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Hannah (2017)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hannah is the intimate portrait of a woman’s loss of identity as she teeters between denial and reality. Left alone grappling with the consequences of her husband’s imprisonment, Hannah begins to unravel. Through the exploration of her fractured sense of identity and loss of self-control, the film investigates modern day alienation, the struggle to connect, and the dividing lines between individual identity, personal relationships, and societal pressures.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, realistic, reflective, tense, atmospheric, social
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, loneliness, isolation, grief, coping, midlife crisis, claustrophobia, mature, everyday life, small town, identity crisis, girl, survival, female nudity, child abuse, woman, living alone, cross dressing, swimming, denial, breasts, female star appears nude, panties, bra
Time:
contemporary
Place:
italy
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Most similar movies to Hannah
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, psychological, realistic and art house films with plots about character study, isolation, grief, small town, female protagonist, intimate and slow burn mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Hannah: Spiral Farm (2019), A Woman (2010), Coming to Terms with the Dead (1994), Monica (2022), Dark Paradise (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When two outsiders arrive on an isolated intentional community, seventeen-year old Anahita begins to question her role at home, and what a future out in the world-at-large could be.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, independent film, atmospheric, melancholic
Plot:
self discovery, coming of age, female protagonist, young woman, character study, identity crisis, 17 year old, teenage angst, isolation, farm, friendship, escape ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
95%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After years of estrangement, a trans woman returns home to help care for her dying mother.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, reflective, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
transgender woman, transgender, mother daughter relationship, lgbt, acceptance, forgiveness, identity, character study, family drama, transsexuality, transsexual, trans woman ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
88%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Jane fails her final college class, she returns home to her parent's lake house where she comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, lake, trauma, getting home, life is a bitch, character study, coming of age, self discovery, healing, mental health, intimate, acceptance ...
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
17-year-old Rebekka is feeling hollow and empty after her brother Dennis died by suicide two years ago. Dennis' friend Vincent is the only one who can help her through this difficult time. But Vincent is an outsider, accepted by nobody, ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, tense, atmospheric
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mental health, grief, self discovery, isolation, character study, youth, guilt, mourning, coming of age, teenage angst, intimate, dysfunctional family ...
Similarity:
80%
299
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Marion faces Paris at night with a feeling of vulnerability linked to the loss of her sister. She crosses paths with Alex. Their encounter will evolve at the rhythm of their wanderings through the city, like a journey through the night.
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 ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
75%
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29
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In this sensitive examination of the effects of Alzheimer's a home care assistant, Felicia, is charged with spending her days with Anna, an elderly woman suffering from dementia. When Anna's husband vanishes, Felicia dedicates herself to ...
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, reflective, medical drama, tragic
Plot:
dementia, memory loss, character study, aging, loneliness, empathy, disorientation, compassion, minimalism, isolation, grief, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
72%
349
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, independent film, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
character study, family drama, parenthood, parent child relationship, marital problem, everyday life, adoption, empathy, intimate, regret, loneliness, male protagonist ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, reykjavik iceland
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Maggie is struggling to keep her life together after the death of her mother when her addict brother shows up, forcing her to make sense of a reality that may not be what it seems.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, tense, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
sibling relationship, addiction, grief, family drama, trauma, female protagonist, character study, mourning, family secret, traumatic past, confrontation, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
66%
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
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When her teenagers head off to camp and her husband abruptly leaves her to begin a new family, Lila is left to her own curious and chaotic devices for a summer in her rural home in the Catskill mountains.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, sentimental, light, disturbing ...
Plot:
friendship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, adultery, father daughter relationship, marital separation, domestic drama, character study, infidelity, loss, grief, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
64%
106
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
LIMBO is set in a small town in rural Denmark, teenager Sara and young teacher Karen develop a connection. A quiet drama interested as much in the lives of its female protagonists as their surroundings.
Style:
realistic, emotional, reflective, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
intimate, small town, introspection, empathy, slice of life, adolescence, everyday life, youth, coming of age, female friendship, bittersweet, self discovery ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Marisa, a recently retired doctor, decides to travel as a volunteer to a Greek refugee camp where, in her opinion, they need people exactly like her. When she gets there, it becomes clear that she is nothing like the other volunteers. When she meets ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
refugee camp, female protagonist, retired, character study, humanitarian, female doctor, elderly, doctor, physician, elderly man, elderly woman, senior citizen ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, melancholic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, identity crisis, urban, character study, social commentary, escape, murder, social realism, loneliness, isolation, suspicion, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
57%
173
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
motherhood, domestic drama, character study, identity, female protagonist, gender roles, intimate, realism, family secret, trauma, friendship, intimacy ...
Similarity:
57%
49
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Italy, Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After many years working far from home, Mila is forced to temporarily leave her seaside mansion—and her secret romance—to return to her family in a remote Polish village. But the long-awaited reunion is far from what she imagined. As tensions ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric
Plot:
remote village, mother daughter relationship, family drama, getting home, homecoming, reconciliation, bittersweet, character study, confrontation, mature, isolation, identity crisis ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
55%
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664
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
estrangement, human nature, extramarital affair, adultery, family life, coming of age, farm, love and romance, unfulfillment, cheating wife, deaf, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Set in a rural fishing village in southern Japan, this is the story of Erika, a celebrated former anchorwoman now back in her hometown campaigning for a seat in the national party, and Yohei, an insecure fisherman-in-training. The two are worlds ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, survival, power, fishing village, isolation, stranded, problem, male female relationship, life is a bitch, relationships, relationship vs career, island ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A love story between a lonely bar owner and a young African immigrant working in his restaurant leads to scandal and violence in a small Italian town.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
violence, immigration, male female relationship, love story, relationships, small town life, love affair, couple relations, love interest, tragic love, employer employee relationship, relationship problems ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
51%
212
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Romania, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
It depicts the relationship between an elderly woman and her caregiver.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic
Plot:
elderly woman, female protagonist, woman woman relationship, older woman younger woman relationship, caregiver, custody, aging, guardian, relationships, older man younger man relationship, lifestyle, old lady ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A doctor's (Stefano Accorsi) life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, psychological, tense, intense ...
Plot:
ambulance, hospital, accident, surgeon, trauma, couples, paramedic, loss, grief, guilt, relationships, investigation ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
About two sisters, Marie and Ninni, both are pregnant for the first time. After conducting a joint survey, Ninni's child is found dead.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, intense, dramatic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, bereavement, family drama, sisters, grief, loss, motherhood, character study, sibling relationship, coping, empathy, intimate ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
47%
205
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
sex trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, female protagonist, illegal immigrant, african, exploitation, resilience, street life, illegal immigration, trauma, poverty ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Shelia, a single mom and sometime paranormal investigator, is enlisted to investigate a possible “haunting” at a widower’s farmhouse in East Tennessee.
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, paranormal, single mother, haunting, paranormal phenomena, loss of wife, single parent, bereavement, paranormal activity, female protagonist, grief, investigation ...
Place:
tennessee
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The first work from Fernando Franco revolves around Ana, a 30 year old ambulance driver. Though good at her job, Ana has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, misfit, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, social misfits, borderline personality disorder, nervous breakdown, mental illness, self harm, character study, woman in danger, isolation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, basque country
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, existential ...
Plot:
grief, loss, character study, loneliness, identity, intimate, country house, memory, minimalism, friendship, impostor, gardener ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, coming of age, personal growth, freedom, relocation, identity crisis, isolation, intimate, escape, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Similarity:
46%
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