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Apple Garden (1985)
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Original name: Խնձորի այգին
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, tragedy, mourning, memory, refugee, rage, aging, nostalgia, family conflict, guilt, bittersweet, revenge, forbidden love, betrayal, retribution, dysfunctional family, isolation, moral dilemma, small community, family relations, obsession, jealousy, diaspora, old man ...
Place:
armenia
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Most similar movies to Apple Garden
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, poignant, bleak and art house films with plots about grief, loss, mourning, isolation, nostalgia, memory and intimate mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Apple Garden: Sour Grape (1974), Nahapet (1977), Triangle (1967), The Tree with Pink Leaves (1974), Railroad Man (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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
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95%
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:
90%
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:
71%
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:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with ...
Style:
art house, melancholic, reflective, poignant
Plot:
winter, grief, mourning, nostalgia, bittersweet, loneliness, loss, character study, memory, regret, aging, family tragedy ...
Place:
japan, hokkaido
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After the death of the family's matriarch, her husband and son must confront not only the corruption in society around them but the corruption within themselves.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, melancholic, poignant ...
Plot:
father son relationship, small town, parents, father, children, family problems, family conflict, moral dilemma, family relations, loyalty, corruption, choice ...
Place:
pakistan, middle east
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen
Style:
bleak, tense, art house, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
secrets, family drama, character study, lie, betrayal, literary, moral dilemma, illegitimacy, adaptation, trust, guilt, loss ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
46%
195
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, ...
Style:
poignant, art house, melancholic, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, female protagonist, memory, family drama, loss, reflection, regret, ghost, family secret, grief, aging, introspection ...
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about aging, motherhood and life. About looking back and not understanding how you got to where you are, about wounds so deep that all the energy is spent on not wanting to see them. An intimate drama where, through fiction, the director ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
aging, motherhood, family drama, autobiography, loss, blindness, elderly man, grief, trauma, reflection, regret, realism ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
One day, Sedat, who works as a prison guard in Konya, is given the duty to take one of the prisoners, Musa, to his hometown. Musa does not intend to return until he finds out why his daughter was killed.
Style:
psychological, emotional, dramatic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
prison guard, investigation, prisoner, liar, lie, uncover truth, life is a bitch, hidden truth, loss, tragedy, father daughter relationship, getting home ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Giulio, a young man from Sicily, arrives in Rome to trace back Aurora, his ex-girlfriend whom he cannot forget. He stays with a couple of family friends, Rosalia and Eugenio, who have lost their only son, Nello, of the same age as Giulio. The ...
Style:
art house, ambiguous ending, tragic
Plot:
depression, mourning, unrequited love, grief, loneliness, loss, drug use, existential crisis, isolation, alienation, obsession, alcoholism ...
Place:
sicily, rome italy
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Jyothi, a widow who raised her son alone after her husband Janakiram's tragic accident, devoted her entire life to him. Despite her deep love for her son she unexpectedly stabs her son's heart.
Style:
heartbreaking, intense, bleak, dark, twist ending ...
Plot:
family drama, mother son relationship, tragedy, moral dilemma, betrayal of trust, betrayal, loss, single mother, regret, grief, guilt, intimate ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mika arrives in Poland to pay a hospital visit to her father, who is suffering from severe brain injury and memory loss. It's the first time they have met in many years, yet her father thinks they still live together and she's a teenager. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, art film ...
Plot:
memory, father daughter relationship, memory loss, dementia, family relations, relationships, introspection, amnesiac, family life, estrangement, alienation, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old girl deals with the issues brought about by her family's high-priced son.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, poignant, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, adolescence, family drama, tragic past, female protagonist, troubled past, traumatic past, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, loneliness ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An updated 21st century version of the Emily Bronte novel set in modern day Malibu, California where the wealthy Earnshaw family adopts Heath, a troubled teenager. The Earnshaws teenage daughter, Cathy, falls madly in love with him, embittering her ...
Style:
tragic ending, suspenseful
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teen romance, forbidden love, toxic relationship, teen angst, jealousy, love triangle, seduction, family drama, secrets, danger, obsession, wealthy family ...
Place:
malibu california
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. ...
