Movies like The Man Who Surprised Everyone

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The Man Who Surprised Everyone (2018)
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The Man Who Surprised Everyone (2018)
Original name: Человек, который удивил всех
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, France, Estonia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Egor Korshunov (40) is a Siberian forest guard who works in a local environmental company, fighting fearlessly against poachers in taiga. Egor is a great family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. Unexpectedly, Egor finds out that he has terminal cancer and has only two months left to live. No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save Egor. Finally, left with no other options, he decides to take the last desperate step. He attempts to completely change his identity in order to fool the oncoming death, just like Zhamba the drake, the hero of a legendary ancient Siberian epos, did.
Style: sad, lyrical, melancholic, rough, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: cancer, disguise, male to female cross dressing, changing lives, illness, terminal illness, lifestyle change, gay, lgbt, family relations, cancer patient, personality change, cheating death, fighting illness, gender disguise, relationships, life is a bitch, sick, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, cross dressing, shapeshifting, dealing with death, character change, woods ...
Place: siberia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and suspense films with plots about life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, relationships, illness, male female relationship and changing lives mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like The Man Who Surprised Everyone: Peaceful (2021), Before the Vigil (2013), The Artist's Wife (2019), The Gravedigger's Wife (2021), A Little Red Flower (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Peaceful (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: cancer, medical examination, acceptance, mother son relationship, changing lives, family relations, fighting illness, life is a bitch, family problems, illness, lifestyle change, terminal illness ...
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Before the Vigil (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: cancer, fighting illness, family relations, married couple, husband wife relationship, illness, coping, marriage, family problems, marital problem, problem, changing lives ...
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80%
The Artist's Wife (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: painter, dementia, artist, marriage, fighting illness, male female relationship, lifestyle change, family in crisis, changing lives, artists' life, family relations, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Gravedigger's Wife (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: illness, family problems, life is a bitch, social problems, money problems, family relations, fighting illness, needing money, husband wife relationship, money, afro
Place: africa, somalia
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61%
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A Little Red Flower (2020)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The film tells a warm and realistic story, thinking and facing the ultimate problem that every ordinary person will face-imagining that death may come at any time, the only thing we have to do is love and cherish.
Style: suspense, sincere, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: cancer, cancer patient, fighting illness, family relations, life is a bitch, sick, family life, family problems, dysfunctional family, life, illness, friendship ...
Place: china
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53%
The Desert Bride (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Teresa’s life is turned upside down when she is forced to accept a job far away. On her way, she loses her bag, causing her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, road movie
Plot: traveling salesman, journey, travel, changing lives, road trip, family relations, male female relationship, lifestyle change, female protagonist, relationships, lifestyle, latina ...
Time: year 2017
Place: buenos aires argentina
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48%
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Ranchlands (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: The story of a spiritually scarred man whose life changes forever when he must return to his estranged family to help care for a brother who is suffering from brain cancer. With the help of a spiritually enlightened caregiver, he faces the demons of ...
Style: rough, suspense, touching, suspenseful
Plot: gay, lgbt, homosexual sex, family secret, cancer, lgbtq, gay lead character, gay interest, gay slur, brother brother relationship, couple relations, illness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Passer By (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: James Nesbitt plays radiographer Joe Keyes. Late one night he is travelling home by train when he sees a young girl, Alice (Emily Bruni) being chatted up by two men. When the banter becomes threatening Joe is unsure whether or not to intervene. When ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: crumbling marriage, family relations, lifestyle change, relationships, troubled marriage, male protagonist, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, changing lives, secret, problem, murder mystery ...
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44%
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Fatal Beauty (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Trevor and Michelle live an average life in the suburbs. When new neighbors move in, however, they find their world turned upside down, and their neighborhood into a place of chaos and shame.
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: lifestyle change, new neighbor, male female relationship, relationships, changing lives, family relations, nosy neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, husband wife relationship, neighbor, relationship problems, seduction ...
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44%
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My Rosy Life (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
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Story: Maeng Soon-yi has sacrificed everything in her life for the sake of others. She missed out on her youth because she was too busy taking care of her father, who started drinking heavily after her mother abandoned them when Soon-yi was 10 years old. ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot: cancer, hardship, male female relationship, relationships, social problems, marital problem, family relations, fighting illness, life is a bitch, illness, family life, care ...
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44%
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Lost times (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 1997. Young car mechanic Iván lives in a godforsaken village in eastern Hungary. He looks after his mentally disabled sister Eszter and earns extra money smuggling diesel oil from Ukraine. The siblings' coexistence is disrupted by a tragic ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: brother sister relationship, rape and revenge, child rape, incest, smuggling, small town life, mental illness, rape, rape victim, lifestyle change, changing lives, family problems ...
Place: hungary
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44%
The Forgettable Life of Liam White (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Liam White's career has peaked—to put it kindly. Uninspired and burnt-out, the titular character loses his will to finish his next novel and even shirks his public appearance commitments. To top it all off, Liam is told by his oncologist that ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: writers, cancer, love, novelist, support, sick, writer's life, confronting the past, relationships, male female relationship, fighting illness, relationship vs career ...
