Movies like The Polar Boy
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The Polar Boy (2016)
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Original name: Polaarpoiss
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna's bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jelousy Mattias accidentally commits a crime that could put him behind bars for years. The only escape he sees is to get himself declared irresponsible. In order to achieve that Mattias decides to start faking the illness her gilfriend really has - bipolarity.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, melancholic, tension, tragic ending, moody
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bipolar disorder, coming of age, photography, mental illness, love affair, star crossed lovers, split personality, criminal, photographer, romantic relationship, love and romance, fall in love, social problems, relationship problems, love story, pretense, love interest, obsession, alcohol abuse, self destructing, loss of innocence, desperation, young love, moral dilemma, drug abuse ...
Place:
estonia
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Most similar movies to The Polar Boy
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, romantic drama and melancholic films with plots about love affair, love interest, relationships, love story, love and romance, male female relationship and relationship problems mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Polar Boy: iGilbert (2021), Rencor (2002), Run If You Can (2010), Chain Reaction (2017), Maalai Pozhudhin Mayakathilaey (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gilbert is a lonely man who sees the world through the prism of his phone's screen. When a chance at a real relationship enters his life, can he truly relate to a woman and find love?
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
overprotective mother, isolation, loner, socially awkward, relationships, love interest, love triangle, romantic relationship, social problems, male female relationship, love story, adult virgin ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
95%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Chelo Zamora, middling singer, agreed to spend the summer working in restaurants in the Valencian beach Cullera, could not imagine being reunited with Toni, a guy who shares a dark past. Moved by his desire for revenge, Chelo attempt to ruin ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
revenge, singer, relationships, in love, couple relations, love interest, love story, star crossed lovers, love affair, love and romance, female singer, obsessive love ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An independent tragicomedy, Run If You Can is the debut feature for director Brüggemann who, along with his sister, also wrote the compelling screenplay. Forced to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, Ben is deeply desperate, despite his ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
disability, love triangle, romantic rivalry, love story, romantic triangle, relationship problems, handicapped, fall in love, in love, romantic relationship, love interest, love affair ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marta's surprise birthday party sets in motion a spiral of tragic events.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
wedding planning, relationship problems, love affair, love interest, relationships, love and romance, wedding preparations and rituals, male female relationship, love story, love triangle, romantic relationship, escalation ...
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72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The budding romance of a wannabe filmmaker, disturbed marital life of a techie, business troubles of the manager of the coffee shop are dealt with in detail.
Style:
romantic drama, suspense, disturbing, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
relationships, love and romance, love story, love affair, romantic relationship, male female relationship, couple relations, family relations, star crossed lovers, in love, couples, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Richio, a young DJ, is as emotionally non-existent as no other man on the planet. He uses his tough exterior to avoid attachments to people and society.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
love triangle, trauma, character study, relationships, romantic relationship, love affair, love story, physical appearance, male female relationship, relationship problems, social problems, love interest ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the summer of his nineteenth year, Giulio has decided not to go away: he will spend his vacation at home, helping his parents with their work in the vegetable garden. In the house next door, empty for some time, arrives Lia, a twenty-year-old ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love, secret, male female relationship, relationships, problem, fall in love, couple relations, relationship problems, love and romance, in love, love interest, love affair ...
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62%
265
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sawako enjoys taking photos of older men and making scrapbooks with them. Although the men she has dated have always been older than her, she has been unable to speak well with her father and they have grown apart.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic ...
Plot:
self discovery, sexual awakening, problem, relationships, romantic relationship, love story, couple relations, love interest, love, relationship problems, love affair, love and romance ...
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A female cheap salon worker and a pirated DVDs subtitle maker fall in love during the turbulent presidential election in Indonesia.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
presidential election, lovers apart, forbidden love, mistress, star crossed lovers, relationship problems, love and romance, fall in love, politics, social problems, political unrest, love story ...
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58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A love story between a Polish guestworker and a farmer's daughter in the strawberry fields of Sweden.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tension ...
Plot:
love story, love, male female relationship, problem, relationships, couple relations, love interest, workplace, family relations, fall in love, love affair, love and romance ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
Style:
independent film, captivating, psychological, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
love affair, director, longing, male female relationship, couple relations, love interest, romantic relationship, couples, love and romance, relationships, infatuation, love story ...
Similarity:
57%
168
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nora and Leo, 16, live in the same town, in the same suburbs, go to the same highschool, but everything opposes them: their social backgrounds, their families religions, their everyday lives. Yet, they fall in love at first sight. But from a theft ...
