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Godless (2016)
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Original name: Безбог
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Denmark, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash, and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void, and a growing fear of punishment.
Style:
psychological, sincere, thought provoking, touching, unusual plot structure, crying
Plot:
social realism, drug addict, intergenerational friendship, depression, murder, mother daughter relationship, drug addiction, female protagonist, accidental killing, working class, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nurse, woman, dog, dancing, thief, cave, snow, sex scene, court, handicapped, male nudity, german shepherd, judge, theft ...
Place:
europe, bulgaria, eastern europe
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Most similar movies to Godless
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, sincere, touching and serious films with plots about family relations, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, female nudity, female protagonist, parents and children and coming of age mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Godless: Parisienne (2015), Eat Sleep Die (2012), On the Corner (2003), All About Love (2001), Frozen Land (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The new film from Lebanese director Danielle Arbid follows a young Arab immigrant in Paris, whose encounters with three men reveal different facets of her new country, and of herself.
Style:
sexy, sincere, tense, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
love, strong female lead, adultery, immigrant, fall in love, female protagonist, boyfriend, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, student, friendship ...
Time:
90s, year 2015
Place:
paris france, lebanon
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, crying ...
Plot:
unemployment, immigrant, working class, society, unfulfillment, workplace, parents and children, fired from the job, coming of age, lady, supportive coworker, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Angel and Randy Henry are a sister and brother, caught on the mean streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. While Angel finds the strength to escape her seemingly hopeless situation, Randy slips deeper into a world consumed by abandonment and ...
Style:
touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
drug addiction, missing person, dysfunctional family, homelessness, interracial relations, mother daughter relationship, confrontation, drug dealer, drug rehab, criminality, addiction, drug addict ...
Place:
vancouver
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
bosnian war, coming of age, depression, support group, haunted by the past, parents and children, life is a bitch, parent child relationship, family relations, single parent, civil war, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, balkan, croatia, eastern europe ...
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a ...
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, reflective, melancholic, thought provoking
Plot:
female protagonist, young woman, friendship, shoplifting, coming of age, character study, impulsiveness, imprisonment, working class, everyday life, intimate, personal growth ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, realistic, intense, captivating ...
Plot:
butterfly effect, depression, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, drug addiction, character study, family relations, multiple storylines, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, europe, finland
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style:
erotic, sexual, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hotel, sex scene, unwanted pregnancy, strong female character, single mother, coming of age, lgbt, lust, minimalism, single parent ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
75%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Style:
rough, melancholic, thought provoking, captivating, existential ...
Plot:
homeless shelter, drug addiction, old woman, friendship, memory, family relations, religion, depression, death, husband wife relationship, nurse, church ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style:
contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, unemployment, working class, family relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch, assassination, couple relations, parents and children, immigrant, society, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
marseille, provence, france, europe
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Samantha is recovering from a suicide attempt and ready for a fresh start in life. She has to fight for the custody of her daughter.
Style:
sincere, psychological, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
parents and children, custody, mental illness, family life, starting over, hopes, family relations, family problems, mother daughter relationship, depressed woman, rock paper scissors, suicide attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Angélique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a cabaret by the French-German border. As time goes by, clients become rare. But Michel, her regular client, is still in love ...
Style:
sincere, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
party girl, aging, elderly, nightlife, introspection, realism, cabaret, old woman, mother daughter relationship, lgbt, sex, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, teenager, redemption, parents and children, addiction, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Lazarus is a Cuban appeal that makes a living in Madrid. When his girlfriend Dolores travels from Cuba to Spain to live with him, he is in prison for kidnapping and attempted rape. Dolores tries to survive with a broken heart, but his sympathy and ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, erotic
Plot:
drug addict, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship problems, drug, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, criminal, love triangle, life is a bitch, male female relationship, sex scene, explicit sex, making love ...
Place:
madrid, spain
Similarity:
59%
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. ...
Style:
gloomy, thought provoking, disturbing, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, childhood trauma, drug abuse, estrangement, drug addiction, haunted by the past, heroin, redemption, insomnia, brother brother relationship, drug addict, adaptation ...
Time:
year 2010, 90s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, europe, berlin germany
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, West Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Anna is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents ...
