Movies like Sal 2011

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Sal (2011)
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Sal (2011)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Chile, Argentina
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A screenwriter travels to Northern Chile to research his script for a Western thriller but ends up getting more than he bargained for.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: filmmaking, filmmaker, irony, mistaken identity, survival, escapades, struggle for survival, violence, desert, director, modern western, western hero, adventure

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Most similar movies to Sal

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, disturbing and suspense films with plots about violence, survival, struggle for survival, danger, murder, life is a bitch and escapades mostly in Drama, Western and Thriller genres. Some movies like Sal: Bald Mountain (2013), 1st Time 16mm (2008), Never Grow Old (2019), La rabbia (2008), Heaven's Door (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bald Mountain (2013)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, neo noir
Plot: gold mine, golddigger, greed, gangster, betrayal by friend, get rich quick scheme, friendship, greedy man, violence, social problems, escapades, gold ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: brazil
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95%
1st Time 16mm (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid.
Style: psychological, captivating, experimental, disturbing
Plot: movie business, filmmaking, film producer, filmmaker, ambition, film industry, financial problem, money problems, award
Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Never Grow Old (2019)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Ireland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: violence, outlaw gang, hanged woman, death, murder, husband wife relationship, funeral, adaptation, brutality, society, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: 19th century
Place: oregon, ireland, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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La rabbia (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, independent film, intellectual
Plot: filmmaking, director, actor, surrealism, filmmaker, social problems, life philosophy, lifestyle, self discovery, producer, male nudity, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Heaven's Door (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable illness and are nearing death. When one reveals that they have never been to the ocean, they embark on a comical adventure to see the sea.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: adult child friendship, fighting illness, unlikely friendships, friendship, child illness, illness, stolen money, escapades, friends, money
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Endless Night (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings ...
Style: captivating, serious, psychological, tense, stylized ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, couples, escapades, danger, friendship, women, biopic, woman, friends, visceral, struggle for survival ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s
Place: greenland
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Belly of the Sea (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story: June, 1816. A French navy frigate ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. Attempts to free the board were futile - the crew had no choice but to abandon ship. Since the available boats were not enough to accommodate the entire crew, the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: shipwreck, ocean, sea, raft, struggle for survival, storm at sea, survival, drowning, madness, male pubic hair, death, captain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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14 Kilometers (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, educational ...
Plot: desert, immigrant, survival, border crossing, stranded in the desert, illegal immigrant, unlikely friendships, illegal alien, smuggling, social problems, struggle for survival, nature ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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They Die by Dawn (2013)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
Story: Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhem ensue.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, spaghetti western
Plot: violence, escapades, criminal, bandit, fast draw, bounty, gunslinger, gunned down, shooter, gang member, money, gunfight ...
Place: oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 5.2
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The Burning (2014)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Kaí is a mysterious shaman who emerges from the Rio Paraná to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of cold-blooded mercenaries hired to force them to sell their land.
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Plot: jungle, vengeance, rescue, survival, rivalry, danger, abduction, gang, kidnapping, heroes, poverty, dead body ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Trees of Peace (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense
Plot: genocide, survival, women's rights, struggle for survival, woman in danger, political unrest, female protagonist, civil rights movement, leader, sorority, deathtrap, civil rights ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: rwanda, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Year of the Tiger (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: prison, escape, violence, brutality, prison escape, free will, devastation, freedom, tsunami, escaped prisoner, convict, crash ...
Time: year 2010
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Heart of the Storm (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the eve of a hurricane threatening New Orleans a dangerous convict escapes from prison with two accomplices. When the high winds and flooding disrupt their escape plan they're forced to take shelter in the remote bayou home of Cassie and her ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: tornado, escaped prisoner, storm, hostage, hurricane, survival, trapped, trap, mother daughter relationship, struggle for survival, family relations, kidnapping
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Coyote (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Hungary
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Muggy heat, small-town bleakness, unspoken social problems, hierarchy fights. This is Tuzko town, somewhere in Hungary, nowadays. Here comes Misi who inherits his grandfather's house and his property. Misi is a disillusioned, frustrated, ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: conflict of interest, refugee, tragic love, small town, society, relationship problems, fight, life is a bitch, social problems, love affair, small town life, hunting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Mountie (2011)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A lone Mountie has come to town to clean up the crime and corruption after finding an innocent man dead. As he sets up home, in town, he discovers endless amounts of illegal activity taking place behind closed doors. Once he uncovers the men behind ...
