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Gikor (1982)
144
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, atmospheric, sentimental, art house, grim, period drama
Plot:
coming of age, tragedy, loss of innocence, innocence lost, social class, poverty, injustice, alienation, class struggle, humanism, tragic hero, bittersweet, intimate, nostalgia, caucasian, traumatic childhood, social injustice, village, boy, wealth, family relations, city, father son relationship
Time:
19th century
Place:
armenia, poetic realism, caucasus, tbilisi, georgia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, poignant and art house films with plots about coming of age, family relations, bittersweet, father son relationship, intimate, nostalgia and friendship mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Gikor: Triangle (1967), The Dull-Ice Flower (1989), Nahapet (1977), Apple Garden (1985), Meiyazhagan (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
161
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.
Style:
poignant, historical drama, melancholic, period piece, sentimental
Audience:
kids
Plot:
friendship, world war two, sacrifice, memory, nostalgia, tragedy, brotherhood, loss, mourning, working class, coming of age, small town life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia, soviet union, caucasus, ussr
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ku Ah-ming is a 4th grader at Chungshan Elementary School in Shuiyu Township, Taiwan. Despite being not very good in most subjects at school, he is very talented in art and has a great imagination, though most teachers don't know what he's ...
Style:
melancholic, poignant, emotional, sentimental, tragic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
poverty, painting, death of child, small town, artist, imagination, child prodigy, art teacher, loss, underdog, social injustice, conformity ...
Place:
taiwan
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456
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, emotional, poignant, bleak ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, trauma, resilience, loss, grief, survival, symbolism, hopes, national identity, mourning, character study, rebirth ...
Time:
year 1915, 1910s
Place:
soviet union, armenia, ussr
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
Style:
bleak, poignant, tragic ending
Plot:
grief, loss, mourning, tragedy, guilt, rage, aging, family conflict, bittersweet, refugee, memory, nostalgia ...
Place:
armenia
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Twenty-two years after losing his home, Arulmozhi Varman returns to his native Thanjavur to attend his cousin's wedding. Amidst the celebrations, Arul is reintroduced to an upbeat man whom he cannot recall. With the help of the unknown man, ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, poignant, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
homecoming, memory, identity, empathy, nostalgia, introspection, healing, bittersweet, intimate, reminiscence, friendship, community ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, bleak, period piece, tension
Plot:
world war two, father son relationship, family drama, longing, waiting, grief, loss, child protagonist, trauma, sacrifice, hopes, family conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
armenia
Similarity:
57%
284
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, poignant, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, family drama, boyhood, bittersweet, empathy, life & death, grief, loss, small town, macabre, outsider ...
Time:
year 1993
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule before WWII.
Style:
family saga, historical drama, reflective, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, national identity, poverty, memory, identity crisis, autobiography, language barrier, intimate, village life, tragedy, retiring ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 50s
Place:
taiwan, china
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of geologists discover oil under the fields where Sosana, the aged and anachronistic father, raises his herd with his unhappy wife, her friend and his growing boy with whom he displays a wonderful rapport. The land is invaded by big ...
Style:
melancholic, pastoral, poignant, period drama
Plot:
industrialization, family drama, alienation, livestock, social realism, bittersweet, eviction, nostalgia, machinery, isolation, blue collar, suicide attempt ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, atmospheric
Plot:
small town life, character study, class conflict, arranged marriage, poverty, bittersweet, isolation, social realism, loneliness, young lovers, forbidden love, tragic romance ...
Time:
70s, year 1977
Place:
caucasus, soviet union, georgia, russia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In his award-winning debut feature film, director Ahmet Ulucay portrays the innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small Turkish village. Working for a watermelon seller by day, Remet spends his evenings trying to ...
Style:
atmospheric, humorous, semi serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
friendship, small town life, family relations, love and romance, society, teenage life, village, small town, fall in love, youth, coming of age, boy ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb (Ruud Feltkamp). His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien (Thekla Reuten) ...
Style:
emotional, dramatic, melancholic, sentimental, period drama
Plot:
homeless, orphan, street life, survival, street kid, poverty, child protagonist, hopes, social inequality, search for father, foster home, compassion ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
netherlands, rotterdam netherlands
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A lonely young man moves in a 50-year-old apartment building. When he meets the cheerful residents, he finds himself surrounded by small happiness.
Style:
realistic, social, suspense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
secret, small village, slice of life, humanism, neighbor, community, everyday life, small town, loneliness, friendship, social relations, fake identity ...
Similarity:
45%
516
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
This is a story about returning to ones ancestral homeland. Anna is a cardiologist who discovers her father has fled to his native Armenia after being diagnosed with a heart problem. Despite their contentious relationship, she sets out to bring her ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, road movie, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, diaspora, genocide, physician, road trip, journey, intimate, family reunited, identity crisis, father daughter relationship, self discovery, female protagonist ...
