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Looking for Angelina (2005)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed...
Style:
bleak, period piece, historical drama, tense, emotional, melancholic, grim, tragic
Plot:
courtroom drama, domestic violence, murder trial, true crime, marital abuse, death sentence, family drama, moral ambiguity, social realism, empathy, biopic, survival, investigation, poverty, small town, murder, revenge, isolation, language barrier, murderer, forgiveness, courtroom, trial, husband, legal action ...
Place:
canada, ontario canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, bleak, tragic and period piece films with plots about moral ambiguity, investigation, revenge, isolation, small town, murder and family drama mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Looking for Angelina: O ilios tou thanatou (1978), All About Araya (2022), REVOLUTION+1 (2022), The Runner Stumbles (1979), Netto (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
Style:
crime drama, dark, emotional, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual assault, true crime, fugitive, biopic, convict, investigation, trial, justice, courtroom, legal battle, media coverage ...
Time:
90s
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, tense, psychological, realistic, crying ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, san diego california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1917 Crete, a humble peasant mother raises her orphaned nephew while trying to protect him from an absurd vendetta.
Style:
period piece, melancholic, grim, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
vendetta, motherhood, family drama, protection, revenge, sacrifice, orphan, violence, moral dilemma, social injustice, small town, survival ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917
Place:
crete
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
With the odds already not in her favor, Araya tells her side of the story while being interrogated for possibly killing the man who was responsible for her father's death.
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, psychological, dramatic ...
Plot:
interrogation, investigation, moral ambiguity, female protagonist, suspect, character study, murder, revenge, accusation, claustrophobia, guilt, police procedural ...
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization. Her three children are forced to live in poverty, and her eldest son, who is blind in one eye due ...
Style:
political thriller, intense, grim, controversial, bleak ...
Plot:
assassination, religious cult, true crime, family tragedy, biopic, revenge, political corruption, anguish, conspiracy, vigilante, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and Tammy Grimes.
Style:
religious drama, emotional, atmospheric, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
nun, convent, priest, small town, character study, moral ambiguity, false accusation, scandal, investigation, working class, poverty, isolation ...
Time:
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394
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, bleak
Plot:
unemployment, family drama, alcoholism, father son relationship, poverty, character study, intimate, social realism, parenting, working class, empathy, slice of life ...
Time:
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Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 190 min.
Story:
Richard Armitage stars in Yael Farber's powerful production of Arthur Miller's timeless witch hunt parable.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, tense, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
witch hunt, salem witch trial, false accusation, jealousy, betrayal, social injustice, literary, revenge, small town, moral ambiguity, haunting, repressed sexuality ...
Time:
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Place:
salem massachusetts
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73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Narcissistic Saskatchewan Tory politician Colin Thatcher is engaged in a bitter divorce from his wife Jo-Ann. When a series of court rulings over the divorce go against him, Thatcher decides a more drastic solution is needed - murder! A series of ...
Style:
crime drama, dark, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
contract killing, politician, divorce, domestic violence, murder, true crime, justice, courtroom, prosecution, investigation, attempted murder, narcissism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Just as Moses was found in the river Nile, an infant is rescued from a river, and adopted by Miraj, Karim and Sajib in turns over the years, only to be abandoned at the various stages of his life. From innocence to becoming a gangster, the ...
Style:
crime drama, realistic, emotional, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
river, male protagonist, orphan, adoption, identity, coming of age, abandonment, loss of innocence, street life, moral ambiguity, gangster, survival ...
Similarity:
68%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Ammu's thought marriage was a fairy tale – full of love and magic, ends when her cop-husband Ravi hit her for the very first time. What Ammu thought was a one-off incident soon turned into a never-ending cycle of abuse, trapping her and ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
domestic violence, female protagonist, marital abuse, abusive husband, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, violence, family relations, police officer, unhappy marriage, life is a bitch, male female relationship ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
"Prosecuting Casey Anthony" reveals Florida prosecutor, Jeff Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, detective ...
Plot:
true crime, trial, courtroom drama, investigation, murder, obsession, legal, dedicated lawyer, courtroom, life is a bitch, law, criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A multiple murder investigation in a small hunting town focuses on one suspect, Wendy Sinclair, who operates a battered women's shelter where each of the victims' wives have sought shelter.
Style:
tense, crime drama, psychological thriller, suspense, tension
Plot:
abusive husband, investigation, small town, domestic violence, female protagonist, murder investigation, stalking, moral ambiguity, cover up, revenge, paranoia, isolation ...
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam in the world. The landslide formed a 250-meters wave and 50 million cubic meters of water ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot:
political corruption, dam, disaster, landslide, corruption, corrupt official, tragic event, social relations, society, catastrophe, mourning, cover up ...
Time:
60s
Place:
alps
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
Style:
serious, dramatic, emotional, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
domestic abuse, female protagonist, survivor, prison life, wrongful imprisonment, psychological trauma, legal battle, biopic, courtroom, escape, survival, female empowerment ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, juvenile, tense, bleak, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
rape, murder, justice, wrongful accusation, miscarriage of justice, trauma, courtroom, investigation, moral dilemma, teenager, guilt, social commentary ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, intense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, bleak, political thriller, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, massacre, trial, political corruption, investigation, cover up, conspiracy, mafia, true crime, corruption, justice, civil unrest ...
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, melancholic, tragic
Plot:
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253
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style:
realistic, serious, period piece, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, working class, unemployment, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, prairie, great depression, drought, family drama ...
Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
53%
593
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, bleak, melancholic, period piece, grim ...
Plot:
survival, hunger, starvation, poverty, fatherhood, desperation, loss, grief, trauma, social injustice, moral ambiguity, mental breakdown ...
Time:
1840s, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The armed conflict between the Philippine military and the communist resistance at the beginning of the 1990s forms the backdrop to this study of three individuals who, for different reasons, are trying to resolve an untenable situation.
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, bleak, reflective ...
Plot:
lie, life is a bitch, relationship problems, conflict, couple relations, relationships, social problems, wartime, social realism, armed conflict, survival, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
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Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, intense, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
48%
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Country: Serbia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
national identity, social injustice, identity crisis, moral dilemma, oppression, occupation, nationalism, ethnic conflict, class conflict, resistance, betrayal, revenge
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He ...
Style:
historical drama, tragic ending, period piece, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
biopic, outlaw, manhunt, social commentary, class conflict, folk hero, poverty, social injustice, moral ambiguity, heroism, anti establishment, defiant ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Gallura, the mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – historically documented – is causing bloodshed in the region. Bastiano Tansu, a deaf-mute since birth, is one of its protagonists. Mistreated and marginalized since his ...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, gloomy, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
family feud, feud, male nudity, mute, vendetta, murder, hostility, love, family tragedy, family relations, large family, enemy ...
Time:
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Place:
sardinia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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crime drama, emotional, intense, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The Death Prosecutor (...) [focuses] on a significant court case in the period of the post-1956 retaliations, through the true story of a newly graduated prosecutor, Endre Grátz.
...
Style:
historical drama, tense, serious, bleak, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prosecutor, political repression, courtroom drama, cold war era, justice, biopic, social commentary, ethical dilemma, victimization, bureaucracy, investigation, morality ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
prison, revolt, concentration camp, oppression, escape, brutality, resistance, gulag, dehumanization, injustice, forced labor, political repression ...
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Place:
kazakhstan, soviet union, ussr
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Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Almost casually, the young concrete worker Bastian kills a tramp. The police believe it was an accident and so the murder remains undiscovered for the time being.
Style:
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Plot:
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