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Days of Eclipse (1988)
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Days of Eclipse (1988)
Original name: Дни затмения
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.
Style: spiritual, poetic, avant garde
Plot: underground, post apocalypse, spirituality, european, doctor, heat wave, corpse, soviet, black and white segues into color, heat
Place: soviet union, ussr
Keyword: russian, avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out spiritual, weird, bizarre and contemplative films with plots about soviet, spirituality, underground, european, death, surrealism and outer space mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Comedy genres. Some movies like Days of Eclipse: The Lonely Voice of Man (1987), The Second Circle (1990), Dead Man's Letters (1986), My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985), The Asthenic Syndrome (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The film is Sokurov's feature film debut and is based on the novel The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov. It's a story about the lives of people in the Russian countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was completed in 1979 ...
Style: poetic, spiritual, contemplative, avant garde
Plot: mental disorder, spirituality, underground, moving, european, civil war, loneliness, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, soviet, archive footage
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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The Second Circle (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, spirit, european, existentialism, loss of father, death, snow, soviet, coffin
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychedelic, spiritual, mind blowing, depressing ...
Plot: post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, disaster, dystopia, underground, epidemic, end of the world, spirituality, nuclear disaster ...
Time: distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Style: slow cinema, aesthetic, spiritual
Plot: stalinism, psychedelia, spy, underground, spirituality, police officer, interrogation, winter, chief of police, siege, suicide attempt, raid ...
Time: year 1985, 1930s
Place: soviet union, ussr, siberia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style: spiritual
Plot: perestroika, spirituality, depression, loneliness, female nudity, male nudity, teacher, soviet, live action, film within a film
Time: year 1990
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This movie is about a rocket pilot named Pirx who is hired to go on a mission to evaluate some nonlinears (robots) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and his crew, made up of nonlinears and humans, are sent out to launch two ...
Style: bizarre
Plot: space, ufo, astronaut, underground, european, spaceship, outer space, space travel, literature, robot, mutiny, spacesuit ...
Time: future, 70s
Place: soviet union, poland, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Whispering Pages (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 77 min.
Story: The pages that whisper through this brooding, beautiful tone poem are from nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a ...
Style: spiritual, contemplative, poetic, existential, avant garde
Plot: crime and punishment, existentialism, alienation, solitude, spirituality, underground, atheist, poverty, religion, lion, humiliation, faith ...
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Mother and Son (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual images of the countryside and cottage.
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, depressing, aesthetic, realistic ...
Plot: art, biopic, countryside, youth, childhood, mental disorder, landscape, mother and son, spirituality, minimal dialogue, artist, underground ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Don't Grieve (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love ...
Plot: european, duel, brother sister relationship, doctor, humiliation, dance, adoption, drunkenness, death, banquet, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, russia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the ...
Style: period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, soviet, novel
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Stalker (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: stalker, distopia, human nature, post apocalypse, trippy, dystopian future, surrealism, wish come true, dog, society, post apocalyptic, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 1979, distant future, near future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Visitor of a Museum (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 136 min.
Story: It is the future, the world is in ruins and a large portion of the population consists of deformed mutants living in reservations. In this world a man decides to spend his vacation visiting the ruins of a museum that is now buried under the sea.
Style: apocalyptic, surreal, eighties, bizarre, weird
Plot: religion, messiah, underground, distopia, post apocalyptic, mental disorder, epidemic, nuclear holocaust, european, life changing, wasteland, apocalypse ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
War and Peace: Part II (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, napoleon bonaparte, love, soldier, engagement, aristocrat, coming of age, soviet, young, ball
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Nine Days of One Year (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: scientist, realism, moving, spirituality, science, romantic rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, nuclear, pessimism, physicist, optimism ...
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Hard to Be a God (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 177 min.
Story: A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case ...
Style: surreal, serious, black and white, art house, philosophical ...
Plot: distant planet, human nature, murder, moral dilemma, society, horse, renaissance, medieval, fate of humanity, humanity, alien planet, planet ...
Time: medieval times, 2010s, middle ages, year 2013
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Criminal Shall Not Escape (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
Plot: police dog, human animal relationship, crime investigation, german shepherd, police, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Moon Rainbow (1983)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?
Style: futuristic
Plot: interrogation, space exploration, telekinesis, mutant, group, cosmonaut, solar system, outer space, soviet
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Hard to Be a God (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany, France, Soviet Union, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, philosophical, weird, eighties ...
Plot: barbarian, european, distopia, space travel, sword, sword and sorcery, spaceship, female nudity, outer space, soviet, sword and planet, female full frontal nudity
Time: medieval times
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Farewell (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.
Style: spiritual
Plot: spirituality, peasant, child, old woman, lake, island, tree, fog, tradition, mute, water, fire ...
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Andromeda Nebula (1967)
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Humans on spaceship named "Tantra" are exploring the unknown part of the Universe. The spaceship gets trapped by the mysterious Iron Star. The Iron Star's powerful force of gravity is to hold the spaceship for 20 years. The humans are ...
Plot: underground, spacesuit, trapped in space, space travel, love, survival, communism, outer space, utopia, soviet
Place: soviet union, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Heat (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Larisa Shepitko's diploma film. An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.
Plot: working class, agriculture, school, fire, water, tractor, peasant, community, horse, heat wave, generation, soviet ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
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You and Me (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A neurosurgeon returns back to the USSR from Sweden and has to deal with rejection - both at work and at home.
Plot: circus, ice hockey, surgeon, crisis of conscience, embassy, doctor, train, neurosurgeon, soviet
Place: soviet union, russia, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Collapse (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Plot: disaster, post apocalypse, survival, environmental issue, radioactivity, power plant, tragedy, evacuation, contamination, nuclear power, nuclear power plant, radiation sickness ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: ussr, soviet union, ukraine, chernobyl
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Stone (1992)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and the ghost's present-day guardian. In fact, the two characters seem to be the shade of Anton ...
Style: experimental
Plot: minimalism, underground, anton chekhov, male nudity, fog, animal, afterlife, house, night, life after death, writers, soviet
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.
Style: art house, spiritual, contemplative, surreal, poetic ...
Plot: fortress, legends and myths, surrealism, camel, mythology, magic realism, folklore, spirituality, gay subtext, heroic mission, escapades, danger ...
Time: year 1985, middle ages
Place: georgia, ussr, caucasus, soviet union, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
War and Peace: Part I (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 147 min.
Story: The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel . In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, imperial russia, russian empire, religious, russian soldier, french soldier, soviet
Time: 19th century
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a ...
Style: art house, realistic, serious, spiritual, uplifting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: youth, friendship, childhood, self discovery, children, boy, spirituality, young adult, coming of age, minimalism, art, friends ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The End of Eternity (1987)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and ...
Style: bizarre
Plot: time travel, underground, time jump, dystopia, eternal life, eternity, fall in love, spy, love, time, past, soviet ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Scarecrow (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, sincere, touching, spiritual ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, bullying, mockery, traumatic childhood, teenager, school, brutality, outcast, betrayal by friend, deception, first love, grandfather granddaughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Save and Protect (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, West Germany
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of ...
Style: avant garde
Plot: children, erotica, underground, madam, cuckolded husband, death, sex, infidelity, extramarital affair, male nudity, suicide, funeral ...
Time: 1840s
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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