Movies like Sophie's World
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Sophie's World (1999)
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Original name: Sofies verden
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Sofie is an ordinary Norwegian girl. One day she recieves a video tape on which a certain Alberto Knox talks directly to her from ancient Greece. They then start to meet at different occasions and throughout the film, Alberto takes Sofie on an odyssey of the history of philosophy, from ancient Greece, over the Roman empire, the Middle ages, the renaissance, the enlightenment, the big revolutions and up to today. Throughout this journey, they start to realise that they are only fictions of a story writer's imagination and start conceiving a plan for escaping into reality. (Written by Anders E Lundin )
Style:
thought provoking, serious, retro, contemplative
Audience:
teens
Plot:
philosophy, nerd, wisdom, free thinking, leonardo da vinci, coming of age, youth, ancient history, mysterious character, teaching the ways of the world, riddles and clues, dog, teenager, school, past, robin hood, computer, mirror, time travel, zorro, imaginary
Time:
19th century, 20th century, middle ages
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, contemplative and touching films with plots about youth, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, friendship, society and teenage life mostly in Drama, Fantasy and History genres. Some movies like Sophie's World: The Emigrants (1971), Cross My Heart and Hope to Die (1994), The Face on the Milk Carton (1995), The Little Traitor (2007), Reunion (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and ...
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Time:
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Place:
minnesota, sweden, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60'ies Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old ...
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realistic, thought provoking, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, military, rebellion, friends, soldier, state affairs, youth, coming of age, child protagonist, british military, jewish, children in wartime ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, friendship, friendship between boys, nazi, coming of age, golden years, youth, society, confined, against humanity, religions or cults ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also ...
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sentimental, sincere, psychological, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot:
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france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The plot revolves around the controversial relationship between maid Stefania Chornenko and blueblood Adelia Anger against the backdrop of the provincial Austro-Hungary in 1900. Both Stefania’s parents and Adelia’s mother died during the fire. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
751
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, tense, biting
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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