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Our Grand Despair (2011)
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Our Grand Despair (2011)
Original name: Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The peaceful cohabitation of two 30-something bachelors is disrupted when they both fall in love with the charming young woman who moves in with them.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, art house
Plot: friendship, love triangle, fall in love, partner, love and romance, lifestyle, bittersweet, buddies, gay, lgbt, loner, advice, friends, communication problem, thirtysomething life, love, best friend, literature, roommate, friend, gay interest, getting along, romance, turkish
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: turkey
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and sentimental films with plots about friendship, friends, love and romance, couples, fall in love, lgbt and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Our Grand Despair: Love in Another Language (2009), Doubt (2003), Atomic Age (2012), A Cartomante (2004), Woman Is the Future of Man (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love in Another Language (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Onur, who has been deaf since birth, works as a librarian. His father had left him and his mother when he was seven, and Onur has always blamed himself for this. Although being able to speak, he has chosen to stay silent because of the pitying looks ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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Doubt (2003)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 112 min.
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Atomic Age (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the ...
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A Cartomante (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rita is about to marry a wealthy physician, Dr. Augusto Vilela. One night, Vilela's best friend, Camilo, is brought to the hospital, dying from an overdose. Vilela saves his life and introduces him to his fiancée. Rita and Camilo fall in love ...
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Duration: 88 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
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