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Burnt Out (2005)
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Original name: Sauf le respect que je vous dois
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
François Durrieux, a man in his forties, married to Clémence and father of Benjamin, has been employed for years by the firm DSBO. In order not to lose his job, he always submits to his boss's demands whether it means working after office hours, canceling planned holidays or harming his family life. However, when one night, Simon Lacaze, his best friend and colleague, commits suicide just after being fired ignominiously, François rebels...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, emotional, bleak, existential, grim, tragic
Plot:
workplace, revolt, friendship, parents and children, fighting the system, boss and employee, workplace situations, power relations, suffering, employee, middle aged man, suicide, burnout, office politics, alienation, conformity, midlife crisis, isolation, loss of job, grief, bureaucracy, family conflict, moral dilemma, obedience, mental health ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, tense and emotional films with plots about power relations, friendship, workplace, society, workplace situations, family relations and boss and employee mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Burnt Out: You Will Be My Son (2011), Blood from a Stone (2011), Early One Morning (2011), Two Days, One Night (2014), The Minister (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, independent film, depressing, serious, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, belgium, ethiopia, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world ...
Style:
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Plot:
french politics, politics, workplace, workplace situations, state affairs, boss and employee, disagreement, politician, prime minister, business, female nudity, fatal accident ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Paul dies, he leaves his wife Eve with a mountain of debt. As the police begin their investigation into Paul’s death, Eve is supported by a lawyer named Chollet, a friend of her husband who generously helps her to clear the debts she has ...
Style:
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Plot:
dishonesty, missing person, twists and turns, couples, friends, law enforcement, femme fatale, infidelity, friendship, manipulation, police, lawyer ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, realistic, tense, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
human nature, teenage life, family problems, youth, society, dysfunctional family, death, suicidal thoughts, friendship, rebellion, juvenile delinquency, rebelliousness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, rough
Plot:
factory, vengeance, workplace intrigue, misled, parents and children, rivalry, righting the wronged, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations, family relations, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, normandy, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Aline never managed to get closure from the death of her 17-year-old son in a street fight. When she sees the assai- lant recently released from prison, she decides to cook up a plan to avenge her dead son. Things go unexpectedly as she gets to know ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, social, political ...
Plot:
top executive, critique of capitalism, stock broker, greed, rivalry, boss and employee, workplace, office, trading, wealth, banking, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, europe, france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
farm, estrangement, countryside, workplace situations, workplace, society, nothing goes right, down on your luck, life is a bitch, tradition, chore, solitude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in Afghanistan, has returned to France. Soon mixed up in trafficking opium with Mounir, his brother-in-arms who was wounded in the ambush, Lafayette, a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
france, afghanistan
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 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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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Quiet 16-year-old Louis, the high school headmaster’s son, has never been in trouble. His best friend, 18-year-old Greg, however, is his polar opposite: provocative, angry, violent, he has been kicked out of school for physically threatening young ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
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Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a girlfriend of his age. "Mummy" is not going to tolerate such an ignominy. Julien is HER ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
mother son relationship, domineering mother, psychological abuse, overprotective mother, puberty, incestuous desire, incest overtones, dysfunctional family, teenage life, parents and children, teenage boy, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jean-Jacques spent 9 years in prison for robbery. When he comes out, he finds the neighborhood where he grew up but things have changed ... The country is in crisis, the young people are holding the business and his old friends are urging him to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
going straight, starting over, hopes, life is a bitch, gang, urban ghetto, father son relationship, danger, poverty, street life, social commentary, realism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Estonia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. ...
Style:
witty, touching, realistic, serious
Plot:
elderly, friendship, love and romance, boss and employee, obnoxious boss, power relations, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, emigration, loneliness, immigrant, bittersweet ...
Time:
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france, paris france, europe, estonia
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