Movies like Crocodile 2014
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Crocodile (2014)
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Original name: Bwaya
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Divina is preparing for her daughter Rowena’s 13th birthday when she hears shocking news: her daughter has been attacked by a crocodile, her body still missing. As Divina searches for the body of her daughter in the marshlands of Agusan del Sur, she learns a lesson more tragic than her fate: not all predators are underwater. The film is based on actual events.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, touching, bleak, melancholic, independent film, tense, crying
Plot:
search and rescue, crocodile, death of daughter, missing person, tragedy, animal attack, mother daughter relationship, girl, female protagonist, mother and daughter, grief, loss, family tragedy, swamp, mourning, social realism, trauma, village life, isolation, survival, hopelessness, superstition, accident, boat, egg ...
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Most similar movies to Crocodile
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, melancholic, emotional and realistic films with plots about grief, isolation, trauma, female protagonist, loss, mourning and resilience mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Crocodile: Genesis (2018), The Mourner (1993), Mourning for Anna (2010), Broken Roads (2012), The Great Silence (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The three stories within Genesis explore the notion of family: a woman in her late thirties rediscovers the faith she lost as a child; a mother goes to extreme lengths to ensure that her daughter is saved from the fate she was forced to endure; a ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Plot:
faith, roma, murder of a family, woman, female protagonist, child, murder, gypsy, religious faith, belief in god, mother, murder of family ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In a small village in Rajasthan, India, a woman named Shanichari was born - so named, as shortly after her birth her father died; & her mother, Peewli, ran away with a rich lover, the owner of a drama company, abandoning her. When Shanichari ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, poignant, bleak, offbeat ...
Plot:
female protagonist, grief, mourning, social realism, village life, poverty, class struggle, motherhood, oppression, resilience, patriarchy, loss ...
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90%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, grief, hopes, death of daughter, country house, family relations, teenage life, family problems, mother daughter relationship, mourning, loss, bereavement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Broken Roads is a contrasted portrait of life, dealing with loss, a journey of rediscovery & the hills climbed which forever change us.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
small town, estrangement, teenage life, small town life, youth, family tragedy, loss, coming of age, grandmother grandson relationship, grief, accident, car crash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
87%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, her older brother Erik unexpectedly shows up. He is a recovering alcoholic and clearly depressed, ...
Style:
religious drama, disturbing, suspenseful, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
family secret, family tragedy, brother sister relationship, convent, alcoholic, catholic, siblings, catholicism, nun, undercover, monastery, brother ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Drama starring Norma Aleandro, Conrado Valenzuela, Fabio Aste
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, isolation, estrangement, dictatorship, family drama, relocation, death of mother, grief, coming of age, loss of innocence, child protagonist, social realism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
71%
321
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Months after disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter begins her own increasingly irrational investigation.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
investigation, missing daughter, mother love, female nudity, missing person, mother daughter relationship, reality versus fantasy, missing girl, private investigation, mysterious disappearance, missing child, obsession ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Filipino drama directed by Maryo J. De Los Reyes.
Style:
emotional, realistic, bleak
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pesticide, mourning, loss, poisoning, tragedy, trauma, grief, redemption, healing, small town, family conflict, public health ...
Place:
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Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After a female cadet goes over board during cadet training, an investigation is started.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
female protagonist, navy, investigation, sleep deprivation, journalism, isolation, bullying, hierarchy, survival, trauma, female rivalry, grief ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The plague hits medieval Sweden.
Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, historical drama, captivating ...
Plot:
medieval, plague, danger, on the road, escapades, obsessive quest, love, survival, motherhood, struggle, getting home, resilience ...
Time:
14th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place:
europe
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. Eventually, she loses her mental balance.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, intense, family saga ...
Plot:
mother, wrongful conviction, grief, tragedy, female protagonist, loss, motherhood, family tragedy, mother son relationship, mourning, insanity, mental breakdown ...
Similarity:
61%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Basri, 55 year old, every day walks for miles along the tracks working as a railroad watchman. His nagging thought is finding his son. Eighteen years ago, while the boy was studying at the university in Istanbul, the police took him into custody for ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, art house, existential, tragic ...
Plot:
loss, grief, waiting, mourning, guilt, loner, missing person, trauma, father son relationship, loneliness, regret, isolation ...
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58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
family relations, family drama, female protagonist, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, society, parents and children, family life, life is a bitch, custody, teenage girl, little girl ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
57%
249
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story of the rebuilding of their lives by the survivors of the disaster caused by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, particularly focusing on the struggles of a mother who lost their children.
