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The Big Party (1986)
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The Big Party (1986)
Original name: La gran fiesta
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it's about to be turned into a US military base. The guests drink, seduce and gossip, but some also plot against each other.
Plot: palace, love, dancing, submarine, world war two, invasion, businessman, politics, betrayal, wealth, fascism, family relations, poet, high society, dancer, colony, mother daughter relationship, intrigue, historical event, brother sister relationship, blackmail, father son relationship, casino, district attorney, colonialism ...
Time: 1940s
Place: caribbean, puerto rico
Keyword: german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and sincere films with plots about love, family relations, love and romance, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship, dancer and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like The Big Party: More Time (1993), Love Love Love (1989), Tango Bar (1987), Restless (2012), Up at the Villa (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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More Time (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Zimbabwe
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Thandi finds out the complexities of love, when David, the schoolboy Mister Charming, coolly sweeps her off her feet.
Audience: teens
Plot: afrikaans, aids, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, dying, death, fear, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy, father daughter relationship, dancer, teenager, love ...
Place: zimbabwe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Love Love Love (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Widowed businessman, Sudhirbhai lives a wealthy lifestyle with his son, Vikram, who is student at National College. He is very affectionate toward Vikram and will do anything for him. His business partner is Goswami, who is also widowed, and has two ...
Style: romantic drama, realistic, serious
Plot: college, betrayal, opposites attract, vengeance, fall in love, love and romance, intrigue, couples, family relations, taxi, love affair, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Tango Bar (1987)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Argentina, Puerto Rico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After many years, Ricardo and Antonio, two former partners, will reunite in their Tango Bar in Buenos Aires. Ricardo, the partner still owning the bar, reminiscences the days of their old show "Esto es Tango" while waiting for Antonio.
Style: anthology, realistic, serious
Plot: tango, love triangle, politics, friendship, political unrest, folk hero, love and romance, state affairs, intrigue, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 7.1
 4K
Restless (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, mother daughter relationship, espionage, intrigue, secret hideout, spy, secret service, undercover, government agency, double agent, british secret service, secret place ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 70s, 1930s
Place: europe, united kingdom, new mexico, new york, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Up at the Villa (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot: widow, blackmail, refugee, vacation, destructive relationship, fall in love, couples, false accusation, dishonesty, seduction, intrigue, loveless marriage ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, pre world war two
Place: italy, florence, europe, rome italy, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Faneflukt (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 1941, Norway. The young kitchen maid Liv and the German officer Franz meet in the military camp where Liv works. They develop a friendship and decides to flee to Sweden.
Plot: world war two, desertion, father, love, escape, occupation, nazi, young
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Romeo & Juliet (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
Plot: shakespeare's romeo and juliet, shakespeare, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, love, father daughter relationship, family relations, male female relationship, teenager
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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The Portrait (2017)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A musical tale about two impoverished sisters' anguish over whether or not to sell the final masterpiece of their recluse father days before the second world war, in Manila.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, sincere, surprise ending ...
Plot: bourgeoisie, love interest, sister sister relationship, social issues, romantic obsession, young man, love, intrigue, friendship, betrayal, greed, politics ...
Time: 1940s
Place: manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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The Winds of Jarrah (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Australia 1946. A young woman escapes from an unhappy affair to become tutor to three children who are being raised by their uncle.
Style: independent film
Plot: woman, fiance fiancee relationship, teacher, uncle nephew relationship, nanny, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, uncle niece relationship, children, fiancee, brother sister relationship, governess ...
Time: 1940s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Style: romantic, touching, realistic, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, vineyard, pretend relationship, wine, parents and children, world war two, love story, estate, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 90s, post world war two
Place: san francisco, california, sacramento california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Gaby: A True Story (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Style: realistic, uplifting, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: disability, hopes, human spirit, college, misfit, forbidden love, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, love, teenage girl ...
Time: 1940s, year 1987, 1930s
Place: mexico, latin america, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Manhattan Merengue (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A realistic look at the life of a young immigrant man who comes to America with the hope of dancing on Broadway.
Style: independent film
Plot: dancing, drug addict, nightclub, shooting, american dream, subway, visa, drug dealing, dream, immigration, illegal immigration, consulate ...
Place: manhattan new york city, puerto rico, new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Everlasting Love (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An intern doctor falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, not knowing that she is a hostess at a night club and a single mother.
Style: soap opera
Plot: doctor, love, male female relationship, wealth, single mother, baby, jealousy, sister sister relationship, hospital, fall in love, family relations, cultural difference ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Europeans (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Henry James' novel with the same title. It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half ...
