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The Caretaker (2017)
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Original name: El hombre que cuida
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Juan has become the laughingstock of the small fishing village, due to his wife being unfaithful and getting pregnant by another man. He has left fishing and now obsessively cares for an ostentatious mansion of a wealthy family from the capital. One day, the young son of the owner shows up at the house, without his father's permission and loaded with alcohol, with a foreign friend and a village girl they just met. During the course of the weekend, Juan will be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of his life.
Style:
psychological, tension, melancholic, suspense, tragic
Plot:
caretaker, loneliness, jealousy, isolation, infidelity, humiliation, moral dilemma, small town, obsession, alienation, resentment, machismo, beach house, class conflict, intimate, slow burn, youth, mansion, entrapment, revenge, marijuana, love triangle, beach, high society, masturbation ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Caretaker
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, melancholic, suspense and tragic films with plots about small town, character study, slow burn, intimate, isolation, moral ambiguity and jealousy mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Caretaker: Green Hat (2004), The Drift (2015), Soul Kicking (2006), Summer Rain (2015), Rencor (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A sexually frustrated policeman starts investigating the doings of his wife.
Style:
psychological, bleak, tense, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
jealousy, sexual frustration, adultery, infidelity, humiliation, shame, character study, moral ambiguity, betrayal, chinese culture, machismo, moral dilemma ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Robert, a former driver in illegal races, returns to his hometown Dietikon after a long period of absence. He is determined to put his past behind him and starts an apprenticeship in a repair shop. When he meets teacher Alice, his life starts to ...
Style:
intense, dark, suspense, tension, psychological ...
Plot:
stalking, obsession, secrets, manipulation, character study, double life, deception, identity, relationships, slow burn, surveillance, homecoming ...
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72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money. He's got a family, a baby, a home... Takis is being cheated. He loves her and he suffers... Takis can't take it at work. He's besieged by savages. But his boss tops them ...
Style:
melancholic, intense, dark, psychological, tragic
Plot:
working class, desperation, family crisis, betrayal, male protagonist, anger, oppression, isolation, alienation, revenge, realism, slow burn ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 54 min.
Story:
Agathe and Paul, on holidays with their children. On a bridge, at the edge of a cliff, a forgotten wallet. A thought, and then dizziness.
Style:
emotional, tension, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
summer, couples, holiday, introspection, moral dilemma, children, decision, realism, intimate, uncertainty, marriage, slice of life ...
Similarity:
69%
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322
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Chelo Zamora, middling singer, agreed to spend the summer working in restaurants in the Valencian beach Cullera, could not imagine being reunited with Toni, a guy who shares a dark past. Moved by his desire for revenge, Chelo attempt to ruin ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
revenge, singer, relationships, in love, couple relations, love interest, love story, star crossed lovers, love affair, love and romance, female singer, obsessive love ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life of the place, leading eventually to a murder.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic drama, tense ...
Plot:
small town life, relationship problems, teenage life, relationships, newspaper reporter, privacy invasion, investigative journalism, teenage protagonist, woman, small village, male female relationship, murder mystery ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
62%
671
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds a secret friendship with Pete, an older handyman who is obsessed with her.
Style:
sincere, captivating, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, obsession, love triangle, outsider, loner, secret, platonic, friendship, high school, homecoming, working class, loneliness ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Wu Hongyan is a female bailiff in a regional court in West China dealing with women awaiting execution—more often than not, sentenced for crimes of passion. Every weekend, without much luck, she looks for love at the Good Luck Matchmaking dance, ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
affair, social realism, female protagonist, revenge, loneliness, love affair, life is a bitch, social problems, relationship problems, secret, male female relationship, death sentence ...
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Two former classmates (one an honest working man with a wife and children, the other a conman) meet at a train station. The conman comes to stay with his old friend and slowly begins to assume the role of master of the house, taking the place of ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, tension, suspenseful, sinister
Plot:
character study, deception, friendship, intimate, identity, working class, moral dilemma, betrayal, impostor, slow burn, machismo, switching roles ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
58%
143
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Serbia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Divorced father Marko is hardly ever alone: he is surrounded on all sides by family, friends, co-workers and neighborhood fixers. Yet he is driven to the brink by limited contact with the one person he loves more than anyone – his daughter, who ...
Style:
realistic, heartbreaking, intense, melancholic, tense
Plot:
custody battle, family conflict, divorced father, bureaucracy, child custody, domestic drama, social services, character study, single parent, loneliness, bittersweet, intimate ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
57%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, art house, psychological
Plot:
love triangle, relationships, romantic triangle, in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic rivalry, romantic relationship, fall in love, male female relationship, rich and poor, love story, couple relations ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A train driver has a rival in his godson for his wife. During a crisis on the train, he refuses to kill him or let him die in a crash.
Style:
intense, tension, serious, suspense, grim ...
Plot:
train, love affair, jealousy, love triangle, moral dilemma, railway, infidelity, train crash, crisis, guilt, betrayal, sacrifice ...
Place:
croatia, balkan
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness ...
Style:
tension, psychological, atmospheric, melancholic, art house
Plot:
coming of age, island, wedding, fire, lighthouse, sexual awakening, obsession, jealousy, loneliness, character study, sexual tension, isolation ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Franck, a former young hopeful at the Nantes soccer club, has stayed on to help the team for ten years after an injury,but becomes especially frustrated when he meets a seductive young woman.
