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Neon Heart (2018)
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Neon Heart (2018)
Original name: Usynligt hjerte
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Taking us on a journey into the minds and souls of three people, the film is a kaleidoscopic exploration of sexuality, desire and disability. Feature debut by Laurits Flensted-Jensen. The director, who graduated as a documentary director from the National Film School of Denmark in 2013, has directed the shorts 'Snow' (graduation film) and 'Melon Rainbow' (2015), the latter selected for SXSW in Austin. Both 'Snow' and 'Melon Rainbow' were selected for Rotterdam https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/new#nextFilm Festival.
Style: captivating, entertaining
Audience: adult
Plot: drug addict, teenage boy, down syndrome, hooliganism, porn star, rehabilitation, life, social problems, social relations, social issues, life is a bitch, new life, society, problem, family problems, lifestyle, brother brother relationship, brothel, baby, cruise, gay bashing, gay interest, female nudity, unsimulated sex, fellatio ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, thrilling and disturbing films with plots about social problems, life is a bitch, society, social issues, lifestyle, social relations and family problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Neon Heart: Life Support (2007), Ms. White Light (2019), The Warrior and the Savior (2013), Boys on Film 18: Heroes (2018), Side Job. (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Life Support (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, hiv, drug abuse, lifestyle, going straight, friendship, drug addict, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, society ...
Place: new york, usa
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Ms. White Light (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lex Cordova is a young woman who counsels terminally ill clients that have trouble letting go. While proving uniquely talented in her ability to connect with the dying, Lex is at a total loss when it comes to dealing with everyone else. When ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: social problems, doctor patient relationship, death, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, female protagonist, lifestyle, slice of life, socially awkward, female doctor, social issues, life
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The Warrior and the Savior (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Orphaned by A.I.D.S., South African children Ibutho and Umsindisi SIlongo try to make a fresh start in the United States. What they do not know is that their struggles are far from over.
Style: captivating
Plot: children, orphan, adoption, immigration, african, social issues, social problems, social relations, kids in trouble, society, life is a bitch, prostitution ...
Place: new york, south africa
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89%
Boys on Film 18: Heroes (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Boys On Film comes of age with uplifting and powerful tales recounting the lives of everyday heroes striving for their own identities and fighting for the right for us all to be ourselves. Volume 18: Heroes includes ten complete films: Dean ...
Style: captivating, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay interest, coming of age, lgbt, desire for fame, homosexual history, longing, aspiration, direction and purpose, social issues, gay stereotype, gay lead character ...
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88%
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Side Job. (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the novel "Kanojo no Jinsei wa Machigai ja Nai" (literal translation: Her life is not at fault) by Director Hiroki, it is a powerful story of survivors, who are all trying to find their own silver linings in life.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: orphan, prostitute, money problems, family problems, social relations, prostitution, life is a bitch, loss of family, family tragedy, loss of mother, tragic event, social problems ...
Place: tokyo
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84%
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Playing Hard (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, sincere
Plot: addiction, multiple storylines, life is a bitch, social relations, social problems, female protagonist, women, alcohol abuse, society, female alcoholic, alcoholic, generation gap ...
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83%
Our Wonderful Lives (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Margot, Jeremy, Salome, Caesar, Sonia - They are between 18 and 50 years old. Everything separates them except the urgency to rebuild and restore the relationship to the other that the addiction has destroyed. Solidary, they have as rules, sharing, ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: rehabilitation center, drug rehab, drug abuse, relationships, female protagonist, social problems, life is a bitch, treatment, junkie, problem, male female relationship, cure ...
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83%
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Life Kills Me (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Paul (Sami Bouajila of The Adventures of Felix and The Siege) is a smart, well-educated Frenchman of Arab ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling ...
Style: sincere, captivating
Plot: bodybuilder, brother brother relationship, interracial relations, gay brother, gay interest, social relations, family relations, male female relationship, lifestyle, family problems, relationships, relationship problems ...
Time: year 2002
Place: france
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León and Olvido (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The love-hate relations between a girl and his disabled brother.
Style: sincere, captivating, social
Plot: down syndrome, incest, autism, incest overtones, brother sister relationship, problem solving, lifestyle, family problems, family life, brother, care, social problems ...
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Blast Beat (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After their family emigrates from Colombia during the summer of ‘99, a metalhead science prodigy and his deviant younger brother do their best to adapt to new lives in America.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: family relations, immigrant, social problems, brother brother relationship, life is a bitch, brothers, father son relationship, new life, mother son relationship, husband wife relationship, family problems, brother ...
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71%
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The Weight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jung is a mortician at the morgue, who has to rely heavily on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis. Despite his illness, cleaning and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful work. His life over there is both a reality and a ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, avant garde, experimental
Plot: transgender, hunchback, social issues, family problems, life is a bitch, grave digger, social problems, lgbtq, siblings, nudity, naked female corpse, male nudity ...
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Winter Brothers (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A brother odyssey set in a workers' environment during a cold winter. We follow two brothers - their routines, habits and rituals - and a violent feud that erupts between them and another family.
Style: captivating
Plot: winter, mine, brother brother relationship, miner, nordic, family relations, brother, brothers, workplace situations, rivals, life is a bitch, relationships ...
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Heavy (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Drug-dealer Sev and his equally broken girlfriend Maddie accept a risky deal from an old childhood friend, setting off an irreversible chain of events.
