Movies like Left Out

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Left Out (2008)
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Left Out (2008)
Original name: Stare fuori
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Giulio, a young man from Sicily, arrives in Rome to trace back Aurora, his ex-girlfriend whom he cannot forget. He stays with a couple of family friends, Rosalia and Eugenio, who have lost their only son, Nello, of the same age as Giulio. The presence of Giulio in their house forces Rosalia and Eugenio to come out of their long period of mourning, but at the same time Giulio, realizing that he will probably never find Aurora, starts sinking into a depressive state fueled by drinks and drugs. Rosalia and Eugenio's efforts to get Giulio out of it are in vain and when Giulio finally meets Aurora by accident, things can only get worse.
Style: art house, ambiguous ending, tragic
Plot: depression, mourning, loneliness, unrequited love, grief, loss, drug use, obsession, isolation, existential crisis, alienation, addiction, memory, nostalgia, bittersweet, alcoholism, intimate, domestic drama, city life, moral ambiguity, sexual tension, suicide, family relations, mental illness, father son relationship ...
Time: contemporary
Place: sicily, rome italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, existential and emotional films with plots about grief, memory, intimate, loss, isolation, loneliness and mourning mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Left Out: Moon Hotel Kabul (2018), DeAD (2013), Woman of the Ganges (1974), Errances (2003), Balance and Movement (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Moon Hotel Kabul (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ivan Semciuc (a journalist), is a charismatic man nonetheless guilty of cynicism and lack of compassion. A seemingly meaningless sexual encounter with a translator in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan’s unshakeable ...
Style: melancholic, existential, art house, surreal, moody
Plot: death, guilt, loneliness, grief, regret, loss, memory, mourning, hotel, obsession, suicide, mature ...
Place: bucharest, afghanistan
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DeAD (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style: existential, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
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Woman of the Ganges (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...
Style: romantic drama, melancholic, atmospheric, art house, poetic ...
Plot: loneliness, obsession, grief, mourning, passion, loss, memory, delusion, male protagonist, symbolism, haunting, flashback ...
Place: india, france, normandy
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Errances (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three scenes from the marriage of Lou and Jacques as they wander around France.
Style: erotic, melancholic, tense, art house, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: domestic drama, infidelity, loss, intimate, character study, regret, haunting, festival, love triangle, small town, cheating, alienation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Balance and Movement (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman in love, a weak man, a father stumbling with his emotions, an uncle dependent on the past and a teenager meet at Zagor’s boarding house. Despite the serenity of the house, they all struggle to find the peace that they each need.
Style: psychological, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, art house ...
Plot: boarding house, character study, teenager, father son relationship, love, household, slice of life, domestic drama, intimate, memory, isolation, loss ...
Place: turkey
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Mold (2012)
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Duration: 94 min.
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Style: melancholic, bleak, art house, existential, tragic ...
Plot: loss, grief, waiting, mourning, guilt, loner, missing person, trauma, father son relationship, loneliness, regret, isolation ...
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The Habit of Beauty (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Elena and Ernesto are a couple who are bitterly torn apart by the death of their only child. Three years later they have both somehow managed to start a new life. Until destiny forces them to reconnect and understand, they never really stopped ...
Style: psychological, sincere, disturbing, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot: loss of child, couples, love story, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, husband wife reunion, ex couple relations, family reunited, family relations, marital problem ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: One night, Matiss Zelcs, an employee of the Latvian national archive in Riga, notices a woman on a bridge. After passing by her without preventing her suicidal fall into the depths, a sensation of failure and guilt changes his life. He cannot forget ...
Style: existential, melancholic, contemplative, intense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: suicide, loneliness, guilt, redemption, obsession, existential crisis, desperation, missing person, soul searching, memory, regret, isolation ...
Place: latvia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
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Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: serious, thought provoking, dramatic, captivating, melancholic ...
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Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
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Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling, contemplative, art house ...
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Place: korea, seoul
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Duration: 101 min.
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Duration: 87 min.
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Style: realistic, psychological, social, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: teenager, night, journey, mourning, grief, loss, male female relationship, sister sister relationship, family relations, wandering, death of sister, death ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 145 min.
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