Movies like The Moving Creatures
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The Moving Creatures (2012)
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Original name: O Que Se Move
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three families, in three different situations, have to deal with a sudden change in their lives, caused by a loss or a re encounter. Three mothers sing their love for their children while facing difficult times. A film about affection on the borders of painful happenings.
Style:
anthology
Plot:
death, suicide, pedophilia, restaurant, singing, loss of son, park, recording studio, mother son relationship
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and rough films with plots about suicide, death, singing, friendship, dancing, male nudity and student mostly in Drama, Musical and Family genres. Some movies like The Moving Creatures: Pop World (2005), Siembra (2015), Lighter Fluid (2016), Kamaladalam (1992), Nagara Haavu (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
18-year old girl, called Slavka, born in a small northern town, comes to Moscow - to become a singer or a real pop-star. She got no cash, but just the business card of one of the most famous music producer, called Larisa. But Slavka appears to be ...
Plot:
producer, lottery, taxi, one against many, street, mental institution, pursuit, pop music, restaurant, girl, park, railway station
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Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A man and his son move from the Pacific coast of Colombia to Cali, but have a difficult time adapting to the city. When his son is killed, the father must go through the hard process of grief while trying to find roots in a place that does not ...
Plot:
female director, church, coffin, death of son, loss of son, singing, dog, fireworks, pig, death, funeral
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84%
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, death, pregnancy, skateboarding, surrealism, skateboard, sex, drug, drugs
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Nandagopan (Mohanlal) is a respected dance teacher at the Kerala Kala Mandiram (alluding to the famed Kerala Kalamandalam repertory which performs Kerala's temple arts). However, his wife Sumangala (Parvathi) commits suicide, causing him to ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, dance performance, poisoning, main character dies, dancing, suicide, dancer, death of protagonist, dance, loss of wife, dance teacher
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68%
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 184 min.
Story:
This is the tale of an angry young man with flavours of Teacher-student relationship, the stubbornness of Ramachari (protagonist) and his attempts at having a romantic relationship.
Plot:
teacher student relationship, teacher, anti hero, sacrifice, anti heroes, prostitute, tragedy, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, interracial romance, anger, arranged marriage ...
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61%
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Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Greece
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Akropol is a musical by Pantelis Voulgaris about the set of a theatre in Athens and the people trying to make their way in the show business. The movie claimed the Music Award in the Valencia Festival, and also the Directing Award in the Cairo ...
Plot:
theater, actor, singing, drunkenness, success, dancing, cross dressing, diva, stage, replacement, child star, pageant ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
220
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
1982 BBC production of Bertholt Brecht's play Baal, starring and with music by David Bowie. Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in ...
Plot:
betrayal, brawl, womanizer, suicidal, rebellious, affair, genius, seducer, poet, suicide, debauchery, death of protagonist
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's foremost artists and with himself in the lead role. But just weeks before the premiere the Swedish Enforcement Authority knocks on the door and throws Michael ...
Plot:
subterfuge, seven deadly sins, clothing store, psychiatric ward, gluttony, caravan, nightmare, surrealism, dancing, singing, bankruptcy, prostitution ...
Place:
eastern europe
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56%
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. Living in a housing project with little support, the odds are obviously against her. Emotionally she ...
Plot:
reggae, babysitting, necklace, musical number, friendship between women, cemetery, father son relationship, working class, singing, nightclub, playing pool, little girl ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
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56%
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An ordinary LDS family has a teenager named Jimmy and he wonders about life and what is coming. Jimmy's sister Julie has a boyfriend on a mission who she plans to marry when he gets home. Jimmy's twin sister Pam is handicapped and is ...
Plot:
immortality, heaven, singing, latter day saints, large family, mormon, afterlife, artist, argument, mormonism, rebelliousness, teenage boy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Monika, a middle-aged wealthy woman, goes through a marriage crisis with her younger husband Linas. A car accident leads Monika to meeting three young girls, Kristina, Egle and Gitana, who happen to be ex-prostitutes extradited from Germany. The ...
Plot:
painting, suicide, prostitution, middle aged woman, husband leaves wife, friendship, death, car accident, storytelling
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51%
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Story:
A story of two friends, one is Thakur and the other a doctor. A journey how two friends egos clash and they turn foes.
Plot:
police, rape, suicide, childhood, pride, death, horse, friendship, doctor
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Emmy Ferguson is a 10-year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35-year-old drug addict who is determined to make this his last day. And Adonna Frost, suffering from advanced ...
