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The Forest (2002)
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Original name: A Selva
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Brazil, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
survival, jungle, forbidden love, love affair, social differences, fish out of water, fall in love, love and romance, society, farm, misfit, woods, love, married, in the woods, romance
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
portugal, brazil
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about love and romance, society, love affair, fall in love, love, couples and forbidden love mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like The Forest: Letters of a Portuguese Nun (2014), Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008), Picnic (2000), Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011), Paruthiveeran (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An actress is about to play the part of Mariana Alcoforado, a young nun from the convent of Beja who was writing five letters to her French lover, the officer De Chamilly. The actress, being the perfect embodiment of Mariana, will drive us to a ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, emotional, independent film, realistic
Plot:
convent, love, actor's life, love affair, forbidden love, religions or cults, society, artists and showbiz, love and romance, filmmaking, religion, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, couples, family relations, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
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94%
300
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot:
love triangle, social differences, love affair, lifestyle, rivalry, society, fall in love, friendship, couples, social relations, small town, stranger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, historical drama ...
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, rich and poor, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, class differences ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
indonesia
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75%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
A village tough finally succumbs to the unconditional love of his angelic cousin, but his romance faces insurmountable challenges, including family opposition and his own delinquent personality.
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, village, parents and children, fall in love, love affair, wedding planning, uninhibited rivalry, village life, misfit, vengeance, love and romance, arranged marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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67%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, ...
Style:
stylized, serious, atmospheric, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
incestuous sex, love affair, society, love and romance, friends, family relations, writer's life, fall in love, couple relations, friendship, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
portugal, europe
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Drama directed by Paul Cox.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love affair, taxi, couples, society, misfit, politics, love and romance, journalism, immigrant, immigration, greek ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
australia, greece
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
countryside, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, haunted by the past, farm, flashback, rural setting, happy ending, sexual content, pimp ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Shy Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance ...
Style:
sexy, sad, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, love triangle, young lovers, social differences, youth, society, love affair, family relations, parents and children, diary, love ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, forbidden love, love, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, farm, male female relationship, post war, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe, italy
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A dramatic novel that presents the submission in a relationship between an Italian settler and a Brazilian woman in 1932. Luiza is a generation of women who were sent to convents to be educated, many of the high cost of permanency option ran out and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
love affair, forbidden love, couples, revolution, love and romance, life is a bitch, rivalry, society, vengeance, wartime life, war, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy, semi autobiographical
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, infidelity, crumbling marriage, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, opposites attract, couples, dull life, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, normandy
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Spain, France
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Macário spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life: straight after starting his first job as a book keeper at his Uncle Francisco's shop in Lisbon he ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
fall in love, blonde, accountant, love and romance, wooing, social differences, society, hopes, starting over, breakup, engagement, fan ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
interracial relations, forbidden love, sikh, love and romance, fall in love, couples, society, soldier, political unrest, social relations, muslim, male female relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
pakistan, india, africa, middle east, south africa ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, islamic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, culture clash, interracial romance, love affair, social differences, couples, family problems, fall in love, society, muslim, male female relationship, family relations ...
Place:
middle east, canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu (Zhou Dong-Yu) is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San (Shawn Dou), a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, young lovers, social differences, revolution, youth, unfulfilled love, love and romance, society, fall in love, tragic love, true love, renaissance ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
true love, renaissance, forbidden love, love, erotica, betrayal, estate, love triangle, crumbling marriage, femme fatale, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Time:
19th century, year 1989
Place:
eastern europe, russia, germany, europe, venice
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
I'm not Angry! is the story of Navid, a starred and expelled university student who - while trying to provide the least requirements of a normal life -, tries not to get angry when he is faced with the immoralities prevalent in the society, and ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, bleak
Plot:
forbidden love, rebellion, society, social differences, love and romance, love, college student, youth, immorality, anger, execution, twentysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Style:
serious, emotional, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, forbidden love, betrayal, tragic love, love triangle, family relations, tragic hero, tragedy, unsupportive spouse, destructive relationship, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An adaptation of the eponymous song by Renato Russo, a famous Brazilian singer and composer who in the style of Bob Dylan knew how to delight crowds by telling stories and singing with his lyrics. Focusing on the love story of outlaw João do Santo ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love affair, fall in love, drug dealing, love and romance, criminal heroes, on the run, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, violence, prison, male rape ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A woman inherits her father's fireworks factory, as he had no son. The business does well and everything works in an orderly fashion until one day, an itinerant painter is hired to decorate the doors and vases at the factory. The woman, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, art house, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
destiny, painter, biopic, love triangle, couples, forbidden love, true love, fall in love, road not taken, love affair, factory, tragic love ...
Time:
year 1994, 1910s
Place:
china, asia, hong kong, tokyo
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
family business, divorce, love affair, social differences, society, crumbling marriage, fall in love, couples, clergy, world war one, priest, businessman ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929 ...
Place:
switzerland, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem ...
Style:
costume drama, atmospheric, emotional, gothic, spiritual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
literary, victorian england, age difference, couples, society, fall in love, youth, desire, haunted house, love, spirituality, young love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, georgian era
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cheating wife, marriage proposal, society, couple relations, family relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, introspection, village, village life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, love affair, couples, unfulfilled love, teenage life, hopes, society, friendship, male female relationship, looking for sex, youth, loss of virginity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
38%
737
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In a monastery set on the top of sandstone pillars young monk Theodoros and nun Urania find themselves physically drawn to one and other after devoting their lives to the strict rituals and practises of the monasteries. Below them the eternal cycle ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
forbidden love, monastery, religions or cults, temptation, nun, sex scene, love affair, society, religion, love, very little dialogue, sin ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
greece, balkan, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, murder, betrayal, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, female protagonist, masturbation, psychopath, stealing ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Emmi would like to cancel her subscription to "Like" magazine via e-mail. But due to a typo, her messages land in Leo Leike’s inbox. When Emmi repeatedly sends mails to the wrong address, Leo decides to inform her of her mistake. This ...
Style:
realistic, romantic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love story, couple relations, romantic relationship, in love, love affair, love and romance, male female relationship, relationships, unhappy marriage, wedding ceremony, fall in love, introspection ...
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, unemployment, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance, couples, friends, love affair, sexual content ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A sickly man places a classified ad in which he offers a huge downtown loft apartment, utilities, food and eventual ownership of the flat with just one proviso: the couple who moves in must love each other so much that they can remain in the flat ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, serious, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
true love, love affair, fall in love, destructive relationship, tragic love, isolation, couple relations, confined, couples, bittersweet, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ukraine, europe
Similarity:
37%
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