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Anne Trister (1986)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After the death of her father, Anne - a brilliant but emotionally unstable painter/ sculptor - returns from Switzerland to her home town in Quebec. Setting up a studio, she becomes obsessed with her work, to the extent that she grows farther and farther from her Swiss lover.
Style:
melancholic, art house, independent film, intense, period piece, queer cinema, moody
Plot:
artist, first lesbian experience, lgbt, female protagonist, grief, creative process, mourning, bereavement, loneliness, obsession, self discovery, painting, sculpture, identity crisis, friendship, sexuality, memory, getting home, alienation, intimacy, abandoned warehouse, lesbian seduction, psychotherapy, urban, sexual awakening ...
Time:
80s
Place:
quebec, montreal, canada, switzerland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, independent film and emotional films with plots about urban, memory, psychological drama, grief, obsession, loneliness and identity crisis mostly in Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Anne Trister: Be Still (2021), Moon Hotel Kabul (2018), DeAD (2013), Drawing Days (2015), Endorphine (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Already a successful portrait photographer, Hannah sets to reinvent this art form. Abandoning herself to a creative process that might easily be mistaken for madness, she's soon visited by mirror images of herself, as well as her ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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79
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
grief, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, character study, search for father, alienation, minimalism, intimate, regret, male protagonist, urban ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, independent film, aesthetic, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an ...
Style:
psychological, mindfuck, atmospheric, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
trauma, grief, female protagonist, manipulation, memory, alienation, identity crisis, mental illness, haunting, violent death, rehearsal, coming of age ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
controversial, intense, disturbing, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
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231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
bereavement, self discovery, loss, grief, female protagonist, loss of family, changing lives, life is a bitch, loss of father, dysfunctional family, family problems, lifestyle change ...
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sebastian is a 28 year old painter. His most recent drawings are mainly squids, scientifically known as Cephalopods (head and legs). He is particularly attracted to the gigantic squid; a monstrous almost fantastic animal about which little is known. ...
Style:
melancholic, poetic, art house, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
mourning, grief, loss, sadness, self discovery, bereavement, loneliness, artist, healing, character study, painter, isolation ...
Place:
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Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, reflective, melancholic, intense, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, sexuality, jealousy, friendship, acceptance, self discovery, character study, identity, loneliness, heartbreak, realism ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
montreal, canada
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
india, france, normandy
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
lgbtq, gay, lgbt, conversion therapy, gay lead character, therapy, sexuality, therapist, psychological manipulation, deception, gay couple, manipulation ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: Canada, Finland, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Portugal
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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173
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Canada
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Story:
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Style:
emotional, psychological, melancholic, controversial, intense ...
Plot:
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125
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
42%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
sensual, melancholic, independent film, erotic, gay cinema
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
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Similarity:
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162
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
female protagonist, humanity, grief, mourning, loss, self discovery, woman, japanese man, small village, village, brother, death of brother ...
Place:
japan, france
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Switzerland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Just before Anne is moving from Amsterdam to live with her great love Sara in Montreal, her publisher criticizes the manuscript for her first novel. What exactly is the story she's trying to tell? Does she even have something to say at all? ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic drama, existential ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Film by Erwin Michelberger.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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