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Henri (2013)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a (slightly) retarded woman who dreams of love, sexuality, normality
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
mentally challenged, love and romance, unfulfillment, dull life, misfit, social misfits, looking for love, death of wife, dancing, mental disorder, handicapped, beach, restaurant, hospital, pigeon, funeral, loss of wife, seaside, rumor, singing, song, swimming pool, ashes, french fries, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and gloomy films with plots about unfulfillment, love and romance, family relations, misfit, life is a bitch, friendship and society mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Henri: The Bird (2011), Something in the Way (2013), Me Too (2009), 1001 Grams (2014), White Nights on the Pier (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman, withdrawn from life, rescues a live bird that had been trapped in the wall of her apartment.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot:
strong female presence, estrangement, restaurant, women, movie theatre, bird, food, beach, kiss, cigarette smoking
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ahmad, a porn obsessed taxi driver from Jakarta, falls for the beautiful young prostitute Kinar and struggles with sexual frustration and misguided piety.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
obsession, dull life, social misfits, misfit, strong sexual content, society, prostitution, prostitute, religions or cults, unfulfillment, taxi, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
indonesia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Daniel - a recent university graduate with Down's Syndrome - falls in love on his first day at work in the Department of Social Services. Laura is an outsider who spends her nights in the city's crowded clubs and singles' bars, ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
mentally challenged, disability, love, looking for love, love and romance, fall in love, friends, hopes, unfulfilled love, society, college graduate, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula
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83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
self discovery, dull life, unfulfillment, scientist, frustration, estrangement, love, women, father daughter relationship, bittersweet, love and romance, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, scandinavia, france, europe, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.
Style:
stylized, serious, talky, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love and romance, introspection, fall in love, seaport, unfulfillment, love, women
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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176
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
parents and children, family problems, couples, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, strong female presence, pregnant woman, bullfighting, female nudity, church ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, fall in love, friendship, family relations, supportive spouse, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
looking for love, love and romance, single parent, human nature, family relations, destructive relationship, society, social misfits, unfulfillment, culture clash, mother son relationship, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Estonia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. ...
Style:
touching, witty, serious, realistic
Plot:
elderly, friendship, love and romance, boss and employee, power relations, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, obnoxious boss, loneliness, emigration, bittersweet, immigrants ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young man stands in front of a mirror. The night belongs to him. Every evening, he appraises his appearance, attired in a new shirt, leaves his apartment and waits in a poorly lit alleyway for his johns. One night he meets a female prostitute of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
society, gays and lesbians, gender, love and romance, social misfits, prostitute, unlikely couple, fall in love, sexual relations, love triangle, one night stand, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance. By chance, he shares a house with his teenager granddaughter. Claire, at 17, is eager to experience all sorts of things and the sooner the better, and rebels against ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
love and romance, couples, youth, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, estrangement, relationship vs career, haunted by the past, elderly, aging, first love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freddy Angi, separate and homeless, stumbles into strange love affairs, including one with his wife Anna. The two meet now and then as lovers in a hotel room.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, realistic, touching, bleak
Plot:
losing-it hero, couple relations, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, cause and meaning, alcohol abuse, dull life, writer's life, hotel, disintegration, drugs/alcohol
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, hospital, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, cancer, illness, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After meeting during their vacation, two young people with solitary lives suddenly come into a relationship that could benefit both of them.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
fall in love, family relations, love and romance, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, mother son relationship, mountain, snow, cheating wife, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When Frédi loses his mother, he realizes she has passed her healing gift on to him. Frédi rejects it totally, tangled up in his own unhappiness, until a fatal accident changes everything. He is forced to acknowledge that he had healing hands.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, captivating
Plot:
supernatural ability, fall in love, love and romance, supernatural, healing, accident, motorcycle accident, epileptic, coma, motorcycle, fishing, seaside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rachel, 27, is raising her mentally retarded sister Gabby, 24, all by herself. When the social worker finds out she leaves her sister alone in the house while at work, she is forced to place her in a day-care center. For the first time in her life ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy, weird
Plot:
mentally challenged, fall in love, destructive relationship, love and romance, family problems, family relations, love, sister sister relationship, threesome, illness, misfit, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
A little sea resort on the Picardie coast, the last week of august. When handing over the keys to a rented apartment, Sylvain makes the acquaintance of two beautiful women. This is a fabulous occasion for him to escape his routine, single life in ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sincere, humorous, touching
Plot:
love and romance, misfit, physical appearance, looking for love, bittersweet, encounter, male female relationship, beach, seaside, mother daughter relationship, sea, apartment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
mental disorder, isolation, parents and children, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, family problems, family relations, estrangement, misfit, single parent, youth ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
pregnancy, life is a bitch, looking for love, best friends, love and romance, society, social misfits, physical appearance, orphan, friendship, death in childbirth, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
friendship, best friends, friends, strong female presence, unfulfillment, terminal illness, family relations, siblings relations
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
belgium, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Freelance writer in a fashion journal, Claire meets Elisabeth Becker, a movie star. Everything separates them, their characters, their relationships with men, and of course money. Claire is hired as Elisabeth's personal assistant.
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, france
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42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, serious, cult film
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, hopes, unfulfilled love, filmmaking, dealing with death, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, loss of loved one, death ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
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Plot:
drug addiction, redemption, teenager, crumbling marriage, family relations, family problems, addiction, parents and children, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, estrangement ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
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41%
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a rebellious young woman is disease-stricken. Upon being admitted to a nursing home, she finds hope in the most unlikely of places...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
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Story:
A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, touching
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The ...
Style:
rough, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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