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Whitewash (2013)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The brutality of winter and the power of the mind are aptly portrayed in this dark comedy set in Northern Quebec. Bruce (Thomas Haden Church) is merely trying to survive a harsh winter when he meets Jean. Conflict leads to an accidental death, and Bruce finds himself in a complicated and unexpected place. Grappling with his guilt, Bruce creates a prison from which he cannot escape. Haden Church perfectly utilizes his comic talent in this wry, well-crafted film.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, offbeat, realistic, independent film, mind bending
Plot:
losing-it hero, snow, winter, down on your luck, life is a bitch, on the run, solitude, woods, murder, survival, landscape, killing, alcohol abuse, hit and run, unfulfillment, mysterious character, wilderness, wild ride, forest, drugs/alcohol, in the woods
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada, quebec
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, serious, realistic and psychological films with plots about danger, life is a bitch, murder, losing-it hero, winter, snow and society mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Whitewash: The Wild Hunt (2009), Feed the Gods (2014), Sea Fog (2014), Edge of Winter (2016), Resilience (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two brothers return to a small mountain town in search of their long lost parents only to discover that the place has a monstrous taste for tourists.
Style:
suspense, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, suspense, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
winter, child in peril, mentally unstable, cold weather, wilderness, parent child relationship, brother brother relationship, snowstorm, divorced parents, snow, father son relationship, weekend ...
Place:
ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, violent content, nudity, sexual content, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, family problems, death in the family, dysfunctional family, doctors and patients, midlife crisis, estrangement, couples, losing-it hero, love and romance, life is a bitch, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A man's relationship with a bipolar woman becomes dangerous.
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
online dating, losing-it hero, bipolar disorder, jealousy, mentally unstable, couples, dangerous attraction, murder, social network, obsession, dating, strong female lead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
losing-it hero, hotel, betrayal, vengeance, woods, redneck, motel, hostage, haunted by the past, exploitation, happiness, car ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
Style:
psychological, realistic, tense, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, missing child, clergy, religions or cults, church, social relations, small town, gay, priest, brainwashing, winter, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, maine
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
eskimo indian, village, survival, wilderness, murder, on the run, danger, shaman, winter, family life, village life, false accusation ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that ...
Style:
tense, touching, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, law enforcement, life turned upside down, family tragedy, babies and infants, moral dilemma, society, injustice, social decay, nordic, grief, suicide of wife ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Bolivia, USA, Chile
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Perfidia, begins with a heartfelt version of the immortal title track, while the camera records the journey by a route through a snowy landscape and melancholy, the traveler is the enigmatic and silent Gus Chilean Gonzalo Valenzuela, in his first ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, stylized, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, serious ...
Plot:
survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, wilderness, disaster, snow, male nudity, poet, frozen, schizophrenia, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
greenland, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
swamp, redemption, investigation, police detective, murder, rivalry, law enforcement, opposites attract, female corpse, secret, winter, snow ...
Time:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
losing-it hero, hell, introspection, moral dilemma, human nature, family relations, disorder, life turned upside down, heroes, parents and children, surrealism, father ...
Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Henry Adler lives in Ontario by himself, regularly visits his gruff and critical father, and works in a bank; he's also an actor. He finds new purpose in life when he's cast as a cop in a realistic TV show. He gets into the part, borrowing ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
psychopath, actor, police, violence, television, lgbtq, anti hero, tough heroes, bank, mental illness, prostitute, losing-it hero ...
Time:
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Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, thrilling, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, disturbing, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, murder, life is a bitch, social relations, disorder, on the road, countryside, human nature, nothing goes right, underground, suicide, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
survivalist, danger, training camp, society, tragic event, misadventure, struggle for survival, apocalypse, christmas, post apocalypse, snow, collapse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, danger, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, weapons, coming of age, life turned upside down, on the road, down on your luck, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
19%
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