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Spring Night (1976)
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Original name: Vårnatt
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A story of two siblings who for the first time spend a night without their parents, and are visited by strangers who ask for room for the night. Based on the novel by Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas.
Style:
tension, atmospheric, melancholic, suspenseful, period drama
Plot:
farm, birth, sibling relationship, spring, responsibility, conflict, domestic drama, isolation, loss of innocence, outsider, midwife, moral dilemma, hospitality, empathy, small town, coming of age, adaptation, youth, funeral, sex, depression, death, mental illness, male female relationship, stranger ...
Time:
60s, year 1970, 1960s
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Most similar movies to Spring Night
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, atmospheric, realistic and emotional films with plots about coming of age, isolation, small town, bittersweet, intimate, youth and moral dilemma mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Spring Night: When the Whales Came (1989), Love is Never Silent (1985), Shocking Blue (2010), Kimen (1974), The Maiden (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life ...
Style:
atmospheric, poignant, melancholic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
whale, world war one, friendship, children, isolation, fishing village, secrets, coming of age, village life, folklore, moral dilemma, empathy ...
Time:
1910s, year 1989
Place:
cornwall
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds ...
Style:
melancholic, heartfelt, period drama
Plot:
parent child relationship, family drama, guilt, great depression, female protagonist, sacrifice, family conflict, responsibility, empathy, deaf, moral dilemma, personal growth ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
William, Jack and Chris have been friends for as long as they can remember - until that day in April when Jack ends up under the wheels of a tractor, his body crushed, William at the wheel. Suddenly nothing is left of the boys' friendship. ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, tension, atmospheric, dramatic ...
Plot:
friendship, guilt, trauma, accident, grief, regret, loss, coming of age, adolescence, loss of innocence, male friendship, secrets ...
Place:
netherlands
Similarity:
75%
71
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On a small green island out in the sea, they live in harmony - until a stranger comes. Like a hurricane this rocks the small society, and a killing lets all hidden forces loose.
Style:
tension, dark, suspense, allegory, atmospheric ...
Plot:
island, small community, mass hysteria, fear, murder, violence, isolation, human nature, anger, paranoia, tragedy, hate ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A perfect summer day ends in tragedy, weaving a cosmic connection between three suburban teenagers.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, atmospheric, tragic ending, dramatic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, disappearance, coming of age, friendship, missing person, loss of innocence, summer, youth, loss, guilt, small town, trauma ...
Similarity:
67%
815
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
At long last, one of the most important novels in Norwegian history will be made into a film. Beatles relates the story of four Oslo boys born in 1951 and hooked on The Beatles, from the time they as seventh graders find themselves on the threshold ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, sentimental, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
true love, the beatles, friendship, coming of age, unrequited love, first love, friendship between boys, teenage boy, nostalgia, grownups, boy girl friendship, crush ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When two outsiders arrive on an isolated intentional community, seventeen-year old Anahita begins to question her role at home, and what a future out in the world-at-large could be.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, independent film, atmospheric, melancholic
Plot:
self discovery, coming of age, female protagonist, young woman, character study, identity crisis, 17 year old, teenage angst, isolation, farm, friendship, escape ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.
Style:
psychological, poignant, emotional, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental health, sisters, self discovery, suicide attempt, writers, women, suicide, family drama, sibling relationship, life is a bitch, sister sister relationship, introspection ...
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the ...
Style:
historical drama, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
northern lights, poverty, survival, hunger, man versus nature, snowstorm, winter, isolation, tragedy, rescue, blizzard, infant ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
In and around America and the autumn of 1963. A man and his tools. A boy and his shoes.
Style:
independent film, reflective, art house, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
compassion, empathy, intimate, character study, isolation, small town life, minimalism, solitude, abandonment, trauma, autumn, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
america, massachusetts
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A high school senior must choose between enrolling at the college of her dreams and remaining at home to take care of her bipolar mother.
Style:
emotional, realistic, independent film, melancholic, tension
Plot:
mental illness, bipolar disorder, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, family drama, moving, responsibility, domestic drama, maturity, intimate, bittersweet, small town ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
17-year-old Rebekka is feeling hollow and empty after her brother Dennis died by suicide two years ago. Dennis' friend Vincent is the only one who can help her through this difficult time. But Vincent is an outsider, accepted by nobody, ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, bleak, tense, atmospheric
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mental health, grief, self discovery, isolation, character study, youth, guilt, mourning, coming of age, teenage angst, intimate, dysfunctional family ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of her siblings, the first in her family to go to school and full of hope and confidence in life. But when her mother goes into labour, it quickly ...
Style:
gloomy, serious, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Plot:
teenage girl, religion, coming of age, farm, woman, birth, siblings, blood, childbirth, female nudity, death, large family ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yeong-shin (played by the Choi Eun-hee–Shin Sang-ok’s wife) and Dong-hyeok (Shin Yeong-gyun) graduate from college with a cause. They plan to bring education and modernization to farmers living in the rural area of their birth. When they arrive, ...
