Movies like Damnation 1988

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Damnation (1988)
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Damnation (1988)
Original name: Kárhozat
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...
Style: contemplative, surreal, slow cinema, bleak, art house, existential, philosophical, neo noir, visually appealing, aesthetic ...
Plot: magic realism, dancing, european, female nudity, sex scene, underground, minimalism, fog, chaos, poetry, alienation, existentialism, surrealism, affair, minimal dialogue, visceral, hidden treasure, social outcast, troubled, amor, love triangle, addiction, love and romance, life is a bitch, masturbation ...
Time: year 1988
Place: europe, hungary
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and art house films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, infidelity, love affair and female nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Damnation: Satantango (1994), Almanac of Fall (1984), Millennium Mambo (2001), The Turin Horse (2011), The Man from London (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Satantango (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 439 min.
Story: Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of ...
Style: slow cinema, art house, contemplative, black and white, dark comedy ...
Plot: poverty, suicide, writers, farm, loneliness, countryside, multiple perspectives, mental illness, hidden treasure, minimalism, tango, minimal dialogue ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 80s, 20th century
Place: hungary, europe
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Almanac of Fall (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
Style: slow cinema, powerful, aesthetic, neo noir, avant garde ...
Plot: friendship, redemption, mind game, melancholy, family relations, poverty, revenge, sexual abuse, intimacy, underground, sex crime, european ...
Time: 80s
Place: hungary, europe
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Millennium Mambo (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Taipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2000, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao...
Style: realistic, contemplative, touching, art house, aesthetic ...
Plot: couples, love and romance, addiction, friendship, love triangle, coming of age, couple relations, destructive relationship, lifestyle, life is a bitch, nightlife, infidelity ...
Time: year 2001
Place: taiwan, japan, taipei, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Turin Horse (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, slow cinema, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: horse, poverty, survival, minimalism, nihilism, desperation, destiny, everyday life, family relations, human nature, philosopher, isolation ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, distant future
Place: turin italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Man from London (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story: One night Maloin, a switchman at a seaside railway station situated by a ferry harbour, witnesses a terrible event...
Style: neo noir, serious, black and white, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: murder, witnessing a crime, introspection, moral dilemma, redemption, european, escapades, danger, rivalry, underground, minimalism, seaside ...
Place: london, england, europe
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29%
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3-Iron (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. ...
Style: lyrical, contemplative, surreal, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: golf, loneliness, motorcycle, relationships, abusive husband, jealousy, love triangle, art, love story, love, existentialism, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place: korea, east asia, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Climates (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, aesthetic ...
Plot: family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, crumbling marriage, unsupportive spouse, dishonesty, sexual relations, rape, winter, realism, lonely ...
Time: 2000s
Place: middle east, turkey, sarajevo, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around ...
Style: bleak, contemplative, serious, allegory, slow cinema ...
Plot: surrealism, delusion, circus, musician, magic realism, philosophy, social relations, danger, small town life, village life, european, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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A Gentle Woman (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
Style: spiritual, art house, anthology, powerful, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide, female nudity, jealousy, minimalism, hamlet, social outcast, existentialism, post war, alienation, spirit, spirituality, loan shark ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Sinbad (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád.
Style: touching, emotional, gloomy, atmospheric, sexual ...
Plot: magic realism, womanizer, haunted by the past, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, aging, couple relations, church, memory, food, snow ...
Time: year 1971, 1920s
Place: hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: relationships, ladykiller, mental disorder, hotel, travel, marriage crisis, tragic love, sexual relations, village life, pregnancy, on the road, love affair ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Silent Light (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, slow cinema, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, infidelity, redemption, fall in love, moral dilemma, religion, regret, couples, sin, clergy, human nature, love affair ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Gertrud (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert ...
Style: black and white, serious, slow cinema, spiritual, art house ...
Plot: love, biopic, european, nordic, girl, passion, social outcast, modernism, art, divorce, women, spirituality ...
Time: 60s, 1900s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Alexander the Last (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style: mumblecore, serious, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, couple relations, actor's life, family relations, couples, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
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26%
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To the Wonder (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
Style: emotional, melancholic, philosophical, stylized, intense ...