Style:
melancholic, art house
Plot:
soccer, infidelity, love triangle, character study, jealousy, small town, seduction, midlife crisis, sexual tension, slice of life, bittersweet, unrequited love ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A haunting, violent tale of a youth lost in an uncaring world, Bullet Collector is visual, nightmarish masterpiece. A shy 14-year-old boy, disconnected from home life and school, and sent to a hellish reform school, eventually lashes out on the ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, visual, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, innocence lost, unsettling, loneliness, coming of age, reform school, alienation, isolation, teenage crush, combat, teenager, teenage life ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
gambler, male female relationship, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, troubled past, love affair, couple relations, prostitute, mysterious past, confronting the past, red light district ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, period piece, satirical ...
Plot:
middle aged man, midlife crisis, character study, loneliness, regret, alienation, existential crisis, family drama, intimate, infidelity, urban, slice of life ...
Place:
soviet union, poetic realism, ussr
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from Peyami Safa’s novel Selma and Her Shadow, the movie tells the story of Selma. Selma (Görkem Yeltan) is the ultimate femme fatale whose alluring and seductive nature and irresistible charms exude an aura of death for men.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, sinister, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
femme fatale, seduction, suicide, obsession, character study, fatal attraction, tragedy, love triangle, betrayal, jealousy, femininity, sexual tension ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, art house, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
small town, escape, isolation, fishing village, identity, alienation, longing, exile, sea voyage, self discovery, jealousy, romantic obsession ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
newfoundland, canada
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Lee, an anxious young man living in rural Alberta, is about to start a new job in road construction. Confounded by the news of an illness in the family and masculinity stereotypes-- Lee must decide whether to stay or go.
Style:
indie film, melancholic, contemplative, bleak, psychological
Plot:
machismo, male protagonist, introspection, anxiety, character study, isolation, small town, identity, coming of age, intimate, responsibility, uncertainty ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man who escaped from a prison comes to his inmate's village to find his wife, after having been told how wonderful she is. He hides at her place only to find out that she receives "night visits" from the village men. He starts a ...
Style:
suspense, dark, intense, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
murder, revenge, violent, escapee, vigilante, jealousy, obsession, escape, claustrophobia, village life, anti hero, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
balkan
Similarity:
37%
485
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Magnus, a handsome teenager, wants to commit suicide and his father tries to change his mind.
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, father son relationship, coming of age, family drama, intimate, mental illness, redemption, bittersweet, healing, dark humor, alienation, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
37%
106
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
LIMBO is set in a small town in rural Denmark, teenager Sara and young teacher Karen develop a connection. A quiet drama interested as much in the lives of its female protagonists as their surroundings.
Style:
realistic, emotional, reflective, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
intimate, small town, introspection, empathy, slice of life, adolescence, everyday life, youth, coming of age, female friendship, bittersweet, self discovery ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, melancholic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, identity crisis, urban, character study, social commentary, escape, murder, social realism, loneliness, isolation, suspicion, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
36%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
One year after the tragic death of his best friend, an eighteen-year-old machinist struggles with the split of his parents and the violent way of life surrounding him.
Style:
emotional, tension, intense, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, grief, teenager, trauma, loss, mourning, family drama, family conflict, young adult, confrontation, friendship, anger ...
Place:
oklahoma city, oklahoma
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
drug dealer, friendship, small town, family relations, addiction, character study, drug dealing, drug trade, city life, penance, illegal drugs, drug use ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
west virginia, appalachia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In 1994, in the picturesque village of Dimda on the Telangana border, this is the gripping story of Satyam-a kind-hearted farmer's son. His love for Saritha, the village sarpanch's niece, sparks jealousy and rage, leading to betrayal.
Style:
heartfelt, suspenseful
Plot:
small town, betrayal, jealousy, family feud, young love, class conflict, moral dilemma, tragic romance, agriculture, love triangle, revenge, coming of age
Time:
90s
Similarity:
35%
299
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dives into the often ignored seedy underbelly of Maine and it follows Emma Maddox as she returns to her hometown years following the mysterious death of her brother, Mikey. As she reconnects with his best friend Tommy, the two rekindle their flame ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
redemption, revenge, small town, problem, bereavement, life is a bitch, lie, getting home, investigation, betrayal, friendship, coastal town ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
35%
103
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Govindan Kutty (Raghu) is a clown who works in the circus. He comes to his village looking for a bride. Sharada (Anjali Naidu) is impressed by his charms and seemingly rich lifestyle and agrees to marry him. When they reach back the circus after ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, tension, period piece
Plot:
clown, circus, jealousy, love triangle, character study, loneliness, identity crisis, betrayal, humiliation, marriage, infidelity, unrequited love ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
34%
105
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A mother of two mysteriously disappears one morning. Her husband isn't worried as they've had rough patches; his wife just wanted to give him a scare and will come home soon. But her lover is convinced she has been murdered by her husband.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, thrilling, crime thriller ...
Plot:
investigation, missing person, vanished man, crime solving, secret, crime investigation, who done it, undercover, murder investigation, uncover truth, mysterious disappearance, sleuth ...
Similarity:
34%
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