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The Talent (2025)
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Original name: El talento
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A gifted young cellist from a fallen aristocratic family must make an impossible choice when her best friend's powerful father offers a solution to her family's desperate situation.
Style:
poignant, art house, period drama
Plot:
classical music, sacrifice, female protagonist, moral dilemma, cellist, friendship, aristocracy, family honor, manipulation, temptation, coming of age, class conflict, social inequality, betrayal, orchestra, love triangle, urban, female nudity, gift, skinny dipping
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Most similar movies to The Talent
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, period drama and emotional films with plots about betrayal, urban, moral dilemma, coming of age, love triangle, female protagonist and sacrifice mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Talent: The Albanian Virgin (2021), Sinsitivity (2003), Marianne's Temptations (1973), Maha Samudram (2021), False Eyelash (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Albania, 1958. Luana, the daughter of a well respected man in the village, makes friends with Agim, who moved here after his family were banned from the city by the communists. Years later, their childhood friendship turns into teenage love, but ...
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, poignant, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family drama, female protagonist, political oppression, sacrifice, loneliness, patriarchy, gender roles, moral dilemma, arranged marriage, family honor, coming of age ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
albania
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An aspiring television journalist comes to a crossroads when he is forced to choose between the love of his life or the love of his father and his career. SINSITIVITY is the story of Trent, a preachers son who falls hard and madly in love with ...
Style:
emotional, tension, intense, sensual, independent film
Plot:
exotic dancer, parent child relationship, moral dilemma, family conflict, religion, sacrifice, secret past, temptation, forbidden love, scandal, love triangle, guilt ...
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Innocent young Marianne works in a ski resort high in the French Alps. One night she agrees to go on a date with Bob, a young guy on vacation. Bob excites her in ways that her oafish boyfriend never could.
Style:
erotic, romantic drama, sensual, sex comedy, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dog sex, bestiality, female protagonist, seduction, mature, manipulation, deception, moral ambiguity, character study, sexual awakening, naivete, blackmail ...
Place:
paris france, alps
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Two men in Vizag are steadfast friends since years but what happens when one of them is forced out of the city and the other takes the responsibility of his mistakes.
Style:
emotional, intense, realistic, masala
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, male bonding, responsibility, betrayal, guilt, second chance, redemption, urban, moral dilemma, passion, love triangle, jealousy ...
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder the money and give it to the kindergarten. He refuses. ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, melancholic, art house, political drama
Plot:
bank robbery, female protagonist, social realism, moral dilemma, class conflict, moral ambiguity, social activism, friendship, anti establishment, redemption, police chase, lgbt ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A story of love and heartbreak. Of hope and despair. Of passion and abandonment. After two years together, John has left Marita, a mature woman that has kept him until he has found Adela, another woman from whom get her money.
Style:
romantic drama, art house, period piece
Plot:
love triangle, heartbreak, betrayal, seduction, female protagonist, bittersweet, prostitution, abandonment, passion, manipulation, loss, desperation ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In 1994, in the picturesque village of Dimda on the Telangana border, this is the gripping story of Satyam-a kind-hearted farmer's son. His love for Saritha, the village sarpanch's niece, sparks jealousy and rage, leading to betrayal.
Style:
heartfelt, suspenseful
Plot:
small town, betrayal, jealousy, family feud, young love, class conflict, moral dilemma, tragic romance, agriculture, love triangle, revenge, coming of age
Time:
90s
Similarity:
65%
306
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two workers are having a leisurely conversation. More and more often people see in the sky red tails of comets, wonder creatures appear from nowhere and a roar is said to be coming from the underground. What is the meaning of it all? – asks one of ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic
Plot:
debt, poverty, loyalty, female protagonist, sacrifice, resilience, perseverance, struggle for survival, family drama, corruption, survival, desperation ...
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the 'groupie'. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival. But ...
Style:
independent film, offbeat, period drama, sexploitation film
Plot:
rock music, sexploitation, lesbian, exploitation, female protagonist, female sexuality, casual sex, survival, sensuality, drug use, street life, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Chinna and Chella, two childhood friends from neighboring families, end up falling in love with each other. Soon, a misunderstanding leads to a rift between them and their families.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, tear jerker
Plot:
misunderstanding, friendship, family drama, family honor, forgiveness, betrayal of trust, reconciliation, arranged marriage, loyalty, love triangle, heartbreak, village life ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Made in 1962 (but not released until 1965), Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s film starts soon after the 1947 partition of Bengal. At a socialist refugee colony, Ishwar and his younger sister, Sita, adopt a low-caste boy, Abhiram, who has been ...
Style:
bleak, poignant, melancholic, grim, intense ...
Plot:
refugee, class conflict, moral dilemma, integrity, realism, family drama, sacrifice, betrayal, industrialization, honor, orphan, humanism ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alexa is very attentive to her customer's requests, but soon realizes that prostitution has limited long term career potential...
Style:
independent film, sensual, erotic drama
Plot:
female protagonist, prostitution, sex work, brothel, redemption, pimp, escape attempt, escape, betrayal, manipulation, nightlife, danger ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Anna plays the personal secretary of a rich industrialist who falls in love with her boss' daughter's leftist boyfriend, Carlo. Anna pretty much severs her ties with her boss (who she also had romantic moments with) and after she moves in ...
Style:
romantic drama, period drama
Plot:
prostitution, class conflict, gender roles, tragic love, drug addiction, college student, sexploitation, betrayal, young lovers, urban, social realism, forbidden romance ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A classical musician travels to the South of France to escape his demons and wait for his new love, a younger woman named Sophia. Trying to come to peace with his new life in these slow, peaceful surroundings, his seemingly chance meeting with ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, reflective ...
