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The Impossible Picture (2016)
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Original name: Das unmögliche Bild
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Vienna, the 1950s. A childhood captured on 8mm film, documented by thirteen-year-old Johanna.
Style:
art house, melancholic, experimental, period piece, poetic, psychological, retro, mysterious, surreal, black and white
Plot:
memory, childhood, family secret, nostalgia, family drama, coming of age, introspection, identity, intimate, autobiography, middle class, family relations, bare breasts, fish, voice over narration, narration, unreliable narrator, archive footage, apartment, menstrual blood, family secrets, home movie
Time:
1950s, year 1956, 50s
Place:
vienna, germany, europe, austria
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Most similar movies to The Impossible Picture
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, psychological and contemplative films with plots about intimate, memory, identity, nostalgia, family drama, coming of age and family relations mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like The Impossible Picture: Anatomy (2021), Apur Panchali (2013), Go Home (2015), Not Reconciled (1965), The Magnetic Tree (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mika arrives in Poland to pay a hospital visit to her father, who is suffering from severe brain injury and memory loss. It's the first time they have met in many years, yet her father thinks they still live together and she's a teenager. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, art film ...
Plot:
memory, father daughter relationship, memory loss, dementia, family relations, relationships, introspection, amnesiac, family life, estrangement, alienation, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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95%
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Country: India
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Arko, a film student, invites Subir Banerjee, who played the legendary role of Apu, to attend an award ceremony in Germany. But the old man hesitates to accept the invitation.
Style:
poignant, reflective, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
legacy, nostalgia, character study, film history, biopic, memory, old age, bittersweet, tribute, introspection, film industry, regret ...
Place:
kolkata, germany
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium, Lebanon
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a foreigner in her own country. But there's still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
female protagonist, identity, memory, homecoming, self discovery, introspection, life is a bitch, family relations, relationships, trauma, haunted house, family secret ...
Place:
lebanon
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Not Reconciled, the title of the Straubs’ first feature-length film, is engraved on their work like an inscription. It is a story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, serious, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, reconciliation, german history, betrayal, memory, suppression, family secret, post war germany, moral ambiguity, revenge, symbolism, loyalty ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young boy returns to his birth country, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, homecoming, parents and children, family gatherings, unfulfilled love, road not taken, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, family reunited, nostalgia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, youth, family relations, society, social issues, identity, memory, adaptation, reminiscence, literary, autobiography, homecoming ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
africa, algeria, north africa
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the energy is spent on not wanting to see them. An intimate drama where, through fiction, the director ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
aging, motherhood, family drama, autobiography, loss, blindness, elderly man, grief, trauma, reflection, regret, realism ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Actress Leila bursts into laughter on camera during the filming of a dramatic scene. Her improper behavior is a reaction to the recent death of her husband Koshrow, who accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. And it is Koshrow who serves as the ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, melancholic, art house, metafiction ...
Plot:
death, grief, memory, character study, mourning, marriage, flashback, obsession, intimate, family secret, haunting, nostalgia ...
Place:
persia, iran
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, father and son, family life, parents and children, family drama, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, estranged parent, child protagonist, search for father, fatherhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A man returning to his parents years after having been sent away as a child-laborer tells his lifetime story to his dying father.
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, historical drama, psychological ...
Plot:
child labor, emigration, poverty, coming of age, father son reunion, father son relationship, death of wife, farmer, parent child relationship, german history, dying father, trauma ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
63%
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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
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A cinephile meets on a beach in Ramatuelle his favorite filmmaker. He proposes to film the painful adventure that is just live. The two men will knit the scenes, each in its own way. The filmmaker keeps pushing the project, arguing that the chuting ...
Style:
art house, independent film, experimental, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
ambiguity, behind the scenes, introspection, character study, beach, collaboration, intimate, identity, obsession, regret, memory, nostalgia ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in ...
Style:
experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Slovenia, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, atmospheric, existential, art house ...
