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Expectations (1997)
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Original name: Svenska hjältar
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A recently separated ladies' magazine reporter, a young couple who are in love, an unfaithful but jealous crane driver, a longing father and his unknowing daughter, the home coming fisherman's son who seeks reconciliation with his parents, the farmer who thirsts for tenderness. We meet them all in Svenska hjältar, a modern saga about the chipped heroes of everyday life.
Plot:
train, birthday, parents, young love, amusement park, mining, cottage, divorced divorcee, parent
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out contemplative, captivating, queer cinema and anthology films with plots about train, teenager, birthday, female nudity, coming of age, parents and young love mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Expectations: Glass Labyrinth (1989), Blue Jeans (1977), The Birthday (2000), Sicily! (1999), Family Romance, LLC (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three heavily drunk friends break into the Zoo and kill a few deer...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
First love and the fickleness of adolescence is the theme in this charming drama. The story follows a pretty blonde French youth who is sent with his classmates to an English seaside resort for the summer to study English. It is there that he first ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to Catti, his girlfriend of many years. But Catti has other plans ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener.
Plot:
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Place:
italy, sicily
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, ...
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Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned ...
Plot:
orphan, young love, female nudity, rain, train, dancing, ocean liner, monkey, steam train, elephant, statutory rape, night ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Johan has three children with different women. Two adult daughters: Sophie and Virginie, and a young son in Amsterdam. Loïc gave Johan diamonds of a criminal origin. Her husband Simon thought they were his and murdered her. Then he set out his hunt ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An unusually hot summer. Fourteen year-old Wanda moves with her family from Berlin to Switzerland. Everything will be better here. The move is meant to heal the open wounds of the family. Anna, the mother, has lost her self-confidence due to an ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three short stories about women & men relationship.
Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of two 12-year-old boys, the sexual revolution arrives in a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, sexy, surprise ending
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
sexual revolution, child's point of view, marriage crisis, infidelity, coming of age, friendship, birthday party, husband wife relationship, camping, strained relationship, teenager, birthday ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of ...
Style:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set in the north of Argentina. Yolanda, a young girl of Wichi origin, tells in her native language (Wichi Lhämtes), the story of how, as a family maid in a "criollo" home, she has her hair unjustly cut: this is her most particular trait, ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
Plot:
feminist, female friendship, feminism, women's liberation, self fulfillment, lesbian, women's rights, marriage, love, divorced divorcee
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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In and around America and the autumn of 1963. A man and his tools. A boy and his shoes.
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
At the heart of the plot - the erroneous message about the death of Varvara Antonovna gathers around her son, daughter-in-law and grandson. They feel a sense of deep guilt, so carelessly treating a loved one for a number of years
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
children, young love, lgbt, coming of age, boyhood, male nudity, first love, homoeroticism, cooking, cruelty, blond boy, child murder ...
Place:
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Country: Finland, Sweden
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Story:
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Duration: 270 min.
Story:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather.
Plot:
traumatic childhood, aggression, teenage girl, village, loneliness, old man, parents, destiny
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK, Japan, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A veteran civil servant and bureaucratic cog in the rebuilding of Britain post-WWII, Williams expertly pushes paperwork around a government office only to reckon with his existence when he’s diagnosed with a fatal illness.
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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