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, romantic, thrilling
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, love, love story, romantic relationship, relationships, male female relationship, in love, teenage love, love interest, love at first sight, love affair, adolescence ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Pep, a 13-year-old boy, is in love with a girl from his grandparents village, Sara Amat. One summer night Sara disappears without a trace. After a few hours, Pep finds her hiding in his room. Although Pep knows that the entire town is looking for ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, romantic drama, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs.
Style:
disturbing, romantic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
relationships, actor, theater, autumn, couples, couple relations, romantic relationship, love affair, love and romance, love story, male female relationship, actor's life ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Jing is a teenager who starts dating Eiam, a woman who is 20 years older than him. Things go well at the beginning but when Eiam turns 40 and Jing starts to mature, the couple increasingly experiences conflicts and arguments.
Style:
romantic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
older woman younger man, relationship problems, love triangle, age difference, male female relationship, romantic triangle, romantic relationship, love story, in love, tragic love, love and romance, social problems ...
Similarity:
53%
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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:
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
tragic ending, romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Place:
italy
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, romantic drama, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot:
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Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Jayakrishna is a dark-skinned guy who falls head over heels on Deepu but keeps his feelings to himself. As time passes by, a gang in his college beats him up and this issue brings Deepu closer to him. Slowly the friendship turns into love and this ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, satirical, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
relationship problems, love affair, relationships, couple relations, family relations, in love, star crossed lovers, social problems, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, racial slur, male female relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A politician’s son falls in love with a girl from a different community. To please his parents, he comes up with a plan which leads to a series of lies and hilarious situations.
Style:
romantic, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
punjabi, love, fall in love, pretense, couples, relationships, couple relations, family relations, love story, love and romance, social problems, love affair ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
51%
369
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When her best friend Jojo falls in love and moves on from their wild dating adventures in Berlin, Paula does everything she can to sabotage her wedding.
Style:
psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
gay relationship, romantic triangle, love triangle, lesbian relationship, lesbian, in love, star crossed lovers, romantic relationship, relationships, love affair, love story, love interest ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, romantic drama, art house ...
Plot:
love triangle, love, adaptation, literary, love affair, love story, relationships, couple relations, problem, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance ...
Place:
india, kolkata
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in a village right after the Korean War, poor but good-hearted Heo Sam-gwan sets out to win the most beautiful girl in the village, Heo Ok-ran, by selling his blood to earn money. Years later, the two are happily married with three children, but ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, heartfelt, emotional ...
Plot:
love story, sacrifice, father son relationship, poverty, family drama, countryside, love interest, relationships, male female relationship, money problems, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Time:
60s
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A student grieving the loss of her parents joins an extracurricular club and becomes entangled in a romance with a classmate who has secrets.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic drama, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
secrets, teen romance, problem, love story, relationships, male female relationship, undercover, love interest, relationship problems, couples, secret, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Sheldon's cancer has him navigating around his loving, but very dysfunctional family, providing comic relief as he follows his life's passion for photography. Left at the alter, he begins to realize that he's been in love with his ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, cancer, love story, couples, love and romance, relationships, family relations, relationship problems, couple relations, male female relationship, love interest, eccentric family ...
Similarity:
47%
435
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mika and Tesfay. She: a photographer. He: a musician. Both up-and-coming. The first love. But an invisible conflict, an unnamable shame, stirs between their sheets. An insidious power game is in play, with its rules changing like music beats at the ...
Style:
captivating, romantic drama, indie film, visual, tense ...
Plot:
relationships, sexuality, intimacy, unrequited love, musician, photographer, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, love and romance, romantic relationship, male female relationship ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, ibiza, scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story:
Vetri, a jobless young man, meets Priya and falls in love with her. However, he faces challenges when her father wants him to join the police force.
Style:
romantic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
police, male female relationship, fall in love, couple relations, problem, love affair, love and romance, romantic relationship, family relations, relationships, love story, love ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is the life motto of 30-year-old Agnieszka. After serving five years in prison, Agnieszka flees Poland for Germany in an attempt to start over. In Munich she meets the lonely 70-year-old Madame, ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
older woman younger man, relationship problems, age difference, middle aged, love affair, love story, life is a bitch, middle aged woman, star crossed lovers, female protagonist, fall in love, in love ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Topan and Raka are two friends. Topan has a lover named Chanisa who turns out to be suffering from lung cancer.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, romantic, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, love triangle, terminal illness, lung cancer, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love story, relationship problems, couple relations, love interest, romantic triangle, love and romance ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
45%
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