Place:
armenia, caucasus, france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, friendship, boy, friends, family life, youth, mischievous children, father son relationship, book, school, tree ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not ...
Style:
slow cinema, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, alienation, isolation, everyday life, intimate, minimalism, bittersweet, character study, intimacy, coastal town, sexual tension, dog ...
Place:
poetic realism, chile
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This feature length entry from shorts director Caumon deals with a turbulent mother and son relationship in a rural setting.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, reflective, independent film ...
Plot:
family drama, mother son relationship, nostalgia, coming of age, homecoming, village life, small town life, character study, reconciliation, slice of life, bittersweet, memory ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When her father dies at sea, Lena starts desperately looking for the cause, convinced a sea monster is to blame. Her relentless push against the tide reveals a tale of anger and grief, yet also of the strength and comfort the ocean provides.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, poignant, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ocean, female protagonist, loss, shipwreck, grief, teen superhero, father daughter relationship, sea monster, intimate, resilience, determination, coming of age ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He's an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He's offered work in the U.S. But a friend has cancer and the world ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, poetic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, inventor, friendship, character study, intimate, bittersweet, small town, humanism, loneliness, loss of innocence, nostalgia, mysticism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Antonio and Pietro, a man and his child, alone in Milan to fight against illness. Pietro has a brain cancer, to move from South to North Italy seems to be a chance, maybe salvation. Jaber, fifteen years old, lives in Milan with a group of fellow ...
Style:
independent film, emotional, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hospital, illness, immigration, adolescence, compassion, father son relationship, empathy, suffering, humanism, fighting illness, coping, life is a bitch ...
Place:
milan italy, north africa
Similarity:
36%
826
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Ethiopia, France, Germany, Norway, Qatar, Côte d'Ivoire
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When an Ethiopian boy moves in with distant relatives he takes his pet sheep with him but the upcoming holidays spell danger for his beloved friend.
Style:
heartbreaking, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
tradition, sacrifice, friendship, moral dilemma, religion, coming of age, child protagonist, poverty, hopes, humanism, resilience, intimate ...
Place:
africa, ethiopia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The film is about the hard lot of a woman with an extraordinary character, who tries to raise her children and win back her husband, who left family for another woman, after return from the war.
Style:
emotional, comedy drama, melancholic, realistic, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
sadness, family drama, broken family, empathy, bittersweet, father son relationship, reconciliation, nostalgia, intimate, personal growth, social realism, slice of life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
caucasus, eastern europe, armenia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, tense, semi autobiographical, period drama
Plot:
coming of age, breast cancer, mother daughter relationship, illness, female protagonist, adolescence, family drama, epidemic, youth, identity, teenage angst, family conflict ...
Place:
taiwan, taipei, los angeles
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant ...
Style:
period piece, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
post war, escape, survival, poverty, desperation, coming of age, loss of innocence, realism, childhood, adolescence, obsession, mafia ...
Place:
kazakhstan, ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Serbia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It displays constant efforts of a four-member family to respond to the numerous challenges of urban modern life, at the same time showing the tendency of the younger members to find the solution to everything in a calmer rural environment.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, reflective, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
family drama, city life, slice of life, urban, social realism, coming of age, escapism, tradition, nostalgia, intimate, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Appa, a veteran theatre actor who has primarily worked in adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, falls upon hard times in his old age.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
actor, mortality, aging, family drama, character study, tragedy, loneliness, theater, tragic hero, family problems, social problems, family relations ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed love. After a general ruins some men under him in punishment for a rebellion, a friend of the broken men vows revenge. The ...
Style:
poignant, historical drama, atmospheric, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
literary, tuberculosis, revenge, tragic romance, class conflict, russian empire, adaptation, tragic hero, moral dilemma, family tragedy, social injustice, illicit affair ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A young boy and his grandfather, while on a bird-banding trip in a marsh, discover a young, blind pelican. They bring the bird home, and the boy learns to care for it, hand-feeding it fish and even bringing it to school when there is no one else at ...
Style:
sentimental, melancholic, educational, art house, nature documentary
Plot:
compassion, blindness, hopes, empathy, heartwarming, coming of age, disability, healing, rescue, swamp, determination, journey ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
Style:
captivating, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
teachers and students, young heroes, rebellion, youth, society, family problems, family relations, anti conformity, dysfunctional family, parents and children, farm, boy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, poignant, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
childhood, tragedy, divorce, runaway, loss, child protagonist, family drama, grief, death of child, accident, symbolism, family conflict ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
30%
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