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When the Heavens Fell (1972)
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Original name: Kun taivas putoaa…
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
scandal, privacy invasion, tabloid journalism, politician, betrayal, female protagonist, shame, media manipulation, moral ambiguity, societal hypocrisy, ethical dilemma, revenge, love triangle, romantic obsession, male protagonist, tragic romance, character study, obsession, urban, identity crisis, member of parliament, drug addiction, journalist, jealousy, suicide ...
Time:
70s
Place:
finland
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Most similar movies to When the Heavens Fell
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, period piece, dark and suspenseful films with plots about psychological drama, character study, obsession, moral ambiguity, betrayal, urban and jealousy mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like When the Heavens Fell: Without Love (1980), Swedish Love Play (1968), Dandelions (1974), Delicate Crime (2005), Pale Moon (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips ...
Style:
period piece
Plot:
reporter, ambition, ethical dilemma, female protagonist, journalism, character study, ambitious woman, obsession, social climbing, manipulation, moral ambiguity, downfall ...
Time:
80s
Place:
warsaw poland, eastern europe, poland, rome italy
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Carmilla falls for her stepfather and seduces him. When he is killed in a car accident, she decides to take revenge against the driver, but this only leads to a deeper tragedy.
Style:
erotic drama, intense, dark, art house, period piece
Plot:
revenge, stepfather, seduction, car accident, tragedy, forbidden love, female protagonist, obsession, jealousy, love triangle, moral ambiguity, sexual awakening ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
no overview.
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, bleak, noir, period piece ...
Plot:
infidelity, addiction, alcoholism, betrayal of trust, anti hero, manipulation, revenge, seduction, jealousy, sexploitation, female antagonist, obsession ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
amputee, painting, desire, jealousy, love triangle, romantic triangle, obsession, seduction, danger, character study, moral ambiguity, adultery ...
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has little opportunity to enjoy life. But things change when office gossip about affairs and ...
Style:
period piece, atmospheric
Plot:
embezzlement, character study, housewife, midlife crisis, female protagonist, ethical dilemma, secret life, adultery, bank clerk, moral ambiguity, loneliness, identity crisis ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
71%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa ...
Style:
art house, suspense, existential, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
terrorism, stalking, character study, obsession, guilt, secrets, moral ambiguity, identity, regret, deception, realism, cat and mouse ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, turin italy
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoholism.
Style:
intense, eighties
Plot:
scandal, alcoholism, defamation, celebrity culture, manipulation, ambition, revenge, betrayal, moral ambiguity, urban, media satire, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When the coffin of Etta Rose Callahan, a charismatic dance student, is uprooted from the earth after days of rain, the small college town of Remington is haunted with questions involving the young girl's sudden suicide. Jeremiah Mouthy, a ...
Style:
suspense, gothic
Plot:
obsession, suicide, small town, tragedy, character study, jealousy, haunting, loss of innocence, mourning, scandal, grief, funeral ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
Style:
erotic drama, period piece, art house, tension, suspense
Plot:
blackmail, adultery, infidelity, affair, nudity, love triangle, romantic obsession, marital crisis, jealousy, female protagonist, scandal, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, grim, noir, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, obsession, forbidden love, character study, morality, adultery, guilt, desire, existential crisis, existentialism, sexual repression, romantic obsession ...
Time:
60s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Style:
noir, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
call girl, prostitution, secret life, double life, female protagonist, domestic drama, mature, motherhood, character study, taboo, family conflict, shame ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
While doing a story on the intrusion of surreptitious surveillance in peoples' private lives, a television reporter rents some surveillance equipment to get a feel for what it's like to spy.
Style:
suspense, creepy, period piece, independent film, deviant
Plot:
surveillance, voyeurism, obsession, privacy invasion, paranoia, ethical dilemma, social commentary, peeping tom, investigative journalism, guilty conscience, urban, loneliness ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Frank (Miller) is a gay journalist who goes undercover at the urging of his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza) to write an exposé of Dr. Apsey (Butler). Apsey performs conversion therapy on gay male clients, a practice which Jonathan finds ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, independent film, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, lgbt, conversion therapy, gay lead character, therapy, sexuality, therapist, psychological manipulation, deception, gay couple, manipulation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
47%
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 ...
Style:
tragic ending, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, jealousy, manipulation, gender roles, betrayal, love triangle, literary, power struggle, obsession, social satire, moral ambiguity, small town ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. ...
Style:
intellectual, bleak, philosophical, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
assassination, political intrigue, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, power struggle, ambition, conspiracy, betrayal, character study, manipulation, adaptation, propaganda ...
Time:
1940s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
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Story:
Ateş, a man haunted by childhood scars and consumed by rage, returns to destroy the family that shattered his life years ago. His weapon is not a sword, but a marriage: 187 days with Mercan, the daughter of his enemy. Mercan, already promised to ...
