Movies like The Dead 1987

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The Dead (1987)
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The Dead (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An all-Irish cast (including Donal McCann, Rachael Dowling and Colm Meaney) lends authenticity and gravitas to director John Huston's final film, an elegiac take on a short story by James Joyce (from The Dubliners). After a convivial holiday dinner party (circa 1904), things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage. The movie stars Huston's daughter, Anjelica, and was scripted by his son, Tony.
Style: romantic, social, historical drama, psychological, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: dinner party, artist, art, literary, christmas, haunted by the past, death, memory, time travel, passion, food, philosophy, psychoanalysis, wisdom, basement, dinner, love letter, christmas spirit, atonement, politics, dancing, unrequited love, drunkenness, lost love, friendship ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, year 1987, edwardian era, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, britain, europe, london
Keyword: irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, friendship, family relations, bittersweet and introspection mostly in Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like The Dead: December Bride (1990), The Miracle (1991), Tara Road (2005), Kings (2007), Last Orders (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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December Bride (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.
Style: period piece, independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: polyamory, open relationship, pregnancy, love affair, polygamy, pregnant woman, relationships, family relations, farm, power relations, couples, fall in love ...
Time: edwardian era, year 1991, 19th century, turn of the century, 1900s
Place: ireland, england, europe
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The Miracle (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mother son incest, friendship, abandoned by mother, unrequited love, obsession, couples, love and romance, youth, destructive relationship, coming of age, human nature, betrayal ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: ireland, europe
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Tara Road (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two grieving women - Ria, a Dublin mom whose husband discloses he's in love with a woman already pregnant, and Marilyn, a Connecticut Yankee who's son has died - swap houses for a couple months. Marilyn finds solace in Ria's garden ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, feel good, spiritual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: betrayal, divorce, starting over, introspection, crumbling marriage, love and romance, friendship, infidelity, destiny, family problems, estrangement, husband wife relationship ...
Place: ireland, connecticut, dublin ireland, europe, usa ...
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Kings (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot: friends, introspection, friendship, society, alcohol abuse, buddies, dealing with death, friend, drunkenness, death, migration, conquering ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland
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Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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Evelyn (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Ireland, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, feel good, intense ...
Plot: children, court, lawyer, mercy, family problems, unemployment, against the odds, parents and children, fighting the system, courtroom drama, 007, single father ...
Time: 50s, year 2002, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953
Place: ireland, sydney australia, scotland, europe, dublin ireland
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65%
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September (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.
Style: talky, emotional, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adultery, friendship, couples, loneliness, depression, family relations, family problems, parents and children, friends, family gatherings, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: usa, vermont
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62%
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Tully (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, young lovers, womanizer, couples, family problems, youth, society, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000
Place: nebraska, england, usa, europe
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61%
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Little White Lie (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Little White Lie follows the story of a luckless actor named Barry who has recently split from his girlfriend. He is seen wallowing at home in his pyjamas, where he becomes fixated on a children's television presenter who he sees on daytime ...
Style: serious, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, male female relationship, down on your luck, conundrum, therapist, actor, cigarette smoking, film within a film, tv show in film ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Little Foxes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alzbeta and Tina are sisters bound by jealousy and love, an unspoken history hovering over them like a dark cloud. It is this history that compels Alzbeta to refuse Tina's help in finding a better life, until the day arrives that forces them to ...
Style: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, touching, emotional ...
Plot: jealousy, sibling relationship, haunted by the past, family relations, envy, betrayal, couples, sister sister relationship, rivalry, au pair, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, slovakia, europe
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60%
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The Sea (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, non-linear, contemplative, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted by the past, family relations, eccentric family, family problems, resort, childhood memory, grief, death of wife, grieving, boarding house, introspection, nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
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59%
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and ...
Style: talky, melancholic, realistic, sentimental, family saga ...
Plot: lawyer, culture clash, family problems, human nature, society, introspection, parents and children, cancan dance, family relations, dysfunctional family, sorority, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: usa, missouri, kansas city, kansas, cleveland ohio ...
