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Death of a Man in the Balkans (2012)
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Original name: Смрт човека на Балкану
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A lonely composer committed suicide in his apartment in Belgrade. Unaware of the camera catching them, neighbours and other people, shows their inappropriate behavior.
Style:
captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, dark comedy, ironic, absurd, black comedy, mockumentary, biting ...
Plot:
found footage, suicide, satire, death, corpse, videotaping, neighbor, hidden camera, loneliness, indifference, privacy invasion, murder investigation, forensics, video surveillance, disposing of a dead body, surveillance camera, isolation, voyeurism, societal hypocrisy, claustrophobia, grief, gossip, single, deadpan, character study ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
Place:
belgrade, serbia, balkan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: Serbia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, disturbing, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, tragicomedy, dark comedy, existential, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Style:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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