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Sons & Lovers (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be struggling with nearly a century later. Human relationships remain as fragile as ever, and the only constant in life seems to be a humbling sense of uncertainty. Sarah Lancashire stars in a drama detailing the anguish of first love, and the awkward confusion of first sex.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, romantic, period drama
Plot:
female nudity, skinny dipping, family relations, self discovery, parents and children, love and romance, couples, dysfunctional family, family problems, family in crisis, writer's life, crumbling marriage, death in the family, unfulfillment, sex, nude model, male pubic hair, dealing with death, miner, male nudity, pubic hair, female full frontal nudity, sleeping nude, romance
Time:
edwardian era
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about family problems, couples, family relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage and parents and children mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Sons & Lovers: Alexander the Last (2009), With or Without You (1999), Women in Love (1969), A Village Affair (1995), The Magnificent Ambersons (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 93 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 131 min.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sensual, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
1900s, 19th century, edwardian era, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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27%
603
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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25%
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Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
25%
121
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Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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437
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
712
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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419
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Norway, Iceland
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany
Similarity:
23%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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725
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, Canada, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, gloomy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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