Style: exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: rivalry, police shootout, fighting crime, murder, danger, corruption, lone wolves, escapades, civil war, criminal heroes, drug abuse, clergy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Up Among the Stars (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Víctor is a film director who is overcome by his own misfortunes. He is an alcoholic, unemployed and terribly depressed, largely because of the death of his wife. However, Victor is still the best in one thing: telling fantastic stories to his ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: father son relationship, filmmaker, life is a bitch, ambition, social problems, family relations, father and son, money problems, filmmaking, dysfunctional family, family problems, life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.2
 189
After the End (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After years on his own in a post-pandemic Oklahoma, a 17 year-old doomsday prepper meets a pregnant girl who brings companionship, but also the danger of a gun-wielding group of survivors hellbent on building a new world.
Style: tense, suspense, apocalyptic, disturbing, captivating
Plot: grownups, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, survival, life is a bitch, teenager, dream world
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Savage State (2019)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The American Civil War breaks out… A family of French colonists, settled in Missouri, decides to go back to France. Edmond, Madeleine and their three daughters have to cross the whole country to reach New York. They are led by the mysterious and ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, disturbing
Plot: friendship, forbidden love, danger, chase, violence, rivalry, society, murder, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Girl on the Mountain (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: protector, forest, adult child friendship, life risking, nature, teenager fighting adult, struggle for survival, violence, child fighting adult, recluse, evil, girl
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Gunslingers (2009)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While roaming the wild plains on a quest to find a cache of hidden riches, sharp-shooting bounty hunter Butch (John Elliott) and his outlaw companions come across a deadly gang with supernatural powers in this stylized Western. As the hunt for the ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: gang, bounty hunter, rivalry, plague, fugitives, chases and races, cowboy, gunfight, showdown, travel, danger, old west ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.8
 174
Big Muddy (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Martha Barlow, a modern day outlaw, must reconcile her dark past after her teenage son commits a horrible crime.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, parents and children, danger, on the run, teenage son, family relations, small town, survival, female nudity, suicide, outlaw ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.3
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Cops (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young and eager police recruit Chris shoots a mentally ill man on duty. He is celebrated a hero, but soon after, traumatic symptoms begin to surface. In a desperate attempt not to be exposed by his tough superior Konstantin, he resorts to excessive ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense, psychological
Plot: police, police officer, cop, shooter, special agent, police detective, life is a bitch, violence, mental disorder, gunfight, swat team, policeman uniform
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.2
 2K
Summit Fever (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A daring dream to scale the world's most challenging trio of mountains soon turns into a terrifying nightmare for a group of friends when a deadly storm traps the climbers near the summit and cuts off all hope of rescue. With the odds stacked ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot: mountain climbing, alpinism, struggle for survival, mountaineer, rock climbing, mountain, ambition, survival, storm, problem, climbing, skiing ...
Place: alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Last Son (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sam Worthington stars as Isaac LeMay, a murderous outlaw who learns he is cursed by a prophecy: one of his children will kill him. To prevent this, he hunts down each of his estranged children including long-lost son Cal (Colson Baker). With bounty ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: evil, murder, family curse, murderer, wasteland, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, curse, criminal, civil war, outlaw, violence ...
Time: 19th century
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 657
Dubbel-8 (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The arrival of a beautiful new stranger in town prompts two boys to spend their summer holidays enticing the young woman to act in a short-film. However their motivation is purely that of seeing her naked.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, erotic
Plot: filmmaking, sexual fantasy, friendship, village, teenage life, teenager, relationship problems, relationships, sexual desire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, sexual relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.3
 48
Miriam (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: survival, world war two, survivor, holocaust, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, new identity, female protagonist, fight, prison, soldier, suffering ...
Time: 1940s
Place: lithuania
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Shadow on the Mesa (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Wes Rawlins is considered one of the best bounty hunters in the West. His life changes when he finds out that his mother is dead and the man responsible is still at large. Wes believes that his long lost father Ray Eastman is responsible and sets ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: gunfight, sheriff, bounty hunter, father son relationship, fighting crime, bandit, absent father, fight for justice, loss of mother, father son reunion, murder investigation, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Gone Are the Days (2018)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of notorious outlaw Taylon Flynn, a man hell-bent on exiting this life in a blaze of glory. His plans go awry upon the discovery of the sordid life his estranged daughter is forced to live. To save her, he must summon the inner demons he ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, wild
Plot: texas ranger, old west, redemption, estranged daughter, rescue, murder, danger, criminal, family relations, civil war, bank robber, female nudity ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Story: A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, teenage girl, teenage life, money problems, violence, family problems, teenage protagonist, society, teenager, juvenile delinquency, social problems
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbery silent film featuring real outlaws. Tilghman reluctantly agrees, not realizing everyone's lives will never be the same.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense
Plot: gunslinger, deputy sheriff, historical figure, sheriff, robbery, heist, filmmaking, cinema, criminal, marshal, bank robbery
Time: 19th century
Place: oklahoma, oklahoma city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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