Movies like Shadow Days

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Shadow Days (2014)
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Shadow Days (2014)
Original name: 鬼日子
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A quasi-ghost story about a young urban Chinese couple returning to their dusty rural roots interrogates one child policy and authoritarianism.
Plot: police, pregnancy, death, murder, church, fog, abortion, couples, blood, pregnant woman, forced abortion, new identity, cobweb, knife, stabbing, pregnant
Place: china

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about pregnancy, death, pregnant woman, murder, friendship, couples and police mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Shadow Days: Fantasia (2014), Xian's Finest (2000), Egg and Stone (2012), Lighter Fluid (2016), Amador (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fantasia (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Father got leukaemia. Mother was laid off long ago. She had to borrow money for her husband everywhere. Sister went to a night club to be a waitress secretly and soon became a “call girl”. Lin was cold-shouldered at school because of father’s ...
Plot: sex, gay, pregnant woman, money problems, terminal illness, leukemia, teenager, teenage boy, school, hospital, pregnancy, classroom
Place: china
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95%
Xian's Finest (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Wu, a veteran police officer in Xian, is demoted to work in a community policing center after he accidentally injures a hostage during a rescue mission. At first the new job appears to be simple and straightforward, but Wu and his family gradually ...
Plot: police station, taxi, police, false accusation, murder investigation, suicide attempt, cop killer, police chase, piano, anonymous letter, rape, hostage ...
Place: china
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85%
Egg and Stone (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Meticulous in every way: the non-professional actors with incredible skills, the beautiful camerawork, the timing and dosing of the tragic storyline about a fourteen-year-old Chinese girl from the countryside. A grown-up feature film debut by a ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, no music
Plot: pregnancy, kids in trouble, estrangement, youth, life is a bitch, adoption, village, abortion, struggle, down on your luck, countryside, menstruation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Lighter Fluid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
Style: experimental
Plot: suicide, abandoned house, murder, skateboard, surrealism, pregnancy, death
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Amador (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Plot: pregnant woman, friends, friendship, aging, dealing with death, pregnancy, bittersweet, death, flowers, church, old man, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Boy on the Bridge (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
Plot: coming of age, violence, funeral, death, murder, police, explosive
Place: cyprus
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76%
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Kuessipan (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two childhood friends from the same Quebec Innu community begin to realize that they face very different futures.
Plot: teenage pregnancy, friendship, poverty, female friendship, homeless, fish, death of son, beach, pregnant woman, baby, death, santa claus ...
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
So Long, My Son (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 185 min.
Story: The changes in Chinese society from the 1950s to the '80s, as experienced by two families.
Style: independent film, sexy, social, non-linear
Plot: loss of son, infidelity, birth control, family relations, suburbs, runaway, working class, teenager, hospital, flashback, father son relationship, airplane ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 80s, 2000s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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The Family (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, China
Duration: 280 min.
Story: Liu and Deng are a couple both in their 70s who have been married for nearly half a century and lived in a small inland city of China. The family of Liu and Deng is a typical ordinary family of China. The eldest daughter Liqin, divorced with a ...
Plot: couples, cooking, card playing, family relations, video game, computer game, brushing teeth, eating, basketball game
Place: china
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64%
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Our Men (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: They come from all over the world but they have one thing in common : The Foreign Legion, their new family. Our Men tells these stories : stories of women who struggle to keep their love fire burning; stories of men who leave for battle; stories of ...
Plot: french foreign legion, french soldier, french military, boys and girls, french army, sea, driving lesson, tattoo, sex scene, babysitting, desert, divorce ...
Place: corsica
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Shocking Blue (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 82 min.
Story: William, Jack and Chris have been friends for as long as they can remember - until that day in April when Jack ends up under the wheels of a tractor, his body crushed, William at the wheel. Suddenly nothing is left of the boys' friendship. ...
Plot: youth, pregnancy, death, miscarriage, death of friend, train station, tractor, couch, friendship, friendship between boys, pregnant woman, greenhouse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Fujian Blue (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the wake of China's open-door policy in the early 1980's, Fujian was one of the first Chinese coastal provinces to be opened to the outside world. Many of the male residents opted to go abroad for work, leaving behind their wives and ...
Plot: drug use, sacrifice, bored housewife, juvenile delinquent, smuggler, border patrol, emigration, human trafficking, blackmail, stabbing, karaoke
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Stranger (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb.
Plot: dying father, pregnant woman, wedding, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, prostitute, classical music, quiz, pregnancy, abortion, unplanned pregnancy, alzheimer's disease ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Body Scent (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and ...
