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Hedda Gabler (1962)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.
Style:
tragic ending, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, jealousy, manipulation, gender roles, love triangle, betrayal, power struggle, literary, obsession, social satire, moral ambiguity, small town, selfishness, rivalry, suicide, class differences, aunt, loveless marriage, rivals, frustration, pistol, psychological drama, hat, photo album, gun ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, tragic ending, art house and tense films with plots about jealousy, obsession, psychological drama, moral ambiguity, female protagonist, betrayal and manipulation mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Hedda Gabler: Miss Julie (2009), Time of Indifference (1964), Secrets (1995), Hedda (2025), As Long as One Is Intoxicated (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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64%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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110
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
iowa
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her ...
Style:
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Plot:
husband wife relationship, tragedy, female protagonist, manipulation, repression, character study, adaptation, literary, betrayal, passion, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
gothic, tragic ending, family saga, psychological thriller, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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506
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
anthology, erotic, erotic drama, sensual, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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289
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, bleak, allegory, period drama
Plot:
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Similarity:
36%
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Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Italy, France
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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175
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Lithuania
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Italy
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
Winner of the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Film in 1988
Style:
tense, bleak, emotional, tragic ending, psychological ...
Plot:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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