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Broken (2017)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish, who is modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed, must be confidante, counselor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life.
Style:
religious drama, psychological, captivating, disturbing, serious, melancholic, powerful
Plot:
catholic church, religion, catholic priest, priest, catholic, congregation, forgiveness, everyday life, compassion, life, life is a bitch, society, social problems, religious faith, redemption, confession, social realism, parents and children, grief, working class, hypocrisy, mental health, domestic abuse, addiction, isolation ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
northern england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic and melancholic films and TV series with plots about life is a bitch, society, social problems, redemption, small town, family relations and intimate mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Broken: Forgive Me (2013), Clocking Off (2000), Nothing Sacred (1997), Ride Upon the Storm (2017), Second Avenue (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
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Story:
A series that breaks the seal of the Catholic confessional booth. A young insomniac priest gets caught up in the sins of his congregants while a secret from his own past threatens his calling.
Style:
sincere, contemplative, serious, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
small town, priest, confession, catholic, religions or cults, clergy, society, church, haunted by the past, forgiveness, catholic church, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
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Story:
How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, slice of life, factory worker, factory, coworker, lifestyle, relationships, social issues, social problems, multiple storylines, worker, everyday life ...
Place:
northern england, manchester
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Nothing Sacred is an American drama series that aired from 1997 to 1998 on ABC. The series was created by a Jesuit priest named Bill Cain and producer David Manson.
Style:
contemplative, semi serious, touching, realistic, captivating
Plot:
introspection, clergy, injustice, religions or cults, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, society, discrimination, priest, nun, catholic, religion ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The story centers on a family of priests: Johannes, Elisabeth and their sons August and Christian. Johannes is God-like to his sons - he gives, loves, and punishes. His favoritism for August and his disappointment with Christian forces both into ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, character study, priest, religion, church, life is a bitch, family relations, kids and family, religious faith, faith, favoritism ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
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Andra Avenyn was a Swedish drama series and soap opera, produced by SVT and broadcast from 2007 to 2010.
Style:
soap opera, suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
relationships, father son relationship, family problems, swedish, kids and family, ex convict, father daughter relationship, parents and children, relationship problems, male female relationship, dysfunctional family, social problems ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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A modern interpretation of the classic Dickens novel.
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
escapades, rich and poor, life is a bitch, parents and children, family relations, society, injustice, family problems, social problems, relationships, money problems, relationship problems ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
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Story:
A successful psychologist battles with problems in his personal life.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, serious, melancholic
Plot:
relationship problems, therapy, social problems, psychology, life philosophy, mental health, social issues, psychological trauma, lifestyle, parapsychology, introspection, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
71%
118
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
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Story:
Funny, moving and at times painful - Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode, one character undertakes a journey and we are along for the ride. In an age when technology would make us seem ever more ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
redemption, working class, bittersweet, workplace situations, family relations, society, workplace, introspection, parents and children, hopes, journey, moving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, northern england
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
Each hour-long film follows a different women as they experience “moments that are emotionally raw, thought-provoking and utterly personal”.
Style:
melancholic, suspense, disturbing, serious, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
dating, male female relationship, destiny, society, family problems, loneliness, life, job, desperation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family drama, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
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Story:
Three sisters lose sight of each other, each with their own lives and dreams. Years later, an accident that befalls their mother brings the sisters together again, and problems of the past that have been fiercely hidden begin to surface.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
sisters, family drama, relationship problems, social problems, society, lifestyle, life, relationships, family secret, domestic drama, family reunited, everyday life ...
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
A group of social welfare workers led by their new director tries to provide necessary aid to people struggling with various problems.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
social issues, social worker, flood, assistant, workplace, community service, workplace situations, coworker, social problems, society, urban, empathy ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
single mother, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, mother and daughter, woman, motherhood, family relations, family drama, mother love, parenting, family problems, mother daughter estrangement ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
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Story:
Danny was a baby when his mother was killed in a car crash. Overcome with grief, his father locked him away in a house, telling him the outside world is full of monsters that will spirit him away like his mother.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay, isolation, father son relationship, locked in, parents and children, overprotective parent, overprotective father, life is a bitch, problem, paranoia, identity ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Created by Peter Bowker, From There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel Cotton, a Manchester family man who is torn between the life he wants and the life he could have. The story spans the four years that ...
