Movies like Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird

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Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970)
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Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970)
Original name: იყო შაშვი მგალობელი
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Gia is a carefree young percussionist who works at a theater in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. He lives in a small apartment with his mother. Gia spends his days flitting from friend to friend, lover to lover, avoiding any responsibility, and never staying still for five minutes. However, he always manages to arrive at the theater just in time to play the drums at the end of the ballet.
Style: spiritual
Plot: spirituality, orchestra, time, musician, flirting, drummer, friend, rehearsal, urban setting, orchestra conductor, soviet, young
Time: year 1972
Place: caucasus, soviet union, tbilisi, russia, georgia, ussr
Keyword: russian, georgia (former ussr)

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out spiritual, captivating, avant garde and poetic films with plots about soviet, spirituality, european, musician, love, family relations and male female relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird: Falling Leaves (1966), Don't Grieve (1968), Pastorale (1975), The Wishing Tree (1976), Orchestra Rehearsal (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Falling Leaves (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young idealist takes a job at a local state run winery only to discover and become disillusioned by the corruption of the Soviet State.
Style: spiritual
Plot: love, spirituality, love letter, wine, winery, corruption, student, university, friend, factory, young man, best friend ...
Place: soviet union, russia, caucasus, georgia
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Don't Grieve (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love ...
Plot: european, duel, brother sister relationship, doctor, humiliation, dance, adoption, drunkenness, death, banquet, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, russia, georgia
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86%
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Pastorale (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the mountain village comes a group of young musicians in Tbilisi. Here they are going to relax and rehearse. Sad story about the final rupture occurred, the peasants do not sing beautiful old songs, the musicians play music incomprehensible to ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: cultural difference, village, spirituality, country girl, fishing, musician, guest, teenage girl, rehearsal, wine, drinking, party ...
Place: ussr, caucasus, russia, georgia
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79%
The Wishing Tree (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze ...
Plot: mental disorder, tragedy, boy meets girl, male objectification, bare chested male, priest, love, christianity, soviet
Time: year 1977
Place: caucasus, soviet union, georgia, russia
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76%
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Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.
Style: absurd
Plot: worker, european, caucasian, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, manuscript, publisher, office, absurdism, absurd humor, secretary, book ...
Place: soviet union, georgia, caucasus, ussr
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Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Orchestra Rehearsal (Italian: Prova d'orchestra) is a 1978 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. It follows an Italian orchestra as the members go on strike against the conductor. The film was shown out of competition at the 1979 Cannes ...
Style: spiritual, neorealism, black comedy, art house, cult classic ...
Plot: musician, music, labor, union, identity, strike, spirituality, parable, orchestra, anarchy, concert, orchestra conductor ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
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62%
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Mimino (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Georgian bush pilot Valentin (Valiko) Mizandari a.k.a. Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. ...
Style: feel good, smart, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: aviation, misadventure, pilot, hotel, friendship, helicopter pilot, social relations, disorder, small time, friends, hopes, follow your dream ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: soviet union, georgia, ussr, russia, caucasus ...
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61%
The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The film is Sokurov's feature film debut and is based on the novel The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov. It's a story about the lives of people in the Russian countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was completed in 1979 ...
Style: poetic, spiritual, contemplative, avant garde
Plot: mental disorder, spirituality, underground, moving, european, civil war, loneliness, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, soviet, archive footage
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Carnival (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.
Style: captivating, humorous, sincere, touching
Plot: love and romance, youth, society, desire for fame, ambition, betrayal, life is a bitch, fall in love, adaptation, couples, father daughter relationship, family relations ...
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr, moscow russia
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59%
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style: spiritual
Plot: perestroika, spirituality, depression, loneliness, female nudity, male nudity, teacher, soviet, live action, film within a film
Time: year 1990
Place: soviet union, ussr
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58%
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The Entreaty (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Based on the poems “Aluda Ketelauri” and “The Guest and the Host” by the classic of Georgian literature Vazha Pshavela This film opens Tengiz Abuladze’s trilogy (“The Plea”, “The Wishing Tree”, “Repentance”), which discusses ...
Style: spiritual, crying, avant garde
Plot: spirituality, exile, rural setting, tradition, fratricide, fight, mountain, grave, enemy, small community, community, host ...
Place: soviet union, caucasus, georgia, russia, chechnya
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54%
The Second Circle (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, spirit, european, existentialism, loss of father, death, snow, soviet, coffin
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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53%
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Maestro(s) (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The Dunars are conductors from father to son. François' long and brilliant international career come to an end, whereas Denis has just won an umpteenth classical music award. When François is chosen to be the head of the Scala, his ultimate ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, thrilling
Plot: orchestra conductor, father son conflict, musician, orchestra, family life, family relations, musician's life, father, relationships, father son relationship, music, father and son
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51%
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Style: slow cinema, aesthetic, spiritual
Plot: stalinism, psychedelia, spy, underground, spirituality, police officer, interrogation, winter, chief of police, siege, suicide attempt, raid ...
