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Meteora (2012)
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Original name: Μετέωρα
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In a monastery set on the top of sandstone pillars young monk Theodoros and nun Urania find themselves physically drawn to one and other after devoting their lives to the strict rituals and practises of the monasteries. Below them the eternal cycle of farm-life provides a strong contrast to their lives and they are forced to choose between human desire and spiritual devotion
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, mystical, light
Plot:
forbidden love, monastery, religions or cults, temptation, sex scene, nun, love affair, society, love, religion, sin, very little dialogue, moral dilemma, human nature, impossible love, underground, nihilism, amor, love and romance, jesus, female nudity, recluse, male nudity, bare breasts, blood ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
greece, balkan, europe
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Most similar movies to Meteora
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and captivating films with plots about love and romance, society, love affair, love, couples, fall in love and forbidden love mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Meteora: Letters of a Portuguese Nun (2014), Here Below (2012), Costas (1979), Silent Light (2007), Effi Briest (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An actress is about to play the part of Mariana Alcoforado, a young nun from the convent of Beja who was writing five letters to her French lover, the officer De Chamilly. The actress, being the perfect embodiment of Mariana, will drive us to a ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, emotional, independent film, realistic
Plot:
convent, love, actor's life, love affair, forbidden love, religions or cults, society, artists and showbiz, love and romance, filmmaking, religion, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
impossible love, nun, german occupation, love affair, wartime life, forbidden love, fall in love, clergy, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Drama directed by Paul Cox.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love affair, taxi, couples, society, misfit, politics, love and romance, journalism, immigrant, immigration, greek ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
australia, greece
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63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, erotic, slow cinema, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, passionate kiss, making love, fall in love, farmer, redemption, moral dilemma, religion, couples, regret, sin, human nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cheating wife, marriage proposal, society, couple relations, family relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, introspection, village, village life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany, berlin germany
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53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Athens - Greece - The age of Economic crisis Demetris is a highly independent man who lives a normal life. A confirmed bachelor at the age of 33! When a moment arrives, his choice at that point in time will change everything. His roommate is a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, mind blowing, breathtaking ...
Plot:
true love, couple relations, couples, serendipity, love and romance, female nudity, fall in love, political unrest, multiple outcomes, parallel story, third world, parallel universe ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France, Kyrgyzstan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral village in the Kyrghyz Mountains. He discovers soon after his arrival that he is a misfit in this ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot:
forbidden love, impossible love, true love, love affair, against the rules, rebellion, fall in love, society, hopes, couples, social relations, husband wife estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, impossible love, lovers reunited, couples, fall in love, tragic love, relationships, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, betrayal, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Brazil, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the Amazon, in 1912, and falls in love with pretty Yayá, a married woman.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, emotional, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, jungle, forbidden love, fish out of water, love affair, social differences, fall in love, society, love and romance, farm, woods, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
portugal, brazil
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, historical drama ...
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, rich and poor, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, class differences ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
love, sin, circus, society, fall in love, small town life, small town, social relations, human nature, pregnancy, beauty, theatrical troupe ...
Time:
50s, year 1992
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
30-year old Kertu has lived under her father's power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life - she send a ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, parents and children, unlikely couple, society, social misfits, village life, self discovery, family relations, drunkenness, summer, tourism, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Paris-Tehran. A rootless love story between Gecko, young and free, and Anahita, an Iranian woman in exile - tangled up in History and steeped in Internet, unique and spontaneous
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
internet, love affair, political unrest, opposites attract, society, immigrant, unlikely couple, computers and web, love, state affairs, misfit, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, middle east, paris france, iran, europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
Style:
emotional, inspirational, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
tragic love, love affair, sexual content, forbidden love, sex scene, husband and wife, illicit affair, caught cheating, nudity, love and romance, cheating wife, cuckolded husband ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
europe, switzerland
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, emotional, psychological, touching, romantic
Plot:
male nudity, young lovers, sex scene, beach, love, female nudity, dancing, flashback, love and romance, couple relations, love interest, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
cult classic, manga, romantic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, sensuality, attraction, desire, passion, girl, religion, first love, love, tragic love, priest in love, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, sexual, romantic drama, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love, public nudity, gay subtext, nudity, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, gays and lesbians, hotel, love triangle, love affair, couples ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
switzerland, europe, algeria
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, emotional, colorful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
infidelity, love, adultery, love triangle, love story, lovers reunited, coitus, passionate kiss, female pubic hair, tragedy, nude girl, couples ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe, france, paris france, new york ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France, Greece
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
sad, road movie, manga, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
incest, woman urinating, sex with father, older man younger woman relationship, woman peeing, older man younger woman romance, greek mythology, forbidden love, ship, father daughter incest, forbidden sex, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 50s, year 1938, 1950s ...
Place:
greece, europe, france, italy, new york ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Afghanistan, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
pregnancy, family relations, forbidden love, parents and children, society, life turned upside down, honor, student, love, rivalry, couples, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, USA, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couples, mail order bride, forbidden love, wedding, ship, fall in love, immigrant, love and romance, society, cruise, class differences, illicit affair ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
greece, new york, usa, ottoman empire
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Emmi would like to cancel her subscription to "Like" magazine via e-mail. But due to a typo, her messages land in Leo Leike’s inbox. When Emmi repeatedly sends mails to the wrong address, Leo decides to inform her of her mistake. This ...
Style:
realistic, romantic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love story, couple relations, romantic relationship, in love, love affair, love and romance, male female relationship, relationships, unhappy marriage, wedding ceremony, fall in love, introspection ...
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, hopes, love affair, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, breakup, family life, parents separation, couples, family problems, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Τwo sisters from the island of Andros, dubbed Little England because of its affluence, are both in love with the same man. Set in the Greek Civil War period and ending in the 1950s, the movie is based on the homonymous novel by Ioanna Karystiani.
Style:
touching, serious, stylized, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
love and romance, lovers apart, love triangle, sister sister relationship, infidelity, love, marriage, love story, skinny dipping, greek history, third world, adolescence ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, erotic drama, independent film ...
Plot:
passionate love, defloration, passionate sex, medieval, forbidden love, fall in love, love and romance, bare chested male, male pubic hair, temptation, courtesan, doomed love ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 12th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
37%
661
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, prison, gay relationship, gay interest, gender, lgbt, true love, vengeance, fall in love, love affair, twists and turns, gangster ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
36%
987
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Set against the gorgeous landscape of Armenia, Here chronicles a brief but intense relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer (Foster) and an expatriate photographer (Azabal) who impulsively decide to travel across the remote ...
Style:
surreal, captivating, realistic, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
sex scene, male female relationship, journey, self discovery, satellite, on the road, love affair, society, culture clash, wilderness, road trip, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
armenia, caucasus
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, love affair, couples, unfulfilled love, teenage life, hopes, society, friendship, male female relationship, looking for sex, youth, loss of virginity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
moral dilemma, self discovery, love affair, forbidden love, human nature, love and romance, musician's life, hopes, family relations, parents and children, immigrant, folklore ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, boston
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha.
Style:
philosophical, sexy, captivating, atmospheric, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
buddhism, monk, zen, self discovery, buddha, human nature, hopes, buddhist, buddhist monk, temptation, culture clash, social differences ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, tibet, himalaya, india
Similarity:
32%
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