Movies like The Birch Tree

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The Birch Tree (1967)
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The Birch Tree (1967)
Original name: Breza
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.
Style: depressing
Plot: village, dysfunctional marriage, death, baby, forest ranger, terminal illness, marriage, death in the family, rural setting, folklore, countryside, folk
Place: croatia, balkan
Keyword: serbian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, black and white and light films with plots about death, love, marriage, rural setting, husband wife relationship, family relations and murder mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The Birch Tree: Handcuffs (1970), Landscape with a Woman (1989), Sokol Did Not Love Him (1988), It Rains in My Village (1968), Lina's Wedding (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Handcuffs (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is ...
Style: black and white
Plot: black, wedding, secret police, peasant, rural setting, rape, communism, handcuffs
Place: croatia, balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Landscape with a Woman (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A ranger whose passion is nude painting comes to work in a remote Bosnian village. He asks the local women to pose naked for him. They are shy at first, but they eventually agree to do so. This makes their husbands furious, who think that the ranger ...
Plot: artist, painting, painter, jealousy, mountain village, forest ranger, rural setting, artist's model, marriage, death, male female relationship, suspicion ...
Place: bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Sokol Did Not Love Him (1988)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German ...
Style: road movie
Plot: world war two, partisan, landowner, nudity, rural setting, countryside, soldier, celebration, fear, death, horse, priest ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943, year 1944
Place: croatia, europe, former yugoslavia, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Croatia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in pre-World War II Zagreb, the story is seen through the eyes of 6-year-old Perica Šafranek (played by Tomislav Žganec). A dandy from Zagreb, Mr Fulir (played by Relja Bašić), starts flirting with Perica's mother during a family ...
Style: period piece, social, period drama
Plot: marriage, infatuation, flirting, singing
Place: croatia, balkan
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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It Rains in My Village (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Style: black and white, realistic, serious
Plot: gypsy, black, village, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, mentally challenged, vengeance, clergy, village life, small town, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 60s
Place: eastern europe, balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Lina's Wedding (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Lina is in her best age, mid-30s. She is strong-willed, resilient and self-conscious. There has never been a man in her life, on the contrary, she even had to play the man's role on the small farm to sustain herself and the parents. But the ...
Plot: love, nudity, rural setting, skinny dipping, female nudity, farm, pregnancy, single, hate, tragic event, marriage, female full frontal nudity
Time: 1910s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Days to Remember (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this melodramatic tale, the well-made plans of a career-obsessed woman are derailed when she sets her sights on a young man who is plainly not very interested in her. In the story, Katherina is an ambitious reporter for German television, and her ...
Plot: age-gap relationship, woman, partisan, lake, love, television reporter, male female relationship, family relations, platonic relationship, mountain, children, older woman younger man relationship ...
Place: former yugoslavia, montenegro, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Kreutzer Sonata (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: A revelatory discussion on a train. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name.
Style: spiritual
Plot: spirituality, mad love, child, tea, flashback, husband wife relationship, marriage, death, love, jealousy, honeymoon, murder ...
Place: ussr, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 6.6
 267
Dark Victory (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.
Plot: terminal illness, female friendship, dying young, producer, doctor, anger, doctor patient relationship, love, marriage, brain tumor
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
40%
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 539
Chemmeen (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Karutthamma, the daughter of a Hindu fisherman, falls in love with a Muslim fish trader. However, social prejudices seem to ruin their love life and invite the wrath of their communities.
Style: romantic, sad
Plot: tragic love story, fisherman, interfaith relationship, rural setting, daughter, heartbreak, fishing, fishing boat, hindu, arranged marriage, sea, greed ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 438
Fine Things (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Standard romantic melodrama from novelist Danielle Steele finds a couple embroiled in marital conflict with a nasty child-custody battle at its center.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: youth, love, wedding, couples, family relations, family problems, terminal illness, missing person, family life, pregnancy, custody, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.3
 79
Black Birds (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, nazi concentration camp, group, death, escape, cruelty, civil war, nazi, prison
Time: 1940s
Place: croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.9
 38
By the Fire (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Chile
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Daniel and Alejandra, a working class couple in their late 30s, move to the countryside near the Andes Mountains to begin the next chapter of their life together. Alejandra is ill, and Daniel looks after her, his soul mate. He scratches out a living ...
Plot: rural setting, fire, kitten, illness, terminal illness, bedroom, bedridden
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Doctor Homer's Brother (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: This film predominantly deals with the problems of a young man whom his delusions led into conflict with society. These issues will throw him into an adventure that would be tragic for him, but still helpful for him to see the truth. The story takes ...
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: brother brother relationship, world war two, death, doctor, girl, machine gun, ambush, mountain, traitor, insanity, post war, fight ...
Place: kosovo
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 134
To the Night (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Norman, who lost his parents in a fire as a child, is obsessed with light and haunted by its destructive powers.
