Movies like Absence 1992
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Absence (1992)
91
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:
philosophical, bleak, contemplative, art house, existential, mysterious, absurd, allegory, surreal, avant garde ...
Plot:
isolation, wasteland, loneliness, alienation, minimalism, anonymity, identity, metaphysics, character study, pilgrimage, minimal dialogue, moral ambiguity, soldier, gambling, old man, journey, disappearance, gambler, spaniard, husband wife relationship, monologue, black man, psychological drama, search
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, existential, melancholic and contemplative films with plots about isolation, minimalism, loneliness, character study, alienation, psychological drama and intimate mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Absence: The Bird (2011), The Other (2020), DeAD (2013), Ulzhan (2007), Lecture 21 (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman, withdrawn from life, rescues a live bird that had been trapped in the wall of her apartment.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, art house, existential ...
Plot:
estrangement, strong female presence, restaurant, loneliness, isolation, solitude, character study, female protagonist, alienation, symbolism, slow burn, intimate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
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79
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
existential, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
grief, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, character study, search for father, alienation, minimalism, intimate, regret, male protagonist, urban ...
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67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not ...
Style:
slow cinema, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, alienation, isolation, everyday life, intimate, minimalism, bittersweet, character study, intimacy, coastal town, sexual tension, dog ...
Place:
poetic realism, chile
Similarity:
60%
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678
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn't looking for fame or glory. He's looking for a way to heal his wounded ...
Style:
serious, realistic, existential, art house, reflective ...
Plot:
gulag, nuclear explosion, introspection, looking for love, travel, quest, treasure, oil well, loss of family, loneliness, isolation, spiritual journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kazakhstan, asia
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
inspiration, lecture, snow, student, beethoven, classical music, adventure hero, escapades, journey, mountaineer, solitude, transformation ...
Place:
alps
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
Style:
philosophical, slow cinema, art house, road movie, contemplative ...
Plot:
destiny, immigrant, terminal illness, coming of age, dialogue, art, storytelling, writers, greek, hospital, refugee, journey ...
Time:
90s, 1910s, year 1998, future
Place:
greece, australia, japan, tokyo
Similarity:
51%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
unwanted pregnancy, courage, minimalism, underground, alienation, mental disorder, immigrant, deadend life, urban ghetto life, vengeance, life is a bitch, drug abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, momentous news from home compels an exiled young man to embark upon an intense and surreal journey through the broken and beautiful margins of contemporary Britain.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, contemplative, visually appealing, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, journey, on the road, family relations, society, haunted by the past, family problems, self discovery, nature, trauma, isolation, memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
loneliness, depression, fog, ship, hypochondriac, extramarital affair, existentialism, mother son relationship, society, factory, passion, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, UK, Germany, Finland, China, USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. ...
Style:
anthology, captivating, contemplative, experimental, art house ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, life, life & death, fate, memory, symbolism, mortality, experimental narrative, college, forest, minimalism, ritual ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia, Germany, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Until one day, a charming magician arrives and Lana finds her love, for she is ready to leave the zoo. Lana ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
zoo, love and romance, magic, fall in love, amusement park, youth, animal training, wizards and magicians, bittersweet, coming of age, loneliness, abandonment ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world.
Style:
contemplative, serious, thought provoking, realistic, anthology ...
Plot:
mass murder, genocide, armenian genocide, society, identity, social commentary, magic realism, modern life, alienation, loneliness, isolation, urban ...
Place:
latin america, armenia, south america, portugal, brazil ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and nature itself, trigger a surprising chain of events
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes a desert island for them. A boy and a girl that ...
Style:
art house, independent film, melancholic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
forest, orphan, hospital, taxi, motorcycle, innocence lost, escape, coming of age, isolation, survival, outsider, realism ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
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26K
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
Style:
erotic, cerebral, black and white, art house, sexual ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, hospital, midlife crisis, marriage, love, relationships, affair, amor, illicit affair, passion, crazy love ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea, usa, los angeles, europe ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Saara and Robert are living a love that is free from traditional conventions and role models. They set off to an extensive summer holiday on a lonely island in the Finnish archipelago where the tension between them escalates and becomes a fight for ...
