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Sparrow (1993)
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Original name: Storia di una capinera
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she finds a difficult situation, in fact her stepmother and her half-sisters prevent Maria to live the normal life of a teenager. In their minds Maria is the promised "bride of God" and a regular life for her is inappropriate. Nino, her handsome neighbor, falls in love for Maria who isn't indifferent to him. But when Maria comes back to her convent the way to become nun is compelled. Now Maria can understand Sister Agata, and realizes she became mad cause a lost and impossible love like the one between Maria and Nino.
Style:
erotic, sensual, historical drama, bleak, melancholic, poignant, period piece, atmospheric, art house
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cholera, nun, forbidden love, female protagonist, unrequited love, tragedy, young love, coming of age, religious conflict, forbidden romance, isolation, sacrifice, madness, literary, domestic drama, religion, convent, love, dog, student, volcano, love triangle, priest, catholic church, catholic ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, victorian
Place:
sicily
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out historical drama, period piece, melancholic and art house films with plots about isolation, female nudity, forbidden love, coming of age, female protagonist, psychological drama and character study mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Sparrow: The Young Nun (1964), The Castro's Abbess (1974), Havlandet (1985), The Albanian Virgin (2021), Libido (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The life of Antonio suddenly changes when she meets Serena, a young nun who took the veil to escape the hard life of the country and has chosen the provision of assistance to the sick to get out of the convent, which falls in love, moving from the ...
Style:
religious drama, romantic drama, emotional, period piece, psychological ...
Plot:
female protagonist, forbidden romance, convent, seduction, character study, ethical dilemma, sacrifice, bittersweet, intimate, identity crisis, redemption, switching roles ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, dark drama, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the ...
Style:
historical drama, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
northern lights, poverty, survival, hunger, man versus nature, snowstorm, winter, isolation, tragedy, rescue, blizzard, infant ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Albania, 1958. Luana, the daughter of a well respected man in the village, makes friends with Agim, who moved here after his family were banned from the city by the communists. Years later, their childhood friendship turns into teenage love, but ...
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, poignant, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family drama, female protagonist, political oppression, sacrifice, loneliness, patriarchy, gender roles, moral dilemma, arranged marriage, family honor, coming of age ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
albania
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of ...
Style:
anthology, erotic, dramatic, controversial, period piece ...
Plot:
adultery, jealousy, sexuality, forbidden love, infidelity, social commentary, religious conflict, loss of innocence, moral dilemma, gender roles, literary, intimate ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, ...
Style:
religious drama, suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
nun, trance, convent, mother superior, abbess, religious, religious conversion, character study, spirituality, religious fundamentalism, religion and supernatural, belief in god ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working the streets of Paris during the 1880s.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, art house, period drama
Plot:
prostitution, desperation, downfall, madness, tragedy, sexual repression, female protagonist, mental illness, isolation, gender roles, alienation, street life ...
Time:
1880s, victorian era, 19th century, 1870s, 1860s
Place:
paris france
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113
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
Style:
religious drama, bleak, art house, intense, period drama
Plot:
nun, convent, catholicism, religion, children, female protagonist, moral dilemma, young girl, catholic church, identity crisis, coming of age, sacrifice ...
Place:
denmark
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20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
Style:
sensual, sexual, art house, historical drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
nun, lesbian, catholic, convent, religion, lgbt, monastery, monk, nunsploitation, unrequited love, impossible love, bible ...
Time:
18th century, year 1966
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Gallura, the mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – historically documented – is causing bloodshed in the region. Bastiano Tansu, a deaf-mute since birth, is one of its protagonists. Mistreated and marginalized since his ...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, gloomy, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
family feud, feud, male nudity, mute, vendetta, murder, hostility, love, family tragedy, family relations, large family, enemy ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, male female relationship, writers, female protagonist, alcoholism, marital strife, character study, man-woman relation, family problems, social problems, family life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
romantic drama, historical romance, poignant, tragic ending, poetic ...
Plot:
obsession, love triangle, unrequited love, sensuality, literary, forbidden love, female writer, aristocracy, gender roles, class differences, mature, seduction ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and Tammy Grimes.
Style:
religious drama, emotional, atmospheric, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
nun, convent, priest, small town, character study, moral ambiguity, false accusation, scandal, investigation, working class, poverty, isolation ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s, year 1979
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
THE RIVER WITH NO BRIDGE begins in 1908 and tells the story of a widow, Fude HATANAKA and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, who live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are continuously harassed by ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, art house, melancholic, saga ...
Plot:
social injustice, prejudice, racial discrimination, poverty, bullying, small town, family drama, harassment, class struggle, oppression, coming of age, brotherhood ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, atmospheric, melancholic, historical drama, period drama
Plot:
priest, love triangle, forbidden love, moral dilemma, seduction, temptation, passion, island, mystery woman, religious conflict, moral ambiguity, isolation ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 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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Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Serbia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, romantic, emotional, historical drama, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
true love, passion, female protagonist, young woman, bittersweet, tragic romance, longing, lost love, intimate, forbidden love, unrequited love, memory ...
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Nunsploitation from Japan. Part of the Shûdôjo series.
Style:
controversial, dark, intense, erotic drama, sensual ...
Plot:
sexploitation, convent, nun, female protagonist, hypocrisy, religion, sin, sexual repression, moral ambiguity, repression, temptation, female sexuality ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, atmospheric
Plot:
small town life, character study, class conflict, arranged marriage, poverty, bittersweet, isolation, social realism, loneliness, young lovers, forbidden love, tragic romance ...
Time:
70s, year 1977
Place:
caucasus, soviet union, georgia, russia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Story:
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Style:
period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
forbidden love, napoleonic wars, love triangle, relationship problems, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, family life, relationships, male female relationship, social problems, love story ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century
Similarity:
18%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
nun, nunsploitation, evil nun, catholic church, celibacy, biopic, forbidden love, scandal, tragedy, trial, murder, female protagonist ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, bleak, melancholic, period piece, grim ...
Plot:
survival, hunger, starvation, poverty, fatherhood, desperation, loss, grief, trauma, social injustice, moral ambiguity, mental breakdown ...
Time:
1840s, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 303 min.
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Story:
Phillip Pirrip, known as Pip, meets a convict or two in a graveyard and sets into motion a series of events that lead him from a comfortable life in his brother-in-law's forge to a mysterious inheritance and his acquaintance with the eerie Miss ...
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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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
Style:
religious drama, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
faith, abbess, sacrifice, introspection, commitment, spiritual journey, character study, monk, loss, identity crisis, platonic, celibacy ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
religious drama, melancholic, bleak, poignant, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, art house, ambiguous ending, avant garde
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, tension, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female nudity, accusation, gestapo, jealousy, love, political persecution, political oppression, victimization, totalitarianism, nazi germany, forbidden love, social injustice ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his ...
Style:
costume drama, reflective, melancholic, bleak, art house
Plot:
greed, father daughter relationship, literary, family secret, french countryside, hypocrisy, isolation, intimate, banker, loss of father, death of mother, cousin ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s
Place:
france
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Set in 1945 at the end of World War II. Saku arrives on Kakeromajima as the head of navy special forces. He is admired by the children on the island and he is interested in learning the island song as well as drinking with his men. Toe is an ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, poignant, period piece, art house
Plot:
world war two, love affair, romantic relationship, love interest, relationships, love story, tragic love, wartime, male female relationship, couple relations, wartime life, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
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