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Class Relations (1984)
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Original name: Klassenverhältnisse
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young man (Christian Heinisch), recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
Style:
political, contemplative, black comedy, black and white, masterpiece
Plot:
alienation, ship, communism, young man, teenager, train, young woman, rich man, family relations, destiny, labor, domination, male female relationship, manipulation, radical, woman, traumatic childhood, humiliation, class struggle, uncle, villa, 16 year old, awkward situation, political oppression, jewish american ...
Time:
year 1984
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, contemplative, serious and captivating films with plots about family relations, society, young, alienation, coming of age, woman and parents and children mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Class Relations: The Death of Empedocles (1987), Ossos (1997), Emoticon ;) (2013), Yesterday Girl (1966), Stones in the Sun (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillot of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
Style:
philosophical, art house, meditative, intellectual, experimental ...
Plot:
literary, symbolism, minimalism, mythology, sacrifice, voice over narration, isolation, ritual, time machine, prophecy, utopia, communism ...
Place:
ancient greece
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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experimental, intellectual, art house, reflective, poetic ...
Plot:
mythology, post war, literary, loss, adaptation, memory, anti fascist, minimalism, alienation, symbolism, mourning, village life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
ancient greece, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
unwanted pregnancy, courage, minimalism, underground, alienation, mental disorder, immigrant, deadend life, urban ghetto life, vengeance, life is a bitch, drug abuse ...
Time:
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Place:
portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern means of communication.' All that changes when she meets her new boyfriend's teenage kids, who are going through their own journeys of ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, couple relations, teaching the ways of the world, profanity, bittersweet, love and romance, society, power relations, couples, computers and web, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Yesterday Girl is an acerbic, deliriously fractured, incisive, and darkly comic satire on a young German woman (and archetypal embodiment of the postwar generation), Anita G.'s (Alexandra Kluge) search for happiness, liberation, and ...
Style:
art house, political, experimental
Plot:
swing, melancholy, traumatic childhood, migrant, pregnant woman, male female relationship, sociology, alienation, police, female protagonist, on the road, love ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Haiti
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the midst of increasing political violence, a young couple, two sisters, and a father and son are driven from Haiti to New York, where they must confront the truths of their interlocked pasts.
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, political
Plot:
culture clash, haunted by the past, immigrant, family relations, social relations, life is a bitch, society, single parent, political unrest, blaxploitation, couple relations, under the surface ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
haiti, africa, usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships ...
Style:
reflective, period piece, bleak, melancholic, light
Plot:
post war, worker, working class, solidarity, community, survival, hopes, social change, village life, resilience, trauma, poverty ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
21%
337
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
20%
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330
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Isabelle Huppert stars as a pair of twin sisters in Werner Schroeter's gorgeously composed and utterly berserk opus stuffed to overflowing with sailors, drag queens, suicides, cemeteries, doppelgängers, fickle foxes and operatic arias.
Style:
non-linear, realistic, psychological, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
family relations, opera, hopes, twins, human nature, strong female presence, manhood, cabaret, destiny, male nudity, suffering, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, portugal, marseille, provence
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his ...
Plot:
female nudity, store manager, office work, boss, fired from the job, employer employee relationship, transvestite, restaurant, funeral, male nudity, job, businessman ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
Style:
slow cinema, reflective, atmospheric, melancholic, poetic ...
Plot:
identity, getting home, mother son relationship, character study, minimalism, train travel, nostalgia, portrait, realism, intimate, slice of life, emigration ...
Place:
sicily, italy, southern italy, corsica
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Raquel, a 13 year old living in Queens, NY, struggles to make sense of her life after the deportation of her parents. Things quickly change upon the arrival of a new teacher and the return of her young uncle.
Style:
touching, contemplative, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
second chance, teacher student relationship, new teacher, missing mother, broken family, children, loneliness, coming of age, missing father, middle school, latina, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Palermo or Wolfsburg (German: Palermo oder Wolfsburg) is a 1980 film by Werner Schroeter. It tells the story of an Italian immigrant who comes to West Germany in search of work.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking, stylized ...
Plot:
migration, law, courtroom, courtroom drama, working class, fish out of water, culture clash, society, misfit, love and romance, rivalry, social misfits ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
germany, sicily, europe, italy, southern italy ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, avant garde ...
Plot:
politics, family relations, parents and children, state affairs, society, ship, social differences, parent child relationship, justice, filmmaking, family business, dictator ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, barcelona, palestinian authority, egypt, africa ...
Similarity:
20%
483
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Summer is a carefree teenage girl whose world is turned upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person. At first resistant to the faith, she begins to reevaluate her identity after becoming attracted to a ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desire, woman, religious conversion, coming of age, daughter, mother, teenager, youth, faith, family relations, society, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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501
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
allegory, black and white, philosophical, avant garde, experimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, single mother, lesbian, existential loneliness, intimacy, secrets, caretaker, young woman, moral ambiguity, trauma, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, against the rules, couples, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, society, infidelity, bittersweet, indian woman, wedding, best friend ...
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, hopes, couple relations, misfit, starting over, culture clash, family life, immigrant, society, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
china, washington d.c., usa, asia, persia
Similarity:
18%
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Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adriana, a young woman from the provinces, moves to Rome in order to become a celebrity.
Style:
depressing, black and white
Plot:
alienation, skinny dipping, women, bourgeoisie, aspiring actress, beach, sexpot, madam, naivete, frustration, emptiness, starlet ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, rome italy
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%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New York during the 1940s, this provocative film follows the son of an orthodox rabbi and the son of a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, thinking, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, orthodox jew, jewish culture, religion, judaism, friendship, rabbi, culture clash, chosen one, world war two, family drama ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1944
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california, israel
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) ...
Style:
experimental, political, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
communism, working class, state affairs, politics, social differences, society, class struggle, utopia, communist, resistance, revolution, adaptation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
egypt, italy, switzerland, tuscany
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The Girl on the Train is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
anti semitism, destructive relationship, false accusation, couple relations, dishonesty, society, journalism, seduction, railway, train, coming of age, media ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Paris, 1981. The winds of change are blowing on election night and the French storm the streets, elated. But Élisabeth (Charlotte Gainsbourg) struggles to share the general mood of optimism. Her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to ...
Style:
crying
Plot:
sex scene, junkie, unrequited love, swimming pool, women, teenage sex, frustration, boredom, sadness, fall in love, wanderer, young man ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s, year 1984, year 1981
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Barbara (Monica Vitti) is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Clémenti's louche all-around dropout.
Style:
political, suspense
Plot:
fascist, journalist, student protest, communist, religion, russian roulette, communism, repression, fashion model, murder, singer, radical ...
Place:
italy, milan italy, rome italy
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to join many arrested ...
Style:
erotic, grindhouse, independent film, manga, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, nude bathing, anti communist, family relations, children, young love, making love, communism, traumatic childhood, politics, youth, boy ...
Time:
1950s, year 1985, 50s, 20th century
Place:
bosnia, serbia, eastern europe, europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic
Plot:
high school life, coming of age, family relations, fall in love, divorce, husband wife conflict, brother brother relationship, teenage life, society, friendship, friends, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
17%
345
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, melancholic ...
Plot:
male female relationship, problem, brothers, relationships, family relations, brother brother relationship, priest, life is a bitch, faith, brother, small town, coming of age ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
17%
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