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I Am Maria (1979)
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Original name: Jag är Maria
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, sexual, sexy, nostalgic
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, small town, children, childhood, young girl, self discovery, female protagonist, coming of age, intergenerational friendship, loneliness, outsider, family drama, identity, slice of life, bittersweet, female nudity, social isolation, alcoholism, intimate, friend, abandonment, painter, sexploitation, female full frontal nudity
Time:
70s
Place:
eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and independent film films with plots about coming of age, identity, bittersweet, intimate, slice of life, small town and self discovery mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like I Am Maria: There Should Be Rules (2015), Volaverunt (1999), A Fit of Rage (1999), Love According to Dalva (2022), Dreams (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mia and Mirjam are two 14-year-olds who live in a very dreary little town. Though not especially grown-up, they're both trying. Mirjam gets a head start by forming a relationship with an older man who says he loves her. Mia has a dad who drinks ...
Style:
psychological, touching, tense, melancholic
Plot:
small town, underage girl, coming of age, teenager, relationships, friendship, adolescence, best friend, swedish, female friendship, love and romance, love ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
madrid
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ...
Style:
sexual, erotic, sexy, weird
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"I am" tells the story of Kundel, a boy searching for his place in life, his identity. After running away from an orphanage where he is treated as an outcast among outcasts by both his peers and the adults in charge, and being rejected a ...
Style:
realistic, poignant, emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, children, childhood, child protagonist, youth, friendship, self discovery, orphanage, adolescence, boy, survival, intimate ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, dramatic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Goran just got out of high school and doesn't know what he wants to do with his life. Should he stick with his small time gangster friends and make some cash, or listen to Zeko in the fast food stall who thinks you should go to school forever? ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, independent film, crime drama
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
moral dilemma, youth, self discovery, responsibility, mother son relationship, coming of age, temptation, realism, peer pressure, family drama, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Place:
croatia, eastern europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
dramatic, emotional, tension, melancholic
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, poetic, independent film
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, school, friendship between boys, rain, male nudity, teenage boy, personal growth, youth, self discovery, nostalgia, aspiring musician ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the snowy seaside town of Sokcho, 25-year-old Soo-Ha works at a guesthouse. She drifts between her mother’s fish stall and her boyfriend until a French artist’s arrival stirs questions about her identity. As winter deepens, Soo-Ha and the ...
Style:
intercultural, contemplative, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
winter, female protagonist, coming of age, self discovery, young woman, identity, slice of life, intimate, identity crisis, bittersweet, loneliness, small town ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
Style:
reflective, melancholic
Plot:
grownups, adolescence, coming of age, friendship, self discovery, personal growth, youth, female friendship, female bonding, loss of innocence, relationships, life lesson ...
Time:
1920s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, reflective, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 90s, Isabella was eighteen and a star. 20 years later, she is still singing those same songs in small town bars with her son Bruno, playing guitar. It's because of him that her career stopped. At least it's what she tells herself.
Style:
dramatic, exciting, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 2010s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
existential, melancholic, postmodern, moody
Plot:
identity, relationships, young adult, self discovery, coming of age, youth culture, modern life, slice of life, intimacy, alienation, bittersweet, city life ...
Similarity:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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329
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, dramatic, melancholic, intercultural
Plot:
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Place:
latvia, eastern europe
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Estonia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Kyrgyzstan, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
new york, scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Julia, a 22-year-old mother of two, falls in love with Óscar, a troubled boy with whom she embarks on a love affair. The more time they spend together, the more Julia asks herself if Óscar is the person she really needs by her side, prompting her ...
Style:
romantic drama, thrilling, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, light hearted, period piece, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
denmark
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, psychological, period piece
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five childhood friends from a small Montenegrin town have gradually moved away to different corners of the former Yugoslavia, yet they remain in contact, aware that their long-time friendship continues to play a fundamental role in their lives.
Style:
melancholic, emotional
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, nostalgia, small town, introspection, diaspora, migration, slice of life, bittersweet, intimate, social change, memory ...
Place:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
london
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Koen is a fatherless, eighteen year old boy who wants to free himself from the suffocating relationship with his mother. He struggels with the balance between independency and love. When he meets Colet, he tries to keep his distance, but she is both ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
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Plot:
adolescence, teenager, coming of age, mother son relationship, independence, self discovery, search for father, family drama, young love, identity, absent father, intimate ...
Time:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
portugal
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Sweden, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
alcoholic, alcoholism, search for father, journey, social problems, lifestyle change, changing lives, redemption, recovery, refugee, family drama, personal growth ...
Place:
poland, france, eastern europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, emotional, contemplative, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Yang-yang is a French-Chinese mix. She has never seen her French father. She does not speak a single French word. Her mum has re-married but she has been very lonely. She started working at the entertainment industry. The fact that she is a mix is a ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, intercultural, independent film
Plot:
identity, mixed race, young woman, loneliness, self discovery, youth, coming of age, family relations, mother and daughter, family drama, friendship, language barrier ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
taiwan, taipei, france
Similarity:
18%
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