Movies like Stranger 2004
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Stranger (2004)
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Original name: Ono
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb.
Style:
life affirming, heartfelt, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
pregnancy, personal growth, female protagonist, self discovery, everyday life, coming of age, slice of life, domestic drama, family conflict, bittersweet, isolation, urban, young adult, dying father, pregnant woman, prostitute, wedding, abortion, father daughter relationship, alzheimer's disease, mother daughter relationship, classical music, unplanned pregnancy, street prostitution, quiz ...
Time:
2000s
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Most similar movies to Stranger
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, reflective, realistic and emotional films with plots about coming of age, slice of life, self discovery, personal growth, bittersweet, female protagonist and intimate mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Stranger: Anywhere Else (2014), Fresh Air (2006), Mayu: Kokoro no hoshi (2007), I'm Looking at You, Mary (2000), Alicia, Go Yonder (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, coming of age, personal growth, freedom, relocation, identity crisis, isolation, intimate, escape, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Similarity:
95%
399
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A mother with an affection to air-refreshers, a daughter looking down on her mothers job.
Style:
melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, family conflict, single mother, class differences, domestic drama, slice of life, social commentary, city life, coming of age, resilience, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
budapest
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.
Style:
heartfelt, realistic, emotional, reflective, period drama ...
Plot:
biopic, autobiography, adaptation, female protagonist, personal growth, slice of life, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, intimate, domestic drama, bittersweet, resilience ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Two young people share their lives and homes for two years.
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cohabitation, relationships, young couple, love, long term relationship, intimacy, realism, everyday life, routine, slice of life, domestic drama, communication ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
"Alicia, Go Yonder" is the story of Alicia, a nineteen-year-old who sets out on a solitary journey to the end of the world only to come face to face with the immensity of the universe.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, reflective, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
personal growth, young woman, coming of age, female protagonist, self discovery, character study, young adult, solitude, odyssey, minimalism, spiritual journey, intimate ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
"El Derecho de Jesús" is a character driven drama in which Jesús, a Mexican-American college student tries to overcome contemporary family issues and unstable love relationships. His past and present eventually collide forcing him to ...
Style:
reflective, realistic, emotional, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
family drama, character study, family conflict, identity, personal growth, college student, coming of age, self discovery, realism, young adult, moral dilemma, domestic drama ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
71%
134
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Struggling to navigate a promising career, a new romance, and her family life, a photography student confronts notions of love and loss during her senior year of college.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, reflective, romantic drama ...
Plot:
photography, coming of age, relationships, student life, self discovery, college life, female protagonist, personal growth, young adult, realism, campus, slice of life ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Maja's boyfriend travels to India for a couple of months, she is left with no place to stay. She begins lodging with Mattias, a young unemployed man with a group of slacker friends and a 'seize the day' attitude to life. At first ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
slice of life, female protagonist, intimate, social realism, youth culture, personal growth, self discovery, coming of age, aimlessness, urban, bittersweet, irresponsible ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A young girl from a conservative family aspires to become the best cook in India.
Style:
culinary, emotional, inspirational
Plot:
cooking competition, ambition, female protagonist, family drama, perseverance, aspiration, female empowerment, personal growth, domestic drama, hardship, self discovery, triumph ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds ...
Style:
melancholic, heartfelt, period drama
Plot:
parent child relationship, family drama, guilt, great depression, female protagonist, sacrifice, family conflict, responsibility, empathy, deaf, moral dilemma, personal growth ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
Style:
reflective, melancholic
Plot:
grownups, adolescence, coming of age, friendship, self discovery, personal growth, youth, female friendship, female bonding, loss of innocence, relationships, life lesson ...
Time:
1920s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the snowy seaside town of Sokcho, 25-year-old Soo-Ha works at a guesthouse. She drifts between her mother’s fish stall and her boyfriend until a French artist’s arrival stirs questions about her identity. As winter deepens, Soo-Ha and the ...
Style:
intercultural, contemplative, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
winter, female protagonist, coming of age, self discovery, young woman, identity, slice of life, intimate, identity crisis, bittersweet, loneliness, small town ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Although college student Sam has made a pact to graduate with his best friends, he lags behind as the only one who is struggling to finish his thesis. At the same time, the girl he loves has found a new relationship. Can Sam push forward and fight ...
Style:
melancholic, indonesian
Plot:
college, campus, coming of age, graduation, ambition, friendship, motivation, personal growth, male protagonist, determination, self discovery, young adult ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ten minutes a day can change the course of your day. Ten minutes doing something completely new can change the course of a life. This is what Bianca will discover in the midst of an existential crisis. New meetings, the discovery of special bonds ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, realistic, uplifting, life affirming ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
self discovery, female protagonist, existential crisis, introspection, rebirth, slice of life, coming of age, women, second chance, family relations, urban, depression ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
54%
473
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nora is 30 years old; she lives with her Argentinian grandfather Nicolás and regularly takes care of her friend Meri's children. She writes the horoscope for the town newspaper, although her dream is to be a travel writer. When her grandfather ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, road movie
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, personal growth, female protagonist, grief, identity, character study, coming of age, bittersweet, slice of life, nostalgia, small town life ...
