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Dead Run (2005)
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Original name: 疾走
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, melancholic, bleak, contemplative, gloomy, crime drama, nostalgic
Plot:
relationships, brothers, priest, faith, family relations, life is a bitch, male female relationship, brother, problem, brother brother relationship, isolation, alienation, small town, coming of age, family issues, escape, friendship, juvenile delinquency, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, social realism, first love, bittersweet, school bullying, yakuza ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Most similar movies to Dead Run
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, thrilling and melancholic films with plots about relationships, coming of age, life is a bitch, problem, isolation, intimate and bittersweet mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Dead Run: Soiree (2020), Blue Hour (2019), River of First Love (2004), Demolition Girl (2019), Mia (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Shota came to Tokyo to become an actor but has a side hustle in petty crime. On a trip back to his hometown in Wakayama he meets Takara, who is being assaulted by her father just sprung from prison. Soon they pair up and hit the road to escape.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
retirement home, problem, relationships, male female relationship, love story, life is a bitch, actor's life, love interest, actor, couple relations, love affair, escape ...
Similarity:
95%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, poetic, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, japanese woman, relationship vs career, family relations, lifestyle change, problem, changing lives, career, relationship problems, thirty something, life is a bitch, homecoming ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, bereavement, loss, family relations, male female relationship, love story, relationships, loss of mother, troubled past, single mother, love affair, tragic past ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A high-school girl who lives in a rural town in Japan struggles to define her own way in life. To help her impoverished family she works as a video fetish performer which leads to problems for her and her family with a criminal underworld.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, desperation, high school, poverty, problem, teenage life, life is a bitch, social problems, teenager, money problems, japanese girl, female protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
64%
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818
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a small, simple and happy family in which a boy, a manipulator, violently enters, which distorts the life of this wonderful fifteen-year-old and makes her a nightmare.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychological manipulation, family drama, emotional manipulation, problem, male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, manipulation, manipulative behavior, relationship problems, changing lives, couple relations ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
How have you been? Takeshi's letter is delivered one each month to his younger brother, Naoki. Takeshi is serving a life term in prison for the crime that he had committed to save his brother. But the crime's aftereffect extends to Naoki, ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
relationships, sacrifice, brotherhood, life is a bitch, family relations, love story, problem, male female relationship, brothers, love and romance, love interest, jail ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
gambler, male female relationship, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, troubled past, love affair, couple relations, prostitute, mysterious past, confronting the past, red light district ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
62%
167
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Arman is about to turn 18. He was adopted as a baby by Jasna and Senad, who were unable to have children of their own. However, four years after the adoption, Jasna gives birth to Dado. Throughout his life, Arman has had a hard time coping with ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
adopted son, relationships, problem, brothers, drug, family problems, drug addiction, social problems, junkie, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, family relations ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
53%
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299
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:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
redemption, revenge, small town, problem, bereavement, life is a bitch, lie, getting home, investigation, betrayal, friendship, coastal town ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When rebellious 16-year-old Grace takes off, her exasperated mum and dad enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective, and begin the long drive from Perth out to the West Australian wheatbelt to try to find her. On the journey, the two must ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
teenage rebellion, family drama, road trip, coming of age, parent child relationship, family relations, family problems, relationships, life is a bitch, mysterious disappearance, vanished man, male female relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Aydın is a policeman recently appointed to a new post in Istanbul. While trying to get used to life in the big city, Aydın stumbles upon Mehtap, a young woman who works at a candy shop in Beyoğlu, and he falls for her. But there is no way that ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
unrequited love, couple relations, male female relationship, relationships, love affair, multiple storylines, relationship problems, love interest, longing, bittersweet, slice of life, intimate ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Midori Mantani and Masao Minamisawa are both 28-years-old. They have dated for 4 years, but their relationship seems to be just going through the motions. They think about breaking up. At that time, Midori becomes pregnant. Midori and Masao decide ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, romantic drama, emotional ...