Style: historical drama, romantic drama, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: culture clash, couple relations, siblings, american history, marriage, baroness, family relations, love triangle, dysfunctional family, rural setting, unrequited love, autumn ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1979
Place: massachusetts, usa, europe, vienna, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
One Last Dance (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the wake of tragedy, a renowed New York dance company is on the brink of collapse. After leaving the dance world for good, Travis, Chrissa, and Max are pulled in to resurrect the dance that shattered their careers. They have one last chance to ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexy, romantic, independent film
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance school, lifestyle, follow your dream, performer's life, dancer's life, love and romance, showbiz, teenage love, redemption, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Strait Story (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, captivating
Plot: painter, world war two, historical event, sculptor, painting, japanese occupation, tragic event, death, ship, pianist, submarine, illness ...
Time: year 1943
Place: japan, china, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Those Who Pay with Their Lives (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography.
Plot: female nudity, theater, intrigue, unrequited love, ex soldier, publisher, poet, peeping, male female relationship, newspaper, politician, love ...
Time: post world war one
Place: bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Focus (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors. Suddenly the victims of religious and racial persecution, they find themselves aligned with a local Jewish immigrant ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot: racism, anti semitism, world war two, prejudice, mistaken identity, false accusation, injustice, job seeking, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, society ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 80
Blue Moon (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Corazon (Boots Anson Roa), an old Filipina who lives in Boston, wrote to each Manuel Pineda in her home a letter. She hopes to find her love again. In the Philippines experiences of the old Manuel Pineda (Eddie Garcia), meanwhile, that he has cancer ...
Plot: nurse, true love, soldier, handicapped, picture, argument, wedding, murder, marriage, airplane, road trip, hospital ...
Time: 1940s, year 1938
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Wild McCullochs (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.
Style: independent film, saga
Plot: korean war, domineering father, parent child relationship, american south, automobile, adolescence, father, trucking, trucker, marriage, jail, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 1950s
Place: texas, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Our Town (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
Plot: literary, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, wedding, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, small town, death, ghost, funeral, brother sister relationship, death in childbirth ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s
Place: new england, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Crossing (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A single day. To challenge the past. To accept the present. To decide the future. Sam arrives in his home town after 18 months away, hopeful that Meg, the girlfriend he abandoned, will go back with him to the city. His return brings the outside ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film, crying
Plot: car accident, small town, love triangle, tragedy, love, self sacrifice, car race, young love, homecoming, romantic rivalry, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1965, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Chinese Box (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Style: atmospheric, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: unrequited love, love, colonialism, culture clash, death, photography, couples, politics, journalism, basement, white man asian woman relationship, barmaid ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia, beijing china, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Inheritance (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this standard Hungarian drama, the effects of sterility and jealousy on a marriage are played out against a backdrop of World War II and the rising Nazi persecution of Jews. Director Marta Meszaros usually focuses on issues like pregnancy, ...
Plot: world war two, woman, jealousy, wealth, adultery, marriage, bare breasts, female nudity, unfaithfulness, infertility, love triangle, deportation ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1936, year 1944
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Washington Square (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
Style: costume drama, romantic, stylized, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love, betrayal, father daughter relationship, american history, gilded age, couple relations, love and romance, feminist, marriage, gay, amor, asexual ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1850s
Place: america, new york, geneva switzerland, alps, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style: psychological, sexy, romantic, costume drama, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: impossible love, new love, love, letter, magic realism, unlikely friendships, betrayal, multiple storylines, justice, visceral, epidemic, diary ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Prague Duet (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar.
Style: independent film, disturbing, sincere, sexual, psychological ...
Plot: fall in love, secret, doctor, couples, dishonesty, life is a bitch, womanizer, betrayal, love and romance, politics, state affairs, writer's life ...
Place: prague, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Kind of Loving (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.
Style: experimental, social, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: kitchen sink realism, working class, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, angry, post war, factory, love and romance, couple relations, workplace, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, manchester, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Battle: Freestyle (2022)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Amalie and Mikael lead their street dance team to the finals in France but tough competition and personal distractions threaten to ruin their dreams.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, dancer, dance, contests and competitions, dancer's life, ambition, relationships, couple relations, female protagonist, contest, rivalry, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Burnt by Frost (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When is an enemy not an enemy, when is an ally not an ally? The answer to these questions determines the fate of a man. Simons struggle is played out against the rugged landscape of northern Norway. Raised in a close-knit community, he bears the ...
Style: offbeat
Plot: world war two, nudity, male full rear nudity, narration, fisherman, communism, spy hero, fishing boat, nazi, traitor, german occupation, espionage ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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