Movies like The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
hotel, boarding house, female nudity, psychopath, loneliness, mental disorder, spinster, piano, desperation, aging, betrayal, alcohol abuse, love and romance, life is a bitch, singleness, couples, love affair, breakup, starting over, unfulfilled love, adult virgin, bittersweet, dishonesty, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, new york, america, texas, usa ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and sentimental films with plots about couples, husband wife relationship, kiss, crying, family relations, father son relationship and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne: Close My Eyes (1991), The Heart of Me (2002), Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Brooklyn (2015), Last Orders (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrants, starting over, love and romance, fashion, love triangle, friendship, female protagonist, irish, immigration, love, working class, true love ...
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Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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england, europe, london, california, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Against a backdrop of clashing cultures, John Myron and Angela Wilson find each other and over the years form a powerful bond. One tragic night, John rescues Angela from a wicked act of betrayal. Faced with its aftermath, Angela flees town, unaware ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
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friendship, love triangle, woman in danger, love affair, couples, love and romance, couple relations, infidelity, spirituality, betrayal, husband wife relationship, morality ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray ...
Style:
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Plot:
chef, girl, cancer patient, terminal illness, love triangle, love, ex-lover, couples, family problems, one last chance, family relations, road not taken ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 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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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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