Movies like The Sacrifice

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The Sacrifice (1986)
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The Sacrifice (1986)
Original name: Offret
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, spiritual, slow cinema, contemplative, visual, cerebral, christian film, existential ...
Plot: insanity, existentialism, end of the world, spirituality, post apocalypse, distopia, god, art, philosophy, dialogue, religion, female nudity, hopes, father, save the world, society, redemption, human nature, dream, sacrifice, witch, time travel, epidemic, mental disorder, schizophrenia ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: ussr, soviet union, europe, russia
Keyword: russian, sweden, doctors

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Most similar movies to The Sacrifice

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, contemplative, art house and philosophical films with plots about existentialism, spirituality, human nature, time travel, hopes, european and art mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Biography genres. Some movies like The Sacrifice: Nostalgia (1983), Mirror (1975), Taste of Cherry (1997), Stalker (1979), Distant (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nostalgia (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, cerebral, contemplative ...
Plot: art, existentialism, philosophy, dream, poetry, storytelling, obsession, great ending, memory, redemption, writer's life, culture clash ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, rome italy, europe ...
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Mirror (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, avant garde, art house, serious ...
Plot: world war two, childhood, surrealism, poetry, memory, dream, winter, stream of consciousness, mirror, minimal dialogue, woods, levitation ...
Time: year 1935, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, moscow russia, europe ...
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Taste of Cherry (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take ...
Style: art house, contemplative, independent film, road movie, spiritual ...
Plot: suicide, existentialism, soldier, muslim, death, desert, dialogue, iranian, depression, spirituality, hard life, art ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
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100%
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Stalker (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: stalker, distopia, human nature, post apocalypse, trippy, dystopian future, surrealism, wish come true, dog, society, post apocalyptic, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 1979, distant future, near future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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100%
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Distant (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Uzak/Distant chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf, but the mingling of their lives does little ...
Style: sincere, bleak, art house, lyrical, stylized ...
Plot: loneliness, unemployment, midlife crisis, isolation, art, complex characters, family relations, culture clash, photography, love and romance, introspection, existentialism ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, turkey, maghreb, balkan, istanbul turkey
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100%
Eternity and a Day (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
Style: slow cinema, road movie, philosophical, art house, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, immigrant, coming of age, art, dialogue, storytelling, writers, destiny, hospital, greek, refugee, journey ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 1910s
Place: greece
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100%
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The Island (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the ...
Style: philosophical, psychological, cerebral, spiritual, breathtaking ...
Plot: christian, religion, redemption, forgiveness, loneliness, island, monk, life philosophy, solitude, monastery, church, philosophy ...
Time: 2000s, future
Place: russia, soviet union
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100%
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The Return (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Style: bleak, art house, road movie, atmospheric, cerebral ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, brother, journey, survival, children, parents and children, father son relationship, existentialism, wilderness, childhood, on the road, character study ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
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100%
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The Apostle (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.
Style: biblical, spiritual, independent film, talky, realistic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: christian, religion, preacher, redemption, jesus, small town, radio, clergy, spirit, coma, country, church ...
Time: year 1997, 1930s, 20th century
Place: texas, louisiana, midwest, usa
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100%
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, anthology, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot: surrealism, dream, artist, tunnel, art, magic realism, nuclear disaster, environmentalism, beautiful scenery, philosophy, fantasy world, painting ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 20th century
Place: japan, mount fuji, asia, pacific ocean
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The Turin Horse (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, slow cinema, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: horse, poverty, survival, minimalism, nihilism, desperation, destiny, everyday life, family relations, human nature, philosopher, isolation ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, distant future
Place: turin italy, europe
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100%
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style: disturbing, philosophical, art house, visual, surreal ...
Plot: childhood, ghost, christmas, children, coming of age, grief, brother sister relationship, child abuse, christmas eve, abusive stepfather, marriage as hell, boy ...
Time: turn of the century, year 1982, 20th century, victorian era, 1910s ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Winter Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Aydin, a retired actor, owns a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla, who is coping with her recent divorce. During the winter, snow covers the ground and boredom brings the return of old memories, pushing ...
Style: philosophical, art house, meditative, independent film, lyrical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, divorce, family problems, winter, art, storytelling, snow, social differences, haunted by the past, couple relations, dull life, estrangement ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: middle east, maghreb, cappadocia turkey, turkey
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100%
