Movies like Small World 2010
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Small World (2010)
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Original name: Je n'ai rien oublié
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, Thomas's son, and Simone are getting married. Conrad's frequent memory loss and behavioural problems rapidly reveal a neurological disease (Alzheimer's is suggested by doctor Cohen when he examens Elvira) which leads Elvira, Thomas's stepmother, to install Conrad in a guesthouse on the property, with the help of a nurse. When Conrad looses more and more his landmarks in present and past, memories of his youth come back to surface. They intrigue Simone, since these memories do not entirely fit together with the official family history...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot:
mental illness, investigation, memory loss, haunted by the past, flashback, family relations, family life, society, amateur detective, friendship, misfit, rivalry, social differences, dishonesty, master and servant, power relations, intrigue, mystery, crime, crimes
Place:
france, europe
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Most similar movies to Small World
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and captivating films with plots about family relations, society, parents and children, friendship, friends, haunted by the past and life is a bitch mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Small World: Stretch (2011), A Simple Heart (2008), The Weekend (2012), One Day You'll Understand (2008), Tomorrow at Dawn (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Thailand, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Christophe, a young horse racing jockey from Paris, is filled with hope and ambition. Yet after a race, he tests positive for illegal substances and is subsequently suspended from racing. He decides to move to Macau, in Asia. There his circumstances ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
rivalry, contests and competitions, rise to the top, dishonesty, power relations, lifestyle, gambling, ambition, society, chases and races, athlete and trainer, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
social differences, friendship, family relations, hopes, family life, unfulfilled love, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women, lesbian ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, france, normandy
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in Germany. Back with his family, friends, and ex-comrades, including his former lover Inga, Jens’ ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot:
family relations, haunted by the past, friendship, parents and children, couple relations, life turned upside down, under the surface, dishonesty, betrayal, couples, terrorism, state terrorism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, death in the family, love and romance, against humanity, society, trial ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, germany, middle east
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mathieu, a piano virtuoso, goes home to help his brother Paul to take care of their sick mother. Paul is into reenacting old battles, dressing up and getting into character, even dueling if necessary. Mathieu gets involved in this world and play ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
Plot:
obsession, family relations, role playing, revenge, brother brother relationship, duel, honor, pianist, friendship, stage play, rivalry, lgbt ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Drama - When Zak and his girlfriend Delphina visit his estranged father in the Catskills, they find him suffering from dementia and inadvertently uncover a dark family secret from WWII: an impossible sacrifice Zak's grandfather (Eli Wallach) ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, holocaust, life is a bitch, memory loss, estrangement, parents and children, deportation, uncover truth, jew persecution, past, world war two, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Imam Hasan, his wife Hacer and his daughter Fatma arrive at Karaağaçlı, a small railway town in the middle of the Anatolian wilderness. Besides carrying out the duties of the imam, Hasan will be teaching religion to the children of the town ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
clergy, friendship, religions or cults, parents and children, family relations, family life, society, village, fish out of water, disorder, village life, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, deportation, family problems, hopes, aging, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An Israeli man searches for his father in France.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, estrangement, family problems, investigation, hopes, parents and children, midlife crisis, haunted by the past, gays and lesbians, redemption, aging ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, corporate crime, homecoming, farm, small town, dishonesty, legal, rivalry, love affair, small town life, love and romance, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
disorder, redemption, friendship, friends, introspection, family life, life turned upside down, family relations, immigrant, adoption, misfit, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, sincere, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, adoption, politics, power relations, babies and infants, society, master and servant, single parent, love and romance, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, rome italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, change of luck, society, alcohol abuse, youth, hopes, confronting the past, troubled past, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, friendship, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
Style:
psychological, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
police detective, uncover truth, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, family problems, memory loss, parents and children, a vision, hospital, coma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
suburbs, murder, relationship vs career, family life, couples, family relations, friends, social relations, couple relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Paul dies, he leaves his wife Eve with a mountain of debt. As the police begin their investigation into Paul’s death, Eve is supported by a lawyer named Chollet, a friend of her husband who generously helps her to clear the debts she has ...
Style:
realistic, neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
dishonesty, missing person, twists and turns, couples, friends, law enforcement, femme fatale, infidelity, friendship, manipulation, police, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a decadent life of crime.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, homecoming, moral dilemma, society, life is a bitch, working class, family relations, family problems, post traumatic stress disorder, ex soldier, urban, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, latin america
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, introspection, society, couples, suburban life, suburbs, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Spiker & Cobakka are two self-confessed 'pieces of Moscow scum' who come to London to rip it off. This is their guide.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealing, buddies, immigrant, partner, cons and scams, friends, misfit, dishonesty, mental illness, junkie, violent content, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Russia, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
crime and punishment, introspection, haunted by the past, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, murder, emotionless, novel
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is a story of a special relationship between two women, a writer and her maid.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
maid, friendship, rich and poor, society, writer's life, master and servant, power relations, strong female presence, world war two, political intrigue, totalitarian state, european ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
hungary, budapest
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Léo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
missing person, dysfunctional family, nothing goes right, family problems, family life, family relations, dark humor, estrangement, parents and children, on the road, writers, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
europe, france, usa, virginia, switzerland
Similarity:
18%
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535
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
clergy, amateur detective, self discovery, uncover truth, redemption, religions or cults, family relations, homecoming, social relations, society, friendship, direction and purpose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mitri is 15 years old and lives in a village in Senegal. Like all the youngsters of his age, he plays football, dreaming of the Barcelona and Chelsea Football Clubs. When an agent sees him, Mitri believes in his luck. But, in order to go chasing ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
football, follow your dream, immigrant, hopes, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, life is a bitch, youth, ambition, soccer, desire for fame, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, africa, europe, paris france
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After experiencing a tragedy, Irish brothers Dara and Eoin move to rural France, where they become friends with young Bella, whose beauty and charm bewitches the emotionally unstable Dara.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, obsession, youth, family relations, teenage love, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, friendship, society, problem child, arson ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, ireland
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, haunted by the past, on the road, life is a bitch, city life, self discovery, female friendship, sexuality, sensuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, shanghai, new york, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
18%
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