Movies like Absence 1992

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Absence (1992)
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Absence (1992)
Original name: L'Absence
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Style: exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: soldier, gambling, old man, journey, disappearance, gambler, spaniard, husband wife relationship, monologue, black man, search
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe
Keyword: german, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and exciting films with plots about family relations, dishonesty, society, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples and friends mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Absence: One More Chance (1981), Those Secrets (1992), Cet amour-là (2001), The Feast of the Goat (2005), The Hot Potato (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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One More Chance (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An ex-convict, after spending six years in prison, tries to re-establish a relationship with the son he hasn't seen in all that time.
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Plot: kidnapping, cons and scams, missing person, friendship, confined, ex convict, father son relationship
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
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Those Secrets (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
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Time: 90s
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Cet amour-là (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
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Plot: destiny, wartime life, soldier, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, family relations, couples, culture clash, love affair ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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The Feast of the Goat (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Spain, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, realistic, serious ...
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Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place: dominican republic, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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The Hot Potato (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
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One Day You'll Understand (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
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Stretch (2011)
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: Christophe, a young horse racing jockey from Paris, is filled with hope and ambition. Yet after a race, he tests positive for illegal substances and is subsequently suspended from racing. He decides to move to Macau, in Asia. There his circumstances ...
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Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France
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Paradise Lost (1978)
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Country: Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
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56%
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44%
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Country: Germany, France
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Country: France
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One of Us (1989)
Genre: Drama
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41%
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41%
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40%
Comedy of Power (2006)
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Duration: 110 min.
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40%
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Duration: 140 min.
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