Movies like Station

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Station (1981)
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Station (1981)
Original name: 駅 STATION
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Plot: humanity, love, police officer, snow, divorce, suicide, olympics, shooting, train station, live action, suicide note
Time: year 1968, year 1976, year 1979
Place: hokkaido
Keyword: salute

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Most similar movies to Station

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, serious, disturbing and art house films with plots about love, suicide, family relations, husband wife relationship, police, divorce and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Station: Railroad Man (1999), The Yellow Handkerchief (1977), A Distant Cry from Spring (1980), Dearest (2012), Winter's Flower (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Railroad Man (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with ...
Style: art house
Plot: winter, railway, humanity, coal mine, train station, flashback, marriage, doll, supernatural power, father daughter relationship, railway station
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story starts with Kinya, who has recently upgraded his car. He’s a young adult and he’s single so naturally he uses his ride to ahem, look for companions. He offers a ride to a shy girl by the name of Akemi and she reluctantly accepts. From ...
Style: road movie, art house
Plot: road trip, flashback, police, divorce, husband wife relationship, fall in love, breakup, ex convict, homecoming, diarrhea, miscarriage, young love ...
Place: hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the ...
Style: uplifting, art house
Plot: asian history, cousin cousin relationship, asian, suitor, hopes, man boy relationship, loneliness, mysterious stranger, cow, police detective, coffee, horse race ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Dearest (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a prison officer in Hokuriku. At the age of 53 Eiji loses his wife who he loved the ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: road trip, widower, mourning, chance meeting, prison warden, last wish, asian, humanity, tourist, typhoon, car thief, coffee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought ...
Style: emotional, touching, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, tour guide, father son relationship, village, redemption, family relations, parents and children, aging, estranged father, unfulfillment, estrangement, understanding ...
Time: year 2005
Place: china, east asia, tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Winter's Flower (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Kanno (Ken Takakura) is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno ...
Style: epic, thrilling
Plot: yakuza, ex convict, betrayal, guardian, revenge motive, henchman, prison, revenge, correspondence, going straight
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
To Each His Own (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Takashi Aoyama has way too much work to do and pushes himself mentally too hard. He blacks out and collapses at a railroad station. When he is about to be hit by a train, he is saved by Yamamoto. After his encounter with Yamamoto, Takashi recovers ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, twisted, queer cinema
Plot: suicide attempt, hopes, suicide, gay, social problems, office work, changing lives, job, life is a bitch, relationships, ex classmate, office worker ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.
Plot: love, divorce, murder, revenge, courtroom, lawyer, true crime
Place: san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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A Report (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 1964 Finnish drama.
Plot: love, media, doomed romance, fight, ship, sailor, young adult, tragic romance, reporter, female nudity, suicide, harbor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Whose Daughter Is She? (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Whose Daughter is She?
Plot: parents, teen social issues, dilemma, youth, love, divorce, widow, custody battle, custody, mother child relationship, child custody, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Dog × Police: The K-9 Force (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Yusaku Hayakawa dreams of becoming a detective, but works as a trainer for police dogs. When Yusaku gets an albino shepherd named Shiro, he forms a special bond with him. Everyone says that Shiro does not have the abilities to become a police dog, ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: police dog, dog training, human animal relationship, police, dog, police officer, owner dog relationship, teamwork, police detective, investigation, police investigation, animal human communication ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Shadow (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Adapted from Peyami Safa’s novel Selma and Her Shadow, the movie tells the story of Selma. Selma (Görkem Yeltan) is the ultimate femme fatale whose alluring and seductive nature and irresistible charms exude an aura of death for men.
Style: neo noir
Plot: femme fatale, poem, love, suicide, cigarette smoking, murder, woman smoker
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Gulag Barashevo (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Artists, Poets, Writers, Musicians, and Dissidents, Husbands and Wives, in the Marxist USSR GULAG camps of Barashevo and Vorkuta, suffer in and survive their Gulag death camps. It is a ultimately a spiritual struggle.
Style: spiritual
Plot: marxist, artist, love, genocide, humanity, courage, freedom, dissident, gulag
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Pitong Dalagita (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When six girls and a guy all teenagers are found with their wrists slit on a high school playground, it's left to their guidance counselor to try to make sense of the mystery behind the apparent suicide pact. Told in nonlinear fashion, the ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, psychological, suspense
Plot: suicide, love, friendship, self discovery, teenager, lesbian, school, muse, coming of age, life, gay, teen romance
