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Burnout (2011)
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Original name: Abgebrannt
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Pelin, a young single mother from the problem neighborhood of Berlin-Wedding, is sent with her three children by different fathers of different nationalities - Robby (seven), Elvis (four) and Roxanne (ten months) - to a mother-child cure in a scenic, paradisiacal spa resort in northern Germany. The cure is intended to give Pelin, who is constantly on a collision course with the youth welfare office and family court, time to reflect and recover physically and mentally.
Style:
realistic, emotional, reflective, multicultural, queer cinema
Plot:
single mother, family drama, burnout, social realism, character study, family bonds, working class, resilience, mental health, slice of life, social services, poverty, childhood, healing, bittersweet, community, redemption, therapy, small town, best friend, drug smuggling, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, working mom, family vacation, child in peril ...
Place:
northern germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, melancholic and independent film films with plots about slice of life, intimate, social realism, resilience, family drama, small town and working class mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Burnout: Old Fox (2023), Netto (2005), Tjommies (2023), Ricky: Three's a Crowd (2013), Sink (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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394
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Story:
When a retired police inspector, who suffers from agoraphobia, receives an eviction notice, he befriends a homeless boy and together they come up with a plan to get rid of his phobia.
Style:
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Plot:
mental health, isolation, agoraphobia, friendship, healing, recovery, bonding, redemption, loneliness, homelessness, personal growth, character study ...
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78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
dramatic, emotional, tension, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, sibling rivalry, family drama, friendship, youth, working class, childhood, small town, slice of life, adolescence, maturation, kids and family ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic
Plot:
character study, struggle, working class, resilience, blue collar, unemployment, survival, empathy, family drama, social realism, social commentary, economic crisis ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
heartbreaking, realistic, emotional, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
foster home, adoption, family bonds, family drama, social issues, poverty, bittersweet, social realism, working class, child protagonist, sacrifice, resilience ...
Time:
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Place:
the philippines, manila philippines
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A middle-class family battles financial hurdles and personal setbacks while pursuing their dream of owning a home in the bustling city.
Style:
realistic, heartfelt, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
middle class, family drama, aspiration, city life, family bonds, city, slice of life, working class, sacrifice, social issues, perseverance, hopes ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Megh is a married person, who works as manager of a tea estate in North Sikkim. In a certain crisis he became jobless and struggles to make ends problems of his life because there are not many options for livelihood around in the hills. He fights to ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, scenic, melancholic
Plot:
struggle, resilience, empathy, poverty, hopes, unemployment, perseverance, family bonds, slice of life, sacrifice, parenting, recovery ...
Place:
kolkata
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293
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
house arrest, coming of age, mother son relationship, social realism, family drama, loneliness, isolation, slice of life, humanity, identity, poverty, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, reflective, serious, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
compassion, redemption, empathy, second chance, character study, recovery, moral dilemma, morality, healing, resilience, self destructing, humanity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, compassionate
Plot:
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Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A divorced woman leaves Damghan with her child to live and work in Tehran but her ex-husband does everything in his capability to force her to go back.
Style:
emotional, realistic, tense, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
domestic drama, family drama, divorce, female protagonist, mother child relationship, single mother, custody battle, struggle, patriarchy, social realism, gender roles, independent woman ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
autism, loneliness, connection, character study, female protagonist, compassion, lost child, isolation, parent child relationship, midlife crisis, redemption, taxi driver ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, tense
Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The driver of a Metro water lorry falls in love with a girl from a very affluent and powerful family, and faces objections and threats to their relationship.
Style:
romantic drama, heartfelt, emotional, realistic, sentimental
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
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Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Canada
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
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, reflective, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
grief, faith healing, loss, healing, bereavement, support group, hopes, empathy, mourning, faith based, religious, community ...
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, melancholic, poignant, independent film
Plot:
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Place:
poland
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, melancholic, tension
Plot:
adoption, family drama, mother son relationship, drug addiction, guilt, character study, intimate, healing, regret, forgiveness, social realism, foster home ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
germany, munich germany
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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