Movies like Voices 1995
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Voices (1995)
252
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, reflective, intellectual, melancholic, art house, independent film
Plot:
classical music, biopic, introspection, creative process, isolation, piano, legacy, musician, composer, obsession, mental health, female nudity, male full rear nudity, female singer, gay couple, flashback, fistfight, wedding ring, nightclub singer, bare chested male, male pubic hair, music composer, concert hall, implied sex, facial bruise ...
Time:
edwardian era
Place:
london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, period piece and reflective films with plots about isolation, obsession, character study, biopic, identity, intimate and memory mostly in Drama, Music and History genres. Some movies like Voices: The Touch (1992), The Woman Inside (1981), The Birdwatcher (1988), Eroica (2003), Sound (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
330
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland, UK, Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, atmospheric, art house
Plot:
classical music, renaissance, composer, holocaust survivor, piano, love triangle, creative process, character study, trauma, musician, legacy, isolation ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Vietnam vet decides to undergo a sex change operation in the 1970's. Canadian / American production.
Style:
emotional, reflective, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
transgender, vietnam veteran, desire for fame, self discovery, identity crisis, social commentary, acceptance, mental health, introspection, alienation, isolation, family conflict ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
1926: While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After an emergency surgery, ...
Style:
detective, dramatic, silent, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
nurse, death, cemetery, hospital, deaf, mysterious death, flashback, hollywood, fame, biopic, life & death, police detective ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Estonia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young fanatic bird-watcher spends a summer on an islet in the Nortern-Sea with his assistant. Rough nature, hidden feelings.
Style:
atmospheric, reflective, melancholic, art house, independent film ...
Plot:
nature, island, summer, obsession, solitude, sea, isolation, introspection, loneliness, wildlife, man versus nature, character study ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
58%
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705
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, psychological, disturbing, period piece ...
Plot:
classical music, composer, beethoven, musician, art, musician's life, male female relationship, life, relationship problems, historical character, king, changing lives ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
57%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.
Style:
art house, thought provoking, serious, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
character study, obsession, creative process, isolation, alienation, realism, intimate, family conflict, identity crisis, mental health, slow burn, slice of life ...
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two dancers, once lovers, now go about their separate lives. Giovanni can't help reliving his first love via a collection of home videos. Louise, now a director, is projecting her bad memories on her production of Romeo and Juliet.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, reflective, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
dance, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, nostalgia, memory, lost love, introspection, relationships, intimate, bittersweet, separation, regret, flashback ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and at the center of this masterpiece lies a mystery that has endured for centuries. What are the ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, enigmatic, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot:
shakespeare, poetry, tudors, poet, countess, writers, literary, puzzle, research, secret, theater, young man ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a Nazi concentration camp for Jews during World War II, a metal box filled with documents is found. It ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
holocaust, concentration camp, uncover truth, self discovery, haunted by the past, identity, hidden truth, escapades, elderly, family relations, obsessive quest, lifesaver ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia, belgrade, europe
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of how Marlon Brando plucked Bernard Judge, an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architect from his stable existence and convinced him that he should build the world’s first ecologically perfect retreat on a tiny and uninhabitable ...
Style:
historical drama, satirical, dramatic, witty, philosophical ...
Plot:
hollywood, celebrity, charisma, film industry, biopic, idealism, character study, environmentalism, legacy, obsession, ambition, man versus nature ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 1950s
Place:
pacific ocean, los angeles, tahiti
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The relationship that blossomed between Diana, Princess of Wales, and Captain James Hewitt. Based on Hewitt's book.
Style:
sensitive, romantic drama, emotional, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
royalty, royal romance, scandal, british monarchy, biopic, affair, celebrity culture, media frenzy, british, infidelity, introspection, loneliness ...
Place:
london, britain, house of windsor
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, dramatic, art house, period drama
Plot:
composer, biopic, classical music, flashback, inspiration, nostalgia, melancholy, musical performance, orchestra, creative process, memory, violinist ...
Time:
turn of the century, 19th century
Place:
central europe, london
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
From World War, to revolution and ultimately rebirth, Forever Young is the story of four generations spanning a hundred years of modern Chinese history. Each generation faces its own unique set of challenges. Up against corporate corruption, the ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, period piece, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
coming of age, chinese history, cultural revolution, identity, legacy, bittersweet, moral dilemma, nostalgia, soul searching, resilience, memory, corruption ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A director decides to make a film about an old friend, musician, who died from drugs years ago and became known to the general public after his death. The present and the past confused in the mind of the director and the influences in his work.
