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Frost (1997)
160
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min.
Story:
Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, mother and son meet people to offer them shelter... Crushed by their own poverty, or dominated by their feelings of being lost, these people just hurt them deeper and they can be nothing other than stations of their continuous escape
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, road movie, crying
Plot:
christmas, boy, domestic violence, drunk, apartment building, new year, dancing, train, escape, violence, mother, hotel, sleeping, fire, church, bare breasts, cow, telephone call, night, amusement park, hotel room, stuffed toy, mother son relationship, bar, young ...
Place:
east germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic and realistic films with plots about cigarette smoking, dancing, female nudity, telephone call, kiss, death and bus mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Frost: Fate (1994), Fallen (2005), Few of Us (1996), 24 Bars (2007), Liverpool (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
122
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The paths of people from various countries cross during the course of one night. They speak different languages, but they are fatefully bound together by the solitary quest for happiness and deliverance. Sloping paths are all that's left for ...
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, experimental, apocalyptic, crying ...
Plot:
transgression, redemption, desire, apocalypse, rape, boredom, minimalism, hate, hopes, desperation, female nudity, money ...
Place:
germany
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293
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
One night, Matiss Zelcs, an employee of the Latvian national archive in Riga, notices a woman on a bridge. After passing by her without preventing her suicidal fall into the depths, a sensation of failure and guilt changes his life. He cannot forget ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, contemplative, intense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
suicide, loneliness, guilt, redemption, obsession, existential crisis, desperation, missing person, soul searching, memory, regret, isolation ...
Place:
latvia
Similarity:
81%
726
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, silent ...
Plot:
horse riding, snow, drinking, village, minimalism, underground, love letter, post soviet, wilderness, survival, landscape, alienation ...
Place:
siberia
Similarity:
58%
201
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It is Christmas Eve. Separated from her young son, Helly struggles for money. A solitary man, Didier pays her to play his fiancée for the night. But the act comes to a tragic end. Left stunned, Helly meets Marie, who takes her in, on her way to the ...
Style:
touching, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
prostitute, jazz, unfulfillment, hopes, couples, one day, christmas eve, society, christmas, taxi, looking for love, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems, sick mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The fate of Nora, a supermarket cashier who lives happily with her boyfriend Aron, and that of Natan, a loving father who works as a night watchman, cross paths when misfortune turns their lives upside down.
Style:
crying
Plot:
supermarket, father daughter relationship, woman, heist gone wrong, treatment, rain, leukemia, blood, violence, pub, death of boyfriend, punched in the face ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
germany
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
chess, peasant, terrorism, mafia, death, funeral, family relations, hopes, farm, social worker, estrangement, family problems ...
Time:
year 1981, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy, germany, southern italy ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style:
psychological, touching, emotional, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
estrangement, parents and children, single parent, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, redemption, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, germany, italy, berlin germany, milan italy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Road movie about two children searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.
Style:
road movie, serious, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
on the road, youth, children, soldier, siblings relations, life is a bitch, human nature, mother daughter relationship, greek, father daughter relationship, pursuit, fear ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
germany, greece, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Using few words and gorgeous imagery, this is a poetic painting of a family, each in their own space on an August afternoon.
Style:
slow cinema, poetic, lyrical, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
family drama, slice of life, intimate, summer, character study, memory, minimalism, bittersweet, silence, daily life, underground, generation ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
37%
691
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In EVOLUTION, acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber (PIECES OF A WOMAN) return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their ...
Plot:
bare chested male, concentration camp survivor, water, baby, fire, old woman, past, hair, bus, bare breasts, flood, hamster ...
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social
Plot:
mother daughter conflict, second wife, second marriage, bedouin, impossible love, family problems, women in society, marriage, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
israel, middle east, indiana, palestine
Similarity:
100%
621
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other ...
Style:
deep
Plot:
parents and children, family reunited, rain, spirit, night, infidelity, forest fire, female nudity, telephone call, diabetic, dancing, funeral ...
Similarity:
36%
255
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Slovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, a single mother who fled communist Czechoslovakia has to return to her homeland in order to pay an old debt. The risky trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Plot:
communism, single mother, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, museum, cheating wife, flashback, hotel room, bus, cuckolded husband, female protagonist, train, mother ...
