Movies like Summer in the City 1971

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Summer in the City (1971)
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Summer in the City (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Released from prison a man wanders through a new reality
Style: student film
Plot: prison, airplane, winter, train, billiards, cinema, ex convict, on the run, very little dialogue, released from prison, pinball, bar, photo booth, film criticism, release from prison
Place: berlin germany, munich germany
Keyword: movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and captivating films with plots about prison, ex convict, train, murder, released from prison, winter and on the road mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Summer in the City: Kings of the Road (1976), Graziella (2015), Alice in the Cities (1974), Never Down (2007), Doctor Faustus (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kings of the Road (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler)--a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt--travel along the Western ...
Style: road movie, contemplative, black and white, spiritual, art house ...
Plot: on the road, travel, male pubic hair, spirituality, drifter, past, filmmaking, truck, summer, existentialism, trucker, realism ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, german democratic republic, europe
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Graziella (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act.
Plot: girl, released from prison, threat, ex convict, father daughter estrangement, catholic school, violence, prison, dormitory, laundry, traumatic experience, projectionist ...
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Alice in the Cities (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter ...
Style: road movie, black and white, surreal, art house, stylized ...
Plot: on the road, airport, journalist, single mother, photography, stranger, road trip, child abandonment, strong female character, swimming, travel, children ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: germany, amsterdam, new york, central europe, west germany ...
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47%
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Never Down (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Rico reunites with his ex-wife after serving a five year prison term for armed robbery. Upon Rico's release he encounters old and new forces conspiring to bring him down and tear him between what he holds dear and what he most fears.
Style: crime drama
Plot: prison, ex convict, artist, drug dealer, tattoo, biblical quote
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Doctor Faustus (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 179 min.
Story: A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan
Style: psychotronic
Plot: faust, deal with the devil, prostitute, lucifer, composer, satan, pact with the devil, jealous lover, hugging, supernatural power, puppet, solitude ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.3
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The Return (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min.
Story: An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a ...
Style: black and white
Plot: black, prison, rape, rivalry, murder, police operation, ex convict, motorcycle accident, gang leader, soccer, police officer, freight train
Place: balkan
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32%
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Wrong Move (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, ...
Style: road movie, art house, spiritual, cult classic, manga ...
Plot: on the road, bicycle, girl man relationship, writers, suicide, spirituality, past, art, troubled relationship, blood, suicide by hanging, voice over narration ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: berlin germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
A Woman in Flames (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out for prey together, until Eva starts an affair with Chris, who ...
Plot: sexual sadism, male prostitute, lgbt, dominatrix, prostitution, sex, sadomasochism, fetish, longing, conflict, jealousy, divorce ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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It’s Only Make Believe (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After serving 10 years in prison for murder, Jenny returns to society. She wants to live a quiet life and resume her responsibilities as a mother, but soon shadows from the past start to appear.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, touching
Plot: prison, haunted by the past, starting over, family relations, murder, drug dealing, hopes, adoption, criminal heroes, strong female character, mother daughter relationship, coping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia
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30%
Palermo Shooting (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
Style: atmospheric, psychological, captivating, suspense, mesmerizing ...
Plot: photograph, on the run, photography, rivalry, human nature, mysterious character, love affair, lifestyle, on the road, life turned upside down, revenge, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, italy, europe, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Bloodbrothers (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.
Plot: released from prison, starting over, ex convict, one last job, art theft, cocaine, heist, library, brother brother relationship, criminal, prison
Place: eastern europe
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29%
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Norway, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway
Style: depressing, political, independent film
Plot: prison, anti communist, iron curtain, communism, communist, prisoner of war camp, job, world war two veteran, food, prisoner, snow, punishment ...
Time: 1950s
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Familiye (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Familiye tells the story of an ex-con who, after his release from prison, has to care for his two younger brothers. One of whom is a gambling addict, the other has Down Syndrome.
Style: dramatic, captivating, serious, bleak
Plot: gambling, prison, down syndrome, brothers, brother brother relationship, released from prison, little brother, brother, addiction, terminal illness, illness
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Before Snowfall (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Iraq
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Before Snowfall starts with a dramatic escape: Eighteen year-old Nermin runs away from her wedding in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan. Being the elder of the family, her younger brother Siyar becomes responsible for finding her and restoring the family ...
