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The High Wall (1964)
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Original name: Vysoká zeď
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka visits the man every day and witnesses his slow recovery, but she is unaware that she could have deeper feelings for him.
Style:
poignant, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, hospital, first love, innocence, coming of age, adolescence, compassion, recovery, paralysis, empathy, bittersweet, summer, healing, nostalgia, resilience, slice of life, intimate, intergenerational friendship, social realism, sisters, sister, teenager, teenage girl, girl, child protagonist ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia
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Most similar movies to The High Wall
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and poignant films with plots about intimate, coming of age, slice of life, bittersweet, friendship, first love and small town mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like The High Wall: Madhuram (2021), Love (1973), Prima Primavera (2009), Goodbye Summer (2019), Hear Me: Our Summer (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
"Love is sweet when it's new, it's sweeter when it's true".The movie mainly focuses on Sabu and Kevin, the two bystanders in the hospital. Sabu waits for his wife"s recovery, and Kevin, for his mother's surgery. ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, touching, feel good, independent film
Plot:
hospital, love story, relationships, compassion, marriage, friendship, life lesson, bonding, bittersweet, slice of life, empathy, second chance ...
Similarity:
95%
77
Genre: Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sixteen-year-old students of a grammar school are supposed to write essays on "Love". The class best student Andrea (Jaroslava Schallerová) writes about a patriotic love to a country as she has no experience with a partner love. She has ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, art house, sensual
Plot:
teenager, adolescence, coming of age, first love, intimate, divorce, bittersweet, identity, seduction, taboo, eroticism, love ...
Time:
70s
Place:
czechoslovakia, prague
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Bulgaria, Hungary, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A retarded 55 year old man loses his mother, his only support and care. A Gypsy girl with questionable past joins him on his desperate cross border journey during which they develop a friendship and "come of age" - each their very own way.
Style:
road movie, poignant, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
friendship, empathy, character study, self discovery, loss, grief, coming of age, bittersweet, intimate, loneliness, mourning, identity ...
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
A timeless teenage romance chronicling an impossible relationship that fights against the advance of a terminal disease.
Style:
sincere, romantic drama, sentimental, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, teen romance, first love, fight, high school sweetheart, best friend, fighting illness, relationships, life is a bitch, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager ...
Similarity:
89%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A job seeking dreamer Yong-jun works part-time at his parents' lunch box house. Yeo-reum lives only to support for hearing-impaired swimmer sister. One day, Yong-jun meets Yeo-reum while delivering lunch boxes and falls in love at the first ...
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
sign language, intimate, young love, empathy, heartwarming, slice of life, resilience, young adult, commitment, coming of age, summer, first love ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A 16-year-old girl embarks on a journey of life where she deals with understanding herself, the changing world, bullying, academic pressure and her transcending journey of first love.
Style:
realistic, emotional, art house, melancholic, tragic ending ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, first love, youth, female protagonist, teen romance, self discovery, slice of life, girlhood, high school life, adolescence, grownups ...
Place:
kannada
Similarity:
69%
9K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A pair of high school sweethearts face challenges in their relationship when they take different directions in life.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, young love, young adult, high school, first love, bittersweet, nostalgia, slice of life, teen angst, breakup, heartbreak, longing ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A nostalgic, coming-of-age story of identical twin sisters who share every aspect of their lives with one another, until one day a boy walks into their lives and puts their strong bond to the test.
Style:
semi serious, thrilling, captivating, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
twin sister, twins, coming of age, love triangle, sisterhood, family relations, relationships, male female relationship, grownups, relationship problems, sister sister relationship, sister ...
Place:
southeast asia
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
From teen years to adulthood, two friends linked by warmth and tension grow apart — until one is asked to accompany the other through her final days.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, reflective, sentimental
Plot:
friendship, intimate, life & death, relationships, coming of age, female friendship, terminal illness, empathy, bittersweet, mourning, reconciliation, grief ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, poignant, independent film
Plot:
poverty, small town, unemployment, working class, struggle, social realism, everyday life, child protagonist, dream, empathy, aspiration, slice of life ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Wandering around wine bars and pubs drinking, thirty-year old worker Oldrich (Petr Kostka), who is celebrating the birth of his son, meets a seventeen-year old lad called Yellow T-shirt Boy (Vladimír Pucholt). Yellow T-shirt Boy is a problematic ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, poignant
Plot:
fatherhood, compassion, character study, working class, social realism, male protagonist, male bonding, friendship, alienation, bittersweet, coming of age, redemption ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czechoslovakia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Occupied by family problems, a 13 year old Vojto takes every responsibility around the house. One day while on a train to school, he sees this girl, Kajka, and falls madly in love with her. Despite his busy life, he decides to win her heart by any ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
first love, coming of age, young love, grownups, childhood love, domestic drama, responsibility, working class family, slice of life, train station, small town life, intimate ...
Place:
czechoslovakia
Similarity:
54%
143
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life ...
Style:
emotional, sensitive, poignant, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, character study, intimate, family drama, bittersweet, relationships, introspection, coming of age, regret, male protagonist, nostalgia, slice of life ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s
Place:
france
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
There is a woman who gets married, her husband buys a scooter on the same day, and later, he abandons both. The story is woven around the parallel lives of the scooter and the woman, who go through the same situation.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, independent film, art house
Plot:
woman, female protagonist, marriage, abandonment, character study, loss, loneliness, metaphor, domestic drama, symbolism, modern life, slice of life ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mansoor, a 16 year-old teenager, living in a coastal "freej" (an Emirati neighborhood), has strong feelings for 16 year-old girl Kaltham. But culture and tradition, as well as family hardship, make it difficult for him to express his ...
