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Neighboring Sounds (2012)
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Neighboring Sounds (2012)
Original name: O Som ao Redor
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Life in a middle-class neighbourhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which runs on fear. Meanwhile, Bia, married and mother of two, must find a way to deal with the constant barking and howling of her neighbour’s dog. A slice of ‘Braziliana’, a reflection on history, violence and noise.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, spectacular, post-horror, offbeat, realistic, biting
Plot: neighbor, masturbation, vigilantism, social decay, class differences, life is a bitch, society, dull life, male nudity, male pubic hair, racial tension, rich and poor, suburban life, petty criminal, revenge, male female relationship, gay, alienation, suburbs, parallel story, maid, yuppie, unfulfillment, power relations, nudity ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century, contemporary
Place: brazil, latin america
Keyword: portuguese, brazilian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, tense and suspenseful films with plots about life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, social decay, male nudity, danger and nudity mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Neighboring Sounds: Aquarius (2016), The Trespasser (2001), Fear Me Not (2008), Sabor tropical (2009), Inhale (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Aquarius (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Boa ...
Style: realistic, talky, melancholic, stylized, allegory ...
Plot: real estate, horny, family drama, fighting the system, character study, manipulation, female protagonist, nostalgia, apartment building, class differences, capitalism, cancer ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 1980
Place: northeast brazil, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After sixteen years of marriage and four children, Betty Broderick's high-powered attorney husband decides to leave her for a younger woman with whom he's been having an affair. Hurt by his betrayal and feeling helpless against his legal ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, biting, suspenseful
Plot: murder, men's rights, betrayal, true crime, serial killer, legal, rivalry, crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, unfulfillment, society, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
Place: san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Trespasser (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Estevão , Ivan e Gilberto são companheiros desde os tempos de faculdade e sócios de uma construtora de sucesso há mais de 15 anos. O relacionamento entre eles sempre foi muito bom, até que um desentendimento na condução dos negócios faz com ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: hitman, murder, crime gone awry, cons and scams, social differences, betrayal, dishonesty, society, partner, blackmail, friends, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.3
 2K
Fear Me Not (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: mental illness, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, death in the family, couples, midlife crisis, losing-it hero, love and romance, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 4.1
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Sabor tropical (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Panama, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Sex-charged journalist Brian is chosen by an online publication to travel to Panama and document one of Latin America s premier festival celebrations Carnaval de Las Tablas. Dangers lurk for foreigners, and caught up in the carnival madness, ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: destructive relationship, media, nightlife, journalist, journey, carnival, danger, society, gay, gay erotica, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Place: los angeles, panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.5
 7K
Inhale (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: transplant, doctor, moral dilemma, child illness, parents and children, family problems, couple relations, escapades, society, street kid, male pubic hair, daughter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
A Second Chance (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that ...
Style: touching, tense, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: social decay, law enforcement, life turned upside down, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, babies and infants, moral dilemma, family tragedy, injustice, society, domestic violence, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Good Neighbour (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Good Neighbour is a 2011 German film directed by Stephan Rick. It premiered in competition at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival and was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and the Hof International Film Festival.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, journalism, neighbor, manslaughter, hidden truth, power relations, danger, psycho, friendship between men, journalist, car accident, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 4.8
 185
In Turmoil (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: working class, crime gone awry, society, social decay, workplace, injustice, factory, factory worker, rivalry, danger, friendship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.7
 341
Bypass (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tim has no job, but Tim ‘works’, selling stolen goods...In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head above water and protect those he loves?
Style: touching, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, parents and children, family relations, youth, down on your luck, terminal illness, urban, working class, criminal
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.2
 353
Boy Undone (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 116 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: kidnapping, gay, memory loss, lgbt, gay interest, amnesia, male nudity, lgbtq, compassion, memory lapse, amnesiac, male male relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.6
 477
Cal (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love affair, life is a bitch, society, gay interest, coming of age, age difference, lgbtq, male nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Wolf at the Door (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on real events, and set in Rio de Janeiro, A Wolf at the Door is the nerve-rattling tale of a kidnapped child and the terror of the parents left behind. When Sylvia discovers her six-year-old daughter has been picked up at school by an unknown ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: missing child, infidelity, mistress, kidnapping, couples, family problems, destructive relationship, dishonesty, true crime, mafia, woman, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.3
 25
Justice (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A foul-mouthed woman fights for her soul in the belly of the city. Working for a human trafficking agency controlled by a powerful syndicate, she sees no evil, hears no evil. In a society like ours, you have only two choices—to be a victim or a ...
