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Penguin (1965)
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Original name: Pingwin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A shy student falls in love and is involved in a kidnapping plot.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, period piece, nostalgic
Plot:
university student, unrequited love, coming of age, student life, public humiliation, awkwardness, bittersweet, reputation, peer pressure, social commentary, love, dancing, student, youth, party, fall in love, parents, girl, blackmail, ransom, love letter, generation gap, attraction, beating, falling in love
Place:
warsaw poland
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Most similar movies to Penguin
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, romantic drama, emotional and period piece films with plots about bittersweet, coming of age, intimate, unrequited love, friendship, love and love triangle mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Penguin: Love (1991), Childish Questions (1981), Turning to Love (1975), Screen Test (1977), Purple and Violet (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
anti semitism, first love, political persecution, social commentary, student life, urban, young adult, emigration, coming of age, escape, friendship, male bonding ...
Place:
moscow russia, israel, russia, ussr
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A story of an architectural student asking questions on problems during a housing project development. Arrested for parading with a sign asking for a difficult and responsible job, he tells his story to a cellmate.
Style:
melancholic, reflective, period piece, political drama
Plot:
architecture, protest, ethical dilemma, frustration, political repression, introspection, student life, coming of age, urban, bittersweet, urban planning, nostalgia ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A love story between a simple guy and a music star fails, but suddenly he notices somebody else...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, sentimental, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heartbreak, love triangle, bittersweet, unrequited love, second chance, personal growth, intimate, coming of age, urban, class differences, songwriter, slow burn ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has ...
Style:
art house, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
coming of age, youth, first love, character study, working class, loss of innocence, relationships, betrayal, ambition, unrequited love, intimacy, realism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The loves of a struggling photographer and a bus ticket clerk are inextricably tied together after a chance encounter.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, independent film, realistic, indonesian
Plot:
chance meeting, relationships, bittersweet, serendipity, photography, loneliness, slice of life, intimate, urban, loss, male protagonist, female protagonist ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, period piece, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, art student, young lovers, american abroad, european, urban, love triangle, class differences, bittersweet, identity crisis, travel, painting ...
Time:
60s, year 1963
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Drama directed by Dan Pita.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, art house, melancholic, psychological ...
Plot:
love triangle, friendship, betrayal, jealousy, longing, male friendship, unrequited love, passion, roommate, infidelity, bittersweet, intimate ...
Place:
romania, bucharest
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The movie is based on Iwaszkiewicz's autobiographic story and focuses on main character's (Janek's) close relationship with a woman named Ola and a man named Arek. It takes place in a small village called Marona which is situated by ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, reflective, poetic, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, longing, small village, sanitarium, unrequited love, loneliness, friendship, lake, bittersweet, intimate, literary, autobiography ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise.
Style:
melancholic, romantic drama, black and white, art house, tragic ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loneliness, bittersweet, relationships, character study, introspection, tragic love, small town life, intimate, unrequited love, working class, moral ambiguity, fatalism ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 96 min.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love triangle, young lovers, aspiring musician, bittersweet, loneliness, aspiration, soul selling, moral dilemma, realism, city life, betrayal, infidelity ...
Place:
beijing china, china
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Love story of 2 high school students with different social standards, Ioana and Alexandru. They are to form a couple with all the social and familial obstacles encountered.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
high school, young love, teen romance, first love, coming of age, high school life, bittersweet, forbidden love, social criticism, friendship, generation gap, secret relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, bucharest, romania
Similarity:
46%
1K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
It is a love story of an orphan, named Kalyan, for two times in his life one with house owner's daughter Geetha and the another in past at college days with one of his classmate named Jaanu. While Priya stays his friend at the same period
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, heartfelt, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Plot:
love triangle, longing, college romance, sacrifice, friendship, coming of age, bittersweet, unrequited love, second chance, small town, teenage love, love at first sight ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mateusz, Igor, Marlon i Paulina chodzą do jednego liceum. Po powrocie z Budapesztu Mateusz dowiaduje się, że jeden z kolegów, niejaki Bąbel, powiesił się na szkolnym boisku. Przejmując się tragedią znajomego chłopaka, postanawia na ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, realistic, ambiguous ending, tragic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, school, trauma, guilt, isolation, investigation, teenage angst, coming of age, friendship, social commentary, moral ambiguity, secrets ...
Time:
90s
Place:
warsaw poland
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A sexy romantic drama in which, at the outset, the characters are leading their own lives in very different worlds, though each is beset by niggling discontentment. Michelle (Renée Weldon - IFTA Best Actress) is a fast-rising young Dublin lawyer ...
Style:
romantic drama, sensual, independent film, melancholic
Plot:
sexual tension, sexual relations, fall in love, pub, loneliness, sexual exploration, urban, family conflict, city life, bittersweet, female nudity, nudity ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Revolves around an uninhibited young man and his journey with finding love, pain, and confronting his past.
