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Circles (2013)
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Circles (2013)
Original name: Кругови
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Germany, France, Slovenia, Croatia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Circles (Serbian: Krugovi) is a Serbian movie based on the true story of a Serbian soldier who risked his life to protect a Muslim civilian during the war in Bosnia. During the war in Bosnia in 1993, a Serbian soldier pays for his life after protecting a Muslim civilian from being attacked by three other soldiers. 12 years later, the consequences of this act of heroism are still having their repercussions.
Style: serious, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, twisted, tense, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, gloomy ...
Plot: society, hopes, life is a bitch, post war, haunted by the past, redemption, moral dilemma, bosnian war, metaphor, surgery, destiny, serial killer, wartime, revolution, life story, muslim, interracial relations, job seeking, debt, lifesaver, hiding place, loss of son, military, soldier, doctor ...
Time: year 2013, year 2005, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1993, 21st century ...
Place: bosnia, serbia, balkan, eastern europe, croatia, europe, germany ...
Keyword: serbian, german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and gloomy films with plots about life is a bitch, society, hopes, haunted by the past, family relations, redemption and parents and children mostly in Drama, War and Crime genres. Some movies like Circles: On the Path (2010), Sinner (2007), Children of Sarajevo (2012), The Melon Route (2006), The Gospel of the Flesh (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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On the Path (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany, Croatia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love is truly enough to keep ...
Style: captivating, sincere, contemplative, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: islam, religion, muslim, addiction, couple relations, self discovery, couples, religions or cults, society, redemption, life is a bitch, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo
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95%
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, psychological, serious ...
Plot: bosnian war, coming of age, depression, support group, life is a bitch, parents and children, haunted by the past, parent child relationship, family relations, single parent, civil war, rape ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: bosnia, eastern europe, croatia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Sinner (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Catholic priest, Father Anthony Romano (Nick Chinlund), intervenes with the police when his colleague attacks a drifter named Lil (Georgina Cates). When Anthony reluctantly provides her asylum in his rectory, the brash hustler soon discovers a ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: prostitute, false accusation, celibacy, redemption, clergy, lifestyle, moral dilemma, haunted by the past, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Children of Sarajevo (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A microcosm of the fathomless suffering that remains more than 16 years since the siege of Sarajevo ended, writer-director Aida Begic’s follow-up to her 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize-winning debut Snow tells the story of two orphaned ...
Style: realistic, thought provoking, bleak, serious, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, orphan, society, youth, social decay, siblings relations, friendship, bosnian war, european, world war, family relations, money
Time: 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Melon Route (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
Style: realistic, disturbing, emotional, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: refugee, survival, life is a bitch, political unrest, danger, escapades, immigrant, illegal immigration, post war, rescue from drowning, illegal immigrant, river ...
Time: 21st century
Place: former yugoslavia, bosnia, croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Gospel of the Flesh (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three lives in search of redemption intersect in the streets of Lima: undercover cop Gamarra’s desperate attempts to save his wife from a terminal illness gets him into trouble; bus driver Felix wants to be accepted into a religious sect after his ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: redemption, family relations, hopes, undercover, life is a bitch, law enforcement, society, terminal illness, multiple storylines, confession, soccer, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Screaming Man (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Chad
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Present-day Chad. Adam, sixty something, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N'Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: hotel, life is a bitch, political unrest, moral dilemma, military, anti war, ex athlete, parents and children, introspection, soldier, dishonesty, african ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Offline (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot: haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, society, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, hopes, job seeking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Same Same But Different (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: fall in love, love affair, unlikely couple, couples, interracial relations, society, life is a bitch, hopes, culture clash, social differences, terminal illness, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cambodia, europe, germany, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Karamazov Brothers (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Dostoevsky’s latter-day opus about the siblings and their father is among the masterpieces of world literature. It asks profound questions about ethics and religion. Is there a God? Does the devil exist? Is everything allowed because we live in a ...
Style: captivating, sincere, atmospheric, realistic, serious ...
