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Los Muertos (2004)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Switzerland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. A deep mystery surrounds him.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative, slow cinema, road movie, dread, aesthetic
Plot:
prison, on the road, parents and children, self discovery, starting over, family relations, isolation, confined, jungle, murder, curses spells and rituals, minimal dialogue, survival, erotica, serial killer, nature, anthropology, ship, diner, siblings relations, deadly, haircut, shaving, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
argentina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, atmospheric and psychological films with plots about family relations, parents and children, self discovery, family problems, isolation, hopes and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Los Muertos: Mother and Son (1997), Watchtower (2012), Liverpool (2008), Red Ants (2007), Natural Sciences (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual images of the countryside and cottage.
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, depressing, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
art, biopic, countryside, childhood, youth, mother and son, landscape, mental disorder, artist, minimal dialogue, spirituality, underground ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own. (TIFF)
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, rape, haunted by the past, social misfits, disorder, confined, introspection, misfit, isolation, women, abandoned baby, resistance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Germany, Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, alcoholic, society, alcohol abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, family problems, sick mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
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62%
139
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sixteen year-old girl living with her widowed father in the Ardennes forest befriends a twenty-two year old orphan whose manipulative aunt contrives to keep him immature in the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Stéphan Carpiaux. A tragic ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
fall in love, teenage life, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, family problems, single parent, unfulfillment, confined, youth, woods, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, family problems, hopes, youth, parents and children, teachers and students, coming of age, search for father, unknown father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Argentina, Canada, Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marie is a Toronto police officer. One evening, her husband Joshua and their son Nicky are brutally murdered in their car. Marie quickly links Pablo Molina, an Argentinian drug trafficker who she'd arrested a few months earlier, with the crime. ...
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, death of son, self discovery, manhunt, vengeance, tragic hero, heroes, revenge plot, police officer, unfulfillment, rivalry, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bolivia, canada, argentina, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, momentous news from home compels an exiled young man to embark upon an intense and surreal journey through the broken and beautiful margins of contemporary Britain.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, contemplative, visually appealing, captivating ...
Plot:
homecoming, journey, on the road, family relations, society, haunted by the past, family problems, self discovery, nature, trauma, isolation, memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
33%
986
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A man chop down trees, organizes the trunks, cleans them, stops to defecate, lunch, nap and continues to sell their timber.
Style:
contemplative, art house, existential, meditative, road movie ...
Plot:
minimalism, survival, routine, slice of life, forest, rehearsal, tree, countryside, labor, solitude, nature, humble ...
Similarity:
32%
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831
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
elderly, introspection, murder, parents and children, estrangement, gender, society, family relations, life, small town life, relationships, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, macedonia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 217 min.
Story:
In Kyushu, southwest Japan, one hot summer morning, a municipal bus is hijacked. In the carnage only three people survive: the driver, a school girl, and her older brother.
Style:
bleak, psychological, sincere, lyrical, depressing ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, bus driver, haunted by the past, family relations, serial killer, orphan, starting over, hijacking, bus, redemption, asian ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
An apartment kitchen: a man and a woman discuss Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping next room. Waste land on the city outskirts: behind a line of abandoned trailers, the man silently watches what ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, murder, midlife crisis, family relations, factory worker, parents and children, unfulfillment, naked man, big city, underground, post apocalypse, alienation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, europe, bucharest
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A recovering alcoholic travels to the untamed coast of Patagonia to reconnect with his estranged daughter in this gentle yet deeply resonant drama from Argentine writer-director Carlos Sorin.
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, redemption, family relations, introspection, estrangement, parents and children, father daughter reunion, recovering alcoholic, journey, self discovery, shark, doom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, patagonia
Similarity:
29%
578
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, haunted by the past, homecoming, family relations, buddies, parents and children, redemption, estrangement, bittersweet, profanity, friends, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.
Style:
serious, realistic, stylized, sincere, slow cinema ...
Plot:
self discovery, human nature, hopes, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, loss of mother, loss of child, nudity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, madrid, europe
Similarity:
29%
606
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious
Plot:
human spirit, starting over, hopes, family life, danger, escapades, ocean, survival, sea, climbing, rock climbing, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, morocco
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: Denmark, Mexico, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, serious, cerebral, captivating ...
Plot:
desert, escapades, parents and children, love and romance, family relations, on the road, latin american history, murder, wild west, father daughter relationship, dog, american history ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A routine run for a truck driver turns into a nightmare he can’t escape in this psychological drama from filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. Georgy (Viktor Nemets) is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police ...
Style:
road movie, disturbing, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, murder, life is a bitch, social relations, disorder, on the road, countryside, human nature, nothing goes right, underground, suicide, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An island off the coast of Turkey is about to be evacuated due to a possible earthquake but its inhabitants have been stricken with a mysterious illness, consigning them to an uncertain fate.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, surreal, suspense ...
Plot:
island, isolation, family relations, elderly, best friend, dysfunctional family, confined, plague, family problems, friends, aging, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, family relations, protecting from truth, parents and children, uncover truth, adoption, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, hopes, society, monkey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man struggles after his release from ten years as a political prisoner.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
released from prison, starting over, love affair, homecoming, mother son relationship, society, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, reconciliation, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, black sea
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, mumblecore ...
Plot:
female nudity, survival, isolation, social relations, confined, wilderness, snow, party, lesbian sex, male nudity, yoga, female pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Philippines, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
family in danger, couples, political unrest, isolation, parents and children, fugitives, survival, state affairs, woods, husband wife relationship, colonialism, sick mother ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
the philippines, asia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, atmospheric, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, on the road, pregnancy, gypsy, family relations, travel, european, nudity, folklore ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
europe, romania
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
Style:
serious, tense, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, on the road, parents and children, bittersweet, protecting from truth, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, parents separation, under the surface ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a ...
Style:
tense, serious, disturbing, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
murder, manipulation, destructive relationship, femme fatale, lifestyle, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, female psychopath, strong female presence, power relations, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zeynep, Tülin Özen works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, 'Engin Dogan' who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, sincere, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family problems, love and romance, life is a bitch, dull life, parents and children, death in the family, women's issues, alienation, turk, sexual content, chance, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
24%
951
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set in a rural Quebec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, atmospheric, serious, aesthetic ...
Plot:
absent mother, isolation, bittersweet, single parent, family relations, parents and children, misfit, social misfits, coming of age, youth, home schooling, overprotective father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young, self-destructive Montana Blackfoot Indian, his mind groggy with alcohol and tormented by childhood memories, discovers that his wife has left him, taking with her his prize rifle. He sets out to find her, but what he's really searching ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
native american, obsessive quest, introspection, self discovery, hung over, on the road, indigenous people, american indian, dealing with death, tribe, native, indians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montana
Similarity:
23%
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of ...
Style:
realistic, art house, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, leaving home, teenage life, teenage love, introspection, farm, unfulfillment, small town, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, self discovery, elderly, hopes, family problems, countryside, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
23%
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