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Familiye (2017)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Familiye tells the story of an ex-con who, after his release from prison, has to care for his two younger brothers. One of whom is a gambling addict, the other has Down Syndrome.
Style:
bleak, serious, captivating, dramatic, crime drama, emotional, melancholic, compassionate, heartfelt, tense ...
Plot:
addiction, down syndrome, gambling, family drama, prison, illness, brothers, brother, terminal illness, brother brother relationship, little brother, released from prison, gambling addiction, brotherhood, sacrifice, struggle for survival, redemption, realism, social issues, empathy, intimate, domestic drama, mature, rehabilitation, working class ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, realistic and captivating films with plots about intimate, redemption, family drama, urban, working class, moral ambiguity and social realism mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Familiye: To Live and Die and Live (2023), Brother (2019), Broken Law (2020), Indigo Kristal (2023), 1982 (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Muhammad returns home to Detroit to bury his stepfather and is thrust into settling his accounts, but Muhammad’s struggles with depression and addiction may finish him before he finishes the task.
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
detroit
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
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Dave Connolly is a respected member of the Garda Síochána but his loyalty to the law gets tested by his ex-convict brother Joe who is in desperate need of his help.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Vuk, a 30-year-old ex-convict haunted by his best friend's suicide, is trying to save his younger brother, Zizi.
Style:
crime drama, emotional, bleak, serious, dramatic ...
Plot:
redemption, second chance, family drama, brotherhood, moral dilemma, isolation, social realism, urban, reform, confrontation, street life, rehabilitation ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
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Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1982, a film inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his gifted daughter from the insidious epidemic which has literally come home via her drug-addicted ...
Style:
crime drama, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking, period piece ...
Plot:
addiction, poverty, drug addiction, father daughter relationship, family drama, parenting, substance abuse, single father, social issues, protection, urban, sacrifice ...
Time:
80s
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An obese multiple sclerosis patient takes up his late Father's sport of boxing to overcome personal tragedy and find inner peace. "Bobcat Moretti" was filmed over the course of ten months, during COVID-19, allowing our lead actor to ...
Style:
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Plot:
boxing, illness, boxer, inspiration, redemption, fighting illness, fight, obesity, disease, gym, obese, multiple sclerosis ...
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81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two poor men try to find a television as a last wish for the terminally ill brother of one of them.
Style:
emotional, tear jerker, realistic, educational, sad ...
Plot:
poverty, turk, sacrifice, illness, brotherhood, family drama, struggle, desperation, compassion, working class, tragedy, terminal illness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Story:
Many things can go wrong, or not , when a drug addict , a prostitute and a singer past his prime come together to rob their employer.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of an unemployed drunk and his son as they struggle to adapt to each other.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film, bleak
Plot:
unemployment, family drama, alcoholism, father son relationship, poverty, character study, intimate, social realism, parenting, working class, empathy, slice of life ...
Time:
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75%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Father got leukaemia. Mother was laid off long ago. She had to borrow money for her husband everywhere. Sister went to a night club to be a waitress secretly and soon became a “call girl”. Lin was cold-shouldered at school because of father’s ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house, tragic
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leukemia, family drama, illness, mother son relationship, poverty, financial difficulty, coming of age, teenage protagonist, desperation, empathy, loss, social realism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
bleak, emotional, tense, crime thriller, realistic ...
Plot:
identity, immigrant, drug traffic, pimp, loyalty, loss, desperation, street life, organized crime, gang, tragedy, violence ...
Place:
germany, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Place:
west germany
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dives into the often ignored seedy underbelly of Maine and it follows Emma Maddox as she returns to her hometown years following the mysterious death of her brother, Mikey. As she reconnects with his best friend Tommy, the two rekindle their flame ...
Style:
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Plot:
redemption, revenge, small town, problem, bereavement, life is a bitch, lie, getting home, investigation, betrayal, friendship, coastal town ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Travis has just been released from prison and it quickly becomes apparent that much has changed while he’s been gone. While girlfriend Candice is on the up and auditioning to star in a Tina Turner musical, daughter Kenisha is struggling in school ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex scene, released from prison, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, arrested, family drama, african american protagonist, african american, african american woman, daughter, mother and daughter, brother ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
friendship, gambling, couple relations, prodigy, couples, partner, dishonesty, life turned upside down, character study, fired from the job, addiction, bookies ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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estonia
Similarity:
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Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, exciting, entertaining, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Romania, France, Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Vera and Wolf Küper live in Berlin with their 5-year-old daughter Nina and their one-year-old son Simon. Vera takes care of the children and the household alongside a part-time job, while Wolf works as a scientific advisor to the UN, trying to ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: France
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Story:
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