Movies like Babel 2006
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Babel (2006)
316K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style:
non-linear, sincere, bleak, emotional, depressing, art house, touching, breathtaking, melancholic, cerebral ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, redemption, desert, mexican border, deaf girl, woman urinating, depression, parenthood, society, guilt, tragic event, immigrant, death, suicide, language barrier, cultural difference, multiple perspectives, doctor, family relations, police brutality, japanese schoolgirl, loss of son, first time, illegal immigration, mute or deaf ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico, persia, usa ...
Keyword:
mexican, egyptian, latin, american, eye candy
Most similar movies to Babel
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, touching, realistic and depressing films with plots about death, husband wife relationship, family relations, sex, society, female nudity and mother daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Babel: Love's a Bitch (2000), Crash (2004), Magnolia (1999), Manchester by the Sea (2016), 21 Grams (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Three different people in Mexico City are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer ...
Style:
bleak, psychological, depressing, emotional, tense ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, dog, forbidden love, machismo, rottweiler, hitman, siblings relations, multiple perspectives, betrayal, vengeance, marital problem, relationships ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 90s, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
latin america, mexico, mexico city
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448K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style:
bleak, touching, thought provoking, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, prejudice, racial tension, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, racist, social injustice, redemption, interracial relations, class differences, city life ...
Time:
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Place:
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327K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, sincere, depressing, mind bending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
social problems, multiple storylines, depression, human nature, child prodigy, dysfunctional family, introspection, cancer, terminal illness, loneliness, alienation, coincidence ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, reno nevada
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style:
sad, depressing, heartbreaking, psychological, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
family drama, sadness, loneliness, depression, loss, suicide attempt, death, nephew, grief, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, adoption ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
245K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, emotional, bleak, gloomy, depressing ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, guilt, tragedy, grief, drug addiction, multiple storylines, drug addict, drug, loneliness, loss, mathematician, hit and run ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an ...
Style:
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Plot:
life is a bitch, depression, tragedy, eviction, immigrant, justice, tragic event, suicide, american dream, character study, complex characters, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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Place:
san francisco, persia, bay area, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Style:
touching, philosophical, dramatic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
destiny, true love, life & death, life philosophy, aging, existentialism, love and romance, fictional biography, melancholy, puzzle, tragic love, old age ...
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style:
disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, psychological ...
Plot:
sex, husband wife relationship, love, tragic love, marriage, disability, love story, self sacrifice, small town, psychology, sex with a stranger, paralysis ...
Time:
year 1996, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
281K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a ...
Style:
stylized, erotic, sexy, talky, black comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
tense, teen, realistic, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
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319K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with ...
Style:
depressing, emotional, bleak, touching, serious ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
wrestling, loneliness, aging, life is a bitch, fame, father daughter relationship, self destructing, professional wrestling, stripper, ambition, character study, father daughter estrangement ...
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year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style:
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Plot:
working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style:
melancholic, thought provoking, dark comedy, sexual, dramatic ...
Audience:
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Place:
usa, america, los angeles, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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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, cancer, terminal illness, death, parenthood, immigrant, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, reconciliation, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
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barcelona, spain, iran, senegal, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Style:
sexy, road movie, erotic, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, sex, sexuality, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, on the road, coming of age, gay, sexual exploration, nudity, older woman younger man sex ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2002, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, acapulco mexico, french riviera, barcelona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his ...
Style:
depressing, fairy tale, erotic, heartbreaking, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, snow, incest, small town, family problems, grief, small town life, winter, law, redemption, betrayal, sexual abuse ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
canada, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Guatemala
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.
Style:
road movie, serious, touching, rough, sincere ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
mexico, central america, guatemala, usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style:
psychological, depressing, surreal, independent film, confusing ...
Plot:
depression, existentialism, death, theater, magic realism, schizophrenic, obsession, writers, twists and turns, philosophy, writer's life, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 90s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, berlin germany, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style:
depressing, psychological, bleak, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, human relationship, teen angst, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, suspense, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, friendship, elderly, veteran, racism, prejudice, gunfight, widower, gangster, interracial relations, old man, vigilante ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
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clever, inspirational, touching, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
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Place:
usa, america, iran, persia, pacific ocean ...
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, existential, visually appealing, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, snow, thanksgiving, extramarital affair, coming of age, mate swapping, swinger, adultery, sexual exploration, infidelity, sexual awakening, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, connecticut, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, compassionate, sentimental, crying ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, therapy, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, depression, grief, suicide, coming of age, father son relationship, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the ...
Style:
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teens, teen drama
Plot:
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new york, los angeles, italy, paris france, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Style:
touching, depressing, sincere, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
361K
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Style:
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Plot:
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