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Bodybuilder (2014)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men haven't seen each other for several years.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, tense
Plot:
gym, bodybuilding, bodybuilder, father son relationship, theft, weightlifting, sport competition, training, hiding place, stealing money, estranged father, rivalry, female bodybuilder, petty theft, fitness, muscleman, con artists, escape, sex scene, criminal, cleaning, brother brother relationship, death threat, father son reunion, laundry ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014
Place:
france, lyon
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about family relations, rivalry, brother brother relationship, society, father son relationship, life is a bitch and lifestyle mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Bodybuilder: I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009), Three Worlds (2012), Tomorrow at Dawn (2009), Insecure (2014), The Measure of a Man (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This finely acted, delicate and provocative new film by one of France’s most impressive filmmakers—working here with his son, Nathan—depicts the troubled life of an adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a ...
Style:
captivating, serious, sincere, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, pre-teens
Plot:
mother son reunion, youth, foster child, disorder, adoption, parents and children, haunted by the past, mother son relationship, family problems, family relations, mischievous children, siblings relations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’ daughter, along with succeeding him as the head of a car dealership. One night, while coming back from his bachelor party, he is guilty of a hit-and-run accident, urged by his ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, witnessing a crime, society, righting the wronged, life is a bitch, illegal immigrant, manslaughter, woman, hit and run, immigrant, disorder, dishonesty ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mathieu, a piano virtuoso, goes home to help his brother Paul to take care of their sick mother. Paul is into reenacting old battles, dressing up and getting into character, even dueling if necessary. Mathieu gets involved in this world and play ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
Plot:
obsession, family relations, role playing, revenge, brother brother relationship, duel, honor, pianist, friendship, stage play, rivalry, lgbt ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
532
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, tense ...
Plot:
couples, society, working class, fall in love, immigrant, life is a bitch, misfit, security guard, gang, pursuit, danger, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, political ...
Plot:
unemployment, economic crisis, working class, supermarket, society, petty theft, coworker relationship, layoff, job interview, social realism, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any ...
Style:
emotional, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, divorce, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, love and romance, human nature, couples, family relations, siblings relations, countryside, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, rome italy, europe, brittany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his life, Paul can’t resist the lure of an ambiguous and dangerous relationship with a mysterious ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot:
therapist, dangerous attraction, couples, femme fatale, intrigue, hospital, danger, sister sister relationship, illness, dishonesty, rivalry, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
french politics, politics, workplace, workplace situations, state affairs, boss and employee, disagreement, politician, prime minister, business, female nudity, fatal accident ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On a bridge, one night, a stabbing. There is Pouga. And there is Julien. The film shows the parallel destiny of these two young men who look alike without knowing each other.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
ambition, lifestyle, athlete's life, human nature, criminal heroes, athlete and trainer, multiple storylines, coach, father son relationship, power relations, firefighter, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brussels, belgium
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office, and fearing a miscarriage of ...
Style:
serious, suspense, realistic, tense, atmospheric
Plot:
legal investigation, justice, lawyer, murder trial, trial, courtroom, car accident, doubt, missing person, fight for justice, suspicion of murder, perjury ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
601
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Kosovo, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
10-year-old Nori is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother and then being abandoned by his father Gezim in the Kosovo of the 1990s.After a dangerous and eventful journey, Nori finally arrives in Germany and is ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, art house
Plot:
abuse, boy, punishment, marriage, father son relationship, theft, little boy, bosnian war, children in wartime, migration, stealing, bare chested male ...
