Movies like The Repentant 2012

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The Repentant (2012)
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The Repentant (2012)
Original name: التائب
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Algeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. In keeping with the law « of pardon and national harmony », he has to surrender to the police and give up his weapon. He thus receives amnesty and becomes a « repenti ». But the law cannot erase his crimes and for Rachid it's the beginning of a one-way journey of violence, secrets and manipulation.
Style: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: haunted by the past, terrorism, starting over, family relations, parents and children, society, social relations, homecoming, hopes, tragic past, village, grief, loss of daughter, village life, police officer, bartender, chemist, getting home, kidnapped daughter, pharmacy, child murder, husband wife estrangement, confronting the past, anonymous telephone call, traumatic past ...
Time: 90s, 1990s
Place: algeria, africa
Keyword: algerian, arabic

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and gloomy films with plots about family relations, society, hopes, parents and children, starting over, life is a bitch and haunted by the past mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Repentant: Harragas (2009), Soda Springs (2012), Mirush (2007), Outlaw Country (2012), Five Thirteen (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Harragas (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the 'Harragas', who smuggle themselves out of the country via any means possible. Here we meet one such group, Rachid, Nasser and Imene who ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, touching, gloomy
Plot: immigrant, against the rules, danger, hopes, corrupt officer, seaport, refugee, lost at sea, migration, exile, cop, ocean ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: africa, algeria, spain, mediterranean sea
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Soda Springs (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, family relations, hopes, going straight, lifestyle, homecoming, parents and children, social relations, christian ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
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Mirush (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his father's ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, sentimental
Plot: hidden identity, parents and children, starting over, hopes, family relations, haunted by the past, juvenile delinquent, immigrant, father, youth, refugee, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kosovo, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Outlaw Country (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family relations, gang, parents and children, love and romance, danger, society, violent content
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Five Thirteen (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: starting over, going straight, hopes, family relations, parents and children, released from prison, father daughter relationship, false accusation, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, violent content, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Autumn (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot: starting over, love affair, homecoming, released from prison, life is a bitch, hopes, society, love and romance, family relations, reconciliation, parents and children, fighting illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: black sea, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Bad Luck Love (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined in this acclaimed drama from Finland. Ali (Jorma Tommila) is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, serious, gloomy
Plot: family problems, down on your luck, haunted by the past, starting over, society, going straight, violence, jail, fatherhood, parent child relationship, male female relationship, ex convict ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Now or Never (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: As a mother, in principle, you do not rob banks. But these days, it can be a solution for the future of your home, and not to give up on your dreams. Playing the thieves can quickly become dangerous and bad encounters can turn into a love story ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, serious ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, unemployment, down on your luck, family in crisis, society, plan, bankruptcy, danger, black, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Atlantic. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric
Plot: starting over, human spirit, hopes, family life, danger, escapades, ocean, survival, sea, nature, climbing, rock climbing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, morocco
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55%
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Chrystal (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Man (played by: Billy Bob Thornton) is still in shock many years after a devistating accident takes the life of his only son and perminantly injures his wife. After all of these years the man finaly comes home to his still married wife (Played by: ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, emotional, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, haunted by the past, starting over, dysfunctional family, homecoming, death in the family, family in crisis, addiction, grief, american south, missing child, white trash ...
Time: year 2004
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Sins of the Father (2002)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In 1965 a bomb was planted in a Church in Alabama, killing four black girls. Thirty years later, Tom Cherry breaks his silence to discredit his father's alibi for the night in question.
Style: realistic, rough, emotional, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: racism, investigation, moral dilemma, introspection, haunted by the past, legal, rebellion, society, injustice, parents and children, hopes, civil rights ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Mothers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning ...
