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The Young Nun (1964)
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Original name: La Suora Giovane
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The life of Antonio suddenly changes when she meets Serena, a young nun who took the veil to escape the hard life of the country and has chosen the provision of assistance to the sick to get out of the convent, which falls in love, moving from the role of seducer to that of seduced.
Style:
religious drama, emotional, romantic drama, psychological, art house, period piece
Plot:
female protagonist, convent, forbidden romance, seduction, character study, ethical dilemma, loneliness, sacrifice, redemption, identity crisis, switching roles, bittersweet, intimate, love triangle, forgiveness, male protagonist, scandal, social realism, urban, love, religion, forbidden love, nun, family relations, catholic church ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, romantic drama and psychological films with plots about bittersweet, intimate, love, love triangle, character study, female protagonist and urban mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Young Nun: Sparrow (1993), The Year of the Wolf (2007), Chroma (2022), Light of My Eyes (2001), White Nights (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
649
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she finds a difficult situation, in fact her stepmother and her half-sisters ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, historical drama, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cholera, nun, forbidden love, female protagonist, religious conflict, forbidden romance, young love, unrequited love, tragedy, coming of age, literary, madness ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sari is a young, beautiful and intelligent girl who is busy studying at university,but she suffers from epilepsy and has to face death on a daily basis. Mikko is hersomewhat older university teacher, who is tired of life, and who one day decides ...
Style:
sincere, serious, captivating, romantic, touching
Plot:
forbidden love, epilepsy, university, relationships, health, love triangle, parent child relationship, love, intimacy, alienation, poetry, divorce ...
Place:
helsinki finland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
To avoid facing her heavy past, a young woman with a borderline personality tries to seduce her strange neighbor. A singular love story between these two lonely and wounded souls is born, but will it be enough to save them from themselves?
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
seduction, relationships, male female relationship, troubled past, neighbor, attempted seduction, neighbor neighbor relationship, couple relations, love affair, tragic past, female protagonist, confronting the past ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, bittersweet, unlikely criminals, family relations, gangster, custody, single parent, single mother, character study, longing, loneliness, unrequited love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy, venice, europe
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young university professor, who leads a quiet and reclusive life and fills his life with reading and teaching literature, meet a young girl who has altered the course of her life for the sake of a man she loves. She has promised to meet her ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, poetic, melancholic, intellectual ...
Plot:
loneliness, separation, literary, character study, longing, young woman, memory, passion, university professor, bittersweet, intimate, sacrifice ...
Place:
iran, persia
Similarity:
21%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, tension, psychological, period piece
Plot:
loneliness, tenderness, disability, character study, correspondence, siblings, mature, bittersweet, revelation, moral dilemma, unrequited love, awkwardness ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
france, brittany
Similarity:
19%
695
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Johannes lives together with his father, the middle-aged widower Ulrik in a small fishing town in the northern part of Denmark. They live a quiet routine life, each minding their separate jobs in the fishing industry. Ulrik misses the love and ...
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, relationship problems, family relations, male female relationship, romantic rivalry, love affair, parents and children, romantic triangle, love triangle, relationships, romantic relationship, family problems ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
19%
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202
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of ...
Style:
anthology, melancholic, psychological, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
loneliness, literary, character study, christmas, female protagonist, intimate, bittersweet, nostalgia, spinster, loss of innocence, mourning, governess ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, alabama
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Two ex-lovers meet after a long time and their romance gets rekindled briefly. Though they ensure that their newly-found love shouldn't affect their respective families, one of them believes they are meant to be together, leaves the life of ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, love, ex couple relations, longing, second chance, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, marital problem, family problems, ex husband ex wife relationship, relationship problems, male female relationship, family relations ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
19%
265
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, existential, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
kidnapping, escape, alienation, character study, frustration, social realism, forbidden love, cross cultural relations, illicit affair, mature, loneliness, class conflict ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, england
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alek (Gordan Kicic) is desperate because Teodora (Milica Mihajlovic) has left him after a three years being together. He is suffering, he is apathetic and is mentioning suicide constantly, he simply doesn't want to accept that the relationship ...
Style:
melancholic, romantic drama, psychological, realistic, indie film ...