Place:
germany, kosovo, bosnia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
farm, estrangement, countryside, workplace situations, workplace, society, nothing goes right, down on your luck, life is a bitch, tradition, chore, solitude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Thailand, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Christophe, a young horse racing jockey from Paris, is filled with hope and ambition. Yet after a race, he tests positive for illegal substances and is subsequently suspended from racing. He decides to move to Macau, in Asia. There his circumstances ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
rivalry, contests and competitions, rise to the top, dishonesty, power relations, lifestyle, gambling, ambition, society, chases and races, athlete and trainer, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
42%
637
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Hua, a young woman from Beijing, is a recent arrival in Paris. Exiled in an unknown city, she wanders between her tiny apartment and the university, drifting between former lovers and recent French acquaintances. She meets Matthieu, a young worker ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, sexual, psychological ...
Plot:
love affair, sexual content, rape, sexual relations, sexual desire, chinese woman, sex scene, couples, destructive relationship, eroticism, fish out of water, interracial sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, unbeknownst to them, a non-authorized biography. Meanwhile, in Brittany, twenty-year-old Bruno, who ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, family in crisis, lovers reunited, dysfunctional family, writer's life, haunted by the past, lifestyle, brother brother relationship, relationships, writers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
41%
585
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Paris 2011. Alex is 27. He's lives off dealing and pays the debts of his brother, Isaac, who after being his support has now become dead weight. When his cousin announces he's going to open a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Alex imagines he can ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, immigrant, lifestyle, society, brother brother relationship, drug dealer, debt, breakup, starting over, friendship, urban, twentysomething life ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, israel
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous ...
Style:
serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
betrayal, life is a bitch, tragic hero, infidelity, love triangle, love and romance, terminal illness, nude girl, couples, unfulfillment, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, menage a trois ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Paul (Sami Bouajila of The Adventures of Felix and The Siege) is a smart, well-educated Frenchman of Arab ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling ...
Style:
sincere, captivating
Plot:
bodybuilder, brother brother relationship, interracial relations, gay brother, gay interest, social relations, family relations, lifestyle, male female relationship, society, relationship problems, family problems ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
not available
Plot:
stealing, shakespeare, pregnancy, criminal, con artists, extortion, theft, pregnant woman, improv, father son conflict, supermarket, theater ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Akim, young Muslim will become imam sees his upset when he is touched by the love of Christ ... In a family chaos that opposes his brother identity Akim attempt to be accepted by his family.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, self discovery, religions or cults, society, cause and meaning, family in crisis, introspection, life turned upside down, religion, belief in god, culture clash, faith ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, memory loss, investigation, haunted by the past, flashback, family relations, society, family life, amateur detective, friendship, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, redemption, hopes, weekend, loneliness, neglected child, women, family problems, dysfunctional family, existential loneliness, young boy, manor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, french riviera, south of france
Similarity:
40%
682
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custody of the children. The children Okyesa and Tsali must grow up in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, father son relationship, on the run, parents and children, custody, family relations, feral man, parents separation, hidden identity, teenage life, wildlife, nature ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
40%
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211
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, life is a bitch, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
634
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
slut, lifestyle, troubled youth, introspection, materialism, youth, love and romance, nightlife, fall in love, shopping, abortion, slutty attitude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, rough
Plot:
factory, vengeance, workplace intrigue, misled, parents and children, rivalry, righting the wronged, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations, family relations, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, normandy, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the quiet foothills of Turkey, Faik lives an isolated existence. When his second son brings his boys for a visit, Faik takes the opportunity to pontificate about the law of the land, as he sees it. He shares one unsolicited thought after the ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic
Plot:
farm, who done it, family relations, vengeance, mental illness, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, goat, bullet wound, visual hallucination, paranoia, dog ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
40%
319
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a ...
Style:
tense, sincere, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
sexual content, cuckolded husband, moral dilemma, female masturbation, confined, sex scene, love triangle, love and romance, couples, prison life, crumbling marriage, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.
Style:
erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
gambling, parent child relationship, father son relationship, gambling debt, casino, family problems, gambler, estranged father, father and son, father, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, parents and children, family relations, single parent, bittersweet, teenage boy, father son relationship, orchestra conductor, father son reunion, little boy, boyhood, father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
39%
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