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Stray Dogs (2013)
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Original name: 郊遊
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samples. Each night the family takes shelter in an abandoned building. The father is strangely affected by a hypnotic mural adorning the wall of this makeshift home. On the day of the father's birthday the family is joined by a woman - might she be the key to unlocking the buried emotions that linger from the past?
Style:
slow cinema, bleak, contemplative, art house, aesthetic, dark comedy, silent, avant garde, masterpiece
Plot:
children, homelessness, youth, underground, minimalism, poverty, minimal dialogue, homeless, underworld, dog, survival, loneliness, storm, water, birthday, beach, hunger, family relations, father daughter relationship, boat, rain, dysfunctional family, isolation, father son relationship, little girl ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
taiwan, taipei
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Most similar movies to Stray Dogs
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic and avant garde films with plots about underground, minimalism, isolation, loneliness, alienation, family relations and psychological drama mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Stray Dogs: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006), The Turin Horse (2011), The Intruder (2004), Mother and Son (1997), Satantango (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Malaysia, China, Taiwan, France, Austria
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Forest fires burn in Sumatra; a smoke covers Kuala Lumpur. Grifters beat an immigrant day laborer and leave him on the streets. Rawang, a young man, finds him, carries him home, cares for him, and sleeps next to him. In a loft above lives a ...
Style:
surreal, touching, atmospheric, sentimental, slow cinema ...
Plot:
gay, longing, coma, identity crisis, love triangle, society, rescue, love and romance, isolation, memory loss, immigrant, homeless man ...
Time:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Style:
slow cinema, thought provoking, bleak, black and white, serious ...
Plot:
horse, poverty, survival, destiny, nihilism, desperation, philosopher, everyday life, family relations, human nature, isolation, dying ...
Time:
19th century, distant future, turn of the century, year 2011, 90s ...
Place:
turin italy, europe, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. He has heart problems, seeks a transplant, and then goes in search of a son sired years before in Tahiti. Told elliptically, with few words, we see ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
angel of death, female nudity, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, going straight, redemption, transplant ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
tahiti, europe, france, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual images of the countryside and cottage.
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, depressing, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
art, biopic, countryside, childhood, youth, mother and son, landscape, mental disorder, artist, minimal dialogue, spirituality, underground ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 439 min.
Story:
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of ...
Style:
slow cinema, black and white, art house, powerful, dark comedy ...
Plot:
poverty, mental disorder, pessimism, suicide, bell, countryside, farm, multiple perspectives, loneliness, mental illness, european, communist ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, 80s
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Defying his parents, disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a young hoodlum, and their relationship is a confused mixture of hero-worship and rivalry ...
Style:
slow cinema, art house, aesthetic, neo noir, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenage boy, lgbtq, revenge, street life, vandalism, dysfunctional family, nihilism, video arcade, coming of age, youth, city life, elevator ...
Time:
90s
Place:
taiwan, taipei
Similarity:
100%
726
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, silent ...
Plot:
horse riding, snow, drinking, village, minimalism, underground, love letter, post soviet, wilderness, survival, landscape, alienation ...
Place:
siberia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, powerful, neo noir, avant garde ...
Plot:
redemption, mind game, friendship, melancholy, family relations, intimacy, revenge, sexual abuse, poverty, underground, european, sex crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hungary, europe, budapest
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Style:
bleak, serious, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
unemployment, fishing, mother daughter conflict, snitch, realism, loneliness, pride, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, family problems, down on your luck, loser ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, france, europe, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.
Style:
road movie, art house, slow cinema, contemplative, aesthetic ...
Plot:
beehive, skinny dipping, male nudity, alienation, classical music, underground, suicide, melancholy, nostalgia, hitchhiking, retirement, wedding ...
Time:
year 1986
Place:
greece
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
Style:
sexy, erotic, disturbing, surreal, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
passionate sex, filmmaking, sexual perversion, isolation, human nature, lifestyle, actor's life, love and romance, sex scene, sex, erotica, crazy love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
taiwan, taipei, india
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Style:
erotic, sexy, atmospheric, meditative, disturbing ...
Plot:
sex, love triangle, multiple storylines, character study, friendship, dysfunctional family, storytelling, drug, art, loneliness, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
taiwan, asia, east asia, taipei, tokyo
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.
Style:
erotic, atmospheric, philosophical, breathtaking, disturbing ...
Plot:
obsession, insomnia, isolation, death in the family, unfulfillment, lifestyle, estrangement, loneliness, drinking, father son relationship, drinking alcohol, death ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, taiwan, east asia, asia, hong kong ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In Taiwan a young man with a mysterious paralysis massages his neck with his mother's dildo, meanwhile the rain is flooding the island.
