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Hut in the Woods (2011)
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Hut in the Woods (2011)
Original name: Die Summe meiner einzelnen Teile
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The former psychiatric patient is told that his friend was just a figment of his imagination, but this provokes him to fight back and prove the boy's existence.
Style: rough, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
Plot: woods, misfit, mentally unstable, friendship, life is a bitch, leaving home, young heroes, mental institution, mental illness, psychology, loneliness, mental disorder, schizophrenia, camping, youth, friends, social misfits, figment, nobody believes, solitude, companion, psychiatric hospital, forest, in the woods
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: germany

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and gloomy films with plots about friendship, misfit, youth, life is a bitch, society, friends and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Hut in the Woods: Harmony Lessons (2013), Ward No. 6 (2009), Hi, Tereska (2001), The White Sound (2001), On the Edge (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Harmony Lessons (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, disturbing, gloomy
Audience: teen drama
Plot: boy, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, village, bullying, social misfits, misfit, vengeance, teenage boy, humiliation, youth gang ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: kazakhstan, asia
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Ward No. 6 (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, smart ...
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, isolation, confined, human nature, doctors and patients, society, misfit, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
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Hi, Tereska (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her.
Style: disturbing, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, sexual initiation, teenage life, misfit, youth, society, dull life, down on your luck, working class, unemployment, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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The White Sound (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, mindfuck, transgressive
Plot: schizophrenia, going straight, mental illness, sibling relationship, haunted by the past, friendship, insanity, brother sister relationship, hippie, addiction, suicide attempt, doll ...
Place: germany, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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On the Edge (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On the Edge is about suicidal patients discovering their true selves while going through therapy in a treatment center.
Style: psychological, touching, talky, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: mental institution, mentally unstable, human nature, friendship, love and romance, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, alcohol abuse, psychiatric ward, psychiatrist, youth, suicide attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
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Darker Than Midnight (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Plot: social misfits, lgbt, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, society, gay, androgyny, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy
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Nagima (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: pregnancy, life is a bitch, looking for love, best friend, love and romance, social misfits, society, physical appearance, friendship, death in childbirth, death, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kazakhstan
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Breaking Horizons (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: “Congratulations, you’re pregnant!” Lara can hardly believe what the doctor has just told her. The 25-year-old spends her nights hanging around Berlin with best friend Nora, having lost interest in her architectural studies long ago. She has ...
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, touching, sexy ...
Plot: friendship, life turned upside down, adolescence vs adulthood, pregnancy, life lesson, tragedy, female friendship, party girl, coming of age, best friend, nudity, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Waking Madison (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
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Plot: mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, psychiatrist, dishonesty, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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Vegas (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 110 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Macondo (2014)
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Duration: 98 min.
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Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, friendship, amusement park, gay interest, best friend, buddies, self discovery, social misfits, misfit, life is a bitch, betrayal, alcohol abuse ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, coney island brooklyn new york city
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Duration: 120 min.
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Style: serious, sincere, touching, rough, realistic ...
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Duration: 105 min.
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Style: realistic, bleak, serious, rough, captivating ...
Audience: teens
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Country: Germany
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