Movies like A Tale of Love and Darkness

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A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
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A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A story about the childhood of Oz in Jerusalem and his youth in the Kibbutz during the British Mandate and the first days of the state of Israel. The plot describes the relationship between young Oz to his mother and his first steps as a writer.
Style: sincere, sad, psychological, suspenseful, art house, costume drama, inspirational
Plot: depression, writers, biopic, family relations, school, anti semitism, husband wife relationship, judaism, childhood memory, autobiography, israeli palestinian conflict, poet, propaganda, israeli, women, youth, art, mossad, conflict, woman, publisher, literary, occupation, arab israeli conflict, grief ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1945, year 1947
Place: palestine, israel, india, europe, poland, tel aviv israel, jerusalem
Keyword: jewish, ukrainian, palestinian, german, russian, french, english, poster, arabic, fez, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and crying films with plots about husband wife relationship, food, kiss, father son relationship, cigarette smoking, drinking and biopic mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like A Tale of Love and Darkness: Tolkien (2019), Viceroy's House (2017), Operation Finale (2018), Walking with the Enemy (2013), Bless Me, Ultima (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tolkien (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that ...
Style: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, rough, retro ...
Plot: world war one, boys' school, writers, teenage boy, soldier, friendship, treasure, coming of age, orphan, young soldier, poet, great war ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2019, edwardian era, year 1937 ...
Place: oxford university, birmingham alabama, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Viceroy's House (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, India, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Style: disturbing, factual, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Plot: palace, british raj, servant, democracy, ethnic conflict, independence, economics, british empire, governor, politics, school, promise ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, year 1945, year 1933
Place: delhi, pakistan, india, new delhi, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Operation Finale (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
Style: period piece, ambiguous ending, historical drama, tense, art house ...
Plot: war criminal, mossad, nazi hunter, world war two, nazi, holocaust, world war, chase, manhunt, israeli, secret agent, spy ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, year 1954, year 1960, year 1945 ...
Place: israel, argentina, buenos aires argentina, germany, tel aviv israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Walking with the Enemy (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania, Hungary, Canada, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his ...
Style: realistic, bleak, emotional, costume drama, political thriller ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, world war two, defiant, family relations, danger, life is a bitch, ss, confined, world war, spy, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, year 2010, year 1957 ...
Place: europe, hungary, budapest, switzerland, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Bless Me, Ultima (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In a village in New Mexico, the life of young farm boy Antonio is dramatically changed when an old medicine woman joins his household. This affecting coming-of-age tale recounts Antonio's experiences to reveal the spiritual conflict in his ...
Style: spiritual, realistic, captivating, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: healer, youth, coming of age, friendship, child's point of view, introspection, war, social relations, village life, elderly, human nature, good versus evil ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2013, year 1944
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the ...
Style: romantic, sexy, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: queen, love triangle, royal family, british history, royalty, royal court, king, medieval, intrigue, politics, family relations, betrayal ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, 19th century, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Colette (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Hungary
Duration: 111 min.
Story: French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a leading writer in her country and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Style: captivating, costume drama, intellectual, inspirational, lyrical ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: writers, female protagonist, novelist, lesbian, woman, female writer, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, bisexuality, ghost writer, publisher, lgbt ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 1890s, year 1900 ...
Place: paris france, france, marseille, louisiana, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.4
 18K
Mary Shelley (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: poet, forbidden love, literature, young lovers, relationship problems, tragedy, female writer, love and romance, renegade, frustration, social misfits, writers ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1810s
Place: london, scotland, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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A United Kingdom (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. ...
Style: romantic drama, disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: interracial marriage, forbidden love, racism, interracial romance, politics, royal family, equality, marriage, freedom, justice, reporter, democracy ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 2016, year 1947
Place: africa, south africa, indiana, england, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.1
 34K
Julieta (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Style: emotional, melancholic, sentimental, art house, thought provoking ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, childhood, mother daughter estrangement, loneliness, depression, sex, death of husband, female nudity, guilt, family drama, psychology, autobiography ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 80s, 90s
Place: spain, galicia, switzerland, madrid, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Same Kind of Different as Me (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Style: touching, inspirational, sincere, captivating, spiritual ...
Plot: friendship, marriage, ku klux klan, christian, homeless, forgiveness, family relations, homelessness, black, faith, love story, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: year 2017
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Face of Love (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
Style: touching, sincere, psychological, realistic, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: death of husband, love affair, couple relations, fall in love, art class, couples, physical appearance, friendship, secret, delusion, husband wife relationship, painting ...
