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The Skin of the Wolf (2017)
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Original name: Bajo la piel de lobo
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Martinón is the last inhabitant of Auzal, a village in the mountains where he lives in communion with nature. He only goes down to the valleys twice a year to trade and to buy provisions. But one day he’s convinced to take a wife, a decision intended to soften his calloused soul—but in some ways his real struggle is only just beginning.
Style:
bleak, touching, suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, intense, period drama
Plot:
recluse, one night stand, survival, minimal dialogue, lone hero, husband wife relationship, loneliness, destiny, escapades, danger, winter, death, meeting, man versus nature, wolf, forced marriage, outcast, misogyny, moral ambiguity, family tragedy, tragic romance, domestic abuse, revenge, folklore, deer hunting ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
spain
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Most similar movies to The Skin of the Wolf
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and suspenseful films with plots about survival, danger, escapades, isolation, moral ambiguity, life is a bitch and revenge mostly in Drama, Biography and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Skin of the Wolf: Zero Kelvin (1995), Ismael (2013), The Donner Party (2009), Surviving with Wolves (2007), Fugitive Pieces (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 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, serious ...
Plot:
survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, wilderness, disaster, snow, male nudity, poet, frozen, schizophrenia, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
greenland, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, father and son, family life, parents and children, family drama, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, estranged parent, child protagonist, search for father, fatherhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
wilderness survival, wilderness, hunger, human nature, cannibalism, moral dilemma, danger, isolation, hopes, snow, mountain, winter ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, uplifting, bleak ...
Plot:
wolf, world war two, survival, orphan, feral child, human animal relationship, little girl, forest, young heroes, danger, obsessive quest, wilderness ...
Place:
belgium, germany, europe, ukraine, brussels
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, emotional, breathtaking ...
Plot:
holocaust, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, breakup, life is a bitch, fugitives, wartime life, coming of age, survival, war, boy, little boy ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
canada, europe, greece, poland
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain, Germany, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
EntreLobos (AmongWolves) tells the remarkable story of a poor country boy named Marcos, who at the age of 7 is handed over to his father's employer, a rich landowner, who in turn delivers him to a life of labor with a hermetic goatherd in an ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, uplifting
Plot:
nature, friendship, danger, escapades, wolf, loneliness, male protagonist, beautiful scenery, animal, youth, dog, wild animal ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
frostbite, survival, hypothermia, snowstorm, rescue, wilderness, heroes, danger, babies and infants, family life, forces of nature, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A businessman returns his family home after eight years in exile avoiding the terrorism of the ETA.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, tension, melancholic ...
Plot:
terrorism, exile, family home, family drama, homecoming, danger, fear, trauma, identity, reconciliation, paranoia, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
spain, basque country
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
Style:
realistic, emotional, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
refugee, survival, life is a bitch, political unrest, immigrant, danger, escapades, illegal immigration, post war, rescue from drowning, illegal immigrant, river ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia, croatia
Similarity:
39%
427
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Russia, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Mark Ginzburg is a talented artist who is always depressed. He's 52, but personal and professional success has escaped him. Many years ago, Mark moved from his native Riga to Tel Aviv to get away from his oppressive father, Viktor, who still ...
Style:
rough, touching, suspense, psychological, bleak
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, father son relationship, hopes, destiny, redemption, musician, society, life is a bitch, transformation, hospital, death ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
39%
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, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
wilderness, elderly, isolation, orphan, life is a bitch, danger, woods, nature, wilderness survival, survival, post soviet, old man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Day One, is an NBC made for tv sci-fi movie. It was originally written as a tv series pilot about apartment residents that survive an unknown worldwide cataclysm that destroys modern infrastructure. The series was slated to fill the Heroes time slot ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
survival, group of strangers, vestiges of humanity, apocalypse, worldwide chaos, chosen one, dystopian future, society, life is a bitch, danger, chaos, escapades ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
L.A. private detective is hired to investigate the disappearance of an alluring woman's brother. Surrounded by double-crossing deals and dangerous relation, Rybeck will have to plunge headfirst into his deadliest case ever.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
danger, investigation, chase, escapades, private investigator, die hard, infidelity, dishonesty, deception, gunfight, conspiracy, sadistic psychopath ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mozambique, Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, art house ...
Plot:
survival, obsessive quest, missing person, on the road, wartime life, young heroes, escapades, heroes, friendship, youth, storytelling, civil war ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A widower sends daily reminders to the petty criminal who killed his wife in a traffic accident that on the anniversary of her death, he will kill him.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, intense, bleak ...
