Movies like His Days Are Numbered

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His Days Are Numbered (1962)
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His Days Are Numbered (1962)
Original name: I giorni contati
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
Style: existential
Plot: lawyer, prostitute, painter, artist, art, death, wine, job, farmer, cinema, death of protagonist, con men, labor, father son relationship, night, painting, unhappy ending, alienation, existentialism, aging, ex lover, working class, countryside, fired from the job, plumber ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: rome italy, italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and art house films with plots about painter, death, painting, society, artist, family relations and prostitute mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like His Days Are Numbered: The Thursday (1964), The Great Beauty (2013), Never Again a Tomorrow (2017), Landscape with a Woman (1989), A Painting Lesson (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Thursday (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day ...
Plot: family relations, father son relationship, love, beach, divorce, priest, high society, soccer, seaside, diary, zoo, instructor ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style: philosophical, art house, visually stunning, stylized, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: writer's life, stripper, art, party, artist, aging, surrealism, friendship, high society, journalist, magic realism, old age ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
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Never Again a Tomorrow (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The slightly self-indulgent artist Thorvald collapses during an interview made in celebration of his 80th birthday and dies shortly after. But in spite of his death Thorvald can still follow those left behind. From a distance, and for better or ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, last will and testament, male nudity, female nudity, cemetery, painting, ex wife, cremation, painter, heart attack, artist, journalist ...
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Landscape with a Woman (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A ranger whose passion is nude painting comes to work in a remote Bosnian village. He asks the local women to pose naked for him. They are shy at first, but they eventually agree to do so. This makes their husbands furious, who think that the ranger ...
Plot: artist, painting, painter, jealousy, mountain village, forest ranger, rural setting, artist's model, marriage, death, male female relationship, suspicion ...
Place: bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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A Painting Lesson (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: coup d'etat, painting, pharmacist, art, painter, social problems, life is a bitch, artists' life, art critic, disappearance, countryside, single mother ...
Time: 60s, year 1973
Place: chile
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Womanlight (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: political, comfort
Plot: love story, night, car accident, suicide, death, prostitute, dog, animal trainer, heart attack, ape, strong female lead, couples ...
Time: year 1979
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A Sunday in the Country (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, intellectual ...
Plot: countryside, art, painter, artist, father daughter relationship, aging, dance, painting, elderly man, family relations, automobile, french countryside ...
Time: 1910s, year 1984
Place: france, europe
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Lulu the Tool (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, political ...
Plot: working class, factory, factory worker, rebellion, fighting the system, rebelliousness, boss and employee, power relations, social differences, workplace situations, anarchist, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: italy, europe
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Nostalgia (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, cerebral, contemplative ...
Plot: art, existentialism, philosophy, dream, poetry, storytelling, obsession, great ending, memory, redemption, writer's life, culture clash ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, rome italy, europe ...
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Wheel of Ashes (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After being heralded by Jean-Luc Godard as the great hope of the New American Cinema, Peter Emanuel Goldman relocated to Paris just in time for 1968. Social dissolution permeates WHEEL OF ASHES, a stripped-down account of a young man's ...
Style: existential
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Three Brothers (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: chess, terrorism, funeral, death, mafia, family relations, hopes, peasant, farm, family problems, social worker, estrangement ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, 80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: loneliness, factory, depression, fog, existentialism, society, ship, hypochondriac, extramarital affair, car accident, anxiety, minimal dialogue ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: europe, italy
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.
Plot: painter, artist, biopic, art history, art, nazi, flood, painting, german soldier, school teacher, runaway, pigeon ...
Time: 17th century, 1800s, 18th century, 1880s, 1940s
Place: amsterdam, holland, netherlands
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken ...
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Duration: 119 min.
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Audience: adult
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Man, Woman and Beast (1977)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 104 min.
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Country: Italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min.
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Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 89 min.
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48%
Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
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Time: year 1965, 60s
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The Way We Laughed (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro is joined by his older brother, Giovanni, who has moved up from Sicily. While Giovanni is a worker with no schooling, Pietro shows considerable promise in academics, prompting the elder sibling to ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, juvenile
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Place: italy, europe, turin italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 94 min.
Story: Simon is the king of the Danish art scene - eccentric, successful, wealthy, with a beautiful wife and a young mistress. Life is beautiful, until the day his unknown son Casper turns up and attracts all the attention. It turns out that Casper is the ...
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41%
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Il Posto (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: With his family mired in financial troubles, Domenico moves to Milan, Italy, from his small town to get a job in lieu of furthering his education. A lack of options forces him to take a position as a messenger at a big company, where he hopes to ...
Style: neorealism, sad, art house, spiritual, insightful ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 77 min.
Story: The pages that whisper through this brooding, beautiful tone poem are from nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a ...
Style: spiritual, contemplative, poetic, existential, avant garde
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Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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