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Out Stealing Horses (2019)
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Out Stealing Horses (2019)
Original name: Ut og stjæle hester
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.
Style: existential
Plot: widower, adultery, father son relationship, childhood memory, world war two, nazi occupation, nature, neighbor, flashback, dream, infidelity, death of wife, forest, farm, funeral, accidental death, loneliness, village, society, post war, nordic, summer, death of child, coming of age, cottage ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, year 2019, year 1943, year 1948
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe, oslo norway
Keyword: norwegian, norway

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and gloomy films with plots about father son relationship, family relations, coming of age, nudity, husband wife relationship, female nudity and adultery mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Out Stealing Horses: Zero Kelvin (1995), Simon & the Oaks (2011), Between Summers (1995), Louder Than Bombs (2015), Pelle the Conqueror (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Zero Kelvin (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, bleak ...
Plot: survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, wilderness, disaster, snow, male nudity, poet, frozen, landscape, schizophrenia ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: greenland
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Simon & the Oaks (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style: realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, wartime life, youth, boy, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, best friend, older woman younger man ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place: europe, eastern europe
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Between Summers (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Torun and Mikael have been married for a few years. When vacationing on the Danish coast, their young son Melker accidentally drowns. Torun initially blames her sister, who was supposed to supervise her children. Later she turns her anger and grief ...
Plot: brother in law sister in law relationship, summer, aunt nephew relationship, grief, death of son, sea, tragedy, death of child, mourning, family relations, beach, husband wife relationship ...
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden, denmark
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Louder Than Bombs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return ...
Style: rough, melancholic, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, grief, death of wife, single father, depression, sibling relationship, death of mother, flashback, absent mother, parent child relationship, father son reunion, car accident ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: iraq, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, compassionate, disturbing, meditative ...
Audience: kids
Plot: father son relationship, coming of age, boy, immigrant, poverty, working class, farm, children, bullying, corporal punishment, youth, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, year 1987, 1870s, 1890s
Place: denmark, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: family relations, countryside, sexual abuse, nudity, family problems, life is a bitch, down on your luck, woman in danger, dysfunctional family, parents and children, castration, women ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, offbeat ...
Plot: teacher, high school, haunted by the past, teachers and students, self discovery, power relations, couples, introspection, couple relations, friendship, father son relationship, mental illness ...
Time: 90s, 1940s, 70s, year 1992, 1920s ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Clay Farmers (1988)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Mike, a young hired hand in California is working a small farm with a close friend, Dan. Mike is content on the farm and obviously attracted to the handsome Dan. Dan seems to be attracted to Mike as well but is a drifter and not happy as a farmer. ...
Style: independent film, queer cinema
Plot: coming of age, lgbtq, gay, sculpture, alcoholic father, gay slur, nudity, bare chested male, male nudity, child abuse, skinny dipping, intergenerational friendship ...
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54%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: After the death of their loved ones in a tragic plane crash 'Harrison Ford' and Kristin Scott Thomas find each others keys in each others loved ones posessions and realize that they were having an affair and must figure out all the ...
Style: romantic, serious, sentimental, realistic, psychological ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: loneliness, angst, heartache, memory, solitude, obsession, investigation, world war two, adultery, spinster, dinner party, school teacher ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Does one ever know who they’re living with? Lancelot’s life is thrown upside-down when he learns of the death of his wife. As he’s trying to cope with grief, he will have to confront the revelations made about his wife’s past.
Style: captivating
Plot: secret life, loss of wife, infidelity, death of wife, family secret, street life, love interest, unrequited love, changing lives, relationships, lifestyle change, secret past ...
Time: year 2017
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but ...
Plot: wife, power, dead body, unfaithfulness, accomplice, feudalism, judge, murder, corpse, death, economics, infidelity ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
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Time: 1920s
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41%
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Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
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Audience: teen drama
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Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1943
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36%
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Country: Denmark, Sweden
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating ...
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