Movies like The Master and Margarita 2006

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The Master and Margarita (2006)
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The Master and Margarita (2006)
Original name: Мастер и Маргарита
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into the fire, before he is locked up in a mental clinic. His assistant and Muse Margarita tries to help Master using the supernatural powers she got from the devil - Woland who is visiting Moscow..
Style: surreal, captivating, suspenseful, mind bending, suspense
Plot: surveillance, manuscript, mysticism, mental institution, destiny, life & death, surrealism, life philosophy, buddies, twists and turns, justice, storytelling, brutality, greed, state affairs, couple relations, obsession, addiction, psychological manipulation, disorder, post soviet, love, writers, bare breasts, insanity ...
Time: 1930s
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, jerusalem, ussr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, psychological, serious and captivating films with plots about surrealism, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, love, death, supernatural and obsession mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Master and Margarita: Heavenly Judgement (2011), Butterfly Dreaming (2008), Land of Legends (2022), Field of Dogs (2014), Holy Motors (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Heavenly Judgement (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lawyers Andrew and Benjamin are friends who share a lot, but their work puts them on opposite sides. Their trials do not occur in this life but in the afterlife. They are members of the Sky Court deciding where a human soul should go after death- ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, sincere, thought provoking, melancholic
Plot: justice, life philosophy, redemption, dishonesty, buddies, friends, transformation, friendship, love and romance, family relations, couple relations, death ...
Place: soviet union
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The Master and Margaret (1972)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Master and Margaret (1972) is based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. The film is set in the Soviet Union under Stalin, it has several story-lines, that are intertwined. Maestro Nikolai Masoudov (Tognazzi), a talented writer, and his ...
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Time: 1920s
Place: russia, moscow russia
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Butterfly Dreaming (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what ...
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Duration: 130 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Land of Legends (2022)
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Country: Russia
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The history of the confrontation between two worlds: the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Ural Parma, the ancient Perm lands inhabited by pagans. Here heroes and ghosts, princes and shamans, Voguls and Muscovites will clash. At the center of the ...
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Plot: imperial russia, conquering, military, war, battles, russian history, witch, forbidden love, female nudity, love, magical, murder ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages
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Field of Dogs (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland, Italy, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A visionary romance based on a contemporary reading of Dante.
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Holy Motors (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
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The Master and Margarita (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 500 min.
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Story: The Master and Margarita is a Russian TV mini-series, based on the novel written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940.
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Time: 1930s, year 1935
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Split (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, ...
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35%
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Scarlet Sails (1961)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: romantic, scenic, sentimental, lyrical, fairy tale
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Time: 19th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
About Endlessness (2019)
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Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France
Duration: 78 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Trance (2006)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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