Movies like There Lived a Doctor

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There Lived a Doctor (1985)
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There Lived a Doctor (1985)
Original name: Жил-был доктор...
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young doctor Nikolai Alexandrovich Zaostrovtsev, a fourth generation medical professional, found himself in the Gladuny village directly after the Institute. Neither he himself, nor his father, a town surgeon, expected that he would linger long their. But having become a real doctor in this working village community, he remains true to his profession without any dreams of glory or city life…
Plot: doctor, hospital, patient, village, winter, teacher, wife, husband wife relationship, husband
Place: soviet union, ussr

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, touching, sentimental and sincere films with plots about husband wife relationship, doctor, hospital, husband, wife, love and teacher mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like There Lived a Doctor: Until a Man Lives (1963), Spring (1968), Light in the Window (1960), Point of No Return (1974), Bag Full of Hearts (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Until a Man Lives (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min.
Plot: husband wife relationship, wife, husband, colleague, engineer, secretary, hospital, doctor, nurse, patient, inventor
Place: soviet union
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Spring (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Savely and Lelya are leading a quiet peaceful life in a forest reserve, in a small village with a mineral spring, where Savely brought his seriously ill wife. The seemingly routine life can not hide deep and tender love that came a bit too late...
Plot: spring, village, husband wife relationship, husband, wife, son, death of husband, illness
Place: soviet union
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Light in the Window (1960)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 72 min.
Plot: love, husband, wife, welding
Place: soviet union
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Point of No Return (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The love story of a Soviet officer wounded in battle and the woman who shelters him during the German occupation of the Great Patriotic War. Multifaceted and ambiguous, this film spans twenty years of love, joy, and sorrow.
Plot: partisan, world war two, daughter in law, wounded soldier, unrequited love, husband wife relationship, desperation, teacher, school, love, drunkenness, wife ...
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Bag Full of Hearts (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Many years brings the collective-farm postman Arina post to home folks. This village in one corner is calledl; Chistuy Kolodets; in other ; Chistaya Krinitsa Russians and Ukrainians live there. Arina's stories about village people and the ...
Plot: teacher, mother, son, daughter, boyfriend, postman, village, officer, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband, kolkhoz ...
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Sky-Earth-Sky (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Plot: wife, husband, husband wife relationship, aircraft, professor, scientist, secretary, designer, aviation, worker
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
A French Lesson (1978)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Actions of the movie occurred in Post-WWII years in small village. Mother with three children. Father was lost in the war, like many other. 11-year old son rather smart boy is main help in housekeeping. But here was primary school only, and he was ...
Plot: village, boss, mother, teacher, widow, school, son
Time: year 1948, post world war two
Place: soviet union
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Roof Jump (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Unable to stand up for himself, a talented scientist Rostislav Lyubeshkin is forced to leave the institute. Ordinary accountant Kosichkin is trying to protect a person he doesn't know in general. Kosichkin is demoted, his wife considers him a ...
Plot: bride and groom, institute, wife, husband, fiancee, colleague, husband wife relationship, academician, scientist, accountant, groom, neighbor ...
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Waiting (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 69 min.
Plot: divorce, teacher, husband wife relationship, pregnancy, separation, loneliness, family relations
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We'll Live Till Monday (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, intellectual
Plot: teacher, school teacher, unrequited love, teachers and students, school, fall in love, teaching the ways of the world, responsibility, coming of age, teacher student relationship, older man younger woman relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
An Umbrella for Lovers (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Kraskov and Vera have long loved each other. They are unable to part, however, and connect their destinies can not and have already accepted the circumstances of life: he has a family, three children. A chance meeting in Moscow with a young couple, ...
Plot: summer, family relations, married, friend, mistress, doctor, nurse
Place: ussr, black sea, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Ivantsov, Petrov, Sidorov (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min.
Plot: death, brother, neighbor, director, experiment, laboratory, scientist, investigator, discovery, team, neighbor neighbor relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Place: soviet union
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34%
One True Love (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Finally after three years of courtship, Migs, a medical intern, marries simple and unassuming Joy, a nurse in the hospital of Migs' residency. Several days before the wedding, his first love and childhood best friend Bela, a sophisticated ...
Style: touching, sincere, melancholic, light, tagalog
Plot: true love, love, jealousy, husband wife relationship, first love, patient, childhood sweetheart, amnesia, love triangle, self sacrifice, wedding, male female relationship ...
Place: the philippines
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33%
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Once Lied (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in the Soviet Union the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.
Plot: business trip, bare breasts, artist, birthday, cigarette smoking, female nudity, sex scene, doctor, husband wife relationship, restaurant, painter, drinking ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Last Bread (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After going through all the details of the old combine with his own hands, the pioneer virgin landowner granddad Yakushenko met his last great suffering - harvesting bread - in the most dignified manner. Aleksei, Irina and Dmitriy decide to help ...
Plot: kolkhoz, militia, mechanic, village, thief, doctor, driver
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Untold (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A dangerous beauty queen sinks her claws into the life of a married doctor and his family.
