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The Days I Lost (2021)
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Original name: Los dias que no estuve
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, sincere, captivating, melancholic, realistic, dark comedy
Plot:
faked death, escape, existentialism, identity crisis, father daughter reunion, character study, relationships, kids and family, family relations, parents and children, family life, father daughter relationship, changing lives, lifestyle, family reunited, lifestyle change, presumed dead, loneliness, deception, midlife crisis, self discovery, alienation, regret, mature, second chance ...
Time:
2020s, contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Days I Lost
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, melancholic and realistic films with plots about family relations, relationships, bittersweet, character study, self discovery, small town and intimate mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Days I Lost: One Last Thing (2018), Inventory (2021), December (2008), Remember us (2018), A Case of Blue (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Boris Robič is, as we say, an ordinary kind of bloke. One evening, however, someone tries to shoot him. The investigations reveal nothing. No enemies, no suspects. You could say that Boris is the last person anyone would want to kill. After the ...
Style:
tragicomedy, dark comedy, satirical, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
dark humor, self discovery, character study, midlife crisis, social commentary, loneliness, bittersweet, social satire, awkwardness, identity crisis, absurdism, amateur sleuth ...
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Caio is 40 years old and lives in the Rio de Janeiro's countryside, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On Christmas' Eve, he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, family problems, hopes, estrangement, christmas, intimate, soul searching, identity crisis, male protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Kaan has difficulty getting a higher position in his work where he has built a good career. While he was occupied with his wife, children and his work, he has pretty much neglected his father. Until one day he is obliged to take care of him.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, relationship vs career, family problems, parents and children, family relations, kids and family, relationships, relationship problems, care, family life, father and son ...
Similarity:
53%
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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:
52%
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:
50%
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, reflective ...
Plot:
traveling salesman, female protagonist, road trip, journey, self discovery, character study, relationships, changing lives, travel, lifestyle change, male female relationship, family relations ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family. Based on a true story.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, heartfelt ...
Plot:
female protagonist, adoption, foster home, relationships, family relations, social problems, patriarch, family life, foster parent, social issues, lifestyle, patriarchy ...
Similarity:
47%
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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:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Aline with Valentín. Miroslava with Sergio. Two couples. Two different worlds. One only destiny. Reflected upon one another, their lives intertwine in everyday's story. A story full of conflict and passion, triumph and failure. Thus, their ...
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, touching, sensitive ...
Plot:
relationships, conflict, family relations, society, changing lives, marital problem, family problems, couples, family conflict, family life, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marco is a 35 year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father. Even when offered a job at a restaurant in Melbourne, he declines using his father as the excuse. When ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, captivating, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
relationships, parent child relationship, self discovery, grief, couple relations, father son relationship, male female relationship, relationship vs career, career change, chef, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A chronicle of a New York family as seen through the eyes of a charming yet self-destructive Broadway composer.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, family life, musician's life, lifestyle, parents and children, artists and showbiz, performer's life, family drama, character study, broadway, relationships, composer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the run and bleeding a young man ends up at a pond house where he meets an old man (Tobin Bell) and holds him hostage in his own home. As the days pass and the secrets about their past are revealed, they learn that they might not have been ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, hostage, father, family secret, estranged father, family relations, change of luck, family problems, parents and children, search for father, fatherhood, character study ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The ugly duckling of a fraught middle-class household has her life turned upside-down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student, in this caustic, absurdist satire of petit-bourgeois family life from Dutch director Michiel ten Horn. (TIFF)
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, taboo, loss of virginity, family problems, family relations, relationships, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, foreign exchange student, introspection, life philosophy ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Antonia, a young, beautiful, intelligent and successful executive, is in deep depression, she's dealing with an unwanted pregnancy from his previous relationship with his partner Sebastian, a young and dreamer, renowned photographer, who will ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
unwanted pregnancy, female protagonist, relationships, second chance, mature, personal growth, self discovery, identity crisis, career woman, resilience, bittersweet, nostalgia ...
Place:
chile, santiago chile
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The fast-paced city life of two sisters is turned upside down when they are sent to live in the country with their father after their mother is killed.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
horse, father daughter reunion, youth, teenage life, parents and children, family life, family problems, family relations, single parent, love and romance, dysfunctional family, estrangement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Sheldon's cancer has him navigating around his loving, but very dysfunctional family, providing comic relief as he follows his life's passion for photography. Left at the alter, he begins to realize that he's been in love with his ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, cancer, love story, couples, love and romance, relationships, family relations, relationship problems, couple relations, male female relationship, love interest, eccentric family ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's lives and try to find a way to communicate.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
foster child, child, deafness, blindness, loner, disability, bonding, empathy, changing lives, lifestyle change, child custody, family life ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
korea
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This is a story of two old folks, who have spent most of their lives behind prison walls. Now, as seventy year old men, they have been granted amnesty. Both men have a passionate desire to change their lives according to certain plans.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, contemplative ...
Plot:
aging, old man, ex convict, criminal, elderly, con artists, lifestyle, cons and scams, escapades, con men, changing lives, elderly man ...
Similarity:
34%
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:
34%
198
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a man suffering from mental illness who attempts to rebuild his life.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, sincere, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, redemption, parents and children, starting over, hopes, family relations, friendship, empathy, realism, character study, isolation, independence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The lives of four people from different walks of life is affected by a disastrous road accident. The regret, remorse and realisation these characters undergo makes the crux of the film.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
accident, regret, road accident, guilt, remorse, multiple storylines, social differences, society, crisis of conscience, tragic event, changing lives, social problems ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
relationships, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, family drama, siblings, family relations, siblings relations, coping, introspection, changing lives, lifestyle change, family problems ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
germany
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, reflective, realistic ...
Plot:
sisters, grownups, family drama, family conflict, family love, sibling relationship, coming of age, sister, family relations, kids and family, relationships, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
When womanizer Remco Albrecht celebrates his 65st birthday he has to deal with people from his past whom he would rather ignore.
Style:
realistic, emotional, reflective, melancholic, wistful
Plot:
aging, character study, birthday party, family secret, regret, midlife crisis, confrontation, bittersweet, introspection, relationships, infidelity, reconciliation ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK, USA, Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Tommaso is an American expat film director living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent unexpected blows to his self-esteem, Tommaso wades through this late chapter of his life with an ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot:
family relations, character study, parents and children, creative block, life philosophy, existential crisis, midlife crisis, society, disorder, couples, lifestyle, friendship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Harkening back to the apartment movies of the 1970s, "Footnotes" is the story of neighbors and near total strangers, Will and Apurna. When they begin spending lock-down together in the wake of the 2020 pandemic, what starts as a platonic ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
longing, isolation, quarantine, intimate, character study, neighbor, relationships, social relations, romantic relationship, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.
Style:
heartfelt, captivating, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, female protagonist, teenage son, family relations, mother, teenager, lifestyle change, musician, relationships, bonding, family drama, self discovery ...
Similarity:
30%
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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
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fleeing an abusive relationship, Jessica is reunited with her estranged foster father, "Chap", a rough-around-the-edges rancher. With the help of a handsome neighbor, the group learns to trust again and discovers that there is hope and ...
Style:
uplifting, inspirational, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, christmas season, family reunited, father daughter relationship, holiday, ranch, hopes, forgiveness, second chance, healing, loss of wife, kids and family ...
Similarity:
29%
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