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Porto of My Childhood (2001)
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Original name: Porto da Minha Infância
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Manoel de Oliveira's autobiographical documentary about returning to his hometown.
Style:
semi documentary, atmospheric, touching, serious, offbeat, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
lifestyle, society, filmmaking, introspection, city life, social relations, first love, urban, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, biopic, vampire, youth, family relations, theater, memory, childhood, city, river, ruins, sculpture, autobiography, childhood home, voice over narration, memoir ...
Time:
year 2001, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 21st century, 30s, 20s ...
Place:
portugal, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 127 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: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 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: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The tragic true story of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead by British police in 2005 at the height of the London terrorist alerts.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, sincere, contemplative
Plot:
injustice, wrong place wrong time, mistaken identity, social differences, family relations, life is a bitch, society, immigrant, city life, political unrest, biopic, violent content ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Prince William is the elder son of Britain's Prince Charles and if the late Diana, Princess of Wales. After his father, he is next in line to the British throne. A biography of his journey so far....
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, controversial, realistic
Plot:
royal family, lifestyle, teenage life, family problems, family relations, state affairs, youth, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, paparazzi, coming of age, queen of england ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
feminism, open relationship, lesbian, love affair, writer's life, philosophy, couples, love triangle, gender, fall in love, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 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: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
scotland, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
apartheid, writers, fighting the system, writer's life, estrangement, family relations, lifestyle, downfall, parents and children, bittersweet, society, poet ...
Time:
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Place:
africa, south africa, paris france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
stylized, realistic, atmospheric, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, holland, europe, manhattan new york city
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Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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342
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 85 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Portugal
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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