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Buddenbrooks (2008)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
Style:
realistic, saga, emotional, psychological, captivating, sad, sentimental, touching, epic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, family business, fall in love, society, workplace, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, rivalry, friendship, inheritance, german history, wealthy family, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, impossible love, family problems, family in crisis, siblings relations, downfall, couple relations, wealth, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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serious, touching, realistic, captivating, gloomy
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Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Marie Krøyer is hailed as “the most beautiful woman in Europe” and leads a happy marriage life with her husband the great Danish painter P.S. Krøyer and an adorable daughter. However, not everything in her world is as perfect as it seems, and ...
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captivating, emotional, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
painter, family problems, mentally unstable, crumbling marriage, self discovery, under the surface, fall in love, art, artist, adultery, jealousy, glory ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
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realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
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accident, family problems, couple relations, couples, family relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, small town, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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50%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, atmospheric, epic, historical epic ...
Plot:
family relations, politics, political unrest, intrigue, rivalry, revolution, family life, dishonesty, society, city, palace intrigue, revisionist history ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Hungary, Germany, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
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Rote Rosen is a German telenovela produced by Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg and broadcast by Das Erste since November 6, 2006. The show is a complex telenovela, who tells one love story every season about women in their forties.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, serious
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Time:
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Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 110 min.
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Duration: 72 min.
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