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Three Christs (2017)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ.
Style:
psychological, serious, disturbing, sincere
Plot:
psychotherapist, mental institution, doctor, tragedy, escapades, society, mentally unstable, religion, experiment, religious, psychiatric ward, biopic, sex scene, mental patient, male nudity, lsd, nightclub, male full rear nudity, husband wife relationship, patient, doctor patient relationship, chapel, bureaucrat, electroshock therapy, tranquilizer ...
Time:
year 1959
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and disturbing films with plots about society, life is a bitch, mental illness, hopes, mental institution, mentally unstable and dishonesty mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Three Christs: Ward No. 6 (2009), The Caretakers (1963), Like Normal People (1979), Waking Madison (2010), Behind the Mask (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Place:
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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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Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: France, USA
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Time:
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Country: Brazil
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: Russia
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
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