Movies like Pool 2020
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Pool (2020)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
24 year old Johan spends his days in Nice on the French Riviera, supported by an aging ex-actress. Days go by between her house, the beaches and the apartment of his friend Kurt. A life in leisure and luxury. But memories of his teenage years are haunting him. A strong sense of threat is growing stronger and stronger.
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, captivating, dramatic, psychological, atmospheric, art house, existential
Plot:
older woman younger man sex, relationships, friends, beach, couples, actress, male female relationship, lifestyle, friend, couple relations, alienation, shallowness, memory, isolation, glamour, mediterranean, identity crisis, longing, trauma, obsession, minimalism, nostalgia, coming of age, manipulation, sexual identity ...
Place:
french riviera
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Most similar movies to Pool
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, psychological, art house and captivating films with plots about relationships, male female relationship, isolation, intimate, memory, minimalism and couple relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Pool: A Blue Automobile (2004), Eventide (2015), The Illusions (2009), Gyeongju (2014), In Front of Your Face (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Richio, a young DJ, is as emotionally non-existent as no other man on the planet. He uses his tough exterior to avoid attachments to people and society.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
love triangle, trauma, character study, relationships, romantic relationship, love affair, love story, physical appearance, male female relationship, relationship problems, social problems, love interest ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Two young lovers are making a journey through the desert, not specifically going anywhere, in search of freedom.She is very alive and energetic, continuously asking for his affection. He is quiet, mysterious and non-communicative.What starts as a ...
Style:
poetic, independent film, existential, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
desert, desperation, love, alienation, nature, young lovers, journey, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, relationships, couples ...
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, romantic drama ...
Plot:
island, nostalgia, writers, writer's life, lifestyle, hippie, memory, puzzle, mystery woman, haunting, lost love, identity ...
Similarity:
89%
534
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend's funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of love in a time of pain.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
mourning, memory, nostalgia, past, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, romantic relationship, troubled past, male female relationship, couples, love story ...
Similarity:
77%
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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:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
During the summer, thirteen-year-old Sofia moves to the country house, where her cousin Cristina is waiting for her to spend the vacations. During these days of games and discoveries, the two will be immersed in a love triangle with a man almost ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot:
love triangle, coming of age, sexual awakening, adolescence, loss of innocence, grownups, male female relationship, love story, relationships, teenager, female protagonist, teenage girl ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
Style:
independent film, captivating, psychological, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
love affair, director, longing, male female relationship, couple relations, love interest, romantic relationship, couples, love and romance, relationships, infatuation, love story ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ong-nye had a world of men wrapped around her finger, until, one day, a horrific injury leaves her handicapped, and she retreats to the mountains. But one man may break her loneliness.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, erotic, dramatic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, eroticism, character study, relationship problems, loner, lifestyle, seductress, social problems, male female relationship, relationships, couple relations ...
Similarity:
64%
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 ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A stylish, urban woman ends up castaway on a deserted island, where she meets a rugged hermit. Solitude and detachment soon draw them together.
Style:
captivating, psychological, romantic, art house, indie film ...
Plot:
recluse, loneliness, island, estrangement, alienation, desert island, couple relations, isolation, relationships, change of heart, solitude, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman, and her last memories of the five people who loved her most, recalled while experiencing a catastrophic event.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
memories, female protagonist, death, memory, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love affair, lifestyle, trauma, loss, grief ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Thomas, a photographer from France, goes to Japan to take pictures of abandoned places. Lonely, he meets Natsuki, a young and beautiful woman, who will become his model. But Thomas has violent panic attacks and nightmares...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, art house, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, nightmare, photography, trauma, mental illness, haunting, isolation, ruins, obsession, memory, intimate ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.
Style:
realistic, thrilling, psychological, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
relationships, family relations, couple relations, couples, male female relationship, love interest, love affair, relationship problems, lifestyle, love story, multiple storylines, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, paris france, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Nesrin and Erdem talk about their relationship, which they don’t remember in exactly the same way. Çevik’s visually stunning essay uses their conversations to forge a pensive treatise on what it means to forget, where word and image play an ...
