Movies like The Howling Miller
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The Howling Miller (1982)
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Original name: Ulvova mylläri
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse.
Plot:
forest, runaway, countryside, robbery, drug use, police chase, secret love, village, nature, loneliness, escape, summer, doctor, mental institution, fall in love, manhunt, male female relationship, living alone, country doctor, individualism, search party, squad, small village, narrow mindedness, hiding place ...
Place:
finland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, cult film, realistic and semi serious films with plots about countryside, summer, male female relationship, family relations, village, nature and male nudity mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Howling Miller: Backwood Philosopher (2009), Lampaansyöjät (1972), Konopielka (1982), Night or Day (1962), The Year of the Hare (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the ...
Style:
thinking
Plot:
male nudity, summer, drunk, narrow mindedness, loner, male objectification, knowledge, nude, scientific research, individuality, countryside, explorer ...
Place:
eastern europe, finland
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
restaurant, food, tourist, poaching, sheep, buddy, lapland, manhood, countryside, autumn, boat, theft ...
Time:
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Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. ...
Plot:
female nudity, village, countryside, civilization, village idiot, male female relationship, prophet, sickle
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Plot:
tradition, summer, village life, secretary, professor, nature, sauna, village, foreigner, culture, assistant, research ...
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic
Plot:
nature, forest, wilderness, survival, midlife crisis, freedom, lapland, rabbit, misfit, introspection, animal life, friends ...
Time:
70s
Place:
finland, europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A sly riff on the Prodigal Son story, Mika Kaurismaki's latest — about a joyless workaholic concert pianist who ends up on a wild ride with his long-lost rapscallion father — is a funny and cogent analysis of machismo, abandonment issues ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, captivating, road movie ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family relations, on the road, absent father, estrangement, parents and children, road trip, dysfunctional family, getting home, legacy, survival, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Pekka (Martti Suosalo) saapuu pitkästä aikaa kotiseudulleen pieneen Jerusalemin kylään juhlistamaan kylän viimeisiä häitä. Hänen oma avioliittonsa näyttää ajautuneen umpikujaan. Kylän väki kokoontuu valmistelemaan tätä viimeistä ...
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semi serious, realistic, touching, emotional, humorous ...
Plot:
wedding, countryside, couples, social relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, village life, village, bittersweet, finnish, middle aged man, middle aged woman ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
Plot:
train, marriage, simple man, rain, progress, railway, country, class differences, countryside, summer, drunk, winter ...
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A film by Jari Halonen
Style:
cult film
Plot:
lenin, execution, socialist, revolution, vampirism, socialism, communist, hanging, suicide attempt, village idiot, robbery, vampire ...
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47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
traumatic childhood, train conductor, unfaithful husband, male female relationship, selfishness, retirement home, mother in law, pregnancy, cheating, jealousy, fall in love, dementia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on ...
Plot:
world war two, boy, russo finnish war, wartime life, childhood, children in wartime, nazi officer, teenager, skiing, nazi soldier, group of friends, ski ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1944, year 1943, year 1942
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
summer, love, friendship, student, infidelity, adultery, unfaithful husband, fall in love, love and romance, beach, art, holiday ...
Time:
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Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
female nudity, drunk, finnish, drunken man, interrogation, police interrogation, rainstorm, male nudity, police officer, reckless driving, wrestling, dream ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into tow on a big black motorcycle with her androgenic boyfriend Zack, wearing ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous
Plot:
gay, motorcycle, inheritance, free spirit, village, lgbt, small town, countryside, mansion, search for father, summer, funeral ...
Time:
90s
Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Heavily built young woman Kaisu comes to work in a small grocery store in the countryside, run by a bossy old lady and her tiny and quiet grown-up son Erni. Faced with a common enemy, the unlikely young couple find support in each other, despite ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Nostalgic comedy set in the early 1960s, when the tango was all the rage. The "prodigal son" Tenho returns from his unlucky adventures in the city back to his parents' farm. Tenho becomes the laughing stock of local men until he ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river – without wanting to disrupt the mystery of their relationship, between restrained sensuality and childhood ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, sincere, realistic, semi documentary ...
Plot:
youth, deaf, teenage life, love and romance, young lovers, summer, mute or deaf, forest, countryside, friends, best friends, misfit ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Josefin is a six year old girl who lives isolated in the countryside, where her father is a priest. She has no friends until she meets Hugo. He is a carefree boy who rather walk in the forest than goes to school. Together with the gardener they make ...
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Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A vignette of stories from the small town of Pölhölä, known as the Village of Simpletons.
Plot:
countryside, weirdo, cow, scheming, corrupt official, corruption, old man, grandfather, village idiot, village, end of the world, stupidity ...
Time:
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Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Whoever said dog is man's best friend never met Mij! Mij is a cute, cuddly pet shop otter who captures the heart of Graham Merill (Bill Travers). It doesn't take Graham long to realize that London is no place to raise a slippery otter. So ...
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disturbing, semi serious, exciting, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
countryside, nature, beach, animals, otter, pets, goose, shark, obsessive quest, heroes, escapades, animal life ...
Time:
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Place:
scotland, london, scottish highlands, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
past, elderly couple, male female relationship, nostalgia, train station, old age, mental institution, escape, strongman, individuality, suicide, self esteem ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Lasse is an old racist who has lives in an apartment block filled with a selection of refugees and immigrants. Kamal is a 16-year old boy who's fed up in his life in Finland, and dreams of moving to Nairobi to live with his father. Only problem ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
All the people in this countryside area, can count on Jean-Pierre, the doctor who auscultates them, heals and reassures them day and night, 7 days a week. Now Jean-Pierre is sick, so he sees Natalie, a young doctor, coming from the hospital to ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
doctor, hospital, female doctor, doctor patient relationship, countryside, cancer, doctors, treatment, fighting illness, doctors and patients, illness, workplace ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx ...
Style:
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Plot:
road trip, friendship, brutality, male nudity, mentor, bittersweet, satire, manipulation, deadpan, catastrophe, chase, tragedy ...
Place:
new jersey, sweden, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mikko Niskanen's famous new wave film about the '60s urban intellectuals who get faced in the Finnish countryside with loads of beer.
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to ...
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Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
finland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, China
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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