Movies like The Pied Piper 1972
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The Pied Piper (1972)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
Style:
fairy tale, stylized, art house, atmospheric, serious, captivating, psychotronic
Plot:
ancient, wedding, clergy, burned alive, revenge, witchcraft, politics, family relations, parents and children, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, society, folk, disability, siblings relations, state affairs, dealing with death, medieval, painter, artist, musician, army, escape, medicine ...
Time:
14th century, middle ages
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, stylized, atmospheric and fairy tale films with plots about family relations, rivalry, parents and children, father son relationship, escapades, death and royal family mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Musical genres. Some movies like The Pied Piper: Donkey Skin (1970), Tom Thumb (2001), Beauty and the Beast (1987), The Juniper Tree (1990), Medea (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
Style:
fairy tale, surreal, absurd, art house, experimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
imaginary kingdom, fall in love, cinderella story, surrealism, princess, wedding, love and romance, father daughter relationship, donkey, leaving home, love story, impostor ...
Place:
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale ...
Style:
fairy tale, serious, stylized, captivating, exciting ...
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youth, forest, escape, poverty, heroes, young heroes, life is a bitch, escapades, favoritism among siblings, siblings relations, little boy, children ...
Time:
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Place:
europe
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast.
Style:
fairy tale, semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing, date night
Plot:
forest, castle, beast, love and romance, unlikely couple, dangerous animal, opposites attract, escapades, master and servant, couples, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, france
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25%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iceland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Margit and her older sister, Katla, flee their homeland in Iceland after their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Needing a place to stay, Katla casts a spell over a young farmer named Jóhann which makes him fall in love with her, ensuring ...
Style:
aesthetic, fairy tale, serious, gloomy, contemplative
Plot:
witchcraft, witch, folklore, pagan, surrealism, mythology, family relations, wizards and magicians, parents and children, siblings relations, curses spells and rituals, burned alive ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
iceland, europe
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24%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
Style:
fairy tale, epic, surreal, talky, serious ...
Plot:
greek mythology, antiquity, mythology, ancient history, vengeance, female nudity, italian neorealism, exploitation, girl, surrealism, ancient, ancient world ...
Place:
ancient greece, greece
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Losing their way in the dark forest they stumble upon the cottage of a kindly old woman. But is this kindly old woman everything she seems...?
Style:
fairy tale, humorous, stylized, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, forest, curses spells and rituals, siblings relations, escapades, parents and children, coming of age, witch, cannibalism, countryside, isolation, childhood ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, ...
Style:
serious, emotional, atmospheric, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
royal court, revenge, betrayal, murder, tragic hero, rivalry, shakespeare's hamlet, heroes, intrigue, state affairs, royal family, regret ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, denmark
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22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Style:
fairy tale, psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric
Plot:
shakespeare, tragedy, medieval, ghost, murder, tragic love, supernatural, betrayal, assassination, unfulfillment, hidden identity, tragic hero ...
Time:
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Place:
denmark, europe
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22%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Style:
experimental, surreal, art house, non-linear, psychotronic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Fantasy, Musical, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A cat belonging to a poor miller's son thinks up a great plan for bringing a title, wealth, and marriage for his owner. He begins to carry it out, using a few birds and rabbits as gifts for the king, his own wit, and a pair of boots that make ...
Style:
fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, stylized, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Portugal, Spain, France, Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A magical tale about a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have, except in his dreams. Late one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last photograph of a young bride, Angelica, who mysteriously ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Revengers Tragedy is a film adaptation of the 1606 play The Revenger's Tragedy It was directed by Alex Cox and adapted for the screen by Cox's fellow Liverpudlian, Frank Cottrell Boyce. The film stars Christopher Eccleston as the ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 242 min.
Story:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, denmark, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
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Plot:
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Place:
ireland, cornwall, europe, britain
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
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lyrical, intense, colourful, emotional, captivating ...
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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20%
Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her grave, weeps silently at her photo and has transferred all his ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mali, France, Burkina Faso, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, serious, light
Plot:
female nudity, magic, afrofuturism, religion, blaxploitation, afterlife, animal abuse, curse, curses spells and rituals, parents and children, selflessness, family relations ...
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19%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as ...
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: Slovenia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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