Movies like Lovers of the Arctic Circle

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Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)
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 20K
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)
Original name: Los amantes del Círculo Polar
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.
Style: heartbreaking, philosophical, melancholic, art house, cerebral, sentimental, clever, touching, non-linear, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: incestuous relationship, incest, coming of age, brother sister incest, passion, love story, love, forbidden love, melancholy, amor, magic realism, youth, coincidence, spirituality, true love, school, male nudity, fall in love, adolescence, time travel, winter, mysticism, depression, first love, snow ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: finland, antarctica, australia, scandinavia, spain, antarctic
Keyword: german, dreams

Most similar movies to Lovers of the Arctic Circle

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, love, couples, passion, coming of age, love story and fall in love mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like Lovers of the Arctic Circle: Talk to Her (2002), Sex and Lucia (2001), Julieta (2016), The Red Squirrel (1993), Three Colors: Blue (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Talk to Her (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Style: psychological, emotional, surreal, sexy, sincere ...
Plot: rape, tragic love, friendship, suicide, loneliness, female nudity, obsession, impossible love, tragic event, hospital, sex, women ...
Time: near future, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, jordan
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Sex and Lucia (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, cerebral, art house ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, nudity, lust, sexual relations, porn, erotica, explicit sex, strong sexual content, female masturbation, male nudity, waitress ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, mediterranean sea, iberian peninsula, valencia spain ...
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Julieta (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Style: emotional, melancholic, sentimental, art house, thought provoking ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, childhood, mother daughter estrangement, loneliness, depression, sex, death of husband, female nudity, guilt, family drama, psychology, autobiography ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 80s, 90s
Place: spain, galicia, switzerland, madrid, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Red Squirrel (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and goes with her to the hospital. She has forgotten even what her name is, and he ...
Style: suspense thriller, experimental, art house, erotic, manga ...
Plot: amnesia, surrealism, mental disorder, journey, health, lie, motorcycle, deception, suicide attempt, macho man, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: iberian peninsula, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. ...
Style: emotional, visual, art house, philosophical, spiritual ...
Plot: loneliness, loss of child, solitude, grief, loss of spouse, depression, stripper, classical music, existentialism, philosophy, love, trauma ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Chaotic Ana (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The teenager artist Ana is raised in Ibiza by her German father Klaus in a naturalist lifestyle in a cave. One day, she meets a woman called Justine that invites Ana to move to Madrid, offering education and economical support, to live in an old ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, sincere, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: hypnosis, self discovery, hopes, introspection, starting over, youth, haunted by the past, arts and culture, supernatural, destiny, teenage life, cave ...
Place: spain, ibiza
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Life on a String (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: China, Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two blind men pursue ephemeral and unlikely hopes. One is an aged master, a wandering troubador venerated as a saint, in physical decline, waiting to break his 1,000th banjo string, an event his own master promised years before would bring him ...
Style: art film, road movie, spiritual, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot: blindness, disability, spirituality, music, minimal dialogue, kite, village, peasant, forbidden love, mountain village, friends, couples ...
Time: year 1991
Place: china, mongolia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
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The Reader (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, touching, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, holocaust, nazi, first love, older woman younger man sex, secret, trial, world war two, sexuality ...
Time: post world war two, year 1966, year 1980, year 1958, year 1988 ...
Place: germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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Three Colors: Red (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Part-time model Valentine meets a retired judge who lives in her neighborhood after she runs over his dog. At first the judge gifts Valentine with the dog, but her possessive boyfriend won't allow her to keep it. When she returns with the dog ...
Style: colorful, art house, visual, cerebral, philosophical ...
Plot: coincidence, redemption, friendship, dog, love affair, loneliness, model, judge, isolation, lovers, love, encounter ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: france, poland, eastern europe, paris france, english channel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Atonement (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, sad, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, wartime, tragic love, redemption, injustice, unfulfilled love, love story, false accusation, love and romance, forbidden love, innocence, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 2007, 2000s, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, dunkirk, europe ...
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29%
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Cows (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A film set in the Basque region, beginning in the Carlist war of 1875 and ending during the Spanish Civil war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations of two families and fuels the ...
Style: romantic, hispanic, family saga, manga, saga ...
Plot: cow, spanish civil war, farm, civil war, magic realism, mysticism, erotica, summer, artist, radical, countryside, battles ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 19th century, 1870s, 1910s
Place: iberian peninsula
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The School of Flesh (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In Paris, Dominique, a middle-aged fashion professional, solicits the services of the handsome Quentin , a bisexual bartender and prostitute who is 15 years her junior. After they first sleep together, their business transaction becomes transformed ...
Style: sexy, enigmatic, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot: obsession, sex, infidelity, fashion, violence, relationships, adultery, betrayal, loneliness, destructive relationship, fall in love, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 8.1
