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The Theme (1979)
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Original name: Тема
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A self-pitying but popular playwright drives to Vladimir to relax with a doting female student and another writer. He's convinced his writing is of no lasting value, but he still has an ego, about his work and his masculine appeal. He's drawn to a museum guide he sees on his first afternoon.
Style:
intellectual, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, talky, contemplative
Plot:
playwright, emigration, dissident, love and romance, fall in love, fighting the system, society, lifestyle, writer's life, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, musician, police officer, writers, rock musician, poet, rock and roll, midlife crisis, car accident, father son relationship, male female relationship, anti semitism, husband wife relationship, friend, controversy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
russia, ussr, moscow russia, soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, love, society, fall in love and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Theme: Autumn Marathon (1979), Multiple Sarcasms (2010), The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), Two Days (2011), Ruben, Ruben (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Duration: 116 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A two days from the life of Pyotr Drozdov, a highly ranked official from Moscow, which he spends with young museum employee Masha.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental
Plot:
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russia, europe, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by Peter De Vries. Story of an alcoholic, lecherous Scottish poet on a tour of New England Universities, where he goes from one bed and bottle to another.
Style:
talky, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty ...
Plot:
obsession, alcohol abuse, writers, poet, self discovery, college, campus, university, power relations, college life, fall in love, artists and showbiz ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
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Style:
light, humorous, feel good, funny, talky ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 167 min.
Story:
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29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
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27%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks filmed almost entirely in creams, whites, and ochers, the clownish and superfluous Romano Patroni leaves his wife's ...
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Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 50 min.
Story:
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
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Story:
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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