Movies like Cantata
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Cantata (1963)
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Original name: Oldás és kötés
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.
Style:
reflective, serious, melancholic, meditative, art house, ambiguous ending, intellectual, freeze frame
Plot:
village life, existentialism, loss of faith, character study, isolation, getting home, alienation, moral dilemma, identity, symbolism, minimalism, post war, nostalgia, social realism, modernism, loneliness, doctor, hospital, bull, surgery, filmmaking, inferiority complex, countryside, heart surgery, slaughterhouse ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
hungary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, existential and ambiguous ending films with plots about character study, isolation, minimalism, loneliness, alienation, psychological drama and identity mostly in Drama and War genres. Some movies like Cantata: K (2015), Putulnacher Itikatha (2025), The Bird (2011), DeAD (2013), Don't Look Too Far (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle".
Style:
thrilling, captivating, philosophical, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
castle, village, remote village, countryside, village life, isolation, outsider, alienation, bureaucracy, stranger, existentialism, adaptation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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109
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 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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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An eternal landscape from the Yesilcam.
Style:
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Plot:
memory, isolation, loneliness, reflection, symbolism, character study, minimalism, women's issues, absurdism, landscape
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. Nina, a doctor, has taken a few days off. Her husband Frieder is busy laying tiles, while their daughter Charlotte plays in her new room. But Nina is ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, ambiguous ending, slow cinema, erotic ...
Plot:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An artist's life who lives in a village of Kurdistan,Iran has been changed because his nephew enters to the village.
Style:
art house, contemplative, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
character study, solitude, loneliness, isolation, family reunited, introspection, slow burn, social realism, nostalgia, getting home, family secret, coming of age ...
Place:
kurdistan, iran
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a doctor, and their attempts to escape from their dead-end situations.
Style:
existential, melancholic, surreal, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
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Place:
poland
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172
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 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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Similarity:
74%
678
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn't looking for fame or glory. He's looking for a way to heal his wounded ...
Style:
serious, realistic, existential, art house, reflective ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
kazakhstan, asia
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255
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, art house, period piece
Plot:
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Time:
1950s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, art house, tragic ending, tragicomedy
Plot:
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Place:
poland
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
hungary
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Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, reflective, art house
Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Soviet Union
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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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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
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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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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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This life period of the main character Felix (L. Lutvinsky) coincides with rather complicated period of country history Chernenko dies, Gorbachev succeeds him, then Ligachev criticizes Eltsin, county is reined by deficit, backstairs influence, ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, existential, period piece
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
reflective, existential, melancholic, bleak, philosophical ...
Plot:
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