Plot:
classical music, love story, changing lives, male female relationship, problem, relationships, couple relations, love and romance, love interest, love, relationship problems, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
Style:
art house, dread, black and white, period drama
Plot:
love triangle, betrayal, high society, romantic rivalry, jealousy, adultery, seduction, tragic romance, decadence, manipulation, literary, social satire ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
49%
157
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jacob Berger’s film shows a day in the life of a family. People meet and leave, and wonder, will they find themselves again? At daybreak, Serge believes he has committed a crime. Pietra realises that she has been betrayed around midday. At one ...
Style:
reflective, existential, art house
Plot:
infidelity, guilt, family drama, melancholy, hit and run, multiple perspectives, accident, regret, loneliness, moral dilemma, slice of life, conscience ...
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46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love affair until Alexandra finds that he is being paid to be ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
love triangle, erotica, extramarital affair, mother daughter relationship, infidelity, betrayal, deception, jealousy, secrets, moral ambiguity, desire, loneliness ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Narcissus (from Greek Narkissos) shares the root nark-, with narcosis and narcotic. All these words have the same origin in the verb narkaō – to intoxicate through a strong smell. I was particularly interested to find out why a handsome and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, melancholic, art house, stylized ...
Plot:
cellist, introspection, greek mythology, vanity, self discovery, lifestyle, social problems, relationship vs career, obsession, self destructing, myth, character study ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with ...
Style:
romantic drama, independent film
Plot:
mormon, female protagonist, coming of age, faith, self discovery, ambition, religion, passion, love triangle, young adult, relationships, identity crisis ...
Place:
new york, utah
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer ...
Style:
atmospheric, art house, independent film, tension, sensitive ...
Plot:
photography, lesbian romance, photographer, self discovery, coming of age, sexual awakening, love triangle, photograph, bisexuality, intimate, identity, jealousy ...
Time:
1910s, year 1914
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
44%
236
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
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Story:
The continuation of the lineage of a deep-rooted family depends on Cihan Develioğlu's unborn son, but Cihan cannot have a child due to his wife. Mukadder plays a cruel game for her son Cihan to have a son. Mukadder goes to Cihan's wife, ...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, intense, suspenseful
Plot:
family drama, sacrifice, family honor, class conflict, power struggle, manipulation, forced marriage, arranged marriage, poverty, betrayal, sadness, forbidden love ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Maja and Janne move to the barren and remote island of Stormskerry, where survival is a daily struggle. Growing up in a world of old values, Maja becomes aware of a new era: a woman can be an equal partner instead of a mere bystander. The couple ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, family saga ...
Plot:
island, female protagonist, resilience, gender roles, remote island, relationship problems, life, social problems, life is a bitch, problem, sacrifice, survival ...
Time:
1800s
Similarity:
44%
24
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the affections of the woman. Part two takes place in 1910 and finds an amorously unfaithful wife taking on her ...
Style:
romantic drama, period piece, historical romance, anthology, art house ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, love triangle, adultery, infidelity, betrayal, marriage, passion, sword fight, jealousy, lust, sensuality, aristocracy ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1910s
Place:
france
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a young woman finds herself living life on the streets she learns the art of picking up men to put a roof over her head. But when she meets the guy of her dreams her secret threatens to ruin their perfect relationship.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, heartfelt ...
Plot:
con artists, secret, homelessness, love affair, relationship problems, female protagonist, couple relations, love and romance, intrigue, love interest, male female relationship, relationships ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
"Loku Duwa" depicts an attractive and self-sacrificing daughter of the middle class in the city who is trapped in a family of traditional values.
Style:
heartbreaking, melancholic, sinhala, tragic
Plot:
female protagonist, sacrifice, family drama, mistress, betrayal, mother daughter relationship, working woman, class conflict, middle class, gender roles, siblings, poverty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
sri lanka
Similarity:
43%
107
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the service quarters of a grand hotel, a young maid and a man meet in a situation which breaks all certainties and identities.
Style:
ambiguous ending, psychological thriller, melancholic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
hotel, identity, switching roles, identity crisis, character study, female protagonist, manipulation, claustrophobia, class conflict, symbolism, isolation, male protagonist ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The drama is centered on four friends and business partners who in one evening are forced to find a way to save their company and themselves. The impossible decision they face is agreeing on who will be the one to sacrifice their freedom to save the ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, thinking ...
Plot:
four friends, moral ambiguity, sacrifice, ethical dilemma, plea bargain, partners in crime, stranded, fraud, friendship, group of friends, friends, responsibility ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Force Majeure (Uncontrollable Circumstances) begins with a drug deal involving tourists Phillipe (Patrick Bruel) and Daniel (Francois Cluzet), and a Dutch stranger. Two years pass: the Dutchman has been arrested in an unspecified Asian country, ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, death sentence, responsibility, moral ambiguity, guilt, friendship, human rights, justice, loyalty, realism, character study, sacrifice ...
Time:
80s
Place:
southeast asia, paris france, amsterdam
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story about a young jockey dreaming of a sports career. These dreams culminate in the most important event in Poland — The Great Warsaw Race. Krzysiek enters the horse-racing world with the naivety of a novice and enthusiast. Only after some ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, tense, melancholic, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
corruption, horse race, jockey, coming of age, sacrifice, moral dilemma, ambition, moral corruption, character study, underdog, betrayal, idealism ...
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
Similarity:
40%
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