Movies like Out 2017
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Out (2017)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, France, Hungary, Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
OUT is an odyssey about 50 year old family man Agoston wandering through East Europe. After loosing his lifelong job in a power plant of small Slovak village Agoston takes the shady but alluring opportunity to work as a welder in a shipyard in Latvia. The journey in hopes of a new job in reality turns into a accelerating whirlwind of absurd events of short encounters, newly found-and-lost-again friendships subtracting from Agoston all his possessions and everything he once believed to be his whole life. However Agoston doesn't give up his search for income and decides to persuade his dream of catching a big sea fish.
Style:
road movie, melancholic, existential, bleak, nostalgic
Plot:
unemployment, family man, survival, loneliness, journey, poverty, aging, loss, working class, blue collar, social realism, dream, isolation, self discovery, odyssey, identity crisis, slice of life, shipyard, bittersweet, hopes, friendship, road trip, small town, dancing, sea ...
Place:
eastern europe, slovakia, latvia
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Most similar movies to Out
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, existential and emotional films with plots about poverty, working class, bittersweet, social realism, slice of life, isolation and intimate mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Out: Vagabond (2003), One Man's War (1973), The Absent (2014), Pilgrim Hill (2013), Netto (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Karesz has been raised in an institution, his mother has a new family, and her husband does not tolerate that she meets her first-born son. Karesz tramps, joining up with his casual pals he washes the windscreens of cars, sells newspapers; sometimes ...
Style:
realistic, grim, bleak, melancholic, road movie ...
Plot:
drifter, wanderer, street life, social realism, alienation, poverty, homelessness, survival, isolation, coming of age, unemployment, abandonment ...
Place:
eastern europe, hungary, budapest
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.
Style:
melancholic, social
Plot:
unemployment, poverty, construction, entrepreneur, working class, social commentary, hardship, factory worker, emigration, blue collar, social realism, small business ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An old man lives alone in a shabby cabin in a remote mountainous area of Mexico. His house is set to be demolished in order to facilitate the redevelopment of the area. He doesn't know how to protect his house. Time goes by and one day a young ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, contemplative, poignant, slow cinema ...
Plot:
character study, loneliness, isolation, loss, aging, memory, poverty, intimate, beach, journey, grief, slice of life ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A middle-aged bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland has to deal with isolation and loneliness.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, contemplative, existential ...
Plot:
loneliness, isolation, village life, hardship, realism, social isolation, loss, minimalism, slice of life, intimate, slow burn, small town ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
82%
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394
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, bleak
Plot:
unemployment, family drama, alcoholism, father son relationship, poverty, character study, intimate, social realism, parenting, working class, empathy, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
78%
228
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Peter "Koza" Baláz is a former Olympic boxer. He and his partner, Misa, live in a dilapidated housing estate, constantly struggling to make ends meet. Misa learns that she is expecting a child and decides to terminate her pregnancy. In ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
boxing, redemption, pregnancy, athlete's life, on the road, realism, hopes, life is a bitch, bittersweet, poverty, desperation, male protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, croatia, serbia, slovakia
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, realistic, tension, political
Plot:
strike, working class, friendship, protest, class struggle, blue collar, poverty, unemployment, social realism, small town, solidarity, male friendship ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
While he is serving time in prison, a man's wife dies and his children disappear. When he gets out of prison, he starts to search for his kids
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
prison, family drama, redemption, fatherhood, children, loss, male protagonist, grief, second chance, ex convict, road trip, survival ...
Time:
70s
Place:
southern usa
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
How much space does Zeynep take up in this vast universe? This is a city brimming with the struggling and the unemployed; aren’t their lives a bit like the infinite, tiny particles flying through the air? Zeynep is already trying hard to make ends ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, contemplative, melancholic, existential ...
Plot:
social realism, economic inequality, city life, working class, unemployment, poverty, slice of life, working woman, job seeking, single mother, female protagonist, motherhood ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, poignant, independent film
Plot:
poverty, small town, unemployment, working class, struggle, social realism, everyday life, child protagonist, dream, empathy, aspiration, slice of life ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food. The story follows his journey south from ...
Style:
road movie, social, realistic, art house, compassionate
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas, homelessness, journey, loneliness, character study, pilgrimage, drifter, melancholy, isolation, british, identity, social realism ...
Similarity:
65%
216
Genre: Drama
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The story of an improbable friendship and a social comment on life in Bolivia in the eighties.
Style:
compassionate, emotional, melancholic, road movie
Plot:
friendship, road trip, character study, poverty, working class, social realism, realism, humanism, coming of age, class differences, male bonding, social commentary ...
Time:
80s
Place:
bolivia
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis and Domenica,an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day along the vicoli of Naples. It's Sciarra's last day of work and he must take Domenica to the morgue., to ...
Style:
melancholic, touching, realistic, existential
Plot:
police inspector, orphan, bittersweet, hopes, character study, loss, childhood trauma, moving, journey, loneliness, morgue, resilience ...
Place:
naples italy, napoli italy
Similarity:
62%
135
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Kyrgyzstan, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, bleak
Plot:
teenager, adolescence, youth, friendship, grownups, coming of age, post soviet, slice of life, realism, small town, alcoholism, provincial ...