Style:
romantic, psychological, romantic drama, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, memory, couples, love, love story, romantic relationship, male female relationship, romantic reunion, love interest, love affair, couple relations, lovers reunited ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The names of the characters are pronouns. She is a teacher, with his father dead just three days ago. Faced with this situation, He intends to take care of her while He is alive. This is the beginning of an odd relationship.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, melancholic, surreal ...
Plot:
muse, minimalism, loneliness, grief, mourning, intimate, couple relations, family problems, relationships, male female relationship, care, lifestyle ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, coming of age, personal growth, freedom, relocation, identity crisis, isolation, intimate, escape, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Similarity:
50%
172
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass execution where her boyfriend is killed. Years later, she’s in a close relationship with her new partner, Gabriel. At the Long Term Care Center where she ...
Style:
captivating, serious, thought provoking, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
grief, civil war, love, male nudity, female nudity, loss, trauma, survivor, couple relations, time, male female relationship, public execution ...
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A classical musician travels to the South of France to escape his demons and wait for his new love, a younger woman named Sophia. Trying to come to peace with his new life in these slow, peaceful surroundings, his seemingly chance meeting with ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, reflective ...
Plot:
classical music, love story, changing lives, male female relationship, problem, relationships, couple relations, love and romance, love interest, love, relationship problems, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an ...
Style:
psychological, mindfuck, atmospheric, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
trauma, grief, female protagonist, manipulation, memory, alienation, identity crisis, mental illness, haunting, violent death, rehearsal, coming of age ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Slovenia, France
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:
melancholic, contemplative, atmospheric, existential, art house ...
Plot:
silence, family drama, mother son relationship, isolation, introspection, intimate, strained relationship, misunderstanding, motherhood, communication, minimalism, slow burn ...
Similarity:
46%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.
Style:
art house, thought provoking, serious, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
character study, obsession, creative process, isolation, alienation, realism, intimate, family conflict, identity crisis, mental health, slow burn, slice of life ...
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 201 min.
Story:
Omnibus film "Bungo Sasayakana Yokubo" features 6 different short stories set under 2 different themes ("Mitsumerareru Shukujotachi" & "Kokuhaku Suru Shinshitachi").
Style:
anthology, psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house ...
Plot:
omnibus, male female relationship, relationships, lifestyle, multiple storylines, unrequited love, confession, sexual desire, realism, bittersweet, obsession, urban ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young bioarchaeologist Yukisuke is attracted to a girl Koyomi, who runs a small stand of taiyaki pastry that he often buys. Koyomi is hospitalized, however, by a car accident on a rainy day after they go out together, and wakes up with short term ...
Style:
serious, captivating, psychological, dramatic, melancholic
Plot:
memory loss, car, coma, couple relations, love, love affair, couples, young girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, relationships, rain ...
Similarity:
45%
79
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
existential, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
grief, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, character study, search for father, alienation, minimalism, intimate, regret, male protagonist, urban ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Paralysed by fear of the future, a middle aged French bureaucrat escapes to Brazil where a destructive affair with a boy forces her to learn to live in the present.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, art house, existential ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, female protagonist, self destructing, midlife crisis, obsession, woman, relationships, couple relations, couples, life, love affair, love interest ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
42%
163
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
One year after the death of her mother, Elena, a young French woman of Greek origin, returns to her holiday home on the island of Lesbos. She is accompanied by her friends Nassim and Sekou, two young suburbanites more used to the benches of the city ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, captivating, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
island, greek, mourning, grief, greek island, woman, seaside, women, coastal town, sun, female protagonist, beach ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
42%
265
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sawako enjoys taking photos of older men and making scrapbooks with them. Although the men she has dated have always been older than her, she has been unable to speak well with her father and they have grown apart.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic ...
Plot:
self discovery, sexual awakening, problem, relationships, romantic relationship, love story, couple relations, love interest, love, relationship problems, love affair, love and romance ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finished. He doesn't have any ideas for his next work. His situation seems bleak, with his editor seeming to not care about him anymore and his ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, dramatic, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
infidelity, desperation, relationships, prostitute, secret, job, life, business, melancholy, writer's block, loneliness, downfall ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, erotic drama, romantic drama ...
Plot:
desire, social problems, couple relations, male female relationship, love affair, relationships, relationship problems, sexual exploration, character study, loneliness, bittersweet, literary ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
41%
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