Style: road movie, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chase, on the run, young heroes, survival, family relations, on the road, family life, wedding, reluctant hero, winter, family honor, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kurdistan, iraq, turkey, greece, europe ...
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28%
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The Guardian (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After 16 years of imprisonment, 40-years-old Gogliko is released from jail. He doesn't exactly know what he did that deserved 16 years of jail time. A free man, a changed country awaits him. His personal life has drastically altered. His ...
Style: suspense, psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating
Plot: political unrest, society, life is a bitch, criminal, changing lives, ex convict, political intrigue, lifestyle change, prison, world
Place: caucasus, georgia, tbilisi
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Perfect Days (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: janitor, job, life, lifestyle, social issues, social problems, tree, uncle niece relationship, solitude, design, slice of life, coworker relationship ...
Time: 2020s
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Women in Chains (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: 1972 ABC Movie of the Week. Lady parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality, but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is killed.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: prison, women's prison, undercover, parole officer, women in prison
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26%
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Weeds (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without paroll, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, rough
Plot: prison, criminal heroes, follow your dream, prison escape, redemption, prison life, confined, hopes, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, journalism, writer's life ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Eduart (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Germany, Albania
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on true story. Albanian man leaves oppressive family situation to a better life in Athens. Then kills someone and has to face his guilt.
Plot: prison, greek, immigration, lgbt, dream, snow, father son relationship, murder, train, jail, animal attack, arrest ...
Place: greece, albania
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Women of San Quentin (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: prison, power relations, battle of the sexes, confined, gender, chaos and mayhem, prison life, female warden, women's prison, prisoner
Time: 80s
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26%
Woman of the Ganges (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...
Style: avant garde
Plot: seaside, very little dialogue, loneliness, winter, beach, small town, ghost, existential loneliness, sea, voice over narration, frustration, woman ...
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.4
 745
Home (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Netherlands, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: lifestyle, haunted by the past, confronting the past, lifestyle change, tragic past, social problems, secret past, changing lives, criminal, life is a bitch, bandit, ex convict ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Axiliad (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
Plot: train, library, love, tree, young woman, colleague, lumberjack, old lady, village, dream, winter, male female relationship ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Woman Who Left (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 226 min.
Story: After spending the last 30 years in prison, Horacia is immediately released when someone else confessed to the crime. Still overwhelmed by her new freedom, she comes to the painful realization that her aristocratic former lover had set her up. As ...
Style: psychological thriller, black and white
Plot: revenge, love letter, underground, gays and lesbians, slum, prison, slow burn, released from prison, lawyer, night, transvestite, false accusation ...
Time: year 1997
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Dogs' Feast (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 112 min.
Story: On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters meet, — a meeting of two ...
Plot: social injustice, woman, female nudity, alcoholism, train station, small town, single mother, train, drunkenness, neighbor, loss of family, winter ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
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24%
Pete on the Way to Heaven (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the small town of Kandalaksha, Petya lives out a fantasy life as a traffic cop. He has a holster, a wooden gun, and the locals humor him by following his "orders." When a convict escapes from a nearby prison, Petya joins the manhunt as ...
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: escaped prisoner, police officer, fighting crime, runaway, society, social problems, social relations, police, psychiatry, winter, josef stalin, death ...
Time: 1950s
Place: siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
One More Chance (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An ex-convict, after spending six years in prison, tries to re-establish a relationship with the son he hasn't seen in all that time.
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: kidnapping, cons and scams, missing person, friendship, confined, ex convict, father son relationship
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Délivrez-Moi (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After spending a decade in prison, Annie returns to her hometown, and tries to reconnect with her now-adolescent daughter Sophie.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious
Plot: released from prison, child custody, murder, mother daughter relationship, women's prison, ex convict, small town, island, nudity, sex, flashback, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Manners of Dying (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kevin Barlow (Roy Dupuis) will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington (Serge Houde), director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting to the end, ...
Plot: prison, death row, multiple storylines, battle of wits, death penalty, execution
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.0
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Pigs (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Grim tale of marginalized souls in an apocalyptic Dublin inner city. Jimmy takes up residence in a derelict and once elegant house in a no-go inner area. He is soon joined by other squatters, George a business man trying to retain some dignity, ...
Plot: schizophrenic, prostitute, police, gay, settler, ex convict, drug dealer, abandoned house, homosexual, pimp, jamaican, gay bar ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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