Movies like Awakening from the Dead

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Awakening from the Dead (2005)
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Awakening from the Dead (2005)
Original name: Buđenje iz mrtvih
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The story takes place at the beginning of the bombing, both in Belgrade and in one small town in Serbia, at the end of March 1999. Forty-year-old Mickey, an unaccomplished writer, a disillusioned assistant professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, a discouraged democrat and a columnist, dismissed from a famous daily newspaper, emerges from his own grave and enters into his own life. Within 48 hours, he will try to achieve all those things he couldn't while he was alive. At the same time, post-mortem, he will try to save the dignity of his own community and his tribe, not taking too much care of himself.
Style: black and white
Plot: suicide, bosnian war, grave, journalist, friends, parent child relationship, nato, bombing, female nudity, murder, male nudity, father son relationship, old friend, childhood memory, gun

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, black and white, atmospheric and serious films with plots about female nudity, male nudity, suicide, father son relationship, female full frontal nudity, murder and death mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Awakening from the Dead: The Reject (2007), A Good Boy (2008), The Piano Room (2013), Never Again a Tomorrow (2017), Sleeping in Honey (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Reject (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A man whose life is on the verge of collapse looks for new inspiration in this drama from Serbian filmmaker Milos Radivojevic. On was once a reporter, but now makes his living working as a public relations man for a banking firm. On is in his ...
Plot: beach, mobster, lesbian, surrealism, dog, friendship, blood, father daughter relationship, male nudity, female nudity, death, sea ...
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A Good Boy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After his mother's death, 17-year-old Sven moves in with his dad Achim, a taxi driver, who had divorced his mother several years earlier. It is not easy for Achim to get used to an adolescent around the house, especially since Sven hardly ...
Plot: pedophilia, gay, youth, lgbt, boyhood, parent child relationship, taxi driver, embarrassment, father son relationship, masturbation, sex scene, male nudity ...
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The Piano Room (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country:
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A run-down hotel room, a piano, a maid and the guests who stay there. Life begins, life ends, and lives are changed forever in the piano room.
Plot: lesbian couple, lgbtq, piano, coitus, crossdresser, chambermaid, lesbian relationship, making a wish, maid, strangulation, lesbian, hotel room ...
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Never Again a Tomorrow (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The slightly self-indulgent artist Thorvald collapses during an interview made in celebration of his 80th birthday and dies shortly after. But in spite of his death Thorvald can still follow those left behind. From a distance, and for better or ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, last will and testament, male nudity, female nudity, cemetery, painting, ex wife, cremation, painter, heart attack, artist, journalist ...
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Sleeping in Honey (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. he knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame. A ...
Plot: arab, silence, health, clinic, brothel, shame, parliament, epidemic, groom, protest, discussion, father son relationship ...
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Breakdown (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A journalist lives his smooth citizen life, married to a woman from respected family. But, conflicts with manager at work are becoming more often, his marriage is unstable and the outer manifestation of all this is a strange skin disease. Doctors ...
Plot: journalist, troubled marriage, infection, old woman, nudity, secretary, sex, father, mother, female nudity, impotence, anger ...
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Chez Nous (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way.
Plot: prostitution, sex club, eel, female nudity, murder, lawyer, journalist, tabloid, storyteller
Place: eastern europe
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Recommendation for Mercy (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl
Style: independent film
Audience: teen drama
Plot: rape, court, canuxploitation, male nudity, murder, rape accusation, treehouse, death of child, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Place: canada
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The Man (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Simon is the king of the Danish art scene - eccentric, successful, wealthy, with a beautiful wife and a young mistress. Life is beautiful, until the day his unknown son Casper turns up and attracts all the attention. It turns out that Casper is the ...
Plot: street art, nordic, open marriage, street artist, artist, father son relationship, sex scene, painter, estranged son, female nudity, parent child relationship, painting ...
Place: berlin germany, copenhagen
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The Nun and the Torture (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her, but is startled to learn that she's also a nun. ...
Style: detective
Plot: oral sex, female nudity, nun, male nudity, prison, nudity, gay rape, prison rape, cunnilingus, gun, labia, dildo ...
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Slave Widow (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that ...
Style: erotic
Plot: exploitation, pink film, erotica, cheating fiance, nudity, widow, suicide by drowning, bare breasts, suicide, female nudity, father son relationship, sex ...
