Movies like Happy Days 2000
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Happy Days (2000)
140
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Happy Days is an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's challenging absurdist drama, a play most would deem unfilmable. Faithfully adhering to Beckett's minimalist original, a black parody of love, marriage, and our search for meaning in an unfathomable universe, the piece consists of but two pathetic characters. One, wife Winnie, spends the duration of the drama half-buried in a pile of dirt; in true Beckett fashion, her predicament is never explained. The other character, husband Willie, is almost never seen. Dublin stage and screen veteran Rosaleen Linehan, in the lead, is exceptional as the trapped woman clinging to the empty, arbitrary routines and rituals of life, ever hopeful that 'this is going to be a happy day.
Style:
philosophical, surreal, art house, psychological, bleak, tragicomedy, experimental, black comedy, meditative
Plot:
existentialism, absurdism, minimalism, isolation, alienation, monologue, entrapment, rehearsal, dark humor, ritual, desperation, routine, retiring, hopelessness, loneliness, singing, mirror, buried alive, newspaper, nostalgia, optimism, music box, song, hat, gun ...
Place:
ireland
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Most similar movies to Happy Days
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, existential, surreal and experimental films with plots about minimalism, isolation, loneliness, alienation, absurdism, character study and intimate mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Happy Days: Endgame (2000), Krapp's Last Tape (2000), Waiting for Godot (2001), William, the New Judo Master (2016), The Death of Empedocles (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
Style:
surreal, absurd, bleak, art house, black comedy ...
Plot:
blindness, absurdism, isolation, mortality, waiting, minimalism, existentialism, loneliness, dark humor, hopelessness, entrapment, mature ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. ...
Style:
existential, philosophical, contemplative, art house, crying ...
Plot:
regret, reflection, memory, monologue, aging, identity, isolation, melancholy, solitude, theater, minimalism, intimate ...
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68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, minimal cast, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
absurdism, slavery, slave, mute, friendship, social problems, drifter, existentialism, philosophy, love letter, blind man, blindness ...
Time:
future
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
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:
existential, reflective, melancholic, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, loss, hopelessness, memory, frustration, identity crisis, alienation, intimate, lgbt, gay, redemption ...
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillot of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
Style:
philosophical, art house, meditative, intellectual, experimental ...
Plot:
literary, symbolism, minimalism, mythology, sacrifice, voice over narration, isolation, ritual, time machine, prophecy, utopia, communism ...
Place:
ancient greece
Similarity:
52%
68
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle".
Style:
thrilling, captivating, philosophical, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
castle, village, remote village, countryside, village life, isolation, outsider, alienation, bureaucracy, stranger, existentialism, adaptation ...
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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
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47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One bullet can do a lot of damage.
Style:
tense, twist ending, black comedy, biting, bleak ...
Plot:
dark humor, irony, satire, deadpan, minimalism, absurdism, social commentary, intimate, confrontation, character study, mortality, monologue ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
Style:
avant garde, experimental, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
abstract art, surrealism, minimalism, entrapment, absurdism, weirdo, eccentric, hypnotic, cult
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An eternal landscape from the Yesilcam.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, heavy, meditative, art house ...
Plot:
memory, isolation, loneliness, reflection, symbolism, character study, minimalism, women's issues, absurdism, landscape
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40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Adaptation of the novel by Isaac Rosa, mordant parable on labor precariousness.
Style:
existential, bleak, surreal, intense, experimental
Plot:
social commentary, control, voyeurism, manipulation, alienation, ethical dilemma, dystopia, conformity, class conflict, social experiment, bureaucracy, moral ambiguity ...
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39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
Style:
thought provoking, anthology, reflective, surreal, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
satire, irony, frustration, absurdism, social commentary, paradox, deception, bittersweet, existential crisis, moral ambiguity, mental disorder, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, art house
Plot:
pregnancy, isolation, loneliness, claustrophobia, character study, abandonment, survival, moral ambiguity, hopelessness, existentialism, minimalism, symbolism ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Little Fish Eat Big Fish is a Kolkata based group of no-budget film makers. The latest venture of the group is the 5 no-budget short films produced in 2009-10. They opted for a direct to DVD release in the last Kolkata Book Fair. Details for the ...
Style:
independent film, experimental, anthology, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
underground, minimalism, adaptation, experimental narrative, paranoia, social commentary, absurdism, urban, ideology, literary, improv, intimate ...
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Margarethe in Bestie!:
her psyche and body imposed on by her lover;
then: her mutation
and lives in a multitude of creations.
The reality of the cosmos reveals itself to her.
Boundless in shining beauty. a film by Carsten Frank
Bestie!
...
Style:
art house, experimental, psychological, surreal, existential ...
Plot:
cosmos, transformation, female protagonist, identity, metamorphosis, transcendence, visionary, obsession, hallucination, portrait, beauty, body horror ...
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36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style:
spiritual, philosophical, contemplative, black comedy, avant garde
Plot:
death, mourning, loss, grief, father son relationship, funeral, isolation, melancholy, existential crisis, introspection, alienation, social commentary ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
Similarity:
36%
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:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style:
art house, bleak, philosophical, tragicomedy, postmodern ...
Plot:
perestroika, alienation, existentialism, satire, bureaucracy, pessimism, melancholy, absurdism, midlife crisis, urban, bitterness, spirituality ...
Time:
year 1990
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A stranger arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his life. She absorbs his dreams, until finally she threaten his very existence.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, dark, surreal ...
Plot:
obsession, isolation, psychological manipulation, character study, privacy invasion, unsettling, slow burn, claustrophobia, symbolism, mental breakdown, possession, nightmare ...
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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33
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A modern adaptation of Cocteau's classic play "The Human Voice": A woman is waiting for her ex-boyfriend's last call.
Style:
emotional, art house, intense, romantic drama, tension ...
Plot:
breakup, loneliness, monologue, heartbreak, telephone call, desperation, female protagonist, melancholy, isolation, waiting, adaptation, longing ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: San Marino
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Vague moving shapes framing the black screen could be anything, but what they depict is nothing.
Style:
experimental, art house, avant garde, contemplative, meditative ...
Plot:
minimalism, silence, experimental narrative, surrealism, dream, nihilism, perception, debut, video art, no dialogue
Similarity:
35%
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:
34%
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180
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Greece nowadays. Seven different stories about seven persons who have already reached their limits and finally fall apart. Despite their seemingly obvious connection they are simultaneously connected through a common desperate action: the last phone ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, tragicomedy, avant garde ...
Plot:
social realism, multiple storylines, loneliness, isolation, mental health, hopelessness, alienation, desperation, resilience, slow burn, moral ambiguity, survival ...
Similarity:
34%
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:
34%
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:
33%
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:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.
Style:
romantic drama, poignant, emotional, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
female protagonist, monologue, heartbreak, love, regret, loss, loneliness, intimate, bittersweet, minimalism, abandoned, desperation ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
33%
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:
33%
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:
32%
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