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Larks on a String (1969)
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Original name: Skřivánci na niti
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, intellectual, black comedy, dark comedy, banned
Plot:
peeping, nudity, female nudity, renaissance, bride and groom, nude girl, election, international relations, politics, satire, love of one's life, wedding, love and romance, prison life, isolation, love affair, society, mind control, re-education, confined, against the odds, against the rules, couple relations, love, musician ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 1950s, 40s
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, balkan, europe, prague, czechoslovakia, central europe ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about love and romance, female nudity, couples, society, nudity, nude and love mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Larks on a String: Closely Watched Trains (1966), Shortcuts (1981), Loves of a Blonde (1965), I Served the King of England (2006), Capricious Summer (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a small town still occupied by the Germans as World War II's tide is turning toward the Allies, apprentice train-watcher Milos is oblivious to the war. Instead, he is obsessed with having his first sexual experience. Despite the favors of ...
Style:
erotic, atmospheric, talky, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, satire, resistance, storytelling, stallion, politics, occupation, communism, village life, wartime life, partisan ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1966, 1930s
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, europe, czechoslovakia, prague ...
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
beer, renaissance, female nudity, nudity, provincial life, drinking, punishment, nude girl, modernism, family relations, small town, pregnancy ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1910s, pre world war one
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, central europe, czech republic
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and ...
Style:
art house, cynical, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
working class, one night stand, factory worker, boys and girls, blonde, female protagonist, love, female nudity, renaissance, small town, youth, satire ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe, czechoslovakia ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jan Dítě has been released from a Czech prison just before the very end of his 15-year sentence. Settling in a town near the border, he occupies his time with rebuilding a deserted house, and recalling his past. His main wish in life was to be a ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, semi serious, sentimental, artsy ...
Plot:
nazi, world war two, food, farce, idealism, adaptation, social differences, power relations, workplace, ambition, rise and fall, society ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, year 2006, 1940s ...
Place:
prague, balkan, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
circus, magic realism, renaissance, adultery, wine, young woman, magic, military officer, summer, bittersweet, friendship, rich and poor ...
Time:
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Place:
balkan, eastern europe, central europe
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39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally ...
Style:
anthology, avant garde, tragicomedy, fairy tale
Plot:
renaissance, surrealism, gypsy, motorcycle race, insurance agent, modernism, satire, fiancee, dark humor, pub, car, old man ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, prague, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life ...
Style:
cult classic, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
nude bathing, children, love, female nudity, death, marriage, nude girl, love story, sensuality, self fulfillment, family relations, fate ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, german democratic republic
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and bodies as they try to overcome the cultural and social divide between them.
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, eros ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
young lovers, fall in love, social differences, couples, society, beauty salon, provincial life, unrequited love, professor, love and romance, couple relations, nudity ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In this black comedy, the men in a lovely mansion slowly give in to a kind of terminal sloth after they are freed from the need to actually work. The father takes to his bed after his hernia acts up and never leaves it. Of his three sons, only one ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, allegory
Plot:
female nudity, employment, architecture, time travel, nude girl, greek, sex scene, nudity, father son relationship, sex, seduction, fondling ...
Place:
greece, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cheating wife, marriage proposal, society, couple relations, family relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, introspection, village, village life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
Style:
sexy, sexual, political, grindhouse, sex comedy ...
Plot:
sex, female nudity, bare breasts, seduction, nudity, small town, revolution, village life, political unrest, village, small town life, politics ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
Style:
parody, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
fall in love, coming of age, cold war, summer, domineering father, skinny dipping, grandfather grandson relationship, traumatic childhood, family relations, revolution, teenage life, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
year 1968, year 1984, 60s, 20th century
Place:
former yugoslavia, prague, balkan, europe, serbia ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but ...
Style:
clever, anthology, art house, contemplative, talky ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
female nudity, passion, love and romance, infidelity, crazy love, glamour, affair, illicit affair, marriage, love, love affair, desire ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of ...
Style:
sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
housekeeper, self discovery, midlife crisis, beach volleyball, father daughter relationship, human nature, love affair, starting over, couple relations, fall in love, police investigation, family drama ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, brittany, tokyo ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, experimental, avant garde, realistic ...
