Movies like Wind Over the City

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   Lilya 4-ever

   Strong story similarity

   2002 · 109 min · Crime · Drama

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   In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

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   • substantial genre overlap

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   The Machinist

   Genre overlap

   2004 · 102 min · Drama · Thriller

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   Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.

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   • substantial genre overlap

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   Vanya on 42nd Street

   Similar atmosphere

   1994 · 120 min · Drama

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   An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Import/Export

   Strong story similarity

   2007 · 135 min · Drama

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   A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...

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   • strong story and style similarity
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   The Safety of Objects

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   2002 · 121 min · Drama

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   In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Hunting Time

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   1988 · 96 min · Drama

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   During the year of the repressive military regime, a Turkish writer gets disillusioned by the loss of a dear friend and retires to his hometown on a remote island where he feels safe from the political turmoil. There he escapes to the world of memories, having imaginary conversations with his dead friend. However, the news of a new murder alerts him to the dangers lying ahead. Shot in Turkey following the years of military regime, Av Zamani carries autobiographical elements as the director Erden Kiral also had to flee the repressive regime of his country to be an exile in Germany. The weakness of the film is that the director is not able to take enough distance from the events to give the story a more universal appeal. Av Zamani was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival 1988.

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

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   A Friend of the Deceased

   Strong story similarity

   1997 · 100 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era

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   Everything Is Illuminated

   Strong story similarity

   2005 · 105 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Synecdoche, New York

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   2008 · 124 min · Drama

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   A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

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    Little Vera

    Strong story similarity

    1988 · 128 min · Drama · Romance

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    Vera is a troubled teenager fresh out of school feeling trapped in her provincial port town during the turbulent times of perestroika. Her days and nights are filled with drinking, sex, and family dysfunction.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap

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