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Sunstroke (2014)
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Original name: Солнечный удар
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
In a Crimean filtration camp, after the evacuation of the White Army, an unnamed captain is haunted by memories of a brief romance as he tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame.
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, art house, art film, existential, period drama
Plot:
unrequited love, russian civil war, one night stand, literary, imperial russia, relationships, empire, love affair, male female relationship, relationship problems, unfulfilled love, love interest, military, obsession, tragedy, memory, red army, desperation, nostalgia, guilt, prisoner of war camp, haunting, russian empire, evacuation, alienation ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
crimea, soviet union, russia
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Most similar movies to Sunstroke
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, melancholic, art house and psychological films with plots about love affair, male female relationship, relationships, love interest, relationship problems, love story and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Sunstroke: Stalin's Wife (2006), Those Who Pay with Their Lives (1989), A Break Alone (2015), Night Peacock (2015), Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
A historical drama about the tragic fate of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, a woman who remained in the shadow of her husband Joseph Stalin. In 1918, 16-year-old Nadezhda married 38-year-old Joseph Stalin, a close friend of the Alliluyev family. The love of ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, captivating, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
josef stalin, russian history, stalinism, husband wife relationship, tragedy, biopic, wartime, historical character, historical figure, tragic love, relationship problems, relationships ...
Place:
soviet union
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95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, serious, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
justice, character study, existential crisis, journalism, suicide, alienation, moral ambiguity, literary, tragic hero, introspection, existentialism, obsession ...
Time:
80s, post world war one
Place:
bucharest
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gangjae's normal family life is turned upsdie down when he falls for a young yoga teacher. Gangjae has got it all, a loving wife, adorable children, and a high-paying position. But he yearns for something more. When the teacher breaks off the ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot:
unrequited love, adultery, extramarital affair, infidelity, jealousy, male female relationship, family problems, love affair, couples, tragic love, family relations, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
korea
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Liu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is compared to the one of a night peacock, an eternal conflict between life and death, love and time. A night peacock, by Fabre’s definition, is a moth with ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, intercultural ...
Plot:
musician, relationships, problem, male female relationship, love story, couple relations, love affair, life is a bitch, female protagonist, love interest, relationship problems, tragic love ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, bleak, reflective ...
Plot:
unrequited love, tragedy, tragic romance, forbidden love, tragic love, unfulfilled love, officer, life is a bitch, countess, suicide, love affair, love and romance ...
Time:
victorian era
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Summer 1943, Piedmont, Italy. Milton loves Fulvia who plays with his love: she only likes the depth of his thought and the letters he writes to her. One year later, Milton has joined the Resistance and fights beside other partisans. He learns during ...
Style:
art house, suspense, historical drama, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, unrequited love, resistance, partisan, family problems, love triangle, male female relationship, couple relations, wartime, war, relationship problems, political conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
To avoid facing her heavy past, a young woman with a borderline personality tries to seduce her strange neighbor. A singular love story between these two lonely and wounded souls is born, but will it be enough to save them from themselves?
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
seduction, relationships, male female relationship, troubled past, neighbor, attempted seduction, neighbor neighbor relationship, couple relations, love affair, tragic past, female protagonist, confronting the past ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The love between Mateusz Krol, a Kashubian boy, and Marita von Krauss, a Prussian aristocrat in whose family home he is taken in when his mother dies, grows and matures thorough the years, while Kashubia, the northern Polish region where they live, ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, disturbing, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, wartime, war crime, world war one, family home, butler, ethnic conflict, nationalism, political unrest, life is a bitch, love affair ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 1900s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An assistant to a TV producer, eager to stay off his bad side, promises to convince her former professor, a famous but reclusive academic, to appear on their show, which helps locate long-lost persons. Who does grey-haired Professor Yun Suk-Young ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, captivating, sentimental, poignant ...
Plot:
love story, nostalgia, longing, lost love, love affair, relationships, couple relations, male female relationship, unrequited love, relationship problems, love, confronting the past ...
Time:
60s, 2000s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Fausto is destined to live the suicide of his beloved wife. After this tragic event, he’s inexplicably given the opportunity to travel back in time and change the faith of the woman who he loves.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, dark, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, redemption, guilt, regret, mourning, suicide, travel, tragic romance, fate, second chance, haunting ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Asako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South Korea by presenting to us the Asian side of modern globalization. The film jumps back and forth from Korea and Japan, with each main character feeling ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
romantic relationship, couple relations, relationships, love and romance, male female relationship, love affair, life is a bitch, love interest, nude model, true love, relationship problems, alienation ...
Place:
korea, japan
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This film is set in the time of the Russian Civil War, after the October revolution of 1917. The communist forces are losing a battle over town. They must blow up the strategic bridge, but the explosion is prevented by one anticommunist man, who is ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, bleak, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
russian civil war, moral dilemma, tragic love, tragedy, red army, female protagonist, betrayal, sabotage, ruthlessness, resistance, sacrifice, courage ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
During the Cold War, a local Polish officer and a young Soviet woman wedded to a Soviet officer are drawn together by music.
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, sincere, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
cold war era, cold war, forbidden romance, love affair, military life, love interest, love story, romantic relationship, male female relationship, love and romance, couple relations, relationships ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland, soviet union
Similarity:
46%
118
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
OTHELLO is a cinematographic essay about power, desire, jealousy and deceit; a thought on the boundaries between fiction and real life.
Style:
dark, metafiction, intense, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
jealousy, deception, betrayal, tragedy, desire, manipulation, obsession, power struggle, fatalism, sexual tension, moral ambiguity, character study ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of freedom and ...
