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Eat Sleep Die (2012)
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Original name: Äta sova dö
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Eastern European immigrant working in Sweden is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of "efficiencies."
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, crying, sincere, touching
Plot:
unemployment, working class, immigrant, society, parents and children, workplace, unfulfillment, fired from the job, lady, coming of age, misfit, family relations, workplace situations, supportive coworker, realism, young woman, father daughter relationship, job seeking, factory worker, social realism, sick father, mine, young, fired from a job, immigrants ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Eat Sleep Die
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about society, family relations, parents and children, immigrant, misfit, life is a bitch and unfulfillment mostly in Drama and History genres. Some movies like Eat Sleep Die: Yasmin (2004), Black Really Suits You (2012), Molasses (2012), Offline (2012), Hands Up (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
804
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In England, the Pakistanis Yasmin lives two lives in two different worlds: in her community, she wears Muslin clothes, cooks for her father and brother and has the traditional behavior of a Muslin woman. Further, she has a non-consumed marriage with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, culture clash, social differences, false accusation, life is a bitch, society, terrorism, parents and children, injustice, religions or cults, family in crisis ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
britain, pakistan, england
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
workplace romance, family relations, forbidden love, culture clash, workplace, immigrant, parents and children, fall in love, unfulfillment, society, family drama, immigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
38%
144
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, France, Panama
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
With the closure of the sugar mill, the little town of Molasses is devastated, lifeless. Aldo and Monica form a young married couple that do not find a way to survive. By supporting each other, they try to save their world without loosing their ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
unemployment, working class, family life, social relations, parents and children, couple relations, family relations, couples, society, small town, poverty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, latin america
Similarity:
37%
895
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, family relations, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, hopes, job seeking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
36%
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337
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Every child who has lost a parent early in life (whether due to death or the separations of divorce or for any other reason) longs to see that parent again. Many have kept up a running dialogue in their heads of things they would say to them if they ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
transsexual, lgbtq, family relations, lgbt, parents and children, transvestism, estrangement, unfulfillment, coming of age, human nature, society, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
quebec, europe, france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Au milieu de nulle part, une cité ouvrière vidée de sa population depuis quelques années déjà. Pourtant, certains habitants ont décidé d'y rester, plus par choix que par nécessité, parce que c'est là qu'ils sont nés et ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional
Plot:
factory, single parent, unemployment, workplace, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, isolation, parents and children, working class, society, hopes ...
Place:
france, europe, maghreb, south of france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
Similarity:
34%
392
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Brothers Yaki and Shaul live with their parents in Petah Tikva, a satellite town of Tel Aviv. Yaki is doing military service. As for all other 18-year-old Israelis, this means he is allowed to carry a gun. This weapon gives the brothers the power to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, kidnapping, family relations, unemployment, society, working class, parents and children, teenage life, dysfunctional family, soldier, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy, biting ...
Plot:
social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, immigrant, realism, life is a bitch, discrimination, society, interracial relations, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A film about a farm worker named Jaime and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, Lupe, as their lives are in turmoil.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
farm hand, family relations, aging, immigrant, single parent, society, parents and children, farm, family life, human nature, working class, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Way We Are is a respectful, unglamorous, and serenely charming portrait of regular people and a Hong Kong town that normally gets a bad rap. It may put you to sleep, but the visit and Ann Hui's quiet touch are exceptionally worthwhile.
Style:
touching, emotional, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, working class, single parent, society, family problems, unfulfillment, poverty, supermarket, little boy, boy, loss of daughter, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
34%
246
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Paris, today. Dorcy, a young black Christian, wants to marry Sabrina, a young North African. It what would be a simple matter if it weren't for the fact that Sabrina has 40 brothers and that this easygoing wedding has crystallized a taboo ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
interracial relations, family relations, forbidden love, love and romance, society, family in crisis, impossible love, family problems, immigrant, unfulfillment, misfit, religions or cults ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, africa, france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological
Plot:
family relations, immigrant, society, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, getting home, music band, poverty, worker, migration, countryside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic
Plot:
life is a bitch, family relations, realism, misfit, youth, social misfits, parents and children, culture clash, society, resilience, single mother, discrimination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
33%
314
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, optimism, society, hopes, family problems, unemployment, parents and children, husband wife relationship, loss of job, blaxploitation, strong female presence, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, latin america, colombia
Similarity:
33%
378
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
immigrant, u.s. mexico border, follow your dream, human spirit, friendship, social decay, hopes, society, bittersweet, migration, mexican american border, border ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, hopes, couple relations, misfit, starting over, culture clash, family life, immigrant, society, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
china, washington d.c., usa, asia, persia
Similarity:
33%
303
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, social differences, human nature, society, working class, unemployment, culture clash, deportation, interracial friendship, unlikely hero, unrequited love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A New York street hustler specializing in name-brand knock-offs finds his highly profitable game suddenly complicated when his ex-girlfriend shows up toting the son he never knew he had.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
parents and children, cons and scams, family relations, immigrant, city life, social differences, forgery, lifestyle, unfulfillment, father son relationship, african, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, lebanon
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
city life, immigrant, self discovery, friendship, restaurant, diner, family relations, social misfits, workplace romance, workplace, lonely, unfulfilled love ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
32%
295
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Francine is released from prison and settles down in a small town. She is unable to regain a foothold in society and turns to animals for comfort.
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, independent film
Plot:
starting over, workplace, workplace situations, hopes, pets, society, working class, small town, antisocial behavior, ex convict, animal lover, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
youth, single parent, family problems, working class, family relations, eviction, society, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, poverty, child ...
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
32%
253
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style:
realistic, serious, period piece, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, working class, unemployment, life is a bitch, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, prairie, great depression, drought, family drama ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take over his struggling factory. Gradually she becomes the decider of her own life.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family business, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, homecoming, workplace, fish out of water, society, rivalry, strong female presence, unfulfillment, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
“I Want To Be A Soldier” is the story of Alex, an average 8 year old child who develops a morbid fascination for images portraying violence. He starts to have communication problems with his parents and other children at school and becomes ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, thought provoking, sad ...
Plot:
parents and children, communication problem, imaginary character, coming of age, misfit, family relations, obsession, brother brother relationship, teenager, brutality, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
gender, terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, transgender, father son relationship, gay, hospital, lgbt, lesbian, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of the laborer family Debruycker during the turbulent strike by Vieille Montagne in 1971.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
fighting the system, working class, workplace, parents and children, factory worker, life is a bitch, human spirit, family life, workplace situations, labor union, society, factory ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
culture clash, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, family relations, love and romance, immigrant, political unrest, teenage love, youth, family problems, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s
Place:
iraq, israel
Similarity:
31%
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