Movies like The King 2002

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The King (2002)
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The King (2002)
Original name: Ο βασιλιάς
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A 35-year old man, just released from jail, decides to make a clean break from the big city and his troubled past. He retreats to the abandoned village his father came from and moves into an old, collapsing house. Alone, far from the bigger village and doing petty jobs to survive, he will strive to find himself once more. Amidst a haze of suspicion and scorn by villagers who treat him an intruder, his past catches up to him in the form of his girlfriend from Athens. Conflict is inescapable
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, tension, suspense
Plot: drug addict, prisoner, ex convict, fight, gang, criminal, isolation, community, danger, stranger, secret, farmhouse, pariah, rejection, outcast, village, small town, solitude, threat, estate, prison, chess, nude women, time, lawyer ...
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece, athens

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, psychological, serious and touching films with plots about female nudity, society, family relations, death, nudity, life is a bitch and female full frontal nudity mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The King: Knifer (2010), The Flower of the Lake (1999), A Quiet Death (1986), Parees (2007), An Insignificant Harvey (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Knifer (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Greece
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After his father death, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he starts taking care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he's wearing down into his misery routine, till the moment his ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: starting over, love triangle, family problems, couples, dull life, unfulfillment, infidelity, murder, sex scene, uncle nephew relationship, aunt, hot and sexy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, athens greece
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The Flower of the Lake (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Kastoria, a region in Western Macedonia at the turn of the century. Greeks, Turks, Jews and other nationalities live together under the rule of the Ottoman empire, amid the despair, the uncertainty and the confusion brought about by the 1897 war ...
Plot: greek, death, revolution, partisan, captain, snow, wound, turk, family man, bazaar, fisherman, lake ...
Time: 1900s, 90s
Place: greece, hellas, ottoman empire
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A Quiet Death (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Martha is unhappy with her life as it is at the moment, and among other issues, she has decided to give up her writing career. Along with that decision comes a need to get away from her husband and from her psychiatrist, with whom she has had more ...
Plot: truck driver, grandfather, childhood, lesbian sex, cathartic, bare breasts, city, writers, husband, female pubic hair, wine, death ...
Time: 80s
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece
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Parees (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Holy Week in Pelion. Two friendly Athenians couples find in their yard corpse of a stranger. They try to avoid the charge of murder by locals, while in the whole fuss becoming uncovered secrets that will change the lives of everyone.
Plot: fugitive, dead body, girl, murder, holiday, vacation, female nudity, easter, mountain, village, police officer, group of friends
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An Insignificant Harvey (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A janitor at a small town ski resort, who also happens to be a little person, has his life dramatically change when he finds a stray husky and falls for an exotic dancer.
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: small town, fall in love, opposites attract, social misfits, solitude, society, misfit, love and romance, adult virgin, physical appearance, social relations, pets ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Life of a King (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Life of a King is the true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the ...
Style: sincere, uplifting, rough, touching, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, dedicated educator, hardcase students, changing lives, ambition, teenage life, ex convict, contests and competitions, bad attitude, society, gain trust, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, washington d.c., usa
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Lola (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Aris, Nikos Kourkoulos, is released from prison after three years, and he turns up at Troumpa, a slum area in Piraeus. His purpose is not to settle his own accounts but to find out if Lola (Tzeni Karezi), a young woman who works at Stelios’ ...
Plot: gang, assassin, betrayal, desire, imprisonment, greek, loyalty, prostitute, prison, criminal as protagonist, released from prison, organized crime ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece
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Left to Die (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With help from U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, Tammi Chase (Rachael Leigh Cook) fights to free her mother (Barbara Hershey) from an Ecuadorean prison.
Style: suspense, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: prison, trafficking, vacation, mother daughter relationship, drug dealer, drug dealing, drug, criminal, illegal drugs, prisoner, family problems, confined ...
Place: ecuador
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The Downhill (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Greek teenage drama
Style: neo noir
Plot: revenge, teenage sexuality, nudity, passion, court, friend, humiliation, love, womanizer, arrogance, striptease, libertine ...
Time: 60s
Place: athens greece, greece, hellas
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Manon of the Spring (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his ...
Style: surprise ending, touching, atmospheric, thought provoking, anthology ...
Plot: revenge, female nudity, haunted by the past, provincial life, unrequited love, spring, cave, rural setting, water, suicide, obsession, mayor ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 1920s
Place: france, provence, europe
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Matchbox (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Dimitris, a grumpy middle-aged man, is having a hard time with his business partner on a particular decision as to opening a new business; and he's also having a hell of a time with his family members. He has a really short temper, and the ...
