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Hvem har bestemt? (1978)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The anarchist Ottar is being locked up in a mental institution after a serious of tantrums that involves rage against the machine.
Style:
bleak, period piece, political drama
Plot:
mental institution, paranoia, alienation, authoritarianism, anti establishment, character study, social commentary, rebellion, isolation, existential crisis, anarchism, surveillance, nonconformity, psychological torment, political oppression, counterculture, political satire, protest, hopelessness, moral ambiguity, radicalism, dark humor, activism, police, communism ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, period piece and black comedy films with plots about moral ambiguity, character study, dark humor, psychological drama, social commentary, satire and isolation mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hvem har bestemt?: Goodbye Solidarity (1985), Shadow of a Chance (1974), Ome Cor (2022), Posti (2022), Hotel St. Pauli (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A story about the generation of 1968.
Style:
black comedy, art house, reflective, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, reflective, independent film, period piece, existential ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, historical drama, tense, period piece, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, bleak, emotional, intense, tragic
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Stray, poor, idle, addicted common people can be found easily around us. The politicians and system treat them as puppets. Such people are not considered as human beings. Most of their questions can't be solved but they themselves are a big ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, art house, political drama, tragic
Plot:
poverty, social injustice, social commentary, social realism, street life, addiction, class struggle, abuse of power, oppression, revolution, moral ambiguity, survival ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Jor and Gerda is a loving couple that lives together in Copenhagen. Jor is trying to make a breakthrough as a writer, without any luck so far. His struggles have caused Gerda to provide for them by selling sexual favors on the street.
Jor is filled ...
Style:
erotic
Plot:
male pubic hair, erotic dance, female nudity, oral sex, sex scene, prostitution, nudity, scandinavian girl, sex, cuckolded husband, public sex, sexual torture ...
Place:
germany, copenhagen, hamburg germany, scandinavia
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
Style:
tragicomedy, art house, romantic drama, black comedy, offbeat ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, balkan, europe, central europe
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
Style:
independent film, political thriller, tense, noir, political drama
Plot:
anti establishment, authoritarianism, rebellion, counterculture, propaganda, police chase, youth culture, urban, surveillance, activism, civil unrest, dystopia ...
Time:
near future, 90s
Place:
eastern europe, belgrade, serbia, former yugoslavia
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Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A wealthy middle-aged man at the airport witnesses a tiny incident involving an unknown, perhaps Arab, young man and airport staff. After the young man is confronted directly at the airport toilets, he feels himself subject to an indefinable but ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller
Plot:
paranoia, obsession, suspicion, surveillance, cat and mouse, stalking, airport, confrontation, alienation, isolation, moral ambiguity, slow burn ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Onur is sacked from his job as manager of a pharmaceutical company. He’s not too bothered about being unemployed, but the same cannot be said of his wife Bahar. Onur doesn’t listen to her and becomes indifferent not only to her anxieties but ...
Style:
absurd, melancholic, satirical
Plot:
marital crisis, character study, indifference, family conflict, unemployment, slice of life, intimate, alienation, midlife crisis, deadpan, existentialism, dark humor ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The protagonist is young runaway Barbara Sigel (a Golden Globe nominee for her performance in this film), who has a mad-on against the world. Refusing help from anyone over 30, the runaway likewise rejects the solace of the church. This generation ...
Style:
road movie, tense, suspense, period piece, independent film ...
Plot:
escape, identity crisis, frustration, character study, alienation, family conflict, christian, anger, confrontation, domestic drama, anti establishment, desperation ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, art house, political drama
Plot:
introspection, existential crisis, political repression, character study, social commentary, identity crisis, isolation, alienation, nostalgia, moral ambiguity, class conflict, reflection ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tunisia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers ...
Style:
black comedy, allegory, period piece, philosophical
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
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Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, satirical, dark, melancholic ...
Plot:
marriage, inferiority complex, paranoia, obsession, jealousy, character study, satire, family drama, psychological torment, social commentary, identity crisis, claustrophobia ...
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40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A socially and politically frustrated young man with a troubled past vents his frustrations through a social networking website and unwittingly sparks a revolutionary social movement.
Style:
tense, controversial, intense, political drama
Plot:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, art house, melancholic, satirical, period piece ...
Plot:
propaganda, social commentary, abuse of power, mountain village, injustice, bureaucracy, education, moral dilemma, high school life, small community, revenge, love interest ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very ...
Style:
disturbing, talky, philosophical, black comedy, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
existentialism, sexual abuse, nihilism, humiliation, voyeurism, alienation, drifter, character study, sex scene, rape, cruelty, rapist ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
36%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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68
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Sweden
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
korea
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A pandemic strikes the world. What does quarantine do to a lonely woman's mind? Follow her from sense to insanity. No filters. Just you, her, and her more and more twisted mind.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, satirical, absurd, dramatic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Sleevachan, a farmer who is uncomfortable around women, gets married to Rincy. On the advice of his friends, he gets drunk one night and rapes her, causing her to leave him.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Neil, a punk rock vegetarian, is being forced to go into the family butcher business. He decides to save the world instead.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Anthology film of six shorts by leading Korean directors. Park Chan-Wook, tackles racial prejudice and the economic exploitation of immigrant workers through the real-life story of a Nepalese woman in Korea. Jeong Jae-Eun, tackles the plight of a ...
Style:
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human rights, discrimination, social commentary, racial prejudice, exploitation, immigration, activism, sexism, disability, protest, childhood, gender roles ...
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Story:
Manical portrait of a small businessman.
Style:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
black comedy, satirical, period piece, dark comedy
Plot:
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