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Blue Away to America (1999)
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Original name: Du bleu jusqu'en Amérique
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The victim of a serious accident, Camille finds himself in a strange, huge, rehabilitation centre run by Professor Helpos. He soon teams up with a group calling themselves "the wreckers" and who make their own rules, ignoring those of the medical establishment.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, bleak, surreal, existential, allegory, experimental, dark comedy, moody
Plot:
physical disability, hospital, disability, rehabilitation, isolation, recovery, accident victim, survival, claustrophobia, outsider, transformation, identity crisis, rite of passage, friendship, rebellion, coming of age, social realism, anti establishment, love, gang, violence, doctor, coma, disabled person, paralysis ...
Time:
90s, 1990s, contemporary
Place:
america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, existential, art house and bleak films with plots about isolation, coming of age, friendship, urban, identity crisis, claustrophobia and psychological drama mostly in Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Blue Away to America: Brother and Sister (2022), Thirst (2012), Johnny Got His Gun (2008), Passion Fish (1992), Silver Forest (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.
Plot:
brother sister conflict, dead son, brother sister relationship, celebrity interview, actress, family issues, alcohol abuse, genie, psychosomatic illness, stage actress, partner, hate ...
Time:
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133
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four people, isolated in their different ways are trapped in the desert and changed forever. Against impossible odds, can they find meaning - life, laughter and love before it is too late?
Style:
psychological, existential, emotional, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
isolation, desert, thirst, survival, loneliness, transformation, australian outback, character study, heat wave, friendship, introspection, intimate ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
australia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The story of a young American soldier hit by an artillery shell on the last day of the First World War. The film takes place in the mind of a quadruple amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Regaining consciousness, 20 year-old ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
world war one, soldier, traumatized man, anti war, problem, war trauma, disabled character, disability, spectacle, ex soldier, male protagonist, physical disability ...
Time:
1910s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. ...
Style:
independent film, sentimental, talky, clever, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
disability, friendship, physical disability, deep south, physical therapy, paraplegic, black, animal abuse, black man, girl power, psychopath, feminism ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa, california
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Silver Forest is a brutally realistic coming-of-age story, set in a small Swiss town in a bleak winter landscape. A group of boys struggle with their mounting anger with the mundane world, resulting in a string of escalating acts of violence. Deep ...
Style:
intense, grim, brutal, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
violence, loss of innocence, adolescence, coming of age, peer pressure, realism, forest, escalation, alienation, identity crisis, murder, small town ...
Similarity:
24%
236
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
rape, self destructing, female protagonist, rape victim, trauma, secret, life is a bitch, problem, social problems, violence, survival, isolation ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Muhammad, a rejected boy from the fringe of society, floats through the streets of a filthy city, exposed and desolated, until he meets Gurevich; a lone rover who rides his motorcycle into the bowels of the city, through the shadows of the back ...
Style:
dark, existential, bleak, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
urban decay, street life, urban, desolation, isolation, identity, alienation, loner, survival, anti hero, power struggle, coming of age ...
Place:
palestine, israel
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Currently in post-production. Plot unknown. Unknown plot.
Style:
existential, emotional, independent film, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family drama, father son relationship, single father, intimacy, wildlife, isolation, slow burn, chaos, animal attack, identity, survival, haunting ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime.
Style:
bleak, psychological, grim, historical drama, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, prison, stalinism, perestroika, brutality, gay, torture, sadism, trauma, survival, violence, authoritarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
There will be no other end to the world: fierce battles full of hatred and love for incest and wealth.
Style:
experimental, visually stunning, art house, avant garde, intense ...
Plot:
island, jealousy, end of the world, isolation, solar eclipse, doom, murder, obsession, experimental narrative, fatalism, taboo, claustrophobia ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in ...
Style:
experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home, her husband tells her that a certain countess has died. At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the ...
Style:
atmospheric, metafiction, art house, melancholic, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
suicide, female protagonist, mental illness, depression, ambiguity, children, hallucination, psychiatric hospital, death, schizophrenia, uncertainty, obsession ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with his fiancé Miki Nakagawa. One day, Kazuya Takajo gets into a car accident and becomes paralyzed and ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
soccer, disability, trauma, ex football player, paralysis, football, wheelchair bound, football player, handicapped, traumatic experience, physical disability, life is a bitch ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Hot-tempered and fiercely independent gearhead Julia meets a crew of dirt riders who fly along at full speed and perform stunts. She sets about infiltrating their male-dominated world, until an accident jeopardizes her ability to fit in.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, intense, tension ...
Plot:
female protagonist, motorcycle, ambitious woman, problem, motorcyclist, biker, motorcycle racing, motorcycle gang, motorcycle stunt, bike, ambition, trick ...