Style:
art house, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, on the road, women, feminist, female nudity, existential loneliness, nude girl, filmmaking, modernism, lgbtq, woman, woman peeing ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
france, brussels, germany, belgium, europe ...
Similarity:
57%
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:
53%
143
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, contemplative, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, orphan, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, cleaning lady, life is a bitch, coming of age, determination, resilience, society, new life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montreal, canada
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on a stage play of the same name by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, the story follows Cassandra, who is portrayed by the two women, expressing the opposing voices that exist inside the modern woman's head, during a 48-hour period as she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
funeral, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, male nudity, male pubic hair, female nudity, bicycle, flashback ...
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, touching, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
adult child friendship, mother daughter relationship, little girl, relationship problems, mother child relationship, parents and children, family problems, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, dysfunctional family, mother and daughter ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, serious, scary ...
Plot:
addiction, infidelity, rehabilitation, cocaine, dysfunctional family, going straight, family life, working class, drug abuse, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, cliche ...
Place:
new york, new york state, usa
Similarity:
51%
142
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his ...
Style:
psychological, touching, captivating, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot:
fisherman, children, teenager, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, divorced man, moral dilemma, family relations, storytelling, parents and children, boat, tattoo ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A poignant story, told with sincerity and humor, about a young woman´s dramatic childhood and about her grief and the struggle to move on. Noomi Rapace plays the main character in her first feature after the success with the Millennium trilogy and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, family problems, haunted by the past, parents and children, nordic, child abuse, husband wife relationship, abusive husband, addiction, drug addiction ...
Time:
year 2010, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, touching, depressing, meditative ...
Plot:
coma, coming of age, friendship, working class, love and romance, hopes, depression, couple relations, society, youth, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
france, flanders
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Way Out tells a story of a young Romani couple, Zaneta and David, the parents of little Janicka. Their efforts to live a decent and dignified life run up against the "Romani social trap," which is racism, the society's prejudices, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
couples, gypsy, racism, family relations, unemployment, life is a bitch, realism, family problems, social misfits, couple relations, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The middle-aged titular heroine (Masiero) of this bare-bones, Dardenne-esque debut has certainly fallen on hard times: Living between her car and a storage shed, working a part-time job as a hotel chambermaid, and trying against all odds to obtain ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, starting over, human spirit, hopes, optimism, working class, cleaning lady, female protagonist, poverty, homelessness, single woman, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Spring 1995 - after the closure of the Needle Park and the public drug scene in Zurich, eleven-year-old Mia and her heroin addicted mother Sandrine are relocated to the countryside. While caring for her mother, Mia spends time with her imaginary ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, drug addiction, mother, life is a bitch, mother and daughter, drug addict, social problems, violence, abusive mother, drug, sick mother, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In order to best save the necessary funds to leave her desolate town and start anew, Katie prostitutes herself to a handful of regulars that frequent the diner she waitresses at. As she draws near to saving the funds she believes her new life ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, captivating, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
poverty, rape, love at first sight, female nudity, sex in car, working class, prostitution, waitress, single mother, employer employee relationship, first love, trailer home ...
Place:
san francisco, arizona
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The real story of the journalist Vesela Toteva (in the role is her daughter -Valentina Karoleva) searching for her own happiness during the dynamic and uncertain 90's in Bulgaria. A tale about drugs, fall, fear and redemption.
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, serious, dark, rough ...
Plot:
heroin, addiction, journalist, junkie, drug addiction, fear, family drama, female protagonist, single mother, mother daughter relationship, drug, second chance ...
Place:
bulgaria, eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Margot, Jeremy, Salome, Caesar, Sonia - They are between 18 and 50 years old. Everything separates them except the urgency to rebuild and restore the relationship to the other that the addiction has destroyed. Solidary, they have as rules, sharing, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, recovery, addiction, substance abuse, drug rehab, rehabilitation center, male female relationship, relationships, lifestyle change, social problems, problem, changing lives ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, inspirational, bleak ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, working class, father daughter relationship, social realism, starting over, parents and children, alienation, elderly, life is a bitch, family problems, family reunited, alcoholism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, scandinavia, europe, copenhagen
Similarity:
43%
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