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Jean de Florette (1986)
29K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, independent film, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, feel good, depressing, family saga, saga ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
farm, village life, inheritance, water, hunchback, greed, conspiracy, countryside, village, parents and children, life is a bitch, society, passion, vineyard, peasant, rain, water shortage, time travel, summer, wildlife, deaf, landscape, culture, sadness, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1986, 20th century, 1920s, 19th century, 20s
Place:
provence, france, europe, paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about family relations, society, countryside, parents and children, social relations, life is a bitch and village life mostly in Drama, Comedy and History genres. Some movies like Jean de Florette: Manon of the Spring (1986), The Two of Us (1967), A Sunday in the Country (1984), Uranus (1990), No One Writes to the Colonel (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, atmospheric, thought provoking, saga, anthology ...
Plot:
revenge, female nudity, haunted by the past, spring, provincial life, wedding, cave, rural setting, rabbit, xenophobia, harmonica, marriage ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 86 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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Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 122 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: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 137 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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Country: France
Duration: 107 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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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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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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Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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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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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Audience:
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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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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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441
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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