Movies like Sammohanam

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Sammohanam (1994)
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Sammohanam (1994)
Original name: സമ്മോഹനം
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sammohanam tells the story of a mysteriously seductive girl, Pennu (Archana) in a quiet village to which she has temporarily relocated, in search of her missing grandfather, Karuvan Valyachan. She creates a strange chasm among male folks, breaking marriages and old friendships.
Style: art house
Plot: love, village, puzzle, myth, suicide, uncle niece relationship, transformation, friend, death of uncle, caste system, rural setting, mystery woman, countryside, folk dance, severed ear, mysterious woman

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, psychological, suspense and sincere films with plots about suicide, village, love, rural setting, friend, friendship and murder mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Sammohanam: L'arbre de les cireres (1998), O ilios tou thanatou (1978), Courthouse on Horseback (2006), Money Buys Happiness (1999), Pinjra (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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L'arbre de les cireres (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story takes place between December 1994 and February 1995 in a small village near Valencia, Spain, where the lives of four people - a child, a thief and two doctors - intersect. At the same time, the great love of one woman's life suddenly ...
Plot: village, tree, mountain, grandmother, thief, youth, doctor, love, rural setting
Place: valencia spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
O ilios tou thanatou (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Plot: village, aunt, killing an animal, vendetta, horse, suicide, death, balkan war, folk dance
Time: year 1917
Place: crete
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Courthouse on Horseback (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages. Government policy is forcing the retirement of "Auntie" Yang (Yang Yaning) ...
Plot: lawyer, justice, rural setting, suicide, marriage, judge, on the road, remote village, village, travel, settlement
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Money Buys Happiness (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man and a woman, unpleasant bickering nitwits both, push a big stupid metaphor (in the shape of a piano) across Seattle.
Style: spiritual
Plot: flowers, family relations, husband wife relationship, friend, interview, marriage, hanging, piano, children, love, suicide, son ...
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Pinjra (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: A respected village schoolteacher falls for a travelling dancer and faces a moral dilemma.
Plot: indian woman, relationships, teacher, redemption, disfigured face, village, tragic event, tragic love, self destructing, courtroom, suicide, murder
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Madambi (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: In a village named Ilavattam there lives a man by the name of Gopalakrishna Pillai. He is a man with diverse qualities. Basically he is a moneylender, but not the avaricious kind. He lends money at very low interest-rates but makes it a point to get ...
Plot: sibling relationship, village, banker, debt, suicide, bank, money, family relations, brother brother conflict, money lender, brother brother relationship, marriage ...
Time: year 2008
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
A Thousand Months (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Morocco, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: 1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
Audience: teens
Plot: little boy, authoritarianism, teenager, teacher, young boy, rural setting, school teacher, oppression, boy, wedding, suicide, death ...
Place: morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Bloodshed at the Wedding (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the ...
Style: epic
Plot: wedding, mythology, bloodbath, village, running, love, escape, blood, fear, death, girl, innocent ...
Place: ottoman empire, macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Hu Tu Tu (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Panna is the only daughter of politician Maltidevi. Panna is very critical of her mother, when she decides to separate from her dad, and asked Chief Minister Sawantrao Gadre to move in with them, for political reasons. Sawantrao has been using ...
Plot: politics, mother daughter relationship, corrupt politician, social worker, hostage, love, infidelity, car accident, flashback, suicide, politician, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Now (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose ...
Style: road movie
Plot: coma, friend, love, accident, loneliness, loss, friendship, gay interest
Place: london, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Threesome (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died of tuberculosis, Ilya, after robbing a merchant, committed suicide. And Pavel, who let the woman ...
Plot: fate, brothel, childhood, friend, friendship, suicide, illness, consumption
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Marion (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Marion is ten and befriends a couple so much that they want her to live with them.
Plot: rural setting, parisian, rich, family relations, wealth, marriage, friend, father daughter relationship, food, accident, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: normandy, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Fly Away Solo (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the ...
Style: offbeat, disturbing, psychological, captivating, mind blowing ...
Plot: love, caste system, guilt, religious differences, father daughter relationship, class conflict, social differences, class differences, male female relationship, social problems, relationships, couple relations ...
Time: year 2015, y2k
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.1
 182
The Shadow (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Adapted from Peyami Safa’s novel Selma and Her Shadow, the movie tells the story of Selma. Selma (Görkem Yeltan) is the ultimate femme fatale whose alluring and seductive nature and irresistible charms exude an aura of death for men.
Style: neo noir
Plot: femme fatale, poem, love, suicide, cigarette smoking, murder, woman smoker
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Angela's Decision (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Living in the middle of Australia's desolate landscape, Angela has been waiting all her life. Waiting for her boyfriend to return from the army and marry her, waiting for her mother to sober up, waiting for her life to begin. On the return of ...
Style: social
Plot: hopes, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, small town, friend, mother daughter relationship, army, pregnancy
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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White Room (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Norm, a confused young man, lives two lives, one in and one out of reality. One night, he witnesses the murder of rock video star Madelaine X and feels guilty, as he did nothing to prevent it. At Madelaine’s funeral, he meets a mysterious woman in ...
Style: independent film
Plot: love, age-gap relationship, obsession, surrealism, faked death, sex, male nudity, woman on top, obsessed fan, mystery woman, older woman younger man relationship, fully clothed sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Last Day (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story: One morning, residents of a rural village are horrified when the sun rises in the West. According to Islamic belief, this phenomenon signals the Apocalypse. As village folk react differently to the situation, a tragedy strikes when one of the ...
Plot: rape, murder, islam, devil, villager, apocalypse, village, rural setting
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Wound (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Turkey, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Directed by Yilmaz Arslan.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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O Capacete Dourado (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars.Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Common Law Wife (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Shug, a rich old man, throws out his longtime live-in mistress and moves in his young, sexy niece, who's just returned home after making a living as a stripper in New Orleans. The mistress doesn't intend to go without a fight, however, and ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Subarnarekha (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Made in 1962 (but not released until 1965), Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s film starts soon after the 1947 partition of Bengal. At a socialist refugee colony, Ishwar and his younger sister, Sita, adopt a low-caste boy, Abhiram, who has been ...
Plot: refugee, sadness, immigrant, teaching, suicide, mythology, prostitution, symbol, river, hopes, prostitute, death of sister ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Glass Labyrinth (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three heavily drunk friends break into the Zoo and kill a few deer...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Werther (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. ...
Plot: boy, teacher, husband wife relationship, suicide, father son relationship, love, male female relationship, surgeon, tutor, tragic event, house, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Eiszeit (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Norway
Duration: 115 min.
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Plot: old man, nazi, partisan, trial, hitler, insanity, old age, friendship, suicide, friend, world war two, retirement home
Time: 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 548
Vanaja (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Set in rural South India, a place where social barriers are built stronger than fort walls, VANAJA explores the chasm that divides classes as a young girl struggles to come of age.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: pregnancy, coming of age, couples, village, injustice, family relations, youth, society, teenage life, rape, dancing, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 793
Village (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break free from a cruel fate tying him to the very grounds.
Style: suspense, dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Most Beautiful Night In The World (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a ...
Style: fable
Plot: nudity, priest, corruption, sexuality, adultery, psychiatrist, mayor, secret, ghost, guilt, suicide, father son relationship ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.4
 59
Juze (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Growing up tale of a young boy in the context of changing labour patterns and exploitation in Goa
Style: psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, sexy, contemplative ...
Plot: teenage boy, teenage love, teenage girl, grandmother grandson relationship, grandmother, immigrant, couples, countryside, friends, love and romance, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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