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The Humorist (2019)
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The Humorist (2019)
Original name: Юморист
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Latvia, Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.
Style: thought provoking, touching, humorous, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: kgb, society, rivalry, danger, writers, friendship, art, family relations, escapades, betrayal, freedom, redemption, storytelling, comedy club, stand up comedian, female nudity, blonde, poison, censorship, stage, telling a joke, soviet, stand-up comedian, crimes
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union, ussr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, touching and serious films with plots about society, friendship, family relations, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty and rivalry mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like The Humorist: Juanita (2019), Rosie (2018), Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), No One Would Tell (2018), The Rainbow Warrior (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Juanita (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.
Style: captivating, humorous, touching, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female nudity, sex, culture clash, love and romance, family relations, life is a bitch, couples, friendship, parents and children, society, escapades, hopes ...
Place: usa
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Rosie (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A mother strives to shield her young family from their new reality when their landlord sells the property and renders them homeless.
Style: touching, psychological, thought provoking, rough, suspenseful
Plot: homeless shelter, homelessness, mother daughter relationship, family relations, love and romance, society, friendship, rescue, betrayal, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, united kingdom
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Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, love triangle, friendship, fall in love, human nature, society, youth, family relations, working class, teenager, betrayal ...
Time: 80s
Place: illinois
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No One Would Tell (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Laura Collins (Shannen Doherty), single mom to daughter Sarah (Matreya Scarrwener), has had a history of rocky relationships, so when Sarah begins dating the popular and charismatic Rob Tennison (Callan Potter), Laura is thrilled with what she sees. ...
Style: bad ending, rough, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: emotional abuse, physical abuse, abusive boyfriend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, domestic violence, relationships, high school, mother daughter relationship, trial, best friend, brutality, murder ...
Place: usa
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The Rainbow Warrior (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: terrorist attack, international law, environmental, spy, environmental issue, disaster, conspiracy, special agent, rebellion, terrorism, investigation, society ...
Time: 80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: family relations, adoption, society, fighting the system, life is a bitch, child abuse, custody battle, foster home, female doctor, doctor, eyeglasses, telephone ...
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Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Style: thought provoking, touching, captivating, disturbing, sincere
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Time: 1950s
Place: taiwan, america
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Duration: 113 min.
Story: Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
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Byelorussia Station (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.
Style: sincere, touching, disturbing, thought provoking, smart
Audience: family outing
Plot: world war two, justice, friendship, society, life is a bitch, life & death, hopes, destiny, past, train station, train, soviet ...
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Story: While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival of her son Dragos, everything seems to have fallen perfectly into place. When the process of ...
Style: suspense, rough, sentimental, tense, psychological ...
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Place: europe, sicily, italy
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Duration: 81 min.
Story: A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
Style: sentimental, melancholic, sincere, touching, rough
Plot: redemption, father son relationship, death, storytelling, life is a bitch, fall in love, life & death, life philosophy, loneliness, family relations, betrayal, friendship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: scotland
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Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to ...
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Your Lover (2019)
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Style: rough, tense, suspense, suspenseful, bleak
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Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
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Style: ironic, disturbing, sentimental, thought provoking, touching ...
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Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: During Gorbachev's perestroika, a Chicago student, visits Moscow while the Soviet Union is changing from Communist to Wild West capitalist society. Purely by bad luck, he becomes a pawn in a dangerous cat and mouse game for a precious icon.
Style: captivating, tense, entertaining, cynical, suspense ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, escapades, dishonesty, life is a bitch, culture clash, betrayal, violence, friendship, rivalry, spy, youth ...
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Duration: 120 min.
Story: Irene discovers that she must eat hearts in order to survive the alien invasion in Sicily.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, touching, serious ...
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Style: tense, captivating, suspense, humorous
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Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth ...
Style: emotional, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: isolation, daring rescue, heroes, twins, confined, babies and infants, escapades, danger, mother daughter relationship, baby, police, trapped ...
Time: 80s
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The Weasel's Tale (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.
Style: sincere, semi serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: husband wife relationship, friendship between men, society, rivalry, escapades, dishonesty, actress, youth, friendship, family relations, writers, family drama ...
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Carnival (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.
Style: captivating, humorous, sincere, touching
Plot: love and romance, youth, society, desire for fame, ambition, betrayal, life is a bitch, fall in love, adaptation, couples, father daughter relationship, family relations ...
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. ...
Style: touching, gloomy, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: wilderness, elderly, danger, life is a bitch, isolation, orphan, woods, survival, nature, wilderness survival, post soviet, old man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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28%
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Copperhead (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Style: realistic, tense, touching, serious, captivating
Plot: american civil war, anti war, family life, society, life is a bitch, farm, civil war, danger, relationships, intrigue, family relations, wartime life
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, new york
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27%
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