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You Resemble Me (2021)
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Original name: Tu me ressembles
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France, Egypt
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two sisters are abruptly separated, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity and place in the world.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, tense, melancholic, non-linear, political drama
Plot:
female protagonist, resistance, sisters, personality change, identity crisis, changing lives, secret, lifestyle change, sister, sister sister relationship, losing-it hero, sisterhood, trauma, immigration, alienation, coming of age, social commentary, isis, mother daughter conflict, urban, new identity, psychological drama, young
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, thrilling and tense films with plots about female protagonist, urban, coming of age, problem, psychological drama, identity crisis and life is a bitch mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like You Resemble Me: The Bright Day (2013), Alive (2002), Normal (2015), Imagine I'm Beautiful (2014), Soy Nero (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
THE BRIGHT DAY weaves a story that has its roots in the complexity of Iran’s draconian laws governing capital punishment. A kindergarten teacher hopes to aid the father of one of her young students, a man accused of manslaughter, by convincing ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, social commentary, corruption, death penalty, death sentence, framed for a crime, secret, female protagonist, accused of murder, framed for murder, private investigation, accusation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
iran, tehran
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236
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
rape, self destructing, female protagonist, rape victim, trauma, secret, life is a bitch, problem, social problems, violence, survival, isolation ...
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A young woman's birthright hides a dark secret.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, independent film, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, secret, dark secret, secrets, seduction, seductress, lifestyle, life philosophy, identity, family secret, revelation, identity crisis ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Hoping to leave behind the trauma of her mother's death, a young woman moves to New York City, where she becomes close to her similarly haunted roommate -- until a disturbing revelation changes everything.
Style:
psychological, emotional, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
female friendship, grief, trauma, friends, changing lives, hidden truth, bereavement, neighbor neighbor relationship, relationship problems, women, tragic past, troubled past ...
Place:
new york
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22%
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902
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Mexico, USA, Lebanon
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The border fence between Mexico and the United States is part of their lives; Mexican youths use it as a volleyball net on the beach, holding their own kind of international matches with their opposite numbers on the other side. When Nero scales the ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense, political ...
Plot:
immigration, border, identity, citizenship, soldier, american soldier, illegal immigrant, life is a bitch, escapades, problem, latinos, frustration ...
Place:
los angeles, middle east
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When her daughter Chloé runs away from home, Jeanne is disappointed with the response of the police, for whom a teenager runaway is not a priority, and she realizes she can only rely on herself.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, teenager, runaway, missing child, mother child relationship, teenage daughter, problem, motherhood, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations ...
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21%
237
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
James Nesbitt plays radiographer Joe Keyes. Late one night he is travelling home by train when he sees a young girl, Alice (Emily Bruni) being chatted up by two men. When the banter becomes threatening Joe is unsure whether or not to intervene. When ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, sad ...
Plot:
male protagonist, moral dilemma, responsibility, guilt, train, changing lives, problem, lifestyle change, relationships, family relations, secret, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
northern england
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Portugal
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Aurora, a Portuguese migrant, works as an order picker in a warehouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. Caught between the walls of a huge distribution centre and the solitude of her own room, Aurora tries to seize every opportunity to resist the alienation ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, reflective ...
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, alienation, warehouse, isolation, migrant worker, loneliness, workplace situations, life is a bitch, workplace, identity crisis, social realism ...
Place:
edinburgh scotland, portugal
Similarity:
20%
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235
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A story about two sisters - Małgorzata, who is single by choice, and her younger sister, Łucja, a mother of two and an assistant in Małgorzata's law firm. The women embark on their first first trip in many years. It quickly turns out that ...
Style:
road movie, thrilling, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
sisters, terminal illness, woman, problem, relationships, family relations, sister, sister sister relationship, family life, family problems, female protagonist, life ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Julia is a mother, or rather, one of many mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, who have had their lives torn apart by the widespread violence in a country waging a war against its women. Julia is searching for Ger, her daughter. And in her ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, daughter, vanished man, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, missing person, problem, family problems, mysterious disappearance, investigation, bereavement, women's rights ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
20%
34
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
L stopped enjoying life as a little girl. She flees abuse at the hands of her adoptive parents and heads for the big city. There, L's life is wrecked by a string of bad relationships, and she takes the fall for a friend who commits murder and ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, love, loneliness, character study, psychological trauma, relationships, love story, love affair, love interest, mature, city life, alienation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
20%
157
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Hakim and Latifa fled the Algerian civil war in the early 90s. They live since in the Jura, with their two daughters: Nedjma 14 years, and Leila, the eldest, left to study hair in Paris. Three days before Christmas, Nedjma receives a terse SMS from ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, melancholic
Plot:
father daughter relationship, missing daughter, family drama, relationships, sister, family problems, family relations, relationship problems, life is a bitch, social problems, immigration, character study ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1976 the British Government put an end to the special category status of prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army, no longer treating them as prisoners of war, but as common criminals. Mairéad Farrell - on whose life much of the film ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
ira, prison, anglo irish relations, cell mate, women's prison, female prisoner, jail cell, protest, resistance, hunger, problem, jailed ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland
Similarity:
19%
465
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
trauma, grief, female protagonist, manipulation, memory, alienation, identity crisis, mental illness, haunting, violent death, rehearsal, coming of age ...
