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Until The Birds Return (2017)
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Original name: En Attendant Les Hirondelles
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young
woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by
wartime wrongdoings. Three stories that plunge us into the human soul of a contemporary Arab
society.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, anthology
Plot:
husband wife relationship, family problems, family relations, forced marriage, society, multiple storylines, male female relationship, social problems, lifestyle, crush, frustration, dancing, wedding, hotel, hospital, chauffeur, neurologist, ex husband ex wife relationship, food poisoning, beating, vomiting
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
middle east, algeria
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and suspense films with plots about family problems, family relations, male female relationship, social problems, husband wife relationship, relationship problems and relationships mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Until The Birds Return: This Town (2007), We Only Know So Much (2018), Working Woman (2018), With/In: Volume 2 (2021), Putham Pudhu Kaalai (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A married woman has an affair with a suicidal lover while caring for her husband's sick relatives.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
unhappy marriage, middle aged, family problems, marital problem, family relations, parents and children, family life, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, middle aged man, father son relationship, kids and family ...
Time:
2010s
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While her husband struggles to keep his restaurant in business, a mother of three lands a job as an assistant to a powerful, but sexually harrassive realtor and brings herself to fight back.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
sexual harassment, husband wife relationship, employer employee relationship, family problems, career change, relationship vs career, money problems, financial problem, relationship problems, forbidden love, female protagonist, moral dilemma ...
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directors to first-timers, all provided with the same iPhone and basic gear to bring their visions to life.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, anthology
Plot:
one night stand, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, marital problem, stormy night, marriage, infidelity, married couple, adultery, family problems, relationships ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Putham Pudhu Kaalai brings together 5 of the most celebrated directors in Tamil cinema - Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratman, Rajiv Menon, and Karthik Subbaraj to create Amazon Prime Video's first Indian anthology film.
Style:
anthology, psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
relationships, multiple storylines, lifestyle, parents and children, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, family life, family relations, relationship problems, family problems, storytelling, slice of life ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tbilisi, Georgia, 2016: In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family and ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family problems, family life, lifestyle change, lifestyle, changing lives, patriarchy, relationship problems, parents and children, husband wife relationship, post soviet, problem, woman ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
middle east, indiana, tbilisi, georgia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.
Style:
anthology, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
lifestyle, relationship problems, social injustice, social issues, society, slice of life, social problems, multiple storylines, politics, existentialism, dialogue, prophecy ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
drug, society, relationship problems, family problems, life is a bitch, drug addict, family relations, drug abuse, drug addiction, social relations, male female relationship, female protagonist ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, satirical
Plot:
unhappy marriage, pregnant woman, marital problem, pregnancy, relationship problems, money problems, changing lives, lifestyle change, family problems, fired from the job, loss of job, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
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Story:
Four people born on the same day. All four are about to live the most important day of their lives. While Cem is preparing to celebrate his birthday with his wife, Reyhan, Reyhan's birth pains begin. Even though there is a risky birth, they ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
family bonds, family drama, parenthood, parent child relationship, dysfunctional family, male female relationship, lifestyle, husband wife relationship, family relations, family problems, multiple storylines, father son relationship ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Hsu Zi Qi is a young woman who lives alone in the city. Lee is the autistic son of Zi Qi's landlady, who tries to free himself from his protective mother. Feng is a shy young builder, who struggles with the constant breakdowns of his car.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot:
slice of life, city life, loneliness, male female relationship, relationships, social problems, problem, family relations, family problems, multiple storylines, urban setting, lifestyle ...
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Centers on a passionate and complicated love story that connects three small-town people trying to survive solely on their labor. Aydanur is a young woman living in Anatolia who wants to break away from whatever life has--or doesn't have--to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
forbidden love, relationship problems, love and romance, romantic triangle, love triangle, love affair, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, family relations, love interest, life is a bitch, family problems ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: 8 years old Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
father daughter relationship, daughter, children, family problems, changing lives, kids and family, social problems, teenage life, family relations, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, teenager ...
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
psychological trauma, husband wife relationship, psychological torment, life is a bitch, psycho terror, sole survivor, family problems, marital problem, male female relationship, social problems, family relations, relationships ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Cameroon
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, inspirational
Plot:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A luxury hotel in a conflict zone. Development aid worker Dorothea begins an affair with a young drifter, Alec, but what starts as sweet distraction brings her dangerously close to losing control.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
male female relationship, love, hotel, refugee camp, party, loyalty, love interest, money, romantic relationship, couple relations, in love, wealthy family ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
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Place:
thailand
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art house
Plot:
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Place:
middle east
Similarity:
19%
311
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Seyi, a 24-year-old Nigerian-American, works on Wall Street. Desperate to succeed because of his outsider status-due to class and race-he commits a crime, insider trading, which brings his entire world crashing down on him. Seyi's troubled ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
interracial relations, nypd, insider trading, uncover truth, crime investigation, love affair, family problems, family relations, investigation, police investigation, marital problem, crime solving ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating, social
Plot:
deaf child, money problems, parents and children, father daughter relationship, life is a bitch, social issues, family problems, family relations, social problems, kids and family, society, teenager ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A widow who works tirelessly at a failing factory in sanctions-gripped Iran receives a marriage proposal that could mean financial security — but could also tear her family apart.
Style:
captivating
Plot:
single mother, widow, female protagonist, working woman, family relations, family problems, society, social problems, social issues, mother son relationship, culture clash, financial problem ...
Place:
iran, asia, middle east
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mexican feature film
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
affair, male teacher female student affair, professor, marital problem, adultery, relationship problems, family relations, family problems, male female relationship, troubled marriage, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Following a rare accident, Paul Sneijder opened his eyes to the reality of his life as a "senior manager" in Montreal: his work no longer interested him, his wife annoyed him and deceived him, his two sons despised him ... How can we ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, ambition, existential crisis, psychiatrist, loss of daughter, new job, drastic change of life, lifestyle change, family problems, changing lives, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, montreal, dubai
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot:
sexploitation, revenge, dictatorship, seductress, mother daughter relationship, social problems, social relations, life is a bitch, family problems, teenager, society, seduction ...
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Jayakrishna is a dark-skinned guy who falls head over heels on Deepu but keeps his feelings to himself. As time passes by, a gang in his college beats him up and this issue brings Deepu closer to him. Slowly the friendship turns into love and this ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, satirical, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
relationship problems, love affair, relationships, couple relations, family relations, in love, star crossed lovers, social problems, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, racial slur, male female relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two families who live in neighborhood in south of Tehran have different looks to life. These differences make some troubles for both.
Style:
captivating
Plot:
traditional versus modern, tradition versus modernity, kids and family, family relations, family life, lifestyle, parents and children, family tradition, generation gap, relationship problems, mother son relationship, family problems ...
Place:
iran, persia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
drug dealer, police officer, multiple storylines, male female relationship, drug smuggling, society, life is a bitch, family problems, husband wife relationship, criminal, social problems, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
18%
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