Movies like Love & Savagery

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Love & Savagery (2009)
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Love & Savagery (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1969, a visiting geologist from Newfoundland, Canada causes scandal in a small Irish village when he romances a local girl who's destined for the convent. Love and Savagery is a story of passion, fate, and the consequences of the two. In 1969, Canadian geologist and poet, Michael McCarthy (Allan Hawco), travels to Ballyvaughan, Ireland to examine the "Burren" a geological wonder. There he meets Cathleen (Sarah Greene), a beautiful woman who captures his heart, but because of the path she chose when she was young she cannot allow him to capture hers..
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, spiritual, controversial, touching, serious, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: convent, forbidden love, nun, religion, couples, island, destiny, isolation, culture clash, poet, poetry, geologist, rock, orphan, love and romance, society, countryside, artists and showbiz, hopes, sex, dancing, village, musician, pregnancy, female nudity ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: ireland, canada, newfoundland
Keyword: irish, canadian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, forbidden love, society, fall in love and female nudity mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Love & Savagery: The Playboys (1992), Circle of Friends (1995), The Run of the Country (1995), This Is the Sea (1997), Rain (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Playboys (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: love, circus, sin, society, fall in love, small town life, small town, social relations, human nature, pregnancy, beauty, theatrical troupe ...
Time: year 1992, 50s
Place: ireland, europe
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Circle of Friends (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style: period piece, emotional, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, college, small town, love, pregnancy, class differences, college life, adaptation, love affair, lust, breakup ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1949
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
The Run of the Country (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, teenager, death, father son relationship, strained relationship, police officer, ira, family relations, politics, rural area, family problems, death in the family ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
This Is the Sea (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, ira, shakespeare, anglo irish relations, trouble, profanity, religions or cults, family problems, family relations, snitch, forbidden love, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, northern ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Rain (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Buenos Aires. It rains. Alma is in her car, stuck in Buenos Aires' traffic. She has recently broken-up with her boyfriend, and she has been living in her little car since then. Suddenly, Roberto gets into the car. He's wet and hurt, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Plot: hotel, forbidden love, family relations, couples, hopes, love and romance, destiny, missing person, pregnancy, friendship, traffic jam, one night stand ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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War Bride (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Anna Friel stars in classy wartime drama The War Bride. She plays Lily, an orphan who suddenly finds herself married, with child and living with hostile in-laws in the wilds of Canada.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, culture clash, love and romance, against the odds, wartime life, couples, family problems, family relations, society, fall in love, parents and children, homecoming ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: canada, london
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82%
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Swann (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, social relations, friends, countryside, murder, friendship, small town life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ontario canada
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Camila (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both ...
Style: romantic, cult classic, manga, captivating, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, priest in love, love, girl, first love, religion, sensuality, tragic love, village life, village, social differences, small town ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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This Is My Father (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan) discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, Kieran looks to his mother (Moya Farrelly) for answers. When she refuses to provide any, ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: love, coming of age, small town, bittersweet, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, young love, father, couple relations, society, self discovery, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1998
Place: ireland, illinois, chicago, europe, usa
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69%
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Love Is Blind (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 30-year old Kertu has lived under her father's power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life - she send a ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, captivating
Plot: fall in love, forbidden love, social misfits, unlikely couple, society, parents and children, self discovery, village, village life, family relations, drunkenness, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her ...
Style: sentimental, epic, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot: world war one, village, political unrest, soldier, fall in love, forbidden love, catholic, village idiot, orgasm, love triangle, couples, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1970
Place: ireland, europe, england
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67%
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Bride Flight (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The story of the women on the KLM flight that won the 1953 Air Race from London to Christchurch, New Zealand.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, marriage, infidelity, emigration, unwanted pregnancy, dishonesty, couple relations, love and romance, husband wife relationship, forbidden love, aviation, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s, post world war two
Place: new zealand
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66%
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Serenades (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Plot: forbidden love, interracial relations, tragic love, culture clash, human spirit, injustice, true love, parents and children, society, hopes, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: australia, afghanistan
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65%
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: hotel, boarding house, spinster, female nudity, desperation, loneliness, piano, mental disorder, psychopath, aging, betrayal, bittersweet ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, america, texas ...
