Movies like Small World 2010

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Small World (2010)
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Small World (2010)
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, family relations, family life, society, flashback, friendship, misfit, rivalry, social differences, amateur detective, dishonesty, master and servant, power relations, intrigue, mystery, crime, crimes
Place: france, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and captivating films with plots about society, family relations, friendship, parents and children, couples, haunted by the past and power relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Small World: Stretch (2011), G.H.B. (2014), The Domino Effect (2012), A Simple Heart (2008), Family Tree (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Stretch (2011)
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, stylized ...
Plot: rivalry, contests and competitions, gambling, rise to the top, power relations, dishonesty, lifestyle, ambition, society, gangster, athlete's life, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
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G.H.B. (2014)
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: serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, strong female presence, friends, love
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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23%
The Domino Effect (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to be interrelated but there is more than meets the eye and we might be more connected than we ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: international crisis, society, politics, materialism, family relations, life is a bitch, state affairs, rivalry, adaptation, finance, world spanning, family life
Time: 21st century
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23%
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A Simple Heart (2008)
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: servant, social differences, family relations, friendship, hopes, unfulfilled love, family life, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, france, normandy
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22%
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Family Tree (2010)
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: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: family relations, deportation, family problems, aging, hopes, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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22%
One Day You'll Understand (2008)
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: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, death in the family, parents and children, against humanity, love and romance, society, trial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, germany, middle east, france, europe
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21%
Tomorrow at Dawn (2009)
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: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: obsession, family relations, role playing, brother brother relationship, revenge, duel, honor, pianist, stage play, rivalry, friendship, lgbt ...
Place: france, europe
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21%
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Three Worlds (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’ daughter, along with succeeding him as the head of a car dealership. One night, while coming back from his bachelor party, he is guilty of a hit-and-run accident, urged by his ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: witnessing a crime, moral dilemma, society, righting the wronged, life is a bitch, illegal immigrant, manslaughter, woman, hit and run, disorder, misfit, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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20%
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Room 304 (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a Copenhagen hotel, disparate lives intersect through accident or fate: A stewardess desperate for intimacy. An immigrant obsessed with revenge. A hotel manager lost in despair. A wife abandoned by her husband. A receptionist with blood on his ...
Style: realistic, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: society, human nature, immigrant, hotel room, haunted by the past, vengeance, hotel, multiple storylines, looking for love, stewardess, misfit
Time: 21st century
Place: copenhagen, denmark
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The Flight of the Swan (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, bleak
Plot: friendship, ambition, rise to the top, obsession, society, rivalry, idealism, dishonesty, family relations, love, disaster, environmentalism ...
Time: 21st century
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20%
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The Nanny (1999)
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, psychological, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: nanny, dysfunctional family, single parent, adoption, power relations, master and servant, society, family life, family in crisis, youth, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: europe, rome italy
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Mending Fences (2009)
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, touching ...
Plot: corporate crime, family relations, farm, homecoming, legal, dishonesty, small town, love affair, rivalry, social relations, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nevada
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Junkhearts (2011)
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, captivating, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot: haunted by the past, change of luck, society, youth, hopes, alcohol abuse, confronting the past, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, troubled past, male female relationship, friendship, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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19%
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Domestic Life (2013)
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: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Looking for Alexander (2004)
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, mind bending ...
Plot: uncover truth, haunted by the past, police detective, family problems, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, parents and children, memory loss, a vision, hospital, coma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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All Good Children (2010)
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, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, obsession, teenage love, family relations, youth, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, society, friendship, cat, childhood trauma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, ireland
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A Butterfly Kiss (2011)
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: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, society, couples, introspection, suburbs, suburban life, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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18%
Those Who Remain (2007)
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, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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The Man Who Laughs (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has become a famous star, but his success threatens his relationships with Déa and Ursus.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: disfigured face, orphan, social differences, society, love and romance, rising to stardom, social misfits, haunted by the past, noble, disfigurement, blind girl, unfulfillment ...
Time: 17th century
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Buddenbrooks (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as ...
Style: saga, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, family business, fall in love, workplace, society, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, rivalry, inheritance, friendship, german history ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: germany, europe, northern germany
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Waking Madison (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, psychiatrist, dishonesty, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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Bigga Than Ben (2008)
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, partner, immigrant, misfit, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, junkie, mental illness, violent content, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe
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18%
Memories of Tomorrow (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, family relations, mental illness, family problems, unfulfillment, family in crisis, supportive spouse, terminal illness, businessman, love, society, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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18%
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Ismael (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: parents and children, family life, father and son, introspection, coming of age, haunted by the past, boyhood, family drama, family relations, bittersweet, father
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
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18%
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Little Lion (2012)
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, life is a bitch, athlete's life, ambition, youth, soccer, desire for fame, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, africa, europe, paris france
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18%
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Restless (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance. By chance, he shares a house with his teenager granddaughter. Claire, at 17, is eager to experience all sorts of things and the sooner the better, and rebels against ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
Plot: love and romance, couples, teenage life, family relations, haunted by the past, youth, teenage love, estrangement, elderly, relationship vs career, aging, first love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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18%
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The Door (2012)
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, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: maid, friendship, rich and poor, master and servant, society, writer's life, power relations, strong female presence, world war two, european, totalitarian state, political intrigue ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: hungary, budapest
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18%
Under the Starry Sky (2013)
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: realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Plot: on the road, fish out of water, parents and children, starting over, immigrant, family relations, hopes, culture clash, society, friendship, dishonesty, migration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, italy, africa, france
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18%
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Dreamland (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless family life with her husband and son. Social ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: prostitution, christmas, hypocritical woman, parents and children, couples, sexual content, dishonesty, society, couple relations, family relations, assault, social worker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, europe
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17%
My Wife's Romance (2011)
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, suspenseful, neo noir, 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
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17%
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