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Resisting Life (2006)
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Original name: La vida inmune
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, immersed in her music, lets life slip her by like a strange melody. Adolescent Nadia has only one interest in life: to seek new experiences. Aurelia starts to lose her sensibility to pain, and the family relationships become so alienated that they begin to disintegrate like the house they live in.
Style:
psychological, captivating, surreal, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, existential, tension, creepy, absurd ...
Plot:
alienation, surrealism, family relations, family problems, grief, family drama, estrangement, kids and family, parents and children, family life, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, social problems, relationship problems, loneliness, tragedy, mourning, isolation, sisterhood, intimate, adolescence, coming of age, slow burn, minimal dialogue
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
mexico city
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Most similar movies to Resisting Life
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, melancholic, captivating and art house films with plots about family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, isolation, family drama, coming of age and intimate mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Resisting Life: Last Child (2017), No Bed of Roses (2017), 13 Summers Underwater (2017), Little Ones (2022), Strange Colours (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When their son drowns while saving the life of a friend, the couple offer to take the boy in. What can they do with the kid who outlived their own son? The father tries to teach him work and looks after him like family. The mother is distant to him ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, family drama, social problems, kids and family, family problems, life is a bitch, relationships, family relations, loss of child ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As a noted filmmaker’s infidelity becomes a media firestorm, his fractured family privately navigates the fallout of his actions for years to come.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, emotional, melancholic, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, memories, intimate, afterlife, a vision, mourning, supernatural, ghost, haunting, existentialism, spirituality ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Camille a 16 years old pregnant girl was placed in a maternal center by the Judge. She became friends with Alison, an immature young mother, and fought against the authority of Nadine, an educator as passionate as she was disillusioned.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, intense
Plot:
motherhood, young mother, teenage pregnancy, teenage protagonist, adolescence, family problems, life is a bitch, kids and family, mother love, female protagonist, pregnant teenager, young girl ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men escape society and share ideals of freedom. Soon, he doesn’t want her to leave. Stuck in time, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, estranged father, father and daughter, relationship problems, father, family problems, parent child relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, relationships ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old girl deals with the issues brought about by her family's high-priced son.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, poignant, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, adolescence, family drama, tragic past, female protagonist, troubled past, traumatic past, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, loneliness ...
Place:
china
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
School girl Miyuri Obara is bullied mercilessly but finds relief in an unexpected friendship with Tsumugi. Yet even as Miyuri's life turns around there's a lingering suggestion that something is not quite right.
Style:
psychological, teen, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
bullying, girl, school, loneliness, outcast, friendship, female friendship, japanese school, friendship between girls, relationships, social problems, relationship problems ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, dramatic, serious, harsh ...
Plot:
father son relationship, son, father, father and son, cemetery, character study, estrangement, family drama, family relations, alienation, parents and children, estranged son ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tati, an introspective 13 year old girl struggles to connect with her estranged father, Jaca, after he is released from prison in the turbulent wake of the Rio Olympics. As Brazilian Pacification Police battle to maintain a tenuous occupation of the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, prison, family drama, favela, coming of age, life is a bitch, family problems, relationship problems, ex convict, adolescence, teenage life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl grieving the horrific loss of her parents moves in with relatives, who try their best to welcome her into the family.
Style:
emotional, psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Sofia, recently separated, takes her daughters to a small coastal town. Each one in their own universe, live the interlude as a challenge to free themselves and face their fears.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
separation, relationships, mother and daughter, mother daughter relationship, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, social problems, relationship problems, breakup, life is a bitch, family life ...
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368
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
One Sunday in May, at home with Carolina, the hours are counted. The following Monday will have to publicly adhere to the collective emotion that overwhelmed a small community on the sea, a few kilometers from the capital. Mauro Secondari left, a ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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104
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man, Ben Freidman (Scott Wilson) raised by wealthy adoptive Jewish parents in Beverly Hills, decides that he is ready to finally meet his biological parents. He faces disappointment upon learning of the death of his biological mother. His ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, identity, relationships, family relations, foster home, foster child, family problems, life is a bitch, father son relationship, mother son relationship, family life, kids and family ...
Place:
beverly hills
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
grief, guilt, mother-in-law, family problems, loss, mourning, character study, bereavement, loss of daughter, mother in law, countryside, loss of wife ...
Place:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On a barren island, a mother and son confront years of silence and misunderstandings in writer-director Hanna Slak’s formidable fourth feature film starring Maren Eggert, scored by Amélie Legrand, and shot by Claire Mathon.
Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
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Place:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, thrilling, psychological, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
love, relationship problems, family problems, love story, family relations, relationships, homecoming, getting home, soul searching, loneliness, regret, mortality ...
Place:
poetic realism
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 110 min.
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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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Taiwan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Colombia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young boy discovers his mom works as an exotic dancer in a local bar, so he decides to find the money to take her to Disney.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere
Plot:
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