Movies like Adagio sostenuto

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Adagio sostenuto (2008)
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Adagio sostenuto (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The film tells the love story between Anna and José, while at the same time approaches the intersections of urban violence and artistic creation, nature and civilization, war and peace, life and death, abandon and union, showing that in the end of our path we are still coping with mystery, emptiness and transcendence.
Style: independent film, meta
Plot: love, loneliness, life after death, death, murder, faith, suicide, tragedy, bible, destiny, classical music, screenwriter, letter, opera, female protagonist, widow, existentialism, filmmaking, husband wife relationship, filmmaker, coming of age, marriage, film producer, symbolism, stream of consciousness ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, independent film, sincere and psychological films with plots about death, husband wife relationship, love, murder, suicide, marriage and family relations mostly in Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Adagio sostenuto: All the King's Horses (1977), Scent of Gardenias (1992), I'm Not Here (2017), The Shadow Box (1980), You Will Die at 20 (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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All the King's Horses (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young couple begins to apply scriptural principles to their relationship, they discover how Christ can bring healing to their shattered marriage.
Style: christian film, independent film
Plot: faith, voice over narration, woman, love, domestic abuse, loveless marriage, sleeping pill, religious differences, religious conversion, pastor, motorcycle, painting ...
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Scent of Gardenias (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub.
Plot: murderer, death, husband wife relationship, tv star, revenge, taxi driver, filmmaking, marital separation, father son relationship, actress, taxi, murder ...
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I'm Not Here (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
Style: sentimental, melancholic, sincere, touching, rough
Plot: redemption, father son relationship, death, storytelling, life is a bitch, fall in love, life & death, life philosophy, loneliness, family relations, betrayal, friendship ...
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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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You Will Die at 20 (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: mother son relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, death, relationships, life & death, family relations, social problems, life is a bitch, family problems, predicting the future, prediction ...
Place: north africa, sudan, africa
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After Love (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, spiritual, independent film ...
Plot: widow, double life, secret, family drama, family secret, family life, family relations, family problems, husband wife relationship, death of husband, forgiveness, european ...
Place: dover england
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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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Clover (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, Clover. Problem is she and Clover have not exactly bonded and several of Gaten's ...
Plot: interracial romance, stepmother, child's point of view, loss of husband, interracial marriage, african american, ghost, widow, death of father, death, grief, father daughter relationship ...
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Flight of a Bird (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Polyot Ptitsy has been given the gift of seeing his deceased brother, but when a new love interest is in trouble he must choose between saving a life or continuing to see his brother everyday.
Plot: love, husband wife relationship, marriage, destiny, actress, cameraman, poet, observatory, unfaithful wife, adultery, photograph, journalist ...
Time: 1930s
Place: soviet union
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Lighter Fluid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
Style: experimental
Plot: suicide, abandoned house, murder, skateboard, surrealism, pregnancy, death
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Goodbye Julia (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, Sweden, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to ...
Plot: singer, police corruption, choir, death, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, school, police, murder, concert, dancing, lie ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s
Place: sudan
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The Annunciation (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Annunciation (in Hungarian: Angyali üdvözlet) is a Hungarian film directed by András Jeles in 1984, based on The Tragedy of Man (1861) by Imre Madách. When Adam (Péter Bocsor) and Eve (Júlia Mérő), having succumbed to Lucifer's ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: bible, children, devil, symbolism, philosophy, angel, coming of age, religions or cults, heroes, obsessive quest, ancient history, time ...
Time: 18th century
Place: ancient greece, france, athens greece, paris france, prague ...
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Invisible Life (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s. The life of Guida and Euridice Gusmão, raised to be invisible in the eyes of the Brazilian society of that time, like all the other women of that generation.
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female nudity, family relations, sister sister relationship, woman urinating, sex scene, sisters, erotica, masturbation, life is a bitch, escapades, ambition, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 50s, year 2019, 2010s, 1950s, 1940s
Place: rio de janeiro, iberian peninsula, brazil
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Money Buys Happiness (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man and a woman, unpleasant bickering nitwits both, push a big stupid metaphor (in the shape of a piano) across Seattle.
Style: spiritual
Plot: flowers, family relations, husband wife relationship, friend, interview, marriage, hanging, piano, children, love, suicide, son ...
