Movies like Melodies of a White Night

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Melodies of a White Night (1977)
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Melodies of a White Night (1977)
Original name: Мелодии белой ночи
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.
Plot: love, pianist, composer, homeland, train conductor, death of husband, concert
Place: soviet union, japan, ussr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out spiritual, period drama, period piece and historical drama films with plots about love, soviet, husband wife relationship, concert, train, snow and teenager mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Melodies of a White Night: Gulag Barashevo (2015), The Wishing Tree (1976), Gulag Vorkuta (2016), Dreams of Love - Liszt (1970), Flight of a Bird (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gulag Barashevo (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Artists, Poets, Writers, Musicians, and Dissidents, Husbands and Wives, in the Marxist USSR GULAG camps of Barashevo and Vorkuta, suffer in and survive their Gulag death camps. It is a ultimately a spiritual struggle.
Style: spiritual
Plot: marxist, artist, love, genocide, humanity, courage, freedom, dissident, gulag
Place: soviet union, ussr
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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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Gulag Vorkuta (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two dissidents, fall in love in a Marxist USSR Gulag death camp. As their friends die, they commit to the seeming impossible, escape, but both must first answer their deepest moral questions about the meaning of life, sacrifice and freedom.
Plot: landscape, marxist, gulag, dissident, faith, marxism, christian, genocide, communism, love, artist
Place: soviet union, ussr
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Dreams of Love - Liszt (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 171 min.
Story: This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess ...
Style: period piece
Plot: composer, musician, biopic, male female relationship, jealousy, adultery, love, concert, piano, passion, pianist
Time: 19th century
Place: soviet union, paris france, russia, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Flight of a Bird (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Polyot Ptitsy has been given the gift of seeing his deceased brother, but when a new love interest is in trouble he must choose between saving a life or continuing to see his brother everyday.
Plot: love, husband wife relationship, marriage, destiny, actress, cameraman, poet, observatory, unfaithful wife, adultery, photograph, journalist ...
Time: 1930s
Place: soviet union
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A Long Goodbye (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grows up to become a teenager, she thinks that she can have some time for herself, so she responds to the courtship of Nikolai Sergeyevich. One summer, Sasha goes to ...
Plot: letter, cemetery, family relations, woman, bad father, concert, divorced parents, tram, absent father, coming of age, teenage boy, translator ...
Place: soviet union, russia
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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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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Savely and Lelya are leading a quiet peaceful life in a forest reserve, in a small village with a mineral spring, where Savely brought his seriously ill wife. The seemingly routine life can not hide deep and tender love that came a bit too late...
Plot: spring, village, husband wife relationship, husband, wife, son, death of husband, illness
Place: soviet union
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Light in the Window (1960)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 72 min.
Plot: love, husband, wife, welding
Place: soviet union
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Lecture 21 (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
Plot: singing, lecture, composer, classical music, student, snow, concert, symphony
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
Plot: police dog, human animal relationship, crime investigation, german shepherd, police, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr
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First Trip, Last Trip (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Plot: truck driver, trip
Place: soviet union, odessa ukraine, tbilisi
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Ataka (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Young lieutenant arrives to tank regiment stationed in the Central Asia. He uses unusual for Soviet Army methods to train his soldiers. It predictably leads to tensions with superiors and subordinates. However later it pays back during live ...
Plot: soviet army, tank, military life, military officer, camel, military uniform
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Men and Beasts (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: East Germany, Soviet Union
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Plot: capitalism, concentration camp, corruption, mother daughter relationship, red army, nazism, car accident, road trip, family relations, past, nazi, daughter ...
Time: 1940s
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We, the Undersigned (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
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Plot: politics, construction, industry, construction worker, train, committee, pantyhose, taking off shoes, female stockinged legs
Place: soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min.
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Country: Soviet Union
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