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Tale in the Darkness (2009)
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Original name: Сказка про темноту
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Angelina lives in a big city on the sea coast, where handsome men and beautiful women are strolling the streets with only one purpose: to have fun, flirt and love. But Angelina, being pretty, intelligent, and nice, finds herself lonely. She is a police officer and her job is helping abandoned kids, orphans, and troubled youngsters. One day one of her charges, a little boy, explains to Angelina how lonely, dull and useless she is. Those words have been bothering her ever since, and she decides to change herself.. Angelina starts her way through the darkness…
Style:
sincere, realistic, semi serious, touching, art house, bleak, humorous, gloomy
Plot:
looking for love, social decay, life is a bitch, singleness, society, lone wolves, human nature, dull life, social misfits, misfit, feminism, small town, loneliness, abandoned baby, office romance, dance class, provincial life, law enforcement, strong female presence, gender, unfulfillment, female nudity
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
russia
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Most similar movies to Tale in the Darkness
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sincere films with plots about society, life is a bitch, misfit, social misfits, unfulfillment, human nature and family relations mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Tale in the Darkness: Everybody Dies But Me (2008), Nagima (2013), Watchtower (2012), Wolfy (2009), Something in the Way (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style:
touching, realistic, gloomy, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friends, teenage life, life is a bitch, boy girl relationship, youth, family problems, friendship, high school life, social relations, dysfunctional family, school, social decay ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
pregnancy, life is a bitch, looking for love, best friend, society, love and romance, social misfits, physical appearance, friendship, death in childbirth, death, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kazakhstan
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100%
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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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
There are two of them: a mother and a girl. They have no names. And they are in a constant run. The mother runs away from the daughter in an attempt to start new life, and the girl runs after her mother as she has no idea how to live without her. ...
Style:
realistic, rough, tense, neorealism, disturbing ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, family problems, little girl, werewolf, loneliness, negligence, parents and children, family relations, ex convict, alcohol abuse, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ahmad, a porn obsessed taxi driver from Jakarta, falls for the beautiful young prostitute Kinar and struggles with sexual frustration and misguided piety.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
obsession, dull life, social misfits, misfit, society, prostitution, street walker, call girl, religions or cults, unfulfillment, urban, taxi ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, indonesia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
adult virgin, introspection, social decay, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, society, daydreamer, life is a bitch, small town, economist, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.
Style:
sexy, eros, erotic, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
female nudity, looking for love, destructive relationship, human nature, single parent, love and romance, family relations, social misfits, unfulfillment, society, culture clash, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, gloomy, biting ...
Plot:
social decay, moral dilemma, introspection, immigrant, realism, life is a bitch, discrimination, society, interracial relations, hopes, crumbling marriage, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, anthology ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, love, revenge, social misfits, dishonesty, society, hopes, life is a bitch, misfit, redemption, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A janitor at a small town ski resort, who also happens to be a little person, has his life dramatically change when he finds a stray husky and falls for an exotic dancer.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, opposites attract, fall in love, social misfits, solitude, misfit, love and romance, society, social relations, pets, physical appearance, adult virgin ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Adaptation of award winning novel by Marlene van Niekerk. Triomf is about the ultimate dysfunctional family, the Benades, poor white working class Afrikaner trailer trash on the eve of the first democratic election in South Africa.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, racism, working class, life is a bitch, interracial relations, social differences, family relations, social decay, family problems, society, incest, apartheid ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
disability, family problems, family relations, parents and children, hopes, single parent, human spirit, life is a bitch, introspection, small town, family in crisis, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, cape town south africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
20 short films about human rights.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, gloomy, contemplative ...
Plot:
human spirit, introspection, redemption, youth, life is a bitch, social differences, discrimination, idealism, injustice, hopes, society, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, asia, usa, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Fifteen queer crossovers: lesbian filmmakers from Berlin were asked to make a short film about their idea of male gay love and sexuality and, vice versa, gay men were given the task of making a short film about lesbian sexuality and eroticism.
Style:
humorous, realistic, touching, thought provoking, sexy ...
Plot:
gender, couple relations, misfit, social misfits, sexual relations, gays and lesbians, couples, society, gender bending, looking for love, looking for sex, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a (slightly) retarded woman who dreams of love, sexuality, normality
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
mentally challenged, love and romance, dull life, unfulfillment, misfit, social misfits, looking for love, mental disorder, dancing, restaurant, pigeon, loss of wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Style:
mumblecore, psychological, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
alienation, misfit, introspection, mentally unstable, unfulfillment, social misfits, society, friendship, self discovery, love and romance, urban, looking for love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
injustice, fall in love, life is a bitch, society, interracial relations, social differences, friendship, working class, parents and children, family life, pregnancy, human nature ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
mississippi, usa, virginia
Similarity:
21%
636
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, gang, juvenile delinquency, social decay, drug dealing, life is a bitch, youth, society, police corruption, urban ghetto life, social misfits, down on your luck ...
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, contemplative, gloomy ...
Plot:
lovers apart, against the rules, self discovery, rebellion, social decay, love and romance, couple relations, religions or cults, love triangle, society, life is a bitch, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles tollbooth clerk becomes obsessed with the Holocaust after meeting a survivor.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
holocaust, mental illness, losing-it hero, obsession, haunted by the past, dull life, society, life is a bitch, elderly, parents and children, anti semitism, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nogreh is a young Afghani woman living with her father and her sister-in-law, Leylomah, whose husband, Akhtar, is missing. Beyond the issue of Akhtar, Leylomah is most concerned with how to feed her baby. She cannot provide milk for her baby as her ...
Style:
serious, bleak, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
survival, injustice, political unrest, danger, hidden identity, family relations, religions or cults, human nature, dishonesty, feminism, life is a bitch, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iran, afghanistan
Similarity:
20%
473
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A journalist is about to settle with his girlfriend when his life and views get shaken up by the young and beautiful Pakistani refugee Nadia. At work his ideals are more and more confronted with the harsh reality of modern urban society, while his ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
racism, life is a bitch, self discovery, introspection, media, journalism, society, mercy killing, interracial relations, impossible love, hopes, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
impossible love, single parent, life is a bitch, love and romance, friendship, hopes, society, social relations, human spirit, misfit, mother son relationship, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
134
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A humorless loner attempts to win the admiration of a drifter with his debut performance at the local comedy club.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, mumblecore ...
Plot:
win over, misfit, fall in love, looking for love, estrangement, small town, artists and showbiz, performer's life, love and romance, social misfits, loneliness, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, utah
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Buenos Aires is in a deep recession. As the money runs out, the relationship between an employer and her live-in maid changes dramatically.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic, touching
Plot:
power relations, life is a bitch, social differences, friendship, friends, lifestyle, boss and employee, unfulfillment, down on your luck, employer employee relationship, economics, professional ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, isolation, human nature, confined, misfit, doctors and patients, society, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A North Korean refugee, Jung-Nim, is trying to find a new life in South Korea, with people suspecting that she is a spy.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
couples, social differences, starting over, injustice, forceful separation, political corruption, couple relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, state affairs, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, north korea, south korea
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic
Plot:
life is a bitch, family relations, realism, misfit, youth, social misfits, parents and children, culture clash, society, resilience, single mother, discrimination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity, irreverence, and recreational cruelty towards those around them.
Style:
cynical, realistic, mumblecore, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
estrangement, introspection, satire, social decay, society, shallowness, hipster, life is a bitch, dull life, nihilism, nude dance, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
19%
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