Movies like The Marvelous Visit

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The Marvelous Visit (1974)
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The Marvelous Visit (1974)
Original name: La Merveilleuse visite
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: One morning, the rector of a small French village comes across a young man, lying unclothed and unconscious on a deserted beach. Intrigued, the rector has the young man carried back to his home. When he awakes the stranger calmly identifies himself as Jean, an angel who has just arrived on Earth. Naturally, the rector doesn’t believe this, but decides to humour the young man. At first, Jean’s arrival in the village causes no upset. He is a harmless soul, full of good intentions and capable of only the kindest deeds. But then the villagers grow wary of him, and this wariness turns to outright hostility when Jean unwittingly causes an accident...
Style: sentimental, touching, offbeat, serious, stylized
Plot: angel, gay subtext, gay interest, miraculous event, misfit, love and romance, village life, society, down on your luck, imaginary, clergy, social relations, supernatural romance, disorder, fish out of water, homecoming, bittersweet, hopes, sea, village, beach, priest, bird, church, male nudity ...
Place: france, brittany

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Most similar movies to The Marvelous Visit

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, touching, realistic and sentimental films with plots about hopes, society, social relations, love and romance, family relations, misfit and village mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Marvelous Visit: Shun Li and the Poet (2011), The Creatures (1966), Three-Step Dance (2003), The Discovery of Heaven (2001), Vincent (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shun Li and the Poet (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, hopes, single parent, social relations, misfit, life is a bitch, society, workplace, fish out of water, workplace situations, village, poet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Creatures (1966)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries and begins writing his next novel, seeking inspiration from the local people. ...
Style: surreal, art house, metafiction, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: chess, game, fetish, swing, surrealism, pregnancy, village, husband, bullying, island, village life, fish out of water ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Three-Step Dance (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Four separate-but-interconnected stories - one for each season - about life in Sardinia.
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: countryside, clergy, social relations, homecoming, village life, island, sea, father daughter relationship, wedding, sexual content, convent, adult virgin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, sardinia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, sentimental, tense
Plot: angel, parent child relationship, religions or cults, supernatural ability, politics, murder, attempted murder, supernatural, hopes, love triangle, miraculous event, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, israel, cuba, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Vincent (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Vincent has an extraordinary ability: his strength and reflexes increase tenfold when in contact with water. To make full use of this gift, he settles in a region with many lakes and rivers, and that is isolated enough to allow him to live a ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, humorous, emotional, serious ...
Plot: fall in love, love affair, supernatural ability, hidden identity, supernatural, police, water, river, social relations, disorder, small town, swimming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, atlantic ocean, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
There Must Be a Pony (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, stylized
Plot: parent child relationship, hopes, love and romance, mentally unstable, artists and showbiz, mysterious character, misfit, starting over, mental institution, hospital, hollywood, mental illness ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 4.9
 480
Neverland (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, modernized, and highly original retelling of the childhood classic PETER PAN. In this version, Peter (Rick Sparks) is a juvenile delinquent, Tinkerbell (Kari... Damion Dietz's NEVERLAND is a dark, ...
Style: serious, offbeat, bleak
Plot: amusement park, danger, life is a bitch, escapades, youth, peter pan, gay, fantasy world, lgbt, glbt, gay subtext, prostitute ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Pink Narcissus (1971)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.
Style: independent film, surreal, cult classic, aesthetic, psychedelic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay interest, male pubic hair, homosexuality, male nudity, narcissism, gay, matador, lgbt, sex, erotica, sex slave, biker ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Kosmos (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Turkey, Bulgaria
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Too much happens too many times in this potentially brilliant parable.
Style: atmospheric, captivating, art house, psychological, entertaining ...
Plot: social relations, love affair, miraculous event, small town, thief, hopes, self discovery, supernatural ability, winter, freedom, imaginary, love and romance ...
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.5
 510
Da (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Style: independent film, uplifting, serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: ghost, human nature, unfulfillment, elderly, hopes, love and romance, single parent, dealing with death, family problems, family relations, tragic love, family life ...
Time: 80s
Place: ireland, new york, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.2
 6K
Northfork (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: "We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us." In the next two days, the town of Northfork will cease to exist. The year is 1955 and Northfork is literally about to be "dammed," flooded to make way for a ...
Style: bleak, surreal, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: small town, adoption, dream, boy, coming of age, society, hopes, human nature, social relations, sick child, priest, terminal illness ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: montana, usa, california, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 7.2
 4K
Green Snake (1993)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, stylized, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: martial arts, monk, good versus evil, hidden identity, dangerous attraction, snake, fall in love, supernatural, rivalry, danger, curses spells and rituals, clergy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
A Heavenly Vintage (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: New Zealand, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life - his beautiful wife Celeste, baroness Aurora de Valday and an angel named Xas.
Style: captivating, semi serious, sentimental, touching, culinary ...
Plot: wine, angel, temptation, follow your dream, supernatural, society, hopes, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, couples, social differences ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1810s, 1800s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
