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I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
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I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
Original name: Скупљачи перја
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.
Style: black and white, surreal, mondo
Plot: gypsy, murder, social injustice, black, dog, horse, gambling, wedding, nun, alcoholic, puppy, church, taxi, taxi driver, catholic church, baptism, poverty, baby, television, funeral, card playing, blood, drunkenness, girl man relationship, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: serbia, balkan, eastern europe, belgrade, former yugoslavia, belgrade serbia, yugoslavia
Keyword: serbian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out black and white, crying, realistic and epic films with plots about murder, death, village, husband wife relationship, blood, church and fear mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like I Even Met Happy Gypsies: Three (1965), It Rains in My Village (1968), The Return (1966), Handcuffs (1970), Crows (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Three (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In this episodic WW II drama, a Yugoslavian youth attempts to escape from German soldiers. In the first scene, he stands amongst a group of refugees waiting for a train. One man, with no identification papers is accused of a petty crime and the ...
Style: black and white
Plot: partisan, world war two, black, death, fugitive, revolutionary, swamp, air raid, false accusation, mountain, shooting, execution ...
Place: serbia, balkan, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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It Rains in My Village (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Style: black and white, realistic, serious
Plot: gypsy, black, village, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, mentally challenged, vengeance, clergy, village life, small town, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 60s
Place: eastern europe, balkan, former yugoslavia
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The Return (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min.
Story: An-ex convict nicknamed Al Capone, who spent six years in jail, tries to adapt in new environment. Members of the two rival gangs try to engage him in their new ventures, but he wants to make a new start with the girl he loves. At the same time, a ...
Style: black and white
Plot: black, prison, rape, rivalry, murder, police operation, ex convict, motorcycle accident, gang leader, soccer, police officer, freight train
Place: balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Do Not Mention the Cause of Death (1968)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In an atmosphere of WWII, a village dyer wants to help his folks in their sorrow and distress by supplying them with the black paint, but there is not enough black paint for all of them, because death works faster than the dyer. His wife was raped, ...
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, mountain, massacre, fire, photograph, husband wife relationship, death, fear, rape, murder, mass murder, tragic event ...
Time: year 1941
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Handcuffs (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is ...
Style: black and white
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Place: croatia, balkan, former yugoslavia
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Crows (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.
Style: black and white
Plot: boxer, river, winter, boxing, slaughterhouse, suburbs, ballerina, murder, aging, sheep
Place: belgrade, former yugoslavia
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The Feast (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for pilots, the Chetniks change their attitude towards them.
Style: black and white
Plot: partisan, black, world war two, slaughtered, commander, banquet, blood, snow, escape, death, murder, christmas ...
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Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the release from prison, small-time criminal is marrying his girlfriend and lives a straight and poor, but happy life with her and her daughter. However, his happiness is shattered by wife's infidelity. Driven mad by jealousy, he kills ...
Plot: female nudity, muslim, bride and groom, adultery, hiding, outlaw, revenge motive, mountain, nudity, jealousy, drunkenness, prison ...
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A Trap for the General (1971)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Immediately after the war, OZNA insert an outstanding intelligence agent to catch the General Draza Mihajlovic.
Style: epic
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Style: black and white, epic
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Style: bleak, gloomy, thought provoking, disturbing, melancholic ...
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