Movies like Burnt by the Sun
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Burnt by the Sun (1994)
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Original name: Утомлённые солнцем
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Style:
touching, captivating, stylized, political, sad, emotional, gloomy, sexy, sentimental, light ...
Plot:
politics, communism, totalitarianism, stalinism, repression, symbolism, revolution, nkvd, world war two, redemption, family relations, love, tragedy, father daughter relationship, russian, friendship, war, parable, rise and fall, marriage, parents and children, catastrophe, world war one, relationships, death ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1936, 30s
Place:
russia, poland, ussr
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, dramatic and emotional films with plots about culture clash, runaway, catastrophe, mentor, storytelling, suprisingly clever and death mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Burnt by the Sun: The Barber of Siberia (1998), Prisoner of the Mountains (1996), Brothers (2004), The Shop on Main Street (1965), Land and Freedom (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, France, Italy, Czech Republic
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, fairy tale, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
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imperial russia, life, love story, destiny, exile, unfulfilled love, russian, soldier, love affair, love triangle, love and romance, self sacrifice ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
russia, siberia, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal ...
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pow, war, hostage, russian soldier, prison, violence, confined, soldier, captivity, islam, friendship, culture clash ...
Time:
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Place:
chechnya, russia, caucasus, poland
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A Danish officer, Michael (Thomsen), is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some ...
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emotional, tense, disturbing, serious, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courage, brutality, depression, politics, relationships, brothers, war, family problems, brother brother relationship, prisoner, family relations, military ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, california, tokyo, europe, denmark
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60%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in ...
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stylized, atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
wartime life, military, dishonesty, state affairs, life is a bitch, war, soldier, family relations, battles, father daughter relationship, survival, love ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1943
Place:
ussr, russia
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59%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the ...
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sincere, atmospheric, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, anti semitism, store, nazi, german, politics, fascism, jewish, rescue, against humanity, human nature ...
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1940s, year 1942
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slovakia, israel, eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
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The movie narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 1936 he decides to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an anti-fascist coalition of liberals, communists and ...
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Plot:
spanish civil war, revolution, politics, working class, communist, anarchist, trench warfare, anti war, civil war, world war two, worker, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
spain, catalonia, barcelona, europe, england
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ...
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emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, compassionate ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
spanish civil war, coming of age, friendship, civil war, children, teacher, fascism, childhood, depression, anarchist, family relations, countryside ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, latin america, europe, madrid ...
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58%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
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epic, family saga, sad, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
communism, chinese history, politics, cultural revolution, gambling, family relations, destiny, poverty, revolution, death, hospital, civil war ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
china, asia, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, USA, Taiwan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a ...
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Place:
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56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ingmar Bergman's psychological study of how humans react in a situation of war. The film takes place on Gotland, where invasion forces arrives.
Style:
psychological, art house, political, cerebral, biting ...
Plot:
existentialism, island, suspense, civil war, betrayal, politics, war, world war two, female nudity, dysfunctional family, time travel, art ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her ...
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political, realistic, atmospheric, sexy, bleak ...
Plot:
love affair, terrorist, politics, muslim, anti war, monk, violence, restaurant, transformation, sacrifice, wartime, war ...
Time:
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Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia, london, england, middle east ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, War
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Duration: 111 min.
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
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revolution, politics, children, communism, brutality, visceral, culture clash, beautiful scenery, marriage, civil war, childhood, character study ...
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china, california, tokyo, asia, japan
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 115 min.
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A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
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Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min.
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Story:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him
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Duration: 134 min.
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a ...
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