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The Maids of Wilko (1979)
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Original name: Panny z Wilka
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
Style:
existential, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy ...
Plot:
reminiscence, renaissance, uncle nephew relationship, family relations, female nudity, passion, electricity, sister sister relationship, friendship, first love, death, birthday, immortality, jealousy, farm, nude girl, childhood friend, love letter, hopes, love and romance, couples, small town, haunted by the past, homecoming, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 20s
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and crying films with plots about couples, love and romance, death, husband wife relationship, love, nude and mother daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The Maids of Wilko: Vernie (2004), A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), Landscape After Battle (1970), The Birch Wood (1970), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style:
touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, family relations, best friend, terminal illness, pregnancy, tragic hero, couples, family problems, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Shortly after WWII an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in deep love. Eventually he will return to USA and both expect that she will soon follow him. Emilia's mother is sick but would recover by available medicine. ...
Style:
contemplative, depressing, gloomy, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, painter, widow, prostitute, language barrier, colonialism, foreign legion, legion, world war, wartime, love ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1984, 20th century, 1940s, year 1964 ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, arizona, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy ...
Style:
gloomy, touching, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, renaissance, holocaust survivor, world war, female nudity, nazi, male nudity, fascism, wartime, terrorism, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw poland
Similarity:
100%
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:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
boarding house, spinster, hotel, female nudity, desperation, piano, loneliness, psychopath, aging, mental disorder, nude girl, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1987, 1950s, 50s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, new york, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems and also becomes the lover ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, countryside, piano, magic realism, renaissance, woods, terminal illness, sibling relationship, comeback, life & death, village life, dealing with death ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe, switzerland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style:
costume drama, sexy, sexual, psychological, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
impossible love, love, new love, love triangle, letter, magic realism, power of love, epidemic, betrayal, multiple storylines, visceral, justice ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
colombia, latin america, caribbean, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, brother sister relationship, couples, self discovery, introspection, parents and children, fall in love, midlife crisis, love affair, thirtysomething life, family relations, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, argentina
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sexual attraction, blind character, blindness, infidelity, nudity, husband wife relationship, premarital sex, female nudity, adultery, bare breasts, blind man, dealing with death ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style:
captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, social differences, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, dishonesty, love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, oxford university, yale university, chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side. Despite his best efforts, he cannot find her under water. Many years later, Sam, now a ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, haunted by the past, mysterious character, hopes, youth, small town, rescue, death of father, accidental death, psychiatrist, drowning, lost love ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, family life, family problems, couples, hopes, couple relations, mental illness, family in crisis, haunted by the past, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, infidelity, betrayal, unfaithful husband, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, historical drama, costume drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
love triangle, colonialism, nobleman, post colonialism, flashback, prince, orgasm, scandal, british empire, jazz, interracial love relationship, indian woman ...
Time:
1920s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
india, asia, kashmir
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will come up, and will be ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, anthology, anamorphic ...
Plot:
striptease, aging, dysfunctional family, drinking, children, hospital, father daughter relationship, outdoor sex, skinny dipping, desire, summer, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
france, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, France, Netherlands
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, sentimental, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lovers reunited, love triangle, small town, love and romance, human nature, couples, crumbling marriage, introspection, couple relations, small town life, unfulfilled love, bittersweet ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
china, asia, shanghai
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Years have passed since Sophie (Wendy Crewson) left the ranch her family calls home to pursue her dream of becoming a singer. The death of her father means that Sophie, now 30, must return to the home she left behind so long ago. Once there, ...
Style:
contemplative, thought provoking, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cattle ranch, rodeo, nudity, small town, couples, farm, family relations, fish out of water, parents and children, infidelity, small town life, fall in love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
duchess, prostitute, love and romance, erotica, french president, lesbian lover, high society, nobility, valet, promiscuity, female nudity, brothel ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
true love, cancer, infidelity, family relations, hopes, betrayal, couples, danger, dishonesty, human nature, survival, terminal illness ...
Place:
poland, nova scotia, europe, holland, canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, melancholic, costume drama, intense ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, tragic hero, family life, hopes, village life, destructive relationship, dull life, love affair, husband wife relationship, adulterer, male female relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, turn of the century, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
normandy, france, europe, switzerland, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
Style:
touching, melancholic, sweet, sincere, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
countryside, citizenship, immigrant, prejudice, mail order bride, friendship, society, social issues, small town, farmer, wedding, fall in love ...
Time:
1920s, year 2005, 60s, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
minnesota, usa, germany, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Style:
romantic, road movie, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
true love, love, teacher, coming of age, funeral, loneliness, school, death, love story, grief, burial, asian history ...
Time:
year 1999, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cancer, chef, lost love, cancer patient, girl, love triangle, terminal illness, love, ex-lover, family relations, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád.
Style:
sexual, touching, atmospheric, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
magic realism, womanizer, haunted by the past, love and romance, couple relations, aging, unfulfillment, couples, snow, waiter, flowers, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1971, 1920s
Place:
europe, hungary, central europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, psychological, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
manipulation, friendship, depression, impossible love, multiple storylines, couple relations, infidelity, fall in love, relationships, art, women, passionate love ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 1996, turn of the century, 1870s ...
Place:
europe, england, sicily, florence, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Norway, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
retirement home, senior citizen, friends, on the road, boat, old age, yacht, conquering, nordic, ghost, friendship, old people ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, reykjavik iceland, iceland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for another of her legendary parties, she finds herself haunted by figures and scenes from her passionate adolescence.
Style:
talky, historical drama, touching, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, mental illness, gender, world war one, friendship, british, lesbian subtext, jazz, mental health, past, victorian england, lesbian love ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, 1890s, 19th century, edwardian era ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, india ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, coming of age, class differences, summer, love, literary, countryside, first love, curse, magician, country estate, man boy relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, 20th century, 1950s, year 1900 ...
Place:
england, america, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style:
melancholic, talky, emotional, ironic, meditative ...
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, drinking, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, complex characters, writers, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, couples, depression ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
france, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When exchanging letters two women discover new things about a deceased man they used to know.
Style:
romantic drama, anamorphic, art house, retro, independent film ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, time travel, mountain, postman, illness, hospital, funeral, cold, lost love, unrequited love, library, strong female character ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, hokkaido
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the ...
Style:
romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
inheritance, art, artist, destiny, love story, childhood, passion, literary, amor, fall in love, understanding, stranger ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 80s, 90s, 70s ...
Place:
new york, florida, usa, london
Similarity:
100%
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