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9 Days Awake (2020)
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Original name: 9 Tage wach
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 time." When he is accepted to an acting school in Berlin, he tries
to reconnect with his great love Anja (Peri Baumeister), change his life, and strive to be better. But numerous conflicts and issues follow him, leaving him to retreat back to his old ways as other situations escalate.
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi serious, thrilling, dark
Plot:
drug addiction, junkie, self destructing, relationships, life is a bitch, changing lives, tragic love, love affair, male female relationship, social problems, heroin addict, temptation, rehabilitation, self loathing, character study, isolation, coming of age, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, second chance, family conflict, biopic, self destruction
Time:
contemporary
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, thrilling and melancholic films with plots about male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, social problems, isolation, love affair and relationship problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like 9 Days Awake: Two Days, Nine Lives (2001), Our Wonderful Lives (2018), Soiree (2020), Mia (2023), Mike (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 94 min.
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Story:
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