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Nowhere (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Young Danny has left his home town in the middle of nowhere (="Nirgendwo") behind and moved to Berlin to study business. The twentysomething enjoys big city life and independence. When his father dies unexpectedly, however, Danny has to ...
Plot: monkey, photograph, domineering father, generation y, suicide, female nudity, death of father, photographer, grief, death of mother, swimming, father son relationship ...
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14 Days with Victor (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Victor is a magnetic young boy that survive in London. A chance encounter leads him to Martin and Anna, two artists who share studio and a vital moment. Martin wants to relaunch his career and, while awaiting his brother lives, a former boxing star ...
Style: sadistic
Plot: lgbt, teenage boy, male nudity, masturbation, dog, humiliation, artist, murder, psychopath, female nudity, death, blood ...
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Wild Seed (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a ...
Style: black and white
Plot: village, revenge killing, lust, rape, priest, funeral, manhunt, procession, shaving
Place: balkan
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Lighter Fluid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
Style: experimental
Plot: suicide, abandoned house, murder, skateboard, surrealism, pregnancy, death
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28%
From What Is Before (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 338 min.
Story: The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation ...
Style: bleak, serious, realistic, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: forces of nature, village life, isolation, danger, clergy, confined, society, chaos, village, very little dialogue, army, fired from the job ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1970, year 1971
Place: the philippines
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28%
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Proxy (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual ...
Plot: female nudity, male nudity, sex scene
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Young and Healthy as a Rose (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with the help of local police.
Style: black and white
Plot: female nudity, black, social commentary, secret police, outcast, gunfight, mob boss, mafia, nudity, bare butt, photography, bare chested male ...
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My Rabbit is the Best (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire ...
Style: erotic
Plot: bdsm, female nudity, erotica, male nudity, sadomasochism, lesbian, female full frontal nudity, double penetration, anal sex, blow job
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Night-Flowers (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey town. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for ...
Style: independent film
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Don Juan (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has ...
Style: manga
Plot: lesbian sex, female nudity, lesbian, priest, seduction, reincarnation, erection, gay, bare breasts, lesbianism, playing footsie, suicide ...
Place: paris france, france
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26%
Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic ...
Style: black and white, independent film, talky, offbeat, spiritual ...
Plot: male nudity, male pubic hair, friendship, catholicism, redemption, violence, morality, sex crime, badass, prostitute, coming of age, sexual fantasy ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, europe, italy, usa
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Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
Plot: parent child relationship, serial rapist, fugitive, lovers on the run, rape, father son relationship, rapist
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: independent film
Plot: impotence, brothel madam, contract killing, gypsy, sexual fantasy, wife, nudity, death, murder, female nudity, male nudity, dying during sex ...
Time: year 1981
Place: paris france
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Lotgenoten (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 65 min.
Story: When womanizer Remco Albrecht celebrates his 65st birthday he has to deal with people from his past whom he would rather ignore.
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Concrete Night (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother, in Finnish master Pirjo Honkasalo’s gorgeously stylized and emotionally devastating work about what we pass on to younger ...
Style: realistic, bleak, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage boy, male nudity, siblings relations, family problems, realism, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, urban ghetto, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, helsinki finland, finland
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The Eyes, the Mouth (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother (Lou Castel), mother (Emmanuelle Riva) and pregnant lover (Angela Molina).
Style: semi autobiographical
Plot: twin brother, mother, death, nudity, father daughter relationship, male nudity, funeral, suicide, female nudity, family relations, widow, attempted murder ...
Time: year 1982
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Dispassionate Love (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Recalling memories of a friend who committed suicide, three lovers slowly slide into an anguish labyrinth of desire, loss and longing. They entangle in a colliding maze of forsaken loves, failed expectations and imperfect anticipations. A ...
Style: captivating
Plot: life is a bitch, tragic love, relationships, love affair, love and romance, memories, suicide, friendship, suicide attempt, love triangle, love interest, love story ...
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The Last Fine Day (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
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Dark in the White Light (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A Buddhist monk on a spiritual quest. A Student trying to test his limits. An organ dealer growing his business. A surgeon who heals by day and rapes women at night.
Style: sinhala, weird
Plot: dead body, doctor, death, suicide, drunken man, driver, monk, buddhism, self sacrifice, female nudity, male nudity, defecation ...
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