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Hurt (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mandy White is a cheerleader. Dan LaCoy is a football player. Jason Dobbs is a bully. Eli Barker is an artist. Asia Borg is a foster kid. What they all have in common however, is that they are hurting. Each one deals with their own personal issues ...
Plot: alcoholism, student, high school, shooting, suicide, bullying, death, depression, teenager
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Maborosi (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.
Style: art house, atmospheric, contemplative, slow cinema, retro ...
Plot: suicide, stepbrother stepsister relationship, death, self discovery, arranged marriage, train, memory, drinking, water, asian, meditation, mental disorder ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: japan, venice, asia, europe, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Lanterns on Blue Waters (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his ...
Style: bilingual
Plot: national identity, grandson, emigration, letter, loyalty, fishing, family conflict, island, world war two, flashback
Place: hiroshima japan, hawaii, pearl harbor
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: life is a bitch, world war two, parents and children, nationalism, wartime life, political unrest, japanese military, state affairs, unsupportive parent, single parent, death in the family, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Yumechiyo's Diary (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man ...
Plot: cancer, arrest, accidental death, son murders father, river, actor, spa, accidental killing, geisha, terminal illness, skiing, police ...
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29%
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Werther (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. ...
Plot: boy, teacher, husband wife relationship, suicide, father son relationship, love, male female relationship, surgeon, tutor, tragic event, house, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Death of John L. (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Zbigniew Gasior, a thirty year old singer, is a youth idol. Despite fame, money and success with the ladys, he can't neglect the emptiness in his life. The shattered dreams of his friends are not really a help, to ease his existential pains.
Plot: promiscuity, crisis, loneliness, idol, depression, musician, singer, suicide, divorce, birthday, prostitute, star ...
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28%
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Sammohanam (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sammohanam tells the story of a mysteriously seductive girl, Pennu (Archana) in a quiet village to which she has temporarily relocated, in search of her missing grandfather, Karuvan Valyachan. She creates a strange chasm among male folks, breaking ...
Plot: mystery woman, rural setting, myth, transformation, uncle niece relationship, village, death of uncle, puzzle, caste system, love, friend, suicide ...
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28%
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Bona (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A scorned teenager gets revenge on the aging gigolo who took advantage of her while pursuing other women.
Style: independent film
Plot: love, movie actor, revenge, fan, shooting, gigolo, obsessed fan, water, slum, bathtub, taking a bath
Place: manila philippines, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Nargess (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law.
Plot: iranian, age-gap relationship, police officer, love, love triangle, hospital, police, muslim, islam, thief, theft, older woman younger man relationship
Place: iran
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26%
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Sukitomo (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Drama following a young boxer Tomokazu and his relationship with his best friend Yoshiko and sister Misao as while he's training for an important match. His sister and friend have always been there for him, supporting him, but Tomokazu is about ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, romantic
Plot: gay, secret love, love triangle, sibling relationship, brother sister relationship, romantic triangle, relationships, friends, romantic relationship, relationship problems, love and romance, love interest ...
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26%
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Brotherly Love (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also ...
Plot: madness, love, psychiatric hospital, female nudity, mental illness, mental institution, farm, incest, brother sister relationship, sibling relationship, dance, shooting ...
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26%
Hana Yori Dango: Final (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Domyoji holds an extravagant press conference to announce his wedding to Makino the following spring. The press is playing her up like a modern-day Cinderella and everything seems to be going well. Later, the families offer congratulations to the ...
Style: dorama, touching, sentimental, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: teen romance, first love, elite, romantic rivalry, friendship between men, love and romance, rich man poor woman, jealousy, wedding, schoolgirl, violinist, temper ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Calm (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into ...
Plot: bigger dreams, strike, labor union, corruption, politics, twenty something, ex convict, shipyard, worker, construction worker
Time: year 1978, year 1976, year 1977, year 1980, year 1979
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Thursday (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day ...
Plot: family relations, father son relationship, love, beach, divorce, priest, high society, soccer, seaside, diary, zoo, instructor ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Money Buys Happiness (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man and a woman, unpleasant bickering nitwits both, push a big stupid metaphor (in the shape of a piano) across Seattle.
Style: spiritual
Plot: flowers, family relations, husband wife relationship, friend, interview, marriage, hanging, piano, children, love, suicide, son ...
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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