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30 Door Key (1991)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Style:
thought provoking, art house, tragicomedy, avant garde, dark comedy, mindfuck, period drama, nostalgic
Plot:
renaissance, identity crisis, literary, surrealism, loss of innocence, alienation, satire, coming of age, isolation, existentialism, teacher, writers, bully, boarding school, adult as child, young
Time:
1930s
Place:
warsaw poland, eastern europe, poland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, period drama and existential films with plots about alienation, isolation, identity crisis, coming of age, psychological drama, minimalism and existentialism mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like 30 Door Key: Wielki bieg (1987), Hands Up! (1981), Barrier (1966), David im Wunderland (1998), Petya of My Petya (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in 1952, the story follows events around the "Peace Run", a propaganda 3-day marathon for peace. The winner is to be presented with a new motorcycle by the country's president. Chief organizer is a ruthless manipulator who will ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, grim, poignant, satirical
Plot:
race, manipulation, propaganda, oppression, power struggle, marathon, betrayal, corruption, irony, moral ambiguity, cold war era, sabotage ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
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501
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Beginning with a sci-fi prologue before finding itself with several doctors attending a medical school reunion in a sealed-up railway carriage. Between drinks, the disenchanted medicos ruminate over the effect that communism (particularly the ...
Style:
allegory, black and white, philosophical, avant garde, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, memory, trauma, renaissance, communism, post-apocalyptic future, politics, medical profession, female protagonist, absurdism, male camaraderie, freight train ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
66%
608
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Style:
art house, existential, meditative, melancholic, experimental
Plot:
surrealism, coming of age, rebellion, generation gap, alienation, nonconformity, individualism, youth, identity crisis, social class, symbolism, social isolation ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
15-year-old David lives with his family and around another hundred Jacobins in a closed community in Germany. The monotonous life of this early Christian community consists of pray.
Style:
emotional, intense, thought provoking, tense, dark ...
Plot:
religious community, isolation, alienation, coming of age, loss of innocence, teen angst, persecution, identity crisis, mysticism, nude young male, gay, nudity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film was named after the short story “Petya of My Petya” written by the exceptional young poet Petya Dubarova. The director Alexander Kossev and the writers Valentina Angelova and Nelly Dimitrova lift the vail of the past to present Petya ...
Style:
poignant, thought provoking, melancholic, lyrical, grim ...
Plot:
suicide, female protagonist, poetry, bullying, oppression, coming of age, repression, mental health, mourning, isolation, identity crisis, literary ...
Time:
2010s, 70s
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and ...
Style:
political, realistic, tense, bleak, dark comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
renaissance, culture clash, worker, survival, adaptation, polish, construction worker, state affairs, misfit, society, boss and employee, workplace ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
london, poland, eastern europe, england, europe ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
Professor Taranne, a conceited university Professor, is subject to several absurd and disquieting incidents from the world surrounding him. He is being accused of things he couldn't have been doing. He starts doubting himself - a self that ...
Style:
psychological thriller, mind bending, philosophical, dark comedy, creepy ...
Plot:
absurdism, identity crisis, accusation, surrealism, paranoia, existentialism, character study, mistaken identity, mental breakdown, satire, unsettling, alienation ...
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and ...
Style:
art film, art house, melancholic, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
alienation, psychoanalysis, neurosis, mental illness, existentialism, guilt, family conflict, mental breakdown, identity crisis, isolation, domineering mother, electroshock therapy ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
35%
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773
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, neighborhood, loss of innocence, isolation, minimal dialogue, childhood memory, social commentary, alienation, minimalism, intimate, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, sinister, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
nude bathing, class conflict, children, death, affair, infidelity, loss of innocence, family tragedy, bourgeoisie, aristocracy, castle, country house ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young girl with a vivid imagination exasperates her grandparents when she begins communicating with the ghost of her mother.
Style:
surreal, poetic, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, mother daughter relationship, longing, child protagonist, grief, loss, imagination, family drama, family secret, haunted house, mysterious disappearance, secrets ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Forced to leave the comfort of his middle class lifestyle at his father's behest, fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent to an all-boys religious dormitory where he must navigate familial expectations, his religious obligations, and the childhood to ...
Plot:
coming of age, islam, dormitory, adolescence, youth, introspection, loss of innocence, identity crisis, father son relationship, self discovery, high school life, adaptation ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
philosophical, art house, surreal, period drama, pre war
Plot:
sanitarium, tuberculosis, mountain, literary, isolation, melancholy, existential crisis, symbolism, mortality, existentialism, world war one, totalitarianism ...