Place:
basque country
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A drama about how to let go of our emotional "baggage" and start living in the moment.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
getting home, self discovery, personal growth, relationships, confronting the past, life is a bitch, elderly man, relationship problems, troubled past, slice of life, friendship, healing ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
52%
189
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, poignant, reflective, period piece
Plot:
death, coming of age, grief, adolescence, loss, mourning, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, introspection, bereavement, aunt niece relationship, self discovery ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 448 min.
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Story:
Óscar turns thirty on New Year's Eve with his life almost solved. Ana turns thirty on New Year's Day with her life still unresolved. They meet, fall in love, and begin a relationship that will last ten years.
Style:
romantic drama, reflective, poignant, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
intimate, introspection, commitment, long term relationship, bittersweet, personal growth, everyday life, regret, second chance, coming of age, young adult, slice of life ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Martina gets pregnant from her selfish boyfriend. Without knowing exactly what to do, she travels to Berlin to find her own father, the one she never met.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, self discovery, female protagonist, identity, pregnant woman, lifestyle change, changing lives, unplanned pregnancy, introspection, life is a bitch, motherhood, journey ...
Place:
mexico city, berlin germany
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Follows three characters from diverse backgrounds in their mid twenties. How consequences arise because of their flaws and what struggles they go through?
Style:
emotional, realistic, tense, melancholic
Plot:
young adult, coming of age, self discovery, personal growth, relationships, slice of life, identity crisis, intimate, realism, regret, friendship, urban ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Allison Morgan, a hairdresser in a small Washington town learns she's won millions playing the lottery. Distracted by her precocious three year old while buying her mother's weekly lottery tickets Allison buys an extra ticket for herself ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
small town, female protagonist, self discovery, character study, lottery, obsession, loss, domestic drama, personal growth, identity, single mother, working class ...
Place:
washington state
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a ...
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, reflective, melancholic, thought provoking
Plot:
female protagonist, young woman, friendship, shoplifting, coming of age, character study, impulsiveness, imprisonment, working class, everyday life, intimate, personal growth ...
Similarity:
45%
106
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
LIMBO is set in a small town in rural Denmark, teenager Sara and young teacher Karen develop a connection. A quiet drama interested as much in the lives of its female protagonists as their surroundings.
Style:
realistic, emotional, reflective, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
intimate, small town, introspection, empathy, slice of life, adolescence, everyday life, youth, coming of age, female friendship, bittersweet, self discovery ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
45%
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135
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Sarah seems to have the world at her feet. She's young, bright, pretty, free spirited yet hard working, with a real passion for life. Then, in just one day, she loses her job, is told she will have to move out of her apartment, and discovers ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, melancholic, tension
Plot:
pregnancy, studying, self discovery, coming of age, character study, twenty something, slice of life, young adult, social realism, independent woman, empathy, financial difficulty ...
Place:
marseille, france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Hanka is a young woman who suddenly abandons her stable life for no obvious reason, and undertakes a trip without any clear destination, meeting strangers on her way. At the same time, her boyfriend desperately tries to find her.
Style:
melancholic, existential
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, female protagonist, identity crisis, missing person, loneliness, escape, uncertainty, character study, alienation, coming of age, female empowerment ...
Similarity:
43%
113
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but when she is unexpectedly confronted with romantic love, old wounds are opened.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, art house, contemplative
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, longing, introspection, city life, urban, bittersweet, loneliness, desire, self discovery, confrontation, realism ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Florian is a successful up and coming architect. However, when the firm goes bust, his life changes drastically. He has to take a job in a pizza place and move to a cheap and run down area of town. But not all is bad. He also learns that ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, comedy drama, realistic, independent film
Plot:
loss of job, pizzeria, changing lives, personal growth, self discovery, relationships, love affair, second chance, urban, slice of life, class differences, blue collar ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
A troubled young man battles his inner demons as he seeks redemption and a second chance in his life.
Style:
reflective, emotional, realistic, serious, melancholic ...
Plot:
redemption, second chance, self discovery, personal growth, soul searching, regret, coming of age, trauma, moral dilemma, loss, isolation, identity ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young girl leaves her hometown in south of Iran for a half day trip without permission of his strict father to attend a close friend's goodbye party. In her way back home hazy weather changes all she planned.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, independent film
Plot:
female protagonist, road trip, gender roles, family conflict, coming of age, strict father, realism, friendship, small town, uncertainty, minimalism, patriarchy ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ben (Françoise Lebrun) is a woman who never gets to do what she really wants to do and is the victim of everybody and everything. Benedict is her imaginary creation: the girl who would respond with strength and mastery to situations she can only ...
Style:
art house, psychological, period piece
Plot:
pregnancy, female protagonist, marriage, gender roles, identity, female empowerment, feminist, character study, unrequited love, imaginary friend, split personality, domestic drama ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
39%
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