Top 20 movies like Pretending

A woman fights for a job

Pretending is of 0 hour(s) and 7 minute(s). It is Produced By: . It was released on 2021-09-25.

Genres: Drama

Top 20 Movies like Pretending

1. Short Sharp Shock
2. Summer in Berlin
3. Tough Enough
4. Popular Music
5. My Own Private Idaho
6. Stranger Than Paradise
7. Cléo from 5 to 7
8. Killing Zoe
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
10. The Promised Land
11. Requiem
12. Dead Poets Society
13. Berlin is in Germany
14. Stand by Me
15. Muriel's Wedding
16. About a Boy
17. Italian for Beginners
18. Bad Education
19. All Quiet on the Western Front
20. unfinished

1. Short Sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos)

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.

It has an average vote of 6.697 on TMDB.

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2. Summer in Berlin (Sommer vorm Balkon)

When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer comedy but it’s not. This film is an intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based on their ideas.

It has an average vote of 6.593 on TMDB.

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3. Tough Enough (Knallhart)

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.

It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.

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4. Popular Music (Populärmusik från Vittula)

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.

It has an average vote of 6.365 on TMDB.

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5. My Own Private Idaho

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

It has an average vote of 7.052 on TMDB.

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6. Stranger Than Paradise

A Hungarian immigrant, his friend, and his cousin go on an unpredictable adventure across America.

It has an average vote of 7.169 on TMDB.

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7. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7)

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

It has an average vote of 7.685 on TMDB.

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8. Killing Zoe

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.

It has an average vote of 6.234 on TMDB.

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9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

It has an average vote of 8.421 on TMDB.

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10. The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana)

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

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11. Requiem (Requiem)

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.

It has an average vote of 6.596 on TMDB.

12. Dead Poets Society

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

It has an average vote of 8.313 on TMDB.

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13. Berlin is in Germany (Berlin is in Germany)

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the consequences of the German re-unification.

It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.

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14. Stand by Me

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

It has an average vote of 7.858 on TMDB.

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15. Muriel's Wedding

A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.

It has an average vote of 6.838 on TMDB.

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16. About a Boy

Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.

It has an average vote of 6.673 on TMDB.

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17. Italian for Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere)

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

It has an average vote of 6.482 on TMDB.

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18. Bad Education (La mala educación)

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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19. All Quiet on the Western Front

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

It has an average vote of 7.766 on TMDB.

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