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Meltem (2019)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
One year after the death of her mother, Elena, a young French woman of Greek origin, returns to her holiday home on the island of Lesbos. She is accompanied by her friends Nassim and Sekou, two young suburbanites more used to the benches of the city than the paradisiac beaches.
Style:
exciting, captivating, entertaining, dramatic, emotional, melancholic, reflective, art house, independent film, intercultural ...
Plot:
island, greek, grief, mourning, greek island, women, beach, sun, woman, female protagonist, seaside, coastal town, memory, getting home, identity, intimate, friendship, mediterranean, nostalgia, family drama, solitude, realism, identity crisis, diaspora, slice of life ...
Place:
greece
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Most similar movies to Meltem
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, art house and reflective films with plots about intimate, coming of age, slice of life, identity, nostalgia, memory and bittersweet mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Meltem: Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (2010), Hanalei Bay (2018), Humba Dreams (2019), The Tree We Hurt (1986), Ariel (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers ...
Style:
anthology, multicultural, intercultural, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, diaspora, memory, identity, city life, mother and daughter, nostalgia, intimate, family drama, slice of life, bittersweet, social realism ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, middle east, ottoman empire, greece
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A single mother receives a phone call saying her son had died from a shark attack in Hanalei Bay, Hawaii, where she now visits annually on her son’s death anniversary. One day, she meets two young Japanese surfers who tell her about a young ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
surfing, shark attack, single mother, grief, loss, social problems, animal attack, dangerous animal, shark, secret, mother and son, family problems ...
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
At his mother's request, a university student returns to his home on the island of Sumba, where questions about his late father come to light.
Style:
contemplative, poetic, emotional, art house, atmospheric ...
Plot:
coming of age, father son relationship, family drama, identity, island, self discovery, character study, getting home, mother son relationship, tradition, memory, loss ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Shot over a capricious summer, this film reveals a world of innocence shattered for some children in their school by corporal punishment. It moves at its own pace to reveal a world of children and adults with animals, birds, nature and sea. The film ...
Style:
period piece, emotional, sentimental, poignant, pastoral ...
Plot:
summer, friendship, childhood, boy, coming of age, innocence, island, nostalgia, bonding, small town, reconciliation, high school life ...
Time:
60s
Place:
greece, hellas
Similarity:
70%
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799
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Argentina-born siblings unearth family secrets when they return to their birth country to dance tango.
Style:
romantic drama, atmospheric, dramatic, emotional, intercultural ...
Plot:
dance, tango, passion, family drama, family secret, sibling relationship, secrets, siblings, urban, identity, getting home, inheritance ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five childhood friends from a small Montenegrin town have gradually moved away to different corners of the former Yugoslavia, yet they remain in contact, aware that their long-time friendship continues to play a fundamental role in their lives.
Style:
melancholic, emotional
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, nostalgia, small town, introspection, diaspora, migration, slice of life, bittersweet, intimate, social change, memory ...
Place:
montenegro
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Following the death of his estranged father, Louis is left feeling he hasn't achieved as much as he had hoped for. A chance encounter with figures from his past triggers a set of events that shakes his perception of life.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
grief, coming of age, self discovery, mourning, loss, family drama, realism, male protagonist, bittersweet, chance meeting, intimate, memory ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, art house ...
Plot:
homecoming, haunted by the past, childhood memory, heiress, house, landscape, love, grief, female protagonist, mourning, memory, inheritance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brittany, france, europe, cornwall, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, friendship, death of father, alcoholic father, family drama, self discovery, road trip, changing lives, travel, father daughter estrangement, lifestyle, personal growth ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
secret, art student, grief, coming of age, loss, summer, female protagonist, relationships, life is a bitch, self discovery, beauty, intimate ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
57%
747
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marseille describes an interlude in the life of young Berlin photographer Sophie. Wanting a change, Sophie does an apartment swap, so she can go photograph the city of Marseille, and most of all get away from Berlin.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, art house, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
photography, city life, introspection, self discovery, realism, slice of life, character study, intimate, solitude, identity, loneliness, seaside ...
Place:
marseille, berlin germany
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the snowy seaside town of Sokcho, 25-year-old Soo-Ha works at a guesthouse. She drifts between her mother’s fish stall and her boyfriend until a French artist’s arrival stirs questions about her identity. As winter deepens, Soo-Ha and the ...
