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Luce (2019)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, non-linear, art film
Plot:
social problems, track and field, foster home, african american, trust, teenager, politics, injustice, drunkenness, pride, independence day, promise, public speaking, doubt, mistrust, suspense, parent child relationship, society, conflict, courage, twists and turns, school, mental illness, teacher, murder ...
Place:
middle east, ohio
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, realistic, serious and thought provoking films with plots about drinking alcohol, husband wife relationship, telephone call, mother daughter relationship, sex, family relations and photograph mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Luce: I Love Your Work (2003), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), American Woman (2018), Proof (2005), The Rapture (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds Gray of his own life before becoming famous. A dark psychological ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy
Plot:
obsession, self defense, actor's life, couples, showbiz, losing-it hero, rise and fall, ambition, desire for fame, lifestyle, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
psychopath, evil child, depression, high school, guilt, mother son relationship, mental illness, prison visit, school shooting, family problems, childhood, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa, new york
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, feminist film
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
single mother, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, police investigation, serial killer, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, disorder, love, gladiator, judiciary ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, clever, intellectual, enigmatic ...
Plot:
mental illness, mathematics, insanity, science, paranoia, prodigy, life, character study, adaptation, university, depression, manic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, chicago illinois, usa, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God — only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
Style:
disturbing, surreal, thought provoking, psychological, stylized ...
Plot:
end of the world, religion, mother daughter relationship, group sex, religious conversion, murder, faith, christian, apocalypse, religion and supernatural, religions or cults, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire ...
Style:
sentimental, thought provoking, emotional, sad, psychological ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, child abuse, family conflict, female protagonist, writers, husband wife relationship, journalist, delusion, school, promise, grudge ...
Time:
year 1964, year 1989
Place:
manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, west virginia, utah, new york
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100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, rough, touching, surreal ...
Plot:
forest, suicide, spirituality, lost in the woods, infidelity, doctor, regret, survival, suicidal, loss of wife, professor, suicidal thoughts ...
Place:
japan, mount fuji, tokyo
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. ...
Style:
christian film, philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, inspirational ...
Plot:
christian, forgiveness, god, guilt, death of daughter, depression, a vision, hate, missing child, jesus, death of child, faith ...
Place:
oregon
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, clever, enigmatic, bleak ...
Plot:
priest, clergy, suspense, religion, sexual abuse, nun, teacher, guilt, pedophilia, pedophile, catholic, school ...
Time:
60s, victorian era, year 1964, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
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50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A prep-school student (Ezra Miller) accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, cerebral, controversial ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, kids in trouble, teenage life, misfit, social misfits, coming of age, social relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch, youth, voyeurism, suspense ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
connecticut, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The epic emotional journey of a suburban African-American family — led by a well-intentioned but domineering father — as they navigate love, forgiveness and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, sad, touching, social ...
Plot:
african american, father son relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, teenage pregnancy, teenager, sport, coming of age, teen romance, family relations, father daughter relationship, love, parents and children ...
Place:
florida, missouri
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together—a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy—in a web of secrets.
Style:
disturbing, enigmatic, psychological, sad, interesting ...
Plot:
small town, teenage boy, adultery, extramarital affair, coming of age, solace, marital problem, investigation, tragic event, disappearance, husband wife relationship, secret ...
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22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to 'The Crucible'.
Style:
realistic, talky, emotional, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teacher student relationship, peer pressure, sex scene, high school, male teacher female student affair, bullying, teenage girl, older man younger woman relationship, teenage life, life is a bitch, loneliness, protection ...
Time:
21st century
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22%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
Style:
touching, psychological, social
Plot:
missing child, mother daughter relationship, unsolved mystery, uncover truth, parents and children, life philosophy, twists and turns, manipulation, loss of child, family relations, suspense, fighting illness ...
Time:
future
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21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into ...
Style:
intense, stylized, sexy, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
investigation, college, murder, betrayal, lesbian, teenage life, cheerleading, wealth, mind game, manipulation, youth, divorce ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
horse, psychiatrist, religion, mental illness, obsession, psychology, introspection, therapy, coming of age, atrocity, teenage life, male nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, europe, greece, ancient greece
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21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
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psychological, surreal, neo noir, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, hallucination, hollywood, alternate reality, obsession, nightmare, doppelganger, lesbian sex, filmmaking ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. ...
Style:
emotional, serious, psychological, rough, clever ...
Plot:
murder, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family problems, investigation, sex education, cheerleader, american football, babies and infants, teenage girl, teen social issues ...
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21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake’s preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake’s gender expansive behavior to help him stand ...
Style:
captivating, fairy tale, queer cinema
Audience:
preschoolers
Plot:
gay, gender issues, desire for fame, family relations, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, lgbtq, gender, social issues, mother son relationship, lgbt, transsexual ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, montana, scotland, switzerland
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21%
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, gloomy ...
Plot:
teacher, high school, teachers and students, haunted by the past, self discovery, couples, power relations, introspection, couple relations, fear, mental illness, father son relationship ...
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90s, 1940s, 70s, 1920s, 1910s
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england, pittsburgh, london, europe, germany
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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:
mind bending, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
loneliness, memory, world war two, solitude, obsession, investigation, adultery, dinner party, spinster, couples, haunted by the past, mysterious character ...
Time:
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Place:
yorkshire, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
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dark, atmospheric, gloomy, depressing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poverty, missing person, small town, family in crisis, female protagonist, girl, dysfunctional family, realism, down on your luck, bail, life is a bitch, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
missouri, california, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, touching
Plot:
mother, drugs, mother daughter relationship, heroin, recovering drug addict, drug addict, rehabilitation, family relations, parents and children, family problems, mother and daughter, dysfunctional family ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Style:
thought provoking
Plot:
korean american, korean, airport, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, adoption, deportation, tattoo, east asian lead, man hits a man, tattoo on face, death ...
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year 2014, year 1981, year 1945, year 2006, year 2009 ...
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, social, dark
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a beautiful college campus, something ugly is about to be spread around. A bit of gossip that was told is starting to take a frightening turn. Who could it have offended and how far will the person on the other side of the gossip handle the ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
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college, psychology, rumor, suspense, investigation, gossip, manipulation, secrets, adaptation, college life, teenage life, false accusation ...
Time:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a ...
Style:
depressing, talky, emotional, serious, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
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teacher, drugs, teachers and students, student, friendship, addiction, drug addiction, ghetto, loneliness, school, mentor, existentialism ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, california, usa, brooklyn new york city
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20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.
Style:
enigmatic, psychological
Plot:
teacher student relationship, infidelity, college professor, writers, college student, manipulation, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, age difference, emotional manipulation, suspense, mysterious woman ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines ...
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
mental illness, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, theatre group, depression, theatre director, husband wife relationship, underage drinking, brother sister relationship, african american, job, public speaking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Upon learning of his girlfriend's infidelity, Greg, the star player of his elite private school’s rugby team, suffers an emotional breakdown, leaving his friends and teammates to pick up the pieces and deal with the crisis in their own ways, ...
Style:
surprise ending, ambiguous ending
Plot:
rugby, revenge, private school, school, high school, preparatory school, exploitation, gay slur, betrayal, drugs, violence, controversy ...
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california, san francisco
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