Style: captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: parents and children, murder, elderly, introspection, estrangement, family relations, gender, society, life, small town life, relationships, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, macedonia
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52%
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Cost of a Soul (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: racism, murder, iraq war, urban ghetto, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, society, gang, war veteran, profanity, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Home Again (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot: deportation, homecoming, culture clash, immigrant, hopes, life is a bitch, society, starting over, injustice, rivalry, blaxploitation, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: jamaica, africa, usa, england, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Under the Starry Sky (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
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46%
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Dallas 362 (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rusty (Shawn Hatosy) has been bailed out of bad situations more than once by his understanding but distraught mother, Mary (Kelly Lynch). When Mary starts dating a psychologist, Bob (Jeff Goldblum), Rusty connects with the man and begins talking to ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, grim, biting
Plot: going straight, friendship, parents and children, buddies, youth, society, family life, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, social decay, rehabilitation, boyfriend ...
Time: year 2003
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44%
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Offline (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot: haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, society, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, hopes, job seeking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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7 Virgins (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedding of his brother. In the two days he recounts his neighborhood in a section of Sevilla.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: juvenile delinquent, wedding, friendship, self discovery, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, rebellious youth, society, buddies, youth, family relations, kids in trouble ...
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Erratum (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style: atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, homecoming, haunted by the past, buddies, parents and children, family relations, hopes, redemption, profanity, friends, estrangement, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, europe
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43%
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Out of My Hand (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Liberia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: ‘What do you want?’ asks the trade union leader, to which the men respond as if with one voice: change! Life is hard work on Liberia’s rubber plantations and wages are meagre. Nothing has changed for generations, but now the workers are ...
Style: contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: workplace, realism, hopes, starting over, society, workplace situations, immigrant, poverty, new life, haunted by the past, strike, plantation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, africa
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42%
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Bummer 2 (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film takes place a few years after the events shown in Bummer. Kostyan "Kot", who lost all his friends, the woman he loved and was nearly killed in the first installment of the film tries to begin a new, peaceful life. But is it ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, gangster, car, car trip, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, on the road, travel, mafia, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
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42%
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Common (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Multi-award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern's brand new film based on the UK's controversial joint enterprise law. Jimmy McGovern's gritty drama stars Nico Mirallegro as guileless 17 year old Johnjo O'Shea, who goes from innocent ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, realistic, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, legal, courtroom, parents and children, injustice, family relations, false accusation, law, murder mystery, lawyer, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Mila from Mars (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Fleeing an abusive relationship, Mila, a teen prostitute, finds herself in a border town, pregnant, alone, and, to her surprise, welcome. The remote village is on a marijuana plantation run by a group of elderly men and women. Not having known much ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, offbeat
Plot: marijuana, starting over, on the run, haunted by the past, social relations, drug dealing, youth, teenage life, village, teenage pregnancy, orphan, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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I Saw the Sun (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the southeast region of Turkey, the Altun family lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war, making their daily life a hellish struggle. As the war continues to intensify, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of ...
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, clever ...
Plot: life is a bitch, culture clash, starting over, on the run, wartime life, pregnancy, social relations, terrorism, village, gay, migration, turk ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, europe, istanbul turkey, oslo norway
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8-Ball (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: hopes, drug addict, starting over, going straight, one more chance, haunted by the past, family relations, single parent, parents and children, love, jail, motherhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
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39%
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Orphan (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Chilean family deals with the new values in a quickly changing world.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere
Plot: family relations, social differences, family problems, parents and children, family life, hopes, society, introspection, human spirit, village, family in crisis, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Rust (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: clergy, self discovery, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, homecoming, religions or cults, friendship, society, small town, human nature, direction and purpose ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Let the Wind Blow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, rich and poor, follow your dream, social differences, political unrest, parents and children, society, youth, state affairs, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Colossal Youth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story: After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style: contemplative, serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, starting over, hopes, misfit, addiction, urban ghetto life, husband wife relationship, anthropology, decolonization, poetry ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Back to School Mom (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish her degree so that, for once, she can finally finish something she started. Back at her old ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: college, redemption, family relations, life is a bitch, college life, homecoming, social relations, starting over, bittersweet, small town, college friend, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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36%
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