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Fanny and Alexander (1982)
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Original name: Fanny och Alexander
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, sincere, art house, visual, thought provoking, surreal, melancholic, visually appealing, erotic ...
Plot:
christmas, childhood, ghost, coming of age, children, boy, child abuse, grief, brother sister relationship, extramarital affair, brother brother relationship, marriage as hell, death of father, abusive stepfather, surrealism, nordic, winter, art, dialogue, existentialism, european, family relations, christmas eve, spirituality, funeral ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, year 1982, 20th century, victorian era, 1910s, 90s
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, serious, melancholic and talky films with plots about loneliness, childhood, melancholy, relationships, dialogue, storytelling and family relations mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Fanny and Alexander: The Return (2003), Paris, Texas (1984), Cinema Paradiso (1988), The Sacrifice (1986), My Life as a Dog (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 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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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, first love, cinema, nostalgia, filmmaking, love story, flashback, haunted by the past, philosophy, friendship, adolescence ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, sicily, rome italy, europe, corsica
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Country: Sweden, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Style:
cerebral, atmospheric, philosophical, art house, slow cinema ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
soviet union, ussr, europe, russia
Similarity:
100%
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, philosophical, realistic, touching, existential ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a ...
Style:
sad, philosophical, thought provoking, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
denmark, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen ...
Style:
sexual, art house, black and white, disturbing, cerebral ...
Plot:
existentialism, surrealism, nihilism, sister sister relationship, religion, lesbian incest, dysfunctional family, female masturbation, translator, war zone, room, sibling rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, tokyo
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
religion, existentialism, suicide, priest, winter, faith, midlife crisis, darkness, philosophy, spirituality, great ending, art ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, philosophical, art house, black and white, serious ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, older sister, religion, insanity, psychology, nordic, existentialism, dysfunctional family, mental disorder, illness, spirituality ...
Time:
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Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, cerebral, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, art house, political, cerebral, biting ...
Plot:
existentialism, dialogue, island, nordic, civil war, betrayal, politics, war, world war two, european, female nudity, political prisoner ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia, tokyo, israel
Similarity:
32%
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Country: West Germany, UK, Sweden
Duration: 99 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: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
29%
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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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Similarity:
28%
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Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, sincere, cerebral, meditative, touching ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, destiny, marriage, parenthood, character study, parents and children, love and romance, introspection, couples, family problems, human nature, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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27%
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Country: Denmark, Sweden
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
psychological, art house, cerebral, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, europe, paris france, france, england ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, serious, cult classic, inspirational, sexy ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, depressing, atmospheric, gloomy, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
poverty, childhood, children, young kid, child abandonment, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, innocence lost, responsibility, neglect, jailbait, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 2012, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, belgium
Similarity:
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Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Style:
bleak, thought provoking, emotional, depressing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
denmark
Similarity:
25%
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