Style:
realistic
Plot:
teenager, first love, coming of age, young love, personal growth, wooing, coastal town, intimate, small town life, slice of life, male protagonist, identity ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young doctor Nikolai Alexandrovich Zaostrovtsev, a fourth generation medical professional, found himself in the Gladuny village directly after the Institute. Neither he himself, nor his father, a town surgeon, expected that he would linger long ...
Style:
medical drama, heartfelt, serious, melancholic
Plot:
village, compassion, small town life, humanism, countryside, realism, slice of life, community, provincial, duty, intimate, humble ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Style:
sincere, captivating, disturbing, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
handicapped, man in a wheelchair, wheelchair bound, rich and poor, journey, nostalgia, cruise ship, physical disability, care, friendship, disability, lifestyle ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Maja's boyfriend travels to India for a couple of months, she is left with no place to stay. She begins lodging with Mattias, a young unemployed man with a group of slacker friends and a 'seize the day' attitude to life. At first ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
slice of life, female protagonist, intimate, social realism, youth culture, personal growth, self discovery, coming of age, aimlessness, urban, bittersweet, irresponsible ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1980s, this family drama is about an 11-year-old boy who befriends his landlord, nicknamed Old Fox, and learns from him how to survive in a rapidly changing world as well as things his poor father would never be able to teach him.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
grownups, family drama, life lesson, coming of age, child protagonist, family bonds, working class, resilience, character study, poverty, intergenerational friendship, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Masha is a young girl from the suburbs from an extremely poor family. She lives in her reality, where she cares for her grandmother and her younger brother, and dreams of her own family and a husband; she badly longs for warmth, love and care. She ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, disturbing, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
illness, hospital, doctor, love triangle, dysfunctional family, cheating girlfriend, doctor patient relationship, life turned upside down, cure, fall in love, poverty, older man younger woman sex ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man finds a way to spend his last few days of freedom before joining the army. Set in eastern Bosnia in summer of 1968.
Style:
reflective, period drama
Plot:
summer, youth, coming of age, friendship, rite of passage, grownups, male bonding, small town, melancholy, nostalgia, bittersweet, uncertainty ...
Time:
60s
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rino Sakuragi (Yuna Taira) is a high school student. She is good friends with Ren Kiritani (Alan Shirahama) who attends the same high school. They have been close since their middle school days. Rino holds special feelings for Ren Kiritani, but she ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, romantic drama, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
youth, japanese schoolgirl, japanese girl, als, teen romance, high school, love, love affair, couple relations, relationships, young lovers, lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Coming of age, summer camp and first love...
Style:
emotional, light hearted, period piece, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, school trip, first love, coming of age, summer camp, friendship, innocence, self discovery, puberty, classmate, sexual awakening, high school life ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Five women, Anikha, Isha, Gauri, Kullante and Aami, undergo life-changing experiences with regard to love.
Style:
anthology, emotional, poignant, sensitive, realistic ...
Plot:
love, slice of life, character study, bittersweet, everyday life, intimacy, urban, longing, social realism, hopes, desire, female empowerment ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Paulina, a trainee social worker doing her internship in a reintegration center, meets Manuel, with whom she starts a friendship that promps her to question her vocation and begin a 'second adolescence', this time free from the tyranny of ...
Style:
realistic, independent film, emotional, contemplative, poignant ...
Plot:
friendship, social work, loss of innocence, social realism, social inequality, empathy, real world, coming of age, poverty, social commentary, youth, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the 1990s, two girls and a boy enter a booming society with the hope of fulfilling their many dreams.
Style:
psychological, talky, romantic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
boy, dream, couple relations, love and romance, youth, coming of age, teenage love, love, lovers, couples, teenager, young lovers ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Joe, who is reeling from a heartbreak by his college sweetheart Suchitra, reluctantly marries Shruthi , who isn't ready to accept him as her husband because of the ghosts from her own past.
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, melancholic, sentimental
Plot:
heartbreak, longing, self discovery, healing, forgiveness, intimate, slice of life, young adult, resilience, loss, unrequited love, love triangle ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
friendship, poverty, coming of age, grownups, adolescence, female friendship, girl, loss of innocence, urban, working class, intimate, slice of life ...
Time:
1910s, turn of the century
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
August 2020. The lives of three young professionals intersect in the post-pandemic lock-down Ibiza where they will try to overcome their personal tragedies, rediscover themselves and move on.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, dramatic, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, beach, relationships, grief, male female relationship, relationship problems, love affair, destiny, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, recovery ...
Place:
ibiza
Similarity:
38%
150
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Moldova
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Anishoara is a 15 years old girl from a small village in Moldova. Her village is situated in a picturesque valley between rolling hills. Life seems calm but archaic alone with her old grandfather Petru and her little brother Andrei. In summer she ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, disturbing, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, teenager, village, first love, village life, female protagonist, coming of age, teenage life, teenage girl, teenage love, teen romance, life is a bitch ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
37%
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