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Triangle (1967)
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Original name: Եռանկյունի
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.
Style:
poignant, historical drama, melancholic, period piece, sentimental
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, friendship, tragedy, memory, sacrifice, loss, nostalgia, brotherhood, working class, coming of age, mourning, heroism, patriotism, machismo, idealism, small town life, soldier, friend, town
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia, caucasus, soviet union, ussr
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, period piece, emotional and poignant films with plots about coming of age, loss, nostalgia, friendship, world war two, memory and tragedy mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like Triangle: Sour Grape (1974), Nahapet (1977), Hello, That's Me! (1966), The Song of the Old Days (1982), Forever Young (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, period piece, tension
Plot:
world war two, father son relationship, family drama, longing, waiting, grief, loss, child protagonist, trauma, sacrifice, hopes, family conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia
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100%
456
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, emotional, poignant, bleak ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, trauma, resilience, loss, grief, survival, symbolism, hopes, national identity, mourning, character study, rebirth ...
Time:
year 1915, 1910s
Place:
soviet union, armenia, ussr
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34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the ...
Style:
reflective, emotional, poignant, meditative, existential ...
Plot:
physicist, grief, post war, loss, memory, character study, war trauma, memories, nostalgia, mourning, loneliness, introspection ...
Place:
armenia, caucasus, moscow russia, russia, soviet union ...
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.
Style:
poignant, emotional, reflective, period piece, tragic
Plot:
theater, grief, mourning, loss, memory, melancholy, social realism, post war, solidarity, community, social commentary, intimate ...
Time:
80s
Place:
armenia, caucasus, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
29%
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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:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
Style:
bleak, poignant, tragic ending
Plot:
grief, loss, mourning, tragedy, guilt, rage, aging, family conflict, bittersweet, refugee, memory, nostalgia ...
Place:
armenia
Similarity:
27%
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:
disturbing, touching, sincere, thought provoking, poignant ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
friendship, world war two, memory, society, life is a bitch, destiny, life & death, justice, hopes, loss, nostalgia, social realism ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
Similarity:
27%
144
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, atmospheric, grim, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, loss of innocence, innocence lost, tragedy, social class, poverty, class struggle, injustice, alienation, intimate, bittersweet, tragic hero ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
armenia, poetic realism, caucasus, tbilisi, georgia
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A Mexican teen Lucas in a gray industrial town befriends co-worker Oscar. Oscar leaves, entrusting Lucas with treasures. Through photography, Lucas captures observed light, finding connection and solace.
Style:
melancholic, contemplative, art house, independent film, slow cinema
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, self discovery, working class, loneliness, photography, realism, introspection, intimate, memory, solitude, slow burn ...
Place:
mexico, poetic realism
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, this film shares with us a decade in the lives of Jimmie Lewallen and his wife Carrie as they experience the joys of love and marriage alongside the tragedies of war and poverty (1939-1949).
Style:
emotional, independent film, melancholic, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
auto racing, post war, perseverance, small town life, biopic, ambition, working class, coming of age, poverty, marriage, machismo, community ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
With his last breath Uu's friend entrusts him with the secret of how to go to the past. Uu is an engineer and doesn't believe in miracles, but the trick works. In the past there is a pleasant, eternal summer, long hair, girls and Jenkki ...
Style:
poignant, existential, sentimental, reflective
Plot:
travel, nostalgia, choice, youth, coming of age, melancholy, regret, loss, memory, aging, engineer, father son relationship ...
Similarity:
22%
306
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.
Style:
period piece, black and white, grim, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, retreat, sacrifice, loss, tragedy, survival, desperation, battlefield, wounded, trauma, anti war, realism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min.
Story:
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Style:
historical drama, period piece
Plot:
world war two, religion, working class, family drama, economic crisis, social realism, catholicism, poverty, depression era, sacrifice, illness, small town life ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Truck drivers traveling from Odessa to Tbilisi. The first one is an elderly man, this is his last trip before retirement. The second is a newcomer, who has sat behind the wheel for the first time... Different people meet on the way of the drivers, ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
journey, working class, teamwork, tradition, friendship, convoy, retirement, perseverance, slice of life, newcomer, bittersweet, nostalgia ...
