Movies like The White King
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The White King (2016)
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
distopia, family relations, life is a bitch, rebel, dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, society, social problems, social misfits, boy, youth, dictatorship, children in wartime, coming of age, dystopia, war, murder, killing, twins, danger, family, 12 year old, stabbed with a knife, kill, female director
Time:
distant future
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Most similar movies to The White King
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, suspense and disturbing films with plots about life is a bitch, society, social problems, family relations, coming of age, family problems and parents and children mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The White King: Executive Order (2020), Happy Lambs (2015), Grain (2017), Nathan's Kingdom (2020), I Remember (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
gay relationship, dystopia, gay, distopia, racism, underground movement, fighting the system, dystopian future, society, social problems, black people, government ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, sexy
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, prostitute, dysfunctional family, family problems, mother daughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, single mother, family secret, family relations, single parent, social problems ...
Similarity:
90%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden, Qatar
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, futuristic, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, scientist, vestiges of humanity, wasteland, struggle for survival, life is a bitch, problem, fate of humanity, ecological disaster, farming, humanity, survival ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Nathan's Kingdom is a dark fantasy, coming-of-age drama about Nathan, a 25-year-old autistic man struggling with his teenage prescription-addict sister, and rather than surrendering their lives to social services, they risk it all to find a ...
Style:
dark fantasy, disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
autism, drug addict, junkie, coming of age, family problems, brother sister relationship, escape from reality, drug, social problems, fantasy world, life is a bitch, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Similarity:
87%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The memories of Guiga, from early childhood to young adulthood: his family, relatives, friends, fears, dreams and reality in a still provincial city of Salvador, Bahia, from the 50s to the 70s.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot:
coming of age, memories, puberty, boy, erotica, family problems, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, relationships, family relations, flashback sequence, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
86%
372
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, life is a bitch, teenage life, redemption, shoplifting, mistaken identity, society, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
85%
37
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set in a run-down bar named "Pink," movie follows the lives of people surrounding the bar including its owner Ok-Ryun.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
protest, loss of job, social problems, small town, social issues, small town life, life is a bitch, family relations, social misfits, workplace, family problems, society ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
South of the Moon is the story of a young boy and his uncle, one dealing with the complexity and confusion of adolescence, the other with the pain and torment of regret.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological
Plot:
coming of age, uncle nephew relationship, teenager, relationship problems, life is a bitch, teenage life, social issues, relationships, uncle, social problems, family problems, little boy ...
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A highly successful upper middle class woman with a loving family has her seemingly “perfect” world turned upside down when the hidden secrets from her past suddenly resurface, forcing her and her beloved mother into a painful examination of ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
faith, recovery, female protagonist, family relations, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, confronting the past, mother daughter relationship, tragic past, dark past, woman in danger, family in danger ...
Similarity:
83%
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:
83%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Müzeyyen is a 22-year-old high school senior living in Antalya who spends most of her time with a posse of misfits. She lives a drug-fuelled, highly troubled life outside the norms of society. When her long-lost brother Ali decides to visit her ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
drug, society, relationship problems, family problems, life is a bitch, drug addict, family relations, drug abuse, drug addiction, social relations, male female relationship, female protagonist ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
losing-it hero, single parent, coming of age, teenage boy, introspection, teenage life, bullying, youth, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, sincere, suspense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, dysfunctional family, relationships, death of son, husband wife relationship, death, prediction, life is a bitch, death of child, life & death, family problems, social problems ...
Place:
north africa, africa, sudan
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, social problems, conspiracy, sex slavery, uncover truth, illegal prostitution, slave trade, investigation, disappearance, secret, sex slave, mysterious disappearance ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
18-year-old Mark wakes up in a parallel world where no one knows who he is - not his family, friends or girlfriend - and discovers that he and all the people he loves will soon die a painful death.