Plot:
communist, renaissance, communism, politics, exile, election, age-gap relationship, totalitarian regime, radical, revenge, adultery, hard labor ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1969, 50s, year 1949 ...
Place:
eastern europe, prague, central europe, czechoslovakia, europe ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Steve + Sky is a story about two struggling teenagers who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an ...
Style:
serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot:
love and romance, life is a bitch, love affair, fall in love, misfit, drug dealing, criminal heroes, pimp, prostitute, social misfits, lifestyle, society ...
Time:
year 2004
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The factories, pubs, clubs, hotels and streets of 1980s Liverpool form the backdrop for this tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Two Liverpool lasses, Teresa and Elaine meet two Russian sailors, Sergei ...
Style:
comedy drama, retro, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
cold war, one night stand, unemployment, iron curtain, love, letter, impossible love, sailor, working class, cold war era, hopes, state affairs ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
russia, england, liverpool, soviet union, europe ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A beautiful Russian ballerina falls in love with an American news correspondent. The KGB is most displeased and does everything it can to break them up.
Style:
anamorphic, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, kgb, reporter, correspondents, intrigue, ballerina, black market, jazz, couples, love affair, against the odds, fall in love ...
Place:
russia, ussr, moscow russia, soviet union
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot:
husband and wife, village life, mental retardation, provincial life, working class, marital infidelity, married woman, cheating on husband, magic realism, summer, couple relations, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
balkan, czech republic, czechoslovakia, eastern europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
One day, when Sabah least expects it, she falls in love with the wrong man. She's Muslim, he's not. Unbeknownst to her family, she goes on a whirlwind affair before both culture and love collide.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, islamic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, culture clash, interracial romance, love affair, social differences, couples, family problems, fall in love, society, muslim, male female relationship, family relations ...
Place:
middle east, canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by ...
Style:
cult classic, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
christmas, coming of age, renaissance, communism, boy, communist, occupation, domineering father, death, neighbor, mission, totalitarian regime ...
Time:
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Place:
czech republic, prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
honeymoon, closeted homosexual, newlyweds, couple relations, love and romance, social differences, couples, tour guide, crumbling marriage, society, on the road, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, goa india
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1925, Gabriela becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in a small Brazilian coastal town runs by the local colonels. Nacib becomes tired of Gabriela's uneducated ways, and annuls the marriage when he finds her in bed with ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, sex comedy, semi serious ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, nudity, bare breasts, female nudity, couples, social differences, love triangle, village life, love and romance, couple relations, bare butt, sexy woman ...
Time:
year 1983, 1920s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
latin america, brazil
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, holocaust, anti semitism, starting over, survival, human spirit, haunted by the past, love and romance, life is a bitch, couple relations, hopes, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946, post world war two
Place:
paris france, france, europe, canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, romantic drama, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love, public nudity, gay subtext, nudity, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, gays and lesbians, hotel, love triangle, love affair, couples ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
switzerland, europe, algeria
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, sex comedy, controversial ...
Plot:
sex addict, sensuality, making love, sex scene, dating, forbidden love, nudity, bachelor, female nudity, writers, relationships, nude girl ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Dana is young medical student with no self esteem, she can't deal with life, people and even not with herself. After her boyfriend leaves her, she changes to selfish woman, manipulating people and making them to serve her. She plays with her ...
Style:
surprise ending
Plot:
renaissance, asexual, father in law daughter in law relationship, family relations, egotism, opportunism, engagement, retribution, satire, mother in law daughter in law relationship, medical student, manipulation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Entropy is the semi-autobiographical film by director which tells the story of a young director struggling to make a film for a despotic studio while his life falls apart around him. Along the way, he goes on tour with U2 to help them make a music ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
true love, nudity, female nudity, filmmaking, passion, dating, marriage proposal, talking cat, model, wedding, pregnancy, fall in love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, las vegas, usa, europe, new york
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
true love, renaissance, forbidden love, love, erotica, betrayal, estate, love triangle, crumbling marriage, femme fatale, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Time:
19th century, year 1989
Place:
eastern europe, russia, germany, europe, venice
Similarity:
22%
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