Movies like 'The Day of the Purple Sun': Part I

If you like "'The Day of the Purple Sun': Part I" you are looking for dark, expressionism and mystic movies about / with death, mummy, terminal illness, egyptology, journey, disease and mysticism themes of Drama genre shot in Germany.
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'The Day of the Purple Sun': Part I (2017)
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'The Day of the Purple Sun': Part I (2017)
Original name: Der tag der violetten sonne
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 68 min.
Story: "The Day Of The Purple Sun´´: The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe. Her journey through the mysteries of the Egypt underworld. Will she be coming forth by day? film in two parts by Carsten Frank "DER TAG DER VIOLETTEN SONNE´´ "THE DAY OF THE PURPLE SUN´´ starring Margarethe von Stern Carsten Frank Music by maggy moon Photographed in PsychoVision Quiet Village Film Production 68 Mins / 1.78 : 1 (16:9) / German (language) / English & German (subtitles)
Style: dark, expressionism, mystic
Plot: death, mummy, terminal illness, egyptology, journey, disease, mysticism, mystery, the underworld
Place: egypt

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Most similar movies to 'The Day of the Purple Sun': Part I

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sentimental films with plots about death, terminal illness, cancer, family relations, parents and children, father son relationship and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like 'The Day of the Purple Sun': Part I: Bestie! (2013), Secrets of a Soul (2012), Endings (2010), She Lives! (1973), The Last Best Year (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bestie! (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Margarethe in Bestie!: her psyche and body imposed on by her lover; then: her mutation and lives in a multitude of creations. The reality of the cosmos reveals itself to her. Boundless in shining beauty. a film by Carsten Frank Bestie! ...
Style: dark, expressionism
Plot: philosophy, mind, werewolf, shapeshifter, beast, abuse, mutation, occult, cosmos, trauma
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Secrets of a Soul (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Secrets of a Soul: Margarethe, Creator of bizarre sculptures! Night club dancer? Mad woman? Victim of an occult conspiracy?! Dark menaces steal her soul and organs. Though dead they keep her alive. film by Carsten Frank Secrets of a Soul ...
Style: dark, mystic, mad
Plot: occult, schizophrenia, nature, philosopher, philosophy, murder, conspiracy, mad woman, female victim, female murderer
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Endings (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Emmy Ferguson is a 10-year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35-year-old drug addict who is determined to make this his last day. And Adonna Frost, suffering from advanced ...
Style: independent film
Plot: cancer, drug addict, terminal illness, drug addiction, family relations, death, dying, suicide, drug, journey, leukemia, breast cancer
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23%
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She Lives! (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Plot: cancer, love, death, college student, star crossed lovers, disease, dying young, melancholy, terminal illness
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21%
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The Last Best Year (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and that she has no family to help her through this very trying time. He enlists the help of a ...
Plot: dying woman, humanity, cancer, female friendship, terminal illness, therapist, childhood trauma, death, dying
Place: chicago
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The Longest Distance (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two sides of the same country: a chaotic and violent city contrasting against a natural paradise where the oldest mountains on the planet can be found. Two main characters that find each other at a crucial moment. Two fearless journeys, one that ...
Style: road movie
Plot: boy, euthanasia, grandparent grandchild relationship, fatherhood, suicide, multiple storylines, river, motorcycle, loss of wife, loss of mother, hiding, mountain ...
Place: venezuela
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Cold Water (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After a female cadet goes over board during cadet training, an investigation is started.
Plot: sexism, hostility, death, negligence
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18%
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The Shadow Box (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, love, marriage, letter, cancer, gay, homosexual, ex husband ex wife relationship, terminal illness ...
Place: california
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Eternity and a Day (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
Style: slow cinema, road movie, philosophical, art house, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, immigrant, coming of age, art, dialogue, storytelling, writers, destiny, hospital, greek, refugee, journey ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 1910s
Place: greece
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My Life (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time ...
Style: sad, emotional, touching, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, death, reconciliation, family drama, childbirth, pregnancy, self discovery, couple relations, family life, expectant father, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa
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17%
Barschel: A Murder in Geneva (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A conspiracy-theorizing filmmaker meets with a prospective producer in order to pitch a movie about the death of real-life German politician Uwe Barschel, in which the official ruling of suicide raised more questions than answers.
Plot: mysterious death, politician, conspiracy, death, suspicion of murder, corpse, german abroad, clandestine
Time: year 1987
Place: west germany
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17%
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Bopem (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Teenager Ruslan is a half-orphan who lives by the dried Aral Sea. When he learns that due to serious illness he has no more than 3 months to live, Ruslan decides to punish those responsible for the death of his beloved mother.
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: revenge, teenager, teenage boy, death of mother, terminal illness, teenage protagonist, punishment, loss of mother, illness, parents and children, danger, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kazakhstan
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17%
The White Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, aging, terminal illness, friendship, retirement home, death, old age, wedding, bittersweet, love and romance, elderly lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east
