Movies like Silence in Dreamland

If you like "Silence in Dreamland" you are looking for sincere, touching and serious movies about / with loneliness, widow, old lady, dog, isolation, imagination and death of husband themes of Drama genre shot in Ecuador or Germany.
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Silence in Dreamland (2013)
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Silence in Dreamland (2013)
Original name: Silencio en la Tierra de los Sueños
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those four walls to a timeless magic land where the sea speaks without using words. Her days go by like this; between the real life and dreams… until a street dog comes to her door.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, slow cinema
Plot: loneliness, widow, old lady, dog, isolation, imagination, death of husband, sea, female nudity, death, bird, old woman, phone ringing, telephone call, barking dog, female full frontal nudity, ringing telephone

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Most similar movies to Silence in Dreamland

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and touching films with plots about family relations, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, parents and children, youth, life is a bitch and death mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Silence in Dreamland: Born and Bred (2006), Sivas (2014), Playing with Fire (2000), Last Summer (2018), Nothing's All Bad (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Born and Bred (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: life turned upside down, dealing with death, life is a bitch, car accident, loneliness, melancholy, introspection, destruction, nudity, snow, dog, airplane ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, patagonia
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Sivas (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, society, dog, boy, child, pets, youth, friends, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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Playing with Fire (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Ding tells the story of his life and how it was shaped by three women which includes his godmother, her adopted daughter and his wife.
Style: sincere, captivating, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: forbidden love, separation, childhood sweetheart, forced marriage, foster home, sex, lie, love, filipina, female nudity, deception, male nudity ...
Place: the philippines
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Last Summer (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
Style: captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sincere
Plot: friendship, coming of age, brother brother relationship, tragedy, death, summer, boy, friendship between boys, love triangle, death of mother, lake
Time: 70s
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70%
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Nothing's All Bad (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Follows the lives of four longing souls. Ingeborg who feels unattractive and young Jonas who is so attractive that he can literally sell some of what he's got. Anna, a young beautiful woman with a physical disability, and Anders, a tender man ...
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: loneliness, father son relationship, chance meeting, multiple storylines, mother daughter relationship, sexuality, looking for love, bondage, lgbt, erotica, christmas, hospital ...
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Child of the Steppe (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: As the unforgiving forces of nature take their toll on humans and animals, the unexpected return of snow devastates the nomad family’s livestock. 11-year old Sukbhat is forced to leave his childhood behind. Now the hopes of the family rely on the ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere
Plot: horse race, human animal relationship, rise to the top, race, boy, getting home, woman, children, horse riding, snake, dead animal, goat ...
Place: mongolia
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62%
Fiesta Patria (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As two families celebrate the engagement of their children, one of the lovers unearths a family secret.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, captivating
Plot: family secret, family relations, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, fiancee, military, family reunited, engagement, dictator, dictatorship, country, sex ...
Place: chile
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Solitary Fragments (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, sincere, aesthetic ...
Plot: loneliness, self discovery, family relations, hopes, human nature, parents and children, terminal illness, loss of mother, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, loss of child, nudity ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: spain, europe, madrid
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Flowers (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ane is in her mid-forties and delighted when a stunning bouquet of flowers is delivered to her home. But the site manager has no idea who to thank – one thing is for sure; her jealous husband, Ander, is not the unknown cavalier. As these ...
Style: touching, sincere, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: life is a bitch, animal life, life turned upside down, hopes, female protagonist, strong female presence, dealing with death, ashes, sheep, flowers, car accident, relationships ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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55%
Above Us Only Sky (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: couple relations, death of husband, suicide, death, couples, human nature, starting over, betrayal, hopes, dishonesty, longing, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
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The Unpolished (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their ...
Style: captivating, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot: teenage sexuality, generation gap, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, parent child relationship, relocation, coming of age, drug use, cheating wife, bare breasts, unfaithful husband ...
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54%
33 Scenes from Life (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill with stomach cancer, the life of the family is falling apart. Julia accompanies her mother to death, but ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: death, family relations, introspection, self discovery, family problems, parents and children, parent child relationship, hopes, dealing with death, lifestyle, estrangement, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, europe
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53%
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Baby Blues (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Natalia is a 17-year-old mom living with her mother and son, Antos. She wanted to have a baby because it was a “cool” thing to do, and because she feels she has someone to love; someone who can love her in return. Everything changes when ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: parent child relationship, teenage life, immaturity, family problems, hopes, babies and infants, couples, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, youth, mother child relationship, birth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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Dream and Silence (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. During a vacation they suffer a car accident that will change their lives.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot: family in crisis, parents and children, family relations, family problems, introspection, life turned upside down, accident, architect, death, funeral, school teacher, loss of daughter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Mother and Son (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual images of the countryside and cottage.