Plot: theater, hopes, lifestyle, parents and children, human nature, performer's life, redemption, artists and showbiz, society, dealing with death, siblings relations, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, prague, poland, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Day I Was Not Born (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story: During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown ...
Style: realistic, psychological, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: redemption, self discovery, parents and children, uncover truth, protecting from truth, haunted by the past, adoption, family relations, hopes, society, life is a bitch, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Erratum (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, homecoming, haunted by the past, buddies, parents and children, family relations, hopes, redemption, profanity, friends, estrangement, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, anthology, bleak ...
Plot: politics, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, wartime life, political unrest, state affairs, anti war, society, immigration, omnibus, exodus, world war one ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: bosnia, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Witnesses (2003)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, tense, rough, serious ...
Plot: balkan war, military, soldier, investigation, murder, danger, police investigation, criminal heroes, amateur detective, human nature, political unrest, war ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, croatia, balkan, former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Manpower (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, biting, serious ...
Plot: social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, discrimination, realism, immigrant, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Freedom Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of ...
Style: thought provoking, sincere, captivating, emotional, political ...
Plot: african american, racism, fighting the system, interracial relations, rebellion, life is a bitch, injustice, teenage life, discrimination, parents and children, politics, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Cet amour-là (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Plot: destiny, wartime life, soldier, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, family relations, couples, culture clash, love affair ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia, Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Senada is 31 and she lives in Poljice neighborhood in Lukavac municipality with her partner and two daughters. She is pregnant with her third child for approximately five months. Since she didn’t have health insurance, she does not go to the ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, race against time, social misfits, misfit, family in crisis, parents and children, gypsy, society, money raising ...
Place: bosnia, balkan, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Future Lasts Forever (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, emotional, art house ...
Plot: journey, unfulfillment, tragic love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, missing person, ethnic conflict, self discovery, society, strong female presence, wartime life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, kurdistan, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Capturing Mary (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young man ushers an older woman into a dark exploration of her past - back to the time when, as a young girl, she met a stranger who affected her life forever.
Style: psychological, sincere, stylized, captivating, surreal ...
Plot: estate, elderly, lifestyle, introspection, haunted by the past, social relations, memories, love and romance, society, post war, life is a bitch, unfulfillment ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 60s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
All Is Forgiven (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, redemption, teenager, parents and children, addiction, crumbling marriage, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Distant Lights (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the boarder between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
Style: contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: border, immigrant, politics, human spirit, danger, couples, political unrest, redemption, rebelliousness, life is a bitch, hopes, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, germany, ukraine, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Phantom Pain (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: cyclist, hopes, couple relations, life is a bitch, disability, parents and children, human nature, human spirit, redemption, misfit, family relations, new love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Stopped on Track (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style: realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, children, wife, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Adelheid (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when ...
Style: surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: world war two, military, forbidden love, holocaust, girl, locomotive, forest, comeback, post war, estate, soldier, society ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, germany, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Vegetarian Cannibal (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Danko Babic is an ambitious and amoral gynaecologist at Croatia's leading fertility clinic. When his colleague Bantic is appointed as head of the clinic, Babic starts a secret war to overthrow his rival. Distracted by his ruthless campaign he ...
Style: tense, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic ...
Plot: doctor, gynecologist, hospital, medicine, doctors and patients, workplace, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, nurse, abortion, clinic, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: croatia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Blue Eyes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by ...
Style: realistic, thought provoking, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot: redemption, haunted by the past, prostitute, introspection, society, police, racism, xenophobia, murder, journey, released from prison, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Little Soldier (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A soldier returning from war is hired by her own father to drive his prostitutes around town. She calls upon herself to help one of them.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: prostitute, haunted by the past, friendship, life is a bitch, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, injustice, family problems, human spirit, feminism, military ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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G.H.B. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, strong female presence, friends, love
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Silent Voice (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An elderly woman wants to meet her son’s murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: prison, youth, redemption, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, love and romance, hopes, confined, prison life, romancing a criminal, teenage love, switching roles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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