Movies like East/West

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East/West (1999)
 7.4
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East/West (1999)
Original name: Est-Ouest
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, France, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story: June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
Style: touching, heartbreaking, realistic, harsh, sentimental, suspenseful, emotional, sincere, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: iron curtain, kgb, propaganda, survival, freedom, brutality, stalinism, tragedy, destiny, communism, love story, brainwashing, political unrest, love and romance, emigrant, immigration, doctor, letter, catholic, family drama, josef stalin, world war two, love, swimming, passion ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1946, post world war two, 40s
Place: france, russia, ussr, soviet union, europe, bulgaria, germany
Keyword: russian, french, ukrainian, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, fall in love, marriage, husband wife relationship and infidelity mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like East/West: The Way Back (2010), The Last Metro (1980), The Promise (1994), Colonia (2015), The Barber of Siberia (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Way Back (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style: epic, realistic, inspirational, road movie, rough ...
Plot: survival, escape, prison escape, wilderness, war, freedom, journey, world war two, desert, gulag, pow, convict ...
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The Last Metro (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Style: sincere, art house, thought provoking, anthology, manga ...
Plot: world war two, theater, nazi, gestapo, women, world war, wartime life, infidelity, anti semitism, love triangle, actor, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 20th century, year 1942
Place: france, paris france, europe, montmartre paris
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100%
 6.8
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The Promise (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: politics, berlin wall, spy, iron curtain, stasi, cold war, crisis, anti communism, couples, love affair, impossible love, political unrest ...
Time: 80s, 60s
Place: germany, east germany, berlin germany, europe, prague ...
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100%
 7.0
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Colonia (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Luxembourg, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Style: suspense, harsh, psychological, political, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: religious fanatic, kidnapping, religion, genocide, torture chamber, escape, sect, torture, military coup, prison, survival, military dictatorship ...
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100%
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The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, France, Italy, Czech Republic
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, harsh ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place: soviet union, russia, siberia, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 140 min.
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The Edge (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, ...
Style: realistic, captivating, bleak, tense, exciting ...
Plot: gulag, soldier, rivalry, prison life, prisoner of war camp, captivity, pow, world war two, wilderness, danger, confined, winter ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945, post world war two
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Weeping Meadow (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni. Eleni is an orphan and she is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, aesthetic ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
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24%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic
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Place: australia, sydney australia
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22%
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Duration: 102 min.
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Style: romantic, touching, realistic, sentimental, uplifting ...
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21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
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Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot: first love, marriage, dysfunctional family, lovers reunited, siblings relations, love affair, parents and children, fall in love, aging, forbidden love, family problems, couples ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
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Style: touching, emotional, serious, sincere, captivating ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada
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Style: emotional, compassionate, atmospheric, sincere, touching ...
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21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual
Audience: date night
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Time: 60s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband Erna and her daughter are ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: stalinism, deportation, world war two, hunger, ethnic cleansing, wartime life, getting home, life is a bitch, family in danger, separation from family, family relations, danger ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: siberia, soviet union, baltics, europe, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Message in a Bottle (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move ...
Style: touching, romantic, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
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Time: year 1999, 2010s, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
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Nuts for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
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Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Little England (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min.
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Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized ...
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Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Autumn in New York (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding. Charlotte is ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
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Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.0
 30K
The Bounty (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, New Zealand
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get ...
Style: epic, period piece, costume drama, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: ship, mutiny, island, sea, storm at sea, survival, sea voyage, pacific island, colonialism, boat, lost at sea, lifeboat ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1984, 1780s
Place: england, tahiti, pacific ocean, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.1
 7K
To Our Loves (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style: erotic, art house, anthology, retro, sensual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female nudity, infidelity, dysfunctional family, coming of age, bare breasts, extramarital affair, promiscuous daughter, nudity, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, looking for sex, loveless marriage ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Max Embarrassing 2 (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada, Russia, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 1979: Cousins Carole and Jérôme go on an organized trip to Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. During the day, posing as tourists celebrating their engagement, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening they slip away from the group and meet ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, tense
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Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, year 1979, 70s
Place: ussr, russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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