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, depressing, aesthetic, realistic ...
Plot: art, biopic, countryside, youth, childhood, mental disorder, landscape, mother and son, spirituality, minimal dialogue, artist, underground ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: soviet union, russia
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The Frost (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A couple's marriage falls apart after the death of their son. Based on Henrik Ibsen's "Little Eyolf"
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, bleak, psychological
Plot: couple relations, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, couples, death in the family, dealing with death, guilt, death, male nudity, female nudity, psychological drama, female full frontal nudity ...
Time: 21st century
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The Swimming Pool (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain, Venezuela
Duration: 65 min.
Story: During summer in La Habana, four adolescents with physical problems, while in vacation from school, spend a day in a swimming pool with their apathetic instructor.
Style: touching, atmospheric, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot: swimming, teenage life, youth, disability, teachers and students, realism, mentally challenged, loneliness, power relations, misfit, disabled, polio ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, cuba
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Good Morning Karachi (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Good Morning Karachi addresses the tension between religious extremism and modernity through the eyes of a young woman, Rafina, coming of age in Karachi city. Rafina comes from a poor background but dreams of making something of herself. She wants ...
Style: captivating, serious, sincere, realistic, touching
Plot: modeling, ambition, culture clash, love, politics, fashion, assassination, model, political rally, coming of age, interrogation, billboard ...
Place: pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Stopped on Track (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style: realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, children, wife, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Mourning for Anna (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: murder, grief, death of daughter, country house, family relations, teenage life, hopes, family problems, countryside, woods, youth, optimism ...
Time: 21st century
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39%
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One of a Kind (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When Frédi loses his mother, he realizes she has passed her healing gift on to him. Frédi rejects it totally, tangled up in his own unhappiness, until a fatal accident changes everything. He is forced to acknowledge that he had healing hands.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, captivating
Plot: supernatural ability, fall in love, supernatural, love and romance, accident, seaside, dead mother, chainsaw, hospital, beach, swimming pool, fishing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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39%
The Policeman's Wife (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: accident, couple relations, family problems, domestic violence, family relations, couples, small town, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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38%
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You Lucky Dog (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After her mother's death, New York City fashion designer Lisa Rayborn (Natasha Henstridge) returns to her hometown and family farm. Due to a weak economy, her brother Jim (Harry Hamlin) has converted the family business from a cattle farm into ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: dog, family relations, pets, small town life, farm, ambition, small town, animal life, competition, holiday, teenager, adoption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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37%
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Dad (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: After a long separation, a father and his son spend the day fishing on the river bank. On a beautiful autumn Sunday, surrounded by the majestic countryside, they seem to be alone in the world. They must start all over again.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, stylized, serious ...
Plot: family relations, youth, parent child relationship, countryside, parents and children, father son relationship, nature, kids and family, father and son, separated parents, father, river ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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36%
In Between Days (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style: emotional, realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, youth, unfulfillment, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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35%
Breaking Horizons (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: “Congratulations, you’re pregnant!” Lara can hardly believe what the doctor has just told her. The 25-year-old spends her nights hanging around Berlin with best friend Nora, having lost interest in her architectural studies long ago. She has ...
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, touching, sexy ...
Plot: friendship, life turned upside down, adolescence vs adulthood, pregnancy, life lesson, tragedy, female friendship, party girl, coming of age, best friend, nudity, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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34%
Fly with the Crane (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijin. (TIFF)
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot: family relations, parents and children, family problems, death in the family, elderly, little girl, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, cousin cousin relationship, little boy, youth, cousin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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34%
Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young artist in Manhattan falls in love with a Mexican.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nightclub, social differences, missing person, love affair, social relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, couple relations, conspiracy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, middle east
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33%
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Dearest (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a prison officer in Hokuriku. At the age of 53 Eiji loses his wife who he loved the ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: road trip, widower, mourning, chance meeting, prison warden, last wish, asian, humanity, tourist, typhoon, car thief, coffee ...
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