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Europolis (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Living in Danube Delta Magdalena receives a letter from France. Together with her son, Nae, she embarks on a journey to encounter her brother.
Plot: journey, soul, death, tradition, donkey, last will and testament, death of mother, river, cremation, tunnel, inheritance, debt ...
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17%
You Can't Write a Letter (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julien and Nina sign a pact with the universe: they must enjoy life, whatever the cost. Will that decision lead them to happiness, or to their disappearance?
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, offbeat
Plot: terminal illness, optimism, life is a bitch, hopes, couple relations, couples, sister sister relationship, love, death, unfulfillment, flashback, train ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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17%
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Siembra (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A man and his son move from the Pacific coast of Colombia to Cali, but have a difficult time adapting to the city. When his son is killed, the father must go through the hard process of grief while trying to find roots in a place that does not ...
Plot: funeral, church, dog, death of son, pig, singing, death, loss of son, fireworks, coffin
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Lullaby (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Jenkins) fights a zero sum ...
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, sad
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, mercy killing, life is a bitch, estrangement, siblings relations, parents and children, family problems, estranged family member, death in the family, death, choice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, new york, los angeles
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17%
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Spiral (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he ...
Style: intellectual
Plot: hopelessness, depression, lecture, morgue, renaissance, rock climbing, mental breakdown, tourist, suicide attempt, climbing, bad temper, mountain ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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Who Will Love My Children? (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on a true story of Iowa farm wife Lucile Fray. Ann-Margret plays a dying mother of ten whose last wish is to find loving families for her children.
Style: depressing
Plot: adoption, cancer, disease, youth, little boy, sacrifice, self sacrifice, death, father daughter relationship, orphan, last will and testament, farm ...
Place: iowa
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Those Who Remain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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17%
The Mouth Agape (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional, touching ...
Plot: terminal illness, love letter, family relations, death of mother, death, mother son relationship, family problems, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
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17%
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Pope Dreams (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: terminal illness, follow your dream, hopes, parents and children, family relations, coming of age, young lovers, teenage life, unfulfillment, human nature, mother son relationship, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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17%
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Mum's List (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A dying mother's life lessons to the husband and sons she left behind. Based on the best-selling novel by St John (Singe) Greene, the film is the story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when ...
Style: touching, sincere, psychological, thought provoking, sentimental ...
Plot: cancer, last wish, mother, death, children, family relations, death of wife, parents and children, breast cancer, list, illness, wife ...
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Everything for Sale (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star ...
Style: semi autobiographical
Plot: actor, filmmaking, filmmaker, renaissance, journey, wife, director, film set, railway, death, replacement, respect ...
Time: year 1969
Place: eastern europe, poland
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16%
Land and Shade (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France, Netherlands, Chile, Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense
Plot: ecology, society, grandfather grandson relationship, terminal illness, poverty, peasant, dying, life & death, farm, migration, environment, farmer ...
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16%
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Familiye (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Familiye tells the story of an ex-con who, after his release from prison, has to care for his two younger brothers. One of whom is a gambling addict, the other has Down Syndrome.
Style: dramatic, captivating, serious, bleak
Plot: gambling, prison, down syndrome, brothers, brother brother relationship, released from prison, little brother, brother, addiction, terminal illness, illness
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16%
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Conquest (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: British-Canadian light romantic comedy film set in a dying Saskatchewan town. Bank branch manager, Pincer Bedier, dreams of reviving the town when one day a beautiful young woman's car breaks down and she becomes stranded until it can be ...
Style: independent film
Plot: journey, professional, tour
Place: canada
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The Taste of Apple Seeds (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When Bertha dies, her granddaughter Iris inherits her house and finds herself back in the home where she and her cousin used to play dressing-up in the summer holidays. While she wanders from room to room, she gropes her way through memories and ...
Style: family saga, period drama
Plot: food, lgbt, death, seducing, strong female lead, secret love, skinny dipping, sex scene, jealousy, female nudity, strong female character, seduction
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Yumechiyo's Diary (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man ...
Plot: cancer, arrest, accidental death, son murders father, river, actor, spa, accidental killing, geisha, terminal illness, skiing, police ...
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16%
The Second Wife (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A story in the Egyptian countryside about an unjust mayor who controls everything in the village with his power.
Plot: arab, polygamy, countryside, female fight, poverty, power, wife, terminal illness, handicapped, husband wife relationship, police, escape attempt ...
Place: egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
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