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The Door (2012)
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The Door (2012)
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, weirdo, flashback ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: hungary, budapest
Keyword: retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and contemplative films with plots about society, friendship, family relations, power relations, couples, social differences and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Door: Small World (2010), The Uncertainty Principle (2002), A Cooler Climate (1999), Simon & the Oaks (2011), Inside (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Small World (2010)
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, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, investigation, memory loss, haunted by the past, society, family relations, family life, flashback, power relations, amateur detective, social differences, dishonesty ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Uncertainty Principle (2002)
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: contemplative, cynical, realistic, talky, serious ...
Plot: starting over, hopes, estate, rich and poor, infidelity, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, couples, down on your luck, social differences, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
A Cooler Climate (1999)
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, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, female bonding, master and servant, human nature, crumbling marriage, couple relations, boss and employee, follow your dream, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Simon & the Oaks (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
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
Plot: world war two, coming of age, wartime life, youth, boy, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, best friend, older woman younger man ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Inside (2012)
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: psychological, realistic, contemplative, serious, art house ...
Plot: cause and meaning, introspection, hopes, writer's life, artists and showbiz, humiliation, loneliness, existentialism, party, advice, alienation, dull life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: balkan, middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Barrymore (2011)
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, sincere, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, actor's life, theater, showbiz, performer's life, introspection, actor, rivalry, society, hollywood, art, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1920s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Return to Ithaca (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sun is setting on Havana. Five friends are gathered to celebrate the return of Amadeo after 16 years of exile in Madrid.
Style: realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: homecoming, introspection, friendship, friends, society, novelist, exile, reunion
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Nanny (1999)
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, psychological, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: nanny, dysfunctional family, single parent, adoption, power relations, master and servant, society, family life, family in crisis, youth, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Mentor (2006)
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, university, friendship, college, unfulfillment, ambition, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Call Me Elisabeth (2006)
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, touching, sentimental, exciting ...
Plot: family relations, master and servant, couples, danger, mute or deaf, countryside, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, friendship, intellectual disability ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Diary of a Chambermaid (2015)
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, serious, stylized, period piece, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: master servant relationship, master and servant, maid, seaside, domestic servant, chambermaid, power relations, social differences, class differences, murder, nightmare, lust ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1900s
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Hidden Life (2001)
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, emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: social differences, country girl, master and servant, society, youth, teaching the ways of the world, strong female presence, estate, power relations, city life, relationships, lifestyle ...
Time: 19th century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience ...
Style: realistic, talky, clever, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: writers, coming of age, friendship, world war two, dysfunctional family, family relations, culture clash, father daughter relationship, adopted son, half brother, orphan, couple relations ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, new england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Fraulein (2006)
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, psychological, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, self discovery, longing, friends, immigrant, society, job seeking, secret, female nudity, sex scene, cafeteria, integration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, serbia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Canone inverso - Making Love (2000)
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, period piece ...
Plot: fall in love, friendship, world war two, love affair, violinist, holocaust, musician's life, violin, family relations, destiny, love and romance, musician ...
Time: 20th century
Place: prague, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Three-Way Wedding (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: love triangle, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, playwright, society, rivalry, friendship, nude women, nudity, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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A Simple Heart (2008)
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: servant, social differences, family relations, friendship, hopes, unfulfilled love, family life, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Decoration Day (1990)
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: touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, world war, friendship, family relations, couples, friends, interracial relations, society, human nature, hopes, opposites attract, introspection ...
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Infiltration (2010)
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 life, military base, power relations, basic training, military, boot camp, immigrant, society, social differences, humiliation, lgbt, soldier ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Boys of Paul Street (1968)
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, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: boy, anti war, education, coming of age, boyhood, traumatic childhood, bondage, school, mischievous children, youth, rivalry, young heroes ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century
Place: hungary, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Story of My Death (2013)
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, casanova, womanizer, introspection, aging, writer's life, supernatural, cross country, medieval, underground, fetish, magic ...
Time: 20th century, 18th century
Place: transylvania, europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Burning Secret (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Burning Secret is a 1988 drama film, based on the short story Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig, about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. The film was written and ...
Style: contemplative, tense, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, sex crime, youth, bonding, boy, jealousy, infatuation, spa, couples, family relations, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Fall to Rise (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood.
Style: contemplative, emotional, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: ambition, artists and showbiz, introspection, strong female presence, dancer's life, hopes, women, dancer
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Invisible Eye (2010)
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: high school life, political unrest, society, youth, rebellion, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Morning Dew (2008)
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, serious, realistic, rough
Plot: friendship, village, idealism, revolution, haunted by the past, rebellion, society, political unrest, state affairs, medical school, rich and poor, african ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: africa, ethiopia, europe, germany, west berlin west germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Let the Wind Blow (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: coming of age, working class, rich and poor, follow your dream, social differences, political unrest, parents and children, society, youth, state affairs, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Trigger (2010)
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, contemplative, psychological, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, friends, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, music band, lgbt, couples, lgbtq, party, society, musician's life, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
David Copperfield (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An orphan with a rough childhood becomes a barrister.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, costume drama, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, charles dickens, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, social differences, young heroes, society, life is a bitch, child as adult, adulthood, rich and poor, orphan ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
One Day You'll Understand (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, death in the family, parents and children, against humanity, love and romance, society, trial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, germany, middle east, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Dresser (2015)
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, psychological, captivating, sad ...
Plot: world war two, aging, friendship, illness, actor's life, elderly, showbiz, actor, death, adultery, lgbtq, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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