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Ossos (1997)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, philosophical, art house, aesthetic, tense, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
unwanted pregnancy, mental disorder, underground, minimalism, courage, alienation, immigrant, life is a bitch, vengeance, deadend life, society, babies and infants, realism, drug abuse, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, survival, ghetto, young woman, father, teenage girl, family relations, poverty, baby, abandoned baby ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
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Most similar movies to Ossos
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and contemplative films with plots about life is a bitch, society, family relations, poverty, underground, immigrant and couples mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Ossos: Colossal Youth (2006), Lorna's Silence (2008), In Vanda's Room (2000), Horse Money (2014), Just the Wind (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style:
thought provoking, contemplative, slow cinema, serious, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, human nature, life is a bitch, hopes, misfit, starting over, urban ghetto life, addiction, decolonization, husband wife relationship, military coup, lost love ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, harsh, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
immigrant, loneliness, marriage, divorce, manipulation, attempted murder, danger, life is a bitch, wedding planning, couples, regret, overdose ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
belgium, europe, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, semi documentary, contemplative ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, social misfits, misfit, heroin addict, society, down on your luck, urban ghetto life, city life, decolonization, poverty, painter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
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75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, psychological, emotional, postmodern ...
Plot:
immigrant, social decay, haunted by the past, introspection, state affairs, revolution, mental institution, society, misfit, anthropology, existentialism, underground ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
portugal, africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Drawing inspiration from the death-squad murders of several Gypsy families in Hungary in 2008, director Bence Fliegauf's chilling and unforgettable real-life horror story follows a family whose dreams of emigration and escape are suddenly, ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, sincere, slow cinema ...
Plot:
gypsy, racism, family in danger, social decay, life is a bitch, realism, society, social misfits, danger, murder, family life, secret place ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, hungary
Similarity:
32%
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:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Style:
slow cinema, contemplative, art film, art house, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mourning, loss, grief, intimate, character study, secret, immigrant, immigration, haunting, identity, memory ...
Place:
lisbon portugal, africa, west africa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Style:
contemplative, bleak, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
isolation, wasteland, loneliness, alienation, minimalism, metaphysics, character study, anonymity, identity, minimal dialogue, moral ambiguity, pilgrimage ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, powerful, neo noir, avant garde ...
Plot:
redemption, mind game, friendship, melancholy, family relations, intimacy, revenge, sexual abuse, poverty, underground, european, sex crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hungary, europe, budapest
Similarity:
29%
385
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot:
sea, lizard, disorder, danger, survival, fish out of water, communication problem, hunger, escapades, culture clash, post soviet, underground ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, morocco
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
An apartment kitchen: a man and a woman discuss Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping next room. Waste land on the city outskirts: behind a line of abandoned trailers, the man silently watches what ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, murder, midlife crisis, family relations, factory worker, parents and children, unfulfillment, naked man, big city, underground, post apocalypse, alienation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, europe, bucharest
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the middle of this film, about the working class in pre-world war II Sweden, is Anders who wishes to become an author. His father who is a notorious dreamer and liar, and his mother, who struggles to keep their family alive.
Style:
touching, gloomy, sincere, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
football, writers, young man, father son relationship, social injustice, nordic, family relations, working class, dysfunctional family, teenage protagonist, aspiring writer, couples ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1936
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Style:
slow cinema, thought provoking, bleak, black and white, serious ...
Plot:
horse, poverty, survival, destiny, nihilism, desperation, philosopher, everyday life, family relations, human nature, isolation, dying ...
Time:
19th century, distant future, turn of the century, year 2011, 90s ...
Place:
turin italy, europe, seattle
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 439 min.
Story:
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of ...
Style:
slow cinema, black and white, art house, powerful, dark comedy ...
