Movies like El Sur
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El Sur (1983)
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Original name: El sur
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The movie tells a melancholic story of a little girl who is living in a city in the north. She is fascinated by the secrets of the south which seem to be hidden in the personality of her father.
Style:
sad, art house, psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
coming of age, children, family relations, teenager, family problems, traumatic childhood, surrealism, magic realism, youth, parents and children, love and romance, haunted by the past, bittersweet, dishonesty, hopes, uncover truth, dancing, motorcycle, snow, doctor, restaurant, post war, father daughter relationship, memory, childhood ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about family relations, love and romance, youth, parents and children, coming of age, family problems and teenager mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like El Sur: The Shanghai Spell (2002), Genova (2008), Summer Games (2011), Love is the Word (2013), Once in a Lifetime (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 119 min.
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Place:
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Country: UK, Sweden, Cayman Islands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
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Duration: 96 min.
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After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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