Movies like The Passport

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The Passport (1990)
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The Passport (1990)
Original name: Паспорт
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
Plot: passport, cold war, adventurer, perestroika, prison, spy, female nudity, journalist, smuggler, journey, emigrant, emigration, airport, mistaken identity, homesickness, consulate, soviet
Place: ussr, israel, soviet union

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Most similar movies to The Passport

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and realistic films with plots about soviet, female nudity, satire, friendship, love and romance, european and love affair mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Passport: Mimino (1977), Afonya (1975), Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964), Don't Grieve (1968), The Asthenic Syndrome (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mimino (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. ...
Style: feel good, smart, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: aviation, misadventure, pilot, hotel, friendship, helicopter pilot, social relations, disorder, small time, friends, hopes, follow your dream ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: soviet union, georgia, ussr, russia, caucasus ...
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Afonya (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even ...
Style: funny, sincere, satirical, ironic
Plot: love, social satire, bribery, friendship, middle aged man, social relations, coworker relationship, social outcast, slacker, social misfits, communism, plumber ...
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Walking the Streets of Moscow (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: "I Am Walking Along Moscow" aka "Ya Shagayu Po Moskve" (1963) is a charming lyrical comedy directed by Georgi Daneliya in 1963 that was nominated for Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival. Daneliya proved that it is possible to ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, sincere
Plot: military enlistment, wedding, army, love and romance, family relations, society, friendship, boyhood, ridicule, subway, love, writers ...
Place: moscow russia, russia, soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Don't Grieve (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love ...
Plot: european, duel, brother sister relationship, doctor, humiliation, dance, adoption, drunkenness, death, banquet, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, russia, georgia
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The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style: spiritual
Plot: perestroika, spirituality, depression, loneliness, female nudity, male nudity, teacher, soviet, live action, film within a film
Time: year 1990
Place: soviet union, ussr
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Taxi Blues (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks him down and a ...
Style: psychological, contemplative, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, taxi, taxi driver, perestroika, driver, cold war, jazz singer, friends, life is a bitch, society, unlikely partners, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union, ussr, usa, russia
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43%
Autumn Marathon (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous, witty
Plot: midlife crisis, infidelity, affair, translator, love triangle, language learning, family problems, couples, love affair, homecoming, fish out of water, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: soviet union, europe, russia
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Window to Paris (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous ...
Style: humorous, satirical, offbeat, biting, semi serious
Plot: teacher, culture clash, satire, disorder, imaginary, fish out of water, unfulfilled love, down on your luck, artist, cat, music teacher, fall in love ...
Place: paris france, russia, europe, st. petersburg russia
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100%
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The Detached Mission (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: CIA appointed US Army major Jack Hessalt to be in charge of a secret missile base in the Atlantic Ocean. Jack is still troubled by memories of Vietnam, and soon goes berserk, taking control of the base and killing some crew members. Jack and his ...
Plot: spy, cold war, army, superpower, gas, energy, technology, economics, soviet army, international relations, risk, soviet ...
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young ...
Plot: middle aged man, midlife crisis, loser, love triangle, engineer, film set, train, car, railway, young girl, soviet, psychological drama
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Dogs' Feast (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 112 min.
Story: On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters meet, — a meeting of two ...
Plot: social injustice, woman, female nudity, alcoholism, train station, small town, single mother, train, drunkenness, neighbor, loss of family, winter ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to Caucas in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local "gang", he ends up literally stealing for the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, spoof
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: student, corrupt official, couple relations, kidnapping, love affair, social relations, criminal gang, human relationship, love and romance, summer, caucasian, iron curtain ...
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Style: absurd
Plot: worker, european, caucasian, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, manuscript, publisher, office, absurdism, absurd humor, secretary, book ...
Place: soviet union, georgia, caucasus, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Untamed Women (1995)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Tired of being mistreated by their husbands, Ema (Reyes Spindola), Clotilde (Elizarraras) and Chayo (Orozco) leave their past (children and husbands included) and begin an adventure that will take them to a cavernous cabaret in Guadalajara, a love ...
Plot: adultery, bare breasts, female nudity, emigration
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37%
The Dead Season (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A duel between Soviet spy and German war criminal.
Plot: spy, cold war, war crime, nazi, red army, gas chamber, concentration camp
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Criminal Shall Not Escape (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
Plot: police dog, human animal relationship, crime investigation, german shepherd, police, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, offbeat, humorous, enigmatic ...
Plot: desert, surrealism, alien, totalitarianism, satire, distopia, absurdism, time travel, society, post apocalyptic, racism, capitalism ...
Time: future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the ...
Style: period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, soviet, novel
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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An Englishman Abroad (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story: Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
Plot: cold war, gay, actress playing herself, hamlet, loneliness, cold war era, desertion, spy, iron curtain, autobiography, defector, espionage
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Striped Trip (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his ...
Style: sweet, romantic, humorous, feel good, exciting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: ship, tiger, human animal relationship, animal training, fall in love, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sea voyage, strong female lead, danger, female protagonist, mistaken identity ...
Place: soviet union, ussr
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36%
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Style: slow cinema, aesthetic, spiritual
Plot: stalinism, psychedelia, spy, underground, spirituality, police officer, interrogation, winter, chief of police, siege, suicide attempt, raid ...
Time: year 1985, 1930s
Place: soviet union, ussr, siberia, russia
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35%
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City Zero (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, ...
Style: surreal, heartfelt, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: small town life, surrealism, female nudity, life changing, post soviet, town, perestroika, social satire, nudity, society, social relations, dark humor ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless...
Style: witty, funny, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: lookalikes, criminal heroes, cons and scams, disguise, petty criminal, secret agent, kindergarten, chess, russian mafia, art theft, escape, undercover ...
Time: 70s
Place: ussr, russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Freedom Is Paradise (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape and to search for his ...
Style: road movie, crying
Plot: coming of age, prison, traumatic childhood, boy, childhood, father, children, female nudity, prisoner, reform school, child abuse, girl ...
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Republic SHKID (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: traumatic childhood, boy, orphanage, male nudity, corruption, school, nudity, communist propaganda, soviet, stockings, female stockinged legs
Time: 1920s
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
To Kill a Dragon (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's ...
Style: fairy tale, unusual plot structure, allegory
Plot: european, fantasy life, love, satire, social satire, libertine, fisherman, parable, honor, power, philosophy, capture ...
Time: medieval times
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Office Romance (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make ...
Style: light, feel good, funny, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: unlikely couple, female boss, relationship vs career, love affair, boss and employee, office romance, social relations, love, worker, love and romance, single father, awkwardness ...
Time: year 1977, 70s
Place: soviet union, ussr, moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Second Circle (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, spirit, european, existentialism, loss of father, death, snow, soviet, coffin
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Nude with a Hat (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 68 min.
Story: A promising erotic photographer Kostya Telegin is kidnapped and his friends-journalists decide to find him with the aid of his last photo "Nude with a Hat".
Style: sex comedy, detective
Plot: perestroika, newspaper, irony, kidnapping, erotica, photography, public nudity, sauna, skinny dipping, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Celle que j'aime (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Isabelle est une trentenaire célibataire (depuis qu'elle est divorcée). Elle est belle, sexy, drôle, émouvante, intelligente... Irrésistible ! Elle est numéro 2 d'un journal qu'elle a créé avec Brice son partenaire et ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: divorced mother, jealousy, family problems, love affair, parents and children, love story, male female relationship, family relations, relationships, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, mother and son ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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