Style: tense, disturbing, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: woman in danger, social decay, moral dilemma, danger, workplace, rivalry, life is a bitch, dishonesty, workplace situations, political corruption, workplace intrigue, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.0
 765
The Knife (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: American photojournalist Peter Mandrake becomes embroiled in Brazil's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a local call girl.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: knife fight, prostitute, murder, female agent, photographer, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, rivalry, life is a bitch, dishonesty, gang, danger ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Fine Dead Girls (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Croatia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Iva and Maria, a young lesbian pair, rent a favorable, nice dwelling in a less good area of Zagreb, Croatia. But unfortunately, included in the rent are the neighbors, the neighbors from hell. The curious landlady, foreigners flogging nationalists, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, lgbt cinema, suspense ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, woman in danger, society, life is a bitch, family problems, injustice, couples, lgbtq, lesbian sex, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.6
 565
Lose Your Head (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lose Your Head is a psycho thriller about a Spanish party tourist who gets lost in Berlin. The film is inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared some years ago after a night at Berghain.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: gay, gay sex, gay interest, missing person, mistaken identity, gender, chases and races, chase, lgbt, drug, party, travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Truth About Angels (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An ordinary guy escapes his turbulent home life when he is invited to an exclusive Hollywood party by his movie star friend, only to discover that there's more to the glamorous world than meets the eye.
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: hollywood, social decay, couples, unfulfillment, nightlife, family problems, drug, movie star, party, danger, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Almost Brothers (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, captivating
Plot: friendship, prison, social differences, jail, friends, life is a bitch, youth, gang, drug dealing, politics, society, rich and poor ...
Time: 70s, 50s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.6
 1K
06/05 (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A fictional version of the events that led to the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002. The movie is based upon the book "The sixth of May" by Tomas Ross.
Style: tense, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, political conspiracy, dishonesty, assassination, life is a bitch, politics, state affairs, fighting the system, immigrant, conspiracy, animal life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.5
 29
Resilience (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, sexual content, violent content, nudity, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.7
 2K
Manslaughter (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Doodslag (Dutch for "Manslaughter") is the story of Max, a paramedic who is repeatedly hindered in performing his duties by loutish behaviour. As his ambulance hurries towards a complicated childbirth, some youths prevent Max from reaching ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: ambulance, moral dilemma, society, social decay, media, paramedic, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, losing-it hero, unlikely criminals, power of media, media satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Mortician (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: mortician, murder, haunted by the past, redemption, danger, emotionless, social decay, corpse, black, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 6.6
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The Invader (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An African immigrant living illegally in Belgium is desperate to find his own sense of belonging.
Style: serious, contemplative, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot: society, couple relations, misfit, life is a bitch, job seeking, immigrant, human nature, couples, blaxploitation, horny woman, cheating wife, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, africa, europe, brussels
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.2
 725
Confined (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A couple moves into a quiet neighborhood. With too much time on her hands, the woman begins to suspect that someone is confined in the basement next door.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: neighbor, captivity, woman in danger, couples, family relations, dishonesty, psychopath, captive, basement, relocation, crazy neighbor, chamberplay ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.8
 767
Affluenza (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summer of 2008.
Style: serious, realistic, independent film, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, social decay, society, rich, suburbs, suburban life, teenager, bare chested male, summer, international crisis, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.0
 6K
The Zone (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, twisted, hispanic ...
Plot: murder, vengeance, heist, vigilantism, slum, escape, militia, coming of age, isolation, danger, confined, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2007
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.4
 457
Homeland (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: adoption, family relations, family problems, political unrest, society, state affairs, parents and children, danger, rivalry, human nature, greek, riot ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.5
 485
Endgame (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sex is currency. It commands power and can instill fear. Tom, a young man with a troubled past finds himself sucked into a seedy underworld by George Norris, a now super villain with a sadistic streak. A helpless pawn in one of Norris's ...
Style: disturbing, serious, tense, rough, erotic ...
Plot: hustler, gay, sexual abuse, psychopath, social decay, haunted by the past, lgbt, gangster, life is a bitch, law enforcement, destiny, false accusation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.1
 2K
The Gambler (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Paramedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.
Style: serious, stylized, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: gambling, ambition, workplace intrigue, dishonesty, love and romance, workplace romance, disorder, workplace, life is a bitch, unsupportive coworkers, loan shark, casino ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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