Movies like The Desert Bride
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The Desert Bride (2017)
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Original name: La novia del desierto
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Teresa’s life is turned upside down when she is forced to accept a job far away. On her way, she loses her bag, causing her to cross paths with El Gringo, a traveling salesman.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, melancholic, reflective, slow cinema, road movie
Plot:
traveling salesman, female protagonist, road trip, journey, self discovery, character study, travel, relationships, family relations, changing lives, male female relationship, lifestyle, lifestyle change, loneliness, isolation, second chance, introspection, empathy, bittersweet, rebirth, social realism, small town life, woman, latina, road ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
buenos aires argentina
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Most similar movies to The Desert Bride
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, melancholic and disturbing films with plots about bittersweet, relationships, self discovery, character study, changing lives, slice of life and female protagonist mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Desert Bride: Identifying Features (2020), Illiterate (2013), One Last Thing (2018), Nanayo (2008), A Country Called Home (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Magdalena, a mother in search of her missing son, meets Miguel, recently deported from the US and looking for his mother. Together, they make their way through the desolate and unforgiving militia-ridden landscapes south of the border.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, poignant, road movie, atmospheric ...
Plot:
u.s. mexico border, criminal syndicate, migration, female protagonist, male female relationship, life is a bitch, uncover truth, syndicate, travel, surrealism, criminal, road trip ...
Place:
mexico
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Ximena is illiterate; Jacqueline reads to her. Everything except a letter hidden under a wooden Buddha that Ximena won’t let her read. To know what it says, Ximena must learn to read. As Ximena learns, their relationship, thorny at first, becomes ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, sincere, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
illiteracy, female protagonist, illiterate, middle aged woman, lifestyle change, training, changing lives, education, uneducated, home schooling, lifestyle, character change ...
Place:
chile
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dylan Derringer, a lonely dentist in Florida, is confronted by a figure from the past bringing news that sends him on an eventful and ultimately life-altering journey of discovery.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, loneliness, character study, personal growth, relationships, haunted by the past, changing lives, relationship problems, lifestyle, male female relationship, lifestyle change, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
florida
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, self discovery, introspection, nature, lifestyle change, changing lives, relationships, new life, escape, loneliness, identity, travel ...
Place:
thailand, japan
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, friendship, death of father, alcoholic father, family drama, self discovery, road trip, changing lives, travel, father daughter estrangement, lifestyle, personal growth ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had ...
Style:
road movie, romantic drama, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, chance meeting, travel, odd couple, road trip, husband wife relationship, love and romance, romantic relationship, unlikely couple, couple relations, relationships, introspection ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
26%
212
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Romania, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
It depicts the relationship between an elderly woman and her caregiver.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic
Plot:
elderly woman, female protagonist, woman woman relationship, older woman younger woman relationship, caregiver, custody, aging, guardian, relationships, older man younger man relationship, lifestyle, old lady ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns ...
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
elderly man, pilgrimage, character study, self discovery, walking, journey, grief, changing lives, lifestyle, lifestyle change, life, bittersweet ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Recently retired accountant Richard Flicker attends a life-drawing class and his world is turned upside down when he encounters free-spirited Amelia, the spitting image of a long lost love from decades ago. Grappling with a troubled home front, ...
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, psychological, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
second chance, lost love, accountant, retirement, midlife crisis, changing lives, love story, romantic relationship, lifestyle change, couples, male female relationship, relationships ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a woman on the outskirts of the city who lives with her husband and child, but the story of their lives changes.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, affair, husband wife relationship, lifestyle change, problem, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, changing lives, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman breaks things off with her boyfriend but finds out the universe has other plans. Desperate to move on, she is forced to literally relive the memories they’ve shared together. Pin-balling through time and space, she attempts to ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
relationship problems, marital problem, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, marital crisis, family relations, tragic love, dysfunctional family, breakup, male female relationship, relationships, travel ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's about a man that gets tired of his meaningless life and finds a way to escape from it pretending to be dead.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
faked death, escape, existentialism, identity crisis, character study, father daughter reunion, kids and family, parents and children, father daughter relationship, family reunited, changing lives, presumed dead ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
23%
285
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A man embarks on a trip with his estranged cousin Hudson to spread his late mother's ashes. They meet an unusual woman along the way and their simple road trip turns into a dysfunctional adventure.
Style:
road movie, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
grief, road trip, changing lives, lifestyle change, journey, satire, second chance, recluse, friendship, empathy, bittersweet, intimate ...
Similarity:
23%
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 ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman sabotages her own wedding in order to reclaim her identity and obliterates her life in the process.