Style:
romantic drama, suspenseful
Plot:
betrayal, manipulation, family feud, obsession, passion, forbidden love, jealousy, anti hero, revenge, family drama, female protagonist, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A reporter digs into the background of a young woman who is running for the U.S. Senate, and finds out a lot more than he bargained for.
Style:
political thriller, controversial, period piece, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot:
investigation, scandal, investigative journalism, corruption, cover up, sex scandal, white house, political intrigue, reputation, sex worker, vice president, prostitution ...
Time:
70s
Place:
washington d.c., los angeles
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, ...
Style:
romantic drama, art house, melancholic, tense, ambiguous ending
Plot:
teacher student relationship, forbidden love, moral ambiguity, guilt, reputation, infidelity, betrayal, character study, literary, shame, obsession, emotional manipulation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Makoto Toda was an earnest man who had lived an ordinary life, working as an ordinary company employee. He had built himself an average, but happy home along with his wife and his daughter. Things change however, when a new female recruit named Saya ...
Style:
tense, realistic, melancholic, dark, psychological thriller
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, jealousy, seduction, sexual obsession, office romance, sexual tension, domestic drama, secret relationship, loss of control ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Story of a newly married professor who suffers his whole life for having an affair with his student.
Style:
serious, tense, emotional, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
professor, abuse of power, marriage, student, infidelity, teacher student relationship, affair, adultery, relationships, moral dilemma, betrayal, scandal ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Duygu and Bahadır work for a company that acquires banks’ receivables and their job is to corner the debtor using psychological pressure and maximizing the money collection. Ceren, a young woman deep in debt, is their new target.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
revenge, manipulation, moral ambiguity, human nature, emotional manipulation, mind game, blackmail, money problems, money, intrigue, blackmailer, greed ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Following a traumatic experience, Gaile, a speech therapist, is incapable of feeling any emotion. However, while preparing a video presentation for a scientific conference, she sees herself on screen and is surprised to find suppressed sensations ...
Style:
art house, tense, psychological thriller, dark, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, obsession, female protagonist, alienation, manipulation, experimental narrative, identity crisis, self discovery, moral ambiguity, voyeurism, performance art, urban ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Eva is a popular teacher who is married to the local mayor. Although he has betrayed her trust, she still plans to support his election campaign, and so she starts to volunteer at a local refugee center. Here, she grows close to eighteen-year-old ...
Style:
tragic ending, controversial, psychological thriller, complex
Plot:
mayor, female protagonist, adultery, moral ambiguity, scandal, taboo, domestic drama, illicit affair, tragic romance, betrayal, class conflict, reputation ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Caught Between the Two A very successful black woman named Taliyah finds out that she is in control of everything in her life except one thing. Just when Taliyah thinks her life is in the perfect place she happens to get an unexpected surprise that ...
Style:
romantic drama, independent film, amateur film
Plot:
love triangle, obsession, infidelity, female protagonist, fatal attraction, lust, betrayal, temptation, best friend, self discovery, identity, girlfriend ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A tale of obsession and jealousy
Style:
realistic, intense, independent film, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
obsession, songwriter, character study, betrayal, lie, infidelity, male protagonist, mature, domestic drama, love triangle, jealousy, manipulation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
35%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Chelo Zamora, middling singer, agreed to spend the summer working in restaurants in the Valencian beach Cullera, could not imagine being reunited with Toni, a guy who shares a dark past. Moved by his desire for revenge, Chelo attempt to ruin ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
revenge, singer, relationships, in love, couple relations, love interest, love story, star crossed lovers, love affair, love and romance, female singer, obsessive love ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four members of the media are chosen as moderator and panel for the single televised debate of presidential candidates one week before the election. These four use the debate forum as never before, resulting in what critics call a hijacking of the ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
media manipulation, election, reporter, political scandal, presidential candidate, journalism, debate, political unrest, political activism, presidential election, media coverage, political campaign ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the heart of Istanbul's prison, Zakir controls the letters prisoners receive. His average day is spent between the censorship office, his colleagues and his evening writing class. For a writing assignment, he steals a photo from one of the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, atmospheric, tense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
prison, obsession, character study, isolation, loneliness, bureaucracy, surveillance, confined, obsessive love, privacy invasion, power, secret life ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jules and Louis, hustlers and jazz musicians struggle to create a hit when a black-Hispanic escort named Ruby interrupts their lives distracting their music and causing Louis to fight his friend's debts away.
Style:
art house, experimental, tense, multicultural, sexy ...
Plot:
jazz, escort, seduction, character study, betrayal, ambition, jealousy, love triangle, urban, intimate, nightlife, streetfighting ...
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