Plot: singing, murder, police, sex, truck, boxing, friendship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, cafe, death, friend ...
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Long Live the Bride (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further ...
Plot: murder, police, murder suspect
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55%
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Little Moth (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A couple purchases an eleven-year old girl who cannot walk, with the intention of using her to earn money through begging.
Plot: youth, couples, money, hospital, little girl, false identity, organ trafficking, poverty, money problems, illness, begging
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Vow (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 1818 in the Münsterland: Innumerable pilgrims seeking comfort and consolation visit the bedside of Anna Katharina von Emmerich, a nun whose body bears marks of the holy wounds of Christ on her chest, forehead and hands. Clemens von Brentano, an ...
Plot: german history, napoleon bonaparte, a vision, pregnant woman, confession, blood, female nudity, illness, baptism, pregnancy, stigmata, cross ...
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An Open Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mila and Javier, both renowned surgeons and both passionate about their work, have been madly in love for the past 10 years. They have always taken great care to preserve their extraordinary love for each other and refuse to succumb to the routine ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy
Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, couples, crumbling marriage, addiction, supportive spouse, pregnant woman, husband wife relationship, physician, male female relationship, relationships, relationship vs career ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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14 Days with Victor (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Victor is a magnetic young boy that survive in London. A chance encounter leads him to Martin and Anna, two artists who share studio and a vital moment. Martin wants to relaunch his career and, while awaiting his brother lives, a former boxing star ...
Style: sadistic
Plot: lgbt, teenage boy, male nudity, masturbation, dog, humiliation, artist, murder, psychopath, female nudity, death, blood ...
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Better Off Dead. (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A lawyer fights a losing battle against the courts to overturn the death sentence for a convicted female robber/murderer despite demands from the woman that her death sentence be carried out.
Plot: death row, gas chamber, justice, baby, robbery, lawyer, women's prison, death, mother daughter relationship, violence, murder, female bonding ...
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47%
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The Blue Hour (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: THE BLUE HOUR tells the story of Tanya, a young woman with a mysterious past who finds herself trapped in a sexual hell in Los Angeles. Punctuated by striking visuals and avant-garde editing, THE BLUE HOUR is a lost masterpiece of late period ...
Style: surreal
Plot: murder, madness, priest, sexploitation, rape, lust, biker, dream, nudity, striptease, blood, flashback ...
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Dancing in the Dark (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: feminist, hospital, infidelity, murder, mental illness, violent content, unfulfillment, feminism, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Zooey & Adam (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Adam and Zooey have been trying to have a baby for several months, only to end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the parentage of their child, they decide to have the baby anyway.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, sexy, experimental
Plot: pregnant from rape, rape, pregnancy, trying to get pregnant, pregnant wife, sex, moral dilemma, wanting a baby, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, couples, parenthood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Life Is Beautiful (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. …
Plot: equality, murder, police, killer, politics
Place: portugal, italy
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39%
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Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Nagima (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: pregnancy, life is a bitch, looking for love, best friend, love and romance, social misfits, society, physical appearance, friendship, death in childbirth, death, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kazakhstan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Looking for Her (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
Style: suspense, touching, suspenseful
Plot: racism, adoption, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, pregnancy, female protagonist, mother daughter reunion, pregnant woman, abortion, mother son relationship, dog, laptop ...
Time: year 2015
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37%
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Sweet Revenge (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in a pregnancy. Cheever convinces the girl to have an illegal abortion. The abortion goes wrong and the girl dies. To protect his ...
Plot: revenge, abortion, army, false accusation, u.s. army, fashion designer, pregnancy
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37%
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Feather (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ferro and Cate, two kids trying to get to grips with an unplanned pregnancy, their families (rebellious Ferro’s hospitable, ‘normal’ family, and level-headed Cate’s unhinged, atypical one), exams at school, friends and a general lack of jobs.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: male female relationship, pregnant wife, relationships, lifestyle change, changing lives, couple relations, couples, pregnancy, slice of life, lifestyle, pregnant woman, unplanned pregnancy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.1
 253
Macbeth (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In eleventh century Scotland, three witches foretell that Macbeth will become King, while Banquo will beget Kings. Macbeth accordingly has King Duncan slain, and is duly crowned in his place. But that's where his problems really begin...
Style: independent film
Plot: shakespeare, macbeth, murder, suicide, regicide, king, blood, prophecy, child murder, witch, wife, knife
Time: middle ages, 11th century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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