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Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963)
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Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963)
Original name: Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A chamber drama about a widow and her son who live in an antique shop in Boulogne. The widow invites a man whom she loved twenty-two years earlier to visit. Her son is haunted by Muriel, a young woman whose death he may have caused while serving as a soldier in Algeria. As in Resnais' earlier films, memory is deflected, fragmented, enshrined, and imagined.
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, anthology, psychological, tense, atmospheric, thought provoking, clever, touching ...
Plot: colonialism, memory, algerian war, filmmaking, voyeurism, trauma, modernism, mother son relationship, widow, obsession, love and romance, life is a bitch, injustice, couples, tragic love, introspection, haunted by the past, homecoming, human nature, lovers reunited, dishonesty, hopes, unfulfillment, dealing with death, road not taken ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: france, algeria, europe
Keyword: algerian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and gloomy films with plots about unfulfillment, couples, love and romance, couple relations, introspection, family relations and hopes mostly in Drama, Mystery and Romance genres. Some movies like Muriel, or The Time of Return: Red Desert (1964), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), The Green Room (1978), Providence (1977), After the Rehearsal (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Red Desert (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: loneliness, factory, depression, fog, existentialism, society, ship, hypochondriac, extramarital affair, car accident, anxiety, minimal dialogue ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: europe, italy
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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychological, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Plot: hotel, surrealism, obsession, memory, amnesia, stream of consciousness, uncertainty, alternate reality, haunted by the past, hopes, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: france, europe
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The Green Room (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the Henry James short story "The Altar of the Dead", in which a man becomes obsessed with the many dead people in his life and builds a memorial to honor them. This film is also based on other short story by Henry James, "The ...
Style: spiritual, emotional, atmospheric, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: death, tragic love, memory, spirituality, love story, reporter, amor, trauma, dying and death, world war one, love and romance, investigation ...
Time: year 1978, 1920s
Place: france
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Providence (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking, emotional ...
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Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1977
Place: france
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After the Rehearsal (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: theater, art, relationships, actor, dialogue, crazy love, nordic, memory, dull life, couples, aging, actor's life ...
Time: year 1984, 80s
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Irene (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, danger, dealing with death, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, filmmaking, unfulfilled love, loss of loved one ...
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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 ...
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Place: france, europe
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Love Unto Death (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
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Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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Exit: A personal history (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man travels to Holland for an assisted suicide. The young man was convinced that this was his only way of ending an existence that he considered to lack any dignity.
Style: experimental, contemplative, atmospheric, surreal, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, human nature, dull life, unfulfillment, siblings relations, urban, death wish, dealing with death, sexual content, disability, human rights, urban setting ...
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Place: holland, italy, europe, amsterdam
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Plenty (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
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Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 1985, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: england, france, europe, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: serious, atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, mind bending ...
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Time: 60s
Place: europe, paris france, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
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Style: sincere, psychological, suspenseful, emotional, realistic ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min.
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Country: Greece, Italy, Germany, Russia, France
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