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90
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Finland, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark, intense ...
Plot:
trauma, opera, theater, female protagonist, theatre director, repression, theatre group, theatrical producer, problem, stage actress, theatre play, character study ...
Place:
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Similarity:
19%
353
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium, Lebanon
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she comes back to Lebanon, she realizes she's a foreigner in her own country. But there's still a place she calls home: an abandoned house in ruins, haunted by the presence of her ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
female protagonist, identity, memory, homecoming, self discovery, introspection, life is a bitch, family relations, relationships, trauma, haunted house, family secret ...
Place:
lebanon
Similarity:
19%
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153
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The sad and sometimes darkly funny lives of various denizens of Chicago's social and economic underside provide the focus of this adventurous independent comedy-drama.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, comedy drama ...
Plot:
night, fate, problem, destiny, social commentary, character study, working class, loneliness, nightlife, hopelessness, moral ambiguity, poverty ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, reflective, realistic ...
Plot:
sisters, grownups, family drama, family conflict, family love, sibling relationship, coming of age, sister, family relations, kids and family, relationships, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
19%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Judith decides to go on her own to the salsa-dancing night, even though her boyfriend, with whom she goes there every week, can’t accompany her. A stranger, with whom she briefly dances, offers to walk her home. Next morning, upon returning home, ...
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, rape victim, sexual assault, trauma, problem, violence, sexual abuse, rape, violent, unsettling, justice, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. From working class origins, she has reached the top of her game. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, emotional, social, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lawyer, female lawyer, justice, courtroom, barrister, trauma, female protagonist, patriarchy, law, lifestyle change, social problems, problem ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When money, affairs, power and lies collide, Nicole Wright, a beautiful and successful music CEOs life is about to crumble in front of her. While leaving her husband and son, the lies that have built her music empire is threatening to tear her down. ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
music industry, deception, infidelity, cheating wife, affair, lie, betrayal, secrets, lifestyle change, problem, social problems, changing lives ...
Similarity:
18%
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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:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The bestseller based on Kotaro Isaka, starring Kenji Sakaguchi, directed by Takashi Hara! Muto, who works for a family court, is involved in a bank robbery case with his senior at work, Jinnai. It is released safely, but Muto falls in love at first ...
Style:
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Plot:
kidnapping, secret, mysterious disappearance, investigation, disappearance, uncover truth, crime solving, family problems, cold case, hostage situation, moral ambiguity, trauma ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Maggie is struggling to keep her life together after the death of her mother when her addict brother shows up, forcing her to make sense of a reality that may not be what it seems.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, tense, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
sibling relationship, addiction, grief, family drama, trauma, female protagonist, character study, mourning, family secret, traumatic past, confrontation, identity crisis ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
While writing an article about an abused boy, a woman fights for protect him after she uncovers shocking details.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
child abuse, female protagonist, domestic abuse, domestic violence, parents and children, violence, family problems, changing lives, beaten up, lifestyle change, child in peril, mentally unstable woman ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
Manju, a village belle becomes popular after she participates in a reality show that records her day-to-day life events and telecasts it to the world
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional
Plot:
female protagonist, slice of life, privacy invasion, male female relationship, relationships, lifestyle change, changing lives, love affair, life, lifestyle, couple relations, realism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Jane fails her final college class, she returns home to her parent's lake house where she comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, reflective, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, lake, trauma, getting home, life is a bitch, character study, coming of age, self discovery, healing, mental health, intimate, acceptance ...
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An American student living a privileged existence at Glasgow School of Art faces the unexpected death of her father. Consumed with her loss, she finds herself re-examining both her life and inner circle.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
bereavement, self discovery, loss, grief, female protagonist, loss of family, changing lives, life is a bitch, loss of father, dysfunctional family, family problems, lifestyle change ...
Place:
scotland
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