Movies like Der Besuch der alten Dame

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Der Besuch der alten Dame (2008)
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Der Besuch der alten Dame (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.
Plot: money, retribution, rich woman, greed, black widow, legacy, hometown

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, realistic, serious and independent film films with plots about money, greed, female nudity, love, family relations, sex and world war two mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Der Besuch der alten Dame: Erfolg (1991), The Visit (1964), Latitude Zero (2001), Servant and Mistress (1977), The Letter (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Erfolg (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 265 min.
Story: For fans of history, this glimpse of Munich society in the 1920s will be a much-treasured event. The story revolves around an art-gallery manager who puts on a show featuring the scandalous works of a woman artist who committed suicide. He is ...
Plot: world war two, woman, artist, intrigue, smoking, politics, bourgeoisie, female nudity, greed, talking after sex, barefoot woman
Time: 1920s
Place: munich germany
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The Visit (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting ...
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Latitude Zero (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman ...
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Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a rich man' dies and his maid Maria unexpectedly becomes his heir, she is now the mistress of the man's household. In order to get revenge on the man's nephew Jerome, for slights on her person which he committed while she was but ...
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The Letter (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
Style: eighties
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Heritage (1979)
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: Shipowner Kai Skaug is dead. The parson in his funeral speech speaks of a man who passed away in his prime, only 54 years old. The flower-decorated crematorium is filled with mourners. In the first row sits his old mother, his brother and sister, ...
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Bonobo (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A happily married young couple must carefully evaluate their relationship and trust in one another, plus own moral standing when a potentially seedy yet highly financial offer is presented to them in a time of recession.
Plot: faust, sex, paranoia, prostitution, infidelity, greed, jealousy, love, female nudity, adulteress, money, marriage ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 99 min.
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Duration: 102 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
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The Love Cult (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A magician/hypnotist gets the idea that he can make more money (and have a better time) by starting a sex cult than by continuing his magic act, so he becomes Brother Eros whose motto is "Love is all that counts."
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Duration: 112 min.
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