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Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (2009)
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Original name: Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Spain, France
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Macário spends an entire train journey to the Algarve talking to a woman he does not know about the trials and tribulations of his love life: straight after starting his first job as a book keeper at his Uncle Francisco's shop in Lisbon he falls madly in love with a young blonde, who lives across the road.No sooner does he meet her than he straightaway wants to marry her. His uncle, totally opposed to the match, fires him and kicks him out of the house. Macário departs for Cape Verde where he makes his fortune. When he finally wins his uncle’s approval to marry his beloved, he discovers the “singularity” of his fiancée’s character.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, atmospheric, weird
Plot:
fall in love, blonde, accountant, love and romance, social differences, society, wooing, starting over, hopes, breakup, fan, engagement, train travel, love, gambling, train, broker, theft, love at first sight, job seeking, mother daughter relationship, poor, woman, stranger, fired from the job ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
portugal
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about love and romance, society, love, fall in love, couples, love affair and hopes mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl: The Uncertainty Principle (2002), Madeinusa (2006), The Forest (2002), White Nights on the Pier (2014), Year of the Nail (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
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Country: Portugal, Brazil, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Duration: 94 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 139 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: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
mexico, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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300
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot:
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Time:
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912
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
stylized, serious, realistic
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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224
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Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Duration: 128 min.
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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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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