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The Butterfly's Dream (2013)
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Original name: Kelebeğin Rüyası
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, captivating, realistic, stylized, romantic, educational, sad, epic
Plot:
world war two, poet, love and romance, friendship, bet, hopes, teachers and students, poverty, follow your dream, lifestyle, competition, poetry, writers, literature, teacher, friends, young lovers, artists and showbiz, twentysomething life, health situation, power relations, love, fight, island, wedding ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 40s
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, artists and showbiz, love, writers, writer's life and friendship mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like The Butterfly's Dream: Kurt Seyit and Şura (2014), What the Day Owes the Night (2012), Love Likes Coincidences (2011), The Color of Time (2012), The Outlaw (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
A Turkish lieutenant and the daughter of Russian nobles fight for their love against forces of family and social expectation and historical events.
Style:
captivating, romantic, realistic
Plot:
friendship, wedding, marriage, jealousy, nobleman, trust, soldier, world war one, hopes, betrayal, marriage proposal, deception ...
Time:
future, post world war one
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
young lovers, friendship, teenage love, youth, political unrest, revolution, love and romance, friends, love story, fall in love, cult, love ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, 70s ...
Place:
algeria
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Year 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crashes into Omer's car. The causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies ...
Style:
romantic, inspirational, sentimental, emotional, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
destiny, true love, life, love triangle, hopes, love and romance, power of love, couples, fall in love, heart disease, love, childhood memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poet, poetry, parent child relationship, writer's life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, americana, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, professional, art ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s ...
Place:
detroit, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, Brazil, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the life of Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega, who dominated Spain’s early Golden Age of Theatre in the 16th Century. Lope returns home from war and enters the theatre world when a producer’s beautiful daughter takes a ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, clever, stylized ...
Plot:
playwright, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, love and romance, writers, womanizer, writer's life, artists and showbiz, scandal, employer employee relationship, sex scene ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
spain, portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
writer's life, life turned upside down, poet, artists and showbiz, disorder, writers, historical character, literature, life philosophy, arts and culture, relationships, lifestyle ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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41%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
mute or deaf, love and romance, couples, social misfits, workplace, hopes, leaving home, call center, mute character, self discovery, society, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1951 New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Although ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian couple, lesbian love, writer's life, love and romance, love, lgbt, american abroad, writers, lgbtq, couples, couple relations ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century, year 1951
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
writers, introspection, gays and lesbians, love and romance, gender, writer's life, gay, lgbt, suicide, visionary, art, poet ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
ohio, new york, usa, paris france, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Τwo sisters from the island of Andros, dubbed Little England because of its affluence, are both in love with the same man. Set in the Greek Civil War period and ending in the 1950s, the movie is based on the homonymous novel by Ioanna Karystiani.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, stylized, emotional ...
Plot:
love and romance, island, lovers apart, love triangle, sister sister relationship, marriage, love, infidelity, love story, relationships, beach, torment ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, epic
Plot:
opera, tragic love, ambition, lifestyle, couples, love and romance, performer's life, society, warning, music, unfulfillment, chinese ...
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, sexy, stylized ...
Plot:
writers, love story, destiny, friendship, bittersweet, couples, hospital, loneliness, love, summer, melancholy, creativity ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
texas, ireland, louisiana, usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance, Sport
Country: Serbia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
soccer, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, love and romance, young lovers, hopes, coach, talented, fan, championship, post war ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
uruguay, former yugoslavia, serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Selma is a 2 parts drama series based on Swedish world renowned novelist Selma Lagerlöf’s life. In the first part, Selma is in Sicily with her lover Sophie Elkan. The second part is years later, when Selma receives the Nobel Price.
Style:
captivating, sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
forbidden love, secret love, friendship, rivalry, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, prostitute, nobel prize, girl, jealousy, dinner, sexism, nobel prize winner ...
Time:
20th century, 1890s
Place:
sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
literature, writers, writer's life, tuberculosis, family relations, life is a bitch, obsession, couple relations, artists and showbiz, siblings relations, convict, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influence and escape from China during World War II.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
writer's life, writers, chinese, love, political unrest, society, family relations, rivalry, betrayal, inspiration, couples, literature ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
china, ancient china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style:
serious, stylized, captivating, psychological, edutainment ...
Plot:
love affair, war correspondent, writers, divorce, media, spanish civil war, journalist, fame, world war two, couples, writer's life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Based on Skármeta's book, this is the story of a poor postman in Isla Negra who befriends Pablo Neruda and asks his help writing poems to the woman of his dreams.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric
Plot:
politics, bittersweet, friends, love affair, fall in love, small town, friendship, looking for love, state affairs, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, love and romance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII, the movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad ek (Thai xylophone) mallets ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
musician's life, ambition, lifestyle, rebellion, fighting the system, prodigy, politics, life is a bitch, rivalry, injustice, society, countryside ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In an eastern Turkish town, suitors knock on the door of the mayor and father of three beautiful daughters who choose to follow their own paths.
Style:
romantic, psychological, disturbing, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
garden, romantic relationship, love and romance, love story, relationships, love affair, father daughter relationship, father and daughter, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, life, sister sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Turkey
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A look inside the story of two newlyweds who are parted from each other and spend the next half-century of their lives trying to reunite.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, touching, non-linear ...
Plot:
husband wife reunion, labor camp, life is a bitch, wartime life, love affair, love, caucasian, marriage, couples, flashback, world war two, relationships ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1940s, year 1941
Place:
europe, turkey, kazakhstan
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
With the help of their high school's newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set their sights on a national robotics contest. With $800 and parts scavenged from old cars, they ...
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feel good, uplifting, serious, captivating, sincere ...
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Plot:
follow your dream, trophy, contests and competitions, teachers and students, inventions and discoveries, youth, dedicated educator, against the odds, ambition, high school, teacher, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Style:
enigmatic, touching, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, mathematics, love, scientist, life philosophy, science, couples, love and romance, death, catastrophe, life is a bitch, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
new mexico, new york, new orleans, usa, albuquerque new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Biography
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the 20th anniversary of Federico Fellini’s death, Ettore Scola, a devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro, commemorates the lesser-known aspects of Fellini’s personality, employing interviews, photographs, behind-the-scenes footage as ...
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realistic, serious, sincere, factual, captivating ...
Plot:
movie business, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, ambition, follow your dream, friendship, desire for fame, memories, historical figure, direction and purpose, director ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 50s
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, serious, gothic, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
poet, forbidden love, literature, young lovers, relationship problems, love and romance, renegade, tragedy, frustration, social misfits, female writer, writers ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era, 1810s
Place:
london, switzerland, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sweet, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
correspondence, friendship, bookstore, writers, death, post war, marriage, dentist, longing, pen pal, love, bittersweet ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, london, england, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in 1898, Cambridge, Massachusetts, depicts Annie Sullivan Macy supporting her student Helen Keller at Radcliffe College.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
deaf, disability, power relations, youth, young heroes, hopes, dedicated educator, mute or deaf, misfit, love and romance, human spirit, teachers and students ...
Time:
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38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, tense, factual, art film ...
Plot:
poet, artist, friendship, gay, gay relationship, painter, political unrest, lgbt, friends, gay love, closeted homosexual, art ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
James Franco's Sal chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, captivating, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
writers, introspection, regret, love and romance, looking for love, maid, society, countryside, sister sister relationship, women, love, coming of age ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, georgian era
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
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38%
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