Style:
existential, philosophical, contemplative, art house, crying ...
Plot:
regret, reflection, memory, monologue, aging, identity, isolation, melancholy, solitude, theater, minimalism, intimate ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man does everything in his power to keep ownership of a seaside cottage he built with his late wife.
Style:
satirical, captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
bereavement, mourning, loss, grief, satire, dysfunctional family, loss of wife, relationship problems, family problems, obsession, memory, character study ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the prelude of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, an hostile and violent territory, to immortalise the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated by the beauty of the bride-to-be, he betrays the rules and is left to face ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, period piece, dark, grim ...
Plot:
wedding, photographer, genocide, problem, violence, haunting, brutality, class conflict, obsession, isolation, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Place:
argentina, chile
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A married couple uproot their entire family and move to Puerto Rico where the familial tree promptly dies in the face of relentless poverty and depression in this down-beat drama, the directorial debut of Argentine filmmaker Torre-Nilsson.
Style:
emotional, poignant, bleak, period piece, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family drama, parent child relationship, marriage, grief, loss, desperation, social realism, dysfunctional family, relocation, melancholy, isolation, survival ...
Time:
60s
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.
Style:
disturbing, touching, sincere, thought provoking, poignant ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
friendship, world war two, memory, society, life is a bitch, destiny, life & death, justice, hopes, loss, nostalgia, social realism ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
With an enthralling central performance by Gilbert Sicotte, this masterful debut feature examines the life of the top car salesman in a fading Quebec town as events challenge the 67-year-old’s sense of identity and the meaning of life at the most ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, sentimental, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
aging, small town, working class, bittersweet, obsession, society, retiring, elderly, workplace situations, social relations, car salesman, tragedy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
36%
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, grim, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, loss of innocence, innocence lost, tragedy, social class, poverty, class struggle, injustice, alienation, intimate, bittersweet, tragic hero ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
armenia, poetic realism, caucasus, tbilisi, georgia
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
grief, guilt, mother-in-law, family problems, loss, mourning, character study, bereavement, loss of daughter, mother in law, countryside, loss of wife ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.
Style:
poignant, emotional, reflective, period piece, tragic
Plot:
theater, grief, mourning, loss, memory, melancholy, social realism, post war, solidarity, community, social commentary, intimate ...
Time:
80s
Place:
armenia, caucasus, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Basri, 55 year old, every day walks for miles along the tracks working as a railroad watchman. His nagging thought is finding his son. Eighteen years ago, while the boy was studying at the university in Istanbul, the police took him into custody for ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, art house, existential, tragic ...
Plot:
loss, grief, waiting, mourning, guilt, loner, missing person, trauma, father son relationship, loneliness, regret, isolation ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While middle-aged Vincent (Didier Sandre) makes a sand castle on a beach in Brittany, France, his sister Zaza (Catherine Ferran) and brother Francois (Charles Berling) spend a summer day reflecting on death and loss. They think back on their sister ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, poignant, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mourning, character study, bereavement, beach, memory, intimate, family relations, relationships, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
33%
837
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A 30-something Gundam fan and engineer is forced to live with his recluse brother Maury and younger sister Lisa to take care of their Japanese grandmother after their mother's funeral.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
slice of life, character study, family drama, dysfunctional family, changing lives, socially awkward, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, family relations, brothers, social problems, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Behzad, who has been in prison for manslaughter for a long time, has a son who does not know about him. When he is introduced, the son goes through a conflict. Then, as a family, they go to the victim's family seeking consent so Reza would be ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, tension, contemplative
Plot:
prison, execution, family drama, parent child relationship, family conflict, forgiveness, moral dilemma, retribution, justice, humanism, bittersweet, empathy ...
Place:
iran, middle east
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
17-year-old Rebekka is feeling hollow and empty after her brother Dennis died by suicide two years ago. Dennis' friend Vincent is the only one who can help her through this difficult time. But Vincent is an outsider, accepted by nobody, ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, tense, atmospheric
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mental health, grief, self discovery, isolation, character study, youth, guilt, mourning, coming of age, teenage angst, intimate, dysfunctional family ...
Similarity:
32%
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