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The Belly of the Sea (2021)
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Original name: El ventre del mar
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
June, 1816. A French navy frigate ran aground on a sandbar off the coast of Senegal. Attempts to free the board were futile - the crew had no choice but to abandon ship. Since the available boats were not enough to accommodate the entire crew, the team built a raft. It accommodated 147 people: soldiers, sailors, several passengers and officers. The plan was for the boats to tow the raft. But the cable broke and the raft drifted into the open sea. For those who were on the raft, a harsh and cruel struggle for life began.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
ocean, sea, struggle for survival, raft, survival, storm at sea, male nudity, skinny dipping, death, cannibalism, suicide, insanity, captain, court martial, drowning, male pubic hair, madness, shipwreck, castaway, lost at sea, pubic hair, testicles, male bare butt, man undressing, flesh
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and suspense films with plots about life is a bitch, survival, male nudity, struggle for survival, female nudity, male pubic hair and female protagonist mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres. Some movies like The Belly of the Sea: The Surface (2014), Undercurrent (2010), 14 Kilometers (2007), La Influencia (2007), Guilt (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two strangers, both at the end of their rope, suddenly meet in the middle of the unpredictable waters of Lake Michigan.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot:
boat, survival, accident, stranger, struggle for survival, trapped, sea disaster, unlikely friendships, sea voyage, die hard, air disaster, airplane crash ...
Place:
michigan, milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The crew on board the fishing vessel Undercurrent RE 29 has become uncomfortably numb with its never ending routine of week long tours at sea. Then, during one dark and dreary night this routine is shaken to its foundation when one of the most solid ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
ship, ocean, workplace, power relations, isolation, human nature, confined, search and rescue, sailing, under the surface, boat, sleeping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, educational ...
Plot:
desert, immigrant, survival, border crossing, stranded in the desert, struggle for survival, illegal alien, smuggling, unlikely friendships, social problems, illegal immigrant, human rights ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A disoriented and vulnerable woman, overburdened with daily life problems and more: her belongings are impounded, her cosmetics shop has been closed down, and her children's future is unknown. The children's vitality draws a sharp contrast ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
children, depression, life is a bitch, depressed woman, absent parent, single parent, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, mother, nudity, home alone ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Monika, a middle-aged wealthy woman, goes through a marriage crisis with her younger husband Linas. A car accident leads Monika to meeting three young girls, Kristina, Egle and Gitana, who happen to be ex-prostitutes extradited from Germany. The ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
middle aged woman, car accident, friendship, female protagonist, marriage crisis, society, family crisis, midlife crisis, women, relationship problems, unlikely friendships, suicide ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
57%
150
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After being sexually assaulted by an acquainted and incapable of dealing with the situation, a woman leaves her whole life behind and hides herself away in an isolated cabin in the mountains.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, sexualized violence, rape victim, violence against women, shame, guilt, traumatic past, tragic past, violence, psychological trauma, rape, troubled past ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
castaway, problem, saving a life, secret, ship, sinking ship, island life, rescue, survival, resilience, moving, emigration ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
galicia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
survival, world war two, survivor, holocaust, struggle for survival, new identity, life is a bitch, female protagonist, soldier, prison, fight, suffering ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
54%
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177
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A tragic comedy about an orphan girl who knows nothing better than the animal way but at the end comes to realize her only chance - to be human.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
orphan, border crossing, prostitute, social problems, mistrust, social issues, in love, social relations, relationships, male female relationship, disbelieving adult, unrequited love ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A film about a man and one woman who do absurdly crazy things. But although their shocking behaviors are outrageous, but it remains not just as some spectacles. When the communication between two comes to fail, it suddenly arouses subtle sorrows.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, crying
Plot:
insanity, relationships, mentally unstable, tragic love, love affair, love story, relationship problems, male female relationship, couple relations, life is a bitch, mental illness, madness ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story:
Billionaire Mr Sam is an experimental film maniac dreaming of making a true private SM movie. He holds a production meeting with SM novelist Eden and unemployed porn film director Justin who casts the actress Sally, a poor university student ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
confined, erotica, captivity, bdsm, problem, survival, money problems, nudity, struggle for survival, woman in a cage, jail, underground ...
Similarity:
53%
187
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man is diagnosed terminally ill and having only a limited time to live he decides to inflict pain and suffering on an ex-girlfriend in an attempt to teach her the value of life.
Style:
suspense, rough, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
captive woman, incest, brother sister incest, captive, forbidden sex, male pubic hair, obsession, sex with brother, kidnapping, insanity, terminal illness, kidnapped woman ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Front of Aragon, 1937. Lluís (Marcel Borràs), a young republican officer destined for a temporarily dormant position, meets an enigmatic widow of whom she falls in love, Carlana (Núria Prims), who manages to fool him to falsify a Document that ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, sincere
Plot:
spanish civil war, european history, friendship, soldier, politics, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, male nudity, mediterranean ...