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Before Sunset (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style: philosophical, sentimental, romantic, independent film, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, relationships, lovers reunited, love and romance, couples, dialogue, lovers, bookstore, great ending, passion, bittersweet, conversation ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
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Endless Love (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: love, love story, forbidden love, teen romance, teenage love, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, father daughter relationship, relationships, couples, teenage life ...
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The Dreamers (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style: sexy, erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: incest, sexuality, protest, rebellion, couples, youth, sex, love triangle, nudity, friends, brother sister incest, sexual relations ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Before Sunrise (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. ...
Style: philosophical, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, chance meeting, destiny, relationships, fall in love, tourist, young lovers, conversation, coincidence, love story, travel, teenage girl ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: austria, europe, france, vienna, los angeles ...
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28%
Stealing Beauty (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to ...
Style: erotic, sensual, sexy, stylized, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: virginity, virgin, first sexual experience, first sex, coming of age, innocence lost, sexual awakening, sex, nymphet, lust, female nudity, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: italy, tuscany, europe, mediterranean sea, france
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28%
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Endless Love (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
Style: erotic, intense, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, mental illness, obsession, forbidden love, young lovers, arson, teen angst, mental institution, first love, teenage girl, sex scene, obsessive love ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: chicago, new york
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28%
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Before Midnight (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 109 min.
Story: We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Style: meditative, philosophical, sentimental, romantic, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: marriage, summer vacation, writers, hotel room, hotel, midlife crisis, couple relations, existentialism, relationships, love story, divorce, conversation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, paris france, chicago
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28%
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Lantana (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit ...
Style: emotional, psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: infidelity, therapist, nylons, therapy, adultery, police investigation, divorce, police, sexuality, unfaithfulness, betrayal, jealousy ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Short Film About Love (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when ...
Style: touching, enigmatic, heartbreaking, melancholic, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: voyeurism, unfulfilled love, passion, milf, loneliness, stalking, destructive relationship, passionate interest, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, relationships, dialogue ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, warsaw poland, europe
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27%
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El Sur (1983)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie tells a melancholic story of a little girl who is living in a city in the north. She is fascinated by the secrets of the south which seem to be hidden in the personality of her father.
Style: poetic, sad, art house, visual, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, children, family relations, surrealism, traumatic childhood, family problems, magic realism, mental health, adolescence, teenager, worship, problem ...
Time: year 1983, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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27%
The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be ...
Style: emotional, artsy, romantic, philosophical, captivating ...
Plot: love story, destiny, opposites attract, obsession, bank robbery, coincidence, relationships, love and romance, criminal heroes, fall in love, couples, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: germany, australia, sydney australia, europe
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27%
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Keith (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style: sad, romantic, psychological, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, terminal illness, cancer, love, youth, opposites attract, first love, teenager, love story, teen romance, teenage love, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style: romantic, heartbreaking, atmospheric, touching, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adultery, photographer, relationships, love affair, impossible love, love story, photography, housewife, passion, infidelity, couples, middle aged ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, 20th century, 80s, post world war two ...
Place: iowa, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style: sad, uplifting, inspirational, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: childhood, coming of age, friendship, first love, filmmaking, cinema, nostalgia, haunted by the past, adolescence, breast feeding, village, funeral ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: italy, sicily, europe, rome italy, corsica
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, first love, couples, teenage love, high school, family relations, love, classmate, drinking problem ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Jane Eyre (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
Style: romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: love, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, social differences, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, family secret, older man younger woman relationship, master and servant, estate ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Earth (1996)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that ...
Style: erotic, art house, hispanic, contemplative, semi serious ...
Plot: erotica, love triangle, farm, love, time travel, worship, psychology, mental disorder, jealousy, wine, suicide attempt, angel ...
Time: 90s
Place: iberian peninsula, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.3
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Blue Valentine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style: touching, romantic, psychological, emotional, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, alienation, strong sexual content ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
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