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In Her Place (2014)
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Original name: 인 허 플레이스
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.
Style:
tension, atmospheric, melancholic, art house, suspenseful, grim
Plot:
adoption, pregnancy, motherhood, poverty, secrets, moral ambiguity, class conflict, character study, intimate, ethical dilemma, social inequality, domestic drama, wealth, minimalism, claustrophobia, manipulation, alienation, identity, unsettling, obsession, betrayal, teenage pregnancy, female nudity, sex scene, summer ...
Place:
south korea, asia, korea, canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, suspenseful and atmospheric films with plots about character study, moral ambiguity, psychological drama, obsession, intimate, isolation and slow burn mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like In Her Place: Souvenir (2019), Suffocation (2019), Without Me (2007), Stolen Season (2020), Godsend (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The enigmatic Isabel decides to rent her belly to give birth to the baby of Sara and Joaquin, a possessive couple obsessed with the idea of starting a family.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, motherhood, pregnancy, parenthood, single parent, pregnant woman, unsettling, family problems, parents and children, social problems, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determined to recover at any cost something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma must spend her nights taking care of Clemente, ...
Style:
emotional, psychological thriller, melancholic, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
fear of death, obsession, female protagonist, compassion, character study, loneliness, moral ambiguity, redemption, domestic drama, manipulation, isolation, slow burn ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, single mother, lesbian, existential loneliness, intimacy, secrets, caretaker, young woman, moral ambiguity, trauma, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A therapist spirals into obsession as evidence points that a troubled teen could be her own child surrendered 17 years ago.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, adoption, regret, therapy, identity, motherhood, lifestyle, destiny, troubled past, pursuit, uncover truth, psychologist ...
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68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman who desperately wants a baby asks a girl who is considering abortion to give her the baby instead. The two arrive at an isolated vacation home to spend time in seclusion until the girl gives birth to a baby, but they unexpectedly encounter a ...
Style:
suspense, tension, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy and birth, pregnancy, birth, desperation, woman, pregnant girlfriend, unwanted pregnancy, woman in danger, women, unplanned pregnancy, danger, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends up in murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer. The other is his very own conscience.
Style:
art house, suspenseful
Plot:
conscience, domestic drama, moral dilemma, guilt, moral ambiguity, character study, intimate, realism, witness, murder mystery, apartment building, unsettling ...
Place:
romania, bucharest
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, Guadeloupe
Story:
A small group of people meet in a guest house lost in the middle of nowhere. Disconnected from everything, each will try to understand his destiny. Trapped by the past, they each have to find the key to their existence, like « shadows walking ...
Style:
melancholic, philosophical, art house, poetic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
destiny, character study, isolation, existentialism, redemption, memory, alienation, secrets, identity, moral ambiguity, haunting, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
Style:
intense, serious, bleak, melancholic, grim ...
Plot:
alienation, infidelity, domestic drama, character study, control, power struggle, obsession, manipulation, isolation, family conflict, claustrophobia, revenge ...
Time:
1950s
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56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
The Intestine is the story of Maya, an unhappy young womn, fed up with her monotonous job, filthy apartment, and the responsibilities of caring for her drug-addicted mother. One night she comes across Philip, a man of wealth, and the next morning ...
Style:
suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, one night stand, drug, blackmail, brother sister relationship, death, strange behavior, class conflict, domestic drama, moral ambiguity, character study ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The people of this remote village in the Black Forest don't talk much, but when they do, it's in the Alemannic dialect. Hanna, 21 has traveled far to work here. She shovels manure, milks cows and tries to cope with the farmer, Uwe Kiefer, ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, independent film, bleak ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, character study, intimate, isolation, social realism, alienation, male protagonist, moral dilemma, secrets, financial ruin, mistrust ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
55%
147
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray ...
Style:
emotional, art house, melancholic, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, character study, identity, missing person, grief, loss, motherhood, intimate, obsession ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Two former classmates (one an honest working man with a wife and children, the other a conman) meet at a train station. The conman comes to stay with his old friend and slowly begins to assume the role of master of the house, taking the place of ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, tension, suspenseful, sinister
Plot:
character study, deception, friendship, intimate, identity, working class, moral dilemma, betrayal, impostor, slow burn, machismo, switching roles ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Taru elää ratsutilalla harmonista elämää miehensä Harrin ja tytärpuolensa Ninnin kanssa. Kaikki muuttuu, kun Ninni loukkaantuu hevosonnettomuudessa. Kymmenen vuotta sitten Ruotsiin lähtenyt Ninnin biologinen äiti Eve kutsutaan paikalle ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, tense, melancholic, suspenseful
Plot:
motherhood, half sister, family secret, family drama, sisters, accident, identity, mother and daughter, introspection, intimate, conflict, grief ...
Similarity:
51%
75
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
About an existentialist alienation drama between a bourgeois couple caught in a stationary environment. Between a man and a woman lost in themselves.
