Movies like Adam 2019
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Adam (2019)
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Original name: آدم
Genre: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal shutter. Every day, she makes and sells homemade bread and all types of traditional Moroccan pastries. Closed-off from life, leading an existence devoid of happiness and taking refuge in her work, Abla has become old before her time. Unable to manifest love towards her child, she has replaced tenderness with pragmatism. When Samia, a young woman who is heavily pregnant knocks on her door, seeking shelter and overwhelmed by the weight of her burden of giving birth to a child without a father, Alba is unaware that this chance encounter will change her forever.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
single mother, homelessness, breast feeding, pregnancy, baby, female protagonist, homeless woman, little girl, newborn, lgbt, woman, women, homeless, pregnant woman, sheep, mother and daughter, widow, baker, mourning, 8 year old girl, childbirth, newborn baby, bakery, cooking, young ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
morocco, middle east, africa, maghreb, north africa
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Most similar movies to Adam
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, realistic and serious films with plots about female protagonist, baby, pregnant woman, pregnancy, childbirth, female nudity and birth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Adam: Everything Put Together (2000), Harry's Daughters (2005), Sofia (2018), The Rye Horn (2023), 3000 Nights (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Everything Put Together is a 2000 film directed by Marc Forster starring Radha Mitchell and Megan Mullally.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, touching, depressing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, intense, dramatic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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949
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Qatar, Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
women's rights, family drama, bureaucracy, moral dilemma, social realism, shame, teenage pregnancy, guilt, identity crisis, girl, pregnant woman, birth ...
Place:
morocco
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with special dedication and care. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee and begins a dangerous ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Plot:
woman, arab, letter, childbirth, blood, teacher, baby, female protagonist, strike, photograph, prison, lawyer ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
palestine, lebanon
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43%
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:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Franck, a scrap merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the go, and serious money issues. Julien and Anna are lawyers and cannot have a child. This is the story of an inconceivable agreement.
Plot:
female nudity, breast feeding, baby, police station, catholic, newborn baby, courtroom, hospital, money problems, trial, pregnant woman, van ...
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41%
273
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Melody, 28 years old, a confused child born under the name X, decides to rent out her body in order to get the money she needs to realize her dream: opening a hair-dressing salon. To do so, she accepts to carry the child of Emily, a rich English ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, pregnancy, hairdresser, homeless, follow your dream, money, baby, social differences, social relations, hopes, locked in, women ...
Time:
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Place:
england, belgium, europe
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, ...
Plot:
summer, female protagonist, women, neighbor neighbor relationship, baby, dancing, pregnant woman, neighbor, river, female nudity, museum, sex scene ...
Time:
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Place:
madrid
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
false accusation, judge, mother daughter relationship, deaf, death penalty, prison, female protagonist, widow, death of husband, loss of husband, single mother, sign language ...
Place:
iran, middle east
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
Style:
sincere, suspenseful, tear jerker, psychological, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
motherhood, single mother, spanish civil war, pregnancy, childbirth, mother daughter relationship, lesbian relationship, grave, pregnant teenager, babysitter, theater, female bonding ...
Time:
2020s, year 2016, 2010s
Place:
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Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bunny King is a mother of two, a rough cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to reunite with her children, a confrontation leads her to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against her and Tonyah, Bunny’s ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
homeless woman, homelessness, custody battle, fighting the system, social problems, motherhood, poverty, family drama, foster home, child custody, dysfunctional family, homeless ...
Place:
oceania
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological, feel good ...
Plot:
adoptive mother, newborn baby, social services, motherhood, foster home, baby, unwanted pregnancy, hospital, society, divorced woman, parents, woman ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
brittany, france, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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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:
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Similarity:
40%
508
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Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Ireland, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
morocco
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39%
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Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
non-linear
Plot:
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Similarity:
39%
729
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
homelessness, single mother, female protagonist, poverty, social problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, family relations, relationship problems, poor family, family problems, social issues ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
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Similarity:
39%
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, rape, haunted by the past, social misfits, disorder, confined, introspection, misfit, isolation, women, abandoned baby, resistance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
39%
490
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
single mother, mother daughter relationship, memory loss, dementia, family drama, family problems, female protagonist, single woman, women, single parent, social problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
united kingdom
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of the women and relationships that define a family across a century.
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, melancholic, family saga
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france
Similarity:
39%
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Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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taipei
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, dramatic, serious, sincere, crying ...
Plot:
pregnancy, female nudity, single mother, foster home, pregnancy and birth, single parent, motherhood, family relations, pregnant girlfriend, kids and family, family life, adoption ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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