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Big Green Valley (1967)
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Original name: დიდი მწვანე ველი
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of geologists discover oil under the fields where Sosana, the aged and anachronistic father, raises his herd with his unhappy wife, her friend and his growing boy with whom he displays a wonderful rapport. The land is invaded by big machinery that feels remarkably alien to the serene and natural aesthetic of the valley. The family all enjoys the pleasures and storytelling capacity a slide projector grants them, but it too feels distinctly out of place in a town with no plumbing.
Style:
melancholic, pastoral, poignant, period drama
Plot:
industrialization, alienation, family drama, livestock, machinery, nostalgia, eviction, social realism, bittersweet, isolation, blue collar, village, mountain, love triangle, job, geologist, family relations, oil, farm, shepherd, husband wife relationship, countryside, solitude, son, suicide attempt ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, poignant, emotional and period piece films with plots about bittersweet, intimate, coming of age, family drama, slice of life, social realism and isolation mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Big Green Valley: A French Lesson (1978), Gikor (1982), Grihapravesh (2025), Onegin (2024), Atabai (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Actions of the movie occurred in Post-WWII years in small village. Mother with three children. Father was lost in the war, like many other. 11-year old son rather smart boy is main help in housekeeping. But here was primary school only, and he was ...
Style:
melancholic, grim, period drama
Plot:
11 year old boy, social realism, education, poverty, post war, child protagonist, compassion, hunger, bullying, absent father, high school life, small village ...
Time:
1950s, year 1948, post world war two
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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144
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, atmospheric, grim, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, loss of innocence, innocence lost, tragedy, social class, poverty, class struggle, injustice, alienation, intimate, bittersweet, tragic hero ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
armenia, poetic realism, caucasus, tbilisi, georgia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In a fading North Calcutta Rajbari, Titli clings to routine after her husband Shaon vanishes. As Durga Puja nears, Megh arrives, an unexpected guest who brings warmth and a painful revel of thought. Amid rituals and memories, unspoken grief ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, period drama
Plot:
family drama, loss, grief, female protagonist, memory, character study, longing, nostalgia, silence, isolation, haunting, slow burn ...
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Evgeniy Onegin lives in grand style: balls, receptions, theater premieres and other frivolities the capital can offer a young man. But social life has long tired him, so he perceives the news of the illness of his uncle living in the village as an ...
Style:
romantic drama, costume drama, melancholic, poignant, wistful ...
Plot:
literary, country estate, alienation, lonely, unrequited love, social satire, solitude, bittersweet, cynicism, aristocrat
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Atabai lives with his father and his niece in the village of Pirkandi (Khoi). He was an architecture student at Tehran University of Fine Arts many years ago and left school a year after graduating because of the emotional problems caused by his ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house, poignant ...
Plot:
regret, second chance, longing, village life, relationships, nostalgia, unrequited love, bittersweet, personal growth, memory, romantic triangle, loss ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After leaving their native village, Nadia (Nina Ruslanova at her debut) and her friend travel to the big city. Along the way, Nadia gets a job in a tea shop and meets Maxim (Russian icon Vladimir Vysotsky), and she falls in love with him and decides ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic, art house, black and white
Plot:
maid, love triangle, longing, unrequited love, bittersweet, restraint, intimate, social realism, secret love, introspection, class differences, domestic drama ...
Time:
60s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This feature length entry from shorts director Caumon deals with a turbulent mother and son relationship in a rural setting.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, reflective, independent film ...
Plot:
family drama, mother son relationship, nostalgia, coming of age, homecoming, village life, small town life, character study, reconciliation, slice of life, bittersweet, memory ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The Great Patriotic War is coming to an end. Six-year-old Zuriko lives with his grandmother in a small Georgian village. His mother abandoned him and his father is at the front. The boy waits for his father, but he doesn't come back from the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stepmother, post war, grandmother, family conflict, child protagonist, childhood, domestic drama, innocence, social realism, abandonment, loss, getting home ...
Place:
caucasus
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young doctor Nikolai Alexandrovich Zaostrovtsev, a fourth generation medical professional, found himself in the Gladuny village directly after the Institute. Neither he himself, nor his father, a town surgeon, expected that he would linger long ...
Style:
medical drama, heartfelt, serious, melancholic
Plot:
village, compassion, small town life, humanism, countryside, realism, slice of life, community, provincial, duty, intimate, humble ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In the early years of the reign of Hassan II, Houcine, a fan of the new king, is the director of a popular orchestra and the proud father of Mimou. This is a very particular troupe, male musicians who are sometimes forced to pretend that they are ...
Style:
emotional, dramatic, melancholic, art house
Plot:
orchestra, family drama, father son relationship, deception, class differences, disguise, unrequited love, bittersweet, identity, ambition, pretense, intimate ...
Time:
60s, 1950s
Place:
morocco, north africa
Similarity:
28%
250
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In their youth they loved each other, but then parted. Ilya got married, Alexandra married, but the family life did not work out for both of them. Having met again, they understand that they still love each other, and spend seven happy days together ...
