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The Red Collar (2018)
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Original name: Le Collier rouge
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In 1919, in a small town under the crushing heat of summer, a war hero is held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. Outside, his mangy dog barks night and day. Not far off in the countryside, an extraordinarily intelligent young woman works the land, waiting and hoping. A judge whose principles have been sorely shaken by the war is coming to sort out this case of which it is better not to speak.
Style:
touching, captivating, disturbing, emotional, melancholic, poignant, historical drama, atmospheric, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
world war one, pacifist, dog, firing squad, wartime, war hero, prisoner, judge, justice, isolation, small town, countryside, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, investigation, aristocrat, secrets, trial, redemption, gendarme, donkey, flashback, medal, boot camp, psychological drama ...
Time:
year 1919
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, bleak, art house and melancholic films with plots about isolation, moral ambiguity, small town, psychological drama, survival, investigation and trauma mostly in Drama, War and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Red Collar: Soldier's Lullaby (2018), Sixth Bus (2022), Lesson of a Dead Language (1979), Gurkha: Beneath the Bravery (2023), Feathers in My Head (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Serbia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Stevan Jakovljević, a biology teacher and World War I veteran who fought for the Serbian army, arrives to the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the end of the war and the opening of an ossuary in the village where he used to be stationed ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war one, soldier, firing squad, sacrifice, military life, army, wartime, cemetery, military officer, military, fight, battles ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
serbia
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95%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
identity, obsessive quest, problem, conflict, identity crisis, waking up, trauma, quest, freedom, truth, redemption, connection ...
Place:
croatia
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77%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An officer stationed in a remote Galician outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, atmospheric, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
tuberculosis, hallucination, isolation, loneliness, existential crisis, small town, obsession, spiritualism, haunting, occult, mysticism, decadence ...
Time:
1910s, 1940s
Place:
poland, galicia
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A psychological war drama inspired by true events of Rifleman Kulbir Thapa, an inexperienced soldier goes through an incredible journey that eventually cements his name among the legendary Gurkha warriors.
Style:
period piece, suspenseful, historical drama, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
world war one, soldier, bravery, sacrifice, military, warrior, shooting, shooter, war, wartime life, wartime, weapons ...
Time:
1910s
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jean-Pierre (Francis Renaud) and his wife Blanche (Sophie Museur) live a quiet but happy life in their small Belgian town. But their world is shattered when their young son goes missing. In the aftermath of the family tragedy, the couple's own ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, poignant, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
female nudity, female pubic hair, reality vs fantasy, loss of child, coming of age, hallucination, insanity, missing child, grief, parenthood, character study, family tragedy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
belgium, europe, france
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise loved Adam. Adam loved Louise. That is how it used to be. But a child has disappeared. Their child. The police said it was a drowning accident. Yet the truth is that their little boy’s body was never found. Lucas, ten years old. How easy it ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
grief, bereavement, family tragedy, missing child, loss, relationship problems, family relations, disappearance, relationships, life is a bitch, family problems, loss of child ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lucien, 14, can’t understand why his father, a serious and respected teacher, makes a fool of himself by dressing up as a clown and giving a show. André, Lucien’s father’s best friend, feels for the teenager and decides to reveal something ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, occupation, sabotage, resistance, french resistance, friendship, nazi occupation, german occupation, father son relationship, family secret, fight ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003
Place:
france
Similarity:
63%
245
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and ...
Style:
tension, period piece, bleak, historical drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, nazi occupation, suspicion, hiding, anti semitism, survival, fear, neighbor, moral ambiguity, memory, accomplice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Coutrroom drama: after being victimized by an abusive boyfriend, a woman goes on trial for murder. Sequel to Historia de un canalla.
Style:
period piece, tense, atmospheric, art house, tragic
Plot:
murder, guilt, confession, moral ambiguity, remorse, ethical dilemma, character study, regret, female protagonist, judge, mature woman, crimes of passion ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Story:
A naive young farmhand stumbles upon a terrible scene after suspecting her husband of an affair. Unable to comprehend what she has seen, the woman resolves to confront her husband and discover what happens in the stables at night.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, grim ...
Plot:
infidelity, bestiality, farm, male female relationship, family secret, relationship problems, family problems, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, confrontation, betrayal, investigation ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Benjamin is a young poet from Turkey, works in Bosnia as a volunteer to help the extrication of dead bodies from the mass graves. He comes to Bosnia in order to escape from his past. A childish game of Benjamin causes Joseph's ...
Style:
melancholic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
bosnian war, love story, life is a bitch, love affair, troubled past, writers, confronting the past, mental illness, love interest, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, turkey
Similarity:
52%
276
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war one, iraq war, civil war, moral ambiguity, battlefield, morality, combat, multiple storylines, war, wartime life, battles, wartime ...