Plot:
revenge, hit and run, showdown, car accident, grief, threat to kill, family tragedy, confrontation, moral ambiguity, loss, vengeance, obsession ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Upon returning home as a hero from the Iraq War, Special Forces Agent Matt Taylor (Joelson) is thrown right into another battle. This time it is in his once quiet hometown where, as in Iraq, you don't know who are friends and who are enemies. ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
homecoming, anti war, military life, starting over, battles, military, survival, soldier, unemployment, haunted by the past, small town, ptsd ...
Place:
middle east, iraq
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
CHOIR GIRL is a gritty drama about a lonely photographer, Eugene, who becomes obsessed with an underage prostitute, Josephine, in his rundown neighbourhood. She has escaped a worn-torn country only to be trapped in the illegal sex trade by ...
Style:
bleak, dark drama, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
sex scene, photograph, prostitute, sexploitation, obsession, moral ambiguity, innocence lost, street prostitution, human trafficking, photographer, bandit, gang ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary police officers were called to duty to face the formidable Mount Erebus. As the police recovered the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, disaster, survival, uncover truth, dishonesty, escapades, heroic mission, danger, aviation, forces of nature, air disaster, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, new zealand
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Plot:
bedouin, escapades, uninhibited rivalry, society, rivalry, hopes, starting over, survival, danger, religions or cults, against the odds, culture clash ...
Time:
1920s, year 1919
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Slovenia, Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A psychological portrait of a woman traveling home in a war-torn world.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
on the road, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, getting home, survival, danger, society, wartime life, introspection, dystopia, runaway child ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
forest, nature, struggle for survival, teenager fighting adult, recluse, violence, life risking, child fighting adult, child in peril, survival, backwoods, danger ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Taxi driver Jose begins his night shift bent on revenge after his brother's murder at the hands pf a violent gang. But when an accident brings him unexpectedly closer to his party-girl fare Angela, the damaged pair must struggle against forces ...
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, bleak, rough, tense ...
Plot:
murder, partner, danger, gang, vengeance, life is a bitch, chases and races, city life, revenge, doom, reluctant partners, urban ...
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize ...
Style:
serious, touching, captivating, intense, bleak ...
Plot:
boy, neglected child, friendship, children, orphanage, forest, bullying, wolf, feral child, coming of age, child soldier, bosnian war ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
serbia, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia, croatia
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A single mother struggles to pay the rent and put food on the table for her 10 year old son.
Style:
social, serious, touching, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
poverty, single mother, parents and children, single parent, dysfunctional family, ambition, working class, bittersweet, frustration, friendship, female protagonist, life philosophy ...
Similarity:
37%
150
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After being sexually assaulted by an acquainted and incapable of dealing with the situation, a woman leaves her whole life behind and hides herself away in an isolated cabin in the mountains.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, sexualized violence, rape victim, violence against women, shame, guilt, traumatic past, tragic past, violence, psychological trauma, rape, troubled past ...
Similarity:
37%
118
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal to make it back to his grieving wife.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, resilience, reconnaissance, sole survivor, soldier, man versus nature, abandonment, guerilla warfare, isolation, pursuit, endurance, ruse ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south africa, angola, cape town south africa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Mickey Ryan falls from grace due to a series of downward spiraling events beyond his control. With his life turned upside down, Mickey tries valiantly to resolve his issues but hooks up with the wrong people who blind him with anger and hate.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, crime drama ...
Plot:
family man, criminal, organized crime, changing lives, problem, life is a bitch, social problems, loss of control, desperation, redemption, moral ambiguity, character study ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Everybody expected military flight Boxtop 22 from Thule into the vast frozen wilderness of Canada's North Western territories to be boring routine, but in a matter of minutes a crash reduces Gulf War veteran pilot Captain John Couch's crew ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, airplane accident, space, aviation, disaster, plane crash, danger, heroes, escapades, rescue, save the day, forces of nature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, greenland
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Drama - Vic's days are filled with selling sci-fi collectibles, harassing his fellow antique dealers, and trying to communicate with extraterrestrials. - Charles Brin, Alex Cole, Paul Cram
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
obsession, small town, danger, alien encounter, death, tragedy, delusion, manipulation, emotional manipulation, exploitation, character study, female victim ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Maria, a nurse whose daughter was killed by three militiamen, travels from Colombia to Spain with her younger son in order to get revenge.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
vengeance, single parent, rivalry, civil war, murder, on the road, loss of daughter, couples, danger, revenge, obsessive quest, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, canary islands, colombia
Similarity:
37%
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