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Shadows and Faces (2010)
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Original name: Gölgeler ve Suretler
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Shadows and Faces tells the story of a young girl who is separated from his shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional, poignant, historical drama, bleak, melancholic, period piece, tragic ...
Plot:
ethnic conflict, father daughter relationship, village, separation from family, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, father and daughter, social problems, female protagonist, cultural conflict, child protagonist, political unrest, identity, trauma, survival, memory, loss of innocence, refugee, resilience, village life, community, human rights, coming of age, reconciliation ...
Place:
cyprus, turkey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, melancholic and emotional films with plots about life is a bitch, family relations, resilience, social problems, female protagonist, family drama and intimate mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Shadows and Faces: Lost Birds (2015), Pacified (2019), Sisters (2020), Have You Ever Seen Fireflies? (2021), A Girl Returned (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is 1915 in an Armenian village in Anatolia. Bedo and Maryam return from their secret dovecote only to find an empty house and a ghost village. The children embark on a journey to search for their mother, along with their bird 'Bacik.'
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, psychological, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
children, deportation, brother sister relationship, search for mother, loss, social issues, family relations, search for father, social misfits, social problems, life is a bitch, travel ...
Time:
year 1915
Place:
armenia, ottoman empire
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tati, an introspective 13 year old girl struggles to connect with her estranged father, Jaca, after he is released from prison in the turbulent wake of the Rio Olympics. As Brazilian Pacification Police battle to maintain a tenuous occupation of the ...
Style:
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Plot:
father daughter relationship, prison, family drama, favela, coming of age, life is a bitch, family problems, relationship problems, ex convict, adolescence, teenage life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
sisters, sister sister relationship, father daughter conflict, traumatic childhood, sisterhood, family drama, family history, trauma, family secret, family relations, family conflict, father and daughter ...
Place:
algeria, france
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71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Rebellious, irreverent wunderkind Gülseren navigates loneliness, love and loss against the current of political turmoil and social change.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
loneliness, love, female protagonist, social problems, life is a bitch, lifestyle, political unrest, loss, young woman, self discovery, coming of age, rebellion ...
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71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
family relations, family drama, female protagonist, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, society, parents and children, family life, life is a bitch, custody, teenage girl, little girl ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
1954, in the small mountain town of Colombia, Alfonso, an 11-year old boy whose mother passed away, doesn't have any family and to survive has no other recourse than to leave school and begin working as errand boy at a local pharmacy. There he ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional, period piece ...
Plot:
pharmacy, medicine, child protagonist, childhood, coming of age, grownups, life is a bitch, changing lives, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, child, teenager ...
Time:
year 1954, 1950s
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, family saga ...
Plot:
indigenous people, world war two, matriarchy, survival, trauma, resilience, colonialism, oppression, social problems, confronting the past, violence, social issues ...
Time:
20th century
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61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France, Georgia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, reflective, historical drama, bleak, period piece ...
Plot:
memory, diaspora, identity, exile, nostalgia, ethnicity, reminiscence, border crossing, migration, world war two, political persecution, refugee ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, soviet union, turkey
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59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Sarya lives between three worlds: Having fled from Turkey to Japan, her small family tries to maintain their Kurdish traditions. On the other hand, Sarya, who arrived when she was five, feels at home in Japan. But then, the family loses its ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, poignant ...
Plot:
kurd, refugee, family drama, immigration, social problems, social issues, relationship problems, teenage protagonist, teenager, female protagonist, adolescence, teenage girl ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against the resistance of her family. Her struggle initiates a dynamic, which results in a life-threatening situation.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, emotional, serious, cute ...
Plot:
family relations, immigrant, self discovery, family problems, against the rules, society, life is a bitch, conservative, unhappy marriage, reconciliation, parents and children, marital rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, turkey, europe, berlin germany, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, emotional, compassionate ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, lgbtq, female protagonist, gay father, gay asian, gay parent, family relations, estrangement, family drama, father and daughter, gay, money problems ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
boy, totalitarian regime, loss, tragedy, deportation, nuclear testing, oppression, social problems, foster child, reprisal, dysfunctional family, repression ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Müzeyyen is a 22-year-old high school senior living in Antalya who spends most of her time with a posse of misfits. She lives a drug-fuelled, highly troubled life outside the norms of society. When her long-lost brother Ali decides to visit her ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
drug, society, relationship problems, family problems, life is a bitch, drug addict, family relations, drug abuse, drug addiction, social relations, male female relationship, female protagonist ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Albania, 1958. Luana, the daughter of a well respected man in the village, makes friends with Agim, who moved here after his family were banned from the city by the communists. Years later, their childhood friendship turns into teenage love, but ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
1950s
Place:
albania
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
anthology, poignant, melancholic, political, emotional ...
Plot:
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Place:
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157
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Hakim and Latifa fled the Algerian civil war in the early 90s. They live since in the Jura, with their two daughters: Nedjma 14 years, and Leila, the eldest, left to study hair in Paris. Three days before Christmas, Nedjma receives a terse SMS from ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
sincere, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
1950s
Similarity:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman breaks things off with her boyfriend but finds out the universe has other plans. Desperate to move on, she is forced to literally relive the memories they’ve shared together. Pin-balling through time and space, she attempts to ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
relationship problems, marital problem, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, marital crisis, family relations, tragic love, dysfunctional family, breakup, male female relationship, relationships, travel ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Sweden, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A recovering alcoholic on a pilgrimage meets two young refugees who are trying to find their father. Their struggles during the trip from Poland to France will forever change their lives.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
alcoholic, alcoholism, search for father, journey, social problems, lifestyle change, changing lives, redemption, recovery, refugee, family drama, personal growth ...
Place:
poland, france, eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, estranged father, father and daughter, relationship problems, father, family problems, parent child relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, relationships ...
Similarity:
40%
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: Indonesia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Eight years ago, 14 year old May was raped by a group of men. May’s father is devastated, blaming himself for not being able to keep his daughter safe. Traumatized significantly by this incident, May withdraws completely from life.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, childhood trauma, trauma, sexual assault, wizard, family problems, family relations, social problems, life is a bitch, relationships, guilt, grief ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
38%
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, Turkey, Taiwan, USA, Qatar
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
On this beautiful, bright first day of summer, Claire Darling has decided to get rid of all her estate. She’s laid down all her favourite objects on her front lawn for one splendid garage sale. As a horde of curious bystanders and neighbors fights ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family drama, memory, estrangement, parents and children, life & death, family relations, latter day saints, female protagonist, nostalgia, aging, intimate ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, gay, kids and family, unhappy marriage, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, social problems, parents and children, father son relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl grieving the horrific loss of her parents moves in with relatives, who try their best to welcome her into the family.
Style:
emotional, psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
mental health, uncle niece relationship, post traumatic stress disorder, ptsd, loss, grief, family drama, post traumatic stress, family life, loss of father, loss of mother, family problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Jeong-eun is dispatched to a subcontracting company. She tries to fit in, but her co-workers aren’t comfortable around her and she’s completely new to field work. Despite all that, she wants to stay on for a year and then return to headquarters, ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, worker, workplace, social problems, discrimination, women's rights, working class, co worker co worker relationship, coworker, civil rights, classism, adaptation ...
Place:
korea
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37%
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