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Aftermath (2012)
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Original name: Pokłosie
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Russia, Netherlands, Slovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.
Style:
tense, serious, disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller, social, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, homecoming, life is a bitch, world war two, dishonesty, uncover truth, under the surface, supernatural, village life, nazi, consciousness, european history, european, farm, rural area, family relations, atrocity, social relations, siblings relations, against humanity, tombs and skeletons, death, murder, father, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Most similar movies to Aftermath
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about life is a bitch, family relations, murder, dishonesty, uncover truth, society and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Aftermath: Body of Water (2011), Deliver Us from Evil (2009), After the Truth (1999), Supernova (2019), Out of the Black (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Julia is a young lawyer who has been in conflict with her father for a long time. Her mother seems a bit insane, and Julia thinks that he is partially responsible for this. She has also split with the father of her son and tries to escape all these ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
legend, countryside, supernatural, uncover truth, life is a bitch, ghost, river, family secret, past, secret, repressed memory, swimmer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes’ childhood town in the country. When Johannes’ drunken brother Lars accidently runs over Anna, a local, and plants false ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
xenophobia, immigrant, small town, family in danger, human nature, rivalry, false accusation, social relations, social differences, vengeance, countryside, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The famous Nazi-Doctor Dr. Josef Mengele - the "death angel of Auschwitz", who killed more than 300.000 people - comes back from his hide out in Argentina to Germany as a 87 year old man. He must stand up in front of a court for his ...
Style:
controversial, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, courtroom drama, military, politics, alternate history, courtroom, auschwitz, nazi war criminal, power relations, rivalry, uncover truth, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
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776
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Three men, one place and one event that will change the life of each one of them.
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
social issues, villager, changing lives, social relations, social problems, society, village life, life is a bitch, lifestyle change, male protagonist, crisis, mature ...
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two brothers struggle to uncover the truth behind the mining accident that killed their father and bankrupted the town.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
uncover truth, life is a bitch, redemption, social relations, siblings relations, countryside, family relations, parents and children, family in crisis, small town, down on your luck, small town life ...
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
couple relations, restaurant, family relations, life is a bitch, under the surface, family problems, couples, haunted by the past, parents and children, juvenile delinquency, family in crisis, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland
Similarity:
28%
824
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Pawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his ...
Style:
political thriller, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
trial, mole, uncover truth, haunted by the past, solidarity, working class, family relations, society, life is a bitch, labor union, father son relationship, spy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, france, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
danger, rivalry, dishonesty, secret, couple relations, uncover truth, maniac, murder, best friend, violent content, profanity, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, emotional, breathtaking ...
Plot:
holocaust, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, breakup, life is a bitch, fugitives, wartime life, coming of age, survival, war, boy, little boy ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
canada, europe, greece, poland
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, controversial, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
concentration camp, nazi, holocaust, world war two, shoah, mass murder, anti semitism, against humanity, life is a bitch, society, genocide, gas chamber ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, poland
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A businessman must explain to his lawyers how he came to be found in a locked hotel room with his dead partner, whose body was covered in money.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, captivating, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, uncover truth, lovers, murder suspect, dark secret, lawyer, parents, couples, dishonesty, deception, revenge ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a journey trafficking millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Shot entirely on location along the Pacific coast of Colombia—in ...
Style:
suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful, social ...
Plot:
drug dealing, crime gone awry, family relations, disorder, chases and races, escapades, ocean, murder, drug, mafia, blaxploitation, conflict ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
colombia, africa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story takes place in two parallel time planes. The first plot follows the events of one autumn night in 1978. Edward Srodon, a zootechnician, makes an accidental stopover in a farmhouse of Dziabas family in the remote area of Bieszczady ...