Plot: hospital, obsession, doctor, depression, married, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, newspaper, movie star, school principal, separation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Hearts of Christmas (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When Alice, a beloved neonatal intensive care unit supervisor, is forced to take early retirement, her young colleague Jenny decides to turn the upcoming staff Christmas party into a surprise celebration for her. The plan is complicated by Matt, the ...
Style: captivating
Plot: christmas, hospital, christmas romance, christmas party, workplace situations, co worker co worker relationship, xmas, winter, society, physician, workplace, social relations ...
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29%
Doctor Francoise Gailland (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenager daughter Élisabeth, and her sullen son Julien. However, she does manage to ...
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, medicine, medical, doctor, pregnant teenager, dysfunctional family, cancer, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, doctor patient relationship, mother, hospital ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, france
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The Heart Is a Temple (1963)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Dr. Dharmesh (Rajendra Kumar) and Sita (Meena Kumari) are in love, and hope to marry on Dharmesh's return from abroad. When Dharmesh returns, he is devastated to find that Sita has married someone else. He then decides to devote the rest of his ...
Plot: love, husband wife relationship, doctor, love triangle, death, cancer, surgery, heart attack, old love, hospital, saving a life, exhaustion ...
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Family Circle (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min.
Plot: bride and groom, son, judge, secretary, restaurant, student, children, daughter, engineer, loneliness, single woman, parents ...
Place: soviet union
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Anna Karenina (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, ” goes the novel’s opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: cheating wife, unfaithful wife, love triangle, high society, adultery, jealousy, suicide attempt, russian woman, spirituality, loveless marriage, love affair, aristocracy ...
Time: 19th century
Place: soviet union, russia
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Another Year (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: He's an unemployed guy who earns some money by giving lifts to strangers. She's a graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their relationship - and the way it gradually melts away - throughout a year. A subtle, moving ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, captivating, sincere
Plot: husband wife relationship, marital problem, love and romance, love interest, social differences, lifestyle, family relations, dinner, taxi driver, hugging, new year's eve, laptop ...
Time: year 2013
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Blind Bird (1963)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A young boy and his grandfather, while on a bird-banding trip in a marsh, discover a young, blind pelican. They bring the bird home, and the boy learns to care for it, hand-feeding it fish and even bringing it to school when there is no one else at ...
Plot: young boy, pelican, surgeon, hospital, dog, doctor, school, teacher, compassion, train, black cat, x ray ...
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Sally Pacholok (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Feisty ER nurse takes on the medical establishment when she uncovers an epidemic of misdiagnosis.
Plot: nurse, doctor, hospital, white coat, wheelchair, kiss, stethoscope
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26%
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Caregiver (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A grade school English teacher Sarah Gonzales joins the 150,000 Pinoy OFWs working in the United Kingdom to support her Husband, Teddy Gonzales in making a better living for their family. More than just a chronicle of the Filipinos experience ...
Style: inspirational, tagalog
Plot: inspiration, life lesson, family gatherings, overseas worker, fired from the job, drinking, book, alzheimer's disease, teacher, train, hospital, insecurity ...
Place: the philippines, london
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Umbrella (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alexander Way, a secondary school teacher with a fractured personal life, finds himself attempting to rescue a woman from a violent sexual attack. Alexander finds himself overpowered, beaten & taken to hospital. Jesiah Jarvus, a famous British ...
Style: captivating, touching, psychological, sentimental, independent film
Plot: family relations, school, marriage, doctor, teacher, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, violence, cancer, hospital, police ...
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Lyubov Yarovaya (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This film is set in the time of the Russian Civil War, after the October revolution of 1917. The communist forces are losing a battle over town. They must blow up the strategic bridge, but the explosion is prevented by one anticommunist man, who is ...
Plot: spy, husband wife relationship, revolution, revenge, politics, love, double agent
Place: soviet union, russia
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25%
Morning Bells (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Young Teacher Lado moves to the village, where he falls in love with Ketu,a young librarian, but Ketu has been engaged to a fellow villager since childhood. Chofe and his brother threaten Lado that breaking his word and breaking custom can be fatal ...
Plot: intimidation, fight, village, mountain, young woman, tradition, teacher, library, school, marriage, love triangle, rain ...
Place: georgia
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25%
Everlasting Love (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An intern doctor falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, not knowing that she is a hostess at a night club and a single mother.
Style: soap opera
Plot: doctor, love, male female relationship, wealth, single mother, baby, jealousy, sister sister relationship, hospital, fall in love, family relations, cultural difference ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The High Wall (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Jitka is a 12-year-old girl who feels the first stirring of love. She becomes friends with a young man who is hospitalized with paralysis. Jitka visits the man every day and witnesses his slow recovery, but she is unaware that she could have deeper ...
Plot: sisters, sister, girl, female protagonist, friendship, teenage girl, hospital, teenager, friend, 13 year old, girl man relationship, garden ...
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25%
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