Movies like The Uncle 2018
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The Uncle (2018)
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Original name: 삼촌
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The life of Ipse, a 19-year-old girl who cannot get out of her own bed due to psychological trauma, is as motionless as a plant. Having no family and no clue of her family's mysterious history, she lives completely dependent on her neighbors, but starts to feel suffocated under the abuse and the looks she gets as if she was something to be eaten up. One day, in the midst of her hellish everyday life, a stranger comes to her house.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
psychotherapy, women, life is a bitch, social problems, disability, socially awkward, social issues, psychological trauma, neighbor, female protagonist, social worker, rape, physical disability, sex, police officer, female nudity, sexual abuse, teenage girl, family relations, octopus, rape and revenge, childhood, blackmail, caregiver, painting ...
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Most similar movies to The Uncle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and suspense films with plots about female protagonist, life is a bitch, social problems, family relations, family problems, relationship problems and female nudity mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Uncle: Glass Garden (2017), Kattradhu Thamizh (2007), You Can't Take My Daughter (2020), A Girl Missing (2019), Elizabeth Is Missing (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Despite her disabled leg, the Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns her back to the world and goes deep into the forest to ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, meditative ...
Plot:
female protagonist, isolation, forest, biologist, nature, physical disability, scientist, relationship problems, life is a bitch, handicapped, wildlife, disability ...
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95%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A young Tamil-postgraduate, frustrated with the circumstances and futility of his job, slowly loses his mental balance and becomes a sociopath.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
social status, psychopath, murderer, mental illness, mental disorder, serial murder, psycho killer, serial killer, murder, social issues, social misfits, socially awkward ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young woman fights to keep her rapist from gaining custody of her daughter.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, violence, rape victim, female protagonist, custody battle, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, rape and revenge, sexual abuse, rape, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Ichiko works as a private nurse for a family she has almost became a part of. While Ichiko cares for the grandmother, she is also a confidant to Motoko, the eldest sister. But one day, Motoko’s younger sister disappears. And the media soon reveal ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
disappearance, kidnapping, mysterious disappearance, sex, secret, husband wife relationship, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, care, replacement, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
89%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
senior citizen, missing person, flashback, alzheimer's disease, dementia, disappearance, old woman, forgetfulness, sister, girlfriend, aging, uncover truth ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Aoi is gang-raped by her classmates and kicked out of her home by her own parents she sees no reason to continue living. Before she commits suicide, however, she receives an email on her cellphone from a man named Toshi addressed to a girl ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating, sad
Plot:
sexual assault, sex worker, tragic past, prostitution, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, rape, confronting the past, social outcast, female protagonist, violence against women, social issues ...
Similarity:
87%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set in a run-down bar named "Pink," movie follows the lives of people surrounding the bar including its owner Ok-Ryun.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
protest, loss of job, social problems, small town, social issues, small town life, life is a bitch, family relations, social misfits, workplace, family problems, society ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.
Style:
tense, intense, bleak, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
bullying, investigation, suicide, mental health, adolescence, crime investigation, secret, murderer, murder mystery, murder investigation, murder, social problems ...
Similarity:
86%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jina is the top employee at a credit card company call center. She avoids building close relationships, choosing instead to live and work alone. One day, her irritating next-door neighbor who would attempt to talk with her is discovered dead, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
lonely, loner, alone, call center, loneliness, changing lives, social problems, lifestyle change, living alone, social isolation, social issues, life is a bitch ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The destinies of five young women from all over the world intertwine in Paris as they embark on a roller-coaster ride of extremes in their search for love, sex and money. Based upon true stories, Shanghai Belle tells the destiny of five young women ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot:
lesbian love, nightclub, women, social problems, prostitution, female protagonist, sex, seduction, forced prostitution, life is a bitch, sexual relations, model ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a remote camp in the Carlota mountains, a renowned paleontologist, guards the most important finding of her scientific career: the fossil remains of a hippogriff, a mythical animal half bird half lion of which there is no certainty of its ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, mysterious ...
Plot:
paleontology, female protagonist, rivalry, female bonding, fossil, problem, life is a bitch, science, conservation, conflict, defiant, corporate greed ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky’s short story A Gentle Creature about a woman who travels to a prison in a remote region to track down her incarcerated husband.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
prison violence, prison, fighting the system, injustice, prison visit, prison guard, social injustice, fight for justice, social problems, society, violence, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
85%
636
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An English teacher's life turns upside-down once a new student moves in across the street.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot:
teacher student relationship, student, frame up, neighbor, teacher, teacher student romance, relationship problems, relationships, social problems, life is a bitch, blackmail, teenage girl ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Helen Brindel is trapped in a violent marriage and the prison of her faith when she falls in love with a scholar, Professor Eduard Gluck. But he’s a secret porn addict. Slowly, carefully, two very different individuals get to know each other.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
cheating wife, insomnia, marriage crisis, sexually dissatisfied wife, husband and wife, psychologist, desperation, marriage, faith, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
Place:
hamburg germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
On a rainy evening, 19-year-old university student Fumi Saeki happens to meet 9-year-old Sarasa Kanai in the park. Kanai Sarasa is soaking wet. She is separated from her parents and lives with her aunt, but she tells Saeki Fumi that she doesn't ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
social relations, male female relationship, social problems, relationships, social issues, life is a bitch, older man younger woman relationship, couple relations, accusation, framed for a crime, making love, unfaithful girlfriend ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When Lene seeks out her estranged husband in hope of reconciliation she finds him in bed with a new lover. Shocked, she flees the scene and embarks on a journey through the night that takes her on an existential rollercoaster ride of dreamlike ...
