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Beyond the Hills (2012)
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Original name: După dealuri
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A drama centered on the friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, realistic, lgbt cinema, bleak, depressing, slow cinema, touching, spiritual, social ...
Plot:
convent, nun, lesbian interest, friendship, culture clash, society, danger, traditional versus modern, clergy, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian nun, gay, artist, women, obsession, monk, female friendship, underground, spirit, love and romance, chaos, folklore, female bonding, european ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
romania, transylvania, europe, russian
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Most similar movies to Beyond the Hills
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and touching films with plots about society, friendship, women, lgbt, family relations, friends and youth mostly in Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Beyond the Hills: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Theresa: The Body of Christ (2007), R.M.N. (2022), Therese (1986), The Portuguese Nun (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, sexy, tense, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
abortion, friendship, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, rape, communism, communist, realism, doctor, brutality, female pubic hair, female nudity ...
Time:
80s, year 2007, 2000s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
romania, eastern europe, transylvania, europe, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.
Style:
historical drama, serious, dramatic, period piece, meditative ...
Plot:
saint, convent, biopic, religious, catholic, catholic saint, nun, mysticism, spiritual journey, a vision, catholicism, loyalty ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, 17th century
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium, Sweden
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid him of the ...
Style:
interesting
Plot:
female nudity, racism, hanging, hitchhiking, death of father, contaminated water, migrant worker, suicide, marital separation, separated parents, adulterous husband, suicide by hanging ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the little way" to God are shown clearly, using plain ...
Style:
slow cinema, spiritual, aesthetic, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
saint, catholic, nun, spirituality, convent, christian, religion, erotica, girl, catholic saint, victorian england, spirit ...
Time:
year 1986, victorian era, 80s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
church, love and romance, lifestyle, filmmaking, culture clash, clergy, actor's life, self discovery, artists and showbiz, religions or cults, love affair, frenchwoman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the weak of a devastating breakup.
Style:
contemplative, art house, sexual, experimental, social ...
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, lesbian sex, nudity, lgbtq, feminist, isolation, feminism, breakup, female protagonist, sex scene, woman ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
Style:
art house, emotional, visually stunning, cerebral, melancholic ...
Plot:
nun, family secret, faith, world war two, anti semitism, judaism, holocaust, religion, suicide, character study, confronting the past, orphan ...
Time:
60s, post world war two, 2010s, year 2016, 90s ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, israel, europe, denmark
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, asthma, teenage love, mother daughter conflict, lesbian, young lovers, coming of age, female friendship, high school, end of friendship, psychological torment, secret life ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, social ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, best friend, civil war, life is a bitch, society, dysfunctional family, youth, parents and children, teenage life, lgbt, teenage girl ...
Time:
20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place:
soviet union, georgia, caucasus, tbilisi, europe ...
Similarity:
21%
565
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, contemplative, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, friends, lifestyle, music band, artists and showbiz, lgbt, couples, party, lgbtq, society, drug abuse, musician's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
Style:
sensual, sexual, art house, historical drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
nun, lesbian, catholic, convent, religion, lgbt, monastery, monk, nunsploitation, unrequited love, impossible love, bible ...
Time:
18th century, year 1966
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 450 min.
Story:
A story about victims of summary executions. Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies.
Style:
bleak, psychological, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
sex show, friendship, friends, haunted by the past, wilderness, danger, survival, life is a bitch, pimp, therapy, prostitute, underground ...
Time:
2000s, future
Place:
asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, couples, friends, couple relations, hopes, love and romance, introspection, love affair, gender, gays and lesbians, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
17K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Style:
bleak, serious, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
unemployment, fishing, mother daughter conflict, snitch, realism, loneliness, pride, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, family problems, down on your luck, loser ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, france, europe, california
Similarity:
20%
866
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
forbidden love, physical appearance, losing-it hero, family relations, mysterious character, love and romance, couple relations, family problems, wilderness, human nature, isolation, obsession ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to start a better life in KwaZulu ...
Style:
christian film, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
farm, christian, faith, starting over, human spirit, friendship, political unrest, hopes, religions or cults, social differences, christianity, religious ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Drawing inspiration from the death-squad murders of several Gypsy families in Hungary in 2008, director Bence Fliegauf's chilling and unforgettable real-life horror story follows a family whose dreams of emigration and escape are suddenly, ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, sincere, slow cinema ...
Plot:
gypsy, racism, family in danger, social decay, life is a bitch, realism, society, social misfits, danger, murder, family life, secret place ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, hungary
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer ...
Style:
lyrical, psychological, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, adulthood, cat, loneliness, self discovery, life is a bitch, couples, parents and children, love and romance, lifestyle, youth, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia, seoul, paris france ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, tense, sexual ...
Plot:
obsessive love, lesbian relationship, lesbian, female nudity, suicide attempt, obsession, haunted by the past, friendship, love triangle, couples, dangerous attraction, destructive relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, europe, france, copenhagen
Similarity:
18%
792
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Kyle Peoples never wanted to be the man he has become in his 30s, an accountant stuck in a dead end job, with a lover who is more successful than he and a family that doesn't get him at all. So when a night of partying leads to a new family of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
addiction, mistaken identity, couples, drug abuse, society, life is a bitch, friendship, gay, lgbt, male nudity, male rape, gay subtext ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Denmark, Canada, South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
Style:
sincere, serious, stylized, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
political protest, gay couple, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, troubled teen, cold war, coming of age, teenager, marital separation, teenage life, rebelliousness, rebellion ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
london, cuba, europe, england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 2006, a journalist in financial problems, a woman who dresses as a man and a troubled taxi driver become friends, and gradually, an awkward, strong emotional bond emerges among them, especially when they decide to play a confidence game.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, injustice, life is a bitch, danger, drug abuse, social decay, prostitute, society, drug dealing, unemployment, youth, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.
Style:
independent film, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, women, friendship, chase, dysfunctional family, nervous breakdown, lgbt, lgbtq, depression, forbidden love, unrequited love ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 70s
Place:
boston, new jersey, san francisco, california, england
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, compassionate ...
Plot:
judaism, holocaust survivor, orthodox jew, racism, skinny dipping, life, tragedy, nazi, justice, culture clash, depression, mentor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, year 1972, 70s
Place:
europe, israel, antwerp, belgium, poland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of ...
Style:
uplifting, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
prison, exhaustion, human spirit, confined, survival, prison life, rebelliousness, society, politics, religions or cults, captivity, stalinism ...
Time:
50s
Place:
romania, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, touching, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
lgbtq, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lovers, lesbian couple, refugee, social realism, lesbian interest, love and romance, society, friendship, love affair ...
Time:
future, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set during the cull of the stray dogs in the city of Bucharest, The Wild Dogs weaves together a week in the lives of several citizens of and visitors to the hauntingly beautiful city. Geordie, a visiting Canadian pornographer, Bogdan, a reluctant ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
culture clash, rich and poor, social decay, family relations, life is a bitch, society, redemption, friendship, city life, homelessness, deformity, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ahmad, a porn obsessed taxi driver from Jakarta, falls for the beautiful young prostitute Kinar and struggles with sexual frustration and misguided piety.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
obsession, dull life, social misfits, misfit, society, prostitution, street walker, call girl, religions or cults, unfulfillment, urban, taxi ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, indonesia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, depressing ...
Plot:
child abuse, pedophile, rape, child molester, child rape, child molestation, prostitute, sex, coming of age, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, society ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
indiana, asia, tennessee
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, lifestyle, love and romance, society, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, social differences, infidelity, youth, male female relationship ...
Place:
middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
Similarity:
18%
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