Style:
existential, art house, melancholic, intellectual
Plot:
marriage crisis, alienation, infidelity, domestic drama, midlife crisis, identity crisis, routine, renaissance, married couple, minimalism, claustrophobia, intimate ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
51%
107
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the service quarters of a grand hotel, a young maid and a man meet in a situation which breaks all certainties and identities.
Style:
ambiguous ending, psychological thriller, melancholic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
hotel, identity, switching roles, identity crisis, character study, female protagonist, manipulation, claustrophobia, class conflict, symbolism, isolation, male protagonist ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ines, who wants to change who she is and become someone else in order to cover up her insecurities. When she accompanies her boyfriend Lucas on a business trip to Norway, Ines meets a half-Japanese tourist, Maria, who instantly fascinates her. ...
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, art house ...
Plot:
self discovery, obsessive love, female protagonist, identity, character study, impostor, double life, deception, identity theft, slow burn, moral ambiguity, danger ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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173
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
motherhood, domestic drama, character study, identity, female protagonist, gender roles, intimate, realism, family secret, trauma, friendship, intimacy ...
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, art house, melancholic, intercultural ...
Plot:
boy, secrets, tragedy, loss, immigration, adoption, migration, humanist, custody battle, grief, identity, loneliness ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The Bay of Love and Sorrows is a haunting modern tragedy set on the rural shores of New Brunswick's Bay of Miramichi. In late summer 1973, Michael Skid, the son of a well-to-do judge, returns home and rents a dilapidated farm. He begins to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
manipulation, small town, criminal heroes, rivalry, cons and scams, rich and poor, dishonesty, generosity, vengeance, society, countryside, community ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. Nina, a doctor, has taken a few days off. Her husband Frieder is busy laying tiles, while their daughter Charlotte plays in her new room. But Nina is ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, ambiguous ending, slow cinema, erotic ...
Plot:
domestic drama, alienation, female protagonist, character study, infidelity, sex, midlife crisis, isolation, home improvement, renovation, symbolism, brother sister relationship ...
Similarity:
43%
377
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep ...
Style:
art house, thought provoking, enigmatic, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
mother daughter reunion, mother daughter relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, runaway, escapades, female protagonist, character study, introspection, regret, trauma, alienation, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a security guard in a retirement home spirals out of control when he catches his wife with a lover, pushing him to the brink of insanity.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, betrayal, midlife crisis, marital infidelity, jealousy, domestic drama, suspicion, relationship problems, family problems, suspicion of adultery, marital problem, problem ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
poignant, melancholic, tense, art house
Plot:
orphan, pregnant teenager, motherhood, intimate, domestic drama, sexual assault, childbirth, loneliness, coming of age, isolated community, claustrophobia, haunting ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot, where it's good to go because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people show up one after the other – all of them on the verge of a breakdown – or perhaps a ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, contemplative, existential, art house ...
Plot:
loneliness, empathy, breakdown, character study, rain, trauma, single, transformation, isolation, slow burn, intimate, minimalism ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Uruguay
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In this poignant period drama set in 1960s Argentina, a young woman, struggling to raise her twin daughters alone after the tragic death of her husband, accepts the courtship of a charming but mysterious older suitor.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, black and white ...
Plot:
single mother, widow, female protagonist, loss, grief, anxiety, trauma, mourning, domestic drama, jazz, manipulation, healing ...
Time:
60s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Julie is a young tennis star who falls in love with his trainer - because she yearns for love and because she wants to liberate themselves from the ambitions which the father has on her behalf. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen has a conflict and fragile ...
Style:
dramatic, tense, tragic ending, dark, art house ...
Plot:
power struggle, forbidden romance, class conflict, father daughter conflict, character study, sexual tension, female protagonist, manipulation, tragic romance, emotional breakdown, adaptation, intimate ...
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae-yong on an emotional imposture, Gu Changwei on pregnancy in China and Tsai Ming-Liang on time and the city of Hong Kong.
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, realistic, surreal, serious ...
Plot:
family problems, elderly, hospital, gender, last wish, cause and meaning, unsupportive spouse, identity, character study, intimate, gender bending, city life ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, tense, art house, indie film
Plot:
coming of age, character study, mature, social realism, survival, isolation, escape, alienation, street life, slice of life, identity crisis, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
About a young couple who accidentally by car run over someone and kill him. The victim turns out to be an escapee from an asylum for the mentally ill.The two wander around the country side trying to figure out the situation, which quickly turns out ...
Style:
crime drama, tension, melancholic, suspense, gloomy ...
Plot:
guilt, hit and run, character study, tragedy, accidental death, moral ambiguity, introspection, ethical dilemma, young couple, mental illness, road trip, loss of innocence ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
35%
593
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style:
touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, small town, introspection, true love, haunted by the past, starting over, couples, couple relations, love and romance, leaving home, hopes, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
south korea, asia
Similarity:
35%
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