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Martha and I (1990)
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Original name: Martha et moi
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a good relationship with his uncle, and a touching picture of Czech family life just at the advent of World War II emerges. Since Emil and Ernst are both Jewish, they are eventually carted away by the Nazis.
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, emotional, historical drama, melancholic, realistic, period piece, pre war, tragic
Plot:
anti semitism, coming of age, world war two, family drama, persecution, sacrifice, loss, family love, grownups, courage, class differences, protection, moral dilemma, separation, uncle nephew relationship, social commentary, intimate, escape, forbidden love, nostalgia, small town, resilience, identity, nazi, divorce ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe, prague czechoslovakia, prague czech republic
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Most similar movies to Martha and I
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, realistic and period piece films with plots about coming of age, intimate, family drama, resilience, identity, small town and family relations mostly in Drama and History genres. Some movies like Martha and I: Rondo (2012), Marcowe migdaly (1990), Just Kids (2019), We'll Be Young and Beautiful (2018), My Sister, My Keeper (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Description : Belgium, 1943. The situation is becoming unbearable for the Field family : antisemitic persecutions become common and violent. Joseph Field, the father, rebels against the occupying army. He is arrested and deported. Esther, his wife, ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
anti semitism, world war two, wartime life, youth, elderly, holocaust, teenage life, against humanity, life is a bitch, family relations, cause and meaning, resistance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Drama directed by Radoslaw Piwowarski.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, melancholic, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
anti semitism, exile, emigration, youth, political persecution, moral dilemma, identity crisis, political oppression, cold war, escape, family conflict, nationalism ...
Time:
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Place:
poland
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211
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jack, 19, Lisa, 17, and Mathis, 10, abruptly become orphans. Each sibling reacts differently to the family tragedy: Lisa spreads her wings. Jack, having just become of age is appointed as his brother’s guardian by court decision. A new life ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic
Plot:
youth, grief, family tragedy, loss, siblings, coming of age, bereavement, resilience, adolescence, coping, domestic drama, grownups ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, sentimental, dramatic ...
Plot:
aging, teenager, disease, mortality, family drama, coming of age, parent child relationship, hopes, grief, resilience, loss, intimate ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 90s, Isabella was eighteen and a star. 20 years later, she is still singing those same songs in small town bars with her son Bruno, playing guitar. It's because of him that her career stopped. At least it's what she tells herself.
Style:
dramatic, exciting, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
singing, family relations, female singer, pop star, relationships, guitarist, son, parent child relationship, single mother, mother and son, loneliness, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, 2010s
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
2 Sisters are forced to get along when their parents get mixed up in the Civil War, and leave them in charge.
Style:
captivating, dramatic, emotional, historical drama, heartfelt ...
Plot:
sibling rivalry, civil war, family drama, sisterhood, sister sister relationship, family relations, sister, relationships, sisters, wartime, life, siblings ...
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64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Albania, 1958. Luana, the daughter of a well respected man in the village, makes friends with Agim, who moved here after his family were banned from the city by the communists. Years later, their childhood friendship turns into teenage love, but ...
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, poignant, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family drama, female protagonist, political oppression, sacrifice, loneliness, patriarchy, gender roles, moral dilemma, arranged marriage, family honor, coming of age ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
albania
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
A man leading a happy life with his loving wife and two children suddenly starts getting forgetful and lost. Then, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease leaving his family devastated.
Style:
psychological, heartbreaking, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, alzheimer's disease, memory loss, family drama, student, family relations, changing lives, lifestyle change, kids and family, family problems, lifestyle, grief ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
61%
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329
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Anastasia is 13 and her sister Diana is 11. The two sisters live in a Latvian orphanage. When they find out that an American family is ready to adopt them, Diana cannot wait to move to the States, while Anastasia is less excited about the idea of ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, dramatic, melancholic, intercultural
Plot:
adoption, orphanage, sibling relationship, coming of age, sisterhood, mother and daughter, teenager, adolescence, children, childhood, family drama, choice ...
