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My House in Umbria (2003)
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My House in Umbria (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Emily Delahunty (Maggie Smith) is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
Style: sincere, sentimental, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, talky, gloomy
Plot: politics, orphan, life is a bitch, redemption, hopes, solace, estate, coldhearted, countryside, secret, terrorist, uncle niece relationship, garden, village, summer, railway, wildlife, childhood, landscape, mediterranean, small town, fishing village, ex military, writer's life, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: italy, europe, tuscany, pennsylvania, milan italy, idaho
Keyword: german, american, english, alias

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and touching films with plots about husband wife relationship, love and romance, mother daughter relationship, drinking, family relations, kiss and death mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like My House in Umbria: Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Amy Foster (1997), A Room with a View (1985), Ladies in Lavender (2004), The Way We Were (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: hotel, boarding house, spinster, female nudity, desperation, loneliness, piano, mental disorder, psychopath, aging, betrayal, bittersweet ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, america, texas ...
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Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Style: emotional, light, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, dancing, siblings relations, parents and children, family life, human nature, sibling relationship, love and romance, life is a bitch, sisters, brother sister relationship, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998, year 1936, 20th century
Place: ireland, africa, europe, england, spain
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Amy Foster (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for ...
Style: romantic, scenic, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: beautiful scenery, social differences, fall in love, human nature, sea, society, countryside, sea disaster, love, love story, chess, prejudice ...
Time: 19th century, year 1997, victorian era, 1880s
Place: cornwall, england, wales, europe, hamburg germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Room with a View (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once ...
Style: scenic, touching, period piece, atmospheric, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: self discovery, couples, hotel, travel, love, passion, female protagonist, fall in love, looking for love, piano, male nudity, happy ending ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, year 1985 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Ladies in Lavender (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, atmospheric, emotional, period piece ...
Plot: friendship, violinist, polish, sisters, sister sister relationship, human nature, village life, aging, foreigner, bittersweet, rivalry, painter ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, cornwall, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Way We Were (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s, pre world war two ...
Place: usa, new york, california, middle east, malibu california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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My Old Lady (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to ...
Style: emotional, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, happy ...
Plot: aging, elderly, culture clash, writers, family relations, disorder, society, parents and children, lie, adultery, suicide attempt, drinking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Style: sentimental, meditative, breathtaking, captivating, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, racism, culture clash, forbidden love, prejudice, justice, murder mystery, fisherman, betrayal, jury, courtroom ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: washington state, japan, asia, pearl harbor, fictional island ...
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The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund--his brother, widow, and younger mistress--so he can get ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, rough, tense ...
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Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: uruguay, south america, latin america, greece, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Human Stain (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: emotional, erotic, sexy, melancholic, talky ...
Plot: couples, haunted by the past, loneliness, redemption, character study, justice, brutality, tennis, self destructing, writers, hidden identity, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1944, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new england, massachusetts, new jersey, oxford university, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Possession (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. ...
Style: romantic, period piece, clever, realistic, serious ...
Plot: investigation, fall in love, writers, infidelity, opposites attract, uncover truth, lesbian, passion, love affair, couples, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
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Duration: 135 min.
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Style: emotional, artsy, romantic, philosophical, captivating ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 113 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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35%
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Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: period piece, emotional, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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34%
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Style: romantic, touching, realistic, sentimental, uplifting ...
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34%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Duration: 106 min.
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Style: enigmatic, psychological, serious, realistic, suspense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Other Man (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, romantic drama ...
Plot: adultery, infidelity, secret lover, betrayal, family problems, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, obsession, love triangle, husband wife relationship, loss of wife, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2008, future, 21st century
Place: england, milan italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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