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The Pear Tree (1998)
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Original name: درخت گلابی
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
artist, teenage love, village, youth, politics, family relations, love and romance, village life, fall in love, creative block, coming of age, writer's life, innocence lost, haunted by the past, homecoming, artists and showbiz, love, prison, teenager, student, writers, mother, professor, hair, political prisoner ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 40s
Place:
iran, middle east
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, youth, family relations, fall in love, coming of age, society and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like The Pear Tree: Diamond Girl (1998), The Dream Prince (1996), Love is the Word (2013), The Music Man (2007), The Maid (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
14-year old Em likes to hang around in her old play house. One day a boy, Jakob, sets fire to it, and Em catches a brief glimpse of him before he disappears. They meet again a few days later. For the first time in her life, Em falls in love. Plot by ...
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serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
holland
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ali is son of a well-off family who plays the santoor (an Iranian instrument) and has earned some reputation through his concerts and teaching music but is rejected by his family because of this profession, which they despise. He falls for one of ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
musician, addiction, couple relations, rise and fall, drug abuse, rehabilitation, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, society, music, tragic hero ...
Time:
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Place:
iran, middle east, tehran iran
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father's house.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sexy
Plot:
female nudity, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, love affair, love, sex scene, family relations, love and romance, unlikely couple, fall in love, parent child relationship, youth ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, teenage love, eccentric family, love and romance, fall in love, parents and children, countryside, teenage life, estate, bittersweet, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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41%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Renata is a young high-class girl and Ulises is a poor guy. They both fall in love, but they must fight against everyone, specially Renata's rich parents, who want to stop their love by sending her to Canada. The story remarks the difference ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mrs. Mashreghi, who is a prominent university professor, is divorced from her husband. She leads a happy life for a while until one her students who is almost the same age of her daughter falls in love with her; a love which is completely rejected ...
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Plot:
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Place:
iran
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40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. ...
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former yugoslavia
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Country: China
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In the brink of the 90s, 18-year-old Zheng Wei steps into her university life with a hopeful heart for love. She forms a great friendship with her roommates and united as a group, they embark on their university life together. Wei meets Chen ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
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Country: Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Country: Israel
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Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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