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I Work at the Cemetery (2021)
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Original name: Я працюю на цвинтарі
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland, Ukraine
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sasha manages a firm that installs tombstones at the local cemetery. His many customers have all experienced personal tragedies, but he is full of cynicism. One day, Sasha's 14-year-old daughter appears to bring him back into her life.
Style:
exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dramatic, emotional, melancholic, existential, realistic, dark comedy
Plot:
cemetery, father daughter relationship, teenage daughter, cynic, dark humor, death, happy ending, sadness, life & death, family drama, father and daughter, daughter, colleague, coworker, customer, mortician, coworker relationship, loneliness, single father, fatherhood, grief, loss, bittersweet, character study, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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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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Duration: 93 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
poetic realism
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ken Kasugai has been deserted by his wife, because he was absorbed in a game. One day, missing child robot Tang appears in front of him.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Story:
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Style:
feel good, funny, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A rebellious teen is reunited with her father, a small time Taipei gangster, causing him to question his life of crime.
Style:
crime drama, bleak, exciting, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
taipei, taiwan
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54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The chance meeting of two people at the darkest moments of their lives leads to a bright new beginning : Arthur (around 50) and Claire (around 30) pull each other from the abyss – by trying to save the other they see the worth of their own life.
Style:
melancholic, romantic drama, life affirming, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Greece, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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