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Almayer's Folly (2011)
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Original name: La Folie Almayer
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, bleak, serious, emotional
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, society, tragic hero, unfulfillment, racism, ambition, hopes, rivalry, gambling, heroes, nature, storm, water, murder, boat, rain, insanity, river, little girl, shooting, cigarette smoking, rifle ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and captivating films with plots about parents and children, family relations, society, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment and family problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Almayer's Folly: Dust (1985), Liverpool (2008), Walker Payne (2006), Little Lion (2012), Here and There (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A South African spinster (Jane Birkin) murders her father (Trevor Howard) after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
murder, minimal dialogue, loneliness, rape, rape and revenge, life is a bitch, society, boss and employee, obsession, workplace, sexual abuse, interracial relations ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
south africa, africa
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, road movie ...
Plot:
sailor, homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, hopes, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A small-town father is forced to make difficult, heartbreaking decisions in order to save his two daughters.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
dog fighting, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, custody, unemployment, nursing, gambling, urban ghetto, redemption, society, animals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, south carolina
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83%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mitri is 15 years old and lives in a village in Senegal. Like all the youngsters of his age, he plays football, dreaming of the Barcelona and Chelsea Football Clubs. When an agent sees him, Mitri believes in his luck. But, in order to go chasing ...
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
follow your dream, sport, hopes, immigrants, life is a bitch, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, youth, ambition, football, soccer, realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, africa, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological
Plot:
family relations, immigrants, hopes, society, parents and children, life is a bitch, getting home, music band, countryside, poverty, worker, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
French rapper, author, and spoken word artist Abd Al Malik makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of his 2004 autobiography, chronicling his upbringing in the crime- and drug-ridden streets of Strasbourg and his life-changing encounters ...
Style:
captivating, inspirational, psychological, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
rising to stardom, urban ghetto life, redemption, hip hop, religions or cults, juvenile delinquency, follow your dream, coming of age, ambition, life is a bitch, islam, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, bleak
Plot:
friendship, rise to the top, ambition, dishonesty, intrigue, idealism, rivalry, obsession, society, family relations, love, environmentalism ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
doctors and patients, culture clash, surgeon, discrimination, workplace, parents and children, hospital, ambition, immigrants, hopes, society, family relations ...
Place:
usa, michigan, detroit, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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818
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
prison, confined, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, drug smuggling, husband wife relationship, society, youth, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Way We Are is a respectful, unglamorous, and serenely charming portrait of regular people and a Hong Kong town that normally gets a bad rap. It may put you to sleep, but the visit and Ann Hui's quiet touch are exceptionally worthwhile.
Style:
touching, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, working class, single parent, society, family problems, unfulfillment, poverty, boy, loss of daughter, hopes, death in the family, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, family reunited, parents and children, aging, redemption, estrangement, family feud, unfulfillment, hopes, retirement, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
terminal illness, family relations, parents and children, introspection, couples, society, friends, suburbs, unfulfillment, suburban life, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation, family problems, drug abuse, parents and children, doctors and patients, mental institution, life is a bitch, rehabilitation center, family relations, power relations, addiction ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new place by building a new home for himself on the delta. But ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious, emotional, erotic ...
Plot:
incest, forbidden love, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, isolation, obsession, life is a bitch, human nature, village, sexual relations, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
environmental, biology, farm, contamination, ecology, society, life is a bitch, government agency, hopes, dishonesty, family problems, environmentalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Au milieu de nulle part, une cité ouvrière vidée de sa population depuis quelques années déjà . Pourtant, certains habitants ont décidé d'y rester, plus par choix que par nécessité, parce que c'est là qu'ils sont nés et ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot:
factory, single parent, unemployment, life is a bitch, workplace, family problems, family relations, working class, parents and children, isolation, society, hopes ...
Place:
france, europe, maghreb, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After learning from her mother that her father lives in India, a young woman goes there to meet him for the first time.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, culture clash, parents and children, single parent, estrangement, search for father, absent father, against the odds, family bonds, long lost relative, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
222
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, sexy ...
Plot:
love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, unfulfillment, friendship, college, university, manipulation, mentor, power, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It’s snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begin a clandestine relationship—they’re playful and passionate but ever mindful of the societal rules they are breaking. After Wajma discovers ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
pregnancy, family relations, parents and children, forbidden love, society, life turned upside down, student, honor, love, youth, rivalry, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of good behavior after a rape sentence. His parents who run a modest barbershop, skeptic André and Rita, desperately try to keep him out of girl ...
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
mentally challenged, family relations, society, rehabilitation, misfit, life is a bitch, hopes, parents and children, forced into action, jail, punishment, rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, fall in love, friendship, family relations, supportive spouse, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A female convict on death row, her last wish is to tell her story to the media.
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Plot:
social issues, family relations, family values, life is a bitch, parents and children, strong female presence, feminist, death sentence, murder, society, media, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pakistan, india, middle east
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68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
mental disorder, isolation, parents and children, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, family problems, family relations, estrangement, misfit, single parent, youth ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Argentina, Canada, Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marie is a Toronto police officer. One evening, her husband Joshua and their son Nicky are brutally murdered in their car. Marie quickly links Pablo Molina, an Argentinian drug trafficker who she'd arrested a few months earlier, with the crime. ...
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, track down, manhunt, self discovery, heroes, tragic hero, vengeance, police officer, murder of husband, death of son, rivalry, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, bolivia, argentina, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 184 min.
Story:
From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This ground-breaking stage production, directed by ...
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
tragic hero, intrigue, haunted by the past, rivalry, vengeance, ghost, betrayal, dishonesty, parents and children, royal family, murder, state affairs ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
pension, colonel, hopes, small town, parents and children, couple relations, downfall, family relations, family life, haunted by the past, small town life, death of son ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, latin america
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68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Plot:
family relations, family problems, breakup, parents and children, life is a bitch, couples, downfall, unfulfillment, down on your luck, job seeking, adultery, relationships ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
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realistic, saga, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family business, fall in love, society, workplace, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, rivalry, inheritance, friendship, german history ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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