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Margaret (2011)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
Style:
psychological, emotional, enigmatic, melancholic, thought provoking, intellectual, bleak, stylized, realistic, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bus, high school, mother daughter relationship, redemption, life philosophy, character study, investigation, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, haunted by the past, bicycle, opera, teacher student relationship, poem, road accident, legal action, virginity, female protagonist, relationships, teacher, innocence lost, teenager, abortion, catastrophe ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, talky and reflective films with plots about loneliness, mentor, dialogue, relationships, redemption, runaway and storytelling mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Margaret: Manchester by the Sea (2016), Short Term 12 (2013), You Can Count on Me (2000), Interiors (1978), Blue Car (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
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sad, depressing, emotional, heartbreaking, touching ...
Audience:
teens
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death, depression, loneliness, suicide attempt, loss, sadness, nephew, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, death of brother, grief, guardian ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
massachusetts, boston, new england
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Style:
emotional, compassionate, sad, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
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child abuse, teenager, social worker, suicide attempt, depression, adolescence, foster child, self mutilation, self harm, coming of age, troubled teen, mental illness ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.
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touching, sincere, captivating, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
workplace, small town, single mother, character study, childhood, introspection, love and romance, family secret, parents and children, free spirited, hopes, workplace romance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york state, new york
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36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A look at a dysfunctional family dominated by the controlling madness of its matriarch, Eve. Her reluctant husband and their three daughters make doomed efforts to cope with Eve's demands, while also trying to get on with their own lives. But, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, bleak, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
depression, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, mental illness, family relations, divorce, character study, psychology, life philosophy, parenthood, family gatherings, sibling rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister, her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, harsh, touching, poignant ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
teacher student relationship, family relations, cheerleading, family in crisis, teachers and students, poetry, high school, loneliness, youth, power relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, emotional, talky, semi serious ...
Plot:
imaginary friend, adultery, dysfunctional family, character study, couple relations, human nature, jealous spouse, lifestyle, dishonesty, couples, family problems, mentally unstable ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york state
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
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touching, emotional, realistic, feel good, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, new jersey, texas, usa, phoenix arizona
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the ...
Style:
meditative, psychological, bleak, emotional, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
prison, murder, teacher, coming of age, dysfunctional family, writers, prison life, family relations, theft, unlikely friendships, suburbs, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
phoenix arizona, california, paris france, italy, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Style:
serious, bleak, art house, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
realism, mother daughter relationship, unemployment, fishing, alcoholic mother, snitch, loneliness, alcoholic, poverty, life is a bitch, coming of age, family problems ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, france, california, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, thought provoking, depressing, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, human relationship, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, society, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience ...
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talky, realistic, clever, sentimental, sexy ...
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writers, coming of age, friendship, adoption, dysfunctional family, world war two, family relations, father daughter relationship, culture clash, betrayal, life philosophy, adolescence ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. ...
Style:
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Plot:
solitude, depression, isolation, insanity, island, psychology, female nudity, guilt, suicide, loneliness, life philosophy, art ...
Time:
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Place:
sweden, eastern europe
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, europe, italy, usa ...
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23%
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, depressing, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
texas, usa, houston texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
Plot:
teacher, drugs, teachers and students, student, friendship, addiction, drug addiction, ghetto, loneliness, school, mentor, existentialism ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, california, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, meditative, compassionate, depressing ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, france, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his ...
Style:
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Plot:
midlife crisis, writers, philosophy, depression, eavesdropping, psychology, psychiatrist, human nature, self discovery, dysfunctional family, infidelity, melancholy ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, depression, suicidal, loneliness, mentor, character study, taxi driver, elderly, suicide, society, regret, taxi ...
Time:
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Place:
north carolina, africa, california, usa
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
loneliness, depression, drug addiction, obsession, suicide, friendship, suicide attempt, support group, drugs, mental illness, tragedy, character study ...
Time:
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Place:
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Style:
touching, melancholic, emotional, realistic, thought provoking ...
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girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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21%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.
Style:
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teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style:
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Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, school, drugs, high school, gang, workplace, adaptation, police investigation, age difference, nude, multiple storylines ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, california, usa, new york
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a day’s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
Style:
gloomy, touching, depressing, thought provoking, melancholic ...
Plot:
suicide attempt, suicide, drug addict, addiction, loneliness, drugs, depression, drug addiction, complex characters, old friends, unlikely friendships, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
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21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new jersey, new york, los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, talky, philosophical, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ingmar Bergman's psychological study of how humans react in a situation of war. The film takes place on Gotland, where invasion forces arrives.
Style:
psychological, art house, political, cerebral, biting ...
Plot:
existentialism, island, suspense, civil war, betrayal, politics, war, world war two, female nudity, dysfunctional family, time travel, art ...
Time:
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Place:
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20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. ...
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