Movies like Serena
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Serena (2014)
29K
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.
Style:
enigmatic, depressing, emotional, melancholic, intense, captivating, realistic, tense, serious, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
jealousy, adaptation, twists and turns, obsession, loneliness, writers, suspense, tragedy, marriage, destiny, brutality, greed, family business, illegitimate son, love affair, family problems, family in crisis, couple relations, crumbling marriage, anguish, empire, death, betrayal, hospital, suicide ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, future, year 1929, 20s
Place:
north carolina, new jersey, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
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Duration: 125 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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