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Springtime in a Small Town (2002)
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Springtime in a Small Town (2002)
Original name: 小城之春
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, France, Netherlands
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband.
Style: sentimental, thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, touching, contemplative, gloomy, crying
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, small town, love and romance, human nature, couples, introspection, unfulfilled love, crumbling marriage, lovers reunited, bittersweet, small town life, couple relations, sister in law sister in law relationship, society, unfulfillment, road not taken, dull life, love, dancing, game, train, food, medicine, friendship, death ...
Time: 1940s, 40s
Place: china, asia, shanghai, shanghai china
Keyword: chinese, reading, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, unfulfillment, husband wife relationship, couple relations, family relations and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Springtime in a Small Town: Late August, Early September (1998), The Maids of Wilko (1979), No Looking Back (1998), Cafe Setareh (2006), One More Kiss (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: hotel, boarding house, spinster, female nudity, desperation, loneliness, piano, mental disorder, psychopath, aging, betrayal, bittersweet ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, america, texas ...
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Late August, Early September (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style: talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Maids of Wilko (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with ...
Style: existential, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, uncle nephew relationship, female nudity, renaissance, first love, love letter, death, birthday, jealousy, childhood friend, friendship, farm ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
No Looking Back (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, working class, rock, old love, waitress, love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, family relations, couples, friends, social relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Cafe Setareh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fall in love, human nature, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, family problems, society, couples, bittersweet, cafe, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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35%
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One More Kiss (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cancer, chef, cancer patient, girl, terminal illness, love triangle, ex-lover, love, couples, family relations, family problems, last wish ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 125 min.
Story: China in the 1920s. After her father's death, 19 year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three wives already, each living in a separate house within the great castle, there is fierce competition for ...
Style: visually stunning, depressing, stylized, intense, realistic ...
Plot: intrigue, polygamy, feminism, jealousy, wealth, insanity, teenage girl, women, mistress, massage, feminist, tragic event ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: china, tibet, east asia, asia
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32%
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Three Times (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: There are three stories of women and men: in "A Time for Love" set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; "A Time for Freedom," set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer's ...
Style: anthology, thought provoking, touching, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: longing, love affair, tragic love, social differences, couples, fall in love, wartime life, love triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, time, minimalism, asian ...
Time: 60s, 1910s, 2000s, year 2005, 20th century ...
Place: taiwan, taipei, tokyo, shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, love triangle, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, fall in love, longing, train travel, infidelity, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, librarian ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Violets Are Blue... (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie (Spacek), a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up
Style: sentimental, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sailing, small town, high school, destiny, bittersweet, love, photojournalism, sea voyage, fall in love, family relations, photojournalist, friends ...
Time: year 1986, future
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Temptress Moon (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her ...
Style: stylized, captivating, suspenseful, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: secret lover, marriage, addiction, revenge, love, revolution, violence, murder, obsession, sex crime, blackmail, family relations ...
Time: 1920s, year 1996, 1910s, 20th century
Place: china, asia, shanghai
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32%
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Lost in Time (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, coping, couples, hopes, workplace, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The River (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, love and romance, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, hopes, introspection, gays and lesbians ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Only Thrill (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfaithfulness, widow, small town, hospital, bittersweet, family problems, social relations, couples, family relations, single parent, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1997, 60s, 90s, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, starting over, infidelity, love triangle, working class, breakup, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, human nature ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: washington state, seattle
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31%
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Tully (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, young lovers, womanizer, couples, family problems, youth, society, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000
Place: nebraska, england, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
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Nuts for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, talky ...
Plot: love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, political unrest, destiny, love and romance, state affairs, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Voyage (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's mourning for Antonio ends when Cesar steps in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, tragic love, last wish, love story, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, terminal illness ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1900s
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To the Wonder (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
Style: emotional, melancholic, philosophical, stylized, intense ...
Plot: love affair, crumbling marriage, marriage, love, love triangle, love story, couple relations, introspection, starting over, homecoming, extramarital affair, love and romance ...
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Place: europe, paris france, oklahoma, usa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Now & Forever (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Against a backdrop of clashing cultures, John Myron and Angela Wilson find each other and over the years form a powerful bond. One tragic night, John rescues Angela from a wicked act of betrayal. Faced with its aftermath, Angela flees town, unaware ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, woman in danger, love triangle, love affair, couples, love and romance, couple relations, infidelity, spirituality, betrayal, husband wife relationship, fight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
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30%
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Three Sisters (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Laurence Olivier's film of Chekhov's play.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough, touching ...
Plot: family problems, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, infidelity, small town, human nature, unfulfillment, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time: 1900s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Falling in Love Again (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style: sweet, romantic, melancholic, intense, light ...
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, self discovery, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place: usa, bronx new york city, new york
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30%
Lover's Concerto (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lee Ji-hwan receives photographs in the mail that reminds him of how he met two girls, Shim Su-in and Kim Gyeong-heui, one summer five years ago. He shares his memories with his friend Cheol-hyeon. He recalls initially being in love with Su-in, but ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, romantic, captivating ...
Plot: love story, love triangle, couples, friendship, friends, love and romance, romantic relationship, relationships, couple relations, love affair, terminal illness, lesbian ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Kiss Me Again (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, love affair, infidelity, couple relations, hopes, dishonesty, family life, breakup, parents separation, love and romance, crumbling marriage, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Devdas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated ...
Style: touching, emotional, weeping, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, love triangle, alcoholic, forbidden love, tragic love, prostitution, unrequited love, prostitute, drunkenness, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, hindu, death of protagonist ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: india, london, kolkata, europe, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Chinese Box (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Style: atmospheric, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: unrequited love, love, colonialism, culture clash, death, photography, couples, politics, journalism, basement, white man asian woman relationship, barmaid ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia, beijing china, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Gabrielle (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, clever, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, letter, adultery, couples, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, suffering, husband wife relationship, betrayal ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005
Place: france, paris france, europe
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29%
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Shadow Magic (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China, Germany, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot: culture clash, father daughter relationship, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, social differences, couple relations, love and romance, society, human nature, fish out of water, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 1900s, 1890s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Painted Veil (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story, couples, marriage, extramarital affair, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place: china, shanghai, africa, london, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Clara and Me (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot: couples, introspection, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, parents and children, midlife crisis, lovers reunited, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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