Movies Similar to Skipper Straad

Into the Night(2019)

A yuppie seeks help from two townspeople in finding his wife and daughter, during a blizzard storm. Based on the short story by Stephen King.

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Erica(2016)

Erica has a secret relationship to the married Sebastian. When his wife Liv finds out, she decides to confront Erica over an evening of gin and tonics. Erica is soon being pushed to question what things in life are worth fighting for.

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Eva(2016)

Gabriel, a shy boy, decides to enlist the services of Eva to help him confront his sexual desires. Although he isn't able to make love with her, their meeting takes an unexpected turn.

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Casus Belli(2010)

All kinds of people are waiting in seven different queues. The first person of each queue becomes the last of the next one, thus creating an enormous human line. But at the end of the line, it all begins backwards again.

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Mister Chair(2020)

The man needs the trip. The job impedes him to do so. Then the man stuck to his chair! Loosely based on a short short story named "A Man Called Desk" from the book "Password Incorrect" written by Nick Name

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First Day in the Grave(2017)

A student movie loosely based on the short story by Sadegh Chubak

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Vito-Man(2024)

Vito is a sweet little boy with Down syndrome, and this short documentary puts his energetic, jolly personality on full display as he interacts with his loving family. By showing Vito’s dignity and inherent value, Vito-Man tackles the difficult conversation that is the eradication of people with Down syndrome, proving that an extra chromosome should not be a death sentence.

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The Dam(2016)

A lifelong friendship is under siege when two mature Australian men visit the monolithic dam that defined their young lives and are confronted by feelings that were impounded long ago, but cannot be contained any longer.

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Aujourd'hui ou je meurs(2019)

After a month of texting, Zoe has organized a perfect first date with Marc. Their expectations will be tested by reality.

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Bloodsport(2025)

After a protest gets out of control, activists Nell and Esme are forced to go on the run. They squat in a beautiful and seemingly empty mansion, but danger descends when another interloper arrives with an unexpected connection to Esme.

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Sign Language(2010)

Meet Ben - he holds a sign for a living, and he loves his job more than almost anything. But today is his last day.

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For Ever is Too Long, Goodbye is Too Short...(2025)

Tomás and Valentim are two young men who have just entered their twenties, full of dreams, illusions, and disappointments. The two enter a relationship seeking to fill the emptiness within themselves, but soon realize that for a relationship to work, it takes much more than desire.

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Artemide’s Knee(2008)

Mourning the death of his partner and collaborator Danièle Huillet, Straub finds tender mercy in music and nature. Out of the abyss, Kathleen Ferrier sings “The Farewell” from Gustav Mahler’s “The Song of the Earth”, (which the composer wrote in 1909 after the death of his daughter) and Heinrich Schütz’s Lament on the Death of His Wife. The landscape also provides solace: the mountain grove where Endymion pines for his beloved Artemis, “a wild thing, untouchable, mortal,” appears to embody the Japanese concept of ‘mono no aware’ — a wistful acceptance of the fleeting beauty of things.

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The Mirror Tells Me

Louis Friedman, a gay man reeling from a bad break-up, wants to know what the ugliest part of himself is. One day, a strange woman arrives and shows him.

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Winter Morning(2014)

Maria hesitates when her best friend Birita offers her some pills, but – what the hell? Her mother’s away and they are both desperate to have some fun tonight. They set off and, once the drug takes effect, start euphorically planning how they might finally escape their dreary island...

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The War Game(1963)

Two boys quarrel over a toy pistol in an ever escalating game.

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Cat Skin(1962)

A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.

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Lands of Silence(2015)

Anna is twenty-five. Her boyfriend, Louis, is a math teacher. Together, they give birth to a child, Leo. A few months later, the discovery of Leo's deafness is an upheaval.

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The Unnamable(2025)

A cryptic young creature takes the train from Dublin to Sandycove, confronting ideas of a splintered self-image, loneliness, and being seen in a fundamentally blind world.

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