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The House of Bernarda Alba (1991)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
Style:
tense, art house, period piece
Plot:
jealousy, tragedy, illicit affair, repression, claustrophobia, family conflict, domestic drama, femininity, envy, mature, isolation, hypocrisy, sexual frustration, intimate, literary, religion, small town, social class, suicide, tradition, authoritarianism, mother daughter relationship, half sister, death of husband, oppression ...
Time:
1920s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, tense, melancholic and independent film films with plots about psychological drama, isolation, intimate, character study, jealousy, small town and tragedy mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The House of Bernarda Alba: Miss Julie (2009), Conquering the Rose (2012), Petya of My Petya (2021), Twice a Man (1963), Sock It To My Baby (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physician.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, independent film, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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281
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A sexually frustrated policeman starts investigating the doings of his wife.
Style:
psychological, bleak, tense, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
jealousy, sexual frustration, adultery, infidelity, humiliation, shame, character study, moral ambiguity, betrayal, chinese culture, machismo, moral dilemma ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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112
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
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39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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