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The Wicket Gate (1974)
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Original name: Drzwi w murze
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wiktor Zawadzki is a playwright who flies to Gdansk to have a look at the rehearsals of his new avantgarde play. Although the play asks serious existential questions, the stage director and the actors have no artistic idea for it. Unable to find a room in a hotel, he ends up in a private house inhabited by an old woman and her young attractive daughter Krystyna. Wiktor becomes briefly involved in their lives - he has a love affair with the daughter and discovers the truth about the mother's difficult mental condition.
Style:
tension, suspense
Plot:
sex, maniac, airplane, artist, train, writers, schizophrenia, art, love triangle, photographer, schizophrenic, hotel, mental patient, theater, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, photograph, telephone call, actress, lodger, flashback, rehearsal, poison, playwright, theatre director ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Duration: 157 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 252 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
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44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: South Africa, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Similarity:
40%
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Country: Poland
Duration: 101 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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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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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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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Poland
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, psychological, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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