Plot:
death, dying, suicide, leukemia, journey, breast cancer, drug addict, drug, family relations, drugs
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51%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Musical from the American Film Theatre series, based on the play Cry The Beloved Country.
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
murder, oldies, interracial relations, racism, courtroom drama, friendship, injustice, friends, show tunes, human spirit, discrimination, custody ...
Time:
70s
Place:
africa, south africa
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47%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Country singer Leana Taylor (Dolly Parton) struggles to escape from her controlling manager/boyfriend Hank (John Terry) as well as her troubled past. After turning to her guitarist (Billy Dean), Leanna finally faces her past, including her estranged ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
hopes, love and romance, couples, life is a bitch, ambition, addiction, showbiz, small town life, country, small town, on the road, relationship vs career ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tennessee, usa, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mandy White is a cheerleader. Dan LaCoy is a football player. Jason Dobbs is a bully. Eli Barker is an artist. Asia Borg is a foster kid. What they all have in common however, is that they are hurting. Each one deals with their own personal issues ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, student, teenager, suicide, bullying, death, shooting, depression, high school
Place:
virginia
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46%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Hungary
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion in 1947 Hungary when the Communist Party have just taken ...
Plot:
college, hungarian, confrontation, rebellion, student, protest, debate, politics, revolution, communist, jewish, power ...
Time:
year 1947
Place:
hungary
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà , sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and ...
Plot:
pedophilia, male nudity, boy, male objectification, prostitute, grownups, puberty, coming of age, runaway, gay, female nudity, mining
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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394
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap group but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism, and violence. One by one, they ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, rough
Plot:
music, music band, hip hop, prodigy, ambition, musician's life, rise to the top, rising to stardom, friendship, society, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
latin america, brazil
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42%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
'Slightly Out Of Tune' is about a group of friends who come of age during the political turmoil that plagued Brazil in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band called "Os Desafinados" and become a part ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot:
friendship, love triangle, ambition, rise to the top, fall in love, rivalry, musician's life, youth, society, desire for fame, love and romance, rising to stardom ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
brazil, new york, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
Plot:
killing an animal, grownups, prostitution, veteran, post world war two, death, restaurant, animal abuse, river
Time:
1950s, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three heavily drunk friends break into the Zoo and kill a few deer...
Plot:
suicide, birthday, drunk, friend, neighbor, student, zoo, restaurant, night, militia
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
suicide, hitchhiker, beehive, intercourse, encounter, assault, bee, beekeeper, kiss, death, cinema
Place:
greece
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41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
There were three friends. Someone became the assailant and someone became the victim. Another swings his fists in anger at their broken friendship. Through the director’s creation of young actors and looking into the life of high school boys, the ...
Style:
non-linear, rough, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot:
friendship, high school, classroom, death, high school student, student, violence, father, loss of son, brutality, apology, korean ...
Place:
korea
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41%
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, taxi driver, parent child relationship, embarrassment, talking after sex, male nudity, father son relationship, camera, shower, masturbation, smoking in bed, sex scene ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Deserted by his father, and dislocated by the Second World War, Paul is a boy who wants affection and attention and cannot find it at home. For a while, he becomes the pet of some German soldiers, running errands for them. Later, he helps the ...
Plot:
pedophilia, male homosexuality, occupied france, world war two, lgbt teen, nudity (full frontal - brief), butt naked, gay, bare breasts, public humiliation, female nudity, homosexual ...
Time:
1940s
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38%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: West Germany, Portugal, France, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
Plot:
mother son relationship, mental instability, mental disorder, rose, gay interest, homosexual, opera, art, love, farm, male nudity
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38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Plot:
balkan war, loss of parents, suicide, vendetta, horse, village, death, aunt, death of parents, folk dance, killing an animal, death of parent ...
Time:
year 1917
Place:
crete
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Xiao Bo (Yu Bo) lives in a world where the lines defining men from women are constantly dissolving.
Plot:
father son relationship, incest, transsexual, dancing, male nudity, gay interest, christianity, death, dance, pyramid, singing, drum ...
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37%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A young man travels to Kathmandu to find his long-lost sister who is with a band of hippies and bring her back to the family. But doing so may be more difficult than he thought.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, cult film
Plot:
reunion, missing person, rescue, danger, memory loss, siblings relations, bollywood, religions or cults, leaving home, social relations, family relations, suicide ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
nepal
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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