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Norte, the End of History (2013)
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Norte, the End of History (2013)
Original name: Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 250 min.
Story: A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when something mysterious and strange starts happening to him.
Style: philosophical, realistic, stylized, atmospheric, serious, slow cinema, contemplative, art house, black and white, cerebral ...
Plot: double murder, social problems, revenge, punishment, government corruption, village life, society, working class, social relations, immigrant, prison, murder, jail, husband wife relationship, serial killer, religion, politics, underground, crime and punishment, troubled, slow burn, crime spree, wrongful conviction, incest rape, village ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place: the philippines, asia, india
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and contemplative films with plots about murder, society, life is a bitch, social relations, family relations, deadly and police mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Norte, the End of History: From What Is Before (2014), Melancholia (2008), West Side Avenue (2001), A Short Film About Killing (1988), Metro Manila (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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From What Is Before (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 338 min.
Story: The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation ...
Style: bleak, serious, realistic, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: forces of nature, village life, isolation, danger, clergy, confined, society, chaos, village, very little dialogue, army, fired from the job ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1970, year 1971
Place: the philippines
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95%
 7.4
 549
Melancholia (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 450 min.
Story: A story about victims of summary executions. Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies.
Style: bleak, psychological, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: sex show, friendship, friends, wilderness, haunted by the past, survival, danger, life is a bitch, prostitute, therapy, pimp, underground ...
Time: 2000s, future
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
West Side Avenue (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 315 min.
Story: A Filipino teenager is shot to death on the sidewalk of New Jersey, USA. An investigation starts into his death. His family members and friends are interviewed. Along the way, we find out not only more about him but about the community of Filipinos ...
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, rough, exciting ...
Plot: teenager, investigation, death, witness, massacre, murder, psychiatrist, poison, interview, guilt, infidelity, investigator ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new jersey, usa, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
Style: disturbing, bleak, contemplative, social, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, murder, prison, execution, death, dialogue, politics, fighting the system, legal, death row, unrequited love, trial ...
Time: year 1988, 80s, year 1987
Place: poland, eastern europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 7.6
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Metro Manila (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Philippines
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Seeking a brighter future in megacity Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family flee their impoverished life in the rice fields of the northern Philippines. But the sweltering capital's bustling intensity quickly overwhelms them, and they fall prey ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, captivating, noir ...
Plot: poverty, heist, life is a bitch, society, rookie, gain trust, against the rules, corrupt law enforcer, mistrust, asian, sex, working class ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: the philippines, manila philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.6
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Independence (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Philippines, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. A mother and son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet life. One day, the son discovers a wounded woman in the middle of the forest, and decides to bring her ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, surreal ...
Plot: family in danger, couples, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, survival, state affairs, fugitives, woods, husband wife relationship, sick mother, colonialism ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Crime and Punishment (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...
Style: serious, realistic, neo noir, intercultural, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, guilty conscience, law enforcement, life is a bitch, down on your luck, guilt, police, friend, friendship, loneliness, morality, russian empire ...
Time: 80s
Place: finland, europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.6
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Leviathan (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Style: bleak, depressing, atmospheric, thought provoking, meditative ...
Plot: lawyer, adultery, corruption, courtroom, infidelity, alcoholic, small town, drunk, alcoholism, poverty, corrupt mayor, unhappy wife ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 8.0
 158K
Dogville (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 178 min.
Story: A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style: art house, psychological, bleak, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Plot: rape, society, twists and turns, female protagonist, morality, rocky mountains, victim, vengeance, haunted by the past, brutality, storytelling, gangster ...
Time: 1930s, year 2003, 90s, year 2004, near future ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Hours of the Day (2003)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Abel lives with his mother in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. His life, grey and boring, is based on the small family business, his mother's house, his girlfriend's bed, and the town bars. However under an appearance of quiet ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, family life, social relations, mental illness, family relations, murder, small town life, store, gory, small town, insanity, health ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.1
 338
Amsterdam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A rich American couple, a family of Dutch criminals, a French gay couple, a working class family from Germany and an illegal Moroccan youth and his kid brother, are all in Amsterdam, each with their own story. Different reasons make their paths ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, disturbing, contemplative
Plot: police, money, lifestyle, family life, family relations, love, ambition, immigrant, friendship, couple relations, couples, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: amsterdam, holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Man from London (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story: One night Maloin, a switchman at a seaside railway station situated by a ferry harbour, witnesses a terrible event...
Style: neo noir, serious, black and white, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: murder, witnessing a crime, introspection, moral dilemma, redemption, european, escapades, danger, rivalry, underground, minimalism, seaside ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.4
 12K
Money (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to ...
Style: spiritual, slow cinema, cynical, neo noir, anthology ...
Plot: betrayal, prison, trial, existentialism, post war, modernism, labor, spirit, spirituality, entertainment, fugitive, dream ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.0
 4K
Hukkle (2002)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Color of Lies (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial ...
Style: art house, contemplative, serious, realistic, tense ...
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Time: 90s
Place: france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Woman Who Left (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 226 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: crime drama, serious, realistic, tense, crying
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 8.2
 12K
Satantango (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 439 min.
Story: Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of ...
Style: slow cinema, art house, contemplative, black and white, dark comedy ...
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Time: 90s, year 1994, 80s, 20th century
Place: hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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American History X (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader ...
Style: dramatic, serious, cerebral, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, teen drama
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Place: los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.9
 5K
Black Bread (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 157 min.
Story: In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is ...
Style: atmospheric, art house, slow cinema, disturbing, lyrical ...
Audience: kids
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Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: middle east, maghreb, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Blind Mountain (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Blind Mountain follows a young woman, Bai Xuemei, in the early 1990s who recently graduated from college and attempts to find work to help pay for her brother's education. In the process, she is drugged, kidnapped and sold as a bride to a ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, serious, touching, controversial ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.4
 7K
Levity (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the paroled man attempts to find ...
Style: touching, emotional, melancholic, philosophical, psychological ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
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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 ⇓
28%
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who in his last days forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality as she accompanies him to his execution.
Style: touching, thought provoking, sad, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, death row, death penalty, nun, rape, court, death sentence, murder, confession, lethal injection, execution, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: louisiana, new orleans, united kingdom, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style: touching, black and white, enigmatic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, racism, small town, trial, single father, legal, rape, childhood, poverty, prejudice ...
Time: 1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place: alabama, usa, america, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Without Compassion (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru, Mexico, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lima, 1980s. Based upon Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Plot: death, punishment, student, hate, landlord, college student, religion, suspicion, landlady, double murder, catholic, torment ...
Place: peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Vengeance is Mine (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic ...
Style: disturbing, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, father son relationship, parents and children, on the run, prostitute, violence spree, violence, sex scene, killer, female nudity, sociopath, sex ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 3.2
 450
Down Time (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Slim Williams, a small-time dealer, is poised to make his big score with his partner Paulie. But the easy deal becomes a nightmare when Slim is caught in deadly police sting and ends up in a maximum-security penitentiary. Sold out by his partner, ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, rough, hispanic ...
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Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.6
 7K
Damnation (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the ...
Style: contemplative, surreal, slow cinema, bleak, art house ...
Plot: magic realism, dancing, european, female nudity, sex scene, poetry, hidden treasure, visceral, minimalism, underground, minimal dialogue, amor ...
Time: year 1988
Place: europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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