Movies like Amsterdam 2009

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Amsterdam (2009)
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Amsterdam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A rich American couple, a family of Dutch criminals, a French gay couple, a working class family from Germany and an illegal Moroccan youth and his kid brother, are all in Amsterdam, each with their own story. Different reasons make their paths intertwine, leading to a dramatic climax that changes their lives for ever.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
Plot: police, money, family relations, family life, lifestyle, love, ambition, friendship, couples, society, working class, couple relations, immigrant, city life, car accident, gay, girlfriend, camping, caravan, hotel room, new love, car crash, gays and lesbians, urban, social relations ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: amsterdam, europe, holland
Keyword: dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about family relations, society, couples, family life, parents and children, urban and immigrant mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Amsterdam: Police Beat (2005), Midnight Dancers (1994), Steel City (2006), Game of Life (2007), Max & Lenny (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Police Beat (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Z (Pape Sidy Niang), a Seattle bicycle cop, tries to make sense of the world while patrolling the city streets but can't focus on his job because he's so preoccupied with suspicions that his girlfriend is cheating on him. Director Robinson ...
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot: opposites attract, couples, society, law enforcement, social differences, infidelity, immigrant, city life, self discovery, misfit, urban, bicycle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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95%
Midnight Dancers (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Brothers Joel (Alex Del Rosario), Dennis (Grandong Cervantes) and Sonny (Lawrence David) work together as dancers at a low-rent gay bar in downtown Manila, in the Philippines. Despite his mother's pleas, Sonny decides to quit college to work ...
Style: tagalog, contemplative, sexual, sincere, serious ...
Plot: gay, glbt, lgbt, redemption, gays and lesbians, rent boy, death, lgbtq, sex crime, family relations, disco, nightclub ...
Time: 90s
Place: manila philippines, the philippines, japan
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78%
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Steel City (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, ...
Style: emotional, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: police, family life, family relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, couple relations, introspection, youth, redemption, siblings relations ...
Place: usa, midwest
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78%
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Game of Life (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five families living in Los Angeles. Game of LIfe examines the complexities of racial and class ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: social differences, couples, rivalry, society, family life, youth, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, interracial relations, lifestyle, football ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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77%
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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Night Run (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dennis is a taxi driver trying to start out his own company. One day, he gets the opportunity to buy a scarce and expensive but lucrative license.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough
Plot: taxi, family relations, rivalry, cons and scams, dishonesty, once in a lifetime opportunity, siblings relations, taxi driver
Time: 21st century
Place: amsterdam, holland
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60%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Labour of Love (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, introspection, working class, society, couples, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, kolkata
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57%
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The Quickie (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.
Style: serious, tense, suspense, captivating, realistic
Plot: russian mafia, starting over, gangster, couples, dishonesty, family life, road not taken, hitman, russian roulette, gambling, lust, misogynist ...
Place: california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Live! (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Anna is a vital woman who is married and has two daughters. She picks up her old passion of writing again after frequent requests by a colleague and a friend, but she had not foreseen the consequences of family and friends reading her stories...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: family relations, disability, couples, family life, unfulfillment, couple relations, terminal illness, infidelity, midwife, mother daughter relationship, love, adultery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Hush Hush Baby (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: heist, culture clash, family relations, society, buddies, parents and children, disagreement, family life, matchmaking, meet the parents, immigrant, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe, morocco, netherlands
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54%
Little Jerusalem (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, culture clash, society, lifestyle, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, infidelity, social differences, youth, male female relationship ...
Place: middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
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54%
The Town Is Quiet (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style: contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: family relations, drug abuse, assassination, life is a bitch, couple relations, unemployment, working class, parents and children, immigrant, society, love and romance, factory ...
Time: 90s
Place: marseille, provence, europe, france
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52%
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7 Virgins (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedding of his brother. In the two days he recounts his neighborhood in a section of Sevilla.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: juvenile delinquent, wedding, friendship, self discovery, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, rebellious youth, society, buddies, youth, family relations, kids in trouble ...
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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49%
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Mad Ship (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, period piece
Plot: immigrant, family relations, society, life is a bitch, couple relations, unemployment, working class, unfulfillment, prairie, refugee, down on your luck, ship
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada
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Nattbuss 807 (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Kalle, en kille i 18-års åldern har hamnat lite snett i livet. Han umgås mest med främlingsfientliga personer. Carlos är en kille i 16-års åldern, han har bott i Sverige större delen av sitt liv med sin mor och hennes äldre bror. Hans pappa ...
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, rough, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skinhead, nordic, european, immigrant, racism, murder, law enforcement, investigation, society, urban, city life, job ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, stockholm sweden
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Toronto Stories (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Various lives intersect over the course of 48 hours in Canada's largest and most culturally diverse city.
Style: anthology, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere
Plot: social relations, city life, human nature, chess, friendship, male female relationship, big city life, boy, road trip, immigrant, urban, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Profoundly Normal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story. Donna Lee Shelby (Kirstie Alley), a mentally retarded girl who lives in Forest Haven, an institution for the developmentally disabled, meets Ricardo Thornton (Delroy Lindo), a fellow resident. When Forest Haven is closed by a ...
Style: serious, emotional, uplifting, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: couples, interracial relations, friendship, fighting the system, idealism, society, human spirit, hopes, family in crisis, coping, family life, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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45%
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Little Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patty, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Audience: toddlers
Plot: family relations, couples, couple relations, disorder, youth, misfit, social misfits, society, child abandonment, poverty, adolescence, friendship ...
Place: europe, italy, rome italy
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Mother of George (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, couple relations, society, couples, lifestyle, afrofuturism, african, trying to get pregnant, family relations, female protagonist, parents and children, cultural difference ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, africa
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Strays (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rick (Diesel) is frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling. Whilst looking for more to his life he meets Heather (Lanza), a neighbour. Rick takes the opportunity to escape his boring life style with her, but soon ...
Style: cult classic, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: urban, drug dealer, hunting, redemption, gang, male nudity, fall in love, social misfits, coming of age, hopes, introspection, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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44%
The Hours of the Day (2003)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Abel lives with his mother in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. His life, grey and boring, is based on the small family business, his mother's house, his girlfriend's bed, and the town bars. However under an appearance of quiet ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, family life, social relations, mental illness, family relations, murder, small town life, store, gory, small town, insanity, health ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Rude (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window dresser depressed since she had an abortion and lost her lover ; Jordan, a boxer who has indulged ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, crime drama
Plot: easter, black, black history, drug dealing, gay subtext, gay interest, society, going straight, life is a bitch, self discovery, gays and lesbians, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
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42%
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Hold Back (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Paris, today. Dorcy, a young black Christian, wants to marry Sabrina, a young North African. It what would be a simple matter if it weren't for the fact that Sabrina has 40 brothers and that this easygoing wedding has crystallized a taboo ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot: interracial relations, family relations, forbidden love, family problems, impossible love, family in crisis, society, love and romance, immigrant, religions or cults, unfulfillment, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, africa, france
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42%
The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, family problems, couples, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Flight of the Swan (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, bleak
Plot: friendship, ambition, rise to the top, obsession, society, rivalry, idealism, dishonesty, family relations, love, disaster, environmentalism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
From the Edge of the City (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, greek, male masturbation, glbt, migration, lgbtq, immigrant, culture clash, suburbs, prostitute, russian mafia, gay subtext ...
Time: 90s
Place: greece, russia, chernobyl, europe, kazakhstan ...
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38%
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Our Life (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, working class, lifestyle, society, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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