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The Door (2012)
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Original name: Az ajtó
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.
Style:
realistic, serious, contemplative, psychological, captivating, mockumentary, mysterious, talky, odd
Plot:
maid, friendship, rich and poor, society, writer's life, master and servant, strong female presence, power relations, world war two, political intrigue, totalitarian state, european, dog, cat, housekeeper, rainstorm, aspiring writer, invisible, elderly woman, married couple, stubbornness, artists and showbiz, guilty conscience, flashback, holocaust survivor ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
hungary, budapest
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Most similar movies to The Door
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and psychological films with plots about society, friendship, power relations, family relations, social differences, friends and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Door: Small World (2010), The Uncertainty Principle (2002), A Cooler Climate (1999), Eszter's Inheritance (2008), White Lies (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, memory loss, investigation, haunted by the past, flashback, family relations, society, family life, amateur detective, friendship, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Place:
france, europe
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Style:
cynical, realistic, talky, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
starting over, hopes, estate, rich and poor, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, couples, down on your luck, social differences, marriage, joan of arc ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
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78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Iris is broke after her divorce and takes a job working as a housekeeper for a wealthy woman named Paula. When Paula and her husband separate, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the women.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
lgbt, female bonding, housekeeper, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, hopes, human nature, couple relations, society, master and servant, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The aging Eszter clarify outstanding relationship.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, love and romance, life turned upside down, hopes, society, estrangement, destiny, misfit, estate, female protagonist, lost love, heartbreak ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
hungary, central europe, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
Plot:
woman, power relations, society, strong female presence, interracial relations, master and servant, hopes, culture clash, pregnancy, pacific islander, world war one, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style:
realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, boy, youth, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, german history, aftermath, nordic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
As John Barrymore reckons with the ravages of his life of excess, he rents an old theatre to rehearse for a backer's audition to raise money for a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph in Richard III.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
artists and showbiz, actor's life, theater, performer's life, showbiz, introspection, actor, society, rivalry, hollywood, art, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1920s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
60%
603
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, sincere, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, adoption, politics, power relations, babies and infants, society, master and servant, single parent, love and romance, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, rome italy
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, contemplative, serious, art house ...
Plot:
cause and meaning, introspection, artists and showbiz, writer's life, hopes, humiliation, loneliness, existentialism, losing-it hero, party, advice, alienation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
balkan, middle east, turkey
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
lesbian, religion, convent, power relations, clergy, strong female presence, society, celibacy, women's rights, humiliation, abuse of power, confession ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
56%
234
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, unfulfillment, friendship, university, college, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 10 year old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, master and servant, couples, mute or deaf, danger, countryside, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, friendship, intellectual disability ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place:
france
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
country girl, social differences, master and servant, youth, society, teaching the ways of the world, strong female presence, estate, power relations, urban setting, social problems, social relations ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. The hostilities escalate yet never quite boil over into actual violence. Just when things do get out of hand, however, the problem is "solved" by the city government, ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, sentimental
Plot:
boy, anti war, little boy, coming of age, traumatic childhood, bondage, education, boyhood, school, rivalry, youth, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
social differences, friendship, family relations, hopes, family life, unfulfilled love, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women, lesbian ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, france, normandy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, old people, friendship, family relations, couples, friends, interracial relations, opposites attract, human nature, hopes, society ...
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A tragical-comedy film story that follows a young non-combatant platoon with defective fitness. Set in "Bahad 4" in the 50's, the movie focuses mainly on two characters: Alon (Oz Zehavi), who believes he was accidentally sent to Bahad ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
military base, military life, power relations, basic training, boot camp, military, immigrant, social differences, society, humiliation, lgbt, officers and cadets ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, captivating, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
fall in love, friendship, world war two, love affair, violin, violinist, holocaust, musician's life, family relations, destiny, love and romance, flashback ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
prague, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, youth, family relations, society, social issues, identity, memory, adaptation, reminiscence, literary, autobiography, homecoming ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
africa, algeria, north africa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Romania
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Famous lover Casanova (Vicenç Altaió), now long past his prime, meets Count Dracula (Eliseu Huertas) during a journey to Transylvania.
Style:
serious, talky, atmospheric, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
vampire, medieval, casanova, womanizer, aging, writer's life, supernatural, introspection, cross country, underground, fetish, magic ...
Time:
20th century, 18th century
Place:
europe, switzerland, transylvania
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
longing, friendship, self discovery, immigrant, friends, society, job seeking, secret, female nudity, sex scene, female friendship, cafeteria ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, serbia, bosnia herzegovina, europe, sarajevo
Similarity:
40%
441
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, friendship, teenage life, social relations, social differences, family relations, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, interracial relations, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
39%
565
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, contemplative, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, friends, lifestyle, music band, artists and showbiz, lgbt, couples, party, lgbtq, society, drug abuse, musician's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, follow your dream, rich and poor, working class, society, youth, hopes, state affairs, parents and children, political unrest, social differences, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
asia, india, bombay india
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
France, around 1900. Coming from the vibrancy of Paris, pert Célestine is procured as a chambermaid in Normandy. In the Lanlaire's villa she encounters the lecherous man of the house and his asexual, tyrannical and jealous wife. Célestine is ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, period piece, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
master servant relationship, master and servant, nightmare, seaside, domestic servant, chambermaid, maid, burglary, unwanted pregnancy, valet, silver, train ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1890s, victorian era, 1900s
Place:
france, normandy
Similarity:
38%
674
Genre: Drama
Country: Ethiopia, Germany, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
friendship, village, idealism, revolution, haunted by the past, society, rebellion, political unrest, state affairs, medical school, rich and poor, african ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
africa, ethiopia, germany, europe, west germany ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot:
friendship, holocaust, concentration camp, haunted by the past, elderly, obsession, memory, war crime, civil servant, holocaust survivor, new love, sibling relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, brussels
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager Sir who is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sad ...
Plot:
world war two, illness, aging, friendship, actor's life, elderly, showbiz, actor, death, husband wife relationship, backstage, air raid ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
rebellion, high school life, political unrest, youth, society, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Switzerland, Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Marina, Sofia and Violeta deal differently with the death of their grandmother.
Style:
contemplative, sincere, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, youth, estrangement, sister sister relationship, everyday life, friendship, strong female presence, society, family problems, siblings relations, leaving home ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
35%
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