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The Wind Blows Round (2005)
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Original name: E l'aura fai son vir
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. At first they are suspicious of his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, then are conquered by the enthusiasm, kindness, helpfulness of the young family and start to see in them a possible rebirth of the place. But little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over.
Plot:
village, goat, fight, mountain, snow, priest, church, suicide, family relations, false accusation, villager, flashback, xenophobia, cheese, language, herd
Place:
italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and gloomy films with plots about family relations, village, mountain, suicide, father son relationship, church and priest mostly in Drama and War genres. Some movies like The Wind Blows Round: Bandits of Orgosolo (1961), When the Night (2011), The Four Times (2010), The Thursday (1964), Splendor (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Duration: 114 min.
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Duration: 88 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 83 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: 115 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their ...
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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