Time: year 1985, 1930s
Place: soviet union, ussr, siberia, russia
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48%
Tbilisi-Paris-Tbilisi (1980)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Tbilisi in the beginning of the 20th century . Emigrants who moved from Tbilisi to Paris for various reasons cannot resist the feeling of nostalgia and decide to return to their homeland by air balloon .
Place: caucasus, paris france, france, tbilisi, soviet union
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45%
The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.
Style: art house, spiritual, contemplative, surreal, poetic ...
Plot: fortress, legends and myths, surrealism, camel, mythology, magic realism, folklore, spirituality, gay subtext, heroic mission, escapades, danger ...
Time: year 1985, middle ages
Place: georgia, ussr, caucasus, soviet union, europe
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43%
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Come Tomorrow (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Young girl from the country come to Moscow, she wants to get into University, but it's too late... Anyway, she won't give up and will do everything to get a meeting with dean and sing for him.
Plot: music, musician, country girl, train station, girl, smoking, train, college dean, sculptor, autumn, winter, uninvited guest ...
Place: ussr, russia
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43%
We and Our Mountains (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Calm of the mountain village is disturbed by the investigation on stray sheep.
Plot: shepherd, mountain, village, countryside, sheep
Place: caucasus, armenia, soviet union
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42%
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Farewell (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.
Style: spiritual
Plot: spirituality, peasant, child, old woman, lake, island, tree, fog, tradition, mute, water, fire ...
Place: soviet union, russia
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42%
I Used to Be Famous (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A former boy band star unexpectedly gets a second shot at success when he forms a bond with a gifted young drummer.
Style: semi serious, thrilling, satirical, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: friend, musician, drums, autism, pop star, friendship, boy band, second chance, pop music, music, musician's life, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2002
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41%
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You and Me (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A neurosurgeon returns back to the USSR from Sweden and has to deal with rejection - both at work and at home.
Plot: circus, ice hockey, surgeon, crisis of conscience, embassy, doctor, train, neurosurgeon, soviet
Place: soviet union, russia, siberia
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40%
Days of Eclipse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's ...
Style: poetic, spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, post apocalypse, european, spirituality, doctor, corpse, heat wave, soviet, black and white segues into color
Place: soviet union, ussr
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40%
Love at First Sight (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Murad, a Muslim guy brought up in the noisy yard of Tbilisi, falls in love with a Belorussian girl Anya, who lives in the same neighborhood, though Anya is impervious to Murad’s feelings.
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, christian, muslim, islam, christianity, soviet
Place: caucasus, tbilisi, georgia
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39%
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War and Peace: Part II (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, napoleon bonaparte, love, soldier, engagement, aristocrat, coming of age, soviet, young, ball
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
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38%
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1967)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her ...
Plot: murder, betrayal, husband, opera, poison
Place: soviet union, siberia, russia
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36%
The Republic SHKID (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: traumatic childhood, boy, orphanage, male nudity, corruption, school, nudity, communist propaganda, soviet, stockings, female stockinged legs
Time: 1920s
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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36%
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Ashik Kerib (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights - but not before he's got the daughter to promise not to marry till his ...
Style: art house, spiritual, surreal, serious, realistic ...
Plot: true love, bird, magic realism, european, anthropology, spirituality, folklore, couples, family relations, love and romance, obsessive quest, homecoming ...
Time: year 1988, 80s, 20th century
Place: caucasus, ussr, soviet union, turkey, georgia ...
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35%
Nine Days of One Year (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: scientist, realism, moving, spirituality, science, romantic rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, nuclear, pessimism, physicist, optimism ...
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Theme (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A self-pitying but popular playwright drives to Vladimir to relax with a doting female student and another writer. He's convinced his writing is of no lasting value, but he still has an ego, about his work and his masculine appeal. He's ...
Style: intelligent, contemplative, talky, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: midlife crisis, playwright, dissident, emigration, society, writer's life, fighting the system, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Short Encounters (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After leaving their native village, Nadia (Nina Ruslanova at her debut) and her friend travel to the big city. Along the way, Nadia gets a job in a tea shop and meets Maxim (Russian icon Vladimir Vysotsky), and she falls in love with him and decides ...
Plot: feminism, boy girl relationship, boys and girls, homecoming, maid, bureaucracy, flashback, love triangle, absent husband, geologist, soviet, speech ...
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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