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59%
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Daybreak (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style: realistic, psychological, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, family problems, vengeance, crumbling marriage, love affair, parents and children, family relations, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, redemption, introspection ...
Place: europe, eastern europe
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Ulysses (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by ...
Style: surreal, mythical, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
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Place: ireland, greece, ancient greece, dublin ireland
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Love Come Down (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two brothers in their early 20s, one black, one white, each the other's keeper since their family was torn apart by a decade old tragedy. Neville is a comedian struggling with his comedy, and his brother, Matthew, is a boxer consumed with the ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: family relations, self discovery, interracial relations, drug abuse, addiction, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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Nora (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, serious ...
Plot: novelist, love affair, writers, writer's life, lifestyle, couple relations, society, family problems, love triangle, artists and showbiz, sexual relations, male female relationship ...
Time: edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place: ireland, italy, dublin ireland, europe
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57%
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Liam (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: fascism, catholicism, youth, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, unemployment, sin, life is a bitch, starving child, society, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, ireland, middle east, europe, united kingdom ...
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56%
The Go-Between (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: secret relationship, family relations, forbidden love, rich and poor, social differences, friendship, estate, bittersweet, youth, boy, childhood memory, slice of life ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, year 1900, edwardian era
Place: england, britain, europe
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55%
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A Doll's House (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. A modern version of Ibsen's play.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, talky, tense ...
Plot: women's rights, friendship, friends, couple relations, crumbling marriage, introspection, unfulfillment, hopes, feminism, society, unsupportive spouse, gender ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe
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3 Nights in the Desert (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three former band mates enter a cave after hearing it has the power to give them what they need. As unsettling desires rise to the surface, they all wonder if the cave has real power.
Style: talky, sincere, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: desert, friendship, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, twentysomething life, love and romance, bittersweet, art, coming of age, best friend, road not taken ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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53%
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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53%
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Burning Secret (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Burning Secret is a 1988 drama film, based on the short story Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig, about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. The film was written and ...
Style: contemplative, tense, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, sex crime, youth, bonding, boy, jealousy, infatuation, spa, couples, family relations, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: austria, europe
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52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast. The desolate ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, lgbt, coming of age, best friend, bisexuality, love and romance, couple relations, orphan, unfulfillment, friends, couples, love triangle ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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52%
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Morlang (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, a chilling psychological drama. A couple's secret pact takes an unexpected, sinister turn.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: betrayal, art, couple relations, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, vengeance, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, family problems, infidelity, unfulfillment ...
Place: ireland, europe, netherlands, spain
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52%
When Nietzsche Wept (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
Style: psychological, serious, talky, realistic, touching ...
Plot: psychoanalysis, philosopher, doctors and patients, prodigy, introspection, obsession, losing-it hero, downfall, intern, philosophy, writers, psychotherapy ...
Time: 19th century
Place: austria, europe
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A Few Days of Respite (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style: emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, small town, couples, friends, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, introspection, love affair, gender, gays and lesbians, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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A Room with a View (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lucy Honeychurch (Elaine Cassidy, Ghost Squad) and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, couples, lovers apart, wooing, world war one, holiday, flashback, nudity ...
Time: victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: britain, europe, florence
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51%
A Doll's House (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his ...
Style: talky, serious, psychological, realistic, clever ...
Plot: couples, working class, social differences, introspection, family problems, gender, society, human nature, unfulfillment, loneliness, stage play, women ...
Time: 19th century
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51%
The Dust of Time (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: love affair, love and romance, parents and children, introspection, love triangle, couple relations, politics, starting over, society, state affairs, hopes, political unrest ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: kazakhstan, greece, new york, germany, asia ...
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51%
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Away from Her (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
Style: sincere, melancholic, sentimental, depressing, realistic ...
Plot: elderly, alzheimer's disease, mental illness, true love, loneliness, love, tragedy, existentialism, marriage, human spirit, fighting illness, hopes ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: canada, iceland, ontario canada
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