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China Is Near (1967)
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China Is Near (1967)
Original name: La Cina è vicina
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.
Plot: communism, sex, dog, religion, politics, unrequited love, family relations, abortion, election, choir, brother sister relationship, socialism, socialist, affair, villa, marxism, brother brother relationship, controversy, town, italian politics, city
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and psychological films with plots about family relations, politics, brother brother relationship, communism, sex, brother sister relationship and young mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like China Is Near: Fists in the Pocket (1965), Dormant Beauty (2012), Rokonok (2006), My Mother's Smile (2002), Return of a Citizen (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Ale, a deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures, benignly decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
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Plot: epilepsy, brother sister relationship, catholicism, death of mother, matricide, blindness, prostitute, dysfunctional family, suicidal tendency, death, reckless driving, alienation ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
Place: italy, europe
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Dormant Beauty (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
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Plot: paralysis, doctor, dealing with death, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, death, murder, father daughter estrangement, loss of daughter, suffering, faith ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
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Rokonok (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in his town and how easy it is to become corrupt yourself.
Plot: politics, election, town, corruption, train, voting, family relations, pig, suicide attempt, gun
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My Mother's Smile (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, surreal, spiritual
Plot: self discovery, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, obsession, introspection, rebellion, destructive relationship, life turned upside down, family life, tragic love, religions or cults, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
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Return of a Citizen (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Returning rich from the Gulf to find his brothers and sisters relationships falling apart.
Plot: ptsd, brother brother relationship, wealth, politics, jail, airport, getting home, family relations, brother sister relationship, chess, unemployment
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The Way We Laughed (1998)
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Duration: 124 min.
Story: Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro is joined by his older brother, Giovanni, who has moved up from Sicily. While Giovanni is a worker with no schooling, Pietro shows considerable promise in academics, prompting the elder sibling to ...
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Place: italy, europe, turin italy, sicily
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Good Morning, Night (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red ...
Style: serious, tense, disturbing, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: terrorism, hostage, revolution, politics, murder, rebelliousness, political unrest, captivity, danger, state affairs, head of state, society ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2003, year 1978
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
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Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two brothers, two different lifestyles collide. Eero is a young married man who opens up a print shop and struggles to get it going. Eki is a student with Marxist ideas, although he dates the daughter of a wealthy shipowner.
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The Thursday (1964)
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Duration: 105 min.
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Plot: family relations, father son relationship, love, beach, divorce, priest, high society, soccer, seaside, diary, zoo, instructor ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy
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Venom (1966)
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Duration: 89 min.
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Style: dread
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, sexual, touching, gay cinema
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Gate, Gate, Paragate (1996)
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Duration: 85 min.
Story: Vietnam's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996
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