Style:
captivating, dramatic, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, desert, wedding, mute, left for dead, runaway bride, woman, self discovery, identity, life, fiancee, sabotage ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
23%
172
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Following the death of her father, a 17-year-old girl is sent to live with her estranged family and finds comfort in a questionable friendship with a self-destructive neighbor, leading both on a startling path to self discovery.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, melancholic, queer cinema
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
self discovery, grief, coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, estrangement, adolescence, relationships, introspection, female protagonist, teenager, relationship problems, teenage life ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Oona, a recent graduate in anthropology, has returned to her dead mother’s seaside cottage in southern England to prepare it for sale. Her arrival disturbs Mani, a wary vagrant who has been squatting on the property.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
loneliness, homelessness, homeless, empathy, loss, grief, life is a bitch, male female relationship, relationship problems, character study, introspection, intimate ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Quiet and introverted toll booth clerk Kenan's life, a humdrum routine between the Tavsancik toll booth plaza and his home, will change the day the new operations chief comes to inspect Tavsancik.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, contemplative, melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, socially awkward, alienation, highway, character study, clerk, chore, workplace situations, changing lives, lifestyle change, workplace, routine ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Scotland to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, sincere, reflective ...
Plot:
senior citizen, road trip, elderly man, travel, bereavement, heartwarming, loss of wife, old man, life is a bitch, loss of family, last wish, loss of spouse ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In his quest to become successful, Aditya Parikh puts life on the back burner, including his Father Bipin Chandra Parikh. Infuriated and heartbroken, the father persuades his monotonous son to take an unplanned journey of a lifetime for a much ...
Style:
gujarati, inspirational, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
father son relationship, self discovery, travel, road trip, family values, life lesson, family drama, relationship problems, changing lives, lifestyle change, life, introspection ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France, Singapore
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
multicultural, captivating, disturbing, psychological, road movie
Plot:
changing lives, cross cultural relations, journey, self discovery, japanese culture, cultural difference, engineer, male female relationship, introspection, relationships, culture, bus ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Euphoria brings together two intersecting road stories about the same person - a little girl called Lily who is taken away from home by her mother Celeste, and a young woman, Michelle, who journeys home to unravel the truth about her mysterious past.
Style:
tense, psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family secret, investigation, mother daughter relationship, troubled past, secret past, confronting the past, uncover truth, multiple storylines, tragic past, journey, road trip ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An American student living a privileged existence at Glasgow School of Art faces the unexpected death of her father. Consumed with her loss, she finds herself re-examining both her life and inner circle.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
bereavement, self discovery, loss, grief, female protagonist, loss of family, changing lives, life is a bitch, loss of father, dysfunctional family, family problems, lifestyle change ...
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
female protagonist, secret, character study, lifestyle change, relationships, male female relationship, relationship problems, intimate, city life, minimalism, slice of life, sibling relationship ...
Place:
korea, seoul
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two ordinary guys in a small town embark on an extraordinary adventure, risking everything for a stranger in need.
Style:
psychological, sincere, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
getting home, road trip, small town, friendship, travel, self discovery, society, friendship between men, lifestyle, male protagonist, small town life, empathy ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Estela and her mother Clota must travel from Junín, where they live, to the town of Costa Bonita, in Necochea, to see some apartments that Estela's father has inherited from her.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, road movie ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, relationships, inheritance, town, mother, family relations, women, character study, family drama, motherhood, intimate, slice of life ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
For Ella, the death of her alcoholic father leaves her with nothing but debt and the bitter memory of a complicated past. Abandoned by her mother at a young age, she has sacrificed her life, opportunities, and love to care for a man she resents, but ...
Style:
road movie, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
road trip, death of father, family drama, grief, loss, self discovery, coming of age, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, grownups, couple relations ...
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A successful, young writer's first pregnancy is overshadowed by her complicated relationship with reality.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense, existential ...
Plot:
pregnancy, female protagonist, pregnancy and birth, writers, lifestyle, social climber, unplanned pregnancy, problem, male female relationship, family relations, writer's life, mental health ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Darcy, a composer, sees colors when she plays musical notes. When she notices her usually subtle colors changing, she realizes a profound change is upon her. Over a summer month, Darcy creates a time of music and reflection that help her make a ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
female protagonist, composer, music, life, changing lives, lifestyle change, musician, self discovery, character study, relationships, midlife crisis, intimate ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Recently widowed fifty-something Margaux looks to start chapter two. Moving in with her sister, she re-enrolls at university for pursuits she’d never realized. However, Margaux begins to experience another kind of awakening, the compulsions of ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
relationships, true love, university, self discovery, grief, widow, new life, lifestyle change, sister sister relationship, love, changing lives, loss of husband ...
Similarity:
21%
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