Style: captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, tense
Plot: revenge, white trash, life is a bitch, junkie, social issues, royalty, lifestyle, drug, social decay, drug abuse, organized crime, social misfits ...
Place: new york
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Our Story (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A son tries to restore the honour of his father, who was imprisoned during the 1980 military coup.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: lifestyle change, family relations, coup d'etat, changing lives, parents and children, social relations, social problems, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, coup, family problems, family life ...
Place: middle east, turkey
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66%
Sun, Heart, Love (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: female friendship, social issues, friendship, girlfriend, life, female protagonist, friends, social problems, lifestyle, women, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, workplace ...
Place: italy
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65%
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This Evening (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
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Story: Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life
Style: psychological, thought provoking, social, captivating, disturbing
Plot: private vs public, social issues, undercover, society, social problems, lifestyle, social worker, life is a bitch, problem, secret
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64%
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Sweet Thing (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: For Billie and Nico, life with their father is a roller-coaster ride of playfulness and unease. When he is in the grip of alcohol, tears flow and their apparently idyllic family life collapses. Their mostly absent and irresponsible mother is not ...
Style: captivating, black and white
Plot: children, pedophilia, brother brother relationship, family problems, drinking problem, brother sister relationship, life is a bitch, life, siblings relations, parents and children, family relations, social problems ...
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Brother to Brother (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
Style: serious, thought provoking, realistic, touching, social ...
Plot: black lgbt, gay, gay teenager, lgbt, human nature, society, lifestyle, friendship, lgbtq, artists and showbiz, love and romance, estrangement ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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63%
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Pornomelancholia (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Brazil, Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Lalo is a sex influencer: he posts photos of his naked body and homemade porn videos for his thousands of social media followers. Lalo directs his own life, but in private, when out of character, he seems to live in constant melancholy.
Style: thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: male nudity, sex worker, porn star, porn industry, hiv positive, social issues, social problems, porn actor, sexploitation, life is a bitch, sexual content, erection ...
Place: mexico
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63%
A Day for Women (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A new swimming pool opens in a Cairo district, with the announcement that Sundays will be only for females. This causes ripples throughout the local community, while three women - Shamiya, Azza, and Lula - assess their varying lives.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: feminism, social relations, social problems, society, women, introspection, lifestyle, self discovery, swimming, islam, grief
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Jin (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A bitter conflict has raged between guerrillas and the army in Turkey's Kurdish regions for over 30 years. Large expanses have now become war zones. Countless young people have lost their lives to the conflict. This dangerous but incredibly ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: kurd, society, social problems, social issues, social relations, life is a bitch, partisan, feminist, resistance, lonely, girl, female terrorist ...
Place: middle east, turkey
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58%
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This Town (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: This Town is in part a social commentary, giving us some scary insight into todays youth but also reflecting the points of view of different generations. At heart, the movie asks the viewer to decide if these characters are right or wrong in their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: womanizer, social problems, multiple storylines, family problems, society, small town, social relations, friends, family relations, city life, lifestyle, friendship ...
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Hounded on a Carnival Monday (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the small town of San Jorge, a 12- year-old girl watches in horror as her father, a local telegraph operator is thrown in prison by the local military dictatorship. Meanwhile, her mother, Florencia, must make tough moral decisions in order for ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: revenge, dictatorship, social relations, male female relationship, sexual relations, mother daughter relationship, family problems, social problems, life is a bitch, sexploitation, family relations, attempted seduction ...
Place: colombia
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56%
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Querô (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Querô is an orphan teenager, living alone near the docks in Santos, Brazil. Her mother, a prostitute, died when he was a baby, and he was raised in the bordello where she worked. He also doesn't know who his father is. Believing he rules his ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense
Plot: juvenile delinquent, society, teenager, organized crime, independence, social outcast, social issues, teenage life, social problems, fighting the system, life is a bitch, money problems ...
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56%
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Believers (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: On a small island somewhere near Japan, three cult members have devoted themselves to the "Deserted Island Program". Calling each other by rank, these people-two men and one women-have been chosen by their superiors to throw off the ...
Style: dramatic, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating
Plot: lifestyle, japanese man, social issues, woman, japanese woman, life is a bitch, corruption, social problems, human nature, male female relationship, female nudity, island
Place: japan
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56%
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Pink (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in a run-down bar named "Pink," movie follows the lives of people surrounding the bar including its owner Ok-Ryun.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: protest, social problems, loss of job, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, society, small town, workplace, small town life, social issues, urban setting ...
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55%
Call Me Chihiro (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, social, sexy
Plot: slice of life, loneliness, life, social problems, life is a bitch, lifestyle, social issues, humanity, ex prostitute, parent child relationship, high school, cooking ...
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What Doesn't Kill Us (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story: As a divorced father of two teenage daughters, with a head-strong ex-wife for a best friend, too many peculiar patients to keep up with and a new dog, psychotherapist Max certainly doesn't need another challenge. But when Sophie, a compulsive ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: psychotherapist, family problems, psychotherapy, family relations, society, family life, social relations, father daughter relationship, psychology, lifestyle, teenage daughter, doctors and patients ...
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55%
My Uncle Zhou Enlai (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
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Style: serious, captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful
Plot: life, social issues, social relations, political intrigue, life is a bitch, social problems, intrigue, politics, political unrest, problem
Place: china
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Dragonflies (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: social problems, women, lifestyle, choice, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, poor, family problems, poverty, female protagonist, money problems, dysfunctional family ...
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54%
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