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Vaurien (2018)
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Vaurien (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: -After five years of graduate studies, Red is always in search of a job and fight every day against the exclusion. Slowly, he is moving away from Anna, the love of his life. As a result of a letter to him meaning its cancellation, he makes it to the Agency for the employment, where he refuses an appointment. Having nothing more to lose, he then takes hostage the staff and the public. As a final appeal to the help, he is decided to save what remains of its dignity.
Plot: ransom demand, chess, police, radio, unemployment, cell phone, flashback, stuffed toy, employment agency, mask, burning money, garbage can, trashcan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and disturbing films with plots about police, flashback, female nudity, unemployment, murder, cigarette smoking and cell phone mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Vaurien: American Translation (2011), The Game of Juan's Life (2009), Return of a Citizen (1986), The Last Reel (2014), The Field Is White (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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American Translation (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A sexually ambiguous Frenchman tours his native countryside with his naive American lover in pursuit of the ultimate thrill. From the moment they meet, brooding Chris (Pierre Perrier) and the beautiful Aurore (Lizzie Brocherè) fall instantly and ...
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, disturbing, sexual ...
Plot: threesome, serial killer, young lovers, gay, love affair, murder, destructive relationship, couples, couple relations, love and romance, female nudity, erection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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95%
The Game of Juan's Life (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The Game of Juan’s Life explores two hours in the life of Juan Reyes, a live-sex performer at an underground gay bar, who has decided to leave Manila and go back to his home province. On the day of his departure, he will take us with him as he ...
Plot: chess, gays and lesbians, lgbt, bare butt, gambling, nudity, mother child relationship, cookie, patron, cell phone, newspaper, taxi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Return of a Citizen (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Returning rich from the Gulf to find his brothers and sisters relationships falling apart.
Plot: ptsd, brother brother relationship, wealth, politics, jail, airport, getting home, family relations, brother sister relationship, chess, unemployment
Place: cairo egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 7.5
 132
The Last Reel (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cambodia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A lost film, buried beneath Cambodia's killing fields, reveals different versions of the truth. A contemporary story about love, family and the ghosts of Cambodia's past.
Plot: cambodian civil war, torture, flashback, cinema, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, khmer rouge, skull, woman slaps woman, mask, film within a film, film reel
Place: cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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The Field Is White (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story: When things are not going well for John Taylor, he reads his journal and reflects on his missionary life and his companion Elder Alma Johnson. They try to teach people about the gospel and want to give lessons, but the people are not interested. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: mormon, missionary, truck, cell phone, flashback, latter day saints, memory, basketball, rejection, sunset, loneliness, journal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
She's One of Us (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, murder, workplace, police detective, investigation, workplace romance, couples, social misfits, love and romance, misfit, alone, businesswoman ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 4.9
 82
Chicas (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The ...
Plot: female nudity, flashback, bare breasts, mother daughter relationship, actress
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Long Live the Bride (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further ...
Plot: murder, police, murder suspect
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66%
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One to Another (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A story about bunch of people who live in a town in provincial France. At the center of it all is Pierre, a conceited and vain bisexual musician in his late teens who acts as a magnet, to varying degrees, for a whole array of characters - from his ...
Style: erotic, sexy, rough, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: sex with brother, incest, menage a trois, brother sister sex, orgy, murder, lgbt, voyeur, female nudity, sex with sister, peeping tom, forbidden love ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 7.3
 5K
Time Out (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story: An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, depressing, compassionate, stylized ...
Plot: unemployment, self discovery, greed, character study, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, dishonesty, down on your luck, family problems, husband wife relationship, swindle ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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A Cry for Help (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. He frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her ...
Style: silent
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Big Departure (1972)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 71 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 572
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a juvenile lockup, a new ward answers questions: she's Rosie, 13, no parents, a sister Irene, a brother Michel. In flashbacks we find out what happened. She lives with Irene, who's 27, whom Rosie knows is in fact her mother, but ...
Style: depressing, realistic, serious, sexual, crying
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
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Style: psychotronic
Plot: women in prison, women's prison, prison, parent child relationship, female nudity, mother daughter relationship, police, flashback, domestic violence, drug, marital abuse, juvenile delinquent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 2.8
 706
Hunting of Man (2003)
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Style: crime drama, independent film, realistic, serious, detective ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.0
 266
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 5.1
 764
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
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Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 85
Electra (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.2
 5K
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.6
 649
Residue (2020)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.4
 1K
Magallanes (2015)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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