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The Resurrection of a Bastard (2013)
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The Resurrection of a Bastard (2013)
Original name: De Wederopstanding van een Klootzak
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A criminal from Amsterdam barely surviving a liquidation. An old Frisian farmer bent on revenge. An illegal immigrant with uncertain prospects. Eventually, they meet under an ancient oak tree. Beyond the last town.
Style: tense, rough, serious, stylized, anthology, offbeat, realistic, witty, contemplative
Plot: introspection, life is a bitch, society, hopes, gangster, immigrant, down on your luck, criminal heroes, dark humor, misfit, countryside, criminal, crime, crimes, immigrants
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: holland
Keyword: gangsters, dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, gloomy and touching films with plots about life is a bitch, society, misfit, immigrant, hopes, down on your luck and social misfits mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Resurrection of a Bastard: Smuggler (2011), Manpower (2014), The Uncertainty Principle (2002), Letter to the King (2014), Lana's Rain (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Smuggler (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, heavy ...
Plot: gang, smuggler, rivalry, yakuza, down on your luck, life is a bitch, danger, society, gay, disorder, dangerous animal, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
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Manpower (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, biting, serious ...
Plot: social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, society, life is a bitch, interracial relations, discrimination, realism, immigrant, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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The Uncertainty Principle (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Style: contemplative, cynical, realistic, talky, serious ...
Plot: starting over, hopes, estate, rich and poor, infidelity, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, couples, down on your luck, social differences, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal
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Letter to the King (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, anthology ...
Plot: refugee, immigrant, love, revenge, social misfits, society, redemption, misfit, hopes, life is a bitch, dishonesty, culture clash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kurdistan
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Lana's Rain (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This powerful, hard-edged crime drama explores the dark side of the American immigrant experience and dares to ask, "How far would you go to survive?" Lana’s only chance to escape the war-torn Balkans is her long-lost brother, Darko, a ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: starting over, survival, gangster, immigrant, criminal heroes, prostitute, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, sexual content, revenge, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, bosnia herzegovina
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War Story (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot: society, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, photojournalist, immigrant, female protagonist, post traumatic stress disorder, post traumatic stress, hostage, war correspondent, captive, captivity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sicily, italy
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Home Again (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot: deportation, homecoming, culture clash, immigrant, hopes, life is a bitch, society, starting over, injustice, rivalry, blaxploitation, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: jamaica, africa, usa, england, canada
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Here and There (2012)
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, immigrant, society, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, getting home, music band, poverty, worker, migration, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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On the Edge (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense, erotic
Plot: prostitute, idealism, lifestyle, life turned upside down, couple relations, fish out of water, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Bummer 2 (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film takes place a few years after the events shown in Bummer. Kostyan "Kot", who lost all his friends, the woman he loved and was nearly killed in the first installment of the film tries to begin a new, peaceful life. But is it ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, gangster, car, car trip, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, on the road, travel, mafia, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Little Lion (2012)
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: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot: football, follow your dream, immigrant, hopes, athlete and trainer, life is a bitch, athlete's life, ambition, youth, soccer, desire for fame, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, africa, europe, paris france
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Sous X (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jean-Jacques spent 9 years in prison for robbery. When he comes out, he finds the neighborhood where he grew up but things have changed ... The country is in crisis, the young people are holding the business and his old friends are urging him to ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: starting over, going straight, hopes, gang, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, father son relationship, danger, violent content, gangster, ghetto
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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51%
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Mad Ship (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, period piece
Plot: immigrant, family relations, society, life is a bitch, couple relations, unemployment, working class, unfulfillment, prairie, refugee, down on your luck, ship
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada
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7 Suns (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A man called "The Black" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants to quit the smuggling business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors, now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, disturbing
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Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, mexico
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Dealer (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In an impressive follow up to his debut film Forest, Benedek Fliegauf tells the uncompromising story of a day in the life of a drug dealer. His clients include the leader of a religious sect, a friend who needs a final fix, a former lover who has ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, stylized, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: drug abuse, addiction, life is a bitch, misfit, estrangement, social misfits, drug dealing, society, overdose, nihilism, underground, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
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California Solo (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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Horse Money (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Style: psychological, touching, atmospheric, emotional, postmodern ...
Plot: immigrant, introspection, social decay, haunted by the past, mental institution, revolution, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, misfit, existentialism, anthropology ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: portugal, africa
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Hour of the Star (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the ...
Style: existential, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: working class, blue collar, food, existentialism, woman peeing, urban ghetto, social decay, rich and poor, down on your luck, countryside, city life, longing ...
Time: year 1985, 80s, 20th century
Place: sao paulo brazil, brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
Plot: coming of age, youth, interracial relations, immigrant, society, life is a bitch, misfit, boy, father, migration, refugee, exile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
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Shirley Adams (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. ...
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Cairo Exit (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, stylized, rough, bleak
Plot: social decay, unfulfilled love, social differences, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, realism, society, life is a bitch, single parent, love and romance, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, middle east, africa, cairo egypt
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The Wee Man (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: scotland
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The Famous and the Dead (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In a small town in the countryside in the south of Brazil, a teenager that uses the codename Mr. Tambourine Man spends his time in Internet, at school, smoking pot with his best friend Diego and with his dysfunctional mother. He dreams on leaving ...
Style: surreal, serious, atmospheric, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: youth, introspection, teenage life, society, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, social decay, teenage love, escape from reality, misfit, social misfits ...
Place: brazil, latin america
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, contemplative, thought provoking ...
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Genre: Drama
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Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, gloomy
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39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, rough, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: babies and infants, adoption, immigrant, legal action, society, life is a bitch, kidnapping, orphanage, spy, undercover agent, abduction, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
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Bobby G. Can't Swim (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bobby G. lives life on the edge in this real, raw New York street drama. Bobby is a small-time coke dealer, always on the hustle but rarely successful. He lives in Hell's Kitchen with his Puerto Rican girlfriend Lucy, who makes ends meet as a ...
Style: independent film, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, jewish mob, prostitute, poverty, gangster, urban ghetto, society, going straight, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, redemption ...
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Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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38%
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Cut Loose (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: thought provoking, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: europe, belgium
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38%
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Iron Island (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: ship, forbidden love, human nature, injustice, power relations, human spirit, hopes, misfit, young lovers, anarchist, youth, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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