Style:
emotional, heartbreaking, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
typhoon, survivor, disaster, resilience, bereavement, natural disaster, aftermath, trauma, mourning, grief, loss, survival ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nichole Jolly is a nurse at the town’s hospital, who begins her day as usual, only to face an unimaginable crisis when a wildfire rapidly engulfs the town. Torn between her duty to protect her patients and her desperate need to find her husband ...
Style:
inspirational, heartfelt, uplifting, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
wildfire, courage, heroism, hopes, survival, natural disaster, evacuation, hospital, tribute, biopic, sacrifice, tragedy ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In March of 1920, just outside of Center, North Dakota, Hazel Miner and her two siblings – Emmet and Myrdith – are getting ready to leave school. The students have been sent home early as the weather has started to turn from a gentle snowfall to ...
Style:
historical drama, harsh, period piece, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
snowstorm, blizzard, family drama, siblings, search and rescue, heroism, sacrifice, mourning, isolation
Time:
1920s
Place:
north dakota
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, sentimental, serious, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
finland
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark, bleak, psychological, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
trauma, social realism, loss, grief, guilt, haunting, character study, remorse, reckless driving, accident, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A microcosm of the fathomless suffering that remains more than 16 years since the siege of Sarajevo ended, writer-director Aida Begic’s follow-up to her 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize-winning debut Snow tells the story of two orphaned ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, orphan, society, social decay, youth, siblings relations, post war, siblings, survival, trauma, friendship, resilience ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
51%
151
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, poignant, bleak, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
family tragedy, loss, mourning, father son relationship, grief, character study, family drama, migration, social realism, adaptation, intimate, urbanization ...
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Led to believe his abusive grandfather is responsible for his sister's recent death, Gabriel returns to his humble home in rural New Mexico. Yearning to protect his family, he swears to secretly kill his grandfather, yet at the critical moment, ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
49%
4K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An ordinary suburban girl faces the biggest battle of her life when her sudden disappearance for a brief period leads to a desperate search by her loved ones.
Style:
suspense, sexy, suspenseful, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
survival, alone, search and rescue, missing person, family relations, love of one's life, tragedy, family tragedy, investigation, love, mysterious disappearance, family drama ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
mongolia
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Greece nowadays. Seven different stories about seven persons who have already reached their limits and finally fall apart. Despite their seemingly obvious connection they are simultaneously connected through a common desperate action: the last phone ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, tragicomedy, avant garde ...
Plot:
social realism, multiple storylines, loneliness, isolation, mental health, hopelessness, alienation, desperation, resilience, slow burn, moral ambiguity, survival ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The orphan plus minus an arm
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
orphan, disability, love affair, dishonesty, under the surface, loss, physical disability, orphanage, family tragedy, grief, voyeurism, young girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ayşe returns to her hometown in northeastern Turkey to nurse her gravely ill mother. Before she dies, Ayse’s mother tells her that she will leave Ayse her much loved bee hives to manage. Ayse’s modern life has moved her away from the mountains ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, atmospheric, tension ...
Plot:
village life, loss, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, grief, mourning, bear, character study, getting home, resilience, homecoming, mountain ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
From living a normal life to surviving homelessness in the city of Miami, Peter is a victim of the turbulent U.S. recession during late 2000's. A drama based on true events.
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Plot:
homelessness, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, family relations, misfit, unemployment, social misfits, society, family problems, poverty, hardship, survival ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, usa, florida
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The night Celia unsuccessfully attempts suicide, a teenage girl (Melany) is raped and murdered nearby. Miguel Ángel, the police officer in charge of finding the perpetrator of the crime, digs around Celia and her closest circle, including her two ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
police investigation, suicide attempt, murder, sexual abuse, relationships, problem, male female relationship, investigation, sleuth, murder investigation, crime investigation, character study ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Maggie is struggling to keep her life together after the death of her mother when her addict brother shows up, forcing her to make sense of a reality that may not be what it seems.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, tense, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
sibling relationship, addiction, grief, family drama, trauma, female protagonist, character study, mourning, family secret, traumatic past, confrontation, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Julia is a mother, or rather, one of many mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, who have had their lives torn apart by the widespread violence in a country waging a war against its women. Julia is searching for Ger, her daughter. And in her ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, daughter, vanished man, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, missing person, problem, family problems, mysterious disappearance, investigation, bereavement, women's rights ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
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Similarity:
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