Movies like Heat 1963

If you like "Heat" you are looking for movies about / with working class, horse, school, water, fire, peasant and heat wave themes of Drama genre shot in Soviet Union or Kyrgyzstan.
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Heat (1963)
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Heat (1963)
Original name: Зной
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Larisa Shepitko's diploma film. An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.
Plot: working class, horse, school, water, fire, peasant, heat wave, community, tractor, generation, agriculture, farming, soviet, young, heat, female director
Place: ussr, soviet union

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Most similar movies to Heat

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out spiritual, touching, serious and poetic films with plots about soviet, spirituality, loneliness, underground, european, love and family relations mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Comedy genres. Some movies like Heat: The Criminal Shall Not Escape (1965), War and Peace: Part IV (1967), War and Peace: Part II (1965), The Asthenic Syndrome (1989), The Second Circle (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Criminal Shall Not Escape (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
Plot: police dog, human animal relationship, crime investigation, german shepherd, police, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the ...
Style: period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, soviet, novel
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
War and Peace: Part II (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, napoleon bonaparte, love, soldier, engagement, aristocrat, coming of age, soviet, young, ball
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style: spiritual
Plot: perestroika, spirituality, depression, loneliness, female nudity, male nudity, teacher, soviet, live action, film within a film
Time: year 1990
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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The Second Circle (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, spirit, european, existentialism, loss of father, death, snow, soviet, coffin
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The First Teacher (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Dyuishen is assigned to the mountainous Kirghiz region of Central Asia by the Young Communist League after he is discharged from the Red Army. It is 1923 and the Civil war has ended. The former soldier becomes a teacher, bringing the Leninist ...
Style: political
Plot: post soviet, reflection, world war one, nudity, child marriage, teacher, children, arranged marriage, river, bare breasts, sheep, communist ...
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Farewell (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.
Style: spiritual
Plot: spirituality, peasant, child, old woman, lake, island, tree, fog, tradition, mute, water, fire ...
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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You and Me (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A neurosurgeon returns back to the USSR from Sweden and has to deal with rejection - both at work and at home.
Plot: circus, ice hockey, surgeon, crisis of conscience, embassy, doctor, train, neurosurgeon, soviet
Place: soviet union, russia, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Wild Pigeon (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant ...
Audience: kids
Plot: pigeon, boy, teenager, escape, van, rocket, astronaut, bicycle, tattoo, memory, father son relationship, soviet ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Red Snowball Tree (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.
Style: ironic, disturbing, sentimental, thought provoking, touching ...
Plot: redemption, criminal, guilt, alienation, peasant, middle aged man, village, mother son relationship, family relations, couple relations, modernism, prison ...
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Flights in Dreams and in Reality (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young ...
Plot: middle aged man, midlife crisis, loser, love triangle, engineer, film set, train, car, railway, young girl, soviet, psychological drama
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Style: slow cinema, aesthetic, spiritual
Plot: stalinism, psychedelia, spy, underground, spirituality, police officer, interrogation, winter, chief of police, siege, suicide attempt, raid ...
Time: year 1985, 1930s
Place: soviet union, ussr, siberia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The film is Sokurov's feature film debut and is based on the novel The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov. It's a story about the lives of people in the Russian countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was completed in 1979 ...
Style: poetic, spiritual, contemplative, avant garde
Plot: mental disorder, spirituality, underground, moving, european, civil war, loneliness, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, soviet, archive footage
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Those People of the Nile (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers and workers, Egyptians and Soviets. Beginning with the day the waters of the Nile were diverted, Chahine shows how individual concerns sometimes outweigh the myth ...
Plot: engineering, marriage proposal, friendship between men, flashback, childhood memory, world war two veteran, working class, prostitute, women's rights, journalist, voice over narration, dam ...
Time: 60s
Place: soviet union, egypt, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Days of Eclipse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's ...
Style: poetic, spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, post apocalypse, european, spirituality, doctor, corpse, heat wave, soviet, black and white segues into color
