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Yearning (1964)
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Original name: δΉ±γγ
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.
Style:
melancholic, tragic
Plot:
death of husband, war widow, female protagonist, determination, family conflict, post war japan, resilience, bombing, domestic drama, motorcycle, nostalgia, everyday life, moral dilemma, social realism, storekeeper, urbanization, family relations, widow, grief, marriage, siblings, unrequited love, love, fight, train ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, romantic drama and emotional films with plots about female protagonist, love, slice of life, loneliness, unrequited love, marriage and character study mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Yearning: Two in the Shadow (1967), Pakshe (1994), Pranayam (2011), Days for Amanda (2010), Beneath a Neon Tide (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, serious, gloomy, atmospheric
Plot:
abortion, japanese wife, love story, summer, outsider, forbidden love, death of husband, widow, car accident, funeral, demotion, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
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95%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, realistic
Plot:
unrequited love, regret, unfulfilled love, tragic love, family drama, sacrifice, heartbreak, class conflict, moral dilemma, social status, tragic hero, arranged marriage ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Menon runs into his former wife Grace, who is married to a bedridden Mathew and loves him immensely. The movie revolves around their crossing and emotes the meaning of love and its various forms.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, realistic, romantic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
american football, love triangle, domestic drama, bittersweet, longing, marriage, compassion, sacrifice, second chance, lost love, forgiveness, nostalgia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
With just 10 days until her wedding, Amanda's world is turned upside down when her ex suddenly reappears, forcing her to question everything she thought she wanted.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
love triangle, indecision, regret, second chance, sexual identity, female protagonist, slow burn, intimate, bittersweet, nostalgia, slice of life, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Andy is a young man on a downward spiral. A sequence of incidents followed by the death of his beloved grandmother trigger Andy's parents to react and send him away from the city. Andy moves in with his uncle David and begins working at the ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, sad, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
addiction, cinema, grief, mourning, loss, substance abuse, coming of age, small town, isolation, male protagonist, character study, family conflict ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Teruko is a 28-year-old office worker. 5 months ago, she fell in love with Mamoru at first sight. Since that time, she has not cared about her work or her friends. She then loses her job and her friends look at her coldly. Yet, Teruko is happy as ...
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
obsession, unrequited love, heartbreak, love, japanese woman, female protagonist, relationships, couples, fall in love, family relations, relationship vs career, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young woman lost her fiancΓ© from the plane clash , later she discover that she becomes pregnant with his baby.She question herself what should she do between keep the child safe until she give a birth or she abortion the child.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental
Plot:
female protagonist, single mother, women's issues, motherhood, pregnancy, sacrifice, moral dilemma, domestic drama, family secret, illegitimacy, family honor, reputation ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife.
Plot:
male female relationship, family relations, female protagonist, feminist, children, grief, widow, death, living together, mother, boy, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
year 1981
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, captivating, romantic, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, retirement, aging, family relations, retirement home life, gymnastics, love and romance, relationships, lifestyle, male female relationship, hobby, senior citizen ...
Similarity:
36%
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:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, tension, psychological, period piece
Plot:
loneliness, tenderness, disability, character study, correspondence, siblings, mature, bittersweet, revelation, moral dilemma, unrequited love, awkwardness ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
france, brittany
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This Hong Kong drama parallels the stories of two young couples, splicing them with dream sequences and a framing story set at a coffee bar where friends have gathered to talk.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, sentimental
Plot:
marriage, urban, desire, longing, heartache, bittersweet, infidelity, female protagonist, love triangle, pregnancy, domestic drama, unrequited love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china
Similarity:
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291
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, widow, love, fall in love, life is a bitch, soldier, humanism, family tragedy, character study, intimate, memory, grief ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Parvaneh's father is in prison for theft. Farhad, a young teacher who is her father's ally, is in touch with Parvaneh from time to time to do some of Iraj's work. One day, Farhad expresses interest in Parvaneh and invites her to visit ...
Style:
melancholic, suspenseful
Plot:
prison, female protagonist, moral dilemma, social realism, family bonds, poverty, secrets, longing, branding iron, intimacy, minimalism, slow burn ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Shinichi and his younger wife, Saki (Marina Yuuri), are newly married, but Shinichi's thin salary makes life difficult and Saki is looking for a part. After that, Saki, who won the public corporation apartment that she applied for in ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, melancholic
Plot:
seduction, erotica, newlyweds, family relations, love affair, relationships, couple relations, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, seductress, girl next door, affair ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The love story of a Soviet officer wounded in battle and the woman who shelters him during the German occupation of the Great Patriotic War. Multifaceted and ambiguous, this film spans twenty years of love, joy, and sorrow.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
wounded soldier, world war two, female protagonist, sacrifice, suspicion, moral dilemma, heroism, political persecution, rescue, betrayal, patriotism, introspection ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
poignant, melancholic, fairy tale
Plot:
fairy, family drama, grief, imagination, healing, divorce, loneliness, coming of age, bittersweet, symbolism, family conflict, loss of spouse ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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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 ...
Style:
poignant, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, hospital, innocence, coming of age, first love, compassion, empathy, adolescence, paralysis, recovery, bittersweet, summer ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
29%
151
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, bleak, realistic
Plot:
marriage, family drama, arranged marriage, gender roles, female protagonist, slice of life, midlife crisis, patriarchy, motherhood, resilience, city life, betrayal
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, inspirational, melancholic, offbeat, parallel cinema ...
Plot:
blindness, disability, blind character, resilience, independence, social issues, character study, male protagonist, blind man, marriage, compassion, empathy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mumbai india
Similarity:
28%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
manipulative woman, family drama, second marriage, ex couple relations, troubled marriage, marital problem, ex husband ex wife relationship, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, family relations, family problems, relationships ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, poignant, gloomy, period drama
Plot:
nostalgia, longing, female protagonist, loneliness, social change, abandonment, bittersweet, city life, tragic romance, loss, memory, identity ...
Time:
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Place:
shanghai
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
lyon, israel, canada, paris france
Similarity:
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298
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
3-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.
Style:
period piece, reflective, poignant, melancholic, sentimental
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new england, new hampshire
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the ...
Style:
reflective, emotional, poignant, meditative, existential ...
Plot:
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Place:
armenia, caucasus, moscow russia, russia, soviet union ...
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Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, reflective, poignant, tense, melancholic
Plot:
unrequited love, female protagonist, longing, heartbreak, love triangle, arranged marriage, resilience, bittersweet, jealousy, family home, self discovery, personal growth ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, reflective, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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