Movies like Autumn Sonata
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Autumn Sonata (1978)
37K
Original name: Höstsonaten
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
Style:
art house, depressing, emotional, philosophical, sincere, touching, mind bending, psychedelic, spiritual, ironic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, marriage, autumn, child neglect, mother daughter estrangement, pianist, reconciliation, classical music, family relations, bad mother, women, existentialism, nordic, mother daughter relationship, art, european, mother, unrequited love, musician, mother daughter reunion, parents and children, family life, family problems, family in crisis, hospital ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
Keyword:
dutch, sweden
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, contemplative and art house films with plots about family relations, parents and children, family problems, dysfunctional family, couples, european and female nudity mostly in Drama, Music and Mystery genres. Some movies like Autumn Sonata: Saraband (2003), Don't Come Knocking (2005), The Piano Teacher (2001), The Sacrifice (1986), Cries & Whispers (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The movie is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), where we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, meditative, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, marriage, parenthood, character study, introspection, love and romance, parents and children, human nature, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, hopes ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
eastern europe, munich germany, helsinki finland, florence, hamburg germany ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. ...
Style:
realistic, road movie, talky, sentimental, sad ...
Plot:
redemption, cowboy, father son relationship, hopes, self discovery, parents and children, haunted by the past, family relations, human nature, actor's life, small town, road trip ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
montana, usa, utah, nevada
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100%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Style:
sexual, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bdsm, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, teacher, mother daughter relationship, sexual relations, desire, rape, masochism, fetish, sex, perversion ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
germany, france, austria, europe, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
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:
atmospheric, philosophical, art house, spiritual, slow cinema ...
Plot:
insanity, existentialism, end of the world, spirituality, distopia, god, philosophy, dialogue, art, post apocalypse, religion, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's suicide, caused by his discovery of her ...
Style:
touching, emotional, depressing, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, maid, art, family relations, nordic, women, dialogue, obsession, existentialism, sisters, visceral ...
Time:
year 1972, 19th century, turn of the century, 90s, 1900s
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
dogme 95, suicide, incest, family secret, child abuse, hotel, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, birthday, depression, party, birthday party ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, depressing, art house, black and white ...
Plot:
religion, existentialism, suicide, priest, winter, faith, midlife crisis, spirituality, great ending, philosophy, art, small town ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, art house, black and white, serious ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, religion, insanity, psychology, existentialism, dysfunctional family, nordic, mental disorder, illness, spirituality, island ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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:
disturbing, philosophical, art house, visual, surreal ...
Plot:
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Time:
turn of the century, year 1982, 20th century, victorian era, 1910s ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. ...
Style:
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Plot:
solitude, depression, isolation, animal cruelty, nightmare, self pity, breaking the fourth wall, psychology, dialogue, guilt, suicide, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place:
eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness.
Style:
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Plot:
mental illness, nordic, art, european, existentialism, dialogue, psychopath, misfit, destruction, cowboy, psychotherapy, suicide attempt ...
Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
Style:
sincere, semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching ...
Plot:
child prodigy, prodigy, boy, youth, music, coming of age, childhood, family relations, pianist, parents and children, overbearing parent, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
switzerland, europe, zurich switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's ...
Style:
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Plot:
theater, art, relationships, actor, dialogue, crazy love, nordic, memory, dull life, couples, aging, actor's life ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful ...
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Plot:
surrealism, insanity, artist, isolation, island, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, macabre, diary, nightmare, art ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, intense, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
dysfunctional family, mental illness, american south, playwright, estrangement, women, mother daughter relationship, friendship, relationships, female protagonist, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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37%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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37%
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Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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37%
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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37%
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Story:
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Country: UK, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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