Place: seattle
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48%
Eight and a Half (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style: art house, psychological, surreal, cerebral, black and white ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, dream, midlife crisis, stream of consciousness, memory, catholic, adultery, actress, movie business, showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
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Doctor Glas (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 ...
Plot: women, death, love, doctor, husband wife relationship, flashback, love triangle, murder, male female relationship, wife abuse, older man younger woman relationship, death of wife ...
Time: 60s, 1900s
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Boy on the Bridge (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min.
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Plot: coming of age, violence, funeral, death, murder, police, explosive
Place: cyprus
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Eugene Onegin (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 210 min.
Story: The Wiener Philharmoniker mounts, and Andrea Breth stages, this 2007 production of Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, starring Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Anna Samuil and Renée Morloc. The Konzertvereinigung Wiener ...
Plot: opera, love, murder, marriage, live performance, festival, menage a trois, letter, duel, live broadcast
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. However, as time passes, the two find much kinship including a lost child. Slowly the two build a ...
Plot: surprise visitor, suicide, volunteer, husband wife relationship, grandmother grandson relationship, lawyer, respect, widow, regret, caregiver, dying, friendship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: beautiful
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Place: iran, tehran iran
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43%
Peppermint Candy (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho"s depression becomes ...
Style: bleak, psychological, serious, existential, realistic ...
Plot: suicide, loneliness, haunted by the past, politics, destiny, regret, mental disorder, society, boat, tragedy, murder mystery, alienation ...
Time: 90s, year 1980, year 1987, year 1984, year 1994 ...
Place: south korea
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42%
All the Way Home (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Plot: single mother, widow, father son relationship, death of father, death, accident, husband wife relationship, uncle nephew relationship, love, loss of father, family relations, loss of husband ...
Time: 1910s
Place: tennessee
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Hierarchy (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A group of Californians experience loss, despair and desperation over the course of seven days before Christmas. A boxing underdog must face the truth about his uncertain future, a blocked novelist struggles to create a new work admist a suspicious ...
Style: independent film, surprise ending
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Molester's Train: Dirty Behavior (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
Story: A boy, abandoned by the whole family - torn apart by obsessions, perversions and problems of every kind-start looking at everything around him through the eye of the camera, so that nothing can seem flat and keep up hope. The meeting between these ...
Style: uplifting, sexual
Plot: pink film, masochism, suicide, female masturbation, sadism, voyeurism, train, absurdism, death, mental illness, birthday, urban setting ...
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40%
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Vassa (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A screen adaptation of the second version of A. M. Gorky’s play “Vassa Zheleznova”. In this family children were taught from the early years to put accent on the word “my”: my ship, my house, my factory… Here they counted the money ...
Plot: family relations, girl, sexual deviant, capitalism, matriarchy, russian revolution, aristocrat, stealing, husband wife relationship, marriage, mother daughter relationship, mother in law daughter in law relationship ...
Time: 1910s
Place: soviet union, russia, switzerland, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Driving Madeleine (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her shocking past.
Style: captivating, uplifting, sincere, thought provoking, exciting
Plot: first kiss, old woman, taxi driver, prison, life, love and romance, woman kills a man, stepfather stepson relationship, american soldier, husband wife relationship, love, mother and son ...
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The Shadow (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Adapted from Peyami Safa’s novel Selma and Her Shadow, the movie tells the story of Selma. Selma (Görkem Yeltan) is the ultimate femme fatale whose alluring and seductive nature and irresistible charms exude an aura of death for men.
Style: neo noir
Plot: femme fatale, poem, love, suicide, cigarette smoking, murder, woman smoker
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36%
Let There Be Light (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An atheist goes through a near-death experience in an auto accident before converting to Christianity.
Style: christian film, melancholic, rough, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: christianity, faith, afterlife, religious, religion, transformation, marriage, brain tumor, pastor, bible, christian, divorce ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Last Summer (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
Style: captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sincere
Plot: friendship, coming of age, brother brother relationship, tragedy, death, summer, boy, friendship between boys, love triangle, death of mother, lake
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Style: retro, neo noir, psychological thriller, cult classic
Plot: reincarnation, female psychopath, showbiz, hollywood, movie star, obsession, falling from height, possession, doppelganger, movie studio, junkie, impersonation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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