Movies like Transylvania
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Transylvania (2006)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left her without a word of explanation. When she finds him back, he brutally rejects her and Zingarina is terribly upset. She leaves her two companions and having become a wreck she hardly survives by following a wandering little girl. Her destiny changes for the best when she meets Tchangalo, a traveling trader...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
self discovery, obsessive quest, pregnancy, on the road, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, gypsy, travel, couples, infidelity, folk, nude, bear, train, female nudity, folk music, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, romania
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Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Music
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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220
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, single parent, obsessive quest, self discovery, coming of age, godparent ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
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realistic, touching, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Ireland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Duration: 100 min.
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Story:
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