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bittersweet, streetwise, parents and children, family relations, bombing, soccer, siblings relations, city life, society, urban, ira, family drama ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
manchester, england, northern england
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and Tammy Grimes.
Style:
religious drama, emotional, atmospheric, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
nun, convent, priest, small town, character study, moral ambiguity, false accusation, scandal, investigation, working class, poverty, isolation ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s, year 1979
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 59 min.
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Story:
Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, powerful, period drama
Plot:
nun, convent, forbidden love, religion, religious faith, female protagonist, new life, women, interwar period, apocalypse, distopia, catholic ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
himalaya, india
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
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Story:
A drama anthology that serves up a raw slice of real life in Modern Britain.
Style:
anthology, psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
trauma, problem, social problems, social misfits, life is a bitch, social issues, crime victim, victim, multiple storylines, criminal, society, empathy ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
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Story:
The story involves an Australian platoon in the Afghanistan war, forced to come home following the death of their leader. A murder mystery involving the now deceased Captain Ted Nordenfelt ensues.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
military, military life, soldier, life is a bitch, veteran, ptsd, secret, military officer, multiple storylines, wartime life, social problems, cover up ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story:
Erik is forced to move to an island to get away from his past, but you don't easily run away from rumors, and a broken past.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
gossip, teenager, relationships, troubled past, confronting the past, teenage life, social problems, adolescence, teenage protagonist, life is a bitch, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, problem ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min.
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Story:
After making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island of Yonaguni, Okinawa. It is difficult to get competent doctors to serve on this remote island, and ...
Style:
medical drama, captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
doctor patient relationship, slice of life, island, physician, island life, personal growth, redemption, healing, compassion, doctors and patients, doctor, society ...
Place:
japan, okinawa japan
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
After losing her kin in the wake of the Second Sino-Japanese War, a Japanese girl in China stays to live with a traditional Chinese family.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
loss of family, life is a bitch, social problems, family life, loss of family member, society, war, bereavement, family problems, family drama, empathy, post war ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Norway, Germany, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, intellectual
Plot:
religion, confession, small town, social relations, religions or cults, idealism, clergy, small town life, hopes, society, belief in god, priest ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1956, 1950s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Sakura runs a secondhand bookstore in Tokyo. Customers of various age ranges visit her secondhand bookstore. Deep inside this bookshop is a room called the “meeting place.” People who do not have a place to go, gather in the room. She gives them ...
Style:
serious, dramatic, entertaining, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, heartwarming, slice of life, healing, compassion, social relations, relationships, urban setting, big city, traumatic past, city life, tragic past ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot:
working class, workplace, society, life is a bitch, factory, parents and children, social differences, family relations, power relations, mechanic, realism, rich and poor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 174 min.
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Story:
After going before the judge for the third time, 15-year old Manon is placed in a reform centre for six months. Challenged by her own uncontrollable temper, and the bureaucracy of the institution, will this be Manon’s last chance at redemption?
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
troubled teen, teenager, coming of age, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, social problems, teenage girl, family problems, redemption, adolescence, social issues, violence ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Alan Bleasdale's hugely acclaimed mini-series echoes the misery and despair of long-term unemployment. Set in Liverpool, these profoundly moving human dramas follow in turn the attempts of five working-class heroes to survive.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
unemployment, social realism, working class, hoodie, struggle, realism, layoff, family relations, life is a bitch, society, down on your luck, labor union ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
britain, northern england, europe, england, liverpool
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, poignant ...
Plot:
tsunami, grief, loss, society, small town life, life is a bitch, troubled past, tragic past, healing, mourning, trauma, community ...
Similarity:
41%
943
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
TV show
Story:
Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.
Style:
anthology, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, quarantine, relationships, locked in, intimate, social problems, society, social isolation, epidemic, family relations, pandemic, family problems ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
A Story of a brother, sister and her love, protecting them from every evil. Every character have wounded feeling. How life give them suffering and the solution itself.
Style:
dramatic, disturbing, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
abusive stepfather, sister, family bonds, family drama, sibling relationship, death, brother and sister, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, death of mother, brothers ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A call girl goes to a priest to confess a sin she hasn't committed yet: she plans to kill herself on her next birthday. Then she disappears and he goes looking for her, enlisting the help of an ad hoc congregation of troubled souls along the ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
woman in danger, prostitute, priest, forgiveness, redemption, obsession, society, clergy, illegal prostitution, sin, catholic priest, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
38%
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