Style:
romantic drama, reflective, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
character study, bittersweet, intimate, nostalgia, regret, realism, longing, midlife crisis, isolation, minimalism, couples, infidelity ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather.
Style:
heartfelt, poignant, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
character study, family drama, personal growth, stuttering, female protagonist, coming of age, alienation, empathy, village life, isolation, bittersweet, rebirth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Eleven people, isolated from the outside world, communicate via screens. A son wants to hold the hand of his suffering mother. Love grows. A mother has abandoned her family. A therapist finds himself at the edge of ruin. A daughter connects with her ...
Style:
melancholic, tense, captivating, unusual plot structure, psychological
Plot:
pandemic, family relations, epidemic, loneliness, isolation, family drama, quarantine, society, human nature, youth, husband wife relationship, parents and children ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Blue Apple Tree, is a Venezuelan film starring Diego, a city boy about 11 years, marked by serious emotional deprivation, which is forced to spend a holiday with his grandfather Francis (Miguel Angel Landa), who barely knows him, on a small farm ...
Style:
contemplative, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
family drama, coming of age, village life, childhood trauma, mountain, healing, self discovery, childhood, loneliness, identity, isolation, resilience ...
Place:
venezuela
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Savely and Lelya are leading a quiet peaceful life in a forest reserve, in a small village with a mineral spring, where Savely brought his seriously ill wife. The seemingly routine life can not hide deep and tender love that came a bit too late...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, pastoral, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot:
village, illness, love story, husband and wife, tenderness, village life, intimate, bittersweet, healing, recovery, longing, isolation ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
About a young girl who came to a distant land for geological practice.
Style:
educational, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
mountain, self discovery, personal growth, summer, coming of age, geology, identity, friendship, slice of life, young adult, small town life, social realism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Serbia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It displays constant efforts of a four-member family to respond to the numerous challenges of urban modern life, at the same time showing the tendency of the younger members to find the solution to everything in a calmer rural environment.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, reflective, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
georgia, caucasus
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, period piece, satirical ...
Plot:
middle aged man, midlife crisis, character study, loneliness, regret, alienation, existential crisis, family drama, intimate, infidelity, urban, slice of life ...
Place:
soviet union, poetic realism, ussr
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
While waiting for her first child, young teacher Masha Pavlova suddenly decides that her husband does not understand her, and therefore does not respect her interests. Having ceased to understand each other, the couple divorced. Nikolai, who once ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pregnancy, loneliness, divorce, marriage, domestic drama, intimate, slice of life, regret, family drama, unrequited love, gender roles, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
24%
132
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An engagement party is interrupted by the arrival of the Russian girl, hired to help an old woman. Liubi is the girl who is going to keep company to and help the sick mother of out protagonist. Dimitris, the son of the family and Liubi eventually ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
racism, prejudice, immigration, family drama, russian immigrant, caretaker, greek, social commentary, social realism, cultural conflict, love story, engagement ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
24%
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, touching, contemplative, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
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Place:
indiana
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
village life, young lovers, forbidden love, forbidden romance, love triangle, social conflict, arranged marriage, family honor, jealousy, engagement, confrontation, secret relationship ...
Time:
60s
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set in the Soviet Union the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.
Style:
aesthetic, realistic, contemplative, melancholic, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
artist, character study, biopic, family drama, social realism, creative process, success, slice of life, reputation, marriage, friendship, guilt ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, fairy tale
Plot:
fairy, family drama, grief, imagination, healing, divorce, loneliness, coming of age, bittersweet, symbolism, family conflict, loss of spouse ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.
Style:
realistic, heartfelt, emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
drought, family drama, family bonds, village life, survival, poverty, parent child relationship, adaptation, resilience, working class, social commentary, social realism ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, parents and children, society, family problems, elderly, dysfunctional family, family drama, alienation, grief, assimilation, diaspora ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, israel
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Twenty-two years after losing his home, Arulmozhi Varman returns to his native Thanjavur to attend his cousin's wedding. Amidst the celebrations, Arul is reintroduced to an upbeat man whom he cannot recall. With the help of the unknown man, ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, poignant, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
homecoming, memory, identity, empathy, nostalgia, introspection, healing, bittersweet, intimate, reminiscence, friendship, community ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka visits the man every day and witnesses his slow recovery, but she is unaware that she could have deeper ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, hospital, innocence, coming of age, first love, compassion, empathy, adolescence, paralysis, recovery, bittersweet, summer ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Many years brings the collective-farm postman Arina post to home folks. This village in one corner is calledl; Chistuy Kolodets; in other ; Chistaya Krinitsa Russians and Ukrainians live there. Arina's stories about village people and the ...
Style:
heartfelt, pastoral, poignant, intercultural, period piece ...
Plot:
village life, community, tradition, slice of life, daily life, folklore, postman, character study, memory, intimate, social realism, homecoming ...
Time:
60s
Place:
russia, eastern europe, ukraine, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
23%
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