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Capturing Mary (2007)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man ushers an older woman into a dark exploration of her past - back to the time when, as a young girl, she met a stranger who affected her life forever.
Style:
psychological, sincere, stylized, period piece, captivating, surreal, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy ...
Plot:
estate, elderly, lifestyle, introspection, haunted by the past, social relations, love and romance, society, post war, youth, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, painter, writers, young woman, party, mansion, fear, hallucination, breakup, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, flashback, caretaker, newspaper columnist, reminiscence ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 60s, 2000s, 21st century, 1960s, contemporary
Place:
england, london, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about society, love and romance, introspection, life is a bitch, family relations, haunted by the past and hopes mostly in Drama, Comedy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Capturing Mary: Joe's Palace (2007), The Making of a Lady (2012), Gosford Park (2001), Plenty (1985), The Tribe (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A drama centered on the relationship between Elliot, a strange and wealthy Londoner, and Joe, a teenager who takes care of an empty house Elliot owns.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, enigmatic ...
Plot:
older man younger man relationship, old man, friendship, uncover truth, lifestyle, estate, teenager, secret, wealth, nudity, male nudity, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,
Style:
sexy, tense, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, love and romance, malice, abbey, class differences, female protagonist, life is a bitch, relationship problems, deception, high society, rich and poor, social problems ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place:
england, britain, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Style:
detective, period piece, costume drama, biting, satirical ...
Plot:
murder, whodunit, society, murder mystery, country estate, estate, high society, murder investigation, butler, police investigation, twists and turns, servant ...
Time:
1930s, year 1932, 20th century, pre world war two, year 2001 ...
Place:
england, detroit, london
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, thought provoking, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, mental illness, memory, parachute, one night stand, women, rock, world war, hopes, introspection, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1985, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
england, france, europe, london
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24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
Style:
contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic, psychotronic
Plot:
female nudity, female pubic hair, sex, threesome, harassment, commune, free love, real estate, seduction, misfit, society, social misfits ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, change of luck, society, alcohol abuse, youth, hopes, confronting the past, troubled past, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, friendship, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
music, haunted by the past, deportation, musician's life, introspection, life is a bitch, estrangement, society, drug, young love, musician, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Lizzie Thomas, a secretary at a local estate agent's, to come and work for him as his assistant, ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense, sexual ...
Plot:
entrepreneur, workplace romance, secretary, mentor, couples, rise to the top, love triangle, power relations, ambition, obnoxious boss, workplace, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, estrangement, mental illness, human nature, family problems, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, world war two, military, holocaust, girl, forest, locomotive, comeback, post war, soldier, estate, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, germany, czech republic
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
"Heart of Now" concerns a young woman with a profound longing for a sense of family. Amber is devastated after her boyfriend abandons her because she's pregnant. She is whisked across a contrast of urban, natural and emotional ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
desert, looking for love, introspection, haunted by the past, redemption, downfall, female protagonist, spirituality, breakup, relationship problems, problem solving, pregnancy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
21%
453
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freefall is the first drama to tackle the extraordinary financial crisis Britons are living through. Helmed by multiple BAFTA-winning director Dominic Savage, the film takes a startling and provocative look at the events that caused people's ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
debt, stock broker, society, social decay, downfall, life is a bitch, working class, dishonesty, unfulfillment, blind ambition, banker, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
21%
831
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
elderly, introspection, murder, parents and children, estrangement, gender, society, family relations, life, small town life, relationships, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, macedonia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Conscription has been introduced in Britain. Across the country, young people are being called upon to serve the nation in another reactionary Middle-Eastern conflict. They face war on a scale not seen in any of their lifetimes. hearts & minds ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
introspection, life is a bitch, wartime life, soldier, military, conscription, war on terror, youth, protest, fictional war, british soldier, wartime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, bristol
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A story about a group of seven London-based students from 1965 to the present day.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, saga ...
Plot:
drug addict, society, group of friends, love and romance, destiny, love affair, friends, social relations, friendship, lifestyle, ethnic diversity, flatmate ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s ...
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
20%
377
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Renowned actress Colleen West abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. But the peace and quiet she longed for is disrupted by the noisy construction of neighboring housing developments. Before long, Colleen discovers that she ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, psychological, black and white ...
Plot:
actor's life, introspection, direction and purpose, artists and showbiz, aging, unfulfillment, love affair, ambition, society, art, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
193
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
hollywood, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, love and romance, unfulfillment, hopes, writers, aspiring actress, rivalry, society, down on your luck, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
aging, elderly, drug abuse, introspection, disease, dealing with death, terminal illness, female protagonist, subconscious, character study, youth, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jimmy Wayne Collins finds himself adrift in Memphis, Tennessee. Forced to return home to the piney woods of Southeast Texas, Jimmy will face his imprisoned brother, his dying father and the demons he left behind.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, estrangement, homecoming, introspection, small town, unfulfillment, lifestyle, profanity, bar fight, ambition, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, memphis, tennessee
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An elderly radio-operator travels across Kurdistan in the war-torn 80s assuring communication between lost families.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, touching, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, human spirit, wartime life, life is a bitch, hopes, elderly, family problems, haunted by the past, kurd, dealing with death, mountain, lost
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Prompted by horrific nightmares, Henry delves into the mystery of his past and begins to uncover the truth about his father's death, triggering a series of revelations that will change his family forever.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, murder, teenage life, coming of age, parents and children, teenage love, family life, youth, bittersweet, death, father son relationship, world war two
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Haiti
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the midst of increasing political violence, a young couple, two sisters, and a father and son are driven from Haiti to New York, where they must confront the truths of their interlocked pasts.
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, political
Plot:
culture clash, haunted by the past, immigrant, family relations, social relations, life is a bitch, society, single parent, political unrest, blaxploitation, couple relations, under the surface ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
haiti, africa, usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of ...
Style:
realistic, art house, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, leaving home, teenage life, teenage love, introspection, farm, unfulfillment, small town, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
19%
621
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style:
realistic, touching, erotic, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, introspection, society, couples, suburban life, suburbs, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
losing-it hero, single parent, coming of age, teenage boy, introspection, teenage life, bullying, youth, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
420
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
As John Barrymore reckons with the ravages of his life of excess, he rents an old theatre to rehearse for a backer's audition to raise money for a revival of his 1920 Broadway triumph in Richard III.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
artists and showbiz, actor's life, theater, performer's life, showbiz, introspection, actor, society, rivalry, hollywood, art, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1920s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, charles dickens, social differences, society, rise to the top, hopes, power relations, generosity, passionate love, rags to riches, victorian england, napoleonic era ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Uruguay, Spain
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
A movie-theater employee adjusts to a new life after the cinema he worked at for over 25 years is forced to shut down.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
self discovery, theater, introspection, cinema, society, social relations, loss of job, fired from the job, social problems, filmmaking, dialogue, existentialism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, uruguay
Similarity:
19%
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