Movies like The Mirror
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The Mirror (1975)
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Original name: Зеркало
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, surreal, art house, enigmatic, serious, philosophical, reflective, cerebral, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, childhood, surrealism, poetry, memory, dream, winter, stream of consciousness, mirror, levitation, russian, life & death, nature, loneliness, countryside, human nature, family life, divorce, fire, farm, old woman, minimal dialogue, relationships, obsession, art ...
Time:
year 1935, 1930s, 1940s, 60s, 20th century, 1960s, 30s
Place:
russia, ussr, tokyo, moscow russia, europe, spain, soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out meditative, thought provoking, talky and melancholic films with plots about existentialism, melancholy, loneliness, storytelling, art, life & death and childhood mostly in Drama, Biography and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Mirror: The Sacrifice (1986), Stalker (1979), Nostalgia (1983), Andrei Rublev (1966), Eternity and a Day (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
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insanity, existentialism, art, god, distopia, spirituality, religion, post apocalypse, catastrophe, hopes, human nature, save the world ...
Time:
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Place:
russia, vatican, ussr, sweden, europe
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
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Plot:
stalker, post apocalypse, distopia, human nature, surrealism, existentialism, wish come true, russian, society, escapades, future dystopia, religion ...
Time:
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Place:
ussr, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
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atmospheric, reflective, philosophical, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
philosophy, art, existentialism, dream, obsession, insanity, memory, writer's life, redemption, culture clash, poetry, runaway ...
Time:
80s, 18th century
Place:
russia, rome italy, ussr, europe, italy ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 205 min.
Story:
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses ...
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atmospheric, breathtaking, art house, epic, philosophical ...
Plot:
artist, painter, monk, art, human spirit, religion, hunger, christianity, saint, loneliness, god, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
russia, ussr, vatican, moscow russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
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thought provoking, road movie, art house, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
death, terminal illness, coming of age, art, writers, immigrants, destiny, greek, hospital, catastrophe, brutality, artist ...
Time:
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Place:
greece, tokyo, australia, japan
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, meditative, art house ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
orphan, world war two, war, courage, youth, man boy relationship, coming of age, childhood, boy, spy, children in wartime, death ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
russia, ussr, europe, berlin germany, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's suicide, caused by his discovery of her ...
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Plot:
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Place:
sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
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Plot:
schizophrenia, insanity, mental illness, religion, psychology, existentialism, dysfunctional family, mental disorder, island, writers, loneliness, suicide attempt ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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20%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, harsh, melancholic, talky ...
Plot:
german, existentialism, tragedy, crime gone awry, mentor, human nature, youth, misfit, isolation, village, art, education ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, europe, bavaria, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the ...
Style:
surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, allegory ...
Plot:
surrealism, magic realism, wilderness, cult, brainwashing, violence, catastrophe, art, artist, brutality, deadpan, death ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
germany, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, disturbing, art house, thought provoking ...
Plot:
childhood, ghost, christmas, children, emotional abuse, brother sister relationship, grief, coming of age, abusive stepfather, child abuse, domestic violence, christmas eve ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, turn of the century, 90s, 1910s
Place:
sweden, tokyo, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Style:
psychological, art house, emotional, philosophical, depressing ...
Plot:
existentialism, religion, suicide, winter, art, isolation, small town, priest, faith, loss of faith, midlife crisis, apocalypse ...
Time:
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Place:
sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
space, scientist, space travel, russian, space station, immortality, astronaut, dreams, space and aliens, loneliness, hallucination, insanity ...
Time:
70s, future, distant future
Place:
ussr, tokyo, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after a traveling projectionist screens a print of James Whale's 1931 "Frankenstein" for the village. The ...
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Plot:
childhood, coming of age, spanish civil war, children, surrealism, art, existentialism, imagination, magic realism, innocence lost, youth, civil war ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Style:
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. ...
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art house, cerebral, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
solitude, depression, isolation, insanity, island, psychology, female nudity, guilt, suicide, loneliness, life philosophy, art ...
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Place:
sweden, eastern europe
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18%
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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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 ...
Time:
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Place:
israel, sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe, tokyo
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
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art house, psychological, surreal, reflective, philosophical ...
Plot:
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20th century, 1930s, 60s
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rome italy, italy, vatican, europe, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, psychological, atmospheric, experimental ...
Plot:
hotel, surrealism, obsession, memory, uncertainty, stream of consciousness, alternate reality, amnesia, haunted by the past, dishonesty, hopes, destiny ...
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Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
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Story:
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surrealism, reincarnation, supernatural, jungle, ghost, loneliness, existentialism, magic realism, life philosophy, introspection, haunted by the past, farm ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
farm, existentialism, redemption, friendship, animals, death, destiny, artist, life philosophy, life & death, art, loneliness ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
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Plot:
disability, nurse, hospital, human spirit, french, paralysis, courage, coma, patient, death, life turned upside down, writers ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen ...
Style:
art house, sexual, cerebral, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Style:
bleak, emotional, art house, thought provoking, road movie ...
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teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
russian, coming of age, brother, survival, journey, children, parents and children, father son relationship, existentialism, death, childhood, character study ...
Time:
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Place:
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 196 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
family problems, divorce, midlife crisis, winter, art, snow, haunted by the past, social differences, human nature, couple relations, dull life, estrangement ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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art house, philosophical, intellectual, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, gunfight, pimp, lack of money, street prostitution, solitude, philosophy, existentialism, women, female nudity, artist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, rome italy, tokyo
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17%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman ...
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thought provoking, sad, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
disability, euthanasia, human spirit, death, existentialism, suicide, handicapped, lawyer, depression, character study, life & death, dignity ...
Time:
60s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
spain, europe, barcelona, galicia, catalonia
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