Movies like Doctor Vlimmen

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Doctor Vlimmen (1977)
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Doctor Vlimmen (1977)
Original name: Dokter Vlimmen
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A veterinarian lives together with his sister and her son in a small Flemish village. He has to cope with gossip and distrust from the villagers.
Style: sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: friendship, intrigue, false accusation, legal action, friends, life is a bitch, legal, rivalry, elderly, aging, small town, countryside, haunted by the past, dishonesty, village, doctor, veterinarian, peasant, husband wife relationship, friend, stupidity, cruelty, illegitimate child, bigotry, animal cruelty ...
Time: 70s, 1920s, 20th century, 20s
Place: antwerp, europe, belgium, netherlands
Keyword: belgian, dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and gloomy films with plots about friendship, haunted by the past, friends, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Doctor Vlimmen: Time Of My Life (2012), Sheep's Clothing (2013), G.H.B. (2014), The Last Summer (2007), The Rebirth (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Time Of My Life (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 'Tot altijd' introduces us to a band of friends in the eighties, who spend their days enjoying their youth and turbulent (love) life. Years later, Thomas, a recent medicine graduate and Mario's closest friend, ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: friendship, family life, friends, buddies, terminal illness, family relations, life is a bitch, bittersweet, rivalry, fighting illness, family problems, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, ghent, belgium, europe
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95%
Sheep's Clothing (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of literature-loving friends bury letters to be opened 10 years later when they will confront the dreams of their youth with what the future has held in store for them.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, life turned upside down, haunted by the past, under the surface, life is a bitch, friends, countryside, writer's life, writers, innocence lost, reunion
Time: future, 21st century
Place: brazil
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73%
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G.H.B. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, strong female presence, friends, love
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Last Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four good friends, all seventeen-year old, lose their innocence during their last summer together. Flanders 1996. Rik, Tim, Roel and Bart aimlessly wile away the summer days in a small village where nothing exciting ever happens. When Rik becomes ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, emotional
Plot: coming of age, teenage life, friendship, youth, intrigue, rivalry, domestic disturbance, buddies, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, summer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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The Rebirth (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, friendship, life is a bitch, small town, loss of daughter, forgiveness, friends, starting over, dealing with death, interview, very little dialogue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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64%
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The Outlander (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story: It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: friendship, friends, love affair, social relations, village life, village, fall in love, family relations, stranger, rivalry, love and romance, alcoholism ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Cruel Embrace (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy, touching ...
Plot: mental disorder, parents and children, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, isolation, kids in trouble, family relations, estrangement, family problems, single parent, misfit, mentally challenged ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Cold Light (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Norway, UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, childhood trauma, life is a bitch, unlikely couple, life turned upside down, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, young love, childhood memory, village life, village ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Locket (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.
Style: sentimental, uplifting, sincere, touching, serious ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Waiting for the Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: family relations, deportation, village life, village, immigrant, haunted by the past, culture clash, memories, love, identity, nostalgia, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: greece, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house ...
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional, contemplative
Plot: piano, civil war, love triangle, friends, lifestyle, love and romance, confined, life is a bitch, musician's life, state affairs, artists and showbiz, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: barcelona, paris france, spain, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Frailer (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: best friend, friends, friendship, strong female presence, terminal illness, siblings relations, unfulfillment, family relations, resistance
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Oxygen (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two young man share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying?
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: transplant, human spirit, friendship, terminal illness, hopes, optimism, life is a bitch, coming of age, buddies, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
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47%
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White Mama (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: elderly, bondage, aging, poor, survival, neighborhood, friendship, interracial relations, eviction, teenage life, urban ghetto life, friends ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
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Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
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45%
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Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
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42%
She Is Not Crying, She Is Singing (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
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Story: A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
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41%
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Style: non-linear, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
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38%
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Genre: Drama
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Story: The Bay of Love and Sorrows is a haunting modern tragedy set on the rural shores of New Brunswick's Bay of Miramichi. In late summer 1973, Michael Skid, the son of a well-to-do judge, returns home and rents a dilapidated farm. He begins to ...
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Paradise Lost (1978)
Genre: Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: touching, uplifting, serious, realistic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Flaxfield (1983)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Salesman (2011)
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Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
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