Style:
inspirational, heartfelt, melancholic, earnest, period drama
Plot:
education, children, village life, community, literacy, social change, empowerment, female protagonist, small town, youth, colonialism, idealism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A disturbed young woman runs away from her New Zealand home and hides away in an Australian boarding house, named Terra Nova. There she finds that every one else in the boarding house is just as zany as she is, and on some levels make her seem sane ...
Style:
psychological, independent film, melancholic, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
boarding house, mental health, female protagonist, mental illness, character study, a vision, outsider, delusion, isolation, domestic drama, identity, trauma ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand, australia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, sinister, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
nude bathing, class conflict, children, death, affair, infidelity, loss of innocence, family tragedy, bourgeoisie, aristocracy, castle, country house ...
Similarity:
48%
106
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
LIMBO is set in a small town in rural Denmark, teenager Sara and young teacher Karen develop a connection. A quiet drama interested as much in the lives of its female protagonists as their surroundings.
Style:
realistic, emotional, reflective, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
intimate, small town, introspection, empathy, slice of life, adolescence, everyday life, youth, coming of age, female friendship, bittersweet, self discovery ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
46%
198
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The engaging and sentimental tale begins when the little boy (Ricardo Ancona) starts manifesting a greater and greater talent at music and at the same time, a supersensitivity to sounds. His overly astute hearing drives him into the woods and away ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, melancholic, mysterious ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
violin, child protagonist, coming of age, small town, isolation, misunderstanding, bittersweet, pawnshop, outsider, ghost story, family drama, children ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film describes the relationship between a father and his two motherless sons in Ireland, and how it changes when their aunt from London arrives.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, tension, melancholic
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, family bonds, brothers, realism, loss, grief, small town, healing, family secret, slice of life, reconciliation ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
45%
270
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Larisa Shepitko's diploma film. An idealistic high school graduate goes to work on a state farm on the Kazakh steppe, only to clash with its authoritarian leader.
Style:
serious, tense, art house, earnest
Plot:
power struggle, idealism, conflict, community, character study, oppression, youth, isolation, coming of age, realism, solitude, resilience ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
44%
16
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mandy White is a cheerleader. Dan LaCoy is a football player. Jason Dobbs is a bully. Eli Barker is an artist. Asia Borg is a foster kid. What they all have in common however, is that they are hurting. Each one deals with their own personal issues ...
Style:
emotional, dark, independent film, realistic, grim ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
depression, high school, bullying, suicide, mental health, high school life, school shooting, tragedy, youth, adolescence, loneliness, social issues ...
Place:
virginia
Similarity:
44%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Pampered by his loving and caring parents, an eight-year-old boy's life takes a turn for the worse when he learns a hidden truth about himself. Soon, he begins to distance himself from his mother.
Style:
heartfelt, melancholic, psychological, tension
Plot:
mother son relationship, coming of age, childhood, grownups, family drama, family bonds, mother love, slice of life, realism, empathy, family conflict, loss of innocence ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Det är 1500-tal, och den unge adelsmannen Inge rider genom Sverige sökandes efter sin tvillingbror Arild. Han träffar en grupp zigenare som välkomnar honom, i tron att han är Arild. Snart blir Inge förälskad i den mystiska flickan Isis.
Style:
atmospheric, enigmatic, melancholic, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
twin brother, mistaken identity, mystery woman, misunderstanding, longing, brotherhood, identity crisis, forbidden love, outsider, obsession, isolation, folklore ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Tufan who works at a small print shop lives in Eskişehir with his wife Mukaddes and daughter Simge. Huriye, their lonely neighbour next door falls ill one night. A doctor recommends that she shouldn’t stay on her own. Tufan takes pity on Huriye, ...
Style:
realistic, tension, art house, melancholic
Plot:
domestic drama, everyday life, family conflict, character study, social realism, neighbor, small town, compassion, blue collar, illness, intimate, humanity ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He's an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He's offered work in the U.S. But a friend has cancer and the world ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, poetic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, inventor, friendship, character study, intimate, bittersweet, small town, humanism, loneliness, loss of innocence, nostalgia, mysticism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
37%
485
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Magnus, a handsome teenager, wants to commit suicide and his father tries to change his mind.
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, father son relationship, coming of age, family drama, intimate, mental illness, redemption, bittersweet, healing, dark humor, alienation, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Story:
Drama about a mother and her 4 children.
Style:
mystical, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
mother, children, parent child relationship, motherhood, house, mysticism, supernatural, salvation, supernatural power, orphan, supernatural horror, mother and daughter ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
BLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense
Plot:
childhood trauma, mental illness, depression, psychological trauma, mother daughter relationship, psychotic, psychology, mother and daughter, relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, social problems ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Three women struggle in their social and cultural environments and face unforeseeable crises. Based on true events.
Style:
serious, realistic, tension, art house, melancholic
Plot:
virginity, women, honor, crisis, social realism, cultural conflict, social commentary, patriarchy, gender roles, shame, adolescence, branding iron ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A couple of friends spend a summer weekend together on the idyllic country side along the Norwegian coast. They are confronted with each other's secrets and the choices they have made in life. We plunge into a weekend filled with conflict, ...
Style:
psychological, romantic drama, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, choice, love affair, relationships, couples, family problems, couple relations, problem, male female relationship, relationship problems, marital problem, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
35%
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