Movies like Night or Day

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Night or Day (1962)
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Night or Day (1962)
Original name: Yö vai päivä
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Plot: summer, tradition, village, nature, village life, explorer, research, secretary, professor, culture, sauna, assistant, wilderness, countryside, foreigner, rural setting, finnish mythology, irony, midsummer
Place: finland

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Most similar movies to Night or Day

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and light films with plots about rural setting, summer, village, countryside, male female relationship, love and nudity mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Night or Day: Backwood Philosopher (2009), The Howling Miller (1982), Akaton mies (1983), The Year of the Hare (1977), Lampaansyöjät (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Backwood Philosopher (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a "sinistä ajatusta", idea out of the blue. While firing upon a hybrid of the hazel grouse and the ...
Style: thinking
Plot: male nudity, drunk, scientific research, summer, male pubic hair, rural setting, nudity, narrow mindedness, individuality, loner, drinking, male objectification ...
Place: eastern europe, finland
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95%
The Howling Miller (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a ...
Plot: fugitive, forest, countryside, drug use, police chase, robbery, secret love, psychiatric hospital, insane asylum, love, rural setting, squad ...
Place: finland
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81%
 6.0
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Akaton mies (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Farmer wants a wife.
Plot: farmer, male female relationship, farm, forest, countryside, farming, bachelor, village, dating, wedding, death, sauna ...
Time: 80s
Place: finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Year of the Hare (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious
Plot: nature, wilderness, survival, nordic, midlife crisis, freedom, forest, rabbit, lapland, woods, introspection, misfit ...
Time: 70s
Place: scandinavia, finland, europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Lampaansyöjät (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a ...
Plot: restaurant, food, rural setting, buddy, tourist, lapland, summer, lake, countryside, autumn, poaching, nature ...
Time: 70s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Village of the Stone Roller (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Pekka (Martti Suosalo) saapuu pitkästä aikaa kotiseudulleen pieneen Jerusalemin kylään juhlistamaan kylän viimeisiä häitä. Hänen oma avioliittonsa näyttää ajautuneen umpikujaan. Kylän väki kokoontuu valmistelemaan tätä viimeistä ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Plot: wedding, social relations, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, countryside, village life, village, bittersweet, celebration, love, drunkenness ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: finland
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51%
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The Count (1971)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Pertti Ylermi Lindgren (b. 1936) was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von Bagh asked him to play himself in a film that would reconstruct some of his greatest ...
Style: freeze frame, semi documentary
Plot: wedding, marriage, voice over narration, nudity, con man, con men, breast feeding, train travel, escapism, arrest, autobiography, frustration ...
Time: 60s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.9
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Master Cheng (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, China
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: chef, chinese immigrant, food, father son relationship, widower, cooking, culture clash, single father, society, small village, family relations, village ...
Time: 2010s
Place: finland, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Onnenpeli (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Film by Risto Jarva.
Plot: urban planning, male female relationship, model, stewardess, bare breasts, female nudity, reporter, journalist, interview, photographer, jealousy, roommate ...
Time: 60s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Farmer Has a Wife (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The farmer now has found a wife.
Plot: rural setting, storekeeper, village life, family relations, war buddy, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, farm, cheating wife, marital problem, business, parent child relationship ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Juha (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Style: black and white, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: countryside, love triangle, bittersweet, urban, city life, infidelity, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, dishonesty, innocence lost, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.2
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Rautatie (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Matti and Liisa are two farmers who become curious to see the first railroads in Lapinlahti, Finland.
Plot: train, railroad, rural setting, train station, married couple, drunk, farmer, train travel, summer, simple man, rain, winter ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Land of Happiness (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Nostalgic comedy set in the early 1960s, when the tango was all the rage. The "prodigal son" Tenho returns from his unlucky adventures in the city back to his parents' farm. Tenho becomes the laughing stock of local men until he ...
Plot: tango, rural setting, illness, homecoming, generation, farmer, summer, sex scene, preacher, farm, laziness, bully ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed ...
Plot: getting home, marriage counselor, neighbor, husband wife relationship, adultery, painter, priest, horse, male nudity, marriage proposal, drinking alcohol, shyness ...
Time: 70s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.6
 14K
The Miracle (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 136 min.
Story: 1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the ...
Style: captivating, melancholic, light, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: teacher, tradition, children, village, saving a life, husband wife relationship, school teacher, education, countryside, professor, love, turk ...
Time: 2010s
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
American Desi (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is a fun-loving romantic comedy reminiscent of the great teen films of the 80's.From Kris, an All-American boy from India, to Ajay, an Afro-Centric Hindu homeboy, to Farah, a devoutly religious but modern Muslim girl, 'American ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sex comedy, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, friendship, tradition, roommate, love and romance, youth, buddies, society, college life, culture, college, performer's life ...
