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The Useless Girl (1982)
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Original name: Никудышная
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather.
Style:
poignant, heartfelt, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
personal growth, family drama, character study, stuttering, village life, female protagonist, alienation, coming of age, empathy, isolation, rebirth, redemption, bittersweet, domestic drama, social commentary, traumatic childhood, village, loneliness, teenage girl, old man, parents, aggression, fate, destiny, psychological drama ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russian
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Most similar movies to The Useless Girl
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, poignant, emotional and realistic films with plots about character study, bittersweet, coming of age, isolation, loneliness, female protagonist and psychological drama mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Useless Girl: Magnus (2007), The Wishing Tree (1976), Monologue (1973), She and He (1963), Here (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, atmospheric
Plot:
small town life, character study, class conflict, arranged marriage, poverty, bittersweet, isolation, social realism, loneliness, young lovers, forbidden love, tragic romance ...
Time:
70s, year 1977
Place:
caucasus, soviet union, georgia, russia
Similarity:
80%
467
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. ...
Style:
reflective, contemplative, emotional, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, loneliness, scientist, family drama, professor, estrangement, introspection, reconciliation, family relations, parenting, empathy, aging ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, art house
Plot:
compassion, empathy, marital crisis, character study, personal growth, poverty, humanism, alienation, domestic drama, gender roles, loneliness, altruism ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
78%
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449
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A panoramic view over society across ten unfortunate characters whose stories sometimes intertwine.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, sociological
Plot:
character study, slice of life, social commentary, empathy, urban, city life, working class, loneliness, bittersweet, intimate, alienation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
74%
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:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old girl deals with the issues brought about by her family's high-priced son.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, poignant, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, adolescence, family drama, tragic past, female protagonist, troubled past, traumatic past, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, loneliness ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
65%
139
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Ela, 15, has a love affair, which results in her being sent to a re-education center.
Style:
tension, intense, realistic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, teenager, coming of age, young love, forbidden romance, resilience, loss of innocence, teen angst, hopes, empathy, character study, rebellion ...
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A gripping tale of an intense and pure bond between a father and son, woven with threads of joy, anguish, fear, and tranquility.
Style:
heartfelt, poignant, tear jerker, melancholic, meditative
Plot:
family drama, fatherhood, sacrifice, tenderness, parents, protective parent, bittersweet, empathy, heartwarming, resilience, redemption, slice of life ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young man in a depressed satellite city, meets a woman who offers him love and hope.
Style:
melancholic, emotional
Plot:
urban decay, desperation, social commentary, working class, poverty, alienation, longing, character study, hopes, social realism, isolation, loneliness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds ...
Style:
melancholic, heartfelt, period drama
Plot:
parent child relationship, family drama, guilt, great depression, female protagonist, sacrifice, family conflict, responsibility, empathy, deaf, moral dilemma, personal growth ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This life period of the main character Felix (L. Lutvinsky) coincides with rather complicated period of country history Chernenko dies, Gorbachev succeeds him, then Ligachev criticizes Eltsin, county is reined by deficit, backstairs influence, ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, existential, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social commentary, character study, alienation, escape from reality, loneliness, social realism, identity crisis, absurdism, minimalism, poverty, city life, working class ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sathya, a self-centered aspiring actor who lacks talent, believes he is meant to be famous. After facing rejection, he sets off on a journey through Kerala to learn about emotions and life. Stranded in the village of Kadamakkudy, he meets a ...
Style:
reflective, contemplative, realistic, heartfelt, art house ...
Plot:
life lesson, empathy, personal growth, aspiring actor, self discovery, transformation, character study, rejection, village life, slice of life, intimate, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Hanka is a young woman who suddenly abandons her stable life for no obvious reason, and undertakes a trip without any clear destination, meeting strangers on her way. At the same time, her boyfriend desperately tries to find her.
Style:
melancholic, existential
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, female protagonist, identity crisis, missing person, loneliness, escape, uncertainty, character study, alienation, coming of age, female empowerment ...
Similarity:
51%
113
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Heidi M. is in her late forties and has a small store in the pulsating center of Berlin. She goes out in the evenings with her friend Jacqui, but when she is unexpectedly confronted with romantic love, old wounds are opened.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, art house, contemplative
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, longing, introspection, city life, urban, bittersweet, loneliness, desire, self discovery, confrontation, realism ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
"Alicia, Go Yonder" is the story of Alicia, a nineteen-year-old who sets out on a solitary journey to the end of the world only to come face to face with the immensity of the universe.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, reflective, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
personal growth, young woman, coming of age, female protagonist, self discovery, character study, young adult, solitude, odyssey, minimalism, spiritual journey, intimate ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.