Time:
1930s, year 1937
Place:
catalonia
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, social problems, conspiracy, sex slavery, uncover truth, illegal prostitution, slave trade, investigation, disappearance, secret, sex slave, mysterious disappearance ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A highly successful upper middle class woman with a loving family has her seemingly “perfect” world turned upside down when the hidden secrets from her past suddenly resurface, forcing her and her beloved mother into a painful examination of ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
faith, recovery, female protagonist, family relations, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, confronting the past, mother daughter relationship, tragic past, dark past, woman in danger, family in danger ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Liz and Andrew are on their anniversary trip in Hawaii when Liz wakes up to discover her husband missing and evidence of an invasion all around her. But with no witnesses, she's immediately labeled the prime suspect. Without any help from the ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, kidnapping, crime solving, kidnapped man, accused of murder, protagonist as suspect, mysterious disappearance, suspect, accusation, uncover truth, framed for murder, abduction ...
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Medicine, money and morality clash when a hospital's Heart Transplant Selection Committee has only minutes to decide which of three patients on the transplant list will receive a heart that has suddenly become available.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
heart transplant, medical, organ transplant, transplant, medicine, struggle, moral dilemma, dispute, doctor, doctors and patients, conflict, physician ...
Time:
year 2014
Place:
new york
Similarity:
52%
717
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
At 7:19 a.m., on September 19th of 1985, the most destructive earthquake hit Mexico's City. Inside what's left of a building, a group of survivors fight for their lives waiting for rescue.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Teenager Ruslan is a half-orphan who lives by the dried Aral Sea. When he learns that due to serious illness he has no more than 3 months to live, Ruslan decides to punish those responsible for the death of his beloved mother.
Style:
tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, teenage boy, teenager, death of mother, punishment, teenage protagonist, terminal illness, loss of mother, vendetta, illness, death, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young man's mythical quest for a stone that fell from the sky. He searches, stumbles and suffers as he traverses the sadistic universe of Northern Europe. He only finds redemption on the very edge of madness. Based on the iconic Dutch novel ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, weird
Plot:
skinny dipping, dream, survival, travel, self discovery, nature, explorer, introspection, meteorite, road trip, fog, walking ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Kid campers fight to survive when their canoe capsizes.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
survival, teenager, friendship, brotherhood, struggle for survival, tragic event, camp, summer camp, vacation, summer vacation, coming of age, boy ...
Time:
1920s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
violence, psychopath, life is a bitch, hospital, society, danger, brutality, life & death, homelessness, homeless, poverty, angry ...
Place:
columbus ohio, ohio, cincinnati ohio, los angeles
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Dominican Republic
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
sex scene, male nudity, reformatory, male pubic hair, sexuality, adolescence, poverty, murder, life is a bitch, survival, rivalry, society ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings ...
Style:
captivating, serious, tense, psychological, stylized ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, couples, escapades, danger, friendship, women, biopic, woman, friends, visceral, struggle for survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 90s
Place:
greenland
Similarity:
51%
204
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is the life motto of 30-year-old Agnieszka. After serving five years in prison, Agnieszka flees Poland for Germany in an attempt to start over. In Munich she meets the lonely 70-year-old Madame, ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
older woman younger man, relationship problems, age difference, middle aged, love affair, love story, life is a bitch, middle aged woman, star crossed lovers, female protagonist, fall in love, in love ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A millionaire's daughter is all set to marry her boyfriend against her father's wish. When her father finally approves the marriage, her boyfriend believes that her father should sign over his wealth to him.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, dysfunctional family, parents and children, inheritance, relationship problems, tragic love, family problems, love affair, showdown, reconciliation, family ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
prison, violence, brutality, free will, prison escape, tsunami, convict, devastation, reformatory, crash, cell, catastrophe ...
Time:
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Place:
chile
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
hot and sexy, therapy, unhappy marriage, doctor patient relationship, marital problem, male female relationship, psychology, husband wife relationship, psychologist, family life, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Estonia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Julián is a successful video-game designer whose life is plagued by a dark secret. But when Diana pops up in his life, the man will feel as though a chance at happiness is within his grasp.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
social problems, obsession, male protagonist, life is a bitch, traumatic experience, psychological trauma, museum, little boy, male nudity, pedophilia, macabre, video game ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
While visiting his recently-divorced father, Wylie discovers the camera and video diaries of Clayton. With his college friends over, Wylie begins to explore his desires through daydreams and reality. His roommate Greg is the object of his obsession. ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
father son relationship, gay, male nudity, gay interest, gay crush, erotica, lgbtq, sexual awakening, sexual tension, self discovery, obsession, college life ...
Similarity:
51%
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