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Ten (1971)
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Ten (1971)
Original name: Тень
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Musical tale about a struggle between a good Scientist and his evil Shadow.
Style: allegory, fairy tale
Plot: satire, irony, female director

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out fairy tale, humorous, allegory and captivating films with plots about satire, love, soviet, surrealism, princess, husband wife relationship and prince mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Ten: To Kill a Dragon (1988), A Very Old Story (1968), Leaving (2011), The House That Swift Built (1982), An Ordinary Miracle (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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To Kill a Dragon (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: West Germany, Soviet Union
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's ...
Style: fairy tale, unusual plot structure, allegory
Plot: european, fantasy life, love, satire, social satire, libertine, fisherman, parable, honor, power, philosophy, capture ...
Time: medieval times
Place: soviet union, ussr
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Ten (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Philosophic fairy tale about kind modest man whose shadow one day leaves him only to come alive and become his sinister treacherous antagonist.
Style: allegory
Plot: satire, irony
Place: ussr
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A Very Old Story (1968)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen.
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, humorous, sweet, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: happy ending, princess, escapades, king, magic, imagination, boy, magical, soviet, taking off shoes, female stockinged legs, pantyhose
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Leaving (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A bitter sweet comedy that follows a highly appointed Chancellor who set to step down from his position after years of service to his country. With just two last days left to enjoy his palatial villa before he is finally evicted, his situation ...
Style: allegory
Plot: butler, garden, journalist, husband wife relationship, absurdism, secretary, politician, retirement, chancellor, satire, politics
Place: central europe
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Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Once upon a time there lived a Tsar named Yeremey who went on a year-long journey to take inventory of all he owned. One day he is kidnapped by the underwater Tsar Chudo-Yudo. When a ransom is demanded, the Tsar's family is faced with all kinds ...
Style: fairy tale, folk tale, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: mythology, daughter, replacement, metamorphosis, czar, puzzle, gluttony, witch, transformation, love, princess, prince ...
Time: medieval times
Place: soviet union, russia
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The House That Swift Built (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min.
Story: An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism.
Style: fairy tale
Plot: fantasy life, love, immortality, satire, philosophy, judge, surrealism, castle, immortal, soviet
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An Ordinary Miracle (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. ...
Style: stylized, humorous, entertaining, touching, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: love, spell, bear, fantasy life, wizard, royal court, husband wife relationship, satire, magic, irony, princess, hunter ...
Place: russia
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King Thrushbeard (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: King Thrushbeard
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 128 min.
Story: Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
Plot: shakespeare, literary, morality, generosity, coin, tragic event, beggar, misanthrope, satire, shakespeare play
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Rhinoceros (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Originally an absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceroses. These are not ordinary rhinoceroses, but people who have been victims of "rhinoceritis." Or is it something else entirely? ...
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
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21%
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Kral Ubu (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of the dead to his royal post, is presented with a touch of the grotesque where naive comic elements ...
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The Little Mermaid (1976)
Genre: Family, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely ...
Style: fairy tale, dark, psychotronic, beautiful
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Christmas Carole (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 66 min.
Story: Carole Mackay is an unashamedly outspoken and wealthy entrepreneur. Her online business selling all things festive has earned her a fortune, as well as the nickname 'Christmas Carole'. But her success hasn't made her a better human ...
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The White Snake (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Endres wants to be more than just a farmer's son. He wants to be able to read and write, wear clothes without holes and sleep in a proper bed. He goes to the court of the King, who is said to be the cleverest man in the land. Endres becomes his ...
Style: fairy tale, colorful, captivating, exciting
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The Feather Fairy (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed ...
Style: fairy tale, beautiful
Audience: kids
Plot: surrealism, wolf, snow, renaissance, death, witch, prophecy, stepmother, boy, death sentence, flying, brothers grimm ...
Place: balkan, eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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Christmas Bedtime Stories (2022)
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Story: When Danielle’s husband goes missing in action during his deployment, she is left to raise her daughter on her own. Three years later, as she acclimates to life without him, she begins to tell her daughter bedtime stories of her father.
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No Such Thing (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tells the story of Beatrice (Sarah Polley), a tabloid journalist whose fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. She ends up falling in love with the monster in the end. The monster is immortal, but longs to die. Beatrice helps him achieve this by ...
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Country: Soviet Union
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
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Country: Australia
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Duration: 109 min.
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