Style:
tense, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, escape, traumatic childhood, loss of virginity, town, father, brother, family drama, father daughter conflict, repression, female protagonist, family relations ...
Place:
soviet union
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate ...
Style:
melancholic, ambiguous ending
Plot:
character study, family drama, family secret, mental institution, female protagonist, intimate, mourning, getting home, family reunited, isolation, nostalgia, macabre ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
45%
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150
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Moldova
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Anishoara is a 15 years old girl from a small village in Moldova. Her village is situated in a picturesque valley between rolling hills. Life seems calm but archaic alone with her old grandfather Petru and her little brother Andrei. In summer she ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, disturbing, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, teenager, village, first love, village life, female protagonist, coming of age, teenage life, teenage girl, teenage love, teen romance, life is a bitch ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
146
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
SUPERWORLD is a story about God and the world: a world whose heroine WORKS the till and a God we never see nor hear, but whose presence we feel throughout the film. Lead actress Ulrike Beimpold delivers a remarkable, moving performance as a woman ...
Style:
melancholic, ambiguous ending, slow cinema, surreal
Plot:
character study, existential crisis, middle aged woman, female protagonist, midlife crisis, isolation, hallucination, alienation, slow burn, minimalism, crisis of faith, small town ...
Place:
austria
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The seemingly separate lives of an anxious, disillusioned teen girl and a troubled, alienated man converge fatefully.
Style:
independent film, dark drama, period piece, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, female protagonist, isolation, adolescence, toxic masculinity, character study, small town, identity, loneliness, haunting, violence ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
newfoundland, canada
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not ...
Style:
slow cinema, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, alienation, isolation, everyday life, intimate, minimalism, bittersweet, character study, intimacy, coastal town, sexual tension, dog ...
Place:
poetic realism, chile
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
25-year-old carouser Carlo is sentenced to one year of community service after crashing his car while drunk and on cocaine. He has to serve his sentence at the Villa Bianca nursing home, along with other non-violent felons. He initially lives it as ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
retirement home, intergenerational friendship, redemption, personal growth, empathy, alcoholism, guilt, rehabilitation, healing, compassion, coming of age, character study ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Caught between tradition and his father's greed, prasad struggles to fulfill his dream of marriage.
Style:
emotional, sentimental
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, social commentary, sacrifice, moral dilemma, arranged marriage, family honor, empathy, personal growth, redemption, greed, coming of age ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set in an old folks home, senior citizen Weller Martin (Hume Cronyn) has the disease of Old Age, meets an old woman named Fonsia Dorsey (Jessica Tandy) who's diabetic. They both discuss issues such as society, the hospitals, money, families, ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic
Plot:
retirement home, character study, competition, loneliness, regret, isolation, bitterness, humiliation, bittersweet, single, social commentary, diabetes ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Listening to Rain is a coming of age story centered around two girls who are sexually assaulted during their senior year of high school. This unique films follows Haley and Emily as they attempt find themselves and recover from unimaginable trauma. ...
Style:
poignant, realistic, indie film, melancholic, independent film
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, sexual assault, adolescence, high school, mental health, female friendship, self discovery, character study, grief, identity, redemption, bisexual ...
Similarity:
39%
295
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In 1950, the small Calabrian village of Caulonia still numbered nearly 15,000 souls, but there now remain no more than a few hundred. A phlegmatic old man and a young disabled woman are among the last inhabitants who haunt the deserted village. They ...
Style:
melancholic, meditative, semi documentary
Plot:
mystery woman, empathy, character study, elderly man, possession, compassion, religion, secrets, humanism, moral dilemma, outsider, small town ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Kristin counts down the days to her high school graduation, when she'll finally get to leave her small town and her manipulative sister behind, for the New York of her dreams. Everything is perfect, and the local paper has promised to publish ...
Style:
sexy, captivating, light, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, lgbtq, personal growth, adolescence, escape from reality, swedish, female protagonist, self discovery, women, youth, lesbian, friendship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york, scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
grownups, family drama, life lesson, coming of age, child protagonist, family bonds, working class, resilience, character study, poverty, intergenerational friendship, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Georgia Benfield's, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child. As family and friends slowly begin to learn of the abuse, and long buried family ...
Style:
intense, tense, bleak, realistic, period drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family drama, domestic abuse, dysfunctional family, trauma, female protagonist, family secret, character study, emotional abuse, guilt, social issues, realism ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
37%
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