Time:
80s, year 1990, year 1981
Place:
czechoslovakia, vienna
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
Style:
sad
Plot:
stepfather, boy, violence, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boyhood, nationalism, distopia, traumatic childhood, little boy, childhood ...
Time:
60s, year 1968
Place:
germany
Similarity:
33%
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, art house, slow cinema, contemplative, aesthetic ...
Plot:
beehive, skinny dipping, male nudity, alienation, classical music, underground, suicide, melancholy, nostalgia, hitchhiking, retirement, wedding ...
Time:
year 1986
Place:
greece
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Lithuania, France, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown ... A series of faces, gestures and images both real and imagined time. (A fragmentary narrative without dialogue and depicts several people in ...
Style:
poetic, avant garde, slow cinema, atmospheric, art film ...
Plot:
post soviet, children, symbolism, national identity, dance, minimalism, haunting, ritual, alienation, underground, poetry, folklore ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
32%
688
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania, Portugal, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Abstract, beautifully photographed and nearly silent but for limited narration, this plotless arthouse outing from Lithuanian cult film director Sharunas Bartas pays tribute to a huge, old lakeside manor and Lithuanian culture.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, silent ...
Plot:
children, nude women, post soviet, underground, mirror, house, surrealism, puppet, nude young male, murder, female pubic hair, perky breasts ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present
Plot:
cowboys and indians, boy, mental illness, family drama, grownups, loss of father, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, death of father, train, birthday, funeral ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
30%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, depressing, intense ...
Plot:
fascism, catholicism, youth, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, unemployment, starving child, sin, society, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, ireland, liverpool, middle east, europe ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, realistic, poignant
Plot:
nightlife, frustration, alcoholism, nightclub, escape, slice of life, social realism, working class, alienation, regret, introspection, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, slovakia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
religion, disability, envy, clergy, self discovery, atheism, volunteer, religions or cults, redemption, healing power, society, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.
Style:
hot
Plot:
women, bare chested male, topless woman, seaside, newspaper, fire, death, teenage girl, beach, doctor, swimming pool, surgery ...
Place:
french riviera, south of france
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13‐year‐old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make ...
Style:
captivating, touching, sincere, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, father son reunion, redemption, self discovery, starting over, parent child relationship, going straight, introspection, hopes, estrangement, parents and children, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
La leggenda del santo bevitore (literally "The legend of the holy drinker") is a 1988 Italian film directed by Ermanno Olmi. It tells the story of a drunken homeless man (played by Rutger Hauer) in Paris who is lent 200 francs by a ...
Style:
neorealism, spiritual, anamorphic, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
homeless man, classical music, spirit, loser, drinking, alcoholic, dancing, time travel, homeless, drug, night, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Lovely Rita is a 2001 Austrian drama film directed by Jessica Hausner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, sexy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father daughter relationship, teen angst, teenage rebellion, parent child relationship, friendship, older man young girl relationship, disco, classmate, middle class, coercion, loneliness, train ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria
Similarity:
26%
986
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A man chop down trees, organizes the trunks, cleans them, stops to defecate, lunch, nap and continues to sell their timber.
Style:
contemplative, art house, existential, meditative, road movie ...
Plot:
minimalism, survival, routine, slice of life, forest, rehearsal, tree, countryside, labor, solitude, nature, humble ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Sharon is a young office worker who sexually teases, seduces and then cries 'rape' on various men just to see them emotionally suffer for her own man-hating, twisted amusement leading to one lovestruck boyfriend being sent to prison, the ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, weird
Plot:
castration, exploitation, violence, lesbian, sex, sex scene, nudity, teasing, rape, nudie cutie, seduction, prison ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on a Japanese novel written by Masako Bando, the story revolves around Kayoko who lives with one man (Tetsuya) but is in love with another (Takumi).
Style:
sincere, serious, contemplative, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot:
village, village life, social differences, society, human nature, social relations, love, male female relationship, mountain, pregnant woman, sculptor, pregnancy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This film follows the exploits of middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early 80's following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently ...
Style:
road movie
Plot:
soccer, nudity, voice over narration, memory, death of wife, computer, casino, surrealism, repeated scene, train station, tarot card, marital problem ...
Place:
rome italy, alaska, bolivia, argentina, brazil ...
Similarity:
24%
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