Similarity:
21%
226
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An accomplished playboy Leo neglects his girlfriend and enjoys parties. His girlfriend parts from him and then, when he wants to see her once more, he has an accident. He survives, but his whole life is now to be changed. This film is about fetching ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
human spirit, redemption, life turned upside down, couples, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, rehabilitation, friendship, true love, disabled person, physical disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
21%
211
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
'Duffer' (1971) is a rarely seen cult British movie that has languished in the vaults of the British Film Institute for the best part of forty years until they decided to release it on DVD/BluRay for the first time last month. It's a ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, tension, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay interest, abuse, obsession, adolescence, manipulation, sadism, male nudity, taboo, sexual awakening, sex worker, identity crisis, macabre ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes a desert island for them. A boy and a girl that ...
Style:
art house, independent film, melancholic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
forest, orphan, hospital, taxi, motorcycle, innocence lost, escape, coming of age, isolation, survival, outsider, realism ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dani, Yumi, Ovidiu, Ada and Cristi are youths addicted to one another, yet intent on escaping the pressure of their interconnectedness and frustrating realities by performing mind trips into different levels of existence and parallel worlds.
Style:
psychological, existential, surreal, psychedelic, melancholic ...
Plot:
trip, youth, friendship, escape, escapism, alternate reality, alienation, parallel world, self discovery, intimate, symbolism, identity crisis ...
Place:
eastern europe, romania
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Charlie, a down-on-his-luck loner, crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact double. Perplexed and intrigued by the discovery, Charlie invites the man into his life.
Style:
suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
doppelganger, striptease, couple relations, lookalikes, misfit, isolation, obsession, identity crisis, dual identity, moral ambiguity, alienation, urban ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Qiuming is a trainee at a digital mapping company. His job is to survey the streets of the ever-changing city and keep the mapping system up to date. Typical of his generation, Qiuming is upbeat, energetic, and totally immersed in the world of ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
investigation, privacy invasion, family relations, dishonesty, parents and children, mystery woman, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity, obsession, isolation, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, china
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A disturbed young woman runs away from her New Zealand home and hides away in an Australian boarding house, named Terra Nova. There she finds that every one else in the boarding house is just as zany as she is, and on some levels make her seem sane ...
Style:
psychological, independent film, melancholic, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
boarding house, mental health, female protagonist, mental illness, character study, a vision, outsider, delusion, isolation, domestic drama, identity, trauma ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand, australia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A group of very different people set sail on an old warship. The passengers include a senator with his son, a newly-wed couple, a mysterious old man, a group of sex workers and a gang of violent criminals. At first the aggressive behaviour of the ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
sea voyage, cruise ship, rape, social relations, gang, bandit, criminal, cons and scams, cruise, society, sea disaster, organized crime ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The Saudi family is following strict instructions from their grandfather to remain confined in the desert during the early 1990s. A series of events shakes the family's foundation and they find them in a struggle between life and death.
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
desert, isolation, family conflict, survival, family drama, tradition, confined, loneliness, moral dilemma, resilience, family secret, claustrophobia ...
Time:
90s
Place:
saudi arabia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Colombia, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
No Autumn, No Spring depicts modern day Guayaquil City and its invisible generation. Iván Mora Manzano’s punk ballad of rebellion, confrontation and the disenfranchised reveals the tribulations of young men and women who struggle deeply with the ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, independent film
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, youth, punk, adolescence, alienation, social commentary, youth culture, rebellion, identity crisis, urban, escape, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
ecuador
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The '60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică.
Style:
surreal, absurd, allegory, atmospheric, poetic ...
Plot:
magic realism, hospital, satire, small town, isolation, social commentary, quarantine, sanitarium, loneliness, macabre, remote village, bare chested male ...
Time:
60s
Place:
romania
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A paralysed and hopeless Hong Kong man meets his new Filipino carer, who has put her dream on hold and come to the city to earn a living. These two strangers live under the same roof through different seasons. As they learn more about each other, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
illness, handicapped, wheelchair bound, self discovery, man in a wheelchair, paralysis, disability, paraplegic, care, physical disability, introspection, quadriplegic ...
Place:
china, hong kong, the philippines
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of Liam, a neglected teenager who lives in a family where alcohol, violence and sex play the main role. He grows up to be a confused youngster which ends in a very aggressive act to break with his past.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, family relations, domestic abuse, alcoholism, trauma, troubled past, foster home, life is a bitch, tragic past, confronting the past, dysfunctional family, young adult ...
Similarity:
19%
336
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a ...
Style:
contemplative, psychological, existential, art house, meditative ...
Plot:
dog, forest, hunting, hunter, lost, wilderness, nature, loneliness, isolation, disorientation, character study, wanderer ...
Similarity:
19%
434
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
François Durrieux, a man in his forties, married to Clémence and father of Benjamin, has been employed for years by the firm DSBO. In order not to lose his job, he always submits to his boss's demands whether it means working after office ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
workplace, revolt, friendship, parents and children, fighting the system, boss and employee, workplace situations, power relations, suffering, employee, middle aged man, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
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