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Closeness (2017)
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Original name: Теснота
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period piece, art house
Plot:
rebellious daughter, rescue, independent woman, mother daughter relationship, blackmail, redemption, ransom, money, father daughter relationship, caucasian, peace, social realism, post soviet, dancing, party, sex scene, lovers, family relations, moving, rebel, mechanic, auto mechanic, disco, community, brother ...
Time:
year 2017, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
russia, chechnya, russian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and suspenseful films with plots about family relations, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, family problems, father daughter relationship, youth and danger mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Closeness: A Driver for Vera (2004), The Return (2003), Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (2009), Siberia, Monamour (2011), The Promise (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, brutal, dramatic
Plot:
driver, kgb, father daughter relationship, family relations, social relations, assassination, couple relations, young man, outcast, stranded, tragedy, first love ...
Time:
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Place:
soviet union, ukraine, ussr
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Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
soviet union, russia
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lisa's husband, Bill, abuses her. With her sister's encouragement, she takes their three kids and leaves her husband. Bill keeps interfering with Lisa's attempts at a new life. She gets an order of protection against him, but the ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
abusive relationship, murder, danger, starting over, life is a bitch, domestic disturbance, hopes, family relations, injustice, family problems, woman in danger, family in danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
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:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic search but to the woman's horror she finds out that it's herself who is the main suspect.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
faked pregnancy, wife, love, pregnancy, kidnapping, family problems, family relations, couples, death in the family, rescue, danger, dealing with death ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
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279
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
teenage life, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, society, prodigy, political unrest, siblings, brother, brothers, family relations, gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
24%
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895
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, family relations, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, hopes, job seeking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth ...
Style:
emotional, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
baby, rescue, isolation, twins, babies and infants, daring rescue, confined, heroes, danger, escapades, young mother, child in peril ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
В центре сюжета — классический любовный треугольник: супруги Андрей и Анна и ухажер Анны Егор. В результате драматических перипетий, ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, emotional, serious, psychological
Plot:
obsessive love, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, dangerous attraction, male female relationship, obsession, fall in love, family relations, life philosophy, family problems, love and romance, violence ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Cambodia still haunted by the crimes of the Khmer Rouges, a 45 years old French crossdresser, Mirinda, lives as a prostitute in the backstreets of Phnom Penh. Meeting a young trafficked girl, he gradually discovers the feeling of fatherhood.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
gender, youth, danger, transvestism, redemption, hopes, chases and races, on the run, child in peril, transvestite, male nudity, drug ...
Time:
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Place:
cambodia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Carmen, a woman dedicated to the restoration of works of art, suffers a sexual assault shortly after being reunited with his only son. But she suffers from psychological disorder does not affect the man she lives. Deeply disappointed, he decides to ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
strong female presence, introspection, parents and children, solitary, family relations, journey, male female relationship, middle aged, breakup, painting, professor, politics ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
23%
458
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, emotional, touching, realistic
Plot:
disability, family relations, family problems, family life, social relations, couples, society, couple relations, youth, babies and infants, pregnancy, small town ...
Time:
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Place:
mississippi, california
Similarity:
22%
628
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
They live in the steppe. A father and a daughter. Nothing may disturb the eternal order. Tomorrow always comes. And every morning the father goes away to work. And she stays alone. To wait for her father. And to feel. Two men are in love with her. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
russia
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22%
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Despite allegations of sexual abuse against her ex-husband, Jody (Faith Ford) has lost a custody battle for Samantha (Hanna Hall) and faces a choice of turning her daughter over to him, or taking flight and risking kidnapping charges. Pursued by ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 10 year old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, master and servant, couples, mute or deaf, danger, countryside, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, friendship, intellectual disability ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Russia, Latvia, Czech Republic
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Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, humorous, captivating, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, suspenseful, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, tension ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, chicago, usa
Similarity:
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205
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
dramatic, captivating, entertaining, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
north carolina, northern california, california
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Violette, an expectant wife, who opens a nasty barrel of worms by filming a documentary about her dysfunctional family, to be shown to her (as yet) unborn son.Through her ever-present lens, Violette begins to unearth one nasty family secret after ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, pregnancy, couples, family problems, parents and children, infidelity, uncover truth, disturbed childhood, adolescence, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 2008, New York mother Tiffany Rubin faced every parent's worst nightmare when her six year old son Kobe vanished into thin air. Upon learning that Kobe had been kidnapped by his biological father and taken to South Korea, Tiffany seeks the ...
Style:
emotional, suspenseful, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family problems, rescue, confined, parents and children, family relations, single parent, ex husband ex wife relationship, husband wife relationship, mother son relationship, boy, mother daughter relationship, black ...
Place:
usa, south korea, korea, new york, asia
Similarity:
20%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, redemption, destiny, society, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, hopes, family life, parents and children, black, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
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