Time:
1910s, pre world war one
Place:
swiss alps, alps
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
Style:
melancholic, grim, tense, art house, reflective
Plot:
hotel, coming of age, boy, restaurant, class struggle, conformity, promotion, morality, realism, rise and fall, ambition, corruption ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
29%
583
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
Style:
black and white
Plot:
boxing, renaissance, male female relationship, male protagonist, 30 year old, cultural conflict, graduate, dead girl, duel, ex girlfriend, old friend, boxer ...
Time:
60s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style:
art house, bleak, philosophical, tragicomedy, postmodern ...
Plot:
perestroika, alienation, existentialism, satire, bureaucracy, pessimism, melancholy, absurdism, midlife crisis, urban, bitterness, spirituality ...
Time:
year 1990
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After being heralded by Jean-Luc Godard as the great hope of the New American Cinema, Peter Emanuel Goldman relocated to Paris just in time for 1968. Social dissolution permeates WHEEL OF ASHES, a stripped-down account of a young man's ...
Style:
existential, avant garde, art film, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
existential crisis, alienation, introspection, religion, hallucination, surrealism, symbolism, isolation, a vision, psychological torment, male protagonist, urban ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his ...
Style:
anthology, art house, thought provoking, political, experimental ...
Plot:
indifference, class struggle, alienation, innocence lost, political intrigue, revolution, moral ambiguity, frustration, satire, violence, urban decay, existentialism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, cuba
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrel over dinner, garbage, neighbours, elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an ...
Style:
existential, cynical, bleak, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
character study, neighbor, resentment, marital strife, midlife crisis, domestic drama, alienation, routine, slice of life, awkwardness, sexual frustration, isolation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
26%
118
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
24 year old Johan spends his days in Nice on the French Riviera, supported by an aging ex-actress. Days go by between her house, the beaches and the apartment of his friend Kurt. A life in leisure and luxury. But memories of his teenage years are ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, thought provoking, dramatic, art house ...
Plot:
older woman younger man sex, couple relations, lifestyle, beach, friend, actress, couples, male female relationship, relationships, friends, alienation, shallowness ...
Place:
french riviera
Similarity:
26%
13
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:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, captivating, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
alienation, surrealism, family drama, grief, family problems, family relations, estrangement, family life, kids and family, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
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2K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.
Style:
art house, thought provoking, serious, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
character study, obsession, creative process, isolation, alienation, realism, intimate, family conflict, identity crisis, mental health, slow burn, slice of life ...
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Based on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.
Style:
psychological, surreal, dark, art house, dread ...
Plot:
body horror, literary, adaptation, alienation, transformation, isolation, insect, nightmare, existentialism, claustrophobia, family drama, identity crisis ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
25%
51
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dani, Yumi, Ovidiu, Ada and Cristi are youths addicted to one another, yet intent on escaping the pressure of their interconnectedness and frustrating realities by performing mind trips into different levels of existence and parallel worlds.
Style:
psychological, existential, surreal, psychedelic, melancholic ...
Plot:
trip, youth, friendship, escape, escapism, alternate reality, alienation, parallel world, self discovery, intimate, symbolism, identity crisis ...
Place:
eastern europe, romania
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working the streets of Paris during the 1880s.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, art house, period drama
Plot:
prostitution, desperation, downfall, madness, tragedy, sexual repression, female protagonist, mental illness, isolation, gender roles, alienation, street life ...
Time:
1880s, victorian era, 19th century, 1870s, 1860s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mike Anderson is a senior at the quintessential New-England liberal arts school, Frost College. And Mike is eight weeks away from graduation. On this particular day he has his African-American Literature class with his favorite professor. But today, ...
Style:
thought provoking, independent film, melancholic, realistic, moody
Plot:
african american protagonist, anger, character study, interracial relations, alienation, racial tension, college life, isolation, slice of life, intimate, campus, identity crisis ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young foreign girl comes to LA to learn English but learns instead that life in the States is not what she saw on TV and film. She finds herself being dragged into a world not only foreign in language but completely outside her cultural values. ...
Style:
melancholic, romantic drama, independent film
Plot:
language barrier, culture shock, empathy, deaf, alienation, identity crisis, coming of age, language learning, misunderstanding, loneliness, realism, isolation ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, tragic ending, tragicomedy
Plot:
socially awkward, loneliness, jealousy, character study, sibling relationship, isolation, alienation, lake, love triangle, obsession, social realism, possessiveness ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
23%
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