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The Maids of Wilko (1979)
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The Maids of Wilko (1979)
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: family relations, uncle nephew relationship, female nudity, friendship, first love, death, birthday, jealousy, farm, renaissance, childhood friend, love letter, hopes, sister sister relationship, love and romance, couples, small town, haunted by the past, homecoming, unfulfillment, dog, dancing, horse, wolf, lawyer ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 20s
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
Keyword: french, stable, strawberry

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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, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship and singing mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The Maids of Wilko: A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), The Birch Wood (1970), Landscape After Battle (1970), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Clara and Me (2004). 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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A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 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, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, wartime, colonialism, legion, foreign legion, world war, renaissance, love, painter, prostitute, widow ...
Time: year 1984, post world war two, year 1946, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland, arizona ...
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The Birch Wood (1970)
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, gloomy, sexual, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, countryside, piano, renaissance, magic realism, woods, terminal illness, sibling relationship, village life, comeback, life & death, family life ...
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, switzerland
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Landscape After Battle (1970)
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: contemplative, bleak, gloomy, touching, serious ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, world war, female nudity, nazi, fascism, terrorism, wartime, nazi concentration camp, renaissance, survival, concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, warsaw poland
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
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: psychological, sexy, romantic, costume drama, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: impossible love, new love, love, letter, magic realism, unlikely friendships, betrayal, multiple storylines, justice, visceral, epidemic, diary ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
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Clara and Me (2004)
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: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot: couples, introspection, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, parents and children, midlife crisis, lovers reunited, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, paris france
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Sinbad (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
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: touching, emotional, gloomy, atmospheric, sexual ...
Plot: magic realism, womanizer, haunted by the past, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, aging, couple relations, church, memory, food, snow ...
Time: year 1971, 1920s
Place: hungary, europe
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The Heart of Me (2002)
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, touching, emotional, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfaithful husband, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place: london, england, europe
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Heat and Dust (1983)
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, jazz, indian woman, british empire, extramarital affair, self discovery, interracial relations, prince, flashback, orgasm, scandal ...
Time: 1920s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place: india, asia, kashmir
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Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
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: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, mindfuck ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, haunted by the past, mysterious character, hopes, youth, small town, rescue, accidental death, death of father, psychiatrist, drowning, hypnosis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne
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The Great Gatsby (2000)
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, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, social differences, dishonesty, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, yale university, oxford university, chicago
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After the Deluge (2003)
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: realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, touching ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, family life, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, family in crisis, mental illness, haunted by the past, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland
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Cactus (1986)
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: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: blind character, blindness, infidelity, nudity, blind man, husband wife relationship, premarital sex, sexual attraction, adultery, extramarital affair, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, paris france
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Vernie (2004)
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, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, friendship, best friend, pregnancy, terminal illness, tragic hero, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
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Getting Married in Buffalo Jump (1990)
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, serious, realistic, thought provoking, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: nudity, small town, rodeo, cattle ranch, small town life, infidelity, parents and children, fish out of water, moral dilemma, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: canada
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Julie Walking Home (2002)
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: psychological, realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: cheating wife, true love, cancer, infidelity, hopes, betrayal, family relations, human nature, danger, survival, dishonesty, couples ...
Place: poland, nova scotia, holland, europe, canada
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My Favorite Season (1993)
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, psychological, anthology, erotic, anamorphic ...
Plot: aging, drinking, dysfunctional family, children, father daughter relationship, hospital, memory, christmas, sex scene, sensuality, making love, summer ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: france
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The Road Home (1999)
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: emotional, romantic, road movie, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: true love, love, love story, death, teacher, coming of age, winter, first love, village life, loneliness, snow, school ...
Time: year 1999, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: china, asia
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Springtime in a Small Town (2002)
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: love triangle, small town, human nature, love and romance, couples, couple relations, introspection, crumbling marriage, lovers reunited, small town life, unfulfilled love, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s
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Swann in Love (1984)
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: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: duchess, love and romance, erotica, sensuality, lovers, fantomas, star crossed lovers, jealousy, obsession, prostitute, french president, couple relations ...
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Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
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Great Expectations (1998)
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, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
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Madame Bovary (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, sexy, costume drama, intense ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, literature, family life, tragic hero, village life, life is a bitch, village, love affair, hopes, destructive relationship ...
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The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
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: psychological, period piece, costume drama, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, depression, multiple storylines, couple relations, fall in love, infidelity, relationships, art, women, male female relationship, unhappy marriage, impossible love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1996, 1870s
Place: europe, england, florence, london, italy ...
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One More Kiss (1999)
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, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
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Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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Sweet Land (2005)
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, stylized, sweet, sincere ...
Plot: citizenship, countryside, immigrant, prejudice, friendship, mail order bride, society, social issues, small town, farmer, wedding, fall in love ...
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The Go-Between (1971)
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, literary, love, first love, landscape, children, cricket, new love, trippy ...
Time: victorian era, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: england, america, europe
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Mrs Dalloway (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
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, contemplative, gloomy, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, mental illness, gender, friendship, british, world war one, jazz, mental health, past, lesbian love, lgbt, women ...
Time: victorian era, 20th century, year 1997, edwardian era, 1920s ...
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Children of Nature (1991)
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, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: senior citizen, friends, on the road, boat, old age, yacht, nordic, conquering, retirement home, ghost, friendship, bittersweet ...
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Late August, Early September (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france
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Love Letter (1995)
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, independent film, anamorphic, retro, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, time travel, strong female character, asian, slice of life, loneliness, love story, erotica, asian prostitute, friendship, high school, mountain ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, hokkaido
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