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Land in Between (1996)
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Original name: Terra di mezzo
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
SILHOUETTE: Nigerian prostitutes dealing with miscellaneous customers EUGLEN & GERTIAN: Daily recruitment of Albanian immigrants seeking work but without working residency permit. SELF SERVICE: a night with Ahmed, egyptian illegal gas station attender, who has been living in italy for many years
Style:
realistic, neorealism, melancholic, intercultural, semi documentary, independent film
Plot:
immigrant, immigration, social realism, social commentary, survival, prostitution, exploitation, poverty, street life, working class, city life, diaspora, slice of life, sex work, isolation, human rights, xenophobia, racial tension, empathy, gas station, nightshift, prostitute, racism, television, landscape ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, independent film and bleak films with plots about social realism, working class, poverty, survival, character study, slice of life and isolation mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Land in Between: The Whores (1994), Gregorio (1985), Prowl (2016), Amerika Square (2016), Naples to New York (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The prostitutes of Palermo are pictured in this episodic Italian drama. The film lacks a real unifying thread as it presents scenes from the lives of 7 hookers. Five are women. One is a man, and one is a transvestite. In one episode, an aging ...
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Plot:
making love, pimp, sexuality, survival, mature, working class, character study, street life, city life, social realism, exploitation, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, palermo italy, sicily
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Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Gregorio, a boy from the impoverished countryside of Peru emigrates to Lima, the capital city. Experiencing a cultural shock due to the chaotic nature of the city, he must challenge himself to learn Spanish, since his native tongue is Quechua, and ...
Style:
melancholic, neorealism
Plot:
social realism, language barrier, class conflict, immigration, social commentary, survival, resilience, city life, realism, child protagonist, street life, adaptation ...
Place:
peru, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Cover-boy racconta l’amicizia fra Ioan (Eduard Gabia) e Michele (Luca Lionello) l’uno rumeno e l’altro italiano. Due mondi che casualmente s’incontrano: l’esperienza di chi, figlio della rivoluzione post comunista, è fuggito dal proprio ...
Style:
intercultural, realistic, independent film, bleak, melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
italy, romania, eastern europe
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64%
72
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An ordinary day in Romania. Under a highway exit close to Bucharest, Lidia and Denisa are changing their clothes; warm pullovers and sneakers are exchanged for tight tops and heels. The two are then waiting for clients, an icy wind gusting around ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, slow cinema
Plot:
prostitution, sex work, poverty, social realism, everyday life, working class, survival, character study, desperation, female friendship, resilience, humiliation ...
Place:
romania, bucharest
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, UK, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tattoo artist Billy and unemployed Nakos are best friends from Athens. Old bachelor Nakos is a racist, obsessed with the victim mentality, and he rages at Greece’s increasing immigrant numbers. Billy, however, is in favor of foreigners coming. ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
refugee, greek, syrian refugee, xenophobia, immigration, racism, lifestyle, changing lives, social problems, social issues, immigrant, city life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greece, athens greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, neorealism, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
post war, journey, immigration, struggle, social realism, hopes, resilience, working class, poverty, coming of age, friendship, survival ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s
Place:
new york, naples italy, italy
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
EDEN deals with what could possible be a future for most people caught up in the current economic climate in Ireland and how we have taken a bite of the financial apple and borrowed beyond our means. We follow Adam who has been left unemployed and ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, bleak, existential, grim
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Story:
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
survival, poverty, struggle, illegal immigration, exploitation, social realism, city life, working class, resilience, hotel, female friendship, class conflict ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hong kong, china
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49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old ...
Style:
serious, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, immigration, poverty, survival, thirtysomething life, life is a bitch, woman, illegal immigrant, 30 year old, life, immigrant ...
Place:
naples italy
Similarity:
47%
105
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A tragic tale of an individual teen prostitute as seen from the lens of her Buddhist neighbor.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
compassion, prostitution, character study, poverty, loss, empathy, social realism, loneliness, urban, slice of life, street life, ethical dilemma ...
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46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Los Jornaleros presents the interwoven stories of three young Hispanic men who come to this country to pursue te American dream and instead end up struggling as day-laborers.
Style:
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Plot:
gay, immigrant, american dream, working class, poverty, survival, frustration, social commentary, struggle, social realism, identity, exploitation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
house arrest, coming of age, mother son relationship, social realism, family drama, loneliness, isolation, slice of life, humanity, identity, poverty, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at ...
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, bleak, neorealism ...
Plot:
poverty, greed, homelessness, tragedy, survival, compassion, drifter, loneliness, class conflict, empathy, desperation, character study ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable thirtysomething man and Mai-Ratima, a 22-year-old Thai girl who accepts a mail order marriage in order to realize her ...
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, melancholic, art house, erotic
Plot:
immigration, poverty, love triangle, social realism, family conflict, interracial relations, domestic violence, exploitation, desperation, loneliness, heartbreak, abuse ...
Place:
thailand, south korea, seoul, east asia
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Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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sex work, prostitution, sexuality, character study, women's issues, prostitute, exploitation, survival, taboo, branding iron, urban, social realism ...
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Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The National Film Board of Canada was one of the guiding forces behind Sitting in Limbo. Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant. Gibbs resents this interruption in ...
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Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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anthology, realistic, melancholic, bleak, poignant ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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239
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 68 min.
Story:
Italian drama
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, bleak
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
How much space does Zeynep take up in this vast universe? This is a city brimming with the struggling and the unemployed; aren’t their lives a bit like the infinite, tiny particles flying through the air? Zeynep is already trying hard to make ends ...
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realistic, bleak, contemplative, melancholic, existential ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, emotional, intense, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
london
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