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Diary for My Loves (1987)
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Original name: Napló szerelmeimnek
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
Style:
art house, reflective, emotional, lyrical, poignant, melancholic, period drama, nostalgic
Plot:
diary, female protagonist, autobiography, introspection, coming of age, intimate, post war, memory, personal growth, identity, political repression, female empowerment, literary, woman, voice over narration, prison, politics, family relations, communism, communist, revolution, deportation, socialism, controversy, anti communist ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
moscow russia, budapest, budapest hungary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, reflective and emotional films with plots about intimate, coming of age, identity, memory, female protagonist, biopic and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres. Some movies like Diary for My Loves: Reading Lolita in Tehran (2024), The Smell of Humans (2022), I Know How to Knit (2016), A Szerencse lányai (1999), Bliss (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A semi-autobiographical story of a young woman's life in Budapest under Stalin.
Style:
art house, black and white, masterpiece, banned
Plot:
communism, communist, women, totalitarian regime, woman, orphan, biopic, parents, crush, male female relationship, death of father, flashback ...
Time:
1940s, year 1984, 1950s, 1930s, year 1947 ...
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, moscow russia, budapest
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Directed by Márta Mészáros.
Style:
art house
Plot:
communism, politics, communist, tank, anti communist, woman, controversy, party, celebration, traitor, grief, josef stalin ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
hungary, soviet union, budapest, ussr
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Israel, Italy, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. ...
Style:
reflective, poignant
Plot:
women's rights, female friendship, literary, political repression, female empowerment, oppression, authoritarianism, teacher student relationship, autobiography, coming of age, identity, adaptation ...
Time:
year 1979
Place:
iran, tehran, tehran iran
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The profound depths of Ernõ Szép's life and poetry are revived in a new film adaptation of the poet's novel, 'The Smell of Humans'. This stoic and lyrical narrative of twenty fateful days offers an authentic account of an ...
Style:
reflective, lyrical, melancholic, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
humanity, poetry, poet, memory, biopic, literary, haunting, survival, loss, resilience, oppression, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hungary, eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
The story of Tanya, who is suddenly hit by a feeling that her existence is hopelessly devoid of meaning, is set in St. Petersburg. The city landscape provides the backdrop for Tanya's ups and downs as she takes drastic action, gets into scrapes ...
Style:
emotional, touching, poignant, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
solitude, personal growth, self discovery, diary, female protagonist, confession, bittersweet, coming of age, resilience, intimate, identity, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
Style:
emotional, realistic, intense, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
prostitution, female protagonist, sacrifice, survival, poverty, mother and daughter, motherhood, social realism, branding iron, moral dilemma, class struggle, resilience ...
Time:
90s
Place:
moscow russia, warsaw poland
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Bliss tells the story of Katherine Mansfield in her early 20s as she leaves New Zealand and begins her journey as a writer.
Style:
historical drama, poetic, period piece, sensitive, reflective ...
Plot:
modernism, biopic, writer's life, female protagonist, coming of age, character study, friendship, literary, female empowerment, writers, teenage girl, tuberculosis ...
Time:
edwardian era
Place:
england
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A true story of passion and political intrigue in early nineteenth century Chile, based on the memoirs of the intrepid travel writer, Maria Graham.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric, intercultural ...
Plot:
biopic, female protagonist, political intrigue, diary, social commentary, literary, revolution, intimate, travelogue, independence movement, empowerment, class conflict ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s
Place:
chile
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man and a kid are discovering beauty in life.
Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic, existential, period piece
Plot:
father daughter relationship, children, loneliness, loss, getting home, relationships, bonding, alienation, intimate, nostalgia, humanism, mourning ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.
Style:
heartfelt, realistic, emotional, reflective, period drama ...
Plot:
biopic, autobiography, adaptation, female protagonist, personal growth, slice of life, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, intimate, domestic drama, bittersweet, resilience ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The journey of young Jeanne through mountains and faith, from the lonely forests to the plains of Rome.
Style:
historical drama, poetic, emotional, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
faith, female protagonist, journey, religious, pilgrimage, spiritual awakening, coming of age, mountain, mysticism, legend, sacrifice, identity ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
"Alicia, Go Yonder" is the story of Alicia, a nineteen-year-old who sets out on a solitary journey to the end of the world only to come face to face with the immensity of the universe.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, reflective, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
personal growth, young woman, coming of age, female protagonist, self discovery, character study, young adult, solitude, odyssey, minimalism, spiritual journey, intimate ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule before WWII.
Style:
family saga, historical drama, reflective, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, national identity, poverty, memory, identity crisis, autobiography, language barrier, intimate, village life, tragedy, retiring ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 50s
Place:
taiwan, china
Similarity:
28%
512
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary, UK, USA, Cyprus, France, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1957 Budapest, one year following the failure of the Hungarian Revolution, a 12-year-old Jewish boy whose mother has raised him to believe that his father will return from the camps has his hopes shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the ...
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece, intense ...