Similarity:
61%
33
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
EDEN deals with what could possible be a future for most people caught up in the current economic climate in Ireland and how we have taken a bite of the financial apple and borrowed beyond our means. We follow Adam who has been left unemployed and ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, bleak, existential, grim
Plot:
homelessness, street life, realism, social commentary, unemployment, poverty, empathy, character study, working class, survival, desperation, urban decay ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Canada, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Looking for a better destiny for their lives, a group of people arrives to Tijuana, in the Mexico-USA borderline. A widow and her children, a chicano woman without a firm identity, a "gringa" writer fascinated with Mexico and her hermit ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, intercultural
Plot:
border, immigration, border crossing, dream, identity crisis, social realism, hopes, peasant, mexican american border, survival, intimate, bittersweet ...
Place:
tijuana mexico
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.
Style:
melancholic, emotional
Plot:
urban decay, desperation, social commentary, working class, poverty, alienation, longing, character study, hopes, social realism, isolation, loneliness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels ...
Style:
independent film, melancholic, emotional, art house, existential ...
Plot:
slum, homelessness, street life, alcoholism, friendship, character study, urban, male protagonist, identity crisis, social realism, poverty, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Antonio, a former shipyard worker, leads a mild and peaceful life: he plays bowls with friends, takes care of his elderly mother, has an ex-wife with whom he is on excellent terms and Emilia, his only and beloved daughter When Emilia announces to ...
Style:
sentimental, melancholic
Plot:
father daughter relationship, wedding, small town, sacrifice, working class, parenthood, slice of life, intimate, aging, humanism, bittersweet, everyday life ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Amanpreet, a young man from a village in Punjab, is forced to migrate to India’s capital city, New Delhi, for his livelihood. But he is not wired for city life. He yearns for everything he has left behind – his carefree days, his bride-to-be ...
Style:
melancholic, compassionate
Plot:
desperation, migrant worker, culture shock, poverty, humiliation, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, working class, village life, class conflict, mental breakdown ...
Place:
new delhi
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
While he loses his clandestine work, and because he believes that Maroussia and him will no longer be able to love each other as well, Frank leaves to earn as much as she: twelve thousand, just what it takes to have a year before them. No more no ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
employment, working life, poverty, working class, realism, urban, slice of life, intimate, resilience, character study, social realism, sacrifice ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Sweden, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A recovering alcoholic on a pilgrimage meets two young refugees who are trying to find their father. Their struggles during the trip from Poland to France will forever change their lives.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
alcoholic, alcoholism, search for father, journey, social problems, lifestyle change, changing lives, redemption, recovery, refugee, family drama, personal growth ...
Place:
poland, france, eastern europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A once thriving reception hall has been reduced to catering to the funeral business and the somber rituals of death. The owner, Soleimani, is a sour, lonely and unloved old man who treats his workers with contempt, inflicting small cruelties ...
Style:
realistic, psychological
Plot:
empathy, character study, humanism, working class, resilience, slice of life, social realism, dignity, mortality, solidarity, hopes, melancholy ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An adolescent boy named Phoring growing up in a back-of-beyond township in North Bengal. Surrounded by the lush Dooars countryside the town barely survives the shutdown of a factory and its jobless population. Maladjusted and a born loser, Phoring ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, melancholic, independent film, educational
Plot:
teacher student relationship, coming of age, self discovery, adolescence, youth, identity, mentor, loss, small town, disappearance, poverty, social issues ...
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the snowy seaside town of Sokcho, 25-year-old Soo-Ha works at a guesthouse. She drifts between her mother’s fish stall and her boyfriend until a French artist’s arrival stirs questions about her identity. As winter deepens, Soo-Ha and the ...
Style:
intercultural, contemplative, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
winter, female protagonist, coming of age, self discovery, young woman, identity, slice of life, intimate, identity crisis, bittersweet, loneliness, small town ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of construction activity promising to fill in the empty spaces of the urban landscape with entirely new neighborhoods, a story unfolds of an aging construction worker who, unlike his peers, has to drop all plans for the ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, independent film, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
construction worker, mortality, illness, cancer, working class, blue collar, aging, urbanization, social realism, humanism, realism, slice of life ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, neorealism, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
post war, journey, immigration, struggle, social realism, hopes, resilience, working class, poverty, coming of age, friendship, survival ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Place:
new york, naples italy, italy
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, sociological
Plot:
loneliness, aging, character study, nostalgia, slice of life, memory, journey, friendship, isolation, regret, daily life, drifting ...
Time:
90s
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Released from prison and terminally ill, Parvis Karimpour is determined to be reunited with his daughter, Nasrin, who fled Iran for Europe many years before. Crossing the Mediterranean only to be unceremoniously dumped on the Spanish coast, ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic, existential, road movie
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, migration, immigration, road trip, hopes, father daughter estrangement, humanism, bittersweet, terminal illness, compassion, social commentary, intimate ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
madrid, spain
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This life period of the main character Felix (L. Lutvinsky) coincides with rather complicated period of country history Chernenko dies, Gorbachev succeeds him, then Ligachev criticizes Eltsin, county is reined by deficit, backstairs influence, ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, existential, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social commentary, character study, alienation, escape from reality, loneliness, social realism, identity crisis, absurdism, minimalism, poverty, city life, working class ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
39%
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