Movies like Time Stands Still
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Time Stands Still (1982)
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Original name: Megáll az idő
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dinis suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of Dinis' father, Bodor, is released from prison and moves in with them. Dinis and his brother Bodor are far from happy over this intrusion of their family life.
Style:
rough, touching, emotional, realistic, serious
Plot:
family relations, rebellion, teenage life, family problems, high school, youth, family life, high school life, coming of age, teenager, socialism, boy, communism, education, love and romance, nude, school, male nudity, skinny dipping, little boy, nudity (full frontal - brief), romance
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
hungary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about youth, coming of age, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, love and romance and family problems mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Time Stands Still: Absence (2014), Foreign Letters (2012), By Dawn's Early Light (2001), Rockford (1999), Treading Water (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Place:
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84%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 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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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Country: France, Cuba
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
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dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, family life, youth, parents and children, life turned upside down, social relations, disorder, high school life, innocence lost, coming of age ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Story:
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