Plot:
longing, unrequited love, love triangle, heartbreak, bittersweet, character study, obsession, jealousy, self pity, romantic rivalry, young adult, slice of life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
belgrade, serbia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Imagine the heartbreak when someone you loved from childhood turns out to be a crook. Will Divya be old-fashioned and be with Ram or will she leave him?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, suspense
Plot:
childhood love, relationships, revelation, heartbreak, betrayal, female protagonist, trust, secret past, regret, deception, male protagonist, introspection ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, art house, romantic comedy
Plot:
love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, male protagonist, longing, relationships, ex lover, intimate, personal growth, russian immigrant, social realism, melancholy ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Serbia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Serbian drama "Wounded Eagle" is about true love story of long forgotten romances and some new ones, happening in a very romantic time between two world wars. Young woman and her passion.
Style:
period piece, romantic, emotional, historical drama, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
true love, passion, female protagonist, young woman, bittersweet, tragic romance, longing, lost love, intimate, forbidden love, unrequited love, memory ...
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Maryam (Negar Javaherian) and Reza (Shahab Hosseini) are different from other people, it's not just a simple difference, but a very big difference. They must try to prove to others they have solved the big difference with the miracle of love ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, psychological, art house, realistic ...
Plot:
islam, character study, relationships, identity, compassion, introspection, intimate, empathy, acceptance, outsider, alienation, social realism ...
Place:
iran, persia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, romantic drama, sentimental
Plot:
marriage, urban, desire, longing, heartache, bittersweet, infidelity, female protagonist, love triangle, pregnancy, domestic drama, unrequited love ...
Time:
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Place:
china
Similarity:
19%
1K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Cinematic magical realism meets hard-edged drama in Ida Panahandeh’s stunning look at the life of Titi, an Iranian Roma Gypsy who earns pennies cleaning hospitals, becomes a surrogate mother… and saves the world from a rogue black hole.
Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
hospital, female protagonist, magic realism, surrogate mother, surrealism, supernatural, medical, intimate, end of the world, mysticism, coma, poverty ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle Latour-Harrison after they have been reunited. Paul has to cope with the difficulties he faces balancing work, ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, period piece, sex comedy
Plot:
young lovers, love triangle, sacrifice, city life, bittersweet, breakup, coming of age, intimate, cohabitation, abortion, baby, police ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
paris france, england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled. In "Table Number Seven" a ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, tense, reflective ...
Plot:
hotel, loneliness, scandal, small town, female protagonist, love, boarding house, moral dilemma, reputation, bittersweet, intimate, unrequited love ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Lisa is a young, Christian woman. Bobby, her boyfriend, however, is a street hoodlum. Lisa prays constantly that Bobby will accept God in his life. She soon gets what she wants, but discovers that Bobby's conversion means that she has to get ...
Style:
religious drama, emotional, dramatic, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
church, redemption, christian, faith, street life, urban, evangelist, reformation, forgiveness, coming of age, love, addiction ...
Similarity:
18%
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:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and Tammy Grimes.
Style:
religious drama, emotional, atmospheric, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
nun, convent, priest, small town, character study, moral ambiguity, false accusation, scandal, investigation, working class, poverty, isolation ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s, year 1979
Similarity:
18%
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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:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, emotional, reflective, poetic, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, longing, small village, sanitarium, unrequited love, loneliness, friendship, lake, bittersweet, intimate, literary, autobiography ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
Style:
emotional, realistic, psychological, melancholic
Plot:
marriage, love triangle, stroke, infidelity, friendship, domestic drama, divorce, loneliness, midlife crisis, house, ethical dilemma, intimate ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
18%
241
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.
Style:
religious drama, historical drama, emotional, inspirational, tension ...
Plot:
miraculous event, faith, catholicism, apparition, spiritual awakening, hopes, devotional, pilgrimage, loyalty, innocence, supernatural, childhood ...
Time:
year 1917, 1910s
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Menon runs into his former wife Grace, who is married to a bedridden Mathew and loves him immensely. The movie revolves around their crossing and emotes the meaning of love and its various forms.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, realistic, romantic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
american football, love triangle, domestic drama, bittersweet, longing, marriage, compassion, sacrifice, second chance, lost love, forgiveness, nostalgia ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, period piece, moody
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, jealousy, betrayal, class conflict, jealous husband, domestic drama, forbidden love, character study, sexual tension, seduction, worker ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, period piece, reflective, tension ...
Plot:
illness, tuberculosis, bittersweet, tragic romance, innkeeper, melancholy, post war, character study, mourning, intimacy, loss, loneliness ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
18%
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