Style:
contemplative, bleak, slow cinema, aesthetic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
closeted gay, gay hustler, gay incest, gay interest, alienation, swimming, male nudity, gay son, gay father, lgbt teen, love, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
taiwan, china, asia, taipei
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59%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the final days of the year 1999, most everyone in Taiwan has died. A strange plague has ravished the island. Supposedly spread by cockroaches, the disease sends its victims into a psychosis where they act like the insects. Eventually, they die. ...
Style:
surreal, contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, inspirational ...
Plot:
erotica, disaster, virus, neighbor, rain, hardcore, human relationship, minimalism, alienation, zombie, lust, architecture ...
Time:
year 1998
Place:
taiwan, asia
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, surreal, sincere, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot:
longing, tourist, introspection, human nature, dull life, solitude, theater, loneliness, minimalism, underground, asian, life & death ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
taipei, taiwan, japan, east asia, asia
Similarity:
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688
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania, Portugal, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Abstract, beautifully photographed and nearly silent but for limited narration, this plotless arthouse outing from Lithuanian cult film director Sharunas Bartas pays tribute to a huge, old lakeside manor and Lithuanian culture.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, silent ...
Plot:
children, nude women, post soviet, underground, mirror, house, surrealism, puppet, nude young male, murder, female pubic hair, perky breasts ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
A Buddhist monk walks barefoot and incredibly slowly through Marseille – so slowly, that his progress is barely perceptible and he becomes a calming influence in the midst of the town’s goings-on.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
clergy, solitude, monk, self discovery, introspection, journey, art, underground, spirit, buddhist monk, urban, tiger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
marseille, france, french riviera, europe
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When Jonny visits his father Nikitas in his cabin in the woods after 20 years, the hermit ignores him. But to prevent the muddy ground from being pulled out from under their feet for reasons of profit, father and son must dig deep into it...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, neo western ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family conflict, father son conflict, mountain, forest, estrangement, dysfunctional family, countryside, relationship problems, family problems, father son estrangement, family relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Lithuania
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In Kaliningrad two Lithuanian boys meet two Russian girls. They have difficulties in finding places where they can sleep together. But this is the only problem they do solve. All four justly feel miserable because their lives are meaningless (the ...
Style:
slow cinema, bleak, contemplative, aesthetic, avant garde ...
Plot:
underground, post soviet, minimalism, conflict, trauma, depression, alienation, cat, smoking, sex, beach, teenager ...
Time:
year 1992
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France, Taiwan, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
Style:
surreal, semi serious, humorous, stylized, contemplative ...
Plot:
erotica, supernatural, nothing goes right, filmmaking, showbiz, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, disorder, filmmaker, underground, face ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, taiwan
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A homeless Irish girl encounters a series of men who appear strikingly similar to each other
Style:
independent film, melancholic, art house, bleak, indie film
Plot:
homelessness, character study, identity, isolation, survival, poverty, loneliness, ambiguity, alienation, rehearsal, social commentary, minimalism ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Lithuania, France, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown ... A series of faces, gestures and images both real and imagined time. (A fragmentary narrative without dialogue and depicts several people in ...
Style:
poetic, avant garde, slow cinema, atmospheric, art film ...
Plot:
post soviet, children, symbolism, national identity, dance, minimalism, haunting, ritual, alienation, underground, poetry, folklore ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Style:
contemplative, bleak, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
isolation, wasteland, loneliness, alienation, minimalism, metaphysics, character study, anonymity, identity, minimal dialogue, moral ambiguity, pilgrimage ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
unwanted pregnancy, courage, minimalism, underground, alienation, mental disorder, immigrant, deadend life, urban ghetto life, vengeance, life is a bitch, drug abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A couple of elderlies try to survive in Los Andes of Peru while they wait for their son.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, melancholic, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
waiting, silence, nature, isolation, loneliness, minimal dialogue, intimate, minimalism, realism, survival, loss, livestock ...
Place:
peru
Similarity:
40%
986
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A man chop down trees, organizes the trunks, cleans them, stops to defecate, lunch, nap and continues to sell their timber.
Style:
contemplative, art house, existential, meditative, road movie ...
Plot:
minimalism, survival, routine, slice of life, forest, rehearsal, tree, countryside, labor, solitude, nature, humble ...
Similarity:
39%
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:
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336
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a ...
Style:
contemplative, psychological, existential, art house, meditative ...
Plot:
dog, forest, hunting, hunter, lost, wilderness, nature, loneliness, isolation, disorientation, character study, wanderer ...
Similarity:
39%
866
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
forbidden love, physical appearance, losing-it hero, family relations, mysterious character, love and romance, couple relations, family problems, wilderness, human nature, isolation, obsession ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe
Similarity:
38%
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