Place: new jersey, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Poet and Muse (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends ...
Plot: biopic, poet, muse, artist, love triangle, syphilis, dysfunctional marriage, historical event, inspiration, venereal disease, nature, poetry ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, 1900s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.6
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Off the Map (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Career woman finds out that her boyfriend is living a secret double life. She finds a bag of money and decides to make a run for it. She is accompanied by a little girl who is also on a run from her criminal step-father. Together they're trying ...
Style: road movie
Plot: secret lover, pregnant woman, organized crime, birth, embezzlement, fraud, nudity, intimidation, skinny dipping, baby, pregnancy, girl ...
Place: finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Baikonur (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: “Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep.” So goes the unwritten law of the Kazakh steppes. A law avidly adhered to by the inhabitants of a small village, who collect the space debris that falls downrange from the nearby Baikonur space station. ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Plot: astronaut, spacecraft, village life, space and aliens, social relations, space shuttle, love and romance, sex scene, female nudity, cave, rural setting, cosmonaut ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kazakhstan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Thenmavin Kombath (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min.
Story: The story revolves around Manikyan (Mohanlal), Sreekrishnan(Nedumudi Venu) and Karthumbi (Shobana) and the love triangle between them. Manikyan works for Sreekrishnan and Sreekrishnan sees him like a brother. Once when they both are returning from a ...
Plot: village, misunderstanding, love triangle, language barrier, rural setting, countryside, jealousy, feud, argument, celebration, honor, attraction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Nostalgia for the Countryside (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Set in a small village in North Vietnam, a tale of awakening which traces a growing love triangle between Nham, an earnest and responsible 17-year-old country boy; the charming Ngu, his lonely and naive sister-in-law with whom he works closely in ...
Plot: countryside, brother in law sister in law relationship, woman, rural setting, village, provincial life, poverty, culture clash, rice, farmer, neighbor, beer ...
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Of Horses and Men (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Germany, Norway
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced and with terrible consequences. The fortunes of the people in the country through the horses' perception.
Style: semi serious, bleak, stylized, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: horse, love and romance, social relations, dark humor, village life, countryside, love affair, father son relationship, strong female character, nordic, snowstorm, horse riding ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Searching for You (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Etsinnässä (Searching for You) is a story about Joni, a young man in his twenties, who returns to his hometown for summer vacation from university. While on his vacation, Joni tries to find himself and happiness.
Style: independent film
Plot: summer, love, university, depression, sarcasm, coming of age, summer vacation, happiness, friend, literature, friendship, romantic relationship ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Summertime (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best ...
Style: humorous, light, bleak
Audience: chick flick
Plot: summer, student, adultery, love, friendship, infidelity, fall in love, unfaithful husband, love and romance, beach, art, dating ...
Time: 2010s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
House of Angels (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into tow on a big black motorcycle with her androgenic boyfriend Zack, wearing ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever
Plot: summer, motorcycle, inheritance, free spirit, village, lgbt, small town, gay, countryside, nordic, transgender, european ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Lapland Odyssey (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even ...
Style: light, entertaining, intense, funny, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, date night
Plot: friendship, ultimatum, self discovery, male nudity, lapland, on the road, youth, obsessive quest, adolescence vs adulthood, taxi driver, nothing goes right, escapades ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: finland, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Sweet Home Carolina (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Diane is a struggling single mom in LA. Just when things are at their worst, but she will have to live in small town USA for a year and take care of a dog for a year before the house is hers.
Style: funny, captivating, light, romantic, entertaining
Plot: high school student, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, mother daughter relationship, single mother, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship, love affair, relationships, first love, love and romance, ex couple relations, couple relations ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Love and Pigeons (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Shown a life in the remote siberian village. Vasia, who never leave his family, village, comes to pass summer holiday on the Black Sea. New world, new people - so, hi's temted by a half-crazy woman (Raisa Zaharovna). And after short time Vasia ...
Style: light, humorous, realistic, feel good, talky ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: village life, love triangle, love and romance, adulterous husband, resort, everyday life, social relations, husband wife relationship, life philosophy, parent child relationship, adultery, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Meeting in July (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A romantic story about Jakub, a student in the summer camp, and his teacher Klara.
Plot: rural setting, bare chested male, nudity, summer vacation, strong female lead, male objectification, teacher student relationship, older woman younger man relationship, summer, teacher, single mother, little boy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Milka - A Film About Taboos (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to ...
Plot: incest, bare breasts, sexual awakening, female pubic hair, periphery, child abuse, single mother, mother daughter relationship, male nudity, female nudity, pregnant teenager, widow ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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