Movies like Two in the Shadow
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Two in the Shadow (1967)
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Original name: 乱れ雲
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
abortion, forbidden love, summer, car accident, funeral, widow, death of husband, love story, demotion, love and romance, fall in love, couples, small town, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, small town life, death in the family, unfulfillment, unlikely couple, dealing with death, train, pregnancy, illness, ambulance, chauffeur ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and gloomy films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, unfulfillment, love affair, infidelity and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Two in the Shadow: Wet Woman in the Wind (2016), Tangled 8 (2015), The End of Summer (1961), April Snow (2005), Indian Summer (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
One afternoon, Shiori, a very sexually active young woman working in a café, is riding her bicycle and cuts off Kosuke, who is pulling a two-wheeled cart. Once a recognized playwright, Kosuke now lives a quiet life in a mountain hut, far away from ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
People from diverse social backgrounds, races and ages manage grief through its different phases.
Style:
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Plot:
couples, unfulfilled love, love and romance, couple relations, sexual content, unfulfillment, dealing with death
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly modulated blendings of comedy and tragedy.
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, infidelity, family business, adultery, dishonesty, parents and children, couples, love and romance, human nature, forbidden love, sister sister relationship, love ...
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan
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45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man and a woman meet in the hospital after their respective partners are involved in a car accident and learn that they've been having an affair.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sexy ...
Plot:
infidelity, love affair, unlikely couple, solace, couples, human nature, dishonesty, adultery, hospital, car accident, coma, incest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy, sentimental ...
Plot:
teachers and students, love story, age difference, teacher, high school, high school teacher, bittersweet, love and romance, youth, unfulfillment, gambling, couple relations ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
Some twenty years ago Sarita promised to raise her husband's love child (Shalu) together with their own daughter (Nimmi). The girls grow up as the best of friends but Sarita has never been able to forgive Shalu her background. It doesn't ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
true love, love affair, forbidden love, family relations, unlikely couple, fall in love, parents and children, love triangle, sister sister relationship, rivals, couples, politics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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35%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan, the love of her life eventually leaves her for her boyfriend in Tokyo. Kayako Kirishima of the third year at a high ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.
Plot:
marriage, family relations, widow, unrequited love, train, love, store, egg, supermarket, fight, motorcycle, police station ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Melissa Gilbert stars in this film adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestselling novel, in which a young girl named Pip and her mother meet an artist on the beach in Safe Harbour, where they have retreated in order to recover from the devastating ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on Akira Kurosawa's final unproduced script, this Edo-period drama takes place almost entirely inside an ocean-village brothel. O-Shin is a young brothel worker who one night helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Shimizu Yuichi (Tsumabuki Satoshi) is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style:
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Plot:
love affair, fall in love, starting over, coping, couples, workplace, love and romance, hopes, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, bus ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Snehmoy (Rahul Bose) and Miyage (Chigusa Takaku) are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
looking for love, couples, love triangle, unfulfillment, lovers apart, village, pen pal, friendship, society, love and romance, cure, unlikely couple ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lasting is an emotional love story about Michał and Karina, a pair of Polish students who meet and fall in love with each other while working summer jobs in Spain. An unexpected nightmare brutally breaks into their carefree time in the heavenly ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane and kills herself.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, sentimental, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, couples, haunted by the past, tragic love, obsession, love affair, fall in love, unfulfillment, longing, cemetery, death, jealousy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, romantic ...
Plot:
love affair, teenage love, haunted by the past, couples, hopes, youth, teenage life, first love, slice of life, memory, loneliness, terminal illness ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, time travel, strong female character, asian prostitute, loneliness, erotica, love story, friendship, high school, mountain, love letter, friends ...
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Place:
japan, hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, touching
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu (Zhou Dong-Yu) is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San (Shawn Dou), a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class ...
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Place:
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27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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27%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
extramarital affair, love, midlife crisis, love and romance, dishonesty, unfulfillment, couples, unfulfilled love, infidelity, tragic love, love affair, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, stylized, gloomy ...
Audience:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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