Time: year 1994, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Haven (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: This is the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
Style: emotional, disturbing, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, wartime life, survival, rescue, deportation, anti semitism, immigrant, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, heroic mission ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: europe, chicago, harvard university, vienna, belgrade ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
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The Aftermath (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Style: realistic, melancholic, serious, philosophical, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: post war germany, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, adultery, husband wife relationship, love hate relationship, infidelity, horny wife, love triangle, extramarital affair, world war two, cheating on husband ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, year 2019, year 1945, year 1943 ...
Place: hamburg germany, alps, london, northern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 3K
Edvard Munch (1974)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 210 min.
Story: A biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. It was originally created as a three-part miniseries co-produced by the Norwegian and Swedish state television networks, but subsequently gained an American theatrical ...
Style: expressionism, art film, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: painter, painting, biopic, artist, art, art history, philosophy, disease, artists' life, depression, famous, based on real people ...
Time: year 1974, 19th century, 1890s, 1900s, 1870s ...
Place: germany, copenhagen, berlin germany, paris france, oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.5
 3K
Ithaca (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, tense, realistic, freeze frame ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, brother brother relationship, family relations, friendship, promise, husband wife relationship, teenage boy, jealousy, fear, death of brother, anti war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Bright Star (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to ...
Style: heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, touching, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: poet, poetry, writers, biopic, love story, love, art, friendship, letter, tragedy, passion, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, ancient times, year 2009 ...
Place: england, europe, britain, rome italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 8K
Good (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot: nazi, writers, politics, moral dilemma, state affairs, wartime life, political unrest, society, nazi germany, third reich, holocaust, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1937, year 1933 ...
Place: germany, europe, paris france, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Best of Enemies (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story of the real-life unlikely relationship between an outspoken civil rights activist and a local Ku Klux Klan leader in 1971 North Carolina.
Style: rough, sincere, disturbing, thought provoking, period piece ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: interracial friendship, civil rights, human spirit, human rights, racism, black, tiredness, name calling, african american, danger, court, interracial relations ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, year 2005, year 2016
Place: north carolina
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18%
 6.9
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Violette (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian, gender, writers, lesbian relationship, friendship, writer's life, friends, society, lgbt, women, couples, erotica ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, 70s, year 1972 ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Glass Castle (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire ...
Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, painting, funeral, restaurant, hospital, alcoholic, pride, family conflict, biopic, writers, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2017, year 1989, year 1964
Place: nebraska, new york, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, west virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Summer in February (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, serious, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: painter, love triangle, infidelity, biopic, love affair, lifestyle, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, 20th century, year 1915, pre world war one ...
Place: cornwall, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.5
 9K
Resistance (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Style: powerful, costume drama
Plot: french resistance, occupied france, nazi officer, world war two, orthodox jew, world war, secret, love, husband wife relationship, saving a life, mother daughter relationship, anti semitism ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1938, year 1943, year 1939 ...
Place: europe, swiss alps, geneva switzerland, munich germany, switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Whole Wide World (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, period piece, cult classic ...
Plot: writers, biopic, love story, destiny, friendship, bittersweet, couples, hospital, love, loneliness, poet, summer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: texas, louisiana, usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 25K
Breathe (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Style: sad, touching, compassionate, factual, inspirational ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: disability, illness, supportive spouse, paralysis, marriage, love, husband wife relationship, euthanasia, hospital, biopic, adaptation, quadriplegic ...
Time: 50s, year 2017, year 1971, year 1958, year 1960 ...
Place: africa, england, spain, germany, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.8
 2K
Guernica (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The fates of Henry - an American correspondent - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors during the Spanish Civil War.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, serious, realistic, informative
Plot: spanish civil war, journalist, world war two, civil war, saving a life, militia, politics, nazism, military, freedom, hiding place, war violence ...
Time: 1930s, year 1999, pre world war two, year 1939, year 1937 ...
Place: basque country, spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Style: sentimental, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot: father son relationship, memory, coming of age, teenager, loneliness, reconciliation, family relations, character study, parenthood, life, death, writers ...
Time: year 2007, 80s, 60s, year 1962, year 1989
Place: brighton, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.4
 10K
Little Ashes (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style: atmospheric, serious, factual, tense, art film ...
Plot: poet, friendship, artist, gay, lgbt, painter, closeted homosexual, gay relationship, political unrest, friends, art, spanish civil war ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 1920s, year 1936, 1930s
Place: spain, andalusia, europe, italy, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.3
 23K
Angela's Ashes (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style: touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: toddlers, teen drama
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature, childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.2
 161K
The Post (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Style: political thriller, political, factual, tense, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: journalism, journalist, truth, expose, newspaper office, whistleblower, newspaper, lie, cover up, wartime, freedom of the press, u.s. government ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 90s, 70s, year 1965 ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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