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Latitude Zero (2001)
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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 wanted for a crime he committed in São Paulo. Colonel Mattos was Vilela's superior, and his presence is continually felt by the pair. Two further elements add texture to the plot - the inhospitable landscape and the new baby's crying, which slowly makes life unbearable for the couple. Based on an original stage play by Fernando Bonassi, the film delves into the souls of two Brazilians isolated in one of the country's nameless reaches. A love story and a metaphor taken to extremes: a glimpse at an unequal society which excludes many of its citizens, pushing them into violent adventures of love and death.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, art house
Plot:
pregnancy, loneliness, isolation, claustrophobia, abandonment, character study, survival, minimalism, existentialism, hopelessness, moral ambiguity, symbolism, forbidden love, business, money, truck, rage, desolation, devastation, alcohol, bar, rifle
Place:
brazil
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, bleak and existential films with plots about isolation, minimalism, survival, character study, loneliness, moral ambiguity and poverty mostly in Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Latitude Zero: Winter Land (1997), Playing in the Dark (2004), Nola and the Clones (2016), Lines (2016), Nights (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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