Place:
latvia, eastern europe
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60%
94
Genre: Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Tells a story about a special child, Ashraf or Jibam, who is a little dull of his mind, but has a hidden privileges.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
innocence, child protagonist, compassion, empathy, acceptance, family drama, underdog, mental disorder, relationships, slice of life, intimate, family values ...
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60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. ...
Style:
historical drama, art house, period piece, tense, melancholic
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, loss of innocence, persecution, propaganda, foreshadowing, urban, identity crisis, escape, betrayal, forbidden love, nazism ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938
Place:
vienna, israel, austria
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
self discovery, immigrant, immigration, family relations, culture clash, society, single parent, neo nazism, holocaust survivor, identity, family drama, anti semitism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
israel, middle east, poland, australia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
From World War, to revolution and ultimately rebirth, Forever Young is the story of four generations spanning a hundred years of modern Chinese history. Each generation faces its own unique set of challenges. Up against corporate corruption, the ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, period piece, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
coming of age, chinese history, cultural revolution, identity, legacy, bittersweet, moral dilemma, nostalgia, soul searching, resilience, memory, corruption ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
56%
293
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
house arrest, coming of age, mother son relationship, social realism, family drama, loneliness, isolation, slice of life, humanity, identity, poverty, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
One of his earlier pieces, Don Coscarelli (of Phantasm Phame) has a knack for seeing the world through the eyes and heart of a young boy. He offers a Peter Pan-esque adventure to men from the boomers to present day, with each generation being ...
Style:
independent film, emotional, reflective, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
grownups, boyhood, nostalgia, coming of age, imagination, innocence, friendship, small town, bittersweet, family drama, personal growth, escape ...
Time:
70s
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86
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, heartfelt, intense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Montenegro
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, ...
Style:
saga, emotional, historical drama, family saga, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, historical drama, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
female protagonist, teenager, relationships, teenage life, social issues, social problems, sorority, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, confined, isolation ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Style:
bleak, poignant, historical drama, reflective, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, persecution, world war two, jewish ghetto, anti semitism, mature, grief, loss, haunting, family tragedy, mother son relationship, witness ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, ukraine
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, dramatic, period piece, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, friendship, loss of innocence, adolescence, first love, social change, bittersweet, identity crisis, small town, social commentary, provincial life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
transylvania, romania
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134
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, poignant, emotional, dramatic, heartfelt ...
Plot:
biopic, immigration, brothers, brotherhood, resilience, survival, perseverance, family drama, cleaning, sacrifice, loss, refugee ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
kashmir, india, usa
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Young adolescent girl Jenna's mother is dying, while at the same time Jenna is turning from a young girl into a young woman. So it is difficult for her to admit that she is afraid to lose her mother; instead she behaves contrary to how one ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, François Touraine, a young piano prodigy, has no choice but to go and play in Germany to save the woman he loves. Because Rachel is Jewish in an age that no longer allows it... A great story of love, music and ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, poignant, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
oppression, love story, nazi occupation, moral dilemma, piano, anti semitism, world war two, sacrifice, forbidden love, classical music, courage, prodigy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, paris france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Su-jin who tries to pursue a perfect life as a successful lawyer, single mother and daughter, plans to send her daughter Gina to study abroad in the United States, where her ex-husband lives. When Su-jin gets busier with work, Su-jin's dad, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Young married couple from heartlands face ideological divide. Varalakshmi, grounded homemaker values steady income. Laxman, jobless husband seeks shortcuts for entrepreneurial dreams.
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An 8-year-old boy tracks down his father.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, father and son, family life, parents and children, family drama, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, estranged parent, child protagonist, search for father, fatherhood ...
Time:
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Place:
barcelona, spain
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Sofia, recently separated, takes her daughters to a small coastal town. Each one in their own universe, live the interlude as a challenge to free themselves and face their fears.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
separation, relationships, mother and daughter, mother daughter relationship, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, social problems, relationship problems, breakup, life is a bitch, family life ...
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