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Satantango (1994)
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Original name: Sátántangó
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 439 min.
Story:
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
Style:
slow cinema, black and white, art house, powerful, dark comedy, poetic, philosophical, psychedelic, depressing, bleak ...
Plot:
mental disorder, poverty, suicide, pessimism, bell, loneliness, writers, underground, destiny, minimalism, farm, changing lives, moving, mental illness, tango, communist, mouse, alienation, countryside, minimal dialogue, multiple perspectives, hidden treasure, european, magic realism, alcoholic ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 80s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
hungary, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, contemplative, bleak and art house films with plots about loneliness, family relations, existentialism, melancholy, society, depression and death mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Satantango: The Turin Horse (2011), Damnation (1988), Stray Dogs (2013), Ironweed (1987), Almanac of Fall (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 138 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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