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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
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Original name: Angst essen Seele auf
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, political, emotional, stylized, serious, realistic, black and white, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot:
racism, female nudity, culture clash, relationships, older woman younger man relationship, loneliness, working class, impossible love, old woman, friendship, forbidden love, male nudity, cleaning lady, foreigner, marriage, immigrant, xenophobia, age-gap relationship, misfit, alienation, human nature, age difference, prejudice, drinking, love ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place:
west germany, munich germany, germany, europe, central europe, morocco, africa
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Most similar movies to Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and melancholic films with plots about couples, love and romance, marriage, loneliness, relationships, family relations and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ali: Fear Eats the Soul: Head-On (2004), Martha (1974), The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Katzelmacher (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
depressing, sexy, breathtaking, harsh, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suicide attempt, ethnicity, marriage, sex, immigrant, love story, relationships, culture clash, passion, extramarital affair, marriage of convenience, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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75%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, art house, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
domination, manipulation, businessman, psychopath, mental disorder, bullying, marriage, obsession, car crash, librarian, marriage as hell, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the ...
Style:
art house, psychological, neo noir, sad, depressing ...
Plot:
street vendor, heart attack, nervous breakdown, drinking, adultery, family relations, obsession, husband and wife, forbidden love, alcohol abuse, female nudity, depression ...
Time:
1950s, year 1972, year 1971, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
munich germany, germany, bavaria, morocco, paris france
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35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thought provoking, touching, surreal ...
Plot:
marriage, world war two, female nudity, wartime life, lovers reunited, infidelity, rise to the top, couples, life is a bitch, battle of the sexes, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 1950s, year 1979, 20th century ...
Place:
berlin germany, europe, germany, west germany, canada
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this unflinching German drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a group of young slackers, including the couple Erich and Marie, spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos, moves ...
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art house, sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, migration, small town, inn, jealousy, boys and girls, male female relationship, passive aggression, refugee, racial discrimination, conversation, xenophobia ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
greece, germany, europe, munich germany
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30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, racism, culture clash, marriage, prejudice, immigrant, immigration, family relations, love, society, tragic love, sex ...
Time:
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Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, britain, manchester, pakistan ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, dread, philosophical, depressing, realistic ...
Plot:
pharmacist, dysfunctional couple, depression, pregnancy, psychic, pharmacy, husband wife relationship, anxiety, mental breakdown, mental disorder, drunk, mental health ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
germany, west germany
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, sexy, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, lovers, love affair, marriage, unrequited love, newspaper, true love, love story, relationships ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class ...
Style:
disturbing, sexual, serious, art house, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, infidelity, politics, subculture, working class, friends, money, betrayal, friendship, life is a bitch, rise to the top ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
munich germany, africa, germany, morocco, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Turkey, Portugal, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
Style:
emotional, psychological, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, friendship, fall in love, self discovery, love affair, family problems, memory loss, haunted by the past, memory, relationships, illicit affair ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man, relationships, forbidden love, erotica, steamy romance, sex, sex scene, obsession, age difference, love, sexual relations ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, 70s
Place:
missouri, new jersey, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Mabel, a mother and wife, is on the brink of insanity as her blue-collar husband Nick attempts to understand her plight.
Style:
independent film, art house, psychological, depressing, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
marriage, mental illness, dysfunctional family, working class, construction worker, housewife, mental health, visceral, illness, illicit affair, psychiatry, bipolar disorder ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Style:
sincere, emotional, visually stunning, stylized, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
couples, homosexuality, infidelity, gay husband, racism, lgbtq, crumbling marriage, housewife, closeted homosexual, forbidden love, gay, divorce ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2000s, year 1958, year 2002 ...
Place:
new england, connecticut, usa, miami, baltimore ...
Similarity:
26%
24K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed by the man's materialistic nature.
Style:
black and white, art house, philosophical, visual, neorealism ...
Plot:
stock broker, loneliness, sports car, minimalism, passion, art, love, great ending, existentialism, love story, unrequited love, crazy love ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, los angeles, usa ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
couples, family relations, alienation, male nudity, dysfunctional family, family problems, injustice, estrangement, society, unlikely criminals, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
germany, europe, munich germany
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow ...
Style:
art house, realistic, tense, stylized, sexual ...
Plot:
nymph, prostitution, brothel, prostitute, sex, cabaret singer, crazy love, capitalism, cabaret, femme fatale, small town, bourgeoisie ...
Time:
year 1981, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 1930s ...
Place:
germany, west germany, bavaria, europe, berlin germany
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Style:
psychological, erotic, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, love affair, age difference, older woman younger man sex, mother daughter relationship, incest, relationships, male female relationship, secret relationship, secrets, infidelity, women ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
26%
4K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to ...
Style:
romantic, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, redheaded woman, unrequited love, family relations, male female relationship, autism, tenderness, mother in law son in law relationship, age-gap relationship, sibling relationship, women, psychopath ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
Style:
sexy, romantic, light, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, immigrant, culture clash, interracial relations, racial prejudice, indians, passion, family drama, stereotypes, honest, love affair, fall in love ...
Time:
70s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1972, year 1990
Place:
mississippi, uganda, africa, india, southern usa ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, psychological, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, depression, dysfunctional family, couple relations, lust, husband wife relationship, passion, crumbling marriage, sexual content, lovers, love story, sex ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, brooklyn new york city, florida
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
Style:
sexy, stylized, erotic, sexual, meditative ...
Plot:
male nudity, food, sex, infidelity, older woman younger man relationship, adultery, bourgeoisie, high society, chef, outdoor sex, bare chested male, making love ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, london, nice france, milan italy ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, rough, crying
Plot:
drunk, twenty something, male female relationship, ladies man, naivete, maid, male virgin, military, sex, father son relationship, crazy love, spying ...
Place:
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Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Set in the southern USA, a racist white man, Hank, falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's inter-racial affair leads to ...
Style:
sexy, depressing, realistic, erotic, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, sex scene, interracial romance, electric chair, death penalty, prison, interracial sex, prison guard, dysfunctional family, death row, sex, interracial relations ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana, southern usa, georgia
Similarity:
25%
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39K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, emotional, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, lust, adultery, sexual tension, older woman younger man sex, sexual relations, sexuality, female sexuality, love affair, mother son relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new zealand
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, friendship, aids, transsexual, male homosexuality, gay relationship, adultery, marriage, relationships, love affair, glbt, gays and lesbians ...
Place:
rome italy, amsterdam, london, milan italy, istanbul turkey ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to ...
Style:
disturbing, philosophical, depressing, controversial, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, gender, lgbt, transgender, sex, gay, suicide, loser, identity, unrequited love, father daughter reunion, emotional breakdown ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place:
frankfurt germany
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
passionate kiss, racism, gambling, marriage, love, jealousy, small town, interracial relations, family problems, injustice, black, small town life ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
24%
153K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, emotional, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
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Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1952, 2010s, year 2015 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, columbus ohio, idaho, indiana ...
Similarity:
24%
98K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style:
depressing, bleak, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
single father, redemption, death, cancer, terminal illness, parenthood, immigrant, birthday, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, reconciliation ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain, south america, iran, senegal ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeance on the man who is accused of the crime. A chance meeting with a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, psychological, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, couples, haunted by the past, wrestling, obsessive quest, vengeance, tragedy, depression, fall in love, friendship, mature woman, support group ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
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