Plot:
relationships, pregnancy, wedding preparations and rituals, wedding planning, male female relationship, couple relations, love affair, problem, wedding, pregnant woman, unplanned pregnancy, troubled marriage ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break free from a cruel fate tying him to the very grounds.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, dramatic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
environmental issue, corruption, yakuza, murder, small village, village life, countryside, rural setting, villager, social realism, hopes, longing ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, redemption, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, dealing with death, cancer, illness, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
During the first high school baseball game of the season, personal dramas play out within a group of high schoolers sitting in the crowd.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic
Plot:
high school, japanese high school, baseball, youth, coming of age, support group, japanese school, problem, japanese girl, relationships, baseball team, schoolboy ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
43%
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:
captivating, suspense, crime drama, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brothers, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, father son relationship, scapegoat, abandoned baby, reform school, abusive father, brotherhood, domestic abuse, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expelled from school and evicted from his apartment, he becomes one of Japan’s many ‘net cafe refugees’, barely scraping by each day with temporary ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
homelessness, poverty, alienation, homeless, life is a bitch, father son estrangement, manhunt, social problems, estrangement, refugee, swashbuckler, social misfits ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Mishima Kiko was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko was abused mentally and physically by her mother, stepfather, and younger stepbrother. She didn't belong to this ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
domestic abuse, abuse, trauma, domestic violence, neglect, bullying, dysfunctional family, social problems, life is a bitch, traumatic past, violence, family problems ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An unusually hot summer. Fourteen year-old Wanda moves with her family from Berlin to Switzerland. Everything will be better here. The move is meant to heal the open wounds of the family. Anna, the mother, has lost her self-confidence due to an ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
relocation, adolescence, coming of age, parents, marital crisis, family drama, problem, family relations, relationships, teenage life, relationship problems, brother brother relationship ...
Place:
switzerland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As Brian cares for his severely mentally disabled brother over a sweltering summer holiday he is forced to grow up, and finds unexpected love and affection.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
brother, sibling relationship, mental disorder, brotherhood, relationships, brother brother relationship, adolescence, family relations, teenage boy, intellectual disability, mental retardation, teenager ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Hozumi is a doctor and he is friends with manga artist Soeda. They both like Asako who works at a tropical fish shop. Hozumi eventually gives up Asako for his friend Soeda. Soeda and Asako decide to get married, but, after they get married, Soeda ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
love triangle, problem, love and romance, male female relationship, love affair, rich and poor, relationships, love story, relationship problems, love, love interest, jealousy ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
secret, art student, grief, coming of age, loss, summer, female protagonist, relationships, life is a bitch, self discovery, beauty, intimate ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
35%
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:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A drama about how to let go of our emotional "baggage" and start living in the moment.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
getting home, self discovery, personal growth, relationships, confronting the past, life is a bitch, elderly man, relationship problems, troubled past, slice of life, friendship, healing ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Carl is expected someday to take over his parents’ agribusiness in a rural backwater in Denmark. But, as an adopted child, he also longs to learn more about his South Korean heritage. A film about otherness and finding your own place in life.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, social, psychological, intercultural ...
Plot:
racism, adopted son, self discovery, coming of age, immigration, identity, social problems, problem, social issues, foster parent, grownups, relationship problems ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
“9 Days Awake”, the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Eric Stehfest. Jannik Schümann plays Eric, a junkie who lives to party. He is addicted to the one drug that makes him feel invincible- "like Jesus and the terminator at the same ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark
Plot:
drug addiction, self destructing, junkie, relationships, changing lives, male female relationship, social problems, love affair, life is a bitch, heroin addict, tragic love, self loathing ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old girl deals with the issues brought about by her family's high-priced son.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, poignant, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, adolescence, family drama, tragic past, female protagonist, troubled past, traumatic past, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, loneliness ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An ex-cop searches for a missing teen as a favour to her parents.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, crime drama ...
Plot:
triad, investigation, street kid, missing girl, uncover truth, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, problem, life is a bitch, social problems, vanished man, crime investigation ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
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Story:
Two brothers from the same dysfunctional family, having escaped the desperate days of their early childhood, find their newly ordered lives falling apart when one becomes a suspect in a murder.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, murder investigation, family drama, family problems, brother, brother brother relationship, accusation, framed for murder, accused of murder, life is a bitch, relationships, family relations ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
body swapping, switching bodies, switching roles, relationship problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fish out of water, couples, romantic friendship, japanese woman, gender disguise, couple relations, love interest ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
30%
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