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Itsi Bitsi (2014)
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Itsi Bitsi (2014)
Original name: Steppeulven
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 1962 is the year when an entire generation lives life as though it was their last day. Young activist Eik Skaløe has his entire life turned upside down when he falls head over heels in love with the beautiful peace activist Iben Nagel Rasmussen, and she falls in love with him. But Iben is a child of the times, and freely accepts the order of the day: free love and sex. She renounces personal right of ownership and will not settle for one man when she can have several. In typically romantic fashion, he begins a struggle to win all of her love. As a poet, writer and singer he constantly confesses his love to her. But Eik must accept defeat, and in 1968 he travels without his beloved Itsi Bitsi to Nepal, the Land of Dreams in the East. A journey from which he will never return.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexy
Plot: love triangle, dysfunctional relationship, music band, rebellion, fighting the system, love affair, ambition, musician's life, drug use, rock, love and romance, fall in love, artists and showbiz, male nudity, infidelity, musician, female nudity, suicide, menage a trois, skinny dipping, male pubic hair, music, friends, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, denmark

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about artists and showbiz, love and romance, musician's life, music, ambition, lifestyle and couples mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Itsi Bitsi: Scenes from the Goldmine (1987), Bandage (2010), Hearts of Fire (1987), Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do (2008), Amália (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hearts of Fire (1987)
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Duration: 105 min.
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Story: The Musical is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Ku Hye-sun, Choi Daniel, Park Ki-woong, Ock Joo-hyun and Kim Eun-se. It aired on SBS from September 2 to December 23, 2011 on Fridays at 22:00 for 15 episodes. Filming began in July ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Shout (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
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Audience: teens
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