Plot: love affair, crumbling marriage, marriage, love, love triangle, love story, couple relations, introspection, starting over, homecoming, extramarital affair, love and romance ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, oklahoma, usa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Greece, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Alexandre, a TV reporter, is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in. Among them, he notices an old man and thinks he is an important Greek politician who disappeared ...
Style: slow cinema, metafiction, aesthetic, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: refugee, greek, underground, filmmaking, journalist, capitalism, anti fascism, love, time travel, chaos, reporter, immigrant ...
Time: 90s
Place: albania, greece, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Paper Soldier (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Plot: space travel, military, crumbling marriage, moral dilemma, infidelity, power relations, soldier, couple relations, space and aliens, love affair, cosmonaut, underground ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1961
Place: russia, soviet union, kazakhstan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Reconstruction (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
Style: surreal, psychological, mind bending, romantic, philosophical ...
Plot: love story, love affair, couples, cheating wife, unfaithful wife, adultery, loneliness, existentialism, imagination, art, depression, life turned upside down ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
Style: art house, depressing, existential, realistic, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: artist, minimalism, female nudity, suicide, mental disorder, betrayal, erotica, post war, social outcast, existentialism, love, couples ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Married Woman (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style: black and white, sensual, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, society, in love, birth control, nudity, magazine, sexual pleasure, sandstorm, married, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, betrayal ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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25%
Lovers: A True Story (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in '50s Spain, a young man leaves the army and looks for a job so he and his fiancée can get married. He rents a room from a widow, and shortly begins a torrid affair with her. The fiancée figures it out and decides to win him back by ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, realistic, serious ...
Plot: tragic love, secret lover, erotica, defloration, love, older woman younger man relationship, love triangle, fall in love, obsession, love and romance, betrayal, couple relations ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place: spain, europe
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25%
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More (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A German student, Stefan, who has finished his studies, then decides to have an adventure. After hitch-hiking to Paris, he commits crimes to get money. He then meets a free-spirited American girl, Estelle, who he follows to Ibiza, and then begins a ...
Style: psychedelic, aesthetic, mind bending, surreal, art house ...
Plot: addiction, blonde, hippie, drug, counterculture, drug addiction, pink floyd, lsd, chess, heroin addiction, fashion, trippy ...
Time: 60s
Place: ibiza, france, spain, germany, europe ...
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25%
Madame Bovary (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, ...
Style: period piece, emotional, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: forbidden love, adulteress, love affair, destructive relationship, downfall, infidelity, social relations, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, tragic hero, sexual freedom ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Perfect Love (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A teenage girl helps investigators reconstruct her mother's (Isabelle Renauld) murder.
Style: controversial, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: minimalism, age-gap relationship, wedding, crimes of passion, disco, murder, male pubic hair, nudity, male nudity, rape, bare breasts, couples ...
Time: 90s
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24%
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The River (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In Taiwan a young man with a mysterious paralysis massages his neck with his mother's dildo, meanwhile the rain is flooding the island.
Style: contemplative, bleak, aesthetic, slow cinema, thought provoking ...
Plot: gay, gay hustler, gay incest, alienation, dysfunctional family, lgbt teen, love, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, love letter, minimalism ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: taiwan, china, asia, taipei
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24%
What Time Is It There? (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, art house, stylized, non-linear ...
Plot: obsession, isolation, death in the family, estrangement, lifestyle, unfulfillment, loneliness, drinking, father son relationship, drinking alcohol, death, hotel ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, east asia, asia, paris france ...
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24%
Colossal Youth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story: After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style: contemplative, serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, starting over, hopes, misfit, addiction, urban ghetto life, husband wife relationship, anthropology, decolonization, poetry ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Happiness (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Style: art house, anthology, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, french countryside, love, summer, adultery, bittersweet, love triangle, cheating, family relations, daily life, new love ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Soft Skin (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Style: black and white, neo noir, depressing, art house, anthology ...
Plot: neglected wife, airport, love, transformation, doomed romance, new love, swing, infidelity, flight attendant, adultery, love at first sight, divorce ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, lisbon portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style: road movie, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visual ...
Plot: on the road, on the run, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, betrayal, infidelity, surrealism, couple relations, couples, vietnam war, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, year 1965, near future, 60s
Place: france, paris france, mediterranean sea, europe, provence ...
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24%
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