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To Kill a Dragon (1988)
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To Kill a Dragon (1988)
Original name: Убить дракона
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 multiple personalities, ranging from a "dragon" to a "samurai" to a "Nazi", scare the hell out of all people, except Lancelot. Finally Dragon drops all his masks, to become the most dangerous of his incarnations - "himself". And the battle begins
Style: fairy tale, unusual plot structure, allegory
Plot: love, satire, social satire, fantasy life, european, libertine, village, female nudity, sword, fire, fisherman, power, philosophy, capture, freedom, male female relationship, sacrifice, honor, parable, disguise, dragon, medieval, soviet, explosion
Time: medieval times
Place: soviet union, ussr
Keyword: russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out fairy tale, spiritual, stylized and humorous films with plots about soviet, love, satire, magic, female nudity, friendship and surrealism mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like To Kill a Dragon: The House That Swift Built (1982), Ten (1971), Parade of the Planets (1984), An Ordinary Miracle (1979), Afonya (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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Ten (1971)
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: irony, satire
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Parade of the Planets (1984)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of four men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. The men first get together when called up for military maneuvers ...
Style: neorealism, allegory
Plot: surrealism, male nudity, female nudity, alternate reality, astronomer, journey, peace, skinny dipping, river, retirement home, meaning of life, male female relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union
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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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Afonya (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even ...
Style: funny, sincere, satirical, ironic
Plot: love, social satire, bribery, friendship, middle aged man, social relations, coworker relationship, social outcast, slacker, social misfits, communism, plumber ...
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
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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
Plot: mermaid, love, female nudity, women, inspiration, princess, mythology, sea, tragedy, grief, little mermaid, merman ...
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Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young ...
Plot: middle aged man, midlife crisis, loser, love triangle, engineer, film set, train, car, railway, young girl, soviet, psychological drama
Place: soviet union
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1967)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A fairytale based on Alexander Pushkin novel.
Style: fairy tale
Audience: kids
Plot: mythology, conspiracy, marriage, prince, letter, transformation, sister sister relationship, jealousy, false accusation, intrigue, merchant, mosquito ...
Place: soviet union, russia
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The Beautiful Girl (1969)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A movie transcends totalitarian realities of a post-war Soviet-occupied town to address the most important eternal questions faced by children and their parents alike: self-identity, value human relations, love, vulnerability of a human being, ...
Plot: dancing, smoking, girl, boy, mother, fisherman, children, dog, mother daughter relationship, little girl, dancehall girl, soviet ...
Place: lithuania, soviet union
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The Second Circle (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, spirit, european, existentialism, loss of father, death, snow, soviet, coffin
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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A Tale of Lost Times (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Four evil wizards succeeded to become young by using a time stolen from lazy kids. Now these kids who became seniors must act fast if they want to return to their real age.
Style: fairy tale, captivating, sincere, sentimental, light
Audience: kids
Plot: spell, redemption, obstacle, evil sorcerer, chase, justice, transformation, hopes, family relations, childhood, friendship, youth ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style: spiritual
Plot: perestroika, spirituality, depression, loneliness, female nudity, male nudity, teacher, soviet, live action, film within a film
Time: year 1990
Place: soviet union, ussr
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35%
The Fantastic Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Soviet television movie adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy novel "The Hobbit".
Plot: hobbit, lord of the rings, adaptation, quest, literary, wizard, dragon, sword and sorcery, dwarf, soviet
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Red Snowball Tree (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.
Style: ironic, disturbing, sentimental, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot: redemption, criminal, guilt, alienation, peasant, middle aged man, village, mother son relationship, family relations, couple relations, modernism, prison ...
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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35%
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Scarlet Sails (1961)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where ...
Style: romantic, scenic, sentimental, lyrical, fairy tale
Plot: sailboat, wedding, village, love, toys, mad woman, smoking, crazy, magician, musician, pneumonia, toy maker ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia, soviet union, ussr
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35%
Byelorussia Station (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.
Style: sincere, touching, disturbing, thought provoking, smart
Audience: family outing
Plot: world war two, justice, friendship, society, life is a bitch, life & death, hopes, destiny, past, train station, train, soviet ...
Time: 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia
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Snow dragon (2013)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fairy tale about a princess who is growing up without her mother. He father the king, a kind and righteous man, loves her dearly, but is determined to marry her off at all costs: no-one knows why he's in such a hurry. He organizes a grand ...
Style: fairy tale
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
Plot: police dog, human animal relationship, crime investigation, german shepherd, police, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
War and Peace: Part II (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, napoleon bonaparte, love, soldier, engagement, aristocrat, coming of age, soviet, young, ball
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The film is Sokurov's feature film debut and is based on the novel The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov. It's a story about the lives of people in the Russian countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was completed in 1979 ...
Style: poetic, spiritual, contemplative, avant garde
Plot: mental disorder, spirituality, underground, moving, european, civil war, loneliness, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, soviet, archive footage
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Nine Days of One Year (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: scientist, realism, moving, spirituality, science, romantic rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, nuclear, pessimism, physicist, optimism ...
Place: soviet union, ussr
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War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the ...
Style: period drama
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Place: ussr, soviet union
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Heat (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Larisa Shepitko's diploma film. An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.
Plot: working class, agriculture, school, fire, water, tractor, peasant, community, horse, heat wave, generation, soviet ...
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Don't Grieve (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love ...
Plot: european, duel, brother sister relationship, doctor, humiliation, dance, adoption, drunkenness, death, banquet, soviet
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After the Rain, on Thursday (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A palace steward conspires with bandits to kidnap an infant czar's son and an orphan adopted by the czar, replacing the prince with the steward's son. Two decades later the true prince and his foster brother are slaves in a quarry, the ...
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Baba Yaga (1973)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 74 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: fairy tale, folk tale, stylized, semi serious, absurd
Audience: family outing, preschool
Plot: witchcraft, wizards and magicians, witch, ancient, ancient world, slavic mythology, superhero, mythology, heroes, family relations, imaginary, escapades ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
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Audience: kids, teens
Plot: traumatic childhood, boy, orphanage, male nudity, corruption, school, nudity, communist propaganda, soviet, stockings, female stockinged legs
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Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking ...
Style: fairy tale, stylized, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: magical, magic, children, imaginary kingdom, imagination, alternate reality, good versus evil, transformation, save the kingdom, getting home, art, surrealism ...
Place: ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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