Style:
romantic drama, sincere, melancholic
Plot:
love story, heartbreak, coming of age, self discovery, personal growth, bittersweet, slow burn, internal monologue
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Teruko is a 28-year-old office worker. 5 months ago, she fell in love with Mamoru at first sight. Since that time, she has not cared about her work or her friends. She then loses her job and her friends look at her coldly. Yet, Teruko is happy as ...
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
obsession, unrequited love, heartbreak, love, japanese woman, female protagonist, relationships, couples, fall in love, family relations, relationship vs career, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Bhooma Devi, a diligent postgraduate literature student reluctantly agrees to date the college bad boy Vikram, but her life unravels, when the typical college romance gradually evolves into a deeply layered exploration of love and his controlling ...
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, melancholic, psychological thriller, suspenseful
Plot:
toxic relationship, college romance, emotional abuse, coming of age, campus, self discovery, student life, obsession, jealousy, female protagonist, mature, young adult ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sidhu, a simpleton studying in an engineering college, falls for Rajee, his wealthy junior. An incident in Rajee's 10th class makes her draw clear-cut boundaries with boys, making Sidhu’s life difficult, and he struggles to communicate his ...
Style:
romantic, romantic drama, emotional, sentimental, melancholic
Plot:
college romance, young love, college campus, unrequited love, coming of age, young adult, heartbreak, slice of life, urban, love triangle, boy, girl ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The film tells a complicated love story. Carmen with Ke, Xiang Yi and Jiyuan. They start as a friend, but somehow a love triangle occur, and the outcome is very tragic.
Style:
romantic drama, poignant, emotional, tragic ending, period piece ...
Plot:
love triangle, jealousy, tragic romance, bittersweet, unrequited love, betrayal, character study, moral ambiguity, urban, coming of age, passion, classmate ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1970s, six-and-a-half-year-old Sébastien is a sensitive, highly imaginative child. Despite the affection he feels for his father, a dreamy inventor, he notices his mother's loneliness and how there is a lack of love in her life. When they move ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, love and romance, youth, inventions and discoveries, young heroes, estrangement, childhood, coming of age, innocence, family drama, imagination ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A 16-year-old girl embarks on a journey of life where she deals with understanding herself, the changing world, bullying, academic pressure and her transcending journey of first love.
Style:
realistic, emotional, art house, melancholic, tragic ending ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, first love, youth, female protagonist, teen romance, self discovery, slice of life, girlhood, high school life, adolescence, grownups ...
Place:
kannada
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rino Sakuragi (Yuna Taira) is a high school student. She is good friends with Ren Kiritani (Alan Shirahama) who attends the same high school. They have been close since their middle school days. Rino holds special feelings for Ren Kiritani, but she ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, romantic drama, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
youth, japanese schoolgirl, japanese girl, als, teen romance, high school, love, love affair, couple relations, relationships, young lovers, lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Everyday, Nelia waits outside a store in Timog hoping for Delfin--a man that she lost 40 years ago--to comeback. Unwilling to forget the romance that she spent with him, she recalls their tale set amid the timeless beauty of Quezon City in 1970s. ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, sentimental, melancholic, heartfelt ...
Plot:
memory, lost love, longing, waiting, unrequited love, female protagonist, reminiscence, bittersweet, character study, intimate, slice of life, small town ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee. Follow up to "Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease" (2000)
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, emotional, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
medical student, fiancee, indecision, intimate, anxiety, engagement, slice of life, young adult, domestic drama, personal growth, coming of age, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live ...
Style:
twist ending, road movie, romantic drama, melancholic
Plot:
young adult, youth culture, coming of age, city life, urban, slice of life, friendship, intimate, realism, bittersweet, street life, flirting ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mắt Biếc (Dreamy Eyes) tells the story of the one-sided love of Ngan for Ha Lan — his childhood friend.
Style:
romantic drama, romantic, disturbing, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
true love, love affair, relationships, love story, love and romance, couple relations, unrequited love, childhood friend, male female relationship, romantic friendship, love interest, romantic relationship ...
Similarity:
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9K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A pair of high school sweethearts face challenges in their relationship when they take different directions in life.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, young love, young adult, high school, first love, bittersweet, nostalgia, slice of life, teen angst, breakup, heartbreak, longing ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain, Romania, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Two young lovers change the lives of their parents forever when the parents learn from the joyful experience of their kids, and allow themselves to again find their love.
Style:
romantic drama, heartfelt, emotional, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
love story, love, filmmaking, young lovers, tragedy, coming of age, bittersweet, life changing, summer romance, second chance, self discovery, healing ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, emotional, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
pen pal, young man, college, letter, waiting, couple relations, love interest, correspondence, love and romance, male female relationship, changing lives, love story ...
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Pueng, daughter of a military Colonel, has planned to spend her married life with Mann, a young Lieutenant with a promising future. On the day Martial Law was announced, she received a wedding invitation from a high school friend back in her ...
Style:
romantic drama, heartfelt, sentimental, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
wedding, memory, nostalgia, second chance, love triangle, young love, bittersweet, coming of age, small town, friendship, flashback, regret ...
Similarity:
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