Plot:
child protagonist, family drama, trauma, post war, identity crisis, father son conflict, jewish family, intimate, haunting, cold war, brutality, mistrust ...
Time:
1950s, year 1956, 20th century
Place:
budapest, hungary, europe, central europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Radioman tells the poetic story of a talented boy expressing his feelings with the cutting-edge technology of the day, and a courageous young woman trying to be happy in a time that does not grant her such fortune.
Style:
emotional, reflective, art house, poetic, aesthetic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
radio, creativity, coming of age, longing, bittersweet, recording studio, intimate, identity, aspiration, innovation, sacrifice, legacy ...
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121
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Cambodia, France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Cannes Special Screening 2016
Style:
bleak, political, emotional, poignant, realistic ...
Plot:
exile, trauma, genocide, loss, political oppression, khmer rouge, haunting, mourning, memory, survival, totalitarianism, identity ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
cambodia
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Country: Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The discovery of a diary, written in 1848 in Texas, Mexican territory, triggers Miranda Sámano's decision to travel, illegally to that land, in search of her roots and her origin and to unravel the mysteries written by Amalia Sámano in that ...
Style:
dramatic, emotional, romantic drama, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
diary, identity, female protagonist, ancestry, cultural conflict, legacy, family secret, self discovery, inheritance, memory, illegal immigration, intimate ...
Time:
1850s
Place:
texas, mexico
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age ...
Style:
poetic, reflective, art house, experimental, meditative
Plot:
cinema, film history, nostalgia, celebration, memory, intimate, coming of age, melancholy, voice over narration, childhood, identity, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, melancholic, historical drama, poignant, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
samba, nostalgia, composer, singer, memory, legacy, tribute, biopic, street life, working class, character study, intimate ...
Place:
sao paulo, brazil
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film was named after the short story “Petya of My Petya” written by the exceptional young poet Petya Dubarova. The director Alexander Kossev and the writers Valentina Angelova and Nelly Dimitrova lift the vail of the past to present Petya ...
Style:
poignant, thought provoking, melancholic, lyrical, grim ...
Plot:
suicide, female protagonist, poetry, bullying, oppression, coming of age, repression, mental health, mourning, isolation, identity crisis, literary ...
Time:
2010s, 70s
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Upcoming Bengali Movie Based on Bengali matinee idol Uttam Kumar. The story revolves around the unexplored life of Uttam Kumar.
Style:
period piece, retro, reflective, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
biopic, tribute, actor's life, legacy, film industry, behind the scenes, respect, character study, nostalgia, glamour, identity, memory ...
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
reflective, lyrical, melancholic, art house, period piece ...
Plot:
biopic, folk singer, intimate, identity, community, loneliness, exile, singer, father son relationship, teacher, singing, irishman ...
Place:
new york, ireland
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two dancers, once lovers, now go about their separate lives. Giovanni can't help reliving his first love via a collection of home videos. Louise, now a director, is projecting her bad memories on her production of Romeo and Juliet.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, reflective, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
dance, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, nostalgia, memory, lost love, introspection, relationships, intimate, bittersweet, separation, regret, flashback ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Diego is hosting a farewell party in his house before he leaves on a trip that no one knows about.
Style:
reflective, emotional, melancholic, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
secrets, house party, introspection, intimate, relationships, bittersweet, friendship, regret, single, identity, character study, slice of life ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Following the death of his estranged father, Louis is left feeling he hasn't achieved as much as he had hoped for. A chance encounter with figures from his past triggers a set of events that shakes his perception of life.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, emotional, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
After fleeting marriages to Henry Fonda and William Wyler, Margaret Sullavan found contentment as the wife of producer Leland Hayward (Jason Robards) and as the mother of three. Or so it seemed, until the marriage crumbled, the children rebelled and ...
Style:
period piece, reflective, melancholic, art house, moody
Plot:
biopic, autobiography, family drama, dysfunctional family, broadway, celebrity culture, hollywood, mental illness, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, glamour, showbiz ...
Similarity:
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Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Style:
anthology, poignant, intercultural, art house, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, self discovery, personal growth, identity, intimate, slice of life, social commentary, social realism, bittersweet, minimalism, love ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The sierras of southern Brazil, 1963. The son of an French man and a Brazilian woman, Tony is a young man with a profound love of cinema and poetry. After graduating from college he returns to his small town in rural Brazil, to find out that his ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, reflective, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
search for father, teacher, father son relationship, coming of age, lifestyle, relationships, life is a bitch, family relations, school teacher, personal growth, family drama, identity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
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Similarity:
23%
505
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. Three people meet and part ways again.
Style:
art house, contemplative, melancholic, reflective
Plot:
diary, summer, memory, social change, slice of life, ferry, small town, inheritance, bittersweet, intimate, love affair, woman ...
Place:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During ...
Style:
historical drama, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
teacher, biopic, school teacher, professor, small community, spanish civil war, civil war, storytelling, political violence, exhumation, memories, memory ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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