Movies like The Magic Mountain
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The Magic Mountain (1982)
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Original name: Der Zauberberg
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
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Style:
philosophical, art house, surreal, period drama, pre war
Plot:
sanitarium, tuberculosis, mountain, isolation, literary, existential crisis, existentialism, melancholy, mortality, symbolism, world war one, love triangle, death, totalitarianism, humanism, coming of age, friendship, obsession, nostalgia, decadence, young man, psychology, quarantine, literature, high society ...
Time:
1910s, pre world war one
Place:
swiss alps, alps
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, existential, melancholic and atmospheric films with plots about isolation, literary, death, psychological drama, symbolism, nostalgia and obsession mostly in Drama, Comedy and War genres. Some movies like The Magic Mountain: Time of Indifference (1964), Sentimental Education (1998), The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981), Wheel of Ashes (1968), How Far, How Near (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
Style:
art house, dread, black and white, period drama
Plot:
love triangle, betrayal, high society, romantic rivalry, jealousy, adultery, seduction, tragic romance, decadence, manipulation, literary, social satire ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, France, UK
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The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the hollowness of his glamorous lifestyle, leading to self discovery and ultimately a personal catharsis (and ...
Style:
art house, psychological, poetic, neo noir, moody
Plot:
fashion industry, death, self discovery, fashion, shallowness, glamour, literary, alienation, tragedy, character study, luxury, introspection ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france
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80%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home, her husband tells her that a certain countess has died. At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the ...
Style:
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Plot:
suicide, female protagonist, mental illness, depression, ambiguity, children, hallucination, psychiatric hospital, death, schizophrenia, uncertainty, obsession ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After being heralded by Jean-Luc Godard as the great hope of the New American Cinema, Peter Emanuel Goldman relocated to Paris just in time for 1968. Social dissolution permeates WHEEL OF ASHES, a stripped-down account of a young man's ...
Style:
existential, avant garde, art film, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
existential crisis, alienation, introspection, religion, hallucination, surrealism, symbolism, isolation, a vision, psychological torment, male protagonist, urban ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.
Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
suicide, memory, existential crisis, symbolism, loss, midlife crisis, self discovery, guilt, flashback, mature, regret, isolation ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillot of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
Style:
philosophical, art house, meditative, intellectual, experimental ...
Plot:
literary, symbolism, minimalism, mythology, sacrifice, voice over narration, isolation, ritual, time machine, prophecy, utopia, communism ...
Place:
ancient greece
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ever since I started making films it has bothered me in a certain sense that film images are far too concrete, because technically they try to imitate the sense of space characteristic of everyday life. So the story ignites the imagination only to ...
Style:
experimental, existential, philosophical, slow cinema, avant garde ...
Plot:
death, plague, cemetery, mourning, symbolism, isolation, alienation, minimalism, haunting, adaptation, literary, obsession ...
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48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.
Style:
atmospheric, art house, independent film, period drama, moody
Plot:
magician, jewish culture, stage magic, european, theater, character study, ambition, obsession, moral ambiguity, midlife crisis, existential crisis, melancholy ...
Time:
year 1979, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, suspense, sinister, tense ...
Plot:
renaissance, snow, winter, mountain, alienation, isolation, obsession, symbolism, character study, slow burn, tourist, suspicion ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. ...
Style:
existential, philosophical, contemplative, art house, crying ...
Plot:
regret, reflection, memory, monologue, aging, identity, isolation, melancholy, solitude, theater, minimalism, intimate ...
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, sinister, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
nude bathing, class conflict, children, death, affair, infidelity, loss of innocence, family tragedy, bourgeoisie, aristocracy, castle, country house ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Style:
thought provoking, art house, dark comedy, tragicomedy, avant garde ...
Plot:
renaissance, identity crisis, literary, surrealism, satire, coming of age, loss of innocence, alienation, isolation, existentialism, teacher, boarding school ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
warsaw poland, eastern europe, poland
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Shashi, an urbane doctor, returns to his native village, a place seemingly mired in a backward way of life, for a short visit. As he becomes closely involved with the villagers, Shashi’s short stay threatens to become permanent.
