Movies like Les Misérables 1982

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Les Misérables (1982)
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Les Misérables (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 220 min.
Story: The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.
Style: fairy tale, sentimental, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, nostalgic
Plot: napoleonic era, revenge, manhunt, broadway, redemption, harassment, french revolution, mother love, promise, wrongful arrest, falsely accused, life is a bitch, fugitives, injustice, rivalry, hidden identity, haunted by the past, dishonesty, going straight, hopes, uninhibited rivalry, orphan, innocence, death of child, ex convict ...
Time: 19th century
Place: paris france, france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about hopes, life is a bitch, society, redemption, haunted by the past, family relations and parents and children mostly in Drama, History and Crime genres. Some movies like Les Misérables: Les Miserables (1978), Island (2011), The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003), A Simple Heart (2008), Man on Horseback (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Les Miserables (1978)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.
Style: fairy tale, social, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: french revolution, napoleonic era, peplum, broadway, revenge, catholic, historical event, redemption, tragic love, unrequited love, falsely accused, mother love ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Les Misérables (1995)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Style: epic, emotional, fairy tale, anthology, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, lawyer, redemption, destiny, revenge, rich and poor, christian, broadway, manhunt, nun, boxer, harassment ...
Place: france, paris france, normandy
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Les Misérables (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Style: touching, costume drama, sincere, dramatic, epic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: redemption, ex convict, freedom, going straight, rise to the top, hopes, revenge, prison escape, prisoner, prejudice, christian, parole ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1998, ancient times
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Island (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate ...
Style: serious, tense, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: island, undercover, hidden identity, family problems, life is a bitch, dishonesty, haunted by the past, feminist, loneliness, redemption, obsessive quest, orphan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel. At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his ...
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: haunted by the past, tragic hero, redemption, hidden truth, social relations, rise and fall, betrayal, society, family problems, victorian england, dishonesty, mayor ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, england
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A Simple Heart (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: servant, social differences, family relations, friendship, hopes, unfulfilled love, family life, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, france, normandy
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Man on Horseback (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: It's medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as payment for traveling through his land, promising to give it back when the fair ...
Style: tense, captivating, realistic, serious, stylized
Plot: medieval, revolution, righting the wronged, injustice, heroes, folk hero, criminal heroes, rebelliousness, rivalry, vengeance, rebellion, life is a bitch ...
Time: 16th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place: germany
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18%
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Cet amour-là (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Plot: destiny, wartime life, soldier, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, family relations, couples, culture clash, love affair ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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18%
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All Our Desires (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: injustice, society, legal investigation, legal, courtroom drama, hopes, legal action, life is a bitch, fighting the system, workplace, dishonesty, workplace situations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, lyon, europe
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18%
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Soda Springs (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Plot: small town, haunted by the past, redemption, starting over, family relations, hopes, going straight, lifestyle, homecoming, parents and children, social relations, christian ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Les Misérables (2000)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 400 min.
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Story: The scene is set during the French Restoration at the beginning of the 19th century. Jean Valjean, a galley slave who was sent to prison for stealing food, is now released after serving nineteen years. At first he only encounter mistrust and closed ...
Style: suspense, emotional, melancholic, serious, touching ...
Plot: redemption, justice, injustice, depression, mayor, on the run, thief, haunted by the past, ex convict, napoleonic era, revolution, manhunt ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1830s
Place: europe, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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To Life (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, auschwitz, human spirit, hopes, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, reunited friends, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Silas Marner (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
Style: historical drama, spiritual, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot: time machine, women, literary, asexual, village, rivalry, hopes, life is a bitch, orphan, society, legal action, redemption ...
Time: georgian era, 18th century, year 1985, 19th century
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18%
All Is Forgiven (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, redemption, teenager, parents and children, addiction, crumbling marriage, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
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18%
Jacquou the Rebel (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: young lovers, rivalry, haunted by the past, forbidden love, injustice, rebelliousness, rich and poor, love and romance, orphan, nobility, napoleonic era, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: france, europe
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Closed for Winter (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An emotional and poetic story of Elise, a beautiful young woman haunted by a tragic event in her youth. As Elise attempts to piece together the mystery of her sister's disappearance at the beach, twenty years before when both were children, she ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: missing child, self discovery, haunted by the past, hopes, sister sister relationship, journey, redemption, secret, friendship, society, liberation, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Snow in August (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Style: touching, atmospheric, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: youth, culture clash, friendship, racism, bittersweet, human spirit, life is a bitch, injustice, haunted by the past, gang, rabbi, anti semitism ...
Place: new york, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Three Dollars (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: couple relations, self discovery, family problems, couples, hopes, redemption, moral dilemma, family relations, love triangle, love, society, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: disfigured face, orphan, social differences, society, love and romance, rising to stardom, social misfits, haunted by the past, noble, disfigurement, blind girl, unfulfillment ...
Time: 17th century
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A Year in My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
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The High Cost of Living (2010)
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Country: Canada
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Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Audience: date night
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Place: canada
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Hide Away (2011)
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Duration: 88 min.
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Duration: 105 min.
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Style: gloomy, sincere, emotional, realistic, serious ...
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Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
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Captain Abu Raed (2007)
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