a fugitive who asks the boy to hide him in exchange for a gold coin. From then on, the boy finds himself caught up in a ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, tense, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
betrayal, family relations, parents and children, human nature, chases and races, fugitives, violence, teenage boy, countryside, campaign, pastor, manhunt ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
workplace romance, family relations, forbidden love, culture clash, workplace, immigrant, parents and children, fall in love, unfulfillment, society, family drama, immigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, family problems, hopes, aging, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in Orleans, where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed.
Style:
gloomy, touching, atmospheric, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
age difference, jazz, world war two, teaching the ways of the world, rock, village, teenage life, fall in love, friendship, experimenting, friends, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
Style:
captivating, emotional, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
hopes, desert, human spirit, escapades, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest, family relations, arab, boy, international relations, battlefield ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, kurdistan
Similarity:
26%
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125
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance. By chance, he shares a house with his teenager granddaughter. Claire, at 17, is eager to experience all sorts of things and the sooner the better, and rebels against ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
love and romance, elderly, haunted by the past, family relations, relationship vs career, teenage life, couples, estrangement, teenage love, youth, aging, first love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, introspection, society, couples, suburban life, suburbs, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
25%
165
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a small French town is rocked by a bizarre incident.
Style:
contemplative, serious, sincere, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, workplace, youth, teenage life, workplace situations, realism, small town, social relations, restaurant, male nudity, small town life, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, car accident, family secret, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life is full with Judo and his girlfriend Venessa. Then Mickael makes a decision to open up his relationship to include Clement his rich-kid ...
Style:
sexual, emotional, serious, erotic, sensual ...
Plot:
gay interest, coming of age, love triangle, teenage life, menage a trois, gay, cheating girlfriend, hot and sexy, hot guys, lgbt, male nudity, contests and competitions ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
25%
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:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, emotional, sociological ...
Plot:
gay, love affair, artists and showbiz, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, family business, suicide, lgbt, sociology, jealousy, dancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
25%
139
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sixteen year-old girl living with her widowed father in the Ardennes forest befriends a twenty-two year old orphan whose manipulative aunt contrives to keep him immature in the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Stéphan Carpiaux. A tragic ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
fall in love, teenage life, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, family problems, single parent, unfulfillment, confined, youth, woods, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
25%
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