Style:
art house, melancholic
Plot:
village, social realism, identity crisis, humanism, alienation, homecoming, nostalgia, moral ambiguity, symbolism, ethical dilemma, class conflict, literary ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Luka Banjanin is an unemployed young man living with his parents in Belgrade. He hangs out with few devoted friends who, like him, are yet to find place in a society that discarded young intellectuals. He plays saxophone and dreams about going to ...
Style:
psychological, existential, surreal, independent film, wistful ...
Plot:
escape, social commentary, coming of age, young adult, melancholy, unemployment, alienation, friendship, obsession, bohemian, mystery woman, urban ...
Place:
munich germany, belgrade, former yugoslavia, germany
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
Style:
melancholic, philosophical, reflective, existential, art house ...
Plot:
memory, nostalgia, aging, ambiguity, life & death, intimate, existential crisis, loneliness, death, dream, slow burn, minimalism ...
Place:
chile
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, tragicomedy, satirical, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
experimental, art house, artsy, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
nihilism, existentialism, depression, loneliness, minimalism, introspection, existential loneliness, boredom, loser, time travel, lsd, trauma ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, emotional, art house, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
bullfighting, bullfighter, friendship, character study, obsession, passion, machismo, relationships, sexual repression, medicine, doctor, trauma ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Andreas arrives in the remote valley in the Austrian Alps, he is only about four years old - nobody knows for sure. He grows up to become a skilled farmhand and, as a young man, joins a work crew that builds one of the first mountain railroads, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
mountain, lifestyle, orphan, hardship, village life, poverty, bittersweet, tragic romance, resilience, isolation, coming of age, loneliness ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Polish Psychological Drama
Style:
reflective, existential, philosophical, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, mortality, character study, memory, mountain, friendship, fear of death, male friendship, crisis of faith, nostalgia, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dani, Yumi, Ovidiu, Ada and Cristi are youths addicted to one another, yet intent on escaping the pressure of their interconnectedness and frustrating realities by performing mind trips into different levels of existence and parallel worlds.
Style:
psychological, existential, surreal, psychedelic, melancholic ...
Plot:
trip, youth, friendship, escape, escapism, alternate reality, alienation, parallel world, self discovery, intimate, symbolism, identity crisis ...
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eastern europe, romania
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, contemplative, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, youth, family relations, society, social issues, identity, memory, adaptation, reminiscence, literary, autobiography, homecoming ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
africa, algeria, north africa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An officer stationed in a remote Galician outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, atmospheric, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
tuberculosis, hallucination, isolation, loneliness, existential crisis, small town, obsession, spiritualism, haunting, occult, mysticism, decadence ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, galicia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A rhythmically captivating exploration of love and loss at the fin-de-siècle. An amorous relationship between two women abruptly cut short. Dissolving under the impact of the loss of her soul mate, the surviving lover is drawn into the depths of ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, poetic ...
Plot:
lesbian, poetry, tragic love, dealing with death, gender, gays and lesbians, lesbian romance, stream of consciousness, melancholy, loss, grief, woman woman relationship ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tragic story of a wealthy woman whose sexual desires change her into a prostitute, working the streets of Paris during the 1880s.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, art house, period drama
Plot:
prostitution, desperation, downfall, madness, tragedy, sexual repression, female protagonist, mental illness, isolation, gender roles, alienation, street life ...
Time:
1880s, victorian era, 19th century, 1870s, 1860s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, dramatic, sensual, moody
Plot:
writers, midlife crisis, melancholy, seduction, love triangle, obsession, infidelity, retreat, adaptation, exile, passion, ambition ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most ...
Style:
captivating, family saga, art house, meditative, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
three sisters, sister sister relationship, family relations, isolation, melancholy, longing, literary, relationships, coping, life, sister, male female relationship ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
29%
195
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, ...
Style:
poignant, art house, melancholic, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, female protagonist, memory, family drama, loss, reflection, regret, ghost, family secret, grief, aging, introspection ...
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
29%
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