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 min.
Story: In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style: disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, psychological ...
Plot: sex, husband wife relationship, love, tragic love, marriage, disability, love story, self sacrifice, small town, psychology, sex with a stranger, paralysis ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Autumn Sonata (1978)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional ...
Style: art house, depressing, emotional, philosophical, sincere ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, autumn, child neglect, mother daughter estrangement, pianist, reconciliation, classical music, family relations, bad mother, existentialism, women ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Winter Light (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Style: philosophical, psychological, depressing, art house, black and white ...
Plot: religion, existentialism, suicide, priest, winter, faith, midlife crisis, spirituality, great ending, philosophy, art, small town ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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33%
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, art house, black and white, serious ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, religion, insanity, psychology, existentialism, dysfunctional family, nordic, mental disorder, illness, spirituality, island ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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30%
Cries & Whispers (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's suicide, caused by his discovery of her ...
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, serious, psychological ...
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, maid, art, family relations, nordic, women, dialogue, obsession, existentialism, sisters, visceral ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century, turn of the century, 90s, 1900s
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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Solaris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, scientist, space travel, space and aliens, dream, metaphysics, space station, space, astronaut, loneliness, insanity, science ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, future, distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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28%
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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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27%
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Melancholia (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, psychological, surreal, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: depression, end of the world, wedding, human nature, sister sister relationship, apocalypse, nihilism, collision, disaster, dysfunctional family, suicide, trippy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
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25%
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Shame (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Ingmar Bergman's psychological study of how humans react in a situation of war. The film takes place on Gotland, where invasion forces arrives.
Style: psychological, art house, political, cerebral, biting ...
Plot: existentialism, dialogue, island, nordic, civil war, war, betrayal, politics, european, world war two, female nudity, modernism ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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25%
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
Style: depressing, art house, cerebral, black and white, philosophical ...
Plot: farm, parable, existentialism, cruelty, minimalism, redemption, friendship, european, spirit, swing, spirituality, drinking ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, europe
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25%
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Wings of Desire (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, meditative, lyrical, cerebral ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, immortality, dream, circus, love, existentialism, philosophy, mortality, library, loneliness, love story, visceral ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, east germany, europe
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The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In this French tour-de-force a young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around ...
Style: art house, experimental, existential, contemplative, surreal ...
Plot: existentialism, nihilism, depression, introspection, loneliness, alienation, time travel, social outcast, daily life, trauma, lsd, minimalism ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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24%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Andrei Rublev (1966)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 205 min.
Story: An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses ...
Style: atmospheric, breathtaking, art house, black and white, philosophical ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artist, painter, religion, art, biopic, monk, human spirit, medieval, painting, christianity, hunger, art history ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century, medieval times, year 1966, ancient times ...
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr, moscow russia
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24%
The Devil, Probably (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In order to be technically free of the mortal sin of suicide, a young man who has given up on the world pays a drug-addict to shoot him. Charles (Antoine Monnier), who is a student, has tried political action and investigated the claims of religion ...
Style: spiritual, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, anthology ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide, loser, religion, female nudity, minimalism, existentialism, post war, spirituality, spirit, entertainment, betrayal, angry ...
Time: year 1977, 70s
Place: france, paris france, ussr, soviet union, mediterranean sea
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24%
Time of the Wolf (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style: disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, intense, apocalyptic ...
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, society, end of the world, post apocalyptic, brutality, catastrophe, survival, chaos, danger, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, year 2003
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24%
My Life to Live (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Style: art house, philosophical, intellectual, black and white, visual ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, gunfight, pimp, street prostitution, shootout, lack of money, women, european, great ending, solitude, existentialism ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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24%
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