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43%
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April Bride (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but ...
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere
Plot: love story, terminal illness, wedding, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations, true love, couples, love and romance, wedding preparations and rituals, arranged marriage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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43%
Her Only Choice (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman is faced with a choice to fight for her life or sacrifice it for another. After years of infertility, a newly-expectant mother is diagnosed with a life-altering disease.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot: parenthood, motherhood, moral dilemma, fighting illness, changing lives, illness, female protagonist, life is a bitch, infertility, choice, family problems, fight
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Animal's Wife (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: violent, violence, tragic love, forbidden love, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, dysfunctional family, relationships, relationship problems, male female relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Society's Child (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Nikki is a precocious child suffering from Rett Syndrome. Unwilling to help her the doctors, instead, want to write her off as a mentally handicapped person.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense
Plot: precocious child, doctor, lifestyle, social problems, fighting illness, life philosophy, terminal illness, child, social misfits, illness, life is a bitch, youth
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40%
Sleepless Knights (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As every year Carlos (Raul Godoy) is spending the summer in the country with his family in order to help out with things. Perhaps he won't even be returning to Madrid, as economic prospects are hardly rosy there. In addition, his father's ...
Style: psychological, suspense
Plot: family relations, village, gay relationship, gay, couple relations, lgbt, life is a bitch, love affair, in love, family problems, social problems, star crossed lovers ...
Place: spain
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39%
The Eternal Feminine (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female ...
Style: psychological, captivating, hispanic, art film, period drama
Plot: biopic, social relations, society, relationships, female protagonist, writer's life, female writer, changing lives, male female relationship, lifestyle change, family relations, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Skipping Stones (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: tragic event, relationships, life is a bitch, loss of brother, family relations, changing lives, friendship
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Camila Comes Out Tonight (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When her grandmother becomes seriously ill, Camila is forced to move to Buenos Aires, leaving behind a liberal public high school for a scholastic, traditional private institution. Suddenly a senior without any friends, and with her single mother ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, lifestyle change, grownups, changing lives, family relations, relationships, family problems, latinx lgbt, singing ...
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38%
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The Choice (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: couples, husband wife relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, family relations, marital reconciliation, marriage, pregnancy, marital problem, violence, pregnant wife, sexual abuse ...
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37%
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The Ever After (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: couples, marriage, unhappy marriage, family relations, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, marital crisis, marriage crisis, marital problem, family problems, relationship problems, relationships ...
Place: los angeles
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35%
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The Price (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Seyi, a 24-year-old Nigerian-American, works on Wall Street. Desperate to succeed because of his outsider status-due to class and race-he commits a crime, insider trading, which brings his entire world crashing down on him. Seyi's troubled ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: nypd, interracial relations, insider trading, male female relationship, criminal, marital problem, life is a bitch, relationship problems, family relations, love affair, uncover truth, family problems ...
Place: new york
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35%
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Who Never Lived (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young, charismatic priest John, his time missionary in Africa, every day helping Warsaw young people addicted to drugs. Unconventional methods, which are used in pastoral work, raise many doubts about his superiors. Surprisingly, however, his life ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: faith, intolerance, hiv, illness, life is a bitch, social problems, aids, family problems, drug addict, sick, dysfunctional family, terminal illness ...
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34%
After the Waterfall (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers his ex-wife Ana is pregnant to the policeman in charge of his missing daughter's case.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: cheating wife, male female relationship, relationship problems, marital problem, relationships, family relations, pregnant wife, infidelity, mysterious disappearance, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, police investigation ...
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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She Walks (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An illegal Chinese immigrant and her teenage daughter are held captive in their home after a stranger breaks in.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: mother daughter relationship, prostitution, mysterious stranger, mysterious man, prostitute, illegal prostitution, family problems, lifestyle change, changing lives, family relations, street prostitution, life is a bitch ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Hope (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A couple with a large blended family has grown apart. When the wife is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, their life breaks down and exposes neglected love.
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing, ambiguous ending
Plot: lung cancer, unhappy marriage, family relations, terminal illness, cancer, hopes, husband wife relationship, unsupportive spouse, life is a bitch, male female relationship, fighting illness, relationship problems ...
Place: oslo norway, eastern europe, scandinavia
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34%
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Syndrome (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A man is diagnosed terminally ill and having only a limited time to live he decides to inflict pain and suffering on an ex-girlfriend in an attempt to teach her the value of life.
Style: rough, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: incest, captive woman, brother sister incest, captive, male pubic hair, obsession, kidnapping, terminal illness, insanity, kidnapped woman, relationship problems, psychopath ...
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33%
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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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32%
Foreign Bodies (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Antonio and Pietro, a man and his child, alone in Milan to fight against illness. Pietro has a brain cancer, to move from South to North Italy seems to be a chance, maybe salvation. Jaber, fifteen years old, lives in Milan with a group of fellow ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: hospital, fighting illness, coping, life is a bitch, family relations, relationships, child illness, family problems, illness, immigration, cancer, adolescence ...
Place: milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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