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Laurentia (2011)
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Original name: Laurentie
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young quebecer descends into alienation and depression.
Style:
existential, psychological, melancholic, bleak, art house, slow cinema, meditative
Plot:
strong sexual content, unsimulated sex, loneliness, depression, alienation, identity crisis, identity, isolation, introspection, male protagonist, coming of age, realism, intimate, minimalism, nihilism, slice of life, young adult, masturbation, male pubic hair, female nudity, male masturbation, female pubic hair, erection, pubic hair, female full frontal nudity ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
quebec, montreal
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Most similar movies to Laurentia
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, existential and psychological films with plots about intimate, isolation, minimalism, loneliness, character study, coming of age and alienation mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Romance genres. Some movies like Laurentia: Angels with Dirty Wings (2009), The Architect (2008), Simple Being (2014), Anywhere Else (2014), DeAD (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three women - no moral. Morality is the excuse for those who don't dare to live their truth.Michaela, Gabriela and Lucy are angels of vice. On their motorbikes they ride through the countryside to live their pleasure. They could see a lot, but ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
striptease, strip club, female masturbation, female nudity, sexual intercourse, intercourse, pole dancing, diary, hand job, lap dance, voyeur, female pubic hair ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, reflective
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
alps
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young man who feels he doesn't fit in, decides to embark on an intimate journey. Three weeks for three impediments: deafness, mutism and blindness. Three weeks not to escape, but to find reality.
Style:
existential, meditative, psychological, experimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
intimate, blindness, deafness, self discovery, personal growth, existential crisis, identity crisis, loneliness, minimal dialogue, alienation, isolation, identity ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, coming of age, personal growth, freedom, relocation, identity crisis, isolation, intimate, escape, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
existential, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
grief, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, character study, search for father, alienation, minimalism, intimate, regret, male protagonist, urban ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
28%
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:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, meditative, period piece, grim ...
Plot:
lumberjack, search for father, coming of age, sexploitation, identity, city life, naivete, frustration, alienation, manipulation, exploitation, nudity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
montreal, quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Lee, an anxious young man living in rural Alberta, is about to start a new job in road construction. Confounded by the news of an illness in the family and masculinity stereotypes-- Lee must decide whether to stay or go.
Style:
indie film, melancholic, contemplative, bleak, psychological
Plot:
machismo, male protagonist, introspection, anxiety, character study, isolation, small town, identity, coming of age, intimate, responsibility, uncertainty ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Beto is the keeper of a house in Mexico City - empty for several years already - in which he used to work as a domestic help. The solitude of the last ten years, as well the monotony and routine of his job have made him lead a secluded life, which ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, contemplative, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
loneliness, solitude, social commentary, alienation, routine, character study, housekeeper, loyalty, repression, minimalism, slice of life, intimate ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
25%
164
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to ...
Style:
psychological, existential, philosophical, art film, surreal ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, gay interest, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, self discovery, identity, identity crisis, mental breakdown, character study, alienation ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When we are young, we sometimes feel that the world is stacked against us. This is the case for 16 year-old Steeve Simard (Lévi Doré), who is entering his last year at Gaston-Miron High School in St-Lambert. A cynical intellectual with a critical ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, teenager, gay, teen angst, high school, youth, loneliness, self discovery, coming of age, social problems, teenage protagonist, teenage life ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
24%
202
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young truck driver from a small, nameless Russian town sets off on a spiritual journey that has no actual purpose and no verifiable destination, encountering lonely women and small time crooks along the way.
Style:
road movie, existential, contemplative, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
truck driver, loneliness, character study, soul searching, spiritual journey, intimate, minimalism, slice of life, bittersweet, provincial life, small town, isolation ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
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747
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marseille describes an interlude in the life of young Berlin photographer Sophie. Wanting a change, Sophie does an apartment swap, so she can go photograph the city of Marseille, and most of all get away from Berlin.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, art house, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
photography, city life, introspection, self discovery, realism, slice of life, character study, intimate, solitude, identity, loneliness, seaside ...
Place:
marseille, berlin germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
existential, melancholic, postmodern, moody
Plot:
identity, relationships, young adult, self discovery, coming of age, youth culture, modern life, slice of life, intimacy, alienation, bittersweet, city life ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
David, Craig and Alicia are a triangle of young lovers who find angst and despair as they sort out their feelings and sexuality in a late-night coffee shop.
Style:
art house, melancholic, tension, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
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Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Portrays the universe of an eternal being that exists within a lifecycle filled with disappointments and hopelessness. It's the chronicle about the search for love and the fight against oblivion.
Style:
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Plot:
loneliness, character study, loss, hopelessness, memory, frustration, identity crisis, alienation, intimate, lgbt, gay, redemption ...
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Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, existential
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sarah, a free spirited young girl looking to surgically reassign her gender and Antony, a once exuberant but now a dejected and dispirited young man. What will happen when they meet?
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A guy tries to find outside what he is unable to find inside.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, contemplative, existential ...
Plot:
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Duration: 45 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares. ...
Style:
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