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a ...
Style: art house, realistic, serious, spiritual, uplifting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: youth, friendship, childhood, self discovery, children, boy, spirituality, young adult, coming of age, minimalism, art, friends ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Collapse (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Plot: disaster, post apocalypse, survival, environmental issue, radioactivity, power plant, tragedy, evacuation, contamination, nuclear power, nuclear power plant, radiation sickness ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: ussr, soviet union, ukraine, chernobyl
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.
Style: art house, spiritual, contemplative, surreal, poetic ...
Plot: fortress, legends and myths, surrealism, camel, mythology, magic realism, folklore, spirituality, gay subtext, heroic mission, escapades, danger ...
Time: year 1985, middle ages
Place: georgia, ussr, caucasus, soviet union, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Nine Days of One Year (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: scientist, realism, moving, spirituality, science, romantic rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, nuclear, pessimism, physicist, optimism ...
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Monologue (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 115 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. ...
Plot: family relations, teenager, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, grandfather granddaughter relationship, scientist, loneliness, soviet
Time: 70s
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.0
 259
Private Life (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mikhail Ulyanov is the Bergmanesque protagonist of the Russian Private Life. A government-appointed factory executive, Ulyanov is reduced to quivering confusion when he is dismissed. Recovering from this blow, he decides to review and realign his ...
Plot: graduation, family relations, circus, pistol, husband wife relationship, son, secretary, loneliness, daughter, ex husband ex wife relationship, grandson, pension ...
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Wishing Tree (1976)
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 ...
Plot: mental disorder, tragedy, boy meets girl, male objectification, bare chested male, priest, love, christianity, soviet
Time: year 1977
Place: caucasus, soviet union, georgia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Don't Grieve (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Benjamin, the local doctor is a soul of a local society, the educated, friendly, democratic person who often treats the poor for free. It makes him very popular with the locals but most certainly does not help with his bank account. He is in love ...
Plot: european, duel, brother sister relationship, doctor, humiliation, dance, adoption, drunkenness, death, banquet, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, russia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Night Over Chile (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende. This film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, ...
Plot: military coup, dictatorship, dictator, capitalism, coup d'etat, operation condor, history of chile, soviet
Time: 70s, year 1973
Place: soviet union, chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Scarecrow (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, sincere, touching, spiritual ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, bullying, mockery, traumatic childhood, teenager, school, brutality, outcast, betrayal by friend, deception, first love, grandfather granddaughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.6
 2K
Wings (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Maya Bulgakova gives a marvelous performance as a once heroic Russian fighter pilot now living a quiet, disappointingly ordinary life as a school principal.
Style: art house, heartfelt, spiritual, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: midlife crisis, aviation, feminist, feminism, realism, spirituality, genocide, treasure hunt, great patriotic war, flashback, loneliness, school principal ...
Time: post world war two, year 1966, 20th century, 60s, 50s
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Good Bye, Southern City (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Azerbaijan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment ...
Plot: ethnic conflict, apartment building, gun
Place: azerbaijan, soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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A Long Goodbye (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grows up to become a teenager, she thinks that she can have some time for herself, so she responds to the courtship of Nikolai Sergeyevich. One summer, Sasha goes to ...
Plot: letter, cemetery, family relations, woman, bad father, concert, divorced parents, tram, absent father, coming of age, teenage boy, translator ...
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Byelorussia Station (1971)
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: sincere, touching, disturbing, thought provoking, smart
Audience: family outing
Plot: world war two, justice, friendship, society, life is a bitch, life & death, hopes, destiny, past, train station, train, soviet ...
Time: 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Detached Mission (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: CIA appointed US Army major Jack Hessalt to be in charge of a secret missile base in the Atlantic Ocean. Jack is still troubled by memories of Vietnam, and soon goes berserk, taking control of the base and killing some crew members. Jack and his ...
Plot: spy, cold war, army, superpower, gas, energy, technology, economics, soviet army, international relations, risk, soviet ...
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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