Similarity:
51%
166
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, melancholic, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, mother daughter relationship, collaboration, family drama, loss of innocence, trauma, betrayal, guilt, intimate, identity, haunting, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Three childhood friends reunite over a murder case.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, detective, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, childhood friend, investigation, reminiscence, murderer, reunited friends, murder mystery, murder investigation, friends, problem, group of friends, old friends reunited ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, period piece, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, domestic violence, murder trial, marital abuse, true crime, death sentence, biopic, family drama, empathy, social realism, moral ambiguity, poverty ...
Place:
canada, ontario canada
Similarity:
46%
407
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The three stories within Genesis explore the notion of family: a woman in her late thirties rediscovers the faith she lost as a child; a mother goes to extreme lengths to ensure that her daughter is saved from the fate she was forced to endure; a ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Plot:
faith, roma, murder of a family, woman, female protagonist, child, murder, gypsy, religious faith, belief in god, mother, murder of family ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
44%
306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, Brazil, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.
Style:
suspense, captivating, intense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi, father son relationship, psychopath, family reunited, orphan, parent child relationship, experiment, father son reunion, war criminal, concentration camp, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, period piece, political thriller ...
Plot:
french algerian war, military, algerian war, torture, military life, soldier, wartime life, problem, wartime, war, military officer, warrior ...
Time:
60s
Place:
algeria
Similarity:
42%
670
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Greece, Bulgaria, USA, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Neurologist Katerina and former doctor Yannis are heading off to a deserted seaside resort. Silence descends on the car as they travel across dunes in a windy autumn, matching the less-than-pleasant occasion: Yannis has been called to identify the ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, art house, existential, suspenseful
Plot:
grief, loss, seaside, regret, haunting, mourning, acceptance, intimate, character study, isolation, small town, car accident ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
During World War I, an Austrian-Hungarian-Romanian reconnaissance team embarks on a treacherous mission beyond enemy lines to destroy an Italian post.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
world war one, behind enemy lines, war, reconnaissance, wartime life, military life, mission, fight, prospector, secret mission, wartime, military ...
Time:
1910s, year 1918
Similarity:
41%
144
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An experimental film about peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the Eve of Italian occupation of the country.
Style:
experimental, atmospheric, political, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, occupation, wartime, bloodbath, social commentary, small town, loss of innocence, unsettling, resistance, coastal town, moral ambiguity, isolation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
croatia, poetic realism, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
41%
325K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style:
touching, emotional, period piece, heartbreaking, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, wartime, redemption, tragic love, injustice, love story, unfulfilled love, sex scene, forbidden love, love and romance, false accusation, innocence ...
Time:
1930s, victorian era, 1940s, year 2007, 2000s ...
Place:
england, london, dunkirk, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
41%
593
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman living in the South Korean town of Paju recalls the last 8 years of her life, since a young man on the lam escaped to it from Seoul and married her older sister.
Style:
touching, serious, atmospheric, realistic, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, small town, introspection, true love, haunted by the past, starting over, couples, couple relations, love and romance, leaving home, hopes, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
south korea, asia
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Do-yeon, a 6th grade elementary school student, meets her cousin Sang-jun at her grandmother's funeral. On the last day of the funeral Do-yeon and Sang-jun go into an empty classroom near the funeral. There they have their first sexual ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, grim, intense ...
Plot:
sexual awakening, rape, rape victim, coming of age, abuse, dysfunctional family, trauma, unsettling, incest, violence, violent, child abuse ...
Similarity:
40%
231
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The drama tells the story of an Argentine elementary-school teacher sent by the government to a rural hamlet located in the northwestern province of Jujuy. It shows how he touches the lives of the villagers, especially the young and impressionable ...
Style:
art house, historical drama, emotional, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
falklands war, teacher student relationship, social realism, intimate, poverty, small town life, coming of age, bittersweet, isolation, grief, moral ambiguity, patriotism ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees - or stand firm in the Danish ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
liberation, refugee camp, resistance, refugee, moral dilemma, occupation, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner of war camp, wartime life, war ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on Valentin Rasputin's story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return of their husbands from the front. The young soldier Andrei Guskov, who fled from the hospital, returns as ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, deserter, pregnancy, dishonesty, life risking, village, loneliness, social misfits, love, winter, post war, moral dilemma ...
Place:
soviet union, siberia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, investigation, suicide, murder mystery, private investigation, sleuth, loss of child, life is a bitch, uncover truth, bereavement, family drama, grief ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Estonia, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, suspense, period drama
Plot:
world war one, female soldier, mother son relationship, motherhood, soldier, military, wartime, parents and children, cross dressing, military life, deception, war ...
Time:
year 1918
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
36%
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