Plot:
silence, family drama, mother son relationship, isolation, introspection, intimate, strained relationship, misunderstanding, motherhood, communication, minimalism, slow burn ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yakup and Şemsa are Assyrians living in Berlin with their three children and grandchildren. Twenty-five years ago they migrated from Mardin to Berlin. One day they receive a phone call from Mardin. This unexpected call deals with their son Mikhael, ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, art house
Plot:
family drama, memory, identity, migration, diaspora, family reunited, intimate, nostalgia, homecoming, trauma, family secret, journey ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot ...
Style:
art house, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
family drama, matriarchy, character study, slice of life, gender roles, satire, middle class, nostalgia, family relations, family
Time:
1950s
Place:
rio de janeiro
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age ...
Style:
poetic, reflective, art house, experimental, meditative
Plot:
cinema, film history, nostalgia, celebration, memory, intimate, coming of age, melancholy, voice over narration, childhood, identity, obsession ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
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Story:
A nostalgic trip down memory lane, delving into the everyday life of a middle-class family.
Style:
realistic, period piece, reflective, sentimental, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nostalgia, middle class, family drama, slice of life, childhood, coming of age, memory, family values, intimate, aspiration, families, parenting ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman in love, a weak man, a father stumbling with his emotions, an uncle dependent on the past and a teenager meet at Zagor’s boarding house. Despite the serenity of the house, they all struggle to find the peace that they each need.
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
boarding house, character study, teenager, father son relationship, love, household, slice of life, domestic drama, intimate, memory, isolation, loss ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mix-mastering history, the paranoid thriller, the documentary and the landscape film, pic tells of very different fates for two sets of brothers in oppressive Philippine settings.
Style:
experimental, art house, political, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
paranoid, political repression, memory, social commentary, family drama, brothers, identity, loss, military, trauma, resistance, fate ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
When the scholar Jeong Yak-jeon is exiled to Heuksando Island during the Catholic Persecution of 1801, he decides to write a fish-based encyclopaedia.
Style:
thought provoking, black and white, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
exile, joseon dynasty, fisherman, lifestyle, life philosophy, society, social misfits, relationships, literary, biopic, friendship, island ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A little boy, craving for his father's attention, imagines a made-up "Mr. President" who looks just like his father but is caring and attentive.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, black and white, art house ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
child, imaginary friend, father son relationship, imagination, boy, childhood, longing, delusion, mental health, neglect, abandonment, family drama ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
50%
773
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, neighborhood, loss of innocence, isolation, minimal dialogue, childhood memory, social commentary, alienation, minimalism, intimate, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
50%
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853
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A family gathers at grandfather’s place by chance and breaks up. Okju, who has been observing her family for a short time, gains the strength to rise above the loss through this experience.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, sincere, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
summer vacation, family conflict, family relations, brother sister relationship, aunt, siblings relations, life, father son relationship, family drama, sibling relationship, absent mother, troubled teen ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, brazilian history, parents and children, relationships, social problems, family problems, family relations, society, life is a bitch, father and son, husband wife relationship, social inequality ...
Time:
60s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Three women who share a familial bond but little more come to know each other better in this beautifully-photographed drama. Marie-Madeleine (Sylvie Drapeau) is a photographer in her mid-30s who, for the first time, has come into contact with Mado ...
Style:
scenic, emotional, meditative, reflective, independent film ...
Plot:
adoption, women, mother and daughter, three generations, road trip, identity, character study, photography, intimate, relationships, bonding, travel ...
Similarity:
47%
512
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary, UK, USA, Cyprus, France, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1957 Budapest, one year following the failure of the Hungarian Revolution, a 12-year-old Jewish boy whose mother has raised him to believe that his father will return from the camps has his hopes shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece, intense ...
Plot:
child protagonist, family drama, trauma, post war, identity crisis, father son conflict, jewish family, intimate, haunting, cold war, brutality, mistrust ...
Time:
1950s, year 1956, 20th century
Place:
budapest, hungary, europe, central europe
Similarity:
45%
376
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, art house
Plot:
domestic drama, family drama, relationships, character study, children, isolation, alienation, summer vacation, family secret, intimate, repression, bittersweet ...
Place:
east germany
Similarity:
44%
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 ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.
Style:
art house, poetic, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
memory, relationships, life, women, female protagonist, symbolism, intimate, magic realism, introspection, subconscious, female friendship, biopic ...
Place:
mexico, costa rica
Similarity:
43%
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