Movies like The Year of the Hare

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The Year of the Hare (1977)
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The Year of the Hare (1977)
Original name: Jäniksen vuosi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life
Style: psychological, serious, realistic
Plot: nature, wilderness, survival, nordic, midlife crisis, forest, freedom, rabbit, lapland, friends, misfit, animal life, introspection, woods, winter, escape, summer, helicopter, conspiracy theory, advertising, drifter, rain, forest fire, autumn, getting home ...
Time: 70s
Place: scandinavia, finland, europe, helsinki finland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and touching films with plots about friendship, couples, friends, family relations, bittersweet, love and romance and male nudity mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Year of the Hare: The Grump (2014), Lampaansyöjät (1972), The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1975), Rautatie (1973), Backwood Philosopher (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Grump (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Iceland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer — whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric — raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law, in this hilarious social satire ...
Style: captivating, emotional, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, aging, fish out of water, parents and children, family life, father son relationship, illness, generation gap, grandfather, farmer, memory, businessman ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: finland, helsinki finland, europe, eastern europe
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Lampaansyöjät (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a ...
Plot: restaurant, food, rural setting, buddy, tourist, lapland, summer, lake, countryside, autumn, poaching, nature ...
Time: 70s
Place: finland
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The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed ...
Plot: getting home, marriage counselor, neighbor, husband wife relationship, adultery, painter, priest, horse, male nudity, marriage proposal, drinking alcohol, shyness ...
Time: 70s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Rautatie (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
Plot: train, railroad, rural setting, train station, married couple, drunk, farmer, train travel, summer, simple man, rain, winter ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Backwood Philosopher (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the ...
Style: thinking
Plot: male nudity, drunk, scientific research, summer, male pubic hair, rural setting, nudity, narrow mindedness, individuality, loner, drinking, male objectification ...
Place: eastern europe, finland
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44%
The Howling Miller (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a ...
Plot: fugitive, forest, countryside, drug use, police chase, robbery, secret love, psychiatric hospital, insane asylum, love, rural setting, squad ...
Place: finland
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To Find a Man (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A boarding-school girl (Pamela Sue Martin) comes home pregnant and asks the boy (Darren O'Connor) next door for help getting an abortion.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage pregnancy, friendship, family relations, family problems, boarding school, battles, couples, friends, youth, society, betrayal, love and romance ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york
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Summer of Giacomo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river – without wanting to disrupt the mystery of their relationship, between restrained sensuality and childhood ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, sincere, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: youth, deaf, teenage life, young lovers, love and romance, summer, nudity, mute or deaf, woods, best friend, friends, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
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39%
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Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a ...
Style: talky, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: painter, french countryside, friendship, love, breakup, friends, gardener, friendship between men, village life, crumbling relationship, art, artist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nice france, europe, paris france, france, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Olympian Holiday (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After a mixup at the check-in, Aimo Niemi boards a charter plane bound for the sunny island of Rhodes, Greece, instead of the Innsbruck Winter Olympics he's packed for. It's the early days of package tourism, and he is too shy and clueless ...
Plot: vacation, mystery woman, bare butt, holiday romance, hotel room, breaking the fourth wall, flashback, restaurant, misunderstanding, female journalist, nightmare, flying ...
Time: 70s
Place: helsinki finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Night or Day (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Plot: summer, tradition, finnish mythology, rural setting, culture, village, foreigner, wilderness, sauna, countryside, nature, assistant ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Road North (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A sly riff on the Prodigal Son story, Mika Kaurismaki's latest — about a joyless workaholic concert pianist who ends up on a wild ride with his long-lost rapscallion father — is a funny and cogent analysis of machismo, abandonment issues ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, road movie, captivating ...
Plot: on the road, father son relationship, family relations, absent father, estrangement, parents and children, road trip, dysfunctional family, getting home, legacy, nature, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, europe
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37%
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Zero Kelvin (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, bleak ...
Plot: survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, wilderness, disaster, snow, male nudity, poet, frozen, landscape, schizophrenia ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: greenland
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36%
92 in the Shade (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, atmospheric, offbeat
Plot: drifter, rivalry, fishing, feud, social relations, couples, small town, small town life, uninhibited rivalry, human nature, introspection, violent content ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: florida, usa, key west florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Out of Nature (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Out of Nature is a journey inside Martins head. A family father in his 30s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. ...
Style: contemplative, semi serious, existential, psychological, humorous ...
Plot: male nudity, male masturbation, male pubic hair, hiking, masturbation, mountain, self discovery, introspection, imagination, nature, midlife crisis, running ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Village of the Stone Roller (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Pekka (Martti Suosalo) saapuu pitkästä aikaa kotiseudulleen pieneen Jerusalemin kylään juhlistamaan kylän viimeisiä häitä. Hänen oma avioliittonsa näyttää ajautuneen umpikujaan. Kylän väki kokoontuu valmistelemaan tätä viimeistä ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: finland
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
Style: talky, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: divorce, friendship, bittersweet, vacation, sadness, midlife crisis, couple relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, introspection, human nature ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: usa, new england
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34%
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Duration: 79 min.
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Style: road movie, atmospheric, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: on the road, road trip, self discovery, introspection, estrangement, wilderness, ex athlete, winter, friendship, mountain, antisocial personality disorder, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
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34%
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Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, small town, coming of age, follow your dream, teenage sexuality, gay subtext, parent child relationship, music band, youth, rebellion, rebelliousness, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place: himalaya, finland, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, black comedy ...
Plot: child's point of view, coming of age, society, dysfunctional family, small town, lifestyle, young heroes, family life, understanding, family problems, life is a bitch, obsession ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
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Runaway Horse (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Germany′s Lake Constance. So when the energetic, handsome Klaus Buch turns up with his beautiful girlfriend Helene, Helmut is quite ready to dismiss ...
Style: psychological, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot: couple relations, romantic rivalry, childhood friend, rivalry, friendship, infidelity, journey, introspection, love, couples, routine, holiday ...
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Devil's Island (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of families living in barracks, left by the US Army in Reykjavik at the conclusion of World War II.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: family relations, social outcast, poverty, world war two, island, family gatherings, pregnancy, suburbs, midlife crisis, siblings relations, parents and children, suburban life ...
Time: 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: iceland, europe, reykjavik iceland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
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Style: surreal, touching, sentimental, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Such Good Friends (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, biting, humorous
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Kotch (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Joseph Kotcher, retired salesman, walks out on his son and daughter-in-law after their attempts to put him in a retirement home. He tracks down their babysitter, sacked because she is pregnant, and rents a small house nearby. He finds a new purpose ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, psychological, humorous ...
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Bye Bye Blondie (2012)
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Duration: 87 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, humorous, gloomy ...
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Gloriously Wasted (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, sexual
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Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
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