They Came Back (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot: back from the dead, undead, small town, supernatural, friendship, haunted by the past, social relations, living dead, dead, infection, mutant, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.1
 222
Little Lion (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mitri is 15 years old and lives in a village in Senegal. Like all the youngsters of his age, he plays football, dreaming of the Barcelona and Chelsea Football Clubs. When an agent sees him, Mitri believes in his luck. But, in order to go chasing ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot: football, follow your dream, immigrant, hopes, athlete and trainer, life is a bitch, athlete's life, ambition, youth, soccer, desire for fame, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, africa, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
Style: controversial, sad, spiritual, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: religion, priest, catholic, religious, spirituality, ghost, god, redemption, miraculous event, supernatural, suicide, leadership ...
Time: year 1987, 1920s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Maldonado Miracle (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: miraculous event, small town, coming of age, family relations, church, hopes, human nature, society, clergy, family life, religions or cults, village ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 119
Spiral (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, touching, student film
Plot: social relations, immigrant, family in crisis, bittersweet, gender, family problems, homecoming, society, village life, strong female presence, unfulfillment, feminism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Movie in collections
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The Outlander (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story: It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: friendship, friends, love affair, social relations, village life, village, fall in love, family relations, stranger, rivalry, love and romance, alcoholism ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.5
 344
A Simple Heart (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: servant, social differences, family relations, friendship, hopes, unfulfilled love, family life, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.4
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One of a Kind (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When Frédi loses his mother, he realizes she has passed her healing gift on to him. Frédi rejects it totally, tangled up in his own unhappiness, until a fatal accident changes everything. He is forced to acknowledge that he had healing hands.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, captivating
Plot: supernatural ability, fall in love, supernatural, love and romance, accident, seaside, dead mother, chainsaw, hospital, beach, swimming pool, fishing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.8
 253
Bernadette (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Evocation of the life of Bernadette Soubirous, the eldest of four children, who, at the age of fifteen, experiences the Virgin Mary appearing to her at the Massabielle grotto near Lourdes. Or in her own words, "a lady dressed in white, more ...
Style: grindhouse, realistic, serious, emotional, sexual ...
Plot: asthma, asthmatic, catholic, saint, girl, profanity, village, miraculous event, village life, mental institution, unemployment, social relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: france, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Screen Door Jesus (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A vision of Jesus sighted on the screen door of Mother Harper's front porch sparks misadventures as the media and crowds gather around the phenomenon and the townsfolk start to take sides. As more people flock to the door, some for guidance, ...
Style: sincere, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: society, social relations, bittersweet, small town life, interracial relations, friendship, small town, human nature, religions or cults, religion, preacher, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Movie in collections
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 3K
What If... (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Fifteen years ago, Ben Walker made a decision to leave his college sweetheart and ultimately his faith, in order to pursue a lucrative business opportunity. Now with a high-paying career and a trophy fiancé, he is visited by an angel, who gives him ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, light, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: spirituality, fish out of water, angel, faith, christian, religious, family relations, disorder, family life, lifestyle, miraculous event, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.5
 9K
Passion Play (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, sincere, touching ...
Plot: angel, musician, redemption, fall in love, danger, love affair, unlikely couple, down on your luck, desert, making love, sex scene, afterlife ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
My Name Is Bernadette (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, biblical, realistic ...
Plot: human spirit, catholic, hopes, idealism, miraculous event, clergy, society, monastery, biopic, religious, monarchy, faith ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.1
 177
Nelly (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The four days following the death of a small town doctor, seen through the eyes of Nelly, his wife, a nurse.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: village, couples, social relations, love and romance, sexual relations, village life, family relations, town, death
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.3
 132
The Truce (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Martín Santomé has been woking in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.
Style: stylized, emotional, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, elderly, love affair, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, gender, couples, hopes, fall in love, midlife crisis, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.2
 296
The Proud Ones (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' stories at night, politics and religion during their ...
Style: contemplative, saga, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: world war one, family relations, religions or cults, farm, social relations, society, human nature, life is a bitch, village life, wartime life, countryside, family life ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, 20th century
Place: europe, france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Highway to Heaven (1984)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Highway to Heaven is an American television drama series which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1989. The series aired for five seasons, running a total of 111 episodes. It was shot entirely in California.
Style: serious, uplifting, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: angel, guardian angel, odd couple, redemption, friendship, supernatural, fish out of water, good deed, partner, human nature, unlikely partners, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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