Movies like Goat 2015
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Goat (2015)
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Original name: Koza
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Peter "Koza" Baláz is a former Olympic boxer. He and his partner, Misa, live in a dilapidated housing estate, constantly struggling to make ends meet. Misa learns that she is expecting a child and decides to terminate her pregnancy. In order to earn some much-needed cash and possibly change Misa's mind. He and his manager Zvonko embark on a "tour", where success is not measured in victories, but in the amount of blows that Koza can take.
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, touching, bleak, melancholic, existential, tragic
Plot:
boxing, redemption, pregnancy, athlete's life, on the road, life is a bitch, realism, hopes, bittersweet, poverty, desperation, male protagonist, working class, character study, boxer, loneliness, minimalism, self destructing, mature, underdog, urban decay, intimate, abortion, sacrifice, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
eastern europe, croatia, serbia, slovakia
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Most similar movies to Goat
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, melancholic, serious and bleak films with plots about hopes, small town, intimate, redemption, character study, poverty and working class mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Goat: Home (2013), Amador (2010), The Sensation of Sight (2006), Made in Ash (2012), Mad Ship (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
198
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, sincere, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, redemption, parents and children, starting over, hopes, family relations, friendship, empathy, realism, character study, isolation, independence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Plot:
pregnant woman, friends, friendship, aging, dealing with death, pregnancy, bittersweet, money, death, flowers, old man, church ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
This off-beat drama about man's search for meaning amidst the ache of despair chronicles Finn, an introspective English teacher entering a mid-life crisis impelled by a recent tragedy, as he sets afoot selling encyclopedias to the town locals.
Style:
serious, contemplative, atmospheric, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, hopes, haunted by the past, estrangement, single parent, small town life, profanity, cause and meaning, family business, midlife crisis, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new hampshire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sexy, bleak ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, exploitation, down on your luck, seamstress, prostitute, roommate, female protagonist, survival, small town, desperation, young woman, poverty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovakia, eastern europe, czech republic
Similarity:
30%
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253
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, period piece, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, working class, unemployment, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, prairie, great depression, drought, family drama ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
29%
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:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
going straight, starting over, hopes, life is a bitch, gang, urban ghetto, father son relationship, danger, poverty, street life, social commentary, realism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
26%
864
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:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, couples, family relations, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, everyday life, family drama, society, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house, independent film ...
Plot:
grief, child abandonment, loss, family tragedy, single father, rescue, redemption, compassion, loneliness, character study, bittersweet, social realism ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
bittersweet, coming of age, dysfunctional family, single parent, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, family drama, child protagonist, childhood, stepfather, estranged father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
22%
118
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Goran just got out of high school and doesn't know what he wants to do with his life. Should he stick with his small time gangster friends and make some cash, or listen to Zeko in the fast food stall who thinks you should go to school forever? ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, independent film, crime drama
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
moral dilemma, youth, self discovery, responsibility, mother son relationship, coming of age, temptation, realism, peer pressure, family drama, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Place:
croatia, eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
PENDULUM SWINGS follows a man into a dark place in his life - a place at which he arrives through a combination of bad decisions and forces beyond his control. When he finally hits bottom, he is presented with an opportunity to climb out of his ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, serious, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
compassion, redemption, empathy, second chance, character study, recovery, moral dilemma, morality, healing, resilience, self destructing, humanity ...
Similarity:
22%
33
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
EDEN deals with what could possible be a future for most people caught up in the current economic climate in Ireland and how we have taken a bite of the financial apple and borrowed beyond our means. We follow Adam who has been left unemployed and ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, bleak, existential, grim
Plot:
homelessness, street life, realism, social commentary, unemployment, poverty, empathy, character study, working class, survival, desperation, urban decay ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An obese multiple sclerosis patient takes up his late Father's sport of boxing to overcome personal tragedy and find inner peace. "Bobcat Moretti" was filmed over the course of ten months, during COVID-19, allowing our lead actor to ...
Style:
captivating, serious, exciting, dramatic, emotional ...
Plot:
boxing, illness, boxer, inspiration, redemption, fighting illness, fight, obesity, disease, gym, obese, multiple sclerosis ...
