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Medeas (2013)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.
Style:
sexy, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, tense, sincere, gloomy, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
estrangement, human nature, extramarital affair, adultery, family life, coming of age, farm, love and romance, unfulfillment, cheating wife, deaf, family relations, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, female nudity, infidelity, sign language, strict father, male nudity, male pubic hair, male bare butt, breasts, dildo, sleeping on a couch ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and psychological films with plots about unfulfillment, couples, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance and human nature mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Medeas: Our Time (2018), Particles of Truth (2003), Life in a Fishbowl (2014), Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001), Five Times Two (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA, Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Set in a traditional world of bullfighting ranches in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, “Where Life is Born” tells the story of Juan and Ester, a couple who have an open relationship, and the problems that arise when Ester falls in love with ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
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Plot:
lovers, adultery, open marriage, cuckold, cuckolded husband, female nudity, sexually dissatisfied wife, cheating wife, husband and wife, husband wife relationship, jealousy, horny wife ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, estrangement, mental illness, human nature, family problems, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Three tales of three people who have a lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage. He divorces his wife after the death of their daughter, shuts himself from the outside world and ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
family in crisis, prostitute, estrangement, single parent, relationship vs career, family problems, haunted by the past, writer's life, crumbling marriage, alcohol abuse, couples, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, iceland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?
Style:
sexy, serious, talky, psychological, clever ...
Plot:
dogme 95, mental illness, depression, family problems, starting over, family relations, mentally unstable, dogma, real world, dysfunctional family, human nature, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, sensual, non-linear, psychological ...
Plot:
divorce, infidelity, sex, rape, adultery, wedding, husband wife relationship, wedding night, sex scene, relationships, orgy, voyeurism ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
france, sardinia, sicily, europe, senegal ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
suburbs, society, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, dull life, human nature, multiple storylines, one day, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left ...
Style:
gloomy, independent film, realistic, serious
Plot:
alcoholic, poverty, farm, family relations, coming of age, family life, family in crisis, unemployment, cons and scams, rich and poor, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1920s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Story:
A provocative drama that explores modern marriage at its midpoint. Through the lens of one couple, Neil Truman and his wife, Grace, this series answers the question, “What do you do when having it all is not enough?” by delving into their ...
Style:
tense, sexy, realistic, erotic, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, marriage, husband wife relationship, adultery, under the surface, infidelity, marital problem, couples, cheating wife, dating, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, infidelity, adultery, husband and wife, cuckolded husband, confession, dishonesty, love and romance, sex scene, married woman, female pubic hair, extramarital affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In 1973, the Loud family became a television sensation of a new kind. It was long before a metal rock star showed his eccentric family on the small screen and decades before housewives had screaming matches with each other on camera in public. ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, realistic, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
filmmaking, lifestyle, private vs public, privacy invasion, self fulfillment, family life, showbiz, family problems, american dream, parents and children, youth, human nature ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
california, usa, manhattan new york city, paris france, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
couples, infidelity, crumbling marriage, marriage, adultery, family relations, pregnancy, family life, sister sister relationship, love and romance, siblings relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
vietnam, east asia, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A couple in a failing marriage begin to cheat on each other using the power of the internet.
Style:
realistic, sexy, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
cheating wife, couple relations, infidelity, couples, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love and romance, crumbling marriage, sexual relations, affair, illicit affair, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
26%
345
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Adrift begins with the wedding of Duyen and Hai. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide and translator who marries Hai, a taxi driver who is two years her junior. Duyen thinks the marriage will make her happy but it turns out more difficult, especially ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
couple relations, closeted lesbian, lgbt, couples, infidelity, sexual relations, self discovery, forbidden love, unfulfillment, family problems, estrangement, tour guide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Style:
southern gothic, talky, tense, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
estate, terminal illness, dysfunctional family, alcoholic, plantation, frigidity, male homosexuality, estrangement, couples, sexual dysfunction, family problems, family relations ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
couples, family problems, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, destiny, hopes, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is simultaneously his most personal and most provocative film. A film about growing older, about losing, ...
Style:
sexy, serious, sincere, erotic, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual relations, eroticism, human nature, introspection, love and romance, couples, physical appearance, female nudity, nudity, reminiscence, boat, river ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, parents and children, breakup, couples, life is a bitch, downfall, unfulfillment, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
sister sister relationship, abusive husband, family relations, family problems, love and romance, obsession, unfulfillment, redemption, infidelity, couples, rape, human nature ...
Time:
50s
Place:
new orleans, mississippi, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Phillipe and Esther live an apparently idyllic life with their daughter, Elise. In an attempt to preserve this bliss, Phillipe decides that he and Esther should each have affairs, being sure to tell each other openly about them. The plan backfires ...
Style:
sincere, tense, bleak, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
swinger couple, sexual relations, female pubic hair, swinger, family problems, family life, husband wife relationship, dishonesty, couples, older man younger woman marriage, bare breasts, prison ...
Time:
70s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Mike and Lisa separate, their children suffer quietly in the middle of the annual Mummer's Parade.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, crumbling marriage, family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, society, divorce, parents separation, young lovers, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
One summer morning, 12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene wake at dawn to pick peas and perhaps shoot a wild duck on their family's Montana farm. In a nearby pasture, Arnold's gun fires accidentally. His brother ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
farm, coming of age, boy, youth, little boy, grief, hunting, depression, death of brother, guilt, family relations, death in the family ...
Time:
80s
Place:
montana, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A New York City-set drama of interlocking stories which occur over a 36-hour period.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
human nature, city life, estrangement, redemption, introspection, hopes, addiction, unfulfillment, lifestyle, multiple storylines, family problems, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In an old house in Hanoi, Bi, a 6-year-old child lives with his parents, his aunt and their cook. His favorite playgrounds are an ice factory and the wild grass along the river. After being absent for years, his grandfather, seriously ill, reappears ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, touching, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
childhood, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems, estrangement, youth, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, alcohol abuse, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a school bus driving woman (Tyne Daly) has a heart attack, she makes one request of her three daughters (Ally Sheedy, Marla Sucharetza, Marceline Hugo) - she wants them to find their long lost brother, who was taken away by their father (Jack ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, autumn, estrangement, parent child relationship, rich and poor, siblings relations, parents and children, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, family life, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
boston, europe, england, usa, harvard university
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, vengeance, crumbling marriage, family problems, parents and children, love affair, dishonesty, redemption, introspection, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a ...
Style:
tense, sincere, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
sexual content, cuckolded husband, moral dilemma, female masturbation, confined, sex scene, love triangle, love and romance, couples, prison life, crumbling marriage, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
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:
19%
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