Style:
tension, romantic drama, captivating, exciting, bleak ...
Plot:
female nudity, male nudity, character study, power struggle, isolation, nudity, lifestyle, couple relations, love affair, female protagonist, couples, husband wife relationship ...
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40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a doctor, and their attempts to escape from their dead-end situations.
Style:
existential, melancholic, surreal, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
narcolepsy, gay, illness, isolation, terminal illness, alienation, mortality, character study, relationships, minimalism, sexuality, identity ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
suicide, memory, existential crisis, symbolism, loss, midlife crisis, self discovery, guilt, flashback, mature, regret, isolation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Two young lovers are making a journey through the desert, not specifically going anywhere, in search of freedom.She is very alive and energetic, continuously asking for his affection. He is quiet, mysterious and non-communicative.What starts as a ...
Style:
poetic, independent film, existential, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
desert, desperation, love, alienation, nature, young lovers, journey, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, relationships, couples ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An eternal landscape from the Yesilcam.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, heavy, meditative, art house ...
Plot:
memory, isolation, loneliness, reflection, symbolism, character study, minimalism, women's issues, absurdism, landscape
Similarity:
38%
169
Genre: Drama
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
assassination, haunted by the past, on the run, life is a bitch, prime minister, flashback sequence, rivalry, danger, society, escape, moral ambiguity, trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
This darkly grotesque drama unfolds on multiple paths. The tangible one, now cruel, now crazy, along which the nomadic actor "Dad Mour", his wife "Mum" and two sons try to return home, but also the imaginary one, even more, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
adaptation, father son relationship, relationships, family relations, lifestyle, family life, mortality, aging, dark humor, loneliness, character study, love ...
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ever since I started making films it has bothered me in a certain sense that film images are far too concrete, because technically they try to imitate the sense of space characteristic of everyday life. So the story ignites the imagination only to ...
Style:
experimental, existential, philosophical, slow cinema, avant garde ...
Plot:
death, plague, cemetery, mourning, symbolism, isolation, alienation, minimalism, haunting, adaptation, literary, obsession ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Miguel travels to Pontevedra, his hometown, with the request of serching for some locations for a movie. His trip takes him back to the place where he grew up, meeting up with some old friends, but also leads him to the possibility of a new ...
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, workplace, self discovery, workplace situations, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise.
Style:
road movie, meditative, poetic, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
gay, loss, mourning, grief, love, journey, solitude, self discovery, memory, landscape, pilgrimage, character study ...
Place:
chile, patagonia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Margarethe in Bestie!:
her psyche and body imposed on by her lover;
then: her mutation
and lives in a multitude of creations.
The reality of the cosmos reveals itself to her.
Boundless in shining beauty. a film by Carsten Frank
Bestie!
...
Style:
art house, experimental, psychological, surreal, existential ...
Plot:
cosmos, transformation, female protagonist, identity, metamorphosis, transcendence, visionary, obsession, hallucination, portrait, beauty, body horror ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot, where it's good to go because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people show up one after the other – all of them on the verge of a breakdown – or perhaps a ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, contemplative, existential, art house ...
Plot:
loneliness, empathy, breakdown, character study, rain, trauma, single, transformation, isolation, slow burn, intimate, minimalism ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A radical, western re-imagining of Henry David Thoreau's classic, interlacing three stories about the trappings of 21st century life and those who dream dangerously of escape.
Style:
philosophical, captivating, psychological, art house, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dream, escapism, loneliness, haunted by the past, friendship, loner, social relations, life, surrealism, alone, dealing with the past, confronting the past ...
Place:
america
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
It's a movie about a subject that captivates me. And I can see that it also captivates the world and people and has done it at all times. It is the meeting with the stranger. Why is it so difficult to relate to those who's not like ...
Style:
thought provoking, art house, contemplative, tense, intercultural ...
Plot:
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