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On the Wandering Paths (2023)
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Original name: Sur les chemins noirs
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he decides to walk through France, following forgotten pathways...
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, captivating, dramatic, non-linear, uplifting
Plot:
writers, travel, life, coma, changing lives, lifestyle change, cross country trip, travel and leisure, accident, rehabilitation, biopic, sea, mountain, train, party, climbing, beach, hotel, hospital, book, fire, church, helicopter, journey, boat ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, thought provoking and disturbing films with plots about family relations, death, cigarette smoking, beach, hospital, changing lives and life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like On the Wandering Paths: Bad Girl (2012), One of a Kind (2013), Soul Mates (2023), A Thousand Miles Behind (2019), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, captivating, sincere
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Time:
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Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lieutenant of the French forces engaged in Mali, David Faber is seriously burned during the explosion of his armored vehicle. Repatriated to France for intensive care, he must begin a long convalescence, under the worried but devoted gaze of his ...
Plot:
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76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A man struggling with grief sets off across California on a solo motorcycle trip.
Style:
serious, sentimental, exciting, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
motorcycle, road trip, journey, loss, mourning, grief, travel and leisure, cross country trip, highway travel, spiritual journey, traveler, travel ...
Place:
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Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
After a Vietnamese woman dies in a traffic accident in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
life, tragic past, getting home, troubled past, confronting the past, promiscuous past, haunted by the past, baby, church, religion, desire, uncle nephew relationship ...
Place:
vietnam, singapore, spain, asia, france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and ...
Style:
captivating, psychological
Plot:
party, female protagonist, family relations, problem, changing lives, lifestyle change, dying father, birthday, father, cousin, life, thinness ...
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63%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer for a local newspaper in Corsica. Her commitment, her friends, and her loves intertwine with the major political events of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the ...
Plot:
photographer, female protagonist, photograph, prison, photography, photojournalism, heroin, murder, hotel, newspaper, voice over narration, war photographer ...
Time:
90s, year 1980, year 1999, 80s, year 1993
Place:
corsica
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Romania, Cambodia, Qatar
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born, before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, thought provoking, dramatic, interesting
Plot:
journey, life, foster home, biological father, adoptive mother, parents and children, interracial adoption, parents, foster parent, birth mother, adoptive father, female nudity ...
Place:
seoul, south korea
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Centres around a Paris fire-fighter, an everyday hero, who, after being involved in a serious accident during a major fire, must rebuild his life with the love of his wife — and accept that, sometimes, even saviours need saving.
Plot:
fireman, fire, firefight, killed in a car crash, pregnancy, nudity, homelessness, suicidal thoughts, arson, pregnant woman, balloon, photograph ...
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.
Style:
hot
Plot:
women, bare chested male, topless woman, seaside, newspaper, fire, death, teenage girl, beach, doctor, swimming pool, surgery ...
Place:
french riviera, south of france
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Kuma is an author, a sex obsessive and a wheelchair user. Beautiful and volatile Ryoko is unlike anybody he’s ever met before. She barrages into one of his lectures, demanding to know why he only talks of sex, not love, before declaring her own ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, melancholic, touching, tense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Johnny stands out from his family and his tough neighborhood in Eastern France. He's sensitive, intelligent and interested in all kinds of things way beyond his years. With curiosity, he observes the ups and downs of his young ...
Style:
social
Plot:
lgbt child, teacher student relationship, coming of age, boyhood, mother son conflict, boy, gay, lgbt, gay crush, little boy, blond boy, museum ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
Plot:
priest, journey, male nudity, missionary, photographer, death, nordic, bare chested male, volcanic eruption, guide, photography, cultural conflict ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, touching, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
adult child friendship, mother daughter relationship, little girl, relationship problems, mother child relationship, parents and children, family problems, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, dysfunctional family, mother and daughter ...
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48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a ...
Plot:
cancer, disabled child, mother, mother love, funeral, subway, death, car accident, tennis, baby, pregnant woman, death of mother ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, south of france
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47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, social, independent film, entertaining
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The life of a young police officer in a small town in Normandy is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a farmer threatening to commit suicide.
Plot:
police, marriage proposal, father daughter relationship, sailboat, male nudity, family relations, cat, interrogation, gendarmerie, sailing, singing, photograph ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
Style:
christian film, captivating, disturbing, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 1989
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot:
catholic priest, hypocrisy, church, changing lives, lifestyle change, ambition, multiple storylines, religion, liberation theology, pedophile, religious, female nudity ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Following a rare accident, Paul Sneijder opened his eyes to the reality of his life as a "senior manager" in Montreal: his work no longer interested him, his wife annoyed him and deceived him, his two sons despised him ... How can we ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, ambition, existential crisis, psychiatrist, loss of daughter, new job, drastic change of life, lifestyle change, family problems, changing lives, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, montreal, dubai
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, entertaining
Plot:
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Place:
sicily
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Sweden, France
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Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
alcoholic, alcoholism, search for father, journey, social problems, lifestyle change, changing lives, redemption, recovery, refugee, family drama, personal growth ...
Place:
poland, france, eastern europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
adventurer, travel, self discovery, canceled wedding, escapades, friends, prank, youth, wanderlust, survival, nature, disaster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
scenic, pastoral, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
small village, outsider, community, conservatism, misunderstanding, prejudice, suspicion, humanism, integration, bittersweet, intimate, realism ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, Monier takes up the case, convinced of his innocence.
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
gendarmerie, funeral, accused of murder, flashback, plot twist, prison, cemetery, witness, police station, lawyer, voice over narration, police arrest ...
Time:
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Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story revolves around Mia who finds herself caught up in a terrorist attack on a Parisian brasserie one Saturday night in the autumn. Three months later, still unable to pick up where she left off and remembering only piecemeal details of the ...
Plot:
terrorism, wound, opera, restaurant, traumatic experience, near death experience, trauma, terrorist attack, memory, terrorist, psychological torment, support group ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, crying
Plot:
novelist, jury, trial, writers, courtroom drama, female protagonist, framed for murder, middle aged, writer's life, court, accused of murder, legal action ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In his quest to become successful, Aditya Parikh puts life on the back burner, including his Father Bipin Chandra Parikh. Infuriated and heartbroken, the father persuades his monotonous son to take an unplanned journey of a lifetime for a much ...
Style:
gujarati, inspirational, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
father son relationship, self discovery, travel, road trip, family values, life lesson, family drama, relationship problems, changing lives, lifestyle change, life, introspection ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
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