Style:
captivating, serious, action thriller, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
martial law, murder, who done it, law enforcement, crime scene, winter, multiple storylines, gay, alcoholism, haunted, snow, countryside ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 2009, 70s
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A fictional version of the events that led to the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002. The movie is based upon the book "The sixth of May" by Tomas Ross.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, rough, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, uncover truth, political conspiracy, state affairs, assassination, dishonesty, life is a bitch, politics, fighting the system, immigrant, animal life, gays and lesbians ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Following the death of his identical twin brother Pedro, Agustín sets out to begin his life anew by assuming Pedro’s identity and returning to the mysterious Tigre Delta region where the brothers had spent their childhood. Soon after his ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
starting over, hidden identity, twin brother, danger, homecoming, haunted by the past, dishonesty, family relations, death, siblings, brother brother relationship, river ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, south america, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. The brilliant exile, Fiodor Voronin, a general at 20, is the deputy at the White Russian Military Union, probably slated to replace ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, enigmatic, psychological
Plot:
spy, politics, secret agent, government agency, betrayal, life is a bitch, undercover, political corruption, rebellion, dishonesty, uncover truth, love triangle ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
france, russia, paris france, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dwudziestosześcioletni Łukasz, niesłusznie posądzony o napad na starszą kobietę, trafia do aresztu śledczego. Adwokat wynajęty przez matkę bezskutecznie próbuje go stamtąd wydostać. Pod wpływem dramatycznych wydarzeń w celi ...
Style:
suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
prison life, prison, miscarriage of justice, immorality, prisoner, criminal, innocence, murder, coincidence, jail, social problems, jail cell ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
poland
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father (Dirk Bogarde) returns.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, offbeat ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, single parent, dishonesty, danger, kids in trouble, homecoming, siblings relations, parents and children, secret ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers.Suspecting a political conspiracy, Falk falls into a frenetic chase to reveal the mystery ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
chase, uncover truth, dishonesty, disorder, obsession, state affairs, life turned upside down, eye, nordic, on the road, chases and races, hit and run ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, denmark, eastern europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Infiltrator is an American film about an Israeli freelance journalist who travels to Germany circa the early 1990's and uncovers a story about a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction, who are intent to bring Nazism back to the ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
skinhead, world war two, neo nazi, neo nazism, spy, nazi, judaism, undercover, journalism, racism, immigrant, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Nazi occupied Poland, during the World War II. Hans, a former brilliant student, has become an SS officer stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. When he is commissioned by his superior officer to build an efficient gas chamber, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, historical drama, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, ss officer, nazi, auschwitz, nazi officer, nazism, nazi germany, genocide, war crime, anti semitism, wartime ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, germany
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
mental institution, small town life, isolation, family problems, small town, mute, suspect, society, danger, autism, mental illness, woods ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
24%
747
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, survival, prodigy, boy genius, coming of age, young heroes, on the run, heroic mission, danger, against humanity, youth, rivalry ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
switzerland, europe, france, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, uncover truth, murder, investigation, danger, moral dilemma, hidden identity, woman in danger, parents and children, single parent, reporter, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, east asia
Similarity:
24%
429
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A doctor is pulled into Stockholm's underbelly after his brother gets caught up in a botched drug deal.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, haunted by the past, dishonesty, race against time, doctor, brother brother relationship, drug dealer, hospital, drug addiction, drug dealing, life is a bitch, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
268
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set in Norfolk, amidst an idyllic, brooding landscape, an innocent teenage boy and his battle-weary father live a simple life. Days are spent hunting, fishing and daydreaming. Out-of-nowhere, disrupting this tranquility, a mysterious intense figure ...
Style:
captivating, tense, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
father son relationship, mercenary, hitman, teenage life, single parent, isolation, youth, life is a bitch, family relations, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Stefanie Ritter is actually quite happy with her life. When the charming pilot Kai Mertens turns up one day, Stefanie feels that tingling in her stomach again for the first time. For her birthday, he surprises her with a dream vacation in Mexico. ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
escape, murder, false accusation, confined, prison life, life is a bitch, frame up, prison, dishonesty, female protagonist, wrongful accusation, prison escape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, germany
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Janne, a 60 year old party promoter is arranging a nightclub at the annual tennis week in the small coastal town of Båstad, where he also teams up with his older sister Jackie. But an accident turns his life upside down and forced by the people ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
nightclub, siblings relations, life turned upside down, unlikely criminals, society, nightlife, down on your luck, disorder, nothing goes right, family business, european, partner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Doris soon was out of the Nazi's hands and met up with her family.
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, uplifting, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, aftermath, world war, anti semitism, life is a bitch, confined, survival, danger, war, society, escapades ...
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad.
Style:
tense, intense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
search and rescue, father son relationship, missing person, lost, mountain, rescue mission, father, rescue, tragic event, squad, family relations, manhunt ...
Place:
romania
Similarity:
23%
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