Style: light, avant garde
Plot: male nudity, fire, baby, death, beach, camera
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 4K
Mouna Raagam (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Divya, a woman grieving over the death of her lover, is convinced into an arranged marriage with Chandra Kumar. Over a year the couple attempt to adjust to each other's presence and live with each other. Revathi is forced to marry Mohan in an ...
Style: romantic, entertaining
Plot: feminist, indian woman, arranged marriage, woman, couples, divorce, emotional blackmail, hospital, marriage, death, flashback, husband wife relationship ...
Place: delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Banishment (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
Style: bleak, melancholic, surreal, emotional, serious ...
Plot: abortion, dysfunctional family, death, family drama, family bonds, relationships, adultery, crumbling marriage, brothers, betrayal, hide and seek, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia, czech republic, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 6.6
 280
Under a Spell (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In the Yucatan coast of the thirties , Elisha, a boy of 13, is initiated into the art of love by Felipa , his schoolteacher. After discovering the relationship, Felipa runs away from the village , leaving Elisha mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry ...
Plot: love, older woman teenage boy sex, first sex, rural setting, sex with friend's mother, boy, sex with a minor, circus, single mother, teacher student sex, teacher student relationship, young
Time: 1930s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
 204
Memed My Hawk (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, ...
Style: independent film
Plot: muslim, rural setting, automobile, robbery, tradition, kidnapping, murder, death, highwayman, squad, arranged marriage, village ...
Time: post world war one, 1920s
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
And This Will Pass, Too... (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go ...
Plot: world war two, partisan, husband wife relationship, brother in law, police, murder, ss, basement, liberation, death, photograph, drowning ...
Place: bosnia, former yugoslavia, belgrade
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Women in Prison (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After graduation, a young woman gets his first job in the women's prison in the province. The story follows her struggle to survive in a small town with her small child, alcohol addiction, and the battle with the prisoners and prison brutality ...
Plot: women's prison, police officer, junkie, husband wife relationship, prisoner, prison, blood, hotel, drinking, airplane, police, sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 293
Pakshe (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Pakshe movie is all about Balachandran (Mohanlal) who had to sacrifice his childhood love (Shobhana), to marry into a rich family who only wanted his IAS Status, in order to save his poor family, lives a life of regret and despair for his decision.
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, marital separation, female writer, husband wife estrangement, unrequited love, debt, unhappy marriage, old love, suicide, love, marriage, poverty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to ...
Style: black and white, mondo, surreal
Plot: gypsy, black, social injustice, murder, business rivalry, bare chested male, girl man relationship, baby, horse, blood, marriage, wedding ...
Time: 60s
Place: eastern europe, balkan, serbia, belgrade, former yugoslavia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Sentimental Romance (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Near the close of the Russian Civil War, in 1923, a young man begins studying journalism at a worker newspaper and has a series of romantic adventures which cause him to mature swiftly. He rescues a beautiful girl from an abusive family situation, ...
Plot: journalist, death of father, widow, innocence, love triangle, teenage boy, newspaper, irony, love, death, teenage girl, friendship ...
Time: 1920s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.2
 431
Mountain Cry (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A pained cry pierces the heart of a rustic mountain town in Larry Yang’s remarkable second feature Mountain Cry. When La Hong (Yu Ailei) dies in an accident involving an explosive badger trap, naïve Han Chong (Wang Ziyi) obeys village decree and ...
Style: sentimental, disturbing, suspense, crying, surprise ending
Plot: abusive husband, mute, death of husband, widow, husband wife relationship, village, death, mute woman, theater, flashback, baby, blood ...
Time: 80s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Better Than Escape (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his career downhill out of political reasons he develops a drinking habit, his wife leaves him and takes their daughter to U.S.A.
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, actor, family abandonment, arrest, culture clash, alcoholic, vacation, marriage, car accident, drinking, drunkenness, husband wife relationship ...
Place: belgrade serbia, belgrade
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.3
 56
The Sunrise (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A train driver has a rival in his godson for his wife. During a crisis on the train, he refuses to kill him or let him die in a crash.
Plot: train, runaway train, love affair, drunk, engineer, fight, tank, love, truck, chase, friend, rain ...
Place: balkan, croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Mazhayethum Munpe (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Nandakumar is a college professor who wants to get the best treatment for his paralyzed fiancee, Uma Maheshwari. Trouble starts brewing when Shruthi, Nandakumar's student falls in love with him. Will Shruti let Uma unite with Nandakumar weaves ...
Plot: woman, love, flashback, suicide, marriage, college, love triangle, prank, professor, dysfunctional marriage, paralysis, depression ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.6
 90
Angel's Bite (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A lighthouse keeper lives on an isolated island together with his wife, ailing father and retarded sister. News of a serial killer stalking the isolated lighthouses makes him leave in order to hunt him down. In the meantime, the wife meets a ...
Style: dark, light
Plot: lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, cheating wife, isolation, rape, female pubic hair, nudity, sex starved woman, bare breasts, sexless marriage, female nudity, neglected wife ...
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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