Plot:
poverty, mental disorder, pessimism, suicide, bell, countryside, farm, multiple perspectives, loneliness, mental illness, european, communist ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, 80s
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In an impressive follow up to his debut film Forest, Benedek Fliegauf tells the uncompromising story of a day in the life of a drug dealer. His clients include the leader of a religious sect, a friend who needs a final fix, a former lover who has ...
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, stylized, contemplative ...
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, estrangement, misfit, social misfits, drug dealing, overdose, society, nihilism, underground, criminal heroes, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Times are hard for Northwestern lumber-mill operators like Ray and his wife Jean. Ray and Jean's lives are thrown into chaos when their daughter writes home from college
Style:
independent film, contemplative, experimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mental disorder, alienation, family relations, small town, sexual abuse, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, wilderness, small town life, working class, introspection ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. The Domain delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life ...
Style:
family saga, art house, slow cinema, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, family secret, intimate, machismo, bank
Time:
20th century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This powerful, hard-edged crime drama explores the dark side of the American immigrant experience and dares to ask, "How far would you go to survive?" Lana’s only chance to escape the war-torn Balkans is her long-lost brother, Darko, a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
starting over, survival, immigrant, gangster, criminal heroes, prostitute, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, betrayal, revenge, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. ...
Style:
sincere, slow cinema, thought provoking, art house, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, father son relationship, youth, melancholy, existentialism, refugee, dysfunctional family, immigration, illegal immigration, teenage boy, little boy ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
antwerp, france, belgium, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
23%
426
Genre: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Agustín forgets things; he is aging and he knows it. María is never alone: she watches over everyone, sleeps very little, and works too much. She’s increasingly overwhelmed. One day, on impulse, María decides to abandon Agustín. The tightening ...
Style:
touching, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, working class, mental illness, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, single parent, poverty, nursing, urban ghetto, waiting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
uruguay, latin america
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, lifestyle, love and romance, society, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, social differences, infidelity, youth, male female relationship ...
Place:
middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jean-Jacques spent 9 years in prison for robbery. When he comes out, he finds the neighborhood where he grew up but things have changed ... The country is in crisis, the young people are holding the business and his old friends are urging him to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
going straight, starting over, hopes, life is a bitch, gang, urban ghetto, father son relationship, danger, poverty, street life, social commentary, realism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Style:
cynical, realistic, talky, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
starting over, hopes, estate, rich and poor, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, couples, down on your luck, social differences, marriage, joan of arc ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
22%
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72
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Angel and Zooey are not your typical newlyweds. Zooey is a professional prostitute and Angel is a drug dealer. Yet they are not without hopes and dreams, of escaping their life in the streets and starting a new in a fresh painted cottage with picked ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, gloomy, bleak
Plot:
love affair, lifestyle, going straight, drug abuse, addiction, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, survival, downfall, society, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once prosperous village and its inhabitants. Philippe Torreton, who won a César for Best Actor with his title role ...
Style:
social, thought provoking, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
teacher, education, school teacher, professor, dedicated educator, kindergarten, poverty, corrupt system, human rights, labor, job, homeless ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
825
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, society, photojournalist, life is a bitch, immigrant, female protagonist, post traumatic stress, post traumatic stress disorder, captive, captivity, hostage, war correspondent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sicily, italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter (Branagh), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Thompson), and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles (Redmond). Cliff (Horan), an ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy ...
Plot:
dance, life is a bitch, social misfits, working class, family in crisis, social differences, down on your luck, society, couple relations, betrayal, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
50s, 80s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
21%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she ...
Style:
anthology, contemplative, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
bare breasts, female pubic hair, urban setting, orphan, songwriter, thief, intimacy, loss of mother, search for father, father daughter relationship, public nudity, sexual initiation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, brittany, europe
Similarity:
21%
606
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, France, Belgium, South Korea, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, rough, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot:
politics, cannibalism, desert, captivity, prison life, life is a bitch, confined, against humanity, starvation, re-education, state affairs, society ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century, year 1960
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
21%
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