Movies like Anxiety

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   No Ghosts on Good Street

   Strong story similarity

   2026 · 90 min · Comedy · Drama · Fantasy

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   Four siblings on the verge of coming-of-age try to build their independent lives without losing the bonds that connect them.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era
   • shared production studio: Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury

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   Forgotten Love

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 140 min · Drama · Romance

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   A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Little Women

   Similar atmosphere

   2018 · 112 min · Drama

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   A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood. Despite harsh times, they cling to optimism, and as they mature, they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Sarah Plays a Werewolf

   Shared cast

   2017 · 86 min · Drama

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   17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost in a trance, and her performances at home or elsewhere verge on excess. A cold, intellectual father, a timid mother, a younger sister and an older brother who has left home complete the picture: a silent time bomb.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Mug

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 91 min · Comedy · Drama

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   After fun-loving metalhead Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant. This leads to his status as a media spectacle and martyr, all while battling ensuing identity issues as a consequence.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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   The Last Spark of Hope

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 88 min · Drama · Science Fiction

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   A woman, who may be the last human on Earth, struggles to survive with only her robot companion. As she battles the harsh realities of her existence, the stakes intensify when her once-trusted robot turns against her.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   My Name Is Sara

   Strong story similarity

   2020 · 111 min · Drama · History

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   The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Slovenian Girl

   Strong story similarity

   2009 · 90 min · Drama

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   Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Hidden Web

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 101 min · Thriller

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   A journalist unearths a horrific conspiracy when she questions the events surrounding a celebrity’s death.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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    Nausea

    Similar atmosphere

    2015 · 116 min · Drama

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    Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under anything, he moves on quite unaffected. Yet some things start to change in himself and his life without any apparent reason.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared theme: loss

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