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Stories of Samba (2023)
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Original name: Saudosa Maloca
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly remembers the maloca where he lived with Joca and Mato Grosso, their passion for Iracema and other characters eternalized in his sambas, chronicles of a metropolis swallowed up by the voracious appetite of progress.
Style:
reflective, melancholic, poignant, period piece, historical drama, art house, black and white, vintage
Audience:
adult
Plot:
samba, nostalgia, singer, composer, memory, legacy, tribute, biopic, street life, working class, character study, intimate, friendship, voice over narration, literary, folk music, gentrification, bar
Place:
sao paulo, brazil
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, period piece, reflective and art house films with plots about biopic, nostalgia, intimate, character study, memory, coming of age and friendship mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres. Some movies like Stories of Samba: Achena Uttam (2022), Bliss (2011), Song of Granite (2017), Filmlovers! (2024), Nedelja (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, retro, reflective, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, poetic, period piece, sensitive, reflective ...
Plot:
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Time:
edwardian era
Place:
england
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age ...
Style:
poetic, reflective, art house, experimental, meditative
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, inspirational, emotional, melancholic, tragic
Plot:
biopic, life story, street life, redemption, legacy, music industry, character study, struggle, poverty, working class, intimate, juvenile detention ...
Time:
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Place:
serbia, belgrade, balkan
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51%
124
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy
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416
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Indeed a tribute, this movie tells the story of Princess Diana's last year, from May 1996 to her fatal accident in August 1997. It focuses on her love affairs with a Pakistani heart surgeon and with Dodi Al Fayed, on her battle with the press, ...
Style:
serious, melancholic, emotional, historical drama, sentimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
new york
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43%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, reflective, poignant, emotional, lyrical ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
singer, adoption, biopic, identity, legacy, intimate, family drama, tribute, nostalgia, abandonment, music industry, working class ...
Place:
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38%
597
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 200 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
historical drama, family saga, period piece, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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