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61%
The Secret Scripture (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
Style: realistic, touching, compassionate, psychological, twisted ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: mental institution, diary, tragic love, female protagonist, mental illness, life is a bitch, injustice, false accusation, obsession, world war two, priest, psychotherapist ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place: ireland
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60%
Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Style: independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot: disability, physical disability, paraplegic, wedding, unfulfillment, hopes, fall in love, athlete's life, human nature, love and romance, life is a bitch, misfit ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: england, europe
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59%
Within the Convent (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to ...
Style: erotic, sensual, romantic, naughty, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: convent, nunsploitation, abbess, nun, erotica, clergy, church, sex scene, scandal, monk, catholic, sensuality ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Moondance (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitive girl arrives on the scene. As the younger brother comes of age, the inevitable jealousy, confusion, rivalry and lust place their brotherly love in ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: love triangle, sex with sister in law, young love, coming of age, betrayal, family relations, teenage sexuality, absent mother, sibling rivalry, rivalry, motorcycle, catholic ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, germany, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Maids of Wilko (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with ...
Style: existential, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, uncle nephew relationship, female nudity, renaissance, first love, love letter, death, birthday, jealousy, childhood friend, friendship, farm ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
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54%
The Polish Bride (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot: couple relations, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, haunted by the past, countryside, farm, happy ending, forced prostitution, flashback, rural setting, prostitute ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: holland, europe
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51%
The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. ...
Style: controversial, harsh, stylized, touching, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lust, abortion, celibacy, religion, clergy, forbidden love, priest in love, catholicism, corruption, sin, priest, hypocrisy ...
Time: year 2002
Place: mexico, latin america
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49%
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The Light (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual
Audience: date night
Plot: island, love triangle, fall in love, love of one's life, love affair, dishonesty, lighthouse, family secret, lighthouse keeper, sensuality, storm, village ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, france, brittany, atlantic ocean
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48%
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Intruder (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with ...
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: love triangle, terminal illness, life is a bitch, tragic hero, unfulfillment, love and romance, friends, couples, unfulfilled love, friendship, best friend, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Partition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: interracial relations, sikh, love and romance, forbidden love, fall in love, couples, soldier, society, political unrest, social relations, village, muslim ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: pakistan, india, africa, middle east, south africa ...
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47%
Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love, forbidden love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
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47%
The One That Got Away (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Joanna, recently divorced, decided to return with her daughter to the town where she was born. There, she confronts the memories of the past when he meets his former lover, now married.
Style: captivating, sentimental, psychological, emotional, touching ...
Plot: gossip, divorce, fish out of water, small town, homecoming, couples, fall in love, family relations, lawyer, theft, single mother, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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46%
Thrill of the Hills (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In order to to see his idol, Jimi Hendrix, a twelve year old boy attempts a journey from his Quebec village to Woodstock.
Style: psychological, realistic, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: death of father, family problems, family relations, youth, best friend, death in the family, coming of age, child protagonist, teenage boy, dream, boy, biker ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place: woodstock, canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Meteora (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In a monastery set on the top of sandstone pillars young monk Theodoros and nun Urania find themselves physically drawn to one and other after devoting their lives to the strict rituals and practises of the monasteries. Below them the eternal cycle ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: monastery, religions or cults, forbidden love, love affair, nun, society, religion, love, temptation, very little dialogue, sex scene, sin ...
Time: middle ages
Place: greece, balkan, europe
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45%
Picture Bride (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The ...
Style: touching, emotional, melancholic, serious, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loveless marriage, self discovery, immigrant, orphan, existentialism, older man younger woman relationship, fish out of water, social differences, love and romance, friendship, culture clash, women of color ...
Time: year 1918, year 1994
Place: hawaii, japan, asia, usa
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44%
Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu (Zhou Dong-Yu) is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San (Shawn Dou), a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: tragic love, social differences, forbidden love, revolution, society, youth, love and romance, unfulfilled love, fall in love, young lovers, totalitarian regime, terminal illness ...
Time: 2010s, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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