Style: psychological, weird
Plot: architecture, domestic violence, quarrel, heat wave, fight, truth, hysteria, partner, businessman, cousin, power, revelation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: greece, athens greece, hellas
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Miss Violence (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, serious, cerebral ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, child prostitution, perversion, incest rape, suicide, child abuse, incest, family problems, parents and children, domineering husband, teen suicide, childhood sexual abuse ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
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Lorna's Silence (2008)
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, marriage, society, divorce, brutality, manipulation, loneliness, life is a bitch, danger, attempted murder, moral dilemma, plan gone awry ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: belgium, europe, france
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I Am from Titov Veles (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: adult virgin, social decay, introspection, family problems, dysfunctional family, society, family relations, daydreamer, life is a bitch, small town, economist, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: macedonia
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Ward No. 6 (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, smart ...
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, isolation, confined, human nature, doctors and patients, society, misfit, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
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On the Corner (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Angel and Randy Henry are a sister and brother, caught on the mean streets of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. While Angel finds the strength to escape her seemingly hopeless situation, Randy slips deeper into a world consumed by abandonment and ...
Style: touching, serious, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: drug addiction, missing person, dysfunctional family, homelessness, interracial relations, mother daughter relationship, confrontation, drug dealer, drug rehab, criminality, drug addict, addiction ...
Place: vancouver
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The Woodsman (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A paedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
Style: disturbing, independent film, psychological, emotional, harsh ...
Plot: pedophilia, friendship, parole officer, pedophile, sexual perversion, starting over, ex convict, psychology, factory worker, suspicion, anger, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: philadelphia
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Nell (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell - a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.
Style: touching, psychological, sentimental, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: isolation, feral child, mental illness, twins, childhood, forest, disability, loneliness, secrets, mother daughter relationship, self discovery, child born of rape ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: north carolina, usa
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Man Dancin' (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he's bluffing.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: jail, estate, going straight, gangster, gang, clergy, drug abuse, tragic event, brother brother relationship, rivalry, corruption, released from prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, ireland
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Stratos (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece, Germany, Cyprus
Duration: 137 min.
Story: At age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where underground boss Leonidas took him under his wing. One day during a rival gang attack, Leonidas saved his life. Stratos never forgot this. A free man now, ...
Style: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tunnel, danger, forced into action, redemption, save the day, police officer, chaos, obsession, hired killer, curse, bakery, master criminal ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: greece, athens greece
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Caravan Serai (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter ...
Plot: greek civil war, imperialism, communism, handicapped, family relations, greek, brother sister relationship, carriage, refugee, homecoming, communist, arrest ...
Place: greece
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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his ...
Style: depressing, fairy tale, erotic, heartbreaking, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lawyer, snow, incest, small town, family problems, grief, small town life, winter, law, redemption, betrayal, sexual abuse ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: canada, british columbia
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Boy Called Twist (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, danger, gang, society, orphan, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rich and poor, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Wild Bill (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: captivating, touching, rough, suspenseful, indie film ...
Plot: youth, gang, working class, parole, starting over, father son relationship, redemption, adulthood, kids in trouble, father son reunion, danger, single parent ...
Time: y2k, year 2011, 21st century
Place: london, england
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Eden Is West (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Elias (Riccardo Scamarcio) is an immigrant in his twenties who tries to get to Europe by a boat along with other illegal immigrants. When the boat is near the Greek shores and they hope they will soon disembark, a marine patrol approaches and Elias ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological, political ...
Plot: illegal immigrant, social differences, refugee, society, life is a bitch, politics, self discovery, fish out of water, on the road, migration, greek, immigration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alps, europe, france, greece, ancient greece ...
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Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a day’s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
Style: depressing, touching, gloomy, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: suicide attempt, drug addict, suicide, addiction, loneliness, depression, drug addiction, complex characters, old friend, job interview, unlikely friendships, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
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33%
Critical Thinking (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on a true story from 1998, five Latino and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but inspirational teacher.
Style: motivational, thought provoking, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: chess, social problems, high school, life is a bitch, society, hardcase students, human relationship, dedicated educator, teacher, city, new teacher, contest ...
Place: miami
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Home (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Big home of Shamanov family has everything - except love and understanding under the roof...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
Plot: home invasion, murder, family in danger, brutality, gunfight, vengeance, mercilessness, danger, hunting, rape, fear, rivalry ...
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Another Man (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at the essence of film critique as well as an erotic encounter between two unequals.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Plot: love affair, film critic, journalism, sexual relations, infidelity, media, small town, nudity, rivalry, society, plagiarism, dead animal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, europe
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The Forest (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Danila is sixteen. Katya is twice his age. He spends hours watching her from an old shed on the forest. He does not even think about trying to be with her until Danila's father shows up on Katya's doorstep in an attempt to run away from ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: older woman teenage boy relationship, mature woman, older woman younger man relationship, older woman teenage boy sex, age difference, extramarital affair, sexuality, villager, sexual abuse, nudity, obsessive love, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
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