Style:
intercultural, contemplative, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
winter, female protagonist, coming of age, self discovery, young woman, identity, slice of life, intimate, identity crisis, bittersweet, loneliness, small town ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Anna has lost her memory but she hasn’t forgotten how to cook. One night she shows up in a working-class neighborhood. There she meets Roula and gets a job as a cook and a place to stay at his shabby seaside tavern. In the kitchen, amidst the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
cooking, amnesia, female protagonist, food, identity, memory loss, character study, seaside, community, everyday life, friendship, working class ...
Place:
greece, europe
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yakup and Şemsa are Assyrians living in Berlin with their three children and grandchildren. Twenty-five years ago they migrated from Mardin to Berlin. One day they receive a phone call from Mardin. This unexpected call deals with their son Mikhael, ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, art house
Plot:
family drama, memory, identity, migration, diaspora, family reunited, intimate, nostalgia, homecoming, trauma, family secret, journey ...
Place:
berlin germany
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53%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with ...
Style:
aesthetic, melancholic, emotional, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
disappearance, grief, loss, coming of age, family drama, loss of brother, dysfunctional family, twin brother, family problems, lifestyle, mysterious disappearance, memory ...
Time:
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, captivating, exciting, melancholic, dramatic
Plot:
working class, black, slum, friendship, control, hairdresser, loneliness, infidelity, female protagonist, slice of life, adaptation, resilience ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Sofia, recently separated, takes her daughters to a small coastal town. Each one in their own universe, live the interlude as a challenge to free themselves and face their fears.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
separation, relationships, mother and daughter, mother daughter relationship, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, social problems, relationship problems, breakup, life is a bitch, family life ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a small community on a small island in Okinawa, Japan. Especially it focusses on the story of a grandma named Nabbie, but although it's her story told in the film's centre there are some young people, the ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, tropical, wistful
Plot:
family drama, island, slice of life, memory, bittersweet, nostalgia, small town life, peace, getting home, intimate, family secret, homecoming ...
Place:
okinawa japan
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Fuke visits his uncle Idriz and aunt Sabira to fix a broken boiler. He soon finds out there's a lot more that needs to be repaired. Idriz and Sabira aren't ready to accept the loss of their only son in the Balkan war, seven years earlier. ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, art house, tear jerker
Plot:
balkan war, family drama, grief, loss, mourning, intimate, nostalgia, slice of life, memory, healing, reconciliation, getting home ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, bosnia, balkan, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, reflective, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
search for father, teacher, father son relationship, coming of age, lifestyle, relationships, life is a bitch, family relations, school teacher, personal growth, family drama, identity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
grownups, teenager, self discovery, identity, coming of age, personal growth, adolescence, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle change, cultural difference, teenage life, black boy ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
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280
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nagasaki in 1986. Hisada, who lives with her affectionate parents and her younger brother, although there are many quarrels between couples, is a fifth grader who loves Yuki Saito and Exogini. Hisada decides to go to Boomerang Island to "see ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, island, childhood, coming of age, summer, friends, journey, bittersweet, nostalgia, sea, loss, youth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Driven by childhood memories and the hope of a reencounter, Sarah visits her paternal grandmother in her village in Uruguay. She takes long to understand the prevailing unease… But she is soon faced with the gap between her fantasy regarding the ...
Style:
road movie, melancholic, reflective, slow cinema, art house ...
Plot:
family reunited, grandmother granddaughter relationship, sadness, bittersweet, nostalgia, female protagonist, tenderness, memory, slice of life, provincial, getting home, small town ...
Place:
uruguay
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
"Alicia, Go Yonder" is the story of Alicia, a nineteen-year-old who sets out on a solitary journey to the end of the world only to come face to face with the immensity of the universe.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, reflective, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
personal growth, young woman, coming of age, female protagonist, self discovery, character study, young adult, solitude, odyssey, minimalism, spiritual journey, intimate ...
Similarity:
43%
198
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An emotive anthology by seven of Singapore's most illustrious filmmakers, celebrating SG50 through the lives and stories of Singaporeans. Directed by Eric Khoo, Jack Neo, K. Rajagopal, Royston Tan, Tan Pin Pin, Boo Junfeng, Kelvin Tong.
Style:
anthology, psychological, thrilling, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
family relations, culture, multiple storylines, lifestyle, life, national identity, intimate, realism, slice of life, nostalgia, city life, memory ...
Place:
singapore
Similarity:
43%
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:
42%
162
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs. Her brother Nathan said to her before he died that he finally founded peace there thanks to a certain Daïsuké. Following his ...
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, serious, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, humanity, grief, mourning, loss, self discovery, woman, japanese man, small village, village, brother, death of brother ...
Place:
japan, france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, summer, intimate, imagination, family drama, coming of age, motherhood, childhood, life is a bitch, teenage protagonist, family problems, teenager ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
40%
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