Style:
reflective, melancholic, art house, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
spiritual journey, existentialism, character study, moral ambiguity, loss of innocence, alienation, identity crisis, socially awkward, mental illness, slow burn, oppression, haunting ...
Time:
90s
Place:
romania, eastern europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mắt Biếc (Dreamy Eyes) tells the story of the one-sided love of Ngan for Ha Lan — his childhood friend.
Style:
romantic drama, romantic, disturbing, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
true love, love affair, relationships, love story, love and romance, couple relations, unrequited love, childhood friend, male female relationship, romantic friendship, love interest, romantic relationship ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ulas, the son of a music-lover father tries to declare his love to Irem with a mix tape he's put together. However, they fall apart and it takes him 10 years to complete this declaration. 10 years later, Ulas who has become a music critic meets ...
Style:
romantic, psychological, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
relationships, love story, lovers apart, love and romance, relationship problems, love affair, unfulfilled love, love interest, music, lovers reunited, reunited friends, in love ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Not Reconciled, the title of the Straubs’ first feature-length film, is engraved on their work like an inscription. It is a story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, serious, period piece, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, reconciliation, german history, betrayal, memory, suppression, family secret, post war germany, moral ambiguity, revenge, symbolism, loyalty ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
By chance, Watabe (Goro Kishitani) meets subordinate worker Nakanishi (Kyoko Fukada) at a batting center. A friendship occurs which leads to a heated love affair. Watabe then learns that Nakanishi is the prime suspect of a murder case that occurred ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, romantic drama ...
Plot:
love affair, in love, secret past, relationship problems, dark past, male female relationship, fall in love, relationships, couple relations, star crossed lovers, murder mystery, moral dilemma ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence. After Adelaida receives an unusual announcement regarding her lover's death in combat, she refuses ...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, period drama, wistful
Plot:
female protagonist, passion, class conflict, hopes, forbidden love, tragic romance, unrequited love, jealousy, tragedy, madness, soldier, insane asylum ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1890s
Similarity:
42%
185
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A thirty-two year old man falls in love with a seventeen year-old highschool student whom he sees at the bus stop everyday.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
relationships, romantic relationship, age-gap relationship, love story, male female relationship, fall in love, in love, age difference, star crossed lovers, relationship problems, love interest, love and romance ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Shinichi debuted as a novelist at a young age, but his career has been stagnant for many years. He also has broken up with his girlfriend. His day have now become gloomy. At this time, Yuko and her son moves into Shinichi's home. Yuko is the ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, atmospheric
Plot:
novelist, loneliness, melancholy, character study, couple relations, life is a bitch, relationships, love story, loner, family problems, lonely, couples ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China
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Story:
In the year of 1926, Mu Wan Qing brings her mom's ashes back to China burial. On the pretense of surrendering to her father, Mu Wan Qing has an actual motive in finding the true reason why her parents separated and her siblings died. Meanwhile, ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
republican era china, love triangle, military, coup d'etat, relationships, political unrest, relationship problems, political conspiracy, love interest, homecoming, love story, love affair ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Quiet, intelligent, solemn and recently dumped by his girlfriend, graduate student Lee Weon-san takes a job at a literary magazine, ostensibly to supplement his income, but really to get close to the editor - the reason he’s now single. The ...
Style:
entertaining, romantic, captivating, light, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, jealousy, unrequited love, character study, relationship vs career, romantic rivalry, love interest, love affair, relationships, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, in love ...
Similarity:
39%
128
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Story:
A story of the unrequited love. Kwan's love for Riam grew fonder while her love for him seem to fade as she was taken to Bangkok.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, poignant, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
unrequited love, longing, separation, lost love, heartbreak, love affair, couple relations, male female relationship, love story, tragic love, in love, relationships ...
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Romance
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
An affair that begins one rainy evening on a lonely Calcutta street. And ends on yet another rainy evening in the Andaman Islands. A journey dotted by love, jealousy and destiny, it is loosely inspired by the works of William Shakespeare.
Style:
suspense, romantic drama, romantic, captivating, poetic ...
Plot:
love story, jealousy, love and romance, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, tragic love, warning, tragic event, tragic romance, fate, death ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two souls are so deeply in love with one another that they are entangled beyond life itself.
Style:
psychological, captivating, melancholic, art house
Plot:
native, love, love interest, relationship problems, love and romance, couples, male female relationship, problem, love story, love affair, couple relations, relationships ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Satya lives in a railway colony who dreams of playing for the railway cricket team and eventually representing Team India. Soon he falls madly in love with Nisha. However, Satya`s life takes a drastic change when a local Politician Bhaskar creates ...
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot:
unrequited love, heartbreak, relationship problems, relationships, tragic love, love affair, love and romance, love interest, life is a bitch, male female relationship, girl next door, alcohol abuse ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
In the beginning of a new century the capital of Russia is just amazing and full of poets, beautiful women and arts...
Style:
historical romance, captivating, humorous, entertaining, disturbing ...
Plot:
jealousy, society, farce, lifestyle, love affair, love story, relationships, male female relationship, love interest, imperial russia, love triangle, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, turn of the century
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Daniela Krien’s novel, this coming-of-age story set in the 1990s, amidst the last days of the GDR. The 17-year-old protagonist, Maria, lives on a farm with her boyfriend. One day, an older man moves into the neighbourhood. Maria ...
Style:
romantic, thrilling, captivating, psychological, period drama
Plot:
passion, doomed romance, lovers, relationships, male female relationship, love story, couple relations, couples, love affair, relationship problems, love interest, female nudity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
east germany
Similarity:
34%
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