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Stubborn Boy (2015)
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Original name: Bube Stur
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The people of this remote village in the Black Forest don't talk much, but when they do, it's in the Alemannic dialect. Hanna, 21 has traveled far to work here. She shovels manure, milks cows and tries to cope with the farmer, Uwe Kiefer, 39. Rather than sell his milk, he pours it down the drain. The villagers condemn him for continuing the milk strike. Both his marriage and his finances are on the rocks. As Hanna becomes more involved in Uwe's troubles, it seems she may be his only hope. But that's not why she came here. In the neighboring town, she spies on a small family and then Uwe finds her out.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, independent film, bleak, grim
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, character study, intimate, isolation, alienation, male protagonist, social realism, secrets, moral dilemma, financial ruin, mistrust, older man younger woman relationship, obsession, betrayal, coming of age, surveillance, village, farmer, farm, outcast, cow, strike, 21 year old, rural setting ...
Place:
germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, bleak and atmospheric films with plots about character study, intimate, isolation, loneliness, coming of age, social realism and female protagonist mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Stubborn Boy: DeAD (2013), Dark Paradise (2023), Daughters (2014), The Albanian Virgin (2021), In Her Place (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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