Style:
captivating, melancholic, psychological, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
musician, autobiography, rock singer, producer, drug addiction, celebrity, death, grief, creative process, memory, flashback, loss ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece
Similarity:
45%
708
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
Style:
contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic, psychotronic
Plot:
female nudity, female pubic hair, sex, threesome, harassment, commune, free love, real estate, seduction, misfit, society, social misfits ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, intellectual, art house, period drama
Plot:
cold war, spy, desertion, cold war era, character study, intimate, biopic, identity, moral ambiguity, regret, isolation, political intrigue ...
Time:
60s
Place:
moscow russia, soviet union, london, ussr, russia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
suicide, memory, existential crisis, symbolism, loss, midlife crisis, self discovery, guilt, flashback, mature, regret, isolation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In the unforgiving shadows of sympathy, Ganesh Gangadharan, a paraplegic designer, wrestles with his inner demons, striving for a semblance of normalcy.
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, intense, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
disability, paraplegic, resilience, introspection, character study, healing, isolation, identity, redemption, empathy, grief, loss ...
Similarity:
40%
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185
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
Style:
independent film, art house, psychological, erotic, erotic drama ...
Plot:
role playing, love triangle, identity, sexual tension, character study, obsession, voyeurism, intimacy, sexual exploration, domestic drama, jealousy, transformation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london
Similarity:
39%
467
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. ...
Style:
reflective, contemplative, emotional, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, loneliness, scientist, family drama, professor, estrangement, introspection, reconciliation, family relations, parenting, empathy, aging ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Italy, Morocco, Qatar, Lebanon, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum. Through her ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, art house, intercultural, poignant ...
Plot:
biopic, female protagonist, patriarchy, iranian, female artist, gender roles, creative process, exile, resilience, feminism, female empowerment, identity ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Narcissus (from Greek Narkissos) shares the root nark-, with narcosis and narcotic. All these words have the same origin in the verb narkaō – to intoxicate through a strong smell. I was particularly interested to find out why a handsome and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, melancholic, art house, stylized ...
Plot:
cellist, introspection, greek mythology, vanity, self discovery, lifestyle, social problems, relationship vs career, obsession, self destructing, myth, character study ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
The dramatic story of a group of young people’s response to a desperate teen’s cry for help.
Style:
independent film, emotional, psychological, bleak, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
depression, teen suicide, mental health, teenage angst, isolation, coming of age, alienation, intimate, introspection, self harm, friendship, social realism ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
In and around America and the autumn of 1963. A man and his tools. A boy and his shoes.
Style:
independent film, reflective, art house, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
compassion, empathy, intimate, character study, isolation, small town life, minimalism, solitude, abandonment, trauma, autumn, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
america, massachusetts
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 396 min.
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Story:
The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. The book is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F. Scott and his Norwegian ...
Style:
historical drama, grim, bleak, period piece, reflective ...
Plot:
survival, expedition, wilderness survival, wilderness, rivalry, isolation, man versus nature, heroism, biopic, tragedy, leadership, character study ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
south pole, antarctica
Similarity:
33%
172
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to ...
Style:
independent film, disturbing, psychological, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
filmmaking, self discovery, director, actor, surrealism, creative process, lifestyle, social problems, life philosophy, filmmaker, existentialism, character study ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, period piece, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, domestic violence, murder trial, marital abuse, true crime, death sentence, biopic, family drama, empathy, social realism, moral ambiguity, poverty ...
Place:
canada, ontario canada
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The true story of seven 1960's call girls, taken straight from the accounts of a practicing Hollywood sex therapist.
Style:
period piece, bleak, art house, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
hollywood, exploitation, sex work, prostitution, intimate, biopic, urban, sex therapy, trauma, therapy, social commentary, empowerment ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Polish Psychological Drama
Style:
reflective, existential, philosophical, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, mortality, character study, memory, mountain, friendship, fear of death, male friendship, crisis of faith, nostalgia, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It s Christmas Eve in London, 1974 - and seven lonely people are on the town, looking to grab that elusive slice of enjoyment. So who better to contact than an escort agency- providing high-class ladies and gentlemen for anyone willing to pay the ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, erotic, comedy drama, sexploitation film
Plot:
loneliness, christmas eve, racism, prostitution, isolation, sex work, urban, multiple storylines, sex, nightlife, metropolis, rejection ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london
Similarity:
31%
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