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Werther (1986)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. The boy's mother is a surgeon and therefore a rather uncommon woman for her society. She and Werther gradually become romantically involved, and his feelings for her begin to run much deeper than is apparent on the surface.
Style:
romantic drama, art house, period piece, nostalgic
Plot:
melancholy, loneliness, unrequited love, isolation, literary, male protagonist, coastal town, bittersweet, tragic romance, estranged couple, love, teacher, house, boy, suicide, surgeon, father son relationship, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, tutor, tragic event, mother son relationship, young, female director
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, romantic drama and period piece films with plots about bittersweet, loneliness, isolation, unrequited love, love, character study and intimate mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Werther: Hide and Seek (1980), Pan (1995), False Eyelash (1982), Small Country (2008), Left Out (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 90 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 84 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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Place:
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Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
30%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
29%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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103
Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Story:
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Time:
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