Time:
70s
Place:
odessa ukraine, tbilisi, caucasus, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Style:
bleak, poignant, historical drama, reflective, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, persecution, world war two, jewish ghetto, anti semitism, mature, grief, loss, haunting, family tragedy, mother son relationship, witness ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, ukraine
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, poignant, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
childhood, tragedy, divorce, runaway, loss, child protagonist, family drama, grief, death of child, accident, symbolism, family conflict ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
post war, escape, survival, poverty, desperation, coming of age, loss of innocence, realism, childhood, adolescence, obsession, mafia ...
Place:
kazakhstan, ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Algeria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tunisia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995
Style:
semi autobiographical, melancholic, poetic, period piece, wistful
Plot:
home alone, imagination, coming of age, childhood, poverty, bittersweet, nostalgia, memory, immigration, self discovery, escape, working class ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Serdadu Kumbang are Indonesian drama movie which was released on June 16, 2011 to be directed by Ari Sihasale starring Yudi Miftahudin and Ririn Ekawati.
Style:
captivating, sincere, emotional, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, children, life, white horse, friends, horse, coping, kids and family, problem solving, family relations, duty, soldier ...
Similarity:
20%
134
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An emotional story of two brothers; the biography of Dr. Amarjit Singh, an Indian American immigrant who walked through The First Kashmir War as a child, forced from his home with his severely disabled brother and a family in fear for their lives.
Style:
historical drama, poignant, emotional, dramatic, heartfelt ...
Plot:
biopic, immigration, brothers, brotherhood, resilience, survival, perseverance, family drama, cleaning, sacrifice, loss, refugee ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
kashmir, india, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died of tuberculosis, Ilya, after robbing a merchant, committed suicide. And Pavel, who let the woman ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, emotional, dramatic, art house ...
Plot:
friendship, death, loss, tragedy, fate, suicide, regret, pain, desperation, brothel, guilt, fatalism ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France, Georgia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
At the times of World War II, accomplished painter and translator Aram flees Istanbul due to political offenses. When he is trapped at the USSR-Georgia borders, his flight turns into a remembrance of things past...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, historical drama, bleak, period piece ...
Plot:
memory, diaspora, identity, exile, nostalgia, ethnicity, reminiscence, border crossing, migration, world war two, political persecution, refugee ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, soviet union, turkey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, dramatic, period piece, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, friendship, loss of innocence, adolescence, first love, social change, bittersweet, identity crisis, small town, social commentary, provincial life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
transylvania, romania
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Drama - During World War II, a woman aboard a railroad car full of deportees slips French railway worker Julien (Jérôme Deschamps) a note with an address and a simple message: "I am alive, and I love you," and he decides to track down ...
Style:
poignant, historical drama, bleak, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
world war two, occupied france, courage, holocaust, nazi occupation, jewish family, deportation, rescue, loss, tragedy, sadness, diary ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the school and becomes a special friend to everyone.
Style:
tear jerker, emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "Zhivye i Myortvye".
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, realistic, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, red army, stalingrad, great patriotic war, soldier, sacrifice, military, siege, eastern front, battlefield, survival, brutality ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Albania, 1958. Luana, the daughter of a well respected man in the village, makes friends with Agim, who moved here after his family were banned from the city by the communists. Years later, their childhood friendship turns into teenage love, but ...
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, poignant, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family drama, female protagonist, political oppression, sacrifice, loneliness, patriarchy, gender roles, moral dilemma, arranged marriage, family honor, coming of age ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
albania
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst the striking scenery of the Essex salt marshes during the early years of WWII. A bearded ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, fairy tale, lyrical ...
Plot:
world war two, bird, coming of age, wildlife, wartime, literary, compassion, friendship, lighthouse, isolation, haunting, outcast ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, atmospheric
Plot:
small town life, character study, class conflict, arranged marriage, poverty, bittersweet, isolation, social realism, loneliness, young lovers, forbidden love, tragic romance ...
Time:
70s, year 1977
Place:
caucasus, soviet union, georgia, russia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In Chile, during the 60´s, the son of a poor single teenage girl turns out to be a gifted painter. The man to discover his talent is the owner of the drugstore that lies in the outskirts of the small rural town, next to the railroad. He himself is ...
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, captivating, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot:
painting, disappearance, coup d'etat, single mother, pharmacist, child prodigy, art, painter, art critic, social problems, life is a bitch, artists' life ...
Time:
60s, year 1973
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
19%
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