Style:
existential, dark, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
infidelity, introspection, female protagonist, family drama, crush, marital infidelity, unfulfilled love, life is a bitch, family problems, tragic love, marital problem, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Oliver is a lonely forty-something working as an air traffic controller. He fills his empty life by watching TV and observing the family living in the house across the street - he regards them as an ideal of happiness. At first he just watches the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
peeping tom, secretly observing, psychopath as protagonist, loneliness, stalking, neighbor, social problems, alone, disturbed individual, nosy neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, family problems ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Swapna, a nyctophobic game designer on a turbulent road to recovery from an incident that scarred her deeply, has to fight her inner demons to stay alive in the game called life.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
time loop, fight, murder, female protagonist, life is a bitch, social problems, fear, serial killer, time, resurrection, rape, home invasion ...
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An adopted Dublin girl sets out to find her birth mother in London, despite knowing the woman has no desire to meet with her.
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, touching, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot:
female warrior, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, girl, revenge, foster child, women, family relations, love, violence, couples, love and romance ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Eight years ago, 14 year old May was raped by a group of men. May’s father is devastated, blaming himself for not being able to keep his daughter safe. Traumatized significantly by this incident, May withdraws completely from life.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, childhood trauma, trauma, sexual assault, wizard, family problems, family relations, social problems, life is a bitch, relationships, guilt, grief ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
82%
208
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young girl goes missing just as a convicted sex offender moves into town. The girl's father, the inhabitants of the towns and even law enforcement believe he is responsible for the disappearance.
Style:
psychological, tense, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
missing child, haunted by the past, family relations, social relations, village, investigation, rivalry, danger, pedophile, village life, siblings relations, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A London man who loses his memory when he's struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past.
Style:
cerebral, captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, memories, memory lapse, social problems, amnesiac, life is a bitch, past, tragic past, telephone call, accident, hospital ...
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story about Mirella Antonione Casale who got inspired by her handicapped daughter to lead the fight for including all pupils in public schools in Italy.
Style:
inspirational, psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
school, fighting the system, mother daughter relationship, disabled child, handicapped, parents and children, disability, social problems, female protagonist, schoolgirl, social issues, civil rights movement ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The awkward, distant, and wounded three sisters gather at their hometown for their father’s birthday. However, on the day of the party, there is a big mess because of their little brother Jinseob’s abnormal behavior, and the past of the three ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
family problems, sister sister relationship, family relations, sisters, relationships, life is a bitch, confronting the past, brother sister relationship, dysfunctional family, women, troubled past, tragic past ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
'Disappearance' takes place in the remote winter landscape of Norway. Roos visits her mother there yearly, but this time it's different: she brings bad news. However, old pain and numerous reproaches keep Roos from sharing anything ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
terminal illness, snow, illness, pianist, mother daughter relationship, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, reconciliation, mother daughter estrangement, relationship problems, estranged family member ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Haeyoung is a hopeless girl. She lives with her father who runs a Chinese restaurant, and a younger sibling. One day, her father has a mysterious accident, which places her in a position of responsibility. She is now not only the head of the house ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, sibling relationship, determination, resilience, family relations, relationship problems, crime solving, father daughter relationship, family problems, accident, uncover truth ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on a stage play of the same name by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, the story follows Cassandra, who is portrayed by the two women, expressing the opposing voices that exist inside the modern woman's head, during a 48-hour period as she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
funeral, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, male nudity, male pubic hair, female nudity, bicycle, flashback ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they can't help notice that their strange new neighbor has a secret.
Style:
sincere, psychological, disturbing, captivating, surprise ending
Plot:
new neighbor, faith, neighbor neighbor relationship, friendship, lifestyle change, lifestyle, female protagonist, social problems, social issues, neighbor, changing lives, old man ...
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In a countryside house where they are meant to explore the troubles in their sexuality, three women spend days and nights apprehending their inner demons. A serene German therapist and a kind-hearted social worker supervise them, help them and try ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
sex, psychotherapy, relationship problems, group therapy, relationships, therapy, psychology, psychological manipulation, introspection, female protagonist, lifestyle change, skinny dipping ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, art film, hispanic, period drama
Plot:
biopic, social relations, society, relationships, lifestyle change, life is a bitch, male female relationship, female protagonist, social problems, family relations, changing lives, writer's life ...
Similarity:
81%
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