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1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
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Original name: Le bel été 1914
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, atmospheric, melancholic, sinister, art house, period drama, pre war, tragic, nostalgic
Plot:
nude bathing, children, class conflict, world war one, death, castle, aristocracy, loss of innocence, infidelity, country house, bourgeoisie, affair, family tragedy, betrayal, isolation, summer vacation, industrialization, coming of age, financial ruin, bittersweet, businessman, disappearance, intimate, male nudity, great war ...
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Most similar movies to 1914 the Glorious Summer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, period drama and atmospheric films with plots about coming of age, isolation, intimate, betrayal, small town, bittersweet and loss of innocence mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like 1914 the Glorious Summer: Mario and the Magician (1994), Pau and His Brother (2001), Dark Paradise (2023), Les belles manières (1978), Guilty of Innocence (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, atmospheric
Plot:
fascism, summer vacation, children, psychological manipulation, magician, coming of age, fear, propaganda, foreshadowing, family drama, performer, intimidation ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A death in the family brings a man back to his family and his hometown in this drama. After his brother Alex goes missing under hazy circumstances, Pau gets the bad news that Alex has died after a successful suicide attempt. Pau travels to the ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
suicide, siblings, family drama, brothers, mother son relationship, grief, loss, mourning, family tragedy, tragic event, family problems, family relations ...
Place:
spain
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87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, ambiguous ending, moody ...
Plot:
seduction, older woman younger man, dysfunctional family, character study, moral ambiguity, isolation, class conflict, repression, obsession, slow burn, tragic romance, claustrophobia ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
france
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, gothic, period drama, tragic
Plot:
naivete, aristocracy, decadence, nobility, moral corruption, wealth, deception, class conflict, bourgeoisie, coming of age, social climbing, manipulation ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 54 min.
Story:
Agathe and Paul, on holidays with their children. On a bridge, at the edge of a cliff, a forgotten wallet. A thought, and then dizziness.
Style:
emotional, tension, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
summer, couples, holiday, introspection, moral dilemma, children, decision, realism, intimate, uncertainty, marriage, slice of life ...
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bucharest, 1972. Ana, 17, dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the ...
Style:
melancholic, romantic, art house, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
teen romance, loss of innocence, authoritarianism, political repression, secret police, surveillance, cold war, coming of age, intimate, forbidden love, slow burn, youth culture ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Place:
romania, bucharest, eastern europe
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.
Style:
thought provoking, art house, dark comedy, tragicomedy, avant garde ...
Plot:
renaissance, identity crisis, literary, surrealism, satire, coming of age, loss of innocence, alienation, isolation, existentialism, teacher, boarding school ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
warsaw poland, eastern europe, poland
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his ...
Style:
costume drama, reflective, melancholic, bleak, art house
Plot:
greed, father daughter relationship, literary, family secret, french countryside, hypocrisy, isolation, intimate, banker, loss of father, death of mother, cousin ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s
Place:
france
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The people of this remote village in the Black Forest don't talk much, but when they do, it's in the Alemannic dialect. Hanna, 21 has traveled far to work here. She shovels manure, milks cows and tries to cope with the farmer, Uwe Kiefer, ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, independent film, bleak ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, character study, intimate, isolation, social realism, alienation, male protagonist, moral dilemma, secrets, financial ruin, mistrust ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
81%
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:
psychological thriller, suspense, sinister, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
femme fatale, seduction, suicide, obsession, character study, fatal attraction, tragedy, love triangle, betrayal, jealousy, femininity, sexual tension ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Andreas arrives in the remote valley in the Austrian Alps, he is only about four years old - nobody knows for sure. He grows up to become a skilled farmhand and, as a young man, joins a work crew that builds one of the first mountain railroads, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
mountain, lifestyle, orphan, hardship, village life, poverty, bittersweet, tragic romance, resilience, isolation, coming of age, loneliness ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
81%
773
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, neighborhood, loss of innocence, isolation, minimal dialogue, childhood memory, social commentary, alienation, minimalism, intimate, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
80%
106
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood.
Style:
melancholic, period piece
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, teenage girl, sexual awakening, island, summer vacation, grownups, adolescence, youth, children, first love, loss of innocence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mediterranean sea
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
philosophical, art house, surreal, period drama, pre war
Plot:
sanitarium, tuberculosis, mountain, literary, isolation, melancholy, existential crisis, symbolism, mortality, existentialism, world war one, totalitarianism ...
Time:
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Place:
swiss alps, alps
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, period piece, art house, sentimental, atmospheric
Plot:
tragedy, downfall, tragic romance, female protagonist, family drama, poverty, character study, abandonment, single mother, betrayal, intimate, urban ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer ...
Style:
atmospheric, art house, independent film, tension, sensitive ...
Plot:
photography, lesbian romance, photographer, self discovery, coming of age, sexual awakening, love triangle, photograph, bisexuality, intimate, identity, jealousy ...
Time:
1910s, year 1914
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
80%
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:
birth, farm, sibling relationship, spring, responsibility, domestic drama, conflict, midwife, hospitality, moral dilemma, empathy, isolation ...
Time:
60s, year 1970
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.
Style:
romantic drama, poignant, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
coming of age, boxing, older woman teenage boy sex, first love, adolescence, mentor protege relationship, military school, orphan, personal growth, intimate, sexual awakening, identity ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Style:
historical drama, emotional, heartfelt, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
family relations, loss of husband, motherhood, grief, family drama, small town, american south, village life, intimate, gender roles, coming of age, literary ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
tennessee
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Franck, a former young hopeful at the Nantes soccer club, has stayed on to help the team for ten years after an injury,but becomes especially frustrated when he meets a seductive young woman.
Style:
melancholic, art house
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
cornwall
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, UK, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
intense, romantic drama, atmospheric, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, seduction, affair, infidelity, jealousy, forbidden love, character study, duel, obsession, guilty, lonely, literary ...
Time:
turn of the century, 90s
Place:
prague
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, small town, childhood, children, young girl, intergenerational friendship, coming of age, self discovery, female protagonist, slice of life, family drama ...
Time:
70s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
79%
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:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak constitution and lost her husband years ago. She takes care of her son lovingly but sometimes strictly, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, bereavement, loss, family relations, male female relationship, love story, relationships, loss of mother, troubled past, single mother, love affair, tragic past ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, tense, art house, indie film
Plot:
coming of age, character study, mature, social realism, survival, isolation, escape, alienation, street life, slice of life, identity crisis, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very ...
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
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Plot The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out ...
Style:
heartfelt, tear jerker, emotional, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
dog, animal, friendship, companionship, nature, bittersweet, wildlife, heartwarming, loneliness, slice of life, outback, farm ...
Time:
year 1983
Place:
australia
Similarity:
78%
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 ...
Style:
bleak, poignant, melancholic, grim, intense ...
Plot:
refugee, class conflict, moral dilemma, integrity, realism, family drama, sacrifice, betrayal, industrialization, honor, orphan, humanism ...
Time:
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Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
78%
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