Style:
psychotronic, psychological, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
parallel world, murder, supernatural power, supernatural, parallel universe, family relations, friends, parents and children, society, escapades, supernatural ability, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
Plot:
rape, rape victim, friendship, youth, teenager, friend, teenage boy, classmate, mother daughter relationship, friends, family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
coming of age, paranoid schizophrenia, mental disorder, mother and daughter, mental illness, mental health, grownups, life is a bitch, family problems, moral dilemma, parents and children, paranoid ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or "ikigami", informing them that they have only 24 hours left to live. The film follows a young man tasked with ...
Style:
tense, philosophical, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
social experiment, social commentary, dystopia, death sentence, life & death, society, legal, social problems, law and order, murder, social relations, legislation ...
Time:
near future
Place:
japan, east asia
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family problems, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, living with parents, relationship problems, divorced parents, family relations, tragic love, parenthood ...
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The late 1970s. It's summer in a small provincial town. Twelve-year-old Piotrek has a very strong bond with his mother. While his father is away, his mother starts going out almost every night. Their simple and clear relationship starts to get ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
mother son relationship, teenager, summer, parent child relationship, unhappy marriage, family relations, male female relationship, grownups, life is a bitch, relationship problems, parents and children, infidelity ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A disoriented and vulnerable woman, overburdened with daily life problems and more: her belongings are impounded, her cosmetics shop has been closed down, and her children's future is unknown. The children's vitality draws a sharp contrast ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
children, depression, life is a bitch, depressed woman, absent parent, single parent, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, mother, nudity, home alone ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man wakes up inside a room to discover he's a prisoner sent into space to form Earth's first colony, and worse - his cell mate Alana is hell bent on destroying everything.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
prisoner, survival, stranded, couples, escapades, male protagonist, struggle for survival, youth, near death experience, isolation, space station, danger ...
Time:
future
Place:
europe
Similarity:
78%
559
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A somber paranormal thriller that offers an original, exciting variation of the tale of two men with supernatural abilities, locked in a duel to the death. A battle between a man who can control people with a stare, and the only man he cannot ...
Style:
psychotronic, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
superpower, paranormal activity, supernatural, supernatural ability, rivalry, mind control, control, escapades, characters in danger, society, curses spells and rituals, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
78%
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466
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Querô is an orphan teenager, living alone near the docks in Santos, Brazil. Her mother, a prostitute, died when he was a baby, and he was raised in the bordello where she worked. He also doesn't know who his father is. Believing he rules his ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological, absurd ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquent, life is a bitch, fighting the system, teenager, social outcast, social issues, independence, teenage life, money problems, orphan, social problems, organized crime ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A young Tamil-postgraduate, frustrated with the circumstances and futility of his job, slowly loses his mental balance and becomes a sociopath.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
social status, psychopath, murderer, mental illness, mental disorder, serial murder, psycho killer, serial killer, murder, social issues, social misfits, socially awkward ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
77%
732
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A suspenseful drama about a young couple on a road trip who get caught in the midst of a worldwide gas shortage.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
on the road, couple relations, couples, social differences, chaos, life is a bitch, escapades, danger, global warming, distopia, apocalypse, epidemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
76%
351
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
It’s summer and the beginning of the long vacation period for eleven-year-old Martin, who lives on a farm, and, at a loss, observes his family’s disintegration : his mother lives locked-up in her room ; his older brother, who he adores, drowns ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, gay, kids and family, unhappy marriage, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, social problems, parents and children, father son relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
homeless teenager, pregnant teenager, troubled teen, poverty, teenager, social problems, life is a bitch, teenage pregnancy, coming of age, teenage life, social misfits, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
76%
312
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, contemplative, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
mental breakdown, architect, mental illness, refugee, family relations, parents and children, teenager, society, life is a bitch, danger, rescue, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style:
futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot:
totalitarianism, distopia, resistance, book, dystopia, satire, rebellion, dystopian future, fighting the system, fire, alienation, dictatorship ...
Time:
year 1966, future, distant future, 60s, near future
Similarity:
76%
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