Similarity:
21%
462
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Caio is 40 years old and lives in the Rio de Janeiro's countryside, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On Christmas' Eve, he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, family problems, hopes, estrangement, christmas, intimate, soul searching, identity crisis, male protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
20%
169
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nutsa, a young mother, lives with her two children in a suburbs of Tblissi in Georgia. Her partner Goga is in prison. They get married, so she gains the right to talk to him once a month in the visiting room on the other side of the glass. The ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, couple relations, family relations, prison life, crumbling marriage, parents and children, couples, life is a bitch, family problems, motherhood, female protagonist, social realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, tbilisi, caucasus, eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
85
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
From living a normal life to surviving homelessness in the city of Miami, Peter is a victim of the turbulent U.S. recession during late 2000's. A drama based on true events.
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Plot:
homelessness, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, family relations, misfit, unemployment, social misfits, society, family problems, poverty, hardship, survival ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, usa, florida
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters meet, — a meeting of two ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, existential
Plot:
winter, social injustice, character study, social realism, bittersweet, poverty, slice of life, realism, loneliness, gender roles, intimate, desperation ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A story combined by the lives of three night clubs girls in. Porsche is a once-famous aging night club girl; May is forced to work in a night club in order to pay her step-father's debt; and GiGi needs a huge amount of money in order to help ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, tragic, period drama
Plot:
nightclub, nightlife, friendship, sacrifice, survival, desperation, debt, cabaret, character study, branding iron, working class, urban ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
20%
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147
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, France, Hungary, Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
OUT is an odyssey about 50 year old family man Agoston wandering through East Europe. After loosing his lifelong job in a power plant of small Slovak village Agoston takes the shady but alluring opportunity to work as a welder in a shipyard in ...
Style:
road movie, melancholic, existential, bleak
Plot:
unemployment, family man, loneliness, poverty, journey, survival, loss, working class, aging, blue collar, social realism, self discovery ...
Place:
eastern europe, slovakia, latvia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
redemption, debt collector, lovers reunited, self discovery, moral dilemma, collector, life is a bitch, debt, ex girlfriend, rivalry, society, desperation ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freddy Angi, separate and homeless, stumbles into strange love affairs, including one with his wife Anna. The two meet now and then as lovers in a hotel room.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
hotel, couple relations, losing-it hero, alcohol abuse, unfulfillment, writer's life, dull life, life is a bitch, cause and meaning, disintegration, black ops, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
19%
446
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Vanajan hails from a modest household and lives with his ailing father, wife and children. One day, he finds himself at a crossroads when his moneylender makes him an unusual offer.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, intense, tense
Plot:
loan shark, poverty, family drama, small town, empathy, moral dilemma, survival, working class, sacrifice, slice of life, desperation, intimate ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis and Domenica,an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day along the vicoli of Naples. It's Sciarra's last day of work and he must take Domenica to the morgue., to ...
Style:
melancholic, touching, realistic, existential
Plot:
police inspector, orphan, bittersweet, hopes, character study, loss, childhood trauma, moving, journey, loneliness, morgue, resilience ...
Place:
naples italy, napoli italy
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The Lord of the Seagull (MEF) is a man living a calm life on the seashore in Istanbul. There is someone he has been waiting for years. Finally the guest he waits will come out. In white, a woman who shoots on the shore like a tale will change the ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, slow cinema, contemplative ...
Plot:
hopes, schizophrenia, suicide, love, love and romance, loneliness, isolation, fall in love, couples, recluse, village, tragedy ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, poetic realism
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An estranged father returns with plans to open a bar with the son who still harbors resentment towards him.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, parents and children, criminal heroes, vengeance, heist, heist gone wrong, family relations, money problems, resentment, family drama, reconciliation, regret ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Miguel travels to Pontevedra, his hometown, with the request of serching for some locations for a movie. His trip takes him back to the place where he grew up, meeting up with some old friends, but also leads him to the possibility of a new ...
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, workplace, self discovery, workplace situations, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mother of a 15-month old daughter and would-be dancer, fighting alcoholism and the hardships of living on the streets gets help from a home for women and tries to find the will to live and get her life back on track
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, inspirational ...
Plot:
addiction, friendship, starting over, adoption, poverty, pregnancy, family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, optimism, couples, babies and infants ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
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:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, anthology ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, love, revenge, social misfits, dishonesty, society, hopes, life is a bitch, misfit, redemption, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan
Similarity:
19%
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:
serious, rough, stylized, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
gangster, introspection, immigrant, hopes, life is a bitch, society, down on your luck, violence, revenge, moral ambiguity, anti hero, criminal underworld ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam, holland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
impossible love, single parent, life is a bitch, love and romance, friendship, hopes, society, social relations, human spirit, misfit, mother son relationship, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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