Movies like Blind Intersections

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Blind Intersections (2012)
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Blind Intersections (2012)
Original name: قصة ثواني
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three protagonists, one city, different backgrounds: Nour, India and Marwan pass each other but they never meet, though the effect of one incident will drastically alter their lives. Caught in a moment, their lives fall apart in just a matter of seconds.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, non-linear, gloomy
Plot: life turned upside down, destiny, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, family problems, down on your luck, death in the family, multiple storylines, drug abuse, car accident, marriage, arab, sexual content, urban, school, rape, money, pregnancy, businessman, prostitution, alcoholic, beach, doctor, hospital, boy ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east
Keyword: lebanese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and touching films with plots about family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, death in the family, parents and children and society mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Blind Intersections: Mouth to Mouth (2005), The High Cost of Living (2010), Mainline (2006), All Around Us (2008), The Grief of Others (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mouth to Mouth (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan, who is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts. Meanwhile, the rest of her family is falling apart, and her ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, rescue, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, parents and children, drug abuse, family problems, estrangement, society, teenage prostitution, first sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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The High Cost of Living (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of a young, pregnant woman whose world falls apart when she loses her child in a hit and run accident. As her life unravels, Nathalie finds an unlikely protector in Henry, a down and out guardian angel who has followed her thread. But ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Mainline (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 77 min.
Story: The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, gloomy
Plot: redemption, dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, family problems, rehabilitation, hopes, life is a bitch, addiction, drug abuse, parents and children, lovers apart ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, iran, persia
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All Around Us (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, serious ...
Plot: family problems, couple relations, estrangement, society, pregnancy, death in the family, social decay, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, love and romance, painter, painting ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Grief of Others (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, death in the family, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family crisis, mourning, reconciliation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Jaffa (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Israel, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, thought provoking, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, forbidden love, interracial relations, family feud, life is a bitch, love and romance, society, life turned upside down, family business, family problems ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, israel, palestine, persia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An immigrant boy faces difficulty growing up in Toronto's apartment slums.
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Plot: custody, young heroes, bullying, drug addict, best friend, drug abuse, youth, life is a bitch, family in crisis, family problems, single parent, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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Inheritance (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Palestinian family living in the north of Galilee gathers to celebrate the wedding of one of their daughters, as war rages between Israel and Lebanon. Internal conflicts explode between the family - secrets are revealed and lies are unmasked. The ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, emotional
Plot: family relations, forbidden love, family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, wartime life, family life, family gatherings, bittersweet, village, family in crisis, love ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, serious, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: life turned upside down, police investigation, family in crisis, parents and children, family relations, dishonesty, family problems, shopping mall, death in the family, terrorism, dealing with death, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
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Frozen Land (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to ...
Style: bleak, realistic, intense, captivating, sincere ...
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Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two brothers, Lex and younger Mick, are living in Harlem. Mick is a policeman, and Lex, who spent youth years in reformatory because of injustice after he confronted the cop who tried to sodomize Mick on the street, is living with his wife Debbie ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, rough, bleak ...
Plot: downfall, haunted by the past, society, life is a bitch, going straight, family problems, down on your luck, addiction, dysfunctional family, hopes, re-education, drug abuse ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, harlem
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20%
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Putty Hill (2010)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 85 min.
Story: Friends and family of Cory, a young man who has died of an overdose, gather at a Baltimore-area karaoke bar for his wake and compare stories about him. Gradually, as it becomes clear that there are many holes in their recollections about Cory, they ...
Style: sincere, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family problems, dysfunctional family, death in the family, drug abuse, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, social relations, estrangement, family in crisis, father daughter relationship, overdose ...
Time: 21st century
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20%
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Wolfy (2009)
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Country: Russia
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Style: rough, realistic, serious, tense, neorealism ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: russia
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Duration: 91 min.
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Time: 80s
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Duration: 104 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Respectable Family (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
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Story: Arash is an Iranian academic who lives in the West. He returns to Iran to teach in Shiraz, a city far from Tehran where his mother lives. Drawn into a series of domestic and financial dramas, he faces a country that is now alien to him. Following ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, social ...
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Audience: toddlers
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19%
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18%
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Style: touching, bleak, emotional, realistic, serious ...
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18%
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