Movies like Nine Meals from Chaos

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Nine Meals from Chaos (2018)
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Nine Meals from Chaos (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eight years after a cataclysm and disease ravaged the human race -leaving just one in every ten surviving-, all social structures have crumbled like sand castles. Too still live for anything to have been reconstructed. All remaining animals have been consumed and no sowing has yet been possible. It is Man at his most basic, destitute level. It is Man at his most basic, destitute level. Two groups inhabit the desolate and abandoned land: packs of orphaned children in a feral state, living a nomadic life-style for their safety, and adults (with their offspring), barely surviving any better by living off their meat. It is a war only the most desperate of the two will win.
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense, disturbing
Plot: feral child, children, post apocalypse, desert, cannibalism, survival, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, vestiges of humanity, humanity, society, social problems, humanity in peril, fate of humanity, human existence, boy, lake, coming of age, skinny dipping, teen drinking, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, kidnapping, water, male nudity ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, captivating, suspense and psychological films with plots about life is a bitch, boy, survival, children, coming of age, death and society mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Horror genres. Some movies like Nine Meals from Chaos: In Your Absence (2008), They Returned (2015), The Northlander (2016), Day One (2010), I Remember (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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In Your Absence (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence, and give him some advice on sex, love and ...
Style: emotional, serious, disturbing, captivating, art house ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, boy, stranger, teenage girl, nudity, sexual exploration, masturbation, male nudity, 13 year old, flashback, surrogate father, man boy relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: andalusia, spain
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They Returned (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story: They Returned is a beautifully touching and unnerving story about the unexplained disappearance of three children, two boys and one girl, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. Not even the children themselves are able to ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, bleak
Plot: political corruption, missing child, murder, investigation, paranormal, teacher, missing person, boy, autism, darkness, abandoned hospital, death ...
Place: argentina
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The Northlander (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. ...
Style: futuristic, disturbing, captivating, apocalyptic, tense ...
Plot: post apocalypse, trap, desert, dystopian future, dark future, survival, humanity in peril, humanity, deathtrap, fate of humanity, human existence, vestiges of humanity ...
Time: future
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Day One (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Day One, is an NBC made for tv sci-fi movie. It was originally written as a tv series pilot about apartment residents that survive an unknown worldwide cataclysm that destroys modern infrastructure. The series was slated to fill the Heroes time slot ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense
Plot: survival, apocalypse, vestiges of humanity, chaos, society, dystopian future, worldwide chaos, chosen one, life is a bitch, group of strangers, danger, escapades ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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I Remember (2005)
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: suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: coming of age, puberty, boy, erotica, family problems, dysfunctional family, social problems, childhood memory, relationship problems, family relations, mother son relationship, memories ...
Place: brazil
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29%
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Summer of '62 (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young Algerian paperboy with friends and associates of all ages on both sides of the conflict experiences history leading up to the March 1962 independence of Algeria, witnesses ruthless violence perpetrated by French and Arabs, sees his French ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: coming of age, war for independence, friendship, algerian war, wartime life, war, life is a bitch, wartime, friends, patriotism, struggle for survival, friend ...
Time: 60s
Place: algeria
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The Belly of the Sea (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story: June, 1816. A French navy frigate ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. Attempts to free the board were futile - the crew had no choice but to abandon ship. Since the available boats were not enough to accommodate the entire crew, the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: shipwreck, ocean, sea, raft, struggle for survival, storm at sea, survival, drowning, madness, male pubic hair, death, captain ...
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No One's Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating
Plot: boy, neglected child, friendship, children, orphanage, bullying, forest, wolf, coming of age, boyhood, nature, capture ...
Place: serbia, croatia
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27%
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Time of the Wolf (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style: disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, intense, apocalyptic ...
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, society, end of the world, post apocalyptic, brutality, catastrophe, survival, chaos, danger, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, year 2003
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27%
One Hundred Mornings (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive this crisis.
Style: psychological, serious, atmospheric, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot: survival, infidelity, post apocalypse, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couple relations, betrayal, danger, human nature, vestiges of humanity, chaos, couples ...
Time: future
Place: ireland, europe
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27%
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Grain (2017)
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: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing ...
Plot: post apocalypse, scientist, struggle for survival, wasteland, vestiges of humanity, humanity, survival, ecological disaster, investigation, farming, problem, life is a bitch ...
Time: near future
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26%
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The Tutor (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Mona, a past student in child psychology, is keen to put her knowledge into practice. She attends an interview and is selected to become a full-time private tutor to two orphaned children, in some remote area of Northern Argentina.
Style: disturbing, rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: brother sister relationship, childhood trauma, feral child, children, child in peril, teacher student relationship, child abuse, drugged, gardener, tutor, doll, panic attack ...
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25%
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14 Kilometers (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, educational ...
Plot: desert, immigrant, survival, border crossing, stranded in the desert, illegal immigrant, unlikely friendships, illegal alien, smuggling, social problems, struggle for survival, nature ...
Place: africa
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25%
Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Story: A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, teenage girl, teenage life, money problems, violence, family problems, teenage protagonist, society, teenager, juvenile delinquency, social problems
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Story: Michael is an inhabitant of a remote village in the Chilean desert. But not any inhabitant. He is Christ.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
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Duration: 84 min.
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Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, psychological ...
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Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
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Style: stylized, serious, philosophical, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: dystopic future, space travel, colony, post apocalypse, fate of humanity, outer space, twists and turns, danger, demolished city, apocalypse, life & death, imaginary ...
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Pink (2011)
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The Blackout (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 88 min.
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Style: serious, disturbing, rough, bleak, contemplative ...
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Place: china, asia
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Genre: Drama
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Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense
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Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, tense, psychological ...
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Country: USA
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Style: captivating
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