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The Public (2018)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama, political, absurd, motivational, complex
Plot:
psychopath, violence, life is a bitch, hospital, brutality, society, danger, life & death, homeless, homelessness, poverty, defiant, angry, police, male nudity, showdown, homeless man, civil disobedience, public nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair, waking up, librarian, library, kiss ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
cincinnati ohio, ohio, columbus ohio, los angeles
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Most similar movies to The Public
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, disturbing, captivating and suspense films with plots about life is a bitch, society, homeless, family relations, poverty, danger and homelessness mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Public: Holler (2020), The Street Where We Live (2019), Feed (2017), Needle Boy (2016), Required Field (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, surprise ending
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
brother sister relationship, hardship, coming of age, high school prom, poverty, library, high school student, caught stealing, teenage protagonist, death of friend, factory, police department ...
Place:
ohio
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
"I'm just two paychecks away from being on the street." In the aftermath of the nation's financial crisis, Mary, a single mom with two kids, finds herself faced with that exact situation when the factory where she works closes ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
poverty, working class, social problems, family in crisis, financial crisis, family relations, mother son relationship, life is a bitch, fired from the job, financial problem, crisis, money problems ...
Place:
ohio, midwest
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
Style:
psychological, touching, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anorexia, eating disorder, youth, love, hospital, hospitalization, life is a bitch, adaptation, illness, mental illness, redemption, society ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Life has become unbearable for 23 year old Nick who is convinced that he's an evil person. Consequently, he shows up at Aarhus University with a gun in his pocket wanting to shoot his fellow students.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, tense, sincere, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
sex, explicit sex, unsimulated sex, university, real sex, society, life is a bitch, male nudity, gunfight, life philosophy, danger, brutality ...
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Serial killer 'NO1KNOWS' managed to elude the police for years. In fact they didn't even know he existed until, by chance, his video and audio recordings were found. By examining the recordings police were able to solve a number of ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, contemplative, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
gay, serial killer, male nudity, killer, blood, lgbtq, police investigation, mystery killer, criminal, police, brutality, psycho killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A homeless ex-boxer and an inner-city kid's unlikely bond, helps them face their future, while fighting the tragedy from their past!
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
ex boxer, tragedy, boxer, boxing, redemption, homeless man, confronting the past, life is a bitch, troubled past, homeless, social problems, tragic past ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two teenage outsiders are demoralized daily at school, until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, friendship, school shooting, police, boy, friendship between boys, tragedy, best friend, revenge, school, teenage boy, junior high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling with his demons and desperately trying to connect with the daughter he abandoned, he navigates the system, hustling for change and somewhere safe ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, emotional, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
homeless, homeless shelter, homelessness, down on your luck, estrangement, social decay, society, hopes, life is a bitch, redemption, parents and children, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Greece
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. Each of their journeys, marked by terror, takes them on a trek from the deep jungle to the outskirts of Bogotá, where they will gather new ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
Plot:
murder, soldier, women, life is a bitch, jungle, violence, violent, wartime, female protagonist, female nudity, rape, river ...
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Kelly's newborn baby is stolen from the hospital where she works, she teams up with Gloria, also a victim of baby abduction, to get her child back from a black market adoption ring.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
kidnapping, motherhood, protective mother, female protagonist, child abduction, problem, life is a bitch, abduction, rescue mission, danger, hospital, justice ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Story:
A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
violence, female friendship, life is a bitch, teenage life, teenager, teenage girl, family problems, money problems, juvenile delinquency, social problems, society, teenage protagonist ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
19%
296
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A portrait of the myth of maternity around the story of Pepa and her daughter, who are evicted from their home and forced to wander for a place to live with no support network.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
female protagonist, homeless woman, homelessness, motherhood, social problems, slice of life, parenthood, life is a bitch, mother child relationship, little girl, homeless, nightclub ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young couple copes with the mysterious illness of their new baby only later to discover the baby they brought home from the hospital isn't theirs. So who has their baby?
Style:
sincere, captivating, disturbing, touching, suspense
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
child, newborn baby, hospital, disorder, parents and children, children, fighting illness, human nature, danger, sick child, poverty, homeless ...
Similarity:
19%
641
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
society, chaos and mayhem, city life, interracial relations, blackout, lie, danger, violence, nypd, urban, stash, woman
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Goldie, a precocious teenager in a family shelter, wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. This is a story about displaced youth, ambition, and maintaining your spirit in the face of ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, destiny, love, rivalry, youth, escapades, society, adaptation, friendship, mentor, ambition, life is a bitch ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Medicine, money and morality clash when a hospital's Heart Transplant Selection Committee has only minutes to decide which of three patients on the transplant list will receive a heart that has suddenly become available.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
heart transplant, medical, organ transplant, transplant, medicine, struggle, moral dilemma, dispute, doctor, doctors and patients, conflict, physician ...
Time:
year 2014
Place:
new york
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at school with their deaf daughter, the British social services grow concerned for the safety of their ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating, social
Plot:
deaf child, money problems, parents and children, father daughter relationship, life is a bitch, social issues, family problems, family relations, social problems, kids and family, society, teenager ...
Similarity:
18%
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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:
thought provoking, rough, suspenseful, touching, psychological
Plot:
homeless shelter, homelessness, mother daughter relationship, family relations, society, love and romance, friendship, betrayal, rescue, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, united kingdom
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
small town, single parent, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, danger, suicide, juvenile delinquent, robbery, mother son relationship, poverty, society ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, mississippi, africa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Oona, a recent graduate in anthropology, has returned to her dead mother’s seaside cottage in southern England to prepare it for sale. Her arrival disturbs Mani, a wary vagrant who has been squatting on the property.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
loneliness, homelessness, homeless, empathy, loss, grief, life is a bitch, male female relationship, relationship problems, character study, introspection, intimate ...
Similarity:
18%
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, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
painter, artist, marriage, dementia, marital problem, marriage crisis, illness, changing lives, family in crisis, family relations, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A highly successful upper middle class woman with a loving family has her seemingly “perfect” world turned upside down when the hidden secrets from her past suddenly resurface, forcing her and her beloved mother into a painful examination of ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
faith, recovery, female protagonist, family relations, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, confronting the past, mother daughter relationship, tragic past, dark past, woman in danger, family in danger ...
Similarity:
18%
295
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Billy is the self-designated leader of a group of teenagers living in a shelter. Jacob and Rae, Billy's oldest childhood friends, live there as well as part of "the family". Billy has an AIDs-like virus, which he has passed on to his ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
drug addict, gay teenager, abusive parent, homeless, teenager, couples, murder, runaway, hiv, flashback sequence, love, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
167
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Franek, a student of painting. By coincidence becomes involved in the cogs of a horrific totalitarian machine. His sensitivity and humanity will be heavily tested.
Style:
captivating, political, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
prison, political unrest, society, political prisoner, political protest, political intrigue, political repression, falsely accused, guilty verdict, accusation, political conspiracy, politics ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Triggered by the death of a family member a young woman embarks on a singular journey of helping people who are about to die. The dying have nothing to lose and need lasting moments of intimacy that Simone finds herself willing to give at no cost. ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
life & death, care, nursing, last wish, near death experience, male nudity, amputee, female nudity, disability, women, man in underwear, erotica ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
homeless woman, refugee, illegal immigrant, homelessness, homeless, search for mother, boy, life is a bitch, social problems, social issues, urban setting, immigrant ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
18%
528
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young and eager police recruit Chris shoots a mentally ill man on duty. He is celebrated a hero, but soon after, traumatic symptoms begin to surface. In a desperate attempt not to be exposed by his tough superior Konstantin, he resorts to excessive ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
police, police officer, cop, life is a bitch, gunfight, special agent, violence, police detective, police brutality, cover up, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, uncover truth, family relations, danger, parents and children, under the surface, disorder, life turned upside down, secret, women of color, african american, black girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
18%
659
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nineteen-year old Leon returns home to take care of his alcoholic mother and adjust to life as an adult after an adolescence spent in and out of foster care. Frustrated by his lack of an education and his bleak financial prospects, Leon finds solace ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, social, hood
Plot:
first love, civil unrest, adolescence vs adulthood, relationships, society, social problems, family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, grownups, moral dilemma, black lives matter, homeless ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, poignant ...
Plot:
